So, on Reddit (not a good place, I know), the most upvoted comment to a post saying “You get a call from a woman and it makes you angry. Who is she?” was “Ellen ‘Degenerate’”. (Their words, not mine). Since it was hugely upvoted, why is she so bad? All I know is that she is a talk show host and a lesbian.

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    5 days ago

    Depends on who you ask. The sorts of people who call her that are bigoted rightwingers, most famously Jerry Falwell. This animosity dates back to the 90s when she had a sitcom. She came out and the right wing lost its shit about it, and there’s still hate for her today. No surprise it got upvotes on reddit.

    Independently of that, she’s evidently just plain mean to anyone she can get away with mistreating.

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    I’m unsure. I’m not interested in celebrities. Though I have seen some clips of her show where she has been pretty rude to her guests. Her name also appears in the Epstein files.

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    She and her wife, Portia de Rossi, live here in the Cotswolds, Oxfordshire. A couple of months ago at the local Coop in Burford, they repeatedly kept on hitting my heels with their stupid shopping cart. When I turned around to point this out, I couldn’t help noticing 18 cans of Faxe lager in their cart PLUS 6 bags of crisps, and some items that looked like sex toys to me.

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    Abused her staff. Create a toxic environment. Sustained it. Thrived in the toxicity.

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    She’s fake. That’s her biggest sin.

    You ever meet someone who is nice to your face and then talks so much shit about you behind your back? Or that mean girl who must be the center of attention that she will denigrate anyone for even the littlest issue? Also, the perpetual victim.

    That’s Ellen.

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    She often overstepped the guests’ boundaries. For exampled she pressured Mariah Carey into drinking alcohol as a toast to “not being pregnant” in order to force her to admit she was pregnant. Carey later said she didn’t want to discuss her pregnancy due to a history of miscarriages. She also got really aggressive towards a guest for not having been invited to her birthday party. That’s just her on-camera behavior. There are numerous stories of her being an asshole to basically everyone behind the scenes.

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      The guest with the birthday was Dakota Fanning. I only really know because of the meme, of sorts, that connects 9/11 to the downfall of DeGeneres. 9/11, my chemical romance, twilight, 50 shades, Fanning’s rise, Degenres’ downfall

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    Back in 2016 or so, Anthony Weiner’s laptop had a bunch of illegal porn on it, but it also had a file on it called “Insurance Policy.” In it was a video of Killery Clinton and Huma Abedin (Weiner’s girlfriend) tying a 5-year-old girl down on a table and cutting her face off while she was still alive. The FBI took the laptop from the NYPD and said it was horrifying and would be released in three days. I remember the events clearly, as I was following it closely at the time. They didn’t, and it was never mentioned again. The FBI has deep-holed many things, like this case, over the last two and a half decades. The internet has been largely scrubbed, with false “debunking” sites popping up everywhere to muddy the issues so badly that it’s difficult to research them. Anyway, the “art” of that girl popped up afterward, and Ellen Degenerate is one of the Hollywood elites that wore the image of that girl’s mutilated face on her hoodie. It’s really disgusting what has been taking place in Hollywood. You can see more on it here: https://www.instagram.com/reels/DNHgIyTuWmU/

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      I thought this platform didn’t censor information? If free speech doesn’t exist here, I’m out.

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      In it was a video of Killery Clinton and Huma Abedin (Weiner’s girlfriend) tying a 5-year-old girl down on a table and cutting her face off while she was still alive.

      Imagine still believing shit like this in 2026. The literal president of the United States, the current one, is a child sex trafficker, but you still need to believe the shit that was obviously meant to distract you from the real pedos.

      The FBI took the laptop from the NYPD and said it was horrifying and would be released in three days. I remember the events clearly

      You remember Weiner’s laptop, and maybe even an article about a file called “insurance policy,” but the rest is 4Chan mind rot.

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        You must not have read the Epstein files, which are full of these people talking about eating the flesh of children whose meat has been infused with adrenochrome, meaning they were in mortal terror and being tortured when they died. Their term for it is “jerky.” As in things like, “I walked my jerky across the street.”

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          No I did not see that, link me to it? I can’t find it, a primary source please.

          also i’m fairly certain such meat wouldn’t do anything? have you ever had animal meat? it would also have such chemicals and be mostly indistinguishable in terms of adrenaline content. You’d just digest it?

          “Adrenochrome is mass produced and commercially available to the public, and is not a controlled substance.”

          so you can just… get it without that?

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        They just joined today and this is their only post. It’s most likely a troll post on a throwaway account.

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    A couple things I know of related to her talk show: 1) She kind of ‘showed her true colors’ by being snarky and mean-spirited (“haha, it’s all just fun”) towards many a guest, even making some cry or weirdly putting them on the spot when talking about a traumatic thing in their lives; 2) She was seemingly revealed to be a toxic a-hole behind the scenes to her staff and others. This is evidently not unique at all among talk show hosts, but paired with #1, it kind of sunk her reputation, it seemed to me.