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'Big Little Lies' Season 2 Premiere Recap: All the Savage Insults


The season two premiere of Big Little Lies had everything, including Meryl Streep. If you don’t have HBO or couldn’t watch tonight’s episode, here’s a quick, spoiler-free recap: The five Monterrey moms—Madeline (Reese Witherspoon), Celeste (Nicole Kidman), Renata (Laura Dern), Jane (Shailene Woodley), and Bonnie (Zoë Kravitz)—are all coping with the guilt of covering up Perry’s death, and they’re doing it in different ways. Renata’s staging photoshoots in ’80s power suits. Celeste is still seeing that slightly-judgmental therapist. Bonnie’s skulking around with her sunglasses on at all times. But their plans to keep what happened a secret are foiled by Perry’s mother, Mary Louise (Streep), who comes into town looking for answers. And my guess is she’ll find them.

That’s partially because she has one of the sharpest tongues of the bunch—which is saying something, seeing as how a big pull for Big Little Lies season one was the delicious one-liners and insults. Don’t worry, those don’t go anywhere in season two. In fact, I’d venture to say HBO has upped the amount of digs these characters give each other. I counted 18 savage lines in total. Eighteen! Just from one episode. What can I say? These Monterrey moms are great at being mean (and also…pretending like they didn’t kill anyone).

Below, check out all the one-liners from the season premiere that had me howling.

“I like to think of it as more of an assembly. A service is for when someone dies, like a school fundraiser.” —Principal Warren to Madeline

“I’ll take one [cupcake] for each thigh! I don’t even like to chew. I just shove ’em down. Maybe you can give one here to Warren so he can shove it too.” — Madeline giving it right back to Principal Warren

“My Amabella was bullied last year. I mean in, like, biting and choking. So we’re gonna make sure that doesn’t happen again!” — Renata to the new teacher, Michael

“Unplugged is one thing but unhinged is a total other thing.” — Madeline talking about Bonnie

“Did you see Renata getting up that new teacher’s ass? I thought she was gonna have to pull out her snorkel.” — Madeline talking about Renata

“I can’t complain. Actually, I can. My son is dead.” — Perry’s mother, Mary Louise

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“You’re very short. I don’t mean it in a negative way. Maybe I do. I find little people to be untrustworthy.” — Mary Louise to Madeline



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First Lady Melania Trump Spoke at a Cyberbullying Summit While the President Tweeted Insults


First Lady Melania Trump is once again speaking out about one of the key components of her Be Best initiative: cyberbullying. But her comments are ringing a little ironic to many, given her husband’s propensity to, well, cyberbully.

Trump delivered her remarks on Monday at a cyberbullying prevention summit in Maryland, stressing the “responsible” use of social media platforms. “I know many of you are here representing social media companies, federal agencies, educational organizations, youth programs, and law enforcement,” she said. “I also know we share one goal—to pave a smooth way forward for our children, our next generation. I launched my Be Best campaign in May, with a focus on the many issues facing children today—one of them being the safe and responsible use of social media.”

She continued with what proved to be one the most discussed lines of her brief speech, especially since Donald Trump’s presidency has been riddled daily with Twitter attacks posted from his official account: “In today’s global society, social media is an inevitable part of our children’s daily lives. It can be used in many positive ways, but can also be destructive and harmful when used incorrectly. That is why Be Best chooses to focus on the importance of teaching our next generation how to conduct themselves safely and in a positive manner in an online setting.”

As if on cue (and in yet another seemingly public contradiction) President Trump spent part of his morning tweeting insults at Robert Mueller and former CIA Director John Brennan, using language like “disgraced,” “discredited,” “hack,” and “worst CIA Director in our country’s history.”

The First Lady has been taking heat for her cyberbullying platform since she first spoke about it during the 2016 campaign—and it certainly isn’t going to go away when Donald Trump’s tweets keep presenting the couple at opposite sides of the issue’s spectrum.

It didn’t take long for people on social media to call out this latest round of contradictions—and for the First Lady’s spokeswoman to fire back. “Rather than dissecting her remarks, let’s focus on the countless children who struggle w bullying & online safety each day,” Stephanie Grisham tweeted in response to criticism.

The White House pool reporters traveling with the First Lady asked why she continues to be engaged in the cyberbullying issue when the President uses Twitter to insult his detractors (and then some). Grisham replied: “The First Lady’s presence at events such as today’s cyberbullying summit elevates an issue that is important to children and families across this country. She is aware of the criticism but it will not deter her from doing what she feels is right. The President is proud of her commitment to children and encourages her in all that she does.”

Still, it’s hard not to question if the First Lady is again publicly contradicting her husband, or if she just doesn’t see the initiative as irony.

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Team Melania Trump: Congressional Candidate's 'Hoebag' Insults Are 'Despicable'


An Oregon Congressional hopeful apparently isn’t trying to “Be Best” on Twitter when it comes to Melania Trump: Independent Mark Roberts is getting convicted in the court of public opinion for a tweet calling the First Lady a “hoebag” who “works by the hour.”

Roberts lashed out at the presidential spouse and former model this week after the leader of a national organization for young conservatives noted that Trump has a much smaller East Wing staff than her predecessor, Michelle Obama.

FLOTUS spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham lambasted Roberts’ insult, telling Glamour in her first comments on the issue, “This is just more hypocritical intolerance from those who oppose her husband’s administration. To say such ugly words about a mother, wife and our First Lady is not just a pathetic attempt at getting himself in the news, it is disturbing and despicable.”

Male and female A-listers in Republican circles called Roberts out for the sexist slam.

Among the many White House allies urging Twitter boss Jack Dorsey to shut Roberts down: House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who said “comments like these have no business on any platform.”

Republican National Committee Chair Ronna Romney McDaniel, who’s just the second woman in party history to hold its top job, tweeted, “This attack on @FLOTUS is disgusting and everyone should condemn this candidate and his candidacy.”

And Fox News host Laura Ingraham questioned why the head of Twitter hadn’t suspended the account—prompting Roberts to double down by responding, “Let the donations begin in 3 2 1..”

Roberts also tweeted a screenshot of what appeared to be a response from Twitter saying it had investigated the comment but had taken no action because his remark did not violate the platform’s rules. “It’s that whole 1st amendment thing,” he added.

Roberts calls himself an independent conservative and says on his website that he’s neither a fan of the Trump Administration nor “the exclusiveness and intolerance that’s exhibited by the current Republican Party.”

The House member currently representing Oregon’s District 2 is a Republican, and Roberts will go up against him and a Democratic challenger in November’s midterms. The Roberts campaign did not immediately respond to a Glamour request for comment Wednesday morning.

It wasn’t only headliners who condemned his crude comment: Others in the Twitterverse rushed to the First Lady’s defense, calling Roberts’ broadside “classless” and “sickening.”

One user told Roberts, “You barely pass for a mature adult much less someone wanting to represent his state by running for congress” — and capped the response with the hashtag #bullying.

Combating bullying, as it happens, is a pillar of the First Lady’s “Be Best” campaign, which promotes respect and civility, specifically among children, as well as raising awareness of the national opioid crisis.

Some critics and wags sneered after Be Best’s May launch that if Trump wants to take on cyberbullies, she might want to start with her husband, who churns out a steady stream of political and personal insults on his own Twitter feed. Others say it’s not fair to take a wife — even the First Lady — to task for a husband’s behavior.

Rina Shah, a Republican strategist who promotes political engagement among women, told Glamour the Roberts incident demonstrates that “our nation’s political discourse has, unfortunately for all of us, continued to sink to new lows. Americans deserve real leadership and ideas from political candidates instead of illogical mudslinging and name-calling.”

Platforms like Twitter “have long allowed damaging comments against women to exist without accountability; however, voters in this Oregon district can hold Roberts accountable by not casting their vote for him—essentially sending the message that when you attack one woman, you attack all women,” Shah said via email.

“Regardless of what anyone thinks about Melania Trump’s life choices prior to entering the White House, she doesn’t deserve to be talked about in this manner nor should she be implicated for her any of her husband’s undignified remarks or behavior.”





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