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Aside from all the excellent snark and jokes this season, I've seen only posts doing exactly that - using logic, facts, and accuracy when assessing Erika Girardi's role in this (including quotes from court filings, Erika's book re: her financial status in the marriage, refs to the ABC documentary) as well as common sense as to the facts offered by Erika herself (Pasadena blizzards, cars rolling in a manner last seen performed by Evel Knieval in the late 70s, no financial agency in leaving a horrific marriage) so none of the reactions to this woman - reactions based on those facts - seem odd to me. People are logically holding Erika Girardi accountable for what we know Erika Girardi did for years: live off the stolen settlement funds of burn victims, widows, and orphans. What we don't know is whether that was a retroactive realization (I'm in reception of stolen funds but not part of the theft) or an ongoing awareness making her complicit (I knew and I'm going to get caught if I don't bolt). Either way, she has not once expressed genuine remorse for having lived large off the backs of people trying to survive being screwed over by fate, and then by her husband. Not once. Not a single fucking time, even though there are lawyers who know how to craft that kind of statement in their sleep - a statement expressing empathy but not culpability, a human reaction to a man with his skin burned to a crisp robbed of medical funds, families with mothers and fathers and children blown up mid-air, all funding her glam squad lifestyle. Lots of sympathy expressed for Tom, though. That was not in short supply. Yet another fact about Erika to be considered. Because if my husband had done this to me - forced me into a life paid for with monies stolen from victims - I'd be enraged at him, not his relatives, the press, the courts, the viewing audience, and the one housewife asking logical, accurate questions.

Because the car keeps flipping over! ; ) What a repulsive cockroach Erika is. There are women out there hiding dollars in coffee cans, trying to build a stash to flee their abusive husbands, but Feisty Girardi can't flee her Pasadena Prison for an hour to fence jewelry because she was just that broken? Fuck off, grifter. And what a masterpiece of doublespeak this was: “You’re characterizing it as ‘for the money.’ I’m telling you I could not leave because I had no access to the money." "...Plus, he never hugged me back, Andy! That hurt. Deep in my soul that hurt. See the pain in my eyes? That's the bruise on my soul because Tom. Didn't. Hug me back. Why didn't I leave sooner? Because in spite of the affairs and excessive spending and fits of rage and emotional abuse (and that was just on my side) we had Something Special. We had magical years together talking and laughing and moving money in and out of Swiss bank accounts. I did and did for that man (cue Celine - any tune will do - but since Erika's ship is sinking fast, My Heart Will Go On seems perfect) and I was faithful - even though I had to count backwards in my head for a minute to see if the blowjob I gave my new sugar daddy happened after I left the great love of my life - I stayed because I adored that man! And I handed him my paycheck every week (over the pie I bought him down at Mildred Pierce's diner, paid for with my tips) because everybody here and at home watching knows I've been nothing but a traditional wife since jump, the kind last seen in the 1930s - an era of thriftiness and decency to widows and orphans - an era I have always emulated (in between miming fingering myself on stage) because that's the kind of fifty-year-old girl I am. A hugger. A helper. A devoted wife. A texter of broken bone pics. A giver of paychecks. But most of all, just another innocent victim of Tom Girardi."

Garcelle kept her dignity more than intact - how she does that, week after week, amazes me - but that was one of the most repulsive things I've ever seen on this show. Dog dumping just fell to second place, thanks to these rabid bitches. Watching a beautiful, smart, accomplished black woman try to shake the Fucked Up Five out of their complacency and manipulative bullshit (we tried to make you feel like one of us, but you aren't behaving like a real friend - totes your fault you're feeling othered!) was sickening. So putrid of them, initially denying Garcelle's feelings as completely invalid, and then feeding off her pain like ghouls. The nerve of them doing anything but shutting up and hanging their heads in shame, given their deeply ignorant track records. Dorit shit-talking about her mother's best black friend as proof she's evolved. Kyle publicly trying to shame Garcelle about a charitable donation. Kathy - suddenly perky as all hell - claiming she's also walked into rooms and felt the same level of othering and rejection Garcelle has felt. Erika Jayne, that exemplar of honesty, who has no moral problem in having received stolen monies (and who has no moral problem in refusing to pay them back) settlements stolen from, among others, Indonesian women. And of course, Rinna. Like a serial killer, Rinna got to add a trophy to her wall - LVP, Denise, and now Garcelle, the sweetest trophy of all. Because the only thing Rinna can't stop feasting on is the pain of another human being, and nothing tastes quite as beautiful as the tears of a black woman. Better than Harry's sauce, y'all.

Love this info - reminds me of The Californians, RHoBH style ("You get off the freeway and take the 134 to the next on-ramp and then you hit the switchback road and roll six times...") Exactly. Her own son is just a prop for her outlandish lies and sticky-fingered manipulations. She's dead inside; nothing but greed and hollow bones.

May I marry your post, Happy Camper? ...respect Erika Jayne's work ethic? WTF? When did living off the stolen settlements of widows and orphans become a "work ethic"? And so much for Bethenny's Mention it all bullshit. More like "Keep quiet until years after my dead fake fiancee told me about this dirty financial scandal." I expect massive backtracking (after Frankel pretends she never-once no-never validated Erika the Grifter) and multiple Insta vids of BStrong handing out $25.00 Walmart gift cards to the victims of the Girardis.

True, but Tom - seen here with Erika's son the night of the accident - has a very special car...

@hoodooznoodooz - yes, it's work eating up my time lately - live action footage of me last week, racing to get to the forums!

Is that a threat, or a promise? ; )

Hey, hoodooz! Not much time to post lately, but I've been reading the forum - this place is on fire! - so satisfying watching The Petty Mess get her deserved comeuppance from Karma - every week, as the opening taglines roll, I think "Please let it be about Tom" ; )

Right? ("How dare Tom abandon children! I'd never abandon a helpless young creature ....oh, wait..") I am so looking forward to watching Garcelle chew on Dorit like a nylabone. Despite her tears & often too-convenient fears, Sutton for the win!

She's really upping the ante. Emotionally abusive. Controlling. Rampant sexual infidelities. Anger issues. Mentally unsound. What next? Erika reveals Tom is the Zodiac Killer? ("After Yolanda and David split I broke into Tom's lair - the entrance is hidden underneath the road switchback where he crashed that night - did I forget to mention that last week? - and I found a wall of news coverage about the victims, taunting notes to the press signed The Zodiac, and a barely decomposing dead body in a freezer. I wanted to help but I realized trying to stop him from a new killing spree was pointless because he couldn't hear or see me, so I just paid the pool heating bill.") And my god, the lack of credibility as she rolls out one ridiculous detail after another (this ain't stunt casting for Chicago, asshole, bring your A game - call up Denise and ask her how to play out your little soap opera, Days of Our Housewives, without looking like a sack of lying shit, bloated with self-pity). I hope she ends up jail, or in court for decades, left like roadkill on that switchback. Not a single demonstration from her of horror or self-recrimination about who's been footing the bill for her vapid lifestyle, all paid for on the backs of people who have suffered the most horrifying things life can throw at a human being. Burn victims. Plane crashes. People scarred by circumstances, in need of money to pay medical bills and mortgages. I'd be puking my guts out every day, unable to stop thinking about the waste of it all, my pathetic ego on parade - gobbling up thousands and thousands of dollars every month - even as a burn victim waited to receive payment needed for yet another surgery. She really is Ms No Fucks Left to Give; callous, cruel and in love with only herself,

I'm so sorry, Hoodooz. That kind of erasure must be painful and beyond difficult to handle. The infamous CoRamona Virus - it's everywhere! ; )

Wow - how cool, Glama - as Ramona would say (using a word that does not exist in any language) Kadooz!

LOL! Sadly, I fear Erika Jayne has stopped producing Cuntkins (in order to actually become a Cuntkin) but perhaps @dosodog stashed a few precious boxes in the forum warehouse!

Forever Young tampons! ("Say goodbye to menopause! Convince people you're still as fertile as a fifteen year old! So easy to use! Merely wave our tampon around as you head to the ladies room. In the privacy of the stall, remove the wrapper. Then eat the contents - made of marshmallow, micro-dosed LSD, and vanilla - only 100 calories per tampon!") Remember when Frankelstein said this ridiculously self-inflated bullshit about her move to Burnett (aka The Shackler, Batman's worst foe): “It’s time to move on and focus on my daughter, my philanthropy, and my production partnership with Mark Burnett, producing and starring in shows which represent a shift in the conversation for women. With the changes in modern culture, I want to highlight the strength, confidence, and unstoppable power that women have.” Noted, Big Shot. You demeaning the female contestants on your show sure did highlight the confidence & unstoppable power modern women have. ...Meanwhile, Bethenny considers her next brilliant move, having escaped The Shackler and his multi-million dollar deal...

LOL - so true!

But what are the norms, here? On RHoNY, the only woman usually on time was Bethenny (the rest have all arrived late due to everything from grooming to drunkeness to having to go downtown) so unless we now have two completely different standards, the norm on RHoNY includes women being late to the event (with Ramona, mid-event, often moving to a second location - like a serial killer! - to meet a date). And the other norms are also clear; Eboni can scream drunken obscenities, throw dangerous objects, say cruel and abusive things to her fellow castmates - mocking their bodies and eating disorders and ages and mental capacities and children (or lack of the same) - and still meet every last norm created by Bravo. I would much rather have had Ramona remember her own past tardiness, gotten a snack and hung out with Eboni, having a Ramona-style convo (usually intrusive, always blunt, often funny, sometimes inadvertently self-aware) about something - if nothing else, Eboni's glam process and how that worked in her career and in her private life - that's what I wish Ramona's producer had suggested she do: engage, don't walk away. Because I'm not interested in the Leah-as-star-Eboni-as-her-sidekick show, and the less the rest of the cast engages (as in connecting, not fighting) the likelier it is that's where the show will end up going.

Without Rinna telling the creepy, repugnant "Harry's friend raped a girl" story, she wouldn't have been able to leave the audience with the nagging feeling that the secret thing Denise had done was so terrible, it left her as unworthy of loyalty as a rapist. It's one of the most disgusting things Rinna has done, and god knows, the list is long - lying about #metoo (2010 - I was sexually harassed! 2019 - I was never harassed!) and body-shaming ("fat hoarders with fifty cats and no teeth and they couldn't find their vaginas if they tried") and mocking Catholics and gay-baiting as "humour" ("So I guess that means Brandi and Denise will get a spin-off called scissor sisters!") and Munchausen's and fixating on Kim Richards' drug addiction, and on and fucking ON, Rinna spit-screaming "OWN IT" every two seconds, even as she did everything BUT own her shit, forever playing the victim. (Even tonight, acting as if she were the wronged party who tried to do the right thing by A Friend Who Did Something So Bad I had to compare her to Harry's rapist bestie - did Harry and his pal go out looking for victims together, Rinna? - I too can play the "lingering questions" game). I loathe Rinna - her smug mug, her greasy-lipped baboon-anus mouth, her predatory eyes - and even though I'm delighted Karma is currently busy making a delivery to Erika, I also wish that magical, fateful bitch had a twin sister. Upside: Lake Tahoe was stunning, the food looked fantastic, the lodge was beautiful, and Garcelle held Rinna's cloven hooves to the flame with a gaze so direct, Rinna could not shake it off, avoid it, or counter-attack.

It's beyond ludicrous Leah is acting like she lives on Woke Woman Mountain. She treated converting-to-Judaism like a new fashion accessory (dropped once she was bored with the bauble) is so mired in white privilege she has no idea what a Karen actually is, announced she might not vote in arguably one of the most important elections for women and minorities in history, and attempted to destroy a Black man's reputation (Michael Che) by describing him as a misogynist asshole, a fate he only escaped because he published all her texts (including the text where she oh-so-casually race-baited him - "U hate me because I'm White" - who's the Karen now, Leah? ) She also dipped a toe in the homophobic pool (saying to Che - twice! - that all the men on the Raya dating app "Look gay to me"). Hypocritical doesn't begin to cover the gap between Leah's lived reality and her Wokest White Woman crap in this episode. And the end result is a growing dynamic that I really dislike: Eboni is quickly turning into Leah's sidekick. There Eboni is, comforting Leah, defending Leah, "translating" Leah's batshit crazy crap to the other women, putting Leah's needs above her own when it comes to losing a beloved family member (notice Leah could not be bothered to comfort Eboni over her loss, so fixated was she on her own needs, or do anything but jump around like a demented toddler on meth when she heard about the conversation with Luann). Fuck Leah's narcissistic shit. It's exhausting, dispiriting and ugly to witness. And fuck you, too, Andy Cohen. You had a chance to finally open up RHoNY to a Black cast member and do so in a way that would allow the cast to have a compelling, genuinely thought-provoking, and (god forbid!) engaging and fun season. Instead, you shoved Leah - an emotionally toxic rich white chick with no functional self awareness - to the front of the line, allowing her to act as if she's leading us to the Promised Land of racial equality. Shame on you.

Oh my god, that would've been beyond perfect, SweetieDarling! ("Ma'am, for the tenth time, we have no employees named Debbie at that store... My name is Jen, not Cleo - I've checked the computer three times already and there IS no Debbie at that location - I'm not named Cleo, ma'am, I'm named Jen - no, Jen is not Debbie's middle name...because there IS no Debbie at that location! I'm not lying to you! Whoever you had an issue with is not named De-- please stop yelling, ma'am - Well, I'm sorry you feel the need to complain about me. My supervisor's name is Debbie. Please tell her Cleo called you a total asshole.")

You should start calling her Debbie ;)

The go-fund-me she needs to be setting up

I got nothing but confusion and questions, Hoodooz! Is Queen Leah of Judea still converting? (Her wannabe mic drop Commandment - Thou Shalt Not Lie! - indicates yes, as does her stopping strangers on the street to share her insight into Judaism: "Have you head of Moses' dick? Thick and juicy after forty years in the desert! Mazelcock!") Good to know her sex-positivity includes slut-shaming women and sexualizing fourteen year old girls as conversational weapons. Isn't sex beeyootiful? The Countess returned (farewell, Lu!) to share her definition of education; well rounded, well travelled, multi-tongued (yes, Countess, we're all impressed you can say "Please don't let it be about Tom" in French, English and Italian) and who knew Sonja was an artist? (Did she mean fine or con?) And what of Ramona, our Hangry Woman? Feather-foreplay last week! WAP refs! She was seconds away from "Dear Penthouse, Mario brought his secretary home and she showed me her C and he took out his D and we had S-E-X "- somebody give the Noodle some noodles! And this week I finally missed Dorinda; I imagined her drunk (Who ish that Black woman is she Lenny Briscoe's new partner?) and handing Eboni her coat before dinner & all hell finally breaking loose on Ms. Medley. Heather was there, you say? Hmm.

...she also went to great pains to deglam her look for the show: https://milokssy.com/