RHOP: Receipts! Candiace Dillard, didn’t you toss a knife at Ashley Darby last year?

The Real Housewives Of Potomac is as dramatic as ever. However, Candiace Dillard Bassett’s latest situation leaves us more than a little bit confused.

The Real Housewives of Potomac is in full swing. They are actively moving onward and upward in each of their lives it seems.  Karen Huger has become such a success, that her husband in Ray Huger can barely take the fact that he is no longer the one. As put by Ray himself, she used to be Ray Huger’s wife, but now he’s just Karen Huger’s husband.

As they say, I guess. It ain’t no fun when the rabbit got the gun.  That isn’t even the half of it though. Robyn and Juan Dixon are finally about to tie the knot…again.

After a few seasons of waffling, things are finally moving onward for them as well. Speaking of reunions though, let’s not forget about Gizelle Bryant.  Her and former husband, Pastor Jamal Bryant, have once again gotten cozy and quaint with one another. They appear to be in as good a place as we have ever seen them on the show.

So much so, that Gizelle has revisited the topic of marrying her ex-husband again down the road. Ashley Darby and Michael Darby are… well, doing what Ashley and Michael Darby do.

Embroiled in another fiasco, at least this time we have the sexual preference part of the adultery cleared up. He was cheating, but it was with a woman, we believe.  Sounds about typical for the Darby household.

The newcomer, Dr. Wendy Osefo, is surely asserting herself as the newest housewife. She has jumped right into the fray and begun to show them exactly who she is, especially Karen.

RHOP is in the home stretch of the season and things are heating up!

Then… we have Mrs. Candiace Dillard Bassett and Mrs. Monique Samuels. Where do we begin?  Well, let’s just give a quick synopsis. They got into an altercation.  Monique ended up with a handful of hair.  Glasses were broken.  Candiace ended up an emotional wreck.  Finally, Monique told us all that she was about to kill Candiace.  Ok, that’s the gist and end of it. Or so we thought.

As we all know by now, Candiace pressed charges against Monique. While I am not here to talk about the merits or legalities of it all, I am here to discuss the incidence itself and the tone of Candiace since.  Let me start by asking this. Did Candiace not throw a whole knife, butter or not, at Ashley last season?

Is she not the same person that has constantly been the aggressor and the stirrer upper of things since she arrived on the show? How is she now pressing charges on someone else for giving her exactly what she has been threatening to give people since she arrived on the show, especially when you consider the type of rhetoric she uses.

In just this latest episode, you can see her insinuating that she will deal with someone. You have to take that as a promise of physical engagement right?  That’s the energy she has been giving off since she arrived.  She has talked, acted, and thrown weapons during her entire tenure as if she couldn’t wait to put her hands on someone, but now this?

Again, this isn’t a conversation to ask about why she filed charges (but that was such a soft, devious, and downright wrong move, for many reasons that include the fact that it wasn’t her idea to do it, she wasn’t really harmed, and she has made physical threats towards people as well), but this is to speak a bit on what we have seen over the past few weeks.

Again, this is the same lady who has all but threatened to kill Ashley at times herself.  Are we all forgetting that?  Are the ladies all forgetting that? Most importantly, is Candiace forgetting that?

The rest of the cast is guilty of picking sides, but we get why they did it.

I won’t get started on the rest of the ladies, acting is if they are holier than thou when they all have gotten pretty belligerent at times on different occasions.  There is never a time for violence, if that’s truly what you call this situation. But there is also never a time for some of the mischievous, juvenile, and instigating things that all of them do to one another.

Candiace cannot continue to act as if this incident threw her whole mental equilibrium off, as if she didn’t, again, threaten someone with a whole entire weapon just a season ago. Make it make sense for me.  Please!

Lastly and to close, all of these women have at one time or another threatened to do something to someone. When the one that I have always believed was most likely to act on it, Monique, actually does what everyone else has acted like they have wanted to do for the entire existence of the show, then it’s an issue?  They are all phonies.  There, I said it.

There should be no more arguing.  There should be no more back and forth.  People should completely stay out of other people’s business then because, at times, things get a bit heated. What Monique did wasn’t assault, it was a tap and hair pull.

You can call it what you like, but that wasn’t nearly as egregious as the cast is attempting to make it out to be.  If you don’t really want the smoke, don’t strike the match.  It’s really as simple as that.

That’s the message here. I say that because I can’t take another episode of Candiace acting as if this is the worst thing to ever happen to anybody and as if it has caused her to go into some deep clinical depressive state.

Enough already.  If you didn’t have these emotions when you were tossing dinnerware, I can’t buy the phoniness now either.  Have several seats, you and the rest of the phony ladies.

The Real Housewives of Potomac will be back next Sunday at 9 PM.