The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been rather quiet over the past week, and no man could be happier about this than Boris Johnson.
In addition to having to supervise negotiations over the Sussexes' security costs abroad - surely if security were cut back and an incident occurred, Johnson's government would be blamed - Boris has to worry about Meghan's determination to "use her voice" when it comes to politics.
Having just put his signature on Brexit, Boris badly needs a trade deal with the Americans. And for that, he must remain friendly with Donald Trump.
Meghan doesn't like Donald Trump, and she will probably be saying so soon, possibly as soon as her first post-Megxit TV appearance.
That said, Meghan is gifted at causing chaos wherever she goes, and if she inserts herself into the political scene that would be no exception.
What would it mean for a member of the British Royal Family to be openly attacking the leader of one of the UK's longstanding allies? You don't have to like Donald Trump to think this is a bad idea. Would anyone have wanted to know, say, Prince Edward's opinion of Barack Obama?
The Royal Family is by definition apolitical, Prince Charles's repeated appearances with Greta Thunberg notwithstanding. Endorsing one candidate or another weakens support for the institution as a whole.
Not that Meghan cares.
First of all, a political campaign requires organization, and it requires a talented and hard-working staff. Meg has already shown herself to be completely incompetent if not dehumanizing when it comes to managing a team. (Something which has been a big negative for current candidate Amy Klobuchar.)
Secondly, a political campaign requires hundreds of in-person appearances and handshakes, precisely the job Meg ran away from in the Royal Family. You can't campaign for any office sitting home and posting Photoshopped images to Instagram.
Finally, as a real-life candidate has to be ready to deal with harsh media criticism and still rise to the occasion when the going gets tough. No one "asks if they're OK."
What I can see Meg doing is trying to ally herself with "the Squad", four left-wing women of color who are pushing the Democratic party to the left. Their most prominent face is Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez of New York, who has endorsed Bernie Sanders for President.
Will Meg do the same? The vision of a woman who chose to marry into a reformed feudal institution and is currently living off the largess of its largest duchy endorsing a Socialist candidate is delicious in its irony.
Not that Meghan cares.
Today's Mail On Sunday leads with a long-winded article about Meghan's mother Doria Ragland which managed to answer almost none of the questions people are really asking about Doria, such as where she was during Meg's teenage years and what she does all day now.
(There's also nothing about her current partner, who is reportedly a woman. That's fine by me - the poor lady never asked to get involved in Meghan's mess.)
We do learn that Doria makes an excellent shrimp gumbo, a recipe she passed on to Meghan, that she has remained on friendly terms with Thomas Markle, and that the three of them spent Thanksgiving 2016 at a house rented by Prince Harry in Beverly Hills. "There were no servants, just the family," the article states.
That sounds like a clue of some sort, the sort of thing the MoS drops into the very bottom of an article for readers to follow up on. I'm not sure what it means. Anyway, why was Prince Harry renting a house in Beverly Hills?
Did Doria spend time in prison? Now's a good time to tell Oprah, perhaps link it to some kind of statement for corrections reform, and sob about how you as a teenager tried to cope with your Mom so far away.
Is Archie not really "from the body" as advertised? Let everyone know now, and tell Ellen DeGeneres about the pain of infertility, especially when living in the spotlight.
So broke during your acting years that you had to be a "ten cents a dance girl" for wealthy men? Say it now, while (some people) like you and will sympathize with your struggle. (The year that the movie "Hustlers" was considered for an Academy Award nomination might mean the time is right.)
Someone else like Steve Mnuchin, Trump's Treasury Secretary, who was reportedly one of her "ten cents a dance" clients.
If Meg starts going after Trump, will Trump encourage Mnuchin to retaliate? Mnuchin has an active Twitter account.
A subtle dig in a Tweet from Mnuchin like, "The Duchess of Sussex, whom I have known for more than a decade, was in Washington to protest today" might be highly unpleasant for US-UK bilateral relations.
Not that Meghan cares.
In addition to having to supervise negotiations over the Sussexes' security costs abroad - surely if security were cut back and an incident occurred, Johnson's government would be blamed - Boris has to worry about Meghan's determination to "use her voice" when it comes to politics.
Having just put his signature on Brexit, Boris badly needs a trade deal with the Americans. And for that, he must remain friendly with Donald Trump.
Meghan doesn't like Donald Trump, and she will probably be saying so soon, possibly as soon as her first post-Megxit TV appearance.
Overestimates her influence
Meghan, like most celebrities, probably overestimates her political influence. Even Taylor Swift, who has a large and devoted fanbase, struck out with her very first political endorsement in 2018 - she put her name behind a (male) Democrat running against a (female) Republican in her home state of Tennessee, and the woman won.That said, Meghan is gifted at causing chaos wherever she goes, and if she inserts herself into the political scene that would be no exception.
What would it mean for a member of the British Royal Family to be openly attacking the leader of one of the UK's longstanding allies? You don't have to like Donald Trump to think this is a bad idea. Would anyone have wanted to know, say, Prince Edward's opinion of Barack Obama?
The Royal Family is by definition apolitical, Prince Charles's repeated appearances with Greta Thunberg notwithstanding. Endorsing one candidate or another weakens support for the institution as a whole.
Not that Meghan cares.
Will Meg run for office?
There have been various media suggestions that Meg might run for office herself. I don't think she will or could.First of all, a political campaign requires organization, and it requires a talented and hard-working staff. Meg has already shown herself to be completely incompetent if not dehumanizing when it comes to managing a team. (Something which has been a big negative for current candidate Amy Klobuchar.)
Secondly, a political campaign requires hundreds of in-person appearances and handshakes, precisely the job Meg ran away from in the Royal Family. You can't campaign for any office sitting home and posting Photoshopped images to Instagram.
Finally, as a real-life candidate has to be ready to deal with harsh media criticism and still rise to the occasion when the going gets tough. No one "asks if they're OK."
What I can see Meg doing is trying to ally herself with "the Squad", four left-wing women of color who are pushing the Democratic party to the left. Their most prominent face is Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez of New York, who has endorsed Bernie Sanders for President.
Will Meg do the same? The vision of a woman who chose to marry into a reformed feudal institution and is currently living off the largess of its largest duchy endorsing a Socialist candidate is delicious in its irony.
Not that Meghan cares.
The story on Doria
What does Meghan care about? She cares about her image, or what she thinks is her image, which is why she spends so much money on PR in the past and apparently continues to do so.Today's Mail On Sunday leads with a long-winded article about Meghan's mother Doria Ragland which managed to answer almost none of the questions people are really asking about Doria, such as where she was during Meg's teenage years and what she does all day now.
(There's also nothing about her current partner, who is reportedly a woman. That's fine by me - the poor lady never asked to get involved in Meghan's mess.)
We do learn that Doria makes an excellent shrimp gumbo, a recipe she passed on to Meghan, that she has remained on friendly terms with Thomas Markle, and that the three of them spent Thanksgiving 2016 at a house rented by Prince Harry in Beverly Hills. "There were no servants, just the family," the article states.
That sounds like a clue of some sort, the sort of thing the MoS drops into the very bottom of an article for readers to follow up on. I'm not sure what it means. Anyway, why was Prince Harry renting a house in Beverly Hills?
Post-Megxit Honeymoon Phase
If Meg were smart, she'd use this post-Megxit honeymoon phase with the US media, or at least some portions of it, to burn off the most embarrassing parts of her story and move forward.Did Doria spend time in prison? Now's a good time to tell Oprah, perhaps link it to some kind of statement for corrections reform, and sob about how you as a teenager tried to cope with your Mom so far away.
Is Archie not really "from the body" as advertised? Let everyone know now, and tell Ellen DeGeneres about the pain of infertility, especially when living in the spotlight.
So broke during your acting years that you had to be a "ten cents a dance girl" for wealthy men? Say it now, while (some people) like you and will sympathize with your struggle. (The year that the movie "Hustlers" was considered for an Academy Award nomination might mean the time is right.)
The Mnuchin factor
Otherwise, someone else will release the story, and you won't be in control of it.Someone else like Steve Mnuchin, Trump's Treasury Secretary, who was reportedly one of her "ten cents a dance" clients.
If Meg starts going after Trump, will Trump encourage Mnuchin to retaliate? Mnuchin has an active Twitter account.
A subtle dig in a Tweet from Mnuchin like, "The Duchess of Sussex, whom I have known for more than a decade, was in Washington to protest today" might be highly unpleasant for US-UK bilateral relations.
Not that Meghan cares.
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I also noticed that neither show hinted about any divorce. They painted the Harkle's relationship as being fine!
Release the Surrogate Now!!
It is good to hear from someone who is of color, that you are sick of this wokeness. For the most part these wokey types just want to avoid-evade taking responsibility. Taking responsibility for their lives. So they blame others by crying out racism, sexism and so on. They live in the wealthiest nations that ever existed and this is not good enough for these bellyachers. They are spoiled and silly, having been brainwashed by their high school and university teachers.
The amusing part is that among the wokey ones of color, they are usually the lighter skinned one from among their racial or ethnic group. This is part of the "flight from white". Where just for an example, it used to be advantageous to pass for white. This was done blacks, who by personal appearance were on the borderline.
Now it is more advantageous to stake a claim for your blackness, as Megsy is doing, with her claims that racist Britain drove her out to Canada. We all know her acting resume said white or Caucasian and these were the gigs she got.
The wokey whites prevail on twitter and love to mob people who misspeak just a tiny bit. Piers Morgan is a master at trading insults with these dopes.
Seacrest really annoyed me in the first doc. I wonder if he plans to try and work with them? I know I keep saying this but someone really needs to light a fire under the RF.
I think it is exactly that, Scandi. They are attempting to get millions under false pretence by alleging that they are soooo mistreated. I consider it theft. It offends me when there are real people that have an incredibly hard life and the networks are wasting time on those two frauds.
On the plus side, since they are worth so much to Hollywood, PC can quit sending checks.
@ BlueBell Woods -- Agree with you if you just watched those shows you would definitely get the wrong impression about Rach and think that they are a happy, normal family. Not true. That is why it is so great we have this blog to uncover and discuss the truth.
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We all know her acting resume said white or Caucasian and these were the gigs she got.
I read that she wore different color clothes depending upon the part she was auditioning for so she could fit the part. For example, yellow if the part was for a Latina, red for a different ethnicity.
Makes me wonder what will change minds.
I think minds would be changed or at least hope they would be if all the dirt on Rach came out--what was sickening to me as how she was portrayed as Harry's savior rather than the social climbing B we know her to be.
I hope that there is some reaction by someone in the British press about the load of merde which was dumped in these shows.
@ Magatha Mistie--Agreed the Archie birth story has to come out at some point in time. I hope we are not all speculating about his birth/origins five years from now.
If you really think your brother and country need you that much, doesn't your leaving make you look a million times worse?
The absolute gall of this. I just... honest to God, they have officially made me sick with their BS.
She is what she is, and I never liked her anyway. Harry, though... my God. He has to have had this hatred inside him all along. She certainly has fanned it to heights it may not have ever reached, but he has been bitter and jealous a good long time, apparently.
I still can't believe she was allowed in. I get that the BRF were afraid of being called racists, but hey have to have known about her yachting, so why not just let that get out and say she is not an appropriate choice for a royal, but if Harry wanted to leave royalty, he was welcome to have at it. Isn't that what they did to Koo decades ago?
Whatever Seacrest is, he is worth zillions and this how they keep score in Hollywood. So he gets loads of respect there. In any DM article on him the commenters crawl out of the woodwork to make gay insinuations about him. He looks too metro, clean and spiffy. I suppose. Not that there's anything wrong with that. See! I am woke enuff too!
Maybe if Andrew had been allowed Koo he would not have needed Epstein and would not be in the hot water he is in now. LOL
I, too, cannot believe Rach was let in--there has to be some story there such as her saying she was pregnant in order to push the marriage through.
"@Bluebell Woods. I thought it was uttered before that--but I don't know--that's why I asked.
I can't imagine saying that WMWMG to Her Majesty!"
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Yes, I can't imagine that either, but I don't think he said it to the Queen - but rather to the courtiers who were organizing her visit to choose a tiara. I believe she was offered a small group to choose one from but she was aware of the Vladamir and asked the courtiers for it - they said no, so she told Hazza she wanted it and he shouted WMWMG to THEM.
Queenie finds out and intervenes. I don't think it was said before then. I've been reading a lot on them since not too long after it came out they were dating and I don't remember that statement until tiaragate.
I suppose wondering how on earth she got a foot in is why we're all here in the first place, right? Let alone the trainwreck that has unfolded since.
"They are attempting to get millions under false pretence by alleging that they are soooo mistreated. I consider it theft. It offends me when there are real people that have an incredibly hard life and the networks are wasting time on those two frauds."
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This seems to be their MO! I consider what they did (especially HER) in the UK to be theft as well! She took all that money for clothes to be worn ON THE JOB as a member of the RF repping the Queen, the money for the wedding and Frogcott - all on false pretenses AND then walked away claiming false discrimination! And if it ends up that she did indeed use a surrogate or even worse that there is NO Archie then that whole situation is a HUGE fraud on the UK as well!
@SwampWoman. Her clothes were better actors than she was hahaha
I don't think either of them follow the real story and both women appear to be fully black women, unlike our daisy princess.
One of them embraces the racist narrative because in her experience it seems entirely believable. She is not interested enough to actually look into the stuff we've all been tracking. I said to this friend, "she's not even black!!!" and we got into erasing black culture and the danger of the one drop rule.
The other girl was more like "she's not even black" which is my personal opinion and she seemed skeptical of the entire Meghan story.
A white friend who had been defending Meghan finally watched the video clip compilation where she continually steps ahead of Harry, speaks over him, etc and came away from it going oh woah holy crap.
Now if only I can get Friend 1 to watch it...
Hikari said:
"She's gone and burned bridges with Oprah by claiming that it was Oprah that actively encouraged her and Harry to leave the Royal Family. Oprah has categorically denied ever saying that. So . . .the mental health documentary series with Harry is probably off."
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And MM's made things worse with Oprah by leaking to the press stories that Ellen will get the first big interview with her instead of Winfrey!
They interviewed Oprah on one of the Harkle programs tonight and she mentioned the Harry mental health doc but I don't know how long ago that taping was done.
murklesmirkle, Smirkleville, United States, 2 hours ago
Well, I've been saying since the announcement that they were staying in that home which was reportedly owned by a Russian oligarch & that they were moving to Canada, that that house was wired for sound everywhere within 30 minutes of getting the "GO" that Sm u g & Mug would be staying there. You know Putin & those in the Kremlin have gotten one H 8 l l of an earful for the last 2 1/2 months of SM ughan & her NOW husband scheming & bad-mouthing the BRF. Talk about blackmail material!!! These two idiots are too obsessed with a luxe life that they don't even see the danger of what they are doing & what these associates want from them. Unbelievablely stupid!!!!
Your mention of the Ellen interview leak just reminds me of how little read NO loyalty Rach has to anyone. I guess she has always been up for sale to the highest bidder.LOL
I don't like Ryan Seacrest and now I like him even less,since finding out he is behind the Kartrashians. And even less with his comments about HAMS making so much money. He must be after them.
Wonder how many investors will be after them when they discover how hard it is to work with Duchess Difficult?
Skyline Pigeon, S.H., United States, 11 hours ago
Imagine if the owner of the house the Mercenary Markles and her hapless hen pecked husband are couch surfing at, had it wired for surveillance? Imagine that could prove a potential investment for some sort of future use for those in possession of anything and more likely, all sorts of potential problems for the Royal Family.
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murklesmirkle, Smirkleville, United States, 2 hours ago
Of course, it's wiretapped....they're dealing with the frig gin' RUSSIANS!!!!!! Ohhh, I can't wait to hear the conversations over the last 2 1/2 months, or at least, read the transcripts! It would actually serve the Queen & Useless Charles right for letting that marriage go forward and for caving in on the departure negotiations!
Prince Harry's close friend Nacho Figueras says he has suffered a lot and he's just trying to protect his wife Meghan and their son Archie by stepping back from the British royal family.
The Argentinian polo-player told Good Morning America on Wednesday that he spoke to Prince Harry just a few days ago and that his friend is just trying to live a normal life.
'He has suffered a lot for all the things that have happened to him,' Figueras, who regularly plays polo with Harry and was among the first to meet baby Archie, said.
'He wants to live a normal life, as normal as his life is going to be. When you have 1,000 paparazzi outside your house in Canada waiting to get one picture of your son, that's not normal.
'He's protecting his family, he's protecting his wife and his child.
'He was the son of someone who suffered attacks from the press and it's undeniable. He doesn't want for that to happen for his family.'
Figueras spoke out ahead of the ABC's prime time special - Royal Divide: Harry, Meghan, and The Crown - going to air on Wednesday night.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7943029/Prince-Harrys-friend-Nacho-Figueras-says-hes-suffered-lot.html?offset=639&max=100&jumpTo=comment-507803175&reply=507803175#comment-507803175
Shall we have a drink together and toast ourselves for making it through AND reporting on BOTH shows??!! I might watch them again tomorrow (dvr) if I have time, just to see what I missed and to perhaps note any other unforgivable comments to hold against the Harkles!
I'll take a big mug of steaming hot chocolate with a shot of peppermint schnapps and a mound of whipped cream.
The Mansion they have been staying at appears to be owned by someone who is on the UN Watchlist and may also be the subject to sanctions. As such I wouldn't be surprised if he is also collecting intel from them to sell to the highest bidder.
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Same here, Ozmanda.
How can we miss him when he won't go away?
Prince Harry's close friend Nacho Figueras says he has suffered a lot and he's just trying to protect his wife Meghan and their son Archie by stepping back from the British royal family.
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Suuuuuuure he is. LOL
Inside the Crown: Secrets of the Royals
ITV, 9pm
More insights into pivotal moments in the life of Queen Elizabeth II and her household from historians and insiders, tonight exploring the complex relationship between the press and the royal family. What should be a symbiotic relationship (“The royals need the press, but the press need the royals,” says the author Katie Nicholl. “They sell newspapers.”) is more often fraught and dysfunctional. It starts with a timely look at how the media targeted Meghan Markle when she started dating Prince Harry, before a dig in the archive to look at the news blackout in the 1950s and the feeding frenzy surrounding the marriage of Charles and Diana.
Yes, we should toast our fortitude for watching both shows! Hot chocolate with whipped cream and peppermint schnapps sounds divine! And perfect for this cold northern night! Here's to our friendship!
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One of my favorite points in the show was that Harry has not figured out that the pressure from the press and the paps was much worse for Diana once she was out of the BRF. Hello Capt Obvious. How in the world does he ever imagine that he as Prince of the Realm can ever live a free and normal life?
Not good for them. All the secrecy erodes their brand day by day. In fact, any secrecy erodes a brand on its face.
Good. Let's see the gross truth from them sooner rather than later.
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One of my favorite points in the show was that Harry has not figured out that the pressure from the press and the paps was much worse for Diana once she was out of the BRF. Hello Capt Obvious. How in the world does he ever imagine that he as Prince of the Realm can ever live a free and normal life?
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DesignDoctor,
It's amazing to me, but Harry has not realized that Diana died because she ditched the professional British security she could have had, instead of the Al-Fayed goons she eventually settled with. Somehow, he seems to think he can make do with the same level of bad protection. Or not. He's an idiot, who doesn't know what he wants until he needs it.
What do they get out of their backing of the Harkles? David Foster and by marriage, Katharine McPhee, Elton, Ellen, Oprah and Gayle, the Clooneys, the Beckhams, the Mulroneys, the Trudeaus and others do not endorse people for free or just because they are such "good friends," (or once were before they got smart and faded into the background). They do it because they get something out of it. What do they get? Money.
ALL of these very vocal supporters of the Harkles, who all just happen to have great wealth, need looking into, as does the SoHo House. And so does anybody who works with them in the future, as the Russian connection is know known.
ALL of these very vocal supporters of the Harkles, who all just happen to have great wealth, need looking into, as does the SoHo House. And so does anybody who works with them in the future, as the Russian connection is know known.
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Yes. Indeed.
I don't think that Marcus Anderson has dropped the Harkles. I think he's still working behind the scenes, as are others from the Soho House whose names might not be so well-known.
From what I can tell from your descriptions, the ABC one seemed a bit more balanced.
Nevertheless, there was never going to be a hatchet job on Meghan. One commenter has already pointed out that ABC is owned by Disney, which has business connections with the Sussexes.
Also, who wants to be the journalist who points out Meg's misdeeds (getting paid to wear clothing and jewelry to Royal events, mistreating staff, announcing 'pregnancy' at Eugenie's wedding and generally competing with otherRoyals over coverage, Sussex Foundation suspicious timing of registration and finances, overlapping love affair timelines, possible surrogate pregnancy disguised by moon bump, hiding Archie from the British public, etc. ) and takes the discussion from Internet gossip to mainstream media?
Talk about a career killer.
You can see a little bit of what might happen to such a person by looking at what happened to that Washington Post lady who pointed out Kobe Bryant's checkered past. (That lady had her own checkered past and in my opinion, very poor timing in her Kobe remarks, but let's put that aside for the moment.) She dealt with a large number of death threats, was briefly suspended from her job, and had to leave her home for security reasons and move to a hotel.
Could that happen to someone who dug up the dirt on Meg and published it? Seems likely that the sugars would go after that reporter pretty hard.
You need a desperate reporter to do that, and desperate reporters aren't working at ABC or at TMZ, which is owned by Warner Media.
There are NOT 1000 paps outside that house! Is Harry lying or exaggerating to Nacho, or is Nacho exaggerating what Harry told him?
Paps make their money with exclusive photos they can sell the rights to. The more people there, the less your photos are worth.
Nachos Figueras (he of the Windsor cologne and the boasting about using private jets) is vocal in speaking up for the Sussexes, revealing just how self obsessed and out of touch they pair are. That he is a close friend of the Sussexes is a good indication of their character.
Thomas Markle (the father of the narcissist duchess) is vocal in keeping the Sussexes on the front page and guaranteeing that he will never see his daughter or grandson, and never meet his son-in-law. However, he is a prime example of a society (those that defend Meghan in the War of the Markles) that thinks it is perfectly okay to ghost a father because he offended you, embarrassed you, and where traits of narcissism are admired qualities.
I too think Nacho is exaggerating. He is encouraged by the media and the Harkles (or tolerated) for a few reasons such as
1. He is the only personal friend Harry can count on his side. All others are Meghan's spokespeople and mostly talk about her.
2. He is not a random but job like Scobie or JM. He is a respected polo player, Harry's long time friend and obviously not shy of inserting himself into the narrative. So he is considered a sane voice, so to say.
3. It helps to have him in Harry's camp, and so by extension Meghan's camp because he brings a so-called inside knowledge/behind the scenes picture into this debate. And they don't have to ask him twice. What ever he says doesn't have to disguised as close friend or expert but can be directly attributed to him.
That being said, Nacho needs a hair cut and he definitely needs to stop using his own Windsor perfume. He is definitely sniffing too.much of these shady fumes.
How can a reporter listen to such rubbish, not challenge it, and then simply publish it?
Also, Nacho's connection to Harry has been long-term, but look at him now. He gets free PR talking about his friendship with Harry and sells his Windsor cologne because of Harry. One hand washes the other, and it all comes down to money.
It’s part 2 of a series (not sure how many episodes there are). Last week I was discussing the contents with a fellow Nutty. It’s more of a historical documentary and they’ve showed stuff that people have never heard of before (they’ve been allowed to uncover some letters in the archives). It’s very good and factual. 🤗
You need a desperate reporter to do that, and desperate reporters aren't working at ABC or at TMZ, which is owned by Warner Media.
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I hope they are.
The spirit of François-Marie Arouet, better known as Voltaire, lives in these journalists who are vilified as parasites. Piers Morgan sometimes channels them, but there not enough of them.
"A witty saying proves nothing." (Voltaire)
Duchess Dingy Dinghy is overboard & sinking fast...
Steve Martin dropped by LSSC after those specials aired here. He’s touring the UK with Martin Short and made a couple of jokes about H&M: https://youtu.be/syXVAuSzZg4
First joke: He responded to Colbert saying there were a couple of openings in the royal family now and maybe they could fill them. He says, the difference between Marty and him to them is “we show up.”
Second joke: Steve Martin remarks that Meg gave HMTQ a bracelet for her 93rd birthday engraved with “Do Not Resuscitate.”
I could see Colbert enjoy and understand the jokes but played off the tense and negative reactions from the audience.
Can I join Team Introvered Cats in Pantyhose too? My brother who is a classic party-boy keeps wanting to “cure” me. I just want to listen, read, and write. Speaking is optional :P
@Elle Best wishes to you getting to where you want with your career. You call it boring but I still think it’s cool ;)
@Scandi Sanskrit Your posts are all fun in the sun! I also love the sociological topics and links you bring up. Thank you for writing EXACTLY why this non-white Third Culture kid can’t stand Meg’s fakery and virtue signaling. What you wrote is everything :)
Hello fellow TCK & fan of Audrey Hepburn's "Charade", and thank you for the kind words! 💜
BTW, I love your handle. I’m a huge Agatha Christie fan!
Good luck and best wishes for all those deadlines you’ve got.
This is one club our Megs could never join, because: word salad, no cats, no pantyhose. And she doesn't strike me as the type to sit quietly in a corner with a good book either.
@tweeymma Yes, I was one of the people who admitted their types. I call myself an INFJ. I am an amateur at typings and I base them off of other frameworks instead of MBTI. I think Harry is an ESFP and Meg is an ESTP. Whatever they are, I doubt anyone wants to claim them.
@BlueBell, ‘Inside the Crown: Secrets of the Royals.’
It’s part 2 of a series (not sure how many episodes there are).
There are 4 episodes and I hope to discover many more things that I hadn't previously known!:)
Diana.
Meghan: ENTJ
Queen and Kate: ISFJ,
Sophie too, probably.
Charles: INTJ, or possibly ISFJ.
ABC/Disney threw major shade at the future king of England. FU ABC/Disney.
And Harry, I know you gave permission for this since you and your wife are now employees of Disney. It looks as if you have given up your birthright and family for dirty Disney money. Quit having your friends moan and groan about your need to protect your family. It's all about the money. See Mark Cuban, Ryan Seacrest, and Dr. Phil. And Oprah you just threw major shade via your spokesman, Phil.
I figured our disgusting hollywood/media bs false narrative dribbling sycophantic bad actors would prop up these two grifters. No big surprise here.
The only thing that continues to shock and disgust me is Harry's willingness to harm his brother. Diana would be furious.
Poor Harry, this path is dark and these greedy creatures with which you've aligned yourself are as well.
I said before, this is the global cabal against the Monarchy, but why? The Monarch
is global. But HM is for her country, as is PW. Not certain of Charles. The global cabal is for themselves.
To sum up, what the American/cabal/media idiots will continue to push, using PH, is
we are good anti racist over here and your evil colonial country is bad and racist. Can anyone say fake media?
The 1000 paparazzi comment is ludicrous. There might be one, hired by Meg. In any case, if there’s 1000 photographers camped out in front of the Harkle house, where is a single photo of the couple, Together or separately? Since Harry arrived, nada.
Also I couldn’t help noticing the very prominent mention of Nacho “being the first to meet baby Archie.” The placement of this remark is odd in the sentence, and it feels like yet another gratuitous celebrity rushing to ensure us that Archie definitely exists!!! Not forgetting that Ellen and Hillary Clinton have both met Archie and even fed him while discussing climate change and women in politics with his mum.
Sure. Just like Priyanka Chopra Met Archie at Frogmore.
So much doubling down on baby Archie… It’s almost like Rachel is afraid we will forget she has a baby or something. He needs his existence verified by celebrities, and because they are celebrities we have to believe it’s true. One celebrity endorsement trumpet it loudly on the Internet and television beats thousand photographs or live video footage of a a real actual baby interacting with his parents.
A lie repeated 1000 times does not become truth but this is what Rachel has based her entire existence upon.
As a Brit, I now won’t be bothering to download this tripe. To air such horribly non factual biased reporting is more than irresponsible
and lazy journalism (if you can even call it that), it’s a form of propaganda. 😖☹️
I know Harry keeps trying to push the narrative that he has inherited Diana’s spirit and therefore her legacy, I just don’t buy it. I think Wills fits her personality much better. Not perfectly but much closer. Harry doesn’t have the spotlight and so the currency he goes by is well, I’ve got my famous Mom’s “je ne sais quoi” qualities. How can anyone argue with that? He sure has her genes and emotional volatility. Diana’s “special-ness” is hard to measure and what he is trying to get us to measure him against is a an image of an image in our memories. Look how much his wife has people spewing she’s Diana’s incarnate because cameras take pictures of her like her MIL.
I really don’t think Diana and Harry have the same personality type at all. Diana doesn’t get credit for having a lot of self-discipline and foresight at a young age. It’s like pure debauchery and hedonism with Harry. I think Harry does everything in his power to make people think he is like his Mom so he has a metaphorical legacy to compete with Wills actual legacy. Who would care if he was some random royal not potentially Diana incarnate? Sorry Harry. Thank you, next.
NWO globalism?
Old-fashioned power politics between major blocs?
Finally destroy `Special Relationship' between UK & US?
Create unfavourable climate for UK/US trade deals?
Destabilise UK as punishment for leaving EU? As warning to other states that might be thinking of doing the same?
Encourage racial troubles in UK?
Serve the purposes of Russian-owned newspaper owners? The Russian State?
Destroy UK economically?
Cui bono? Any other states/organisations that are `not friends of Britain'?
Propaganda? It sure is propaganda.
As for Russia, it wasn't just the polonium case. There was Salisbury - the targets lived, at least 3 innocent people were badly damaged and one innocent woman died. We know who did it and how they did it but only after they'd skipped off to safety in the arms of Mother Russia. Uncle Vlad just laughed at us - they'd only come to Salisbury to admire the beautiful cathedral, we were told...
The reason "what Meghan wants, Meghan gets" sounds familiar may be because Sarah Vaughn had a famous hit in the late '50s called "Whatever Lola Wants, Lola Gets". It may have been from the Broadway show "Damn Yankees".
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QvcaSBN82ns
And @Miggy, thanks for the blog link. Excellent article!
For us INFPs the role function is introverted-thinking. As an INFP I can easily get lost in abstract reasoning as an escape from actually making decisions and doing things in the real world, but when I do I end up feeling cut off from other people and from myself. For the ENFP, introverted-thinking is the trickster function. Diana herself admitted abstract reasoning was not one of her strengths. And she did like to poke fun of the absurdities of life, which is an introverted-thinking kind of humor.
And Diana got her energy from being around people, which makes her an extravert, not an introvert. She hated being alone. We introverts need alone time, to recharge our batteries. We could never spend hours on the phone as Diana did when she didn't have people around her.
As for self-discipline, that's an introverted sensing trait. Self-will, on the other hand, is a trait of introverted-intuition. It can be hard to tell the difference between a person who has a strong will and a person who has a strong sense of discipline but I'd hazard a guess that in both Diana and in Harry the will is the stronger factor.
Playing a role he doesn't feel connected with? Abstract reasoning as a blind spot? Maybe that goes a way to describing Harry as well as his mother.
It seems a bit of a coincidence that the Harkles are renting a villa from a mysterious Russian oligarch, who (as several posters have pointed out) probably had the place bugged before their arrival. Who is funding Meghan's expensive PR firms, her Russian bot farms, her IG followers?
How did she manage to afford Sunshine Sachs when she was still working on Suits? Who paid for her extensive travels at that time? And who paid for the Tig website? Who put her in Harry's orbit? How did she manage to get the humanitarian gigs around that time? How did she, as an unknown cable actress, manage to meet Obama, Hillary Clinton, Ellen?
Sycophantic b.s., Both of them.
I can't wait for the denouement to this tale.
"How did she, as an unknown cable actress, manage to meet Obama, Hillary Clinton, Ellen?"
I'm not sure she did meet all those people when she was unknown cable actress. She talked about SEEING Ellen at a dog shelter in LA when she adopted Bogart, the 5-year old dog she left behind when she moved to the UK. In an interview published in 2016, she said she didn't know Ellen but Ellen told her to adopt the puppy it was sort like Oprah saying to do something so she did.
https://www.besthealthmag.ca/best-you/wellness/how-ellen-degeneres-convinced-meghan-markle-to-adopt-a-dog-and-more-from-our-may-cover-star/
Thanks for your theory re: The origin of "What Meg wants Meg gets," but I know the song from Damn Yankees is not what I am thinking about in this case.
It feels like it has been around longer than Tiaragate, but after others' comments I agree it probably started then.
@WildBoar
Great list of hypotheses of the games that could be a foot. MM appears to either be very naive or selling out her husband and the BRF in her quest for international fame and fortune.
Harry"s MBTI I see Diana and Harry as being different types..
I am not as familiar with Diana as Harry, so you may be right. However, I do think that ruling out Se-trickster for Diana is problematic. She was groomed and instructed from a young age on her dress, makeup, manners, and so on. Not only that, she had a team to ensure she looked flawless not unlike Kate does today.
What Diana’s fashion and makeup choices were are filtered through the choices and expertise of many “invisible” people heavily invested in making sure Diana was perfect. There were rumors that British Vogue’s Grace Coddington taught her how to pose for the cameras. The Queen Mother and Lady Susan Hussey had a heavy hand in training Diana and building up her royal poise.
What is your take on Diana’s insistence on blue eyeliner a trendy choice but against her MUA’s advice? She eventually stopped but after it became her signature.
Anyways, this was a lot of fun! Nice to hear others takes on personalities :)
Re Meghan meeting Obama and Hillary, I looked it up and she met President Obama at the White House in 2015 (before she even met Harry, I think). There are photos if you google "Meghan Markle meets Obama". I know I have seen similar photos of her meeting Hillary Clinton, but I can't find them at the moment.
I wonder how Meghan managed to get so close to all these famous people when she was relatively unknown. She seems to have been in the right place at the right time A LOT.
When I saw the name Mark Cuban, it reminded me of something I read just yesterday. I was actually searching for something else.
This is a an excerpt. The link to the page is below.
“ Ashton Kutcher, Guy Oseary, and Ron Burkle had invested in private equity deals individually, then, in 2010, formed A-Grade Investments to invest in technology startups as a group.[1]
Abe Burns is head of digital operations at the firm.[2] Chris Hollod is a partner at the firm and works directly with the founders to manage the fund.[3]
In 2012 Kutcher, Oseary and Burkle raised additional capital A-Grade from several billionaires, including David Geffen and Mark Cuban.
On May 1, 2013, onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC, Kutcher and Oseary confirmed rumors that the fund was valued at over $100 million.[4]
In March 2016, Forbes published a comprehensive article on A-Grade Investments, entitled "How Ashton Kutcher And Guy Oseary Built A $250 Million Portfolio With Startups Like Uber And Airbnb,"[5] with Kutcher appearing on the cover of the magazine, which became the most-widely read issue in Forbes’ 99-year history.[6] The Forbes article states that the team turned $30m into $250m.”
https://wiki2.org/en/A-Grade_Investments
I agree. She likely was at some dinner function at the White House where she sorta met PBO. There's a selfie of hers with BO on the background. It's apparent in that picture that that isn't a proper meeting, just mM being present at a function which her hosted.
I don't think she ever met HRC though she supported her campaign because of the whole feminism angle. That's already when she became a sworn event of Trump's and declared she would leave the US if he ever won lol. HRC was asked on some chat show ( though it was Jimmy Kimmel) if she knows MM. She said she doesn't know her personally but it's aware that MM supported her. That was a nice comment and the rent way to do it. Flash forward 2 years and HRC is an ardent supporter of hers.
As for JM, she is probably doing all this for publicity. Otherwise she is just a vapid airhead. She is extremely sensitive to criticism yet constantly puts herself out there. So passive agressive. I was recently stalking her and Ben ( because it was the dead of night and I couldn't sleep). I came across this post on her husband's Instagram. It was posted around the same time as her Kate dig. Is it just me or does this seem kinda cryptic dig to you guys too? It's about revenge and "kick the buddy" yet seems passive agressive just like his wife's post.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B7zQwSDJh5I/?igshid=mn6a13lou3mb
Same way David Geffen gets wealthier every year. Yachting! In the right location, location, location. Yachting partly for socializing with prestigious people, male and female . But what do you think the guys are talking about? Money and inside track investments aka (just sometimes) insider trading investments. They hear about the best investments long before the general public and before most of Wall Street. Plus they get coveted invites to get in early on companies like Facebook. Ya gotta know someone who knows someone who can get you the invitation to buy 1-2-3% of Facebook long before it went public IPO.
Aston Kutcher is no genius. He just knows the right people who saw him in a movie and liked him. Plus Facebook (just as an example) wanted the prestige and pizzazz of having a Hollywood star buying a piece of them. This helps immensely when the IPO comes out for the plebs.
This post was Megsy approved due to mention of yachting. Big bad 200ft+ yachts floating on the Mediterranean when Canne film festival rolls around. Also other times during summer.
Seacrest was a protege of Merv Griffin - who was a serious, serious perv and super connected, super wealthy.
....and when someone insists upon multiple beard relationships and even, encourages sexual harassment allegations to distract from his sexuality....you wonder why go to such lengths? It isn't like Seacrest is a "leading man" whose career will suffer from coming out of the closet. He is already a diva - both in business and behavior.
Mark Cuban...is slimey in a different way. IMO his interest in Meghan is a personal one - for exactly the reasons you might think. His interest in the couple is all about the money.
I actually like that flowing flowery style - Oscar de la Renta but I can see why others do not.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7946629/Meghan-Markle-actively-looking-manager-future-projects-insider-claims.html
https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1235680/prince-harry-news-media-complaint-dismissed-IPSO-ruling-meghan-markle
Prince Harry dealt huge blow as Duke’s media complaint dismissed
PRINCE Harry and Meghan Markle have lost their battle with the Mail on Sunday after press regulator IPSO backed the news publication over the royal couple.
It was posted around the same time as her Kate dig. Is it just me or does this seem kinda cryptic dig to you guys too? It's about revenge and "kick the buddy" yet seems passive agressive just like his wife's post.
It may be a dig, or it may just be a cute anecdote about his daughter, with a plug for the game and the Mandalorian saga, which seems to be something everyone is going on about because of baby Yoda (who is adorable, FWIW) . My niece plays that Kick the Buddy game, it's weird.
"Is the "duvet cover" dress worn at the Spencer wedding- the blue and white floral?
I actually like that flowing flowery style - Oscar de la Renta but I can see why others do not."
That's the one!
I would have liked the dress on someone else or if it had been altered to fit M. While the style was flowing and loose, it did have a waist. And because M has a high waist, the top just looked super droopy. And that tiny white structured hat just looked so odd with that style dress.
PRINCE Harry and Meghan Markle have lost their battle with the Mail on Sunday after press regulator IPSO backed the news publication over the royal couple.’
I’m not sure if you’ve read the article in full. 😉They’ve only lost their case regarding the elephant images shown on their IG account regarding Earth Day of elephants. Not the one against her father.
There have been three arrests (that I am aware of) this past week of Chinese nationals working at labs being arrested for espionage and/or smuggling. About a month ago, two Chinese Americans, the man an officer in the Navy on a submarine were arrested for passing top secret info about our submarines to mainland China (and is jailed awaiting trial). Every student and professor from mainland China with family at home is a hostage to the government and will do as they ask because of the carrot and stick of bribes/threats to family members.
(Tinfoil hat on.) Were I to think about bad actors behind shadowy machinations, I'd be looking at the Chinese as well, except that they seemed more fixated on stealing industrial and military secrets. However, Senator Dianne Feinstein's 20-year-driver was a Chinese spy. The Clintons were beneficiaries of Chinese money. (I don't know if anybody even remembers the scandal of then VP Gore soliciting Chinese money at Buddhist temples. He wasn't elected because of his green plans (bigass multiple houses and worldwide jet travel and luxury accommodations for ME but not for you peasants!) but because he was suspected of being bought/paid for by Chinese.) I've read accounts of widespread Chinese money being spread about to American politicians so maybe thinking about Chinese involvement wouldn't be off the table. (Tinfoil hat off.)
While I think that globalists trying to erase the national identity of countries may be behind this attack on the royals (and I look at the concerted attacks of groups against anything that represents American sovereignty from borders to citizenship to registering illegals to vote to fundamentally change our country as part of this). There is no reason that it couldn't be a collusion between various bad actors worldwide. (For those that do not know, all of our cultural icons have been under attack from Christianity to national monuments including George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and the constitution itself.)
Using an actress of limited ability and no morals as an American agent of discord and trying to whip up animus between the USA and UK countries as racism charges being thrown about seems to be part of the script. However, we (majority of Americans) really don't care about her plus her racism charges are laughable, so there's that. If she wants to comment about fleeing to avoid 'pedophile' Andrew, why is she being interviewed on a Disney-owned station when Disney has had rumors of employees sexually abusing child actors for YEARS? Not to mention that she is a product of Hollywood that is rampant with the same sexual abuse problems, and she is an enthusiastic product at that.
Personally, I think the dastardly duo (or the people behind them) are going to come up with something worse to try to incite Americans/British against each other. World events are about to overshadow them, however, if Dr. Gabriel Leung from Hong Kong is correct. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=26&v=CwXMPsbxFfo&feature=emb_logo
personal observation regarding post about David Geffen and others about favourable deals. A while back TM was interviewed? about the MM/TE wedding in ? with people saying he wasn't there. Lies said he, I paid, I was present just not prepared to be photographed in a swimsuit. Where did you get the money to pay for a destination wedding? Oh years ago, through work I was offered shares in a company called Facebook before they were listed, sold the shares to pay for said wedding. Anyone else remember and find it strange?
I will also be joining the Nutties in a quiet area with a suitable book. ISTJ - A, so please no tales of woe, when I am trying to read.
While I have my reservations about MM being part of some global attempt to destroy the monarchy, if she was/is, then her life IS in danger. She's a liability now, and as I said previously, taking her out would put the blame squarely at the feet of the RF.
Lol, I thought that must be a kids game reference. But I didn't know for sure. Us I've been on the blog so.ling everything related to anyone connected to MM seems suspicious. I mean, come on I was stalking JM and Ben's insta, I must be going crazy! Need to meditate more.
Mark Cuban : He doesn't have a very good reputation in silicon valley. He is considered a fame whore and as plastic as Jessica M. My husband is based in Silicon Valley and him and his buddies don't have a very good opinion about him. most enterpreneurs and respectable VCs don't think very highly of him. He is known to chase money, is shallow and has a huge ego. Plus not known to make cery good decisions lately. Very much a TMZ E!online, Meghan Markle famclub type of guy.
Honestly, if she had just showed me the game a few weeks ago, I wouldn't know a thing about it. I did have to look it up when you said the name, because I didn't know it's name, but it's definitely the game she showed me. It really is pretty weird. I was tempted to tell her she couldn't play it because it is pretty vicious in it's "revenge" but it's not very realistic and she's a sweet girl, so I don't think it will do any harm. Ivy seems a bit young to be playing it though, JMO.
Cuban has had a bad reputation with his employees too; there have been a lot of rumors about his sexual harassment of female employees, but they're too afraid to talk, etc..etc. He was also accused of sexual assault a few years back as well. I wouldn't be surprised if his name becomes linked with Epstein, eventually.
Russia has lost a lot of power/influence in the world today and if push comes to shove, I do not believe they can even hold Siberia which China is slowly infiltrating. Their birth rate is plummeting along with their population.
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Russia has indeed lost any claim they might have had to international prestige. But Russia has to keep on Russia-ing. That is, putting spanners into any works they can. They like it. It is their raison d'etre.
As for China, their raison d'etre is stealing. They convinced the Clintons, with the Clintons' complicity, to wholesale reap incredible American technology in return for phony "legitimacy". We will be paying the price for generations.
I can assure you the way the world is bigger news will always blow Markles out of the front pages.
By the way, they are telling us lies about the coronavirus. If it is no more dangerous than a flu why governments are panicking? Every day people die from flu but I don't see huge headlines about it. I am sure there is something they are not telling us to avoid even bigger panic.
There is flu, and there is flu.
Should we be scared?
The Spanish flu shortly after World War I was very scary. It killed a LOT of people. Millions around the world. It did not go away.
I, myself, lived through it. I could not get out of bed for a week. Literally. I did my "business" in my bed, along with my husband. Thank G-d for caring relatives.
Let's hope this latest scourge goes away.
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Meghan's legal action:
In October 2019, law firm Schillings, acting for Meghan, filed a High Court claim against the Mail on Sunday and its parent company Associated Newspapers over:
1. the alleged misuse of private information,
2. infringement of copyright (unlawfully published a handwritten letter from Meghan to her father), and
3. breach of the Data Protection Act 2018.
Prince Harry:
He has launched two separate legal proceedings against the owners of the Daily Mirror and The Sun newspapers over alleged phone-hacking (the illegal interception of voicemail messages). It is unclear when the alleged activity took place, and whether it relates to the phone-hacking scandal of 2005-7 and 2009-11. (Kate Middleton had her messages hacked 155 times in the space of a few months between 2005 and 2006, including on Christmas Day and Valentine's Day. William was hacked 35 times, and Harry 9 times.)
Now they are infecting the entire world with …. infection.
Slimeballs. Thanks for NOTHING
This is not related to the law suits ...
Without trying to appear rude, I was just about to ask just how old are you if you lived through the Spanish flu of 1918! So glad you clarified!🤗😂
I had the bad flu strain of late 1999 and was ill for 3 months. Flu is deadly and kills. The coronavirus I’m not sure if it’s like SARS (but caught in a different way), but I just see as contagious and deadly, that’s all I need to know for now. 😟
Lest anyone think I haven't forgotten the Harkles, au contraire.
I am sick to the death that they are even a …. thing … in our culture.
Not sure why they are even a … thing … . They are not evil.
They are jellyfish. Jellyfish cannot destroy anything, on their own. They simply inhabit their spaces. They wreck them, and then move on.
I want to blame HM the Queen, but no one, not even her, could have foreseen these …. creatures.
I keep current with the same news you do. Thomas Clancy wrote a novel about the Chinese taking over Siberia from the Russkies.
The Bear and the Dragon - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bear_and_the_Dragon
The Bear and the Dragon is a techno-thriller novel, written by Tom Clancy , and released on August 21, 2000. A direct sequel to Executive Orders (1996), President Jack Ryan deals with a war between Russia and China, referred respectively in the title as the Russian Bear and the Chinese Dragon. At over 1,028 pages, it is Clancy's longest novel.
China is our biggest threat. Not Russia, though their oligarchs are an interesting crew. If you see Mr Carlson on TV he harps on this all the time. Minus the oligarchs. We all know why the Dems hate Russia and make them into the big bad bogey man. 60% of it is racial. Putin is the roughest, toughest, most macho white leader on the planet so he is made into an evil figure. Their whipping boy. Russia is in demographic decline, does not have the human numbers/population to give us real problems.
It took The Donald to come along and start trade equalization with China.
China, Japan and Korea are all very good at long range thinking and planning. Taiwan too I suppose. This is why they do well economically. For example, Toyota has a 100 year plan. Which is a great idea even if they only accomplish 33%.
>>>How did she manage to afford Sunshine Sachs when she was still working on Suits? Who paid for her extensive travels at that time? And who paid for the Tig website? Who put her in Harry's orbit? How did she manage to get the humanitarian gigs around that time? How did she, as an unknown cable actress, manage to meet Obama, Hillary Clinton, Ellen?<<<
Megsy was photographed in the same room with Obama (interesting that she made sure there was a picture), and she may have shaken his hand, but the same could be said for any citizen who obtained a ticket to a campaign event, of which there are many. Since I've been living in my current city, we've had multiple Presidential visits, open to limited numbers of the public via ticket from G.W. Bush, Obama and Trump. I did not attend any of these because it would have been a madhouse. Tickets are issued in order to allow the Secret Service to vet each attendee. My boss's husband was on the organizing committee for a recent Trump visit, and she was not able to join him at the last minute that day because ticketholders had already been vetted and the guest list complete 48 hours before the President's visit.
When I was 12 years old, I saw President Jimmy Carter disembarking from Air Force One at Dobbins AFB in Georgia. He was home for a visit; my father, then USAF reserve was doing a two-week training at Dobbins and the families were invited to the base to watch POTUS arrive. We were about 100 yards back, behind a cordon, but we got to see Jimmy and Rosalyn exit the plane . . two tiny figures waving.
Were I Rachel, I'd list that on my resume as having met President Carter.
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We only have Rachel's say-so that she met Ellen and Hillary, and if those women have colluded in her story, they are as corrupt and shady as she. They are doing it for a reason. Oh, let's not forget also that Rachel 'met' Mrs. Obama, by crashing a book signing Michelle was at and trying to monopolize her in conversation when she was on a tight schedule. And then, remember, Rachel interviewed Michelle 'over a lunch of chicken tacos."
Anything Rachel says has the ring of inauthenticity. She could claim she made French toast for breakfast (egg-free), and I wouldn't believe that, either.
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Mischa Nonoo is supposedly the 'mutual friend' that introduced Rachel to Harry . . if one buys her official version of events re. the 'blind date'. Rach actually met Harry at the Invictus pre-launch dinner in Toronto in May of 2016, not July. In that engagement interview the pair couldn't actually get their stories straight as to when they had met and how long they'd been dating. The chef for the Invictus dinner was Cory Vitiello. Obviously the reason for the fudged 'blind date' was to try to cover the fact that there had been overlap between Cory and Harry. The breakup came swiftly for Cory, which surprised his parents as much as it had him, since Rach lived with him most of the time and he'd told them he planned to propose to her.
Cory, you dodged a bullet, mate.
Soho House got Rachel into the Royal Family, and proceeded to give her 'projects' once she was installed--the disastrous SmartSet venture; the equally disastrous Vogue issue. I don't think Vladimir Putin and the Russians would have been at all interested in a social climbing starlet with her eye on a Prince before the marriage, but afterwards . . ? She is easily the type they could and would want to exploit. Materialistic and amoral people from fractured families have few to no meaningful ties and are very susceptible to being bought. Just the kind of person they recruit to become spies.
As each day passes, it begins to look more and more mystifying why this shady woman was ever allowed entry into the Royal family. How did she ever pass a background check by the security services? How are the Harkles now being permitted to stay long-term in a house owned by Russians? The dispatches from London 'worrying about the 'fragile' couple 'not coping'' sound, between the lines, like frantic concern that the Harkles are selling the Crown out to Russia, even if they don't realize they are doing it.
Elizabeth's reign is now irrevocably tarnished, I'm afraid. The only way to salvage it is to bring everything out in the light and put an end to the Rachel situation for good and all before HM passes on. HM still gets dolled up and goes to church every Sunday, smiling. She must be quite well-insulated from some of the uglier elements of this situation.
I read that the Chinese government is keeping the "numbers down" by not providing testing kits. Reportedly only 10% of the sites had kits - which means 90% don't
If you don't test...you don't get confirmed diagnosis.
This is actually a common tactic in medical research studies where side effects will compromise approval. You don't even have to go so far as manipulation of data. If you don't want a certain answer - don't ask the question.
Assuming these reports are correct - that would likely put the number of infections at well over 100K - two days ago when the number was approaching 9,000.
And - a lot of people have stayed home so the numbers are exponentially higher. As for reported deaths...again, unless a dead person is tested - it won't get listed as "caused by bat flu"
So you could have thousands dead of "unknown" cause...and the Chinese are not known to be forthcoming.
It is clearly a waiting game and the only good news is that there doesn't appear to be a huge spread outside of China/Hong Kong...yet. We also don't have a good grip on how long the incubation time is so...?
The fact that George is pallsy with William and Harry does not reflect well on the boys, I'm afraid. George is a seriously dodgy character with a lot of skeletons in his closet . . and Amal is a bead, writ large.
They sold us out big time (and by us, I mean citizens and companies in the USA and, indeed, the entire western world) with the willing collusion of other politicians for personal gain.
Meanwhile, I'm popping corn and watching Hillary Clinton refusing to be served for the $50 million defamation of character lawsuit by Tulsi Gabbard.
George Clooney has..."skeletons in the closet"
More like - skeletons found at the bottoms of cliffs...😉
I have projects to finish for customers and can't look away. My brain is exploding! Lol!
cheating is considered a fair strategy in China
I don't like that.
>>>George Clooney has..."skeletons in the closet"
More like - skeletons found at the bottoms of cliffs...<<<
Um, yes . . I didn't like to say. I'm sure the poor boy is no longer at the bottom of the cliff but has been retrieved and properly buried.
I wish I could go back to the days when I admired him on 'ER'. Ignorance really can be bliss. Now that I know too much about this ugly world, I doubt I will ever be capable of true uncomplicated happiness ever again.
On the HAMS front - twitter is trending #NewJobsForMeghanAndHarry and the responding tweets are not flattering.
>>>Cuban has had a bad reputation with his employees too; there have been a lot of rumors about his sexual harassment of female employees, but they're too afraid to talk, etc..etc. He was also accused of sexual assault a few years back as well. I wouldn't be surprised if his name becomes linked with Epstein, eventually.<<<
I'd love for Meg the hypocrite to ink a deal with Mark Cuban . . Cuban is the producer of the Trumpie vehicle 'The Apprentice', back in the days before he wanted to be President.
In another aside, one of my resolutions this year was to stop buying Made in China. That is VERY hard to avoid.
@MBee said:
@Hunter - I believe the Chinese excel at copying and reproducing but aren't that great in terms of innovation.
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So, what does that do to our efforts, as humans, to climb higher? Isn't that the mandate we have as the price we pay to live on this earth?
What does it add to the upward climb that an entire group of people are thieves?
What is this about a Clooney, a boy and a cliff?
I just can't believe that Harry is such a jerk, that he would sanction those two shows that were on last night. They pretty much called his family racist. He can't possibly believe that's why they didn't like her...I know he's a few crayons short of a full box, but I didn't realize he was ready for the short bus.
Way off topic. 🥴 I’ve read up to 2 weeks. You can be infected and not show signs for up to a week.
The same could be said of the Japanese . . their knack is taking an existing idea or product and making it better.
I lived in a Japanese university town for six years in the 1990s. I taught English classes at this university once a week and had the opportunity to meet a number of Chinese students studying there. I was impressed by their sense of community--they'd all get together regularly to pool their resources and cook group meals and celebrate their national holidays.
They were extremely hard-working and grateful for the opportunity to study abroad. They lived very simply on not much money but even so the standard of living and social freedoms of Japan were much upgraded from what they were used to at home. They were determined to excel and make a success . .which meant the ability to get good jobs outside of China, for the most part. They had to deal with a fair amount of discrimination, because while the Japanese were happy to pay me, a white American, good money to learn English, they were less enthused about Chinese students coming to their country, given the historical hostilities between the two countries that go back centuries. The Japanese believe themselves to be the superior nation in Asia and look down upon all their neighbors as a result.
The Communist state does not reward individual achievement and excellence, but this is the first I am hearing about Chinese students cheating en masse.
https://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2020/01/blind-item-7_30.html
Re: ‘Inside the Crown: Secrets of the Royals.’
Raspberry said: "It’s more of a historical documentary and they’ve showed stuff that people have never heard of before (they’ve been allowed to uncover some letters in the archives). It’s very good and factual."
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This does sound like a great series! I do enjoy British monarchy history. I hope I can find all 4 episodes here in the US when they have finished airing.
The advert for tonight's episode mentions the Harkles and I wonder if they will cover any new info or insight? Quote: "It starts with a timely look at how the media targeted Meghan Markle when she started dating Prince Harry..."
Raspberry / Miggy - can you please let us know what is said re the Harkles? TIA :-)
Hope you don’t mind my posting this:
Link to Coronavirus Live Map at John Hopkins U. Updated all the time. Very interesting to see how it changes.
This a.m. — 6,000 cases, all but 1,000 in China.
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
Sorry the link is so long. You can also google “live map Coronavirus” and find it that way.
I hope none of the royal family gets sick.
@Astra....not a Putin fan, but I will admit his shirtless horse riding pics were...nice. As a horse person, though, if he falls off on the rocky ground, he’s gonna get scraped up.
I have a secret crush on Gordon Ramsey.
"This foreign born A+ list athlete in his sport which no one really watches except for rich people says the royal has attempted suicide more than once."
Nacho and Harry. I totally believe this blind and have mentioned here on Nutty's blog a number of times that Harry's depression and possible suicide ideation might be driving certain aspects of the story.
Someone mentioned in the comment section on CDAN that MM got Harry to stop taking his antidepressants. If there is any truth to this, it is despicable and I really hope he is ok.
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Copy and reproduce vs copy and improve
My experience from business and such is that the Chinese copy and reproduce in the fastest, cheapest way possible. This is OK in some things - but not in things where quality control is an issue - like steel, pharmaceuticals - even dog food and construction supplies. The US economy and supply streams have a huge problem because they have become reliant on cheap Chinese...crap.
The Japanese have had production standards much higher than the U.S. - forever, but charge correspondingly for quality.
In any case - I have no personal knowledge of academic cheating - just of stolen patents and intellectual property and suppliers who can't be held to account when their products are substandard. They are protected by the government.
I’ll do my best and try and take some notes like some fellow Nutties did last night. I thought the note taking was a good idea, butterfly brains tend to get the better of me otherwise! 😁🙄
1. Harry loses his complaint against MOS about an article about a photo of a tethered elephant on his IG.
2. The viewing figures for the two recent documentaries on the Sussexes had dismal viewing figures, especially among the 18-49 age group.
3. Friends/acquaintances are talking to the media and saying that the relationship between Meghan and Doria is not actually close.
What other bad news have they had lately, and how bad is it going to get?
"everyone on reddit says the Chinese are cheaters - zillions of stories from students all over who say their Chinese classmates plagiarize like crazy and without restraint and because they pay exorbitant student fees, the universities choose to overlook it"
I can second that as I experienced profound disgust that at a top ten university decades ago, there was abundant cheating among the students and me being honest and wanting to learn was at an extreme disadvantage when it came for grades. So guess who got into the Top Med School and Grad schools, not I, but they did! However, I am proud I wasn't a cheat and still am.
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Hopefully - bad enough that he goes home - without her.
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CDAN has another - horrible blind about PA.
Just awful. Basically accusing PA of assaulting a friend of one of the girls in the SAME pizza place he claimed he was at when Virginia Guiffre said he was having sex with her (as "proof" that he wasn't near VRG). Blind claims that the assault victim WAS going to be in upcoming wedding but after the interview which mentioned the Pizza place...decided to NOT be in the wedding.
This is pretty outrageous but you'll have to judge.
https://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2020/01/todays-blind-items-excuse.html
Incidentally - a lot of people thought it was extremely tone-deaf on the conspiracy front for him to use a "pizza" place as an excuse...because no one believed it.
I believe somebody above asked the question about time for incubation. First H2H transmission in USA diagnosed in Chicago. Woman returned from Wuhan Jan 13, went into hospital for symptoms two or three days later, I think, and tested positive for Coronavirus Wuhan on the 24th. Roommate tested positive today, seventeen days after initial patient returned from China. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/coronavirus-spreads-first-time-u-s-cdc-says-n1126566
Here is the original statement: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today confirmed a second person in the U.S. tested positive for the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). The woman in her 60s traveled to the Wuhan, China, region in late December and returned home to Chicago Jan. 13 asymptomatic. She had limited contact and alerted health care providers of symptoms a few days later before going to the hospital, where she is in stable condition and in isolation, as a precaution. Because of the roughly two-week incubation period, CDC is working with the five U.S. airports screening for the virus to hand out information cards to passengers. CDC said 63 U.S. patients are under investigation. The first U.S. case was identified Monday in Washington state, but officials say the risk of transmission to the general public remains low. As of today, there are more than 830 confirmed cases worldwide and at least 26 associated deaths. For more information and resources, including a Jan. 23 Quality Advisory, visit AHA’s coronavirus update page.
There was a lot of speculation that the virus did not infect women as readily as men because of the numbers in China being more male than female. I suppose they didn't think about there being more men infected than women because of the population imbalance due to the (past) one-child and forced abortion policy.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/01/30/801235064/1st-person-to-person-spread-of-coronavirus-has-occurred-in-u-s-cdc-says?live=1
Who would have sent in this article? An anti-MM side or MM herself to promote her own controversy?
https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/meghan-markle-isnt-very-close-with-mom-doria-ragland/
https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/meghan-markle-isnt-very-close-with-mom-doria-ragland/
"Does anyone else think the Harkles probably got paid for both the specials last night?"
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I'm trying to decide who generated the 2 specials last night. I don't think they were PR attempts or that they came directly from the Harkle camp - there was a lot of negative Harkle info provided on both shows.
I also don't think the Harkles would have made money from the 2 programs...although I don't know how it works with their copyrighted materials. Both programs used the video clip of the MM survive / thrive whine.
I think the genesis probably just came from current public interest. Members of the royal family have abdicated and moved to North America - it's a major story so I guess the 2 networks jumped on this narrative to hopefully provide content for ratings.
The story that Meghan has been treated unfairly due to her race has been out there and has been puffed and pushed, so these programs picked up on that and unfortunately promoted it even further.
I noticed in both programs a lot of what I would call "half news" - (I don't know if there is a journo name for this) not fake news - but half-a-story news. An example of which would be their discussion of the difference between reporting on the two duchesses yet not mentioning how Kate was also the target of the British tabs when she was new to the RF.
@Nutty and anyone else with knowledge of the journalism / media world - Do you think the producers of these shows had to get permission from the Harkles for any of the content or quotes from those interviewed that was included? Do you think the Harkles would have been involved in any way at all? Would they have earned any money from the use of their copyrighted materials?
More dirt please NOW!!!!
I call it heavily biased news.
I also do not believe for a second that she's been like a second mother to Harry, she's barely a first mother to MM. It's almost pathetic how much Megsy is trying to make Harry JUST like William (who many believe is the man he is today because of the Middleton family). She truly does not have a story of her own, does she? She appropriates stories from other people, then makes it her own (or Harry's). It's truly sad.
Well, considering how we do the evening late night blog reading with an adult drink, perhaps they are going to portion it out slowly in fear for the health of our livers.
"Do you think the producers of these shows had to get permission from the Harkles for any of the content or quotes from those interviewed that was included?"
I'm not a copyright expert but I expect ITV holds the copyright on the survive/thrive docudrama, not H&M.
@Lt. Nyota Uhura love the quotes that you interject every so often and very true regarding the topic.
Charade said... Steve Martin dropped by LSSC after those specials aired here. He’s touring the UK with Martin Short and made a couple of jokes about H&M: https://youtu.be/syXVAuSzZg4
First joke: He responded to Colbert saying there were a couple of openings in the royal family now and maybe they could fill them. He says, the difference between Marty and him to them is “we show up.”
Second joke: Steve Martin remarks that Meg gave HMTQ a bracelet for her 93rd birthday engraved with “Do Not Resuscitate.”
Love the jokes from Steve Martin.
@Elle Good luck in your new job boring as it seems but I think it's badass and cool!! :)
@Miggy Thanks for letting me know ab0ut "Inside The Crown: Secrets of the Royals" that has 4 episodes. I'll have to look that one up - when I get an hour or so.
@ Suzanne Wilson I just took that "test" and ended up ENTJ-A (16personalities.com), weird I would have thought I was more introverted than extravert. I have no problems being alone for hours or days just being me, thinking and doing things I enjoy. On the other had, I don't have a problem mingling and socializing and being in a huge crowd of people, drinking, eating, dancing, chatting, having profound discussion on the meaning of life and such.~~Shrugs~~
Hikari said... Nacho Figeuras seems like a tool, not above exploiting “best mate” Harry in order to sell cologne. Lots of celebrities [...] etc., ad infinitum, ad nauseum..
A lie repeated 1000 times does not become truth but this is what Rachel has based her entire existence upon.
Good post!!
Louise said... Jessica Mulroney has put her IG account on private. She must have been receiving a lot of negative comments due to her mocking of the Holocaust survivor photos.
Interesting since she identifies as Jewish.
Well, I'd love to read and comment more but gotta run. Have a great day everybody!!
Thanks for letting me know ab0ut "Inside The Crown: Secrets of the Royals" that has 4 episodes. I'll have to look that one up - when I get an hour or so.
You're welcome. :) It's on ITV and each episode is an hour long. (including the ads)
@Bluebell Woods
Raspberry / Miggy - can you please let us know what is said re the Harkles? TIA :-)
Will do my best! ;-)
Is that what she's done? Doesn't surprise me..it's in her interest to have him mentally unstable and therefore more easy to control. If Harry hurts himself as a result, she could be up on criminal charges, yes. Particularly if she physically took the medication away from him and hid it somewhere/threw it out or had his prescriptions stopped AMA vs. just suggesting to him that 'he didn't need it'.
I am very unhappy with Harry, but it is glaringly obvious that he does not have full agency in his actions due to a number of psychological/medical impairments. Traditionally, VIPs like him do not receive the intervention they need in time to stop a tragedy. They surround themselves with sycophants who fuel the negative behavior and anyone daring to speak up and suggest moderation or professional help is removed.
So, I am extremely worried about what is going on with him. If he were happy and relieved to be 'free' of his family and healthy and in a good place, I feel like we'd be seeing some evidence that they are moving forward with activities. There hasn't been anything. Haz doesn't like getting his picture taken, but if they aren't seen, we will have no way of knowing if he's even remotely all right. He could die; how long could that be hidden? She's been hiding Archie for a year now, so it could be managed.
Hope he is at least in touch with his family, but seeing the way he left, he probably isn't.
This is not going to end well.
"For MM to take H off his antidepressants is surely tantamount to a criminal act."
If she withheld it, that might be criminal but if she talked him out of taking them he has a right to refuse taking medicine, everyone does (unless they are under some court order). If true, he is not taking anti-dep. meds and she had a hand in it, I can hear her gently urging Harry to forgo the pills due to them being;
1. Cancer causing (whether true or not)
2. They would reduce his sex drive/ability.
3. They might cause a fertility problem (again, whether true or not).
4. They are what the BRF would want him to do.
5. It could actually cause him to be suicidal (known side-effect for many of these).
6. Can cause him to gain weight.
7. May cause him to suffer involuntary muscle twitches (tardive dyskinesia) which may be permanent.
8. Bad for his image if found out (again not true I think).
9. Cause him to be tired (generally, most of them will).
I think she is so despicable that she likely would rather Harry be depressed and likely to depend on her. If he is not depressed he has a better chance to be strong and stand up to her. She wants a compliant Harry of that I am sure.
For the first time ever I have just done that test, which says I’m INFJ, which sums me up perfectly, very perfectly in fact. I’m willing to give you some of my I and I’ll take a smidgeon of your E.
As an aside, I watched the first episode of The Stranger on Netflix today. It includes the stories of women that fake pregnancies, including the tests, scan pics and wearing moon bumps for various reasons. One women does it repeatedly as she can’t have children. But one of the main female characters does it because she thinks her husband has an affair. It shows flashbacks of her holding a positive test, scan pics and even her wearing a moon bump. She convinces him she has a miscarriage (around 6 months) yet it appears he can’t believe his eyes deceived him, as it shows his viewpoint in flashbacks. I was gobsmacked how real it all looked, convincingly real.
Well, at least it takes our minds off the Harkles . . .
I am an academic and was told that cheating is viewed differently by Chinese students--it's a cultural difference. So what we think is cheating they do not view it as such.
I have to ask, is lavender toast an edible dish, like avocado toast or lavender honey ice cream?
"Last week, a friend of the duchess told DailyMail.com that Meghan had informed close friends quitting the royal family is the best thing that could ever happen to Prince Harry and said 'it was her love for him that made this possible'."
"'She said that like her, his spirit was being crushed and she simply couldn't stand to see him suffer anymore,' the friend added."
"Meghan and Harry also have no intention of stripping the word 'royal' from their SussexRoyal website and Instagram account according to the insider, who added: 'Meghan says they will always be considered royalty regardless of where they live or what they do.'"
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7946629/Meghan-Markle-actively-looking-manager-future-projects-insider-claims.html
Or has she insulated HERSELF, burying her head in the sand, thinking that she is above it all, not culpable? I agree that sunshine would be the best disinfectant, but I just don't see that coming from her. I don't think she has it in her to come clean, that is. It IS a shame, because her failures in parenthood have mostly flown under the radar lo these seventy years.
On another matter: I work in publishing, and China's MO is **DEFINITELY** to steal. It goes way back too, centuries back. It is not racial stereotyping. It's a real thing.
I'm not even calling it "copyright infringement", as we would; it's outright theft and profiting from that theft with huge manufacturing or printing runs. Is it any surprise that individuals do it on a micro level, by cheating?
It's just another thing that people in other parts of the world do that is loathsome to us, such as killing tigers for their livers and maiming sharks by cutting off their fins and letting them suffocate and drown. Appalling. Just for some dumb soup and some stupid folkloric impotency remedy. I digress but I am passionate about it.
Then he should see the guy who makes Elton John's toupees.
Critics accuse Prince Harry and Meghan Markle of promoting phone network blamed for death of vulnerable man
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7948233/Prince-Harry-loses-Ipso-complaint-criticism-wildlife-photographs.html
Prince Harry loses Ipso complaint over Mail on Sunday story that criticised his wildlife photographs that didn’t reveal the fact an elephant was 'drugged and tethered'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7947299/Piers-Morgan-brands-Meghan-Markle-mini-royal-Kardashian.html
Piers Morgan brands Meghan Markle a 'mini royal Kardashian' who pushes 'wet drip' Prince Harry around and tells of fear 'ego-mad' pair will bring down monarchy in new Fox documentary
`she simply couldn't stand to see him suffer anymore'
That sounds like someone putting an old dog to sleep.
Meghan complained the British press was out to get her. Harry felt compelled to act.
Palace said both princes think the press photographers killed their mother.
Eyebrows were raised by very senior courtiers when Harry released the statement in Nov 2016
I have recorded it, and will go back and re-watch, I had to pop out the room for 30 mins. 😏 From Whit I’ve seen, not much on Harry and Meghan because it was about the ‘royals and the press’.
@Bluebell Woods
Most of the Harkle news was confirmation of what we already know.
Meghan flew back to Harry crying about press intrusion, Harry made a statement, eyebrows raised from Palace staff.
Meghan was most googled woman on planet and had now endured 3 years of relentless scrutiny.
Harry said line had been crossed. Both Princes consider press to blame for Diana's death.
Wow - has the Queen got a temper on her!
Laughed out loud at the story of her chucking a tennis racket and shoes at a fleeing Prince Philip when on tour in Australia. LOL
The couple was completely exhausted after visiting 36 Australian towns in 30 days and PP was still salty over having to give up his naval career to trudge behind his wife. Philip also seems to have been skilled at picking at the sorest spots in any person. I don't know how Philip actually felt about his sister-in-law, but the show has them bonding in a jokey fashion over both being overshadowed by the Crown.
The show depicts ER as going out to speak to the assembled press horde who had witnessed the fight and caught it on camera. Deference was still a thing in 1954 and they obligingly destroyed the negatives. That sure wouldn't happen today.
A new article https://www.thecut.com/2020/01/what-we-learned-from-abcs-new-meghan-and-harry-documentary.html
I have not read it yet. On my way out the door.
Laughed out loud at the story of her chucking a tennis racket and shoes at a fleeing Prince Philip when on tour in Australia. LOL ‘
Yes she does, she has spirit! 😂😂 Margaret wasn’t the only one who was lively! 😜
I was just as surprised that the cameraman filming it had to hand over the film, or that he knew he couldn’t keep the film footage. I didn’t realise how heavily the British press was censored at the time, when it come to reporting on the royals. I thought there was ‘just’ more decorum and respect by the press regarding the royals. Instead it was censorship and decorum. 🥴
I had no idea that no photos were allowed to be shown of The Queen pregnant due to very’ Victorian’ (views) protocol etc.
"So far, this has proven true; photographers have been camping out on Vancouver Island, where the Sussexes are staying, for weeks, with paparazzi photos of Meghan being released on an almost daily-basis."
So where are the photographs?
"I am an academic and was told that cheating is viewed differently by Chinese students--it's a cultural difference. So what we think is cheating they do not view it as such."
What happened at my university the Asian students would get together in study groups which I can see is a positive thing for them (thus a cultural difference as Americans would tend to study independently) but they would also get the quizzes and tests stolen in advance so that was clearly cheating. I don't know how it was a cultural difference to steal. unless they view it as being cunning and shrewd to outsmart the honest students. Maybe they felt they were the underdogs at an American college and they were foreign students and had it harder (in their mind). Since I was at a prestigious Uni many of the huge core classes were graded on a curve and the 'A's' and 'B's' were given to the cheats., thus honest students frequently got the 'C's'.
"I have to ask, is lavender toast an edible dish, like avocado toast or lavender honey ice cream?"
Funny you mention that, as it is precisely that, a gourmet blend made from cream cheese with honey mixed in along with fresh lavender flowers (looks beautiful) on brioche toast or for some, spread on scones/biscuits. Myself, I love the toast and a sweet latte with extra whipping cream on top.
I was just as surprised that the cameraman filming it had to hand over the film, or that he knew he couldn’t keep the film footage. I didn’t realise how heavily the British press was censored at the time, when it come to reporting on the royals. I thought there was ‘just’ more decorum and respect by the press regarding the royals. Instead it was censorship and decorum. ��
I had no idea that no photos were allowed to be shown of The Queen pregnant due to very’ Victorian’ (views) protocol etc.
Yes, that was interesting and showed, (as noted) how much power the Royal Family had over the press.
I don't watch The Crown, so I'm very grateful to you for the explanation re the incident!!
https://www.thecut.com/2020/01/what-we-learned-from-abcs-new-meghan-and-harry-documentary.html
I learned nothing new, as it has all been perfectly summarized here. Reluctant royal, unfair Duchess comparisons, photographers camped out, valuable brand, blah blah blah.
BlueBellWoods, please, please explain to me in what way(s) they were being “crushed”????????????
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I know, it's so silly! Those are the exact quotes from the article. I guess she/they mean because they had to follow the rules (which she didn't do anyway) and weren't allowed to go out on their own until they actually left the RF.
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@BlueBell Woods said:
`she simply couldn't stand to see him suffer anymore'
That sounds like someone putting an old dog to sleep.
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Too bad Harry doesn't quite realize who the actual person is causing him to suffer!
Since I was the one that posted the comment about Harry's antidepressants here on Nutty's blog, I just wanted to make it clear -
That was only a rumor that a poster from CDAN wrote below the blind about a royal attempting suicide more than once.
It does seem as if the blind is about Nacho and Harry. I don't know for certain though, and I'm far less certain about the rumor MM talked Harry into stopping his meds. I don't know if Harry was ever on any meds. The CDAN commenter says she got that bit from Danja Zone.
Here's the link to the blind including all the comments:
https://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2020/01/blind-item-7_30.html
It is beyond me where the claims of racism come from? Do these people live on the same planet as me?
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Regarding the claims of racism: It's only become clear to me recently that they are not just talking about what they think is outright racist behavior and media coverage, but also unfair or uneven media coverage of them/her.
When we rack our brains trying to recall any news / tabloid articles that had a racist tone, the only ones to come to mind are Straight outta Compton and the chimpanzee baby photo.
But MM is also upset over the way she was written about compared to Kate - for doing the same types of things. She has sited the baby bump cradling as an example - there are articles faulting MM for her cupping while similar stories show Kate doing the same thing and Kate is praised or at least tolerated. MM is trying to tell us that this uneven storytelling is because we are racist.
However, MM relies on half-news - she doesn't include the part of the story where Kate was also victimized by the press when she was new to the RF, AND she also conveniently leaves out the fact that Kate may have lightly cradled a hand-full of times while MM double-cupped her bump, obsessively swished aside her coat and shoved her pillow into every camera in sight CONSTANTLY for the entire time she was "pregnant".
I'm sure an explanation can be found for every set of uneven Meghan vs Kate stories in the tabs.
As more of MM's true self was revealed and her behavior worsened, she got less favorable coverage. As we have been saying all along, SHE is the creator of her own problems in England. And now she is trying to turn it around to make it seem as if she was victimized.🤮🤮🤮
What I find even more troubling is how some are defending her and blaming her "edit" on racism rather than accepting that she is just not a good person and may have very possibly scammed Harry and the RF.
There was a strong example of this on one of the programs last night when Akua H. claimed people were attributing Meghan to having dark magical powers when they complained that she had changed Harry. We can all see how Harry has changed since he became involved with MM. He does not look happy, has ghosted his friends, fallen out with his brother, deserted his family, left the military and the monarchy and looks decidedly unwell.
Between the both of them, Haz and Rachel have probably had most of the social diseases known to man.
I think CDAN was also the source of the allusion I made earlier about a teenage boy dying by misadventure (a fall over a cliff) very close to George Clooney's vacation home. This was not Lake Como but somewhere else. According to that source, the youth slipped and fell to his death in the course of fleeing a sexual assault involving a group of men including GC. This was not available on a regular Google search, so I wish I remembered where I had originally read it. Anybody else back me up here?
I have suspected for many years that GC's succession of red carpet beauties, who never stayed on his arm more than 18 months-2 years were a series of contract relationships. George had his romantic leading man status to uphold. After the early and very brief marriage to Talia Balsam, GC was vocally content to be a bachelor, but he kept turning up with all these beautiful, much younger women. Then came Amal. Unlike George's other squeezes, who were all minor Hollywood starlets/reality TV show contestants on the climb, Amal is a highly educated professional from a wealthy family who has wealth in her own right as an international barrister. This was a weird mixed marriage. By the time Amal married him, GC's career was well on the downturn . . his heyday was a good 10-15 years ago, and now he looks like her dad on red carpets.
This glitterati world seems to be so very dark at its heart. All the legions of fans poring over their favorite celebs in the tabloids really have no clue.
Very low ratings for the Harkle specials. Both of their shows combined had fewer viewers than a show about Super Bowl ADS.
That's ADs, not the Super Bowl, obviously. I think the flop sweat pit stains are coming back. This should be the time for peak interest in them. They only left the RF a few weeks ago. They can't blame Coronavirus. People are probably looking for light entertainment distractions right now.
https://deadline.com/2020/01/harry-and-meghan-tv-specials-ratings-super-bowl-commercials-criminal-minds-1202846703/
The polo-playing chip is a real jerk if he really did spread those rumors about Harry's suicide attempts. What 'friend' does that? I'm sure Tommy Inskip, the old friend Megs forced Harry to ghost, would have never done that in a million years.
If Markle is depriving Harry of his meds, she really is a monster. If this is true, I feel sorry for Harry. He's inherited him mom's instability without her toughness. I hope the RF is being kept posted by his RPOs.
"Shania is not only surviving, she is thriving. "
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7948375/Shania-Twain-talks-beautifully-twisted-relationship-husband-Fr-d-ric-Thi-baud.html
The Daily Mail has the worst writes, but I laughed at this. I'm hoping this is a dig at Smegs.
It was CDAN - and it was the Lake Como house.
Back when the blind appeared in the fall - I did a look when the first blind was posted and I did find an article about a dead local teen - but naturally it is gone now.
This was pretty soon after I started following CDAN closely in 2016 - I swear I saw the article.
The most recent blind was here https://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2019/09/todays-blind-items-its-coming.html
and it referenced the blind here https://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2016/08/four-for-friday-younger-better.html
I suspected for years that GC was gay....because he was closing in on 50 and never really "married" and really his relationships seemed clinical - until suddenly he marries an international lawyer that no one in the US had ever heard of...she looks the part but they just don't have "it".
and in general...the people who claim criticism of MM is because of racism are either blind - or paid. Clearly she has not been victimized. No one even knew she was "black"...
Like Taylor Swift..I just wish all of this would come out already!
I didn't read it at CDAN, which I only heard about after I started reading about Megs. I read it several years ago. Google is getting pretty useless these days. I can't decide if it's because they've changed their algorithms, or because of my privacy settings on my browser, or a combination of both.
A big handclap for @DesignDoctor for watching both shows, & reporting on them so completely. You're much tougher than I am!
15 October 2018
"More than ever, Charles wants to be the grandfather he never had himself..."
Read if you want to laugh
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6279203/At-Charles-gets-grandpa-never-growing-writes-RICHARD-KAY.html