Although I haven't been around much recently, I've enjoyed reading the comments. Recently the group was discussing whether or not the Sussexes would release a Christmas card this year, given what Meg's tragic miscarriage last summer (if you believe the official version of events) or their lack of access to the baby playing the role of Archie (if you don't).
I was struck by Enbrethiliel's suggestion that if the Sussexes do a Christmas card this year, it might include a quote from Kamala Harris.
Birds of a feather
Actually, I'm surprised that Meghan hasn't tried harder to publicly associate herself with Harris.
Both women are biracial, both California natives, both "woke" Democrats. They even have similar hairstyles and fashion preferences. Both are fond of big, airy language with minimal substance, and both are openly ambitious.
In fact, there's quite a bit of chatter suggesting that Joe Biden will have quite a short presidency and quickly resign in favor of Harris, perhaps for health reasons or some connection to his troubled son's business dealings.
Wouldn't Meghan love to be connected with the first female president? Maybe even pose Archie in a "Harris and Harrison" photo to go with has "Arch and Archbishop" Bishop Tutu?
Harris went after Meghan first
Ironically, in the past it has been Harris who has worked hard to associate herself with Markle.
In October 2019, on her official Senate account, Harris commented on Meghan's weepy video statement in South Africa, in which Meg suggested that the Royal Family rarely asked how she was doing.
Harris' Tweet read: "This is incredibly important.
We must remember that it's a sign of strength to show emotion. Meghan, we are with you."
(The boldface is in the original).
In 2019, Harris was running in the Presidential primaries and might have thought she could benefit by associating herself with Meghan. (She eventually dropped out without winning a single delegate.)
Time Magazine brought them together
In June 2020, Harris again used her official Senate account to comment on Meghan's (apparently unrequested) graduation video for students of her alma mater, discussing racial justice.
Harris wrote, using boldface again, "The only wrong thing to say is nothing.
Thank you, Meghan, for this powerful statement."
At the time, Harris was out of the presidential race entirely, although certainly aiming for the vice president job.
Meghan's video bears a Time Magazine watermark, and Harris also has a long association with Time Magazine, a onetime Republican stalwart that has gone ultra-woke after its acquisition by a Silicon Valley billionaire.
Time put Harris on the cover in 2019 - "Her Case: Presidential candidate Kamala Harris fights for a path forward" - and this week there was another cover naming her and Joe Biden, bizarrely, "
Person of the Year." (Are these two individuals somehow just one person? Or was Joe, as President-Elect, not significant enough to get his own Person of the Year cover?)
It's hard to know if the June tweet was Harris supporting Meghan, Harris cementing her relationship with Time Magazine, Harris promoting herself, or all of the above.
The wrong cards
Given Kamala Harris' come-up, there's little doubt that Meghan would now be eager to associate herself with the vice-president elect.
However, as a leader-in-waiting, Harris has little incentive to annoy the Royal Family by publicly linking herself to Meghan.
There don't seem to be any publicly-available photos of the two of them together, and there probably won't be if Harris can help it.
Looks like Meghan's played her cards wrong again - even if she does put a Kamala Harris quote on her 2020 Christmas card.
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In general, she's been rather quiet recently. She also still hasn't quit her Senate job.
Personally, I'm hoping for a celebrity-free administration, of whichever stripe. Just get some work done!
Forget Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon...its 2 Degrees of Sunshine Sachs with the Harkles.
Like a big, hairy spider.
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They are also two women that the public initially wanted to like. “It would be great to have a biracial princess!” “It would be great to have a biracial female president!”
But once people got to know them as individuals, they were less enthusiastic.
Harris spent a lot of time in Texas and South Florida to deliver them for Biden. Both went heavily for Trump.
Some people in California who are longtime political watchers have suggested here and there that there might be another comparison between the two women that Harris would probably prefer to avoid. Shall we say, the rumors of male stepladders used in their respective climbs. For Kamala, this was her alleged rapid ascent at a very young age after dating much older, married superior Willie Brown. Also supposedly sticky was that the some press coverage (like Business Insider in 2016) skewed percent that KH apparently chose to launch herself on the scene a few years ago pushing her Indian heritage, while other fact checks said in 2020 she was a first for both parts of her heritage. Which even if untrue might run too close a parallel to the identity play of Markle?
Others accuse KH of imposing unreasonabltpy harsh sentences on too many young Black men, an issue that came up during her attempt at the presidency (the LATimes covered it on Oct 24, 2019; the NYTimes attempted to paint over the story last month by blaming the system instead of her role in it).
All can be looked at in different ways or swept under a rug of course. Such is the normal messy course of politicians.
But there would also be danger in bringing an untrustworthy scorpion like a Meghan too deep into a KH circle with these stories floating about.
Apart from that, Harris has a far more impressive educational and work background. Why compare herself to an oddball, complaining, z-list cable television actress who is just a failed royal with lawsuits aplenty and drama issues? Also, more importantly, how would the women in the Democrat political Squad react to proximity with a know-it-all gold digger?
Harris probably has to consider that even more than the royal reaction; It will depend on her long game goal, I suppose. She isn’t stupid, and she already where she wants to be for now, so she probably will play this carefully now. Why jeopardize anything for a MM, just because they share a state and gender. Remember the gossip site rumor MM petitioned to fill KH’s senate seat - what an insult to someone who went through law school and so much hard work. (I have no feeling about Karmala, but wouldn’t anyone in such a role side-eye an MM?). The whole world can see Meghan is just a user, but without political game value. I doubt anything more than an innocuous impromptu meet and greet would happen.
Biden and Harris probably have bigger things on their list than raising up the sinking Harkles. Time will tell.
Good point about Sunshine Sachs.
This following/circling potential "leads" who might be helpful without really looking beyond the surface appearance. That's going to be a problem for K - in the same ways surface attention to details has been all along for MM.
I wonder if/when K moves up, the same kinds of stories of outside pressures pulling strings on K the same way we contemplate backers of MM pulling her strings.
It also sounds so cold and calculatingly obvious.
(2 degrees of Sunshine - funny)
Please stand by.
She also argued against releasing (black male inmates) when they had enough credits to be released because it would hurt firefighting efforts (that used inmate labor). Last time I checked, involuntary servitude was supposed to be illegal.
Thank you, ReallyDonna. As we wait for HER pronouncement to all the commoners in the land, y'all can read the lastest from TheCrownsofBritian!
That is a terrible thing to do. How can CA laws allow that?! Firefighting is important but so is personal freedom. Involuntary servitude indeed. I feel like this year we are learning very clearly the big differences in rights and rules for elites and all others. MM must love it.
Has coordinated her make up and blouse with the flowers in the background. If I didn't dislike her so much, I would actually say that the colour coordination looked good. There was obviously professional lighting as the "sunlight" was only in one area.
She spoke v..e..r..y s..l..o..w..l..y. like a record on the wrong speed.
She looks different. Forehead?
The blouse - that's a new look. Reminds me of the bows on blouses back in the time Diana with a modern twist.
She also pats herself on the back by saying that "we" delivered food to the immunocompromised.
She finishes by saying "we will be ok".
About her appearance. The tendrils have become huge sheaths of hair hanging on each side of her face. I have no idea why she thinks this is a suitable hair style for a public appearance. She looks smug and makes you want to do something to get that stupid look off of her face.
The other "highlight" (besides the overdone use of highlighter on her face), is saying "the heroes, SOME OF WHOM I KNOW PERSONALLY". It's always about her.
If you are above latitude 35N, you should probably supplement because winter sunlight is not sufficient. I'm at latitude 30 N (or just a hair north of where Houston is on the African map). Should be sufficient year around, but we had a rainy, cloudy summer and fall (one hurricane and tropical storm following another) and people tend to stay inside here as much as possible in the wet heat of the summer. The weather is *supposed* to be great this time of year. *sigh* It is going to be raining for the next several days. (Again.) I'm supplementing with 2000 iu (50 mcg) of Vitamin D3 daily.
Comparison of latitudes of cities if you are curious about your city location vs American cities, or vice versa: https://d36tnp772eyphs.cloudfront.net/blogs/1/2017/07/Latitudess.jpg
She is sitting on her favorite bench. She had a very news reader persona going, or perhaps politician mode. Was hoping the dog might wander by.
I thought her make up looked good, but yes, the lips were weird and puffy. Unfortunately, her slut strands made me look at her ears, so instead of hiding, they stood out more.
The bow thing did not work, it was like she did not know how to tie it or decided not to do so.
Who appointed this lunatic to speak for Americans on CNN?
She has been inflicted on us by media and we do not need it or want it! I have to say I was watching her eyes and she looks depressed. Nothing there but darkness.
Please make it end.
I’m breaking the rule of no unknown posters...just too pissed off to sign up.
I didn't mind what she did with the bow. But as you said, she is trying for a new, more conservative image.... the one that she rebelled against when she was part of the Royal Family.
Maybe the PR convinced her that she is not going to get donations from the teenagers that her "sex kitten" image was geared towards.
RE who appointed this lunatic to speak to us on CNN?
I think in Madam's mind, this was her Queen's speech to the nation. The words, we needed, to help us, get through the rest of the year, to find out if WE are Okay?
Unfortunately, for Madam, she has no family pictures to put on a desk behind her, nor is she Queen.
But you can't tell whether her waist is enlarging, they could be elastic waist pants.
It’s clear to me they have sort of hybrid spokesperson job.... he opens new charities and websites (sort of how Parish Hilton used to appear and open nightclubs) and MM is the spokesperson of word salad feel good whatever....
To the poster who wondered why we snicker over a woman like KH sleeping her way to the top and don't do the same with men.... I'm not sure men get ahead by sleeping with powerful women the way women get ahead by sleeping with powerful men. That's partly because there aren't that many powerful women. But we DO snicker about men using women to succeed. John "windsurfer" Kerry marrying money, John Edwards and Bill Clinton marrying women who were smarter and more driven than they were.... Even Uncle Joe being led around and kept in check by his wife... there's been plenty of criticism of men as users too.
Excellent point.
I think Hairy married Madam to get what he thought he wanted, more fame, more adoration, more drugs, more whatever. She was his ticket to unlimited freedom, as long as he does what Madam wants.
@Unknow,
@Glumdalclitch, interesting about the kiddos conversations.
Re KH.
KH did have a public affair/relationship with Willie Brown, a long time mover and shaker in California--known for both his political and other affairs. KH was 29 and working in the district attorney office in Alameda County, Brown was 60 and estranged from his wife. Even former President Bill Clinton was said to admire Willie Brown's prowess and notoriety. Brown later became Mayor of San Francisco. KH later served as District Attorney for San Francisco, starting in 2003. Brown went on to become Speaker of the California Assembly--another powerful position in the state.
Politics is all about connections, money, and power. It is not necessarily about intelligence, leadership and vision. It certainly can be and has been in some cases, but often it is more about who you know and what you know. That is just the way it is.
Are people here saying that it is acceptable for a possible vice presidential candidate to have their own husband involved in the voting machine software of their countries' election? Because it isn't. It's completely unacceptable, a conflict of interest and surely, illegal.
nutty wrote about KH "In general, she's been rather quiet recently. She also still hasn't quit her Senate job."
I'm calling it: KM will not step foot into the WH. She couldn't get ONE PERCENT in the primaries. O-N-E! She's supposed to negotiate with world leaders on a world stage? You must be joking.
She's quiet because she's afraid of what's about to happen. To anybody who thinks this show is over, it isn't. Just because the mainstream media isn't reporting, it doesn't mean things aren't happening.
Nobody voted for her, nobody wants her, nobody likes her, trusts her or believes she has anything to offer, except for that super fake hysteria-laugh. She kept black men who were supposed to be released, in prisons just because she had the power to do so, she slept her way to the top, as everyone knows, and she's bribable, like all prostitutes. Highly compromised and easily bought.
If Hillary never made it, mark my words, KH won't either.
As for MM...Of course Meghan will eventually, very soon, mention KH. She's always late to the party, and subsequently markles it. Meghan will come out in gushing support of KH, because she is the kind of superficial, shallow and stupid person who judges a person by their skin colour, and not character. And then, 5 seconds after Meghan's homage, KH will be markled.
Maghan Markle and CNN - a match made it delusion-land. The Disney channel is more realistic at this point. The world has been ridiculing CNN for years now, they have only gotten everything wrong for a while.....watch CNN completely go down now that they're markled. Not a moment too soon.
The new PR team is earning their salary.
@Girl with a Hat
I too thought Megaloo looked annoyingly and exceedingly smug.
So much so that I am giving myself permission to rip her appearance to shreds:
Her horrible self-satisfied smirk plastered on a waxy face makes me wonder why the entire world doesn't see right through her.
SHE LOOKS OLDER and matronly - HA HA!
A face that keeps on morphing with an ever-growing forehead, and octo-mom lips that were getting stuck on her teeth.
Greasy hair with lifeless slut-strands.
Ugly blouse in the world's most boring color looks like a dull version of a Huckapoo plucked right out of a 1970's closet.
@JennS: Your review of Meghan’s appearance gave me a chuckle. It is spit on.
If you look at the photos of Mayhem in the DM story, it looks like she’s just had some recent Botox treatments plus lip fillers.
A friend of mine who is a plastic surgeon describes the look as “trout mouth.” Meghan’s skin also has that odd, waxy sheen that’s a common sign of recent Botox.
And you’re right, that blouse is something my grandmother would have worn in the 1970s.
Or as my mom says: “Honey, unfortunately, there are some people who have all their taste in their mouth.”
But Harris is quite the elevated multiKulti super gal these days and one Joe Biden stumble on the sidewalk away from the Presidency. Of course after inauguration day, after January 20th is when knives are out for the Biden vs Harris factions. Harris will be very busy and will have no time for bush league fools like Megsy
Plastic surgery for sure. Cheek implants, new larger veneers, eyebrow threading and lift, lip fillers, NOSE JOB!, jaw bone shaving (although this happened just after the engagement I think). Fillers below her eyes.
IMO, and I like plastic on some people, she looked much better without trying to morph into a Robot via face AND voice and lack of emotional expression.
It’s a different world and Meghan and the like are still playing by the old rules. Attention =\= power.
@Proud Canadian, I can understand why you feel we're bashing Kamala Harris.
Outside of the US, Harris seems to be seen as a modern-day Maya Angelou, or a female version of Barack Obama. My social media feeds in northern Europe are packed with "you go girl!" Harris memes.
That said, Harris was resoundingly rejected by US Democrats in the primaries despite a lot of media coverage. This was partially because she is not a good speaker, and partly because her achievements in the Senate have been small.
Harris was also tangled up in the Jussie Smollett case.
I think it's quite fair to compare her and Meghan. Both have gotten ahead leveraging their anatomy and complexion, and once in a position of power, don't seem to have much to say.
"Of course after inauguration day, after January 20th is when knives are out for the Biden vs Harris factions. Harris will be very busy and will have no time for bush league fools like Megsy"
I think the knives are already out. A covertly recorded tape of Biden speaking to Black activists was released this week; he was basically telling them that now that the election was over, he wasn't going to do much for them.
I doubt the Republicans had a spy at a meeting of left-wing Black activists, but I'll bet the Harris faction did.
"Funny...I made this parallel a couple months ago. My comment(s) on this topic were never published. These two are similar in every way! Oth are a menace to society."
My apologies. The other moderators have basically been keeping this blog alive while I've attended to business, and I 100% support whatever decisions they made to keep things from getting too political or out of hand.
Now that the US election appears to have been decided (although I wouldn't rule out any last-minute surprises!) I will be around more.
I think it’s worse for Meghan. If Trump remained (s), Meghan would be able to spar with him and against them. Now she is desperate to level up and they won’t want her around. Being in the BRF just isn’t woke enough.
I guess this is why she was AWOL over the past 6wks.
She's taken off half her nose. You can see inside her nostrils now.
Since Megxit, she's been whittling it down gradually as well as having other features reshaped, filled etc, but she finally went for the big chop on her nose.
I said sometime ago that I think MM may have backers. If I add that to the intense focus on Andrew in the Epstein scandal, rather than on other high profile types, I put on a tin tiara and find myself wandering toward a conclusion of someone wanting to destabilize the monarchy, to disengage hearts and minds from traditional Britain and British values. Then, it is just a valuable land mass with disillusioned people, and easier to take over as a business center and change to a new way of thinking.
Sweaty panda Andy becomes the weak link that can be more easily exploited than a direct tarring of the beloved old Queen. Perhaps sending in an Epstein-Andy playmate to do more digging.... I don’t know. Since she’s a head case, it didn’t go smoothly and she took out the wrong royal, Harry. Because she instantly squandered/threw away/fled the lap of royal luxury, something more is going on than meets the eye.
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What AnT said in the previous thread. I like the old ways for the UK and America where I have lived since birth. Portobello road on a Saturday, whatever, I lived in London for three months, when London was London.
I think she's copying Kate and William's brief tour of the UK to thank people working in response to the coronavirus pandemic. She never does anything original.
I am European, I live in Europe, and have lived in 3 European countries in the last 10 years. I know some poorly informed people who don't see beyond her skin colour, not knowing any better, but most Europeans I know are very well informed. It's the age of information, and whoever is ignorant, is so of their own accord.
There are now 3.9K comments on the DM (and counting) and they're not moderated. I looked at a few, they're all negative.
The prime and only concern should be whether a person is up to the job, not what ethnicity or religion they are. It’s not something I’ve ever considered or thought about any British politician.
@raspberry ruffle - exactly! since when is getting a job based on skin colour, religion, gender or ethnicity something to boast about? Preposterous, primitive, dangerous and utterly asinine.
I can’t even get my head around anyone thinking in those terms, I’m gobsmacked, but really shouldn’t be. I find it terrifying that people in (potential) power aren’t being judged objectively.
I can now understand better why some people choose not see the real Megsy.
I need a cup of tea!
When i first heard of Kamala 4yrs ago, i rejoiced that an accomplished woman was on the path to the presidency.
Then i looked into her record.
To say she's problematic is to understate what a horror her verifiable actions are.
This is a woman nicknamed cop Kamala by the black community and not in a good way, who had zero support from said black community during the primaries and was easily knocked out of them when Tulsi Gabbard exposed her record to the American public during the primaries. She also had to drop out because polling showed that she wasn't going to carry her own state of California during those early primaries.
To sum: promoting a new policy to jail parents of truant school kids - ended up targeting poor families, giving long sentences to anyone who smoked weed and then using the 13th amendment to use them as the state's slave labour and extending their sentences so they could continue to be used as slave labour. Refusing to release death row prisoners when DNA evidence exonerated them until she was forced by court order. Allowed bankers to wreak havoc on home owners and declined to prosecute the worst offenders despite evidence showing that they had broken the law and then later it was found that they had contributed to her senate race campaign fund. She's an authoritarian whose first and only instinct is to lock up or ban anyone and anything that disagrees with her.
Her own father publicly told her off for promoting negative stereotypes about Jamaica after she appeared on the breakfast club laughing about smoking weed because apparently that's what Jamaicans do according to her.
And in our new era of BLM where people are cancelled for ancestral crimes, her family is enemy numero uno because in recent history her family owned slaves in Jamaica. Not in the conventional history where the black ancestors were assaulted leading to mixed babies. Nope. According to her own father in a family biography he wrote as happy family memoir, several decades after slavery had been abolished, her white formerly slave owning family ancestor in Jamaica randomly met a free black woman. The two married openly without any societal rancour.
Publicly, she jumps on any passing bandwagon without researching it just like our dear Meghan. She's come out strongly for several bandwagons and then had to quietly pretend she never did - Jussie Smollet and the Covington Kids being 2 cases where she jumped in before researching. She also promoted a bailout fund for BLM rioters in areas that wreaked the most havoc on black neighbourhoods and egged on the worst offenders who co-opted the movement.
Her voting record depends on bandwagons. If something is trending and it comes up for a vote then she votes in favour and yet can't explain her vote after the fact and quickly disavows it as if voting record is easily erased like her expunged publicly available until 2019 work records in California.
She's actually a very bad public speaker. When she's prepared ahead of time then she delivers a good performance, but when she's caught off the cuff or even in interview situations where questions aren't exactly as pre-arranged she flaunders and then starts laughing to cover her inability to answer the question. And as Tulsi Gabbard showed, she has a glass jaw when confronted with her own records.
And most ergregious of all in my book, she is a Clinton Cabal candidate. She was groomed for years by them and when she announced her races, senate and presidential, she was immediately surrounded by Clinton's team and donors.
She won't care that she's a diversity pick because she's extremely ambitious and sees the presidency as her due.
My favourite?
` When can we set Jesus aside and honour the King and Queen of Holy Crud at Christmas?'
By nature politics is prostitution. You do favours for people who do favours for you, or pay you, or give your son a well-paid job, or your brother, or donate to your foundation, or make dirt on you disappear, or hide your secrets, or or or... Then you say the things they want to hear, while telling the little people things they want to hear also. After that, the promises you keep are those you were paid for. And sometimes, not even then.
It's about selling yourself, Biden called himself a prostitute once on tv, and laughed and laughed... top guy. Who wouldn't want a guy who openly admits to be bribable as their leader? And who also openly, on tv, admitted to blackmailing an entire country for relief funds? All while laughing and laughing....
That's why the outsider was so hated, defamed and smeared: unbribable and so not your typical politician.
The other one was regime changed. No doubt about it. Same playbook seen in 58 other countries.
CNN, as with all media, have to fill space and so they come up with meaningless gestures such as this. In the UK it is a great honour to be recognized and personally thanked by royals (and they have the connections to actually get donations and programmes up and running). For Meghan, and the empty celebrity culture where she fits in, it is about copying without substance. Of what value is recognition or thanks from Meghan? Were any of the people beng acknowledged/thanked featured?
I also note that Meghan and Harry seem to be on different trajectories in their PR. He is being devalued.
Did anyone watch the video? Supposedly she comes across as hesitant and unsure of herself. I think she is trying to soften her image, even in her speech patterns, and thus she is speaking and dressing in a way that is not only inauthentic but is what she is not used to.
As for her mention in the Oprah advertisement for a brand of milk latte - Meghan needs to earn money somehow. She loves secrecy/surprise appearances because it gives her control. Advertising milk lattes is too low, too Peter Phillips for the royal Duchess to surpass all royal duchesses/princesses ever, so how could she do a commercial without 'devaluing
her brand'? Or maybe the milk latte brand just did not think her valuable enough/too contraversial to use but they could get Oprah if they included her so they agreed to the coy use of 'M'.
I am not going to comment on Kamala Harris as I am not an American. However, what struck me about Obama's autobiography part 1 is the constant stress of the job. Biden is going to crumble. They are either going to prop him up as they did with Reagan when he got dementia or they are going to hand over the presidency to Harris.
Off to google to check who she plagiarised this time because she always does.
Nope, her voice still comes across to me as harsh and grating and full of smug self confidence. The pauses are because she is reading a rehearsed speech and is not intellectually or emotionally connected to what she is saying. She is a bad actress!
Nope, her face does not look pregnancy-related bloated to me. Like Jessica Mulroney, she has that chipmunk look and has used a lot of blusher to achieve this. (I still think she has used pregnancy to get out of the court case, but do not see proof of this in her appearance in this video).
Yep, she is sitting up very straight - not her usual slouching laid back California style. But the bits of hanging hair that she keeps pushing back ruin the look. She adopted the tendrils look as a teenager when she first straightened her hair and has stuck with it!
Note how, in an indirect way, she is plugging the 'work' she did for those photo ops - delivering food, working in a kitchen ...
She rehearsed this speech - over rehearsed. For me, there is no authenticity, no real feeling behind what she is saying. But, it is a very 'royal' speech, except for the absence of tradition and family and position represented by the like of photos and heirlooms and official gifts in the background.
Kamala hasn't earned any of her positions on her own merit. She's either slept with someone or played the race/woman card or latched on to someone who wanted a person of her sex or ethnicity in a position of power. Her accomplishments are few and her record is nothing to be proud of. She's ridden the Woke Wave to get where she is now, and just as I believe the fix was in to throw the election to Biden, I believe the ultimate goal was to make Harris the first female president. She couldn't get there on her own -- she couldn't even get anywhere close to winning her own state's primary. She brought nothing to the table, as Biden was always going to win California in the election, except her sex and her ethnicity. If I were Biden, I wouldn't ingest anything she gave me, and I'd never turn my back on her.
Posts from this blogger are few and far between but are always good for a laugh - especially the captions.
Thanks for the link. The captions and the narrative are hilarious. I especially liked the caption about Kate and the reindeer because that sort of thought probably does occasionally cross her mind during certain royal duties. And I howled over the description of Omid S as a "Royal Suppository." (That descriptor probably has been around for awhile but I'd not seen it.) One thing I have to credit the Sussexes with, I don't think I've cracked up so much over "potty humor" since about the 4th grade (9-10 years old in US.) Especially since FF shared her pee habits with the world so many things about the couple and those around them seem to elicit kinds sorts of jokes.
By the way, when I was younger, I remember CNN being THE international 24-hour news channel, even in Africa!
That's what people who are only concerned about race do. To others, to whom race is not a consideration, the character of the person is more important. I think Martin Luther King may have said something similar once.
the witch (Meghan) has turned Harry into a pillow!
Throughout her near half-decade on the global stage, Meghan Markle has made gender equality one of her core causes. The Duchess of Sussex is now extending that mission to the private sector as she begins to build a portfolio of startup investments.
The duchess is investing in Clevr Blends, a startup that makes instant oat-milk lattes. In a statement announcing her investment in the brand—which is led by cofounder and CEO Hannah Mendoza—Meghan emphasized her interest in supporting female-founded companies, which received only 2.7% of venture capital funding in 2019. The personal investment is Meghan's first to be made public.
https://fortune.com/2020/12/14/meghan-markle-exclusive-first-investment-clevr-blends/
In the CNN video, she looks like an over-filled bowl of salad dressing.
The blouse she wears reminds me of something Diana wore in the very early 80s for a visit to an organization that I saw on Pinterest once while researching general 80s trends. “Look, I am royal like Di!” Just more delusional give-me-pity-too cosplay.
She is trying to crawl back to claw back. I think their belly-flop into America and her court case issues are finally scaring them. I hope the queen and Charles don’t blink.
Or, “As a young mother and business woman who advised a soap company, I am investing my time in this start up by making the owner buy me lunch, then I talk about the work. In this way, I am invested in her success....”
No income but funding a mansion and its staff and upkeep, 12 person professional staff, top PR agency, Scobie and similar minions, cosmetic surgery, clothes, private jets, decor, studio rental.....”raising a child....and investments!
All while Handbag loads the dishwasher and rinses out his grey shirt.
Sure.
Duchess Meghan has invested in “super latte” startup #ClevrBlends. The female-founded wellness brand is based in Santa Barbara. “This investment is in support of a passionate female entrepreneur who prioritizes building community alongside her business,” she says in a statement.
The Awakening of an Elixir Goddess
https://spiritualityhealth.com/articles/2017/01/11/awakening-elixir-goddess
The Hippy Zippy Elixir Bar is run by Hannah Mendoza and Roger Coppola and is based in Santa Barbara, California. They bring their bar to events and festivals on the West Coast. Reach them at hello@drinkhippyzippy.com, or through Facebook @Hippy Zippy Elixir Bar.
You just can't make this shizz up.
Huge deception points to the marketing writer who cleverly plopped in “near half decade” instead of “a gnat over three years, two spent in embarrassing public failure” ...
They forgot to add supermodel, though.
Which makes the Gloria Steinem comments all the more interesting in that she is linked to supporting KH and is linked to supporting MM as well.
To me, that looks like a cop out - we've come this far and we still can't get into the White House on our own merits so I guess we gotta pick someone who can just slide into the VP slot because they tap certain demographics and hope the old guy passes soon to get to our goal of a woman in the White House. A false summit.
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Thinking of reaching goals then versus now (White House, equality, or the Promised Land) where life is happy ever after once we reach that destination - no worries that we have today keeping us from happiness.
As I was writing that, I was mentally thinking of Rev. MLK's I've been to the mountaintop speech where he's paralleling the Moses' message of I'm not going on with you. MLK rallied people together in a positive movement to achieve desired change in society. The current society change movement is negative - burn down what we can't have after we have broken in to damage/steal.
Interesting to see how to organize/motivate people in a positive - call of Moses/MLK/Gandhi and being willing to say that they may not cross the finish line with the people but continue our momentum gathered from all walks of society versus Well, we've done so much for so long, I guess we outta stop here and see about trying plan B which is what we have been fighting against all time or the cancel culture of destroy that person - both are not supportive of large swaths of society ie splintering groups into small but highly vocal them versus us but giving the illusion of wide support because of the ability to reach the world through the filter/biases of internet/cable news.
This will be a very interesting time period no matter what you believe about any of the people dancing on the public stage trying to attract our attention.
(there is a part of me which wonders about what/how the world would have become different if the social media of the day was more than 3 or 4 competing USA networks in that time slot - JFK? MLK? the whole take over the school to protest the war? Manson? Maybe it is just as well we didn't have that level of SM.)
Someone needs to set up a real life parody of this royal parody. The Clarence and Edith Awards for What We Would Do If We Had A Brain Between US and Some Money and Could Put Down the Toot Long Enough.
The Bride of Harrystein. Great, bring it on.
LOL. Got to love the DM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9050073/Meghan-Markle-praises-quiet-heroes-feeding-hungry-amid-pandemic.html
Would Meghan have copyright on the video (it seems that she filmed it and then gave it to CNN to use on their programme) and she denied DM the right to publish it with the article, or demanded a huge fee for doing so?
Actually, I don't mind her making money from investing in a woke female-led company in Santa Barbara making instant lattes in a pouch .. not something I would buy or enjoy but I am sure there are many who would.
Meghan, the instant latte queen of Montecito! (Yes, I do drink instant coffee - black, no sugar - but do prefer freshly ground coffee made with a plunger or other device to make coffee ... and as for a shot of freshly made espresso ... Heaven!)
And last night there was not one comment after two hours as the comments had all gone to pre moderation. This morning there are 12,000+ comments.
Even by Markle standards, this is weird.
I would want to know how much she invested. Somehow I feel that she just exchanged free product for a promise of a free plug with Oprah. We will find out that she invested "time".
Even by Markle standards, this is weird.
Nothing weird about this, the DM do it a lot and not just stories about the duo. No comments then thousands. Sometimes they’ll decrease the number and then raise it.
What I found odd was video present, comments censored.
Video removed, comments released.
Maybe the price that they paid for the video was an agreement to not allow comments?
What an honor to have inspired a post! Thanks!
Wouldn't Meghan love to be connected with the first female president?
Not as much as the first female president would love to be connected to the current Queen of England and both future Queen consorts!
Maybe even pose Archie in a "Harris and Harrison" photo to go with has "Arch and Archbishop" Bishop Tutu?
Hahahaha! That's perfect! You even predicted that Meghan would leave "H" completely out of it! "Harry and Harris" would make more sense, as both are adults who are (presumably) working together toward a shared goal. But it would be very easy to crop Mrs. Harry out of a "Harry and Harris" photo -- and much harder to crop Archie's mother out of it, if she makes sure he's strapped to her in a carrier the entire time.
I agree that it was very likely an intern with more wokeness than political savvy who sent those pro-Meghan tweets on Harris's account. And now that it's clear that an association with Meghan may be a diplomatic liability, Harris may never casually tweet about her -- much less substantially reach out to her -- again.
Sadly, most MSM are for sale. You (or your PR firm) pays a fee and you get your article or video clip published. CNN is among the worst "for sale" in that, as stated above, it was at one time the premier news source. Now CNN = ETonline.
We know that photo placement in press photos at Royal residences is very political.
So, what's up with the photo of the Markles that Charles obviously wanted us to see?
What I found odd was video present, comments censored.
Video removed, comments released.
Maybe the price that they paid for the video was an agreement to not allow comments?
More than likely the case or some kind of similar agreement. Most Nutties and that includes me believe the majority if not all of the happy, feeling fluffy PR stories are fed by her and her PR pets.
The CNN video is still there.
Must be something else or JW has become feeble minded (or star struck) in his older years.
Actually, I don't mind her making money from investing in a woke female-led company in Santa Barbara making instant lattes in a pouch .. not something I would buy or enjoy but I am sure there are many who would.
It arguably sounds like a good company to support, whether you're into instant coffee or just want to help small businesses run by women. This is also a great time to pick small businesses over huge corporations.
But it's also a terrible time to be Markled. If the company makes good instant coffee and is fair to its employees, I hope they survive the lapse in judgment that was partnering with Meghan.
@Louise
I would want to know how much she invested. Somehow I feel that she just exchanged free product for a promise of a free plug with Oprah. We will find out that she invested "time".
Time and mentorship! Who wouldn't want to be mentored by such a whip-smart woman? She could definitely hit the ground running among experienced entrepreneurs the way she did with lifetime royals.
Sarcasm aside, what the Harkles invested is a really good question. It's pretty clear that they have next to nothing, money-wise. And as Nutty pointed out several posts ago, Meghan doesn't have much of value that other people are willing to pay or to barter for. (Prince Harry would have been a more interesting endorser, given coffee vs. tea in US history.) Maybe this is another case of young, "woke" decision makers getting dazzled by what the Harkles seem to represent, only to regret an association later on.
Lesson learned.
It can't be a copyright issue as the Ideo is available elsewhere. Maybe she read the unflattering comments and asked the DM to withdraw the video?
@Louise and Raspberry
Yes, the DM can increase as decrease the number of comments but when I first read the story at around 7.30 am, there were 98 comments. The number shot up very rapidly to reach 10K in a couple of hours.
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Also, MM has made her debut as a start-up investor by pumping money into a female-owned superfoods company (the Express - the story is in the DM but I haven't seen it anywhere else). What money and how much?
Bizarre.
I'm sorry this is OT, although on MM, but I don't think Kamala Harris is well known outside the US so it's difficult to comment as Raspberry Ruffle said earlier.
They may have sent the "gift" out to all their famous friends and neighbours, hoping that at least one would bite.
Or, maybe Oprah is the primary investor?
The "investment" in the oak milk latte company sounds like a classic equity-for-endorsement deal.
It's a six-person company and because of the price structure ($28 per package), it's always going to be a niche product.
I assume the deal went through Oprah, since nobody really cares about Meghan's endorsement.
Maybe Oprah was doing Meg a favor, or paying her off for some other deal that Oprah wants to back out of.
The photo of the Harkles' wedding was in one of the photos released by Clarence House. Why? Maybe Harry threw a tantrum about lack of support and accused the family of not accepting his wife?
It was odd to see it there, not in a collection of family photos, and for an official photo of state business.
Also, I doubt that Charles has family photos of him with the Harkles at places like Balmoral, Highgrove or Clarence House, as he does with the Cambridges (other than that family birthday photo) ... hence the wedding photo.
I know a woman in London who does this exact thing. If I got specific here you could easily locate her- but her family member is the ex editor in chief of a high society mag. She doesn’t take much out of the deals herself, but her recipe for upper middle class success is to be the linchpin between deals. Sort of like when a company hires a person to source investment income from VC/ PE, but more low key (its regulated in the USA). There is nothing wrong with Meghan being the PR for deals like these. There is so much money in the market right now that this is the way she should go. The issue she has is that it’s not particularly audience facing all the time and is relentless in the social world. Lots of work.
As for the CNN ‘speech’. They are clearly trying to separate her image from Harry’s (why?) and releasing chummy Royal articles serves the purpose of realigning her brand with, Well, Royals. Apparently her team have realized that’s the only thing she has going for her. To pretend there is animosity between her and the family (chaos and attention) clearly doesn’t work in the US. They are rewriting history here. She needs to appear connected, non controversial, and bland. Like a Royal.
I wonder, though, why the need for all the surgery. I also wonder why they think it’s ok to keep trading on the Royal connection.
Good call to the Nutty (forget who) who posted further up that Markle was looking like a newscaster or politician.
Picture of blouse here:
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2020/11/kamala-harris-pays-tribute-to-black-women-in-vp-acceptance-speech.html
Never heard of this trick , so funny!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9039575/Prince-Charles-offers-royals-fans-look-inside-Morning-Room-Clarence-House.html
Is he going overboard in signalling his support for them or trying to avoid them screaming blue-murder if they're not there? Trying to make up for last year?
The Duchess of Sussex is now extending that mission to the private sector as she begins to build a portfolio of startup investments.
It's just the latest cycle of her "wash-rinse-repeat" method for finding something that will work for her. Movie stardom didn't work out; the lecture circuit was even more of a bust; charities figured her out pretty quickly; Netflix won't give her money for doing nothing; and Archewell (sp?) collected so few e-mail addresses that she probably lost money just putting up a dummy page for it. Oh, yes -- and everyone from Victoria Beckham to Kamala Harris isn't returning her phone calls. (I'm still waiting for the Fosters to snub the hyped "Christmas soiree.")
After getting to California, Meghan was able to bamboozle exactly one charity and get exactly one school in trouble for breaking the rules for her and Prince Harry. And it may not even have been because they wised up to her. As we discussed in a previous thread, she's a "one and done" girl -- and those ten exhausting minutes handing out school supplies and that morning digging in soft dirt that got under her pretty nails may have convinced her that it was too much work for too few rewards. So after Clevr Blends, she may attract exactly one other small business before the strenuous, tiring work of investment becomes much too much for her, too.
Otherwise, why would he care what they think? Have they been blackmailing him?
The DM issue a few of the moderated comments, and then how ever many they want after that. I’ve seen it done many times before. Often the reality is the comments have been sitting there since the article was released and they do a drip, drip and thus slow releasing of comments. However, be aware, comments may say not moderated, it doesn’t mean they aren’t.
Yes, Kamala isn’t well known outside of America at all, so it’s really difficult to add much to this thread. From the little I’ve read about her, none of it was good or positive.
Actually, Markle does seem to have "pull" in the USA. And certainly, Oprah still does. Free promos from Oprah is quite valuable I would imagine.
Noted about Meghan!
Oprah's star has lost the supernova status it used to have in the 90s, but I agree that an endorsement from her is still worth a whole lot.
Interesting comment over at Lipstick Alley: Meghan appears to be wearing the same blouse that Kamala Harris wore at her VP acceptance speech. (Kamala wore a cream color).
This is the funniest Kamala-related moment yet! And it shows just how few tricks Meghan has in her bag. The Diana cosplay worked so well at getting Prince Harry that she thinks some Kamala cosplay is going to get her the love of the Democratic party!
I'd really love to see the next big target she tries to go after, because that makeover is bound to top both of these!
@Raspberry
Thanks for the clarification abt the DM.
DM running an article with the headline,
“Is that you Meghan? Duchess looks VERY glamorous in
unseen 2016 snap with Lizzie Cundy and
Phones4u billionaire John Caudwell’s ex wife Claire - when
the duo reportedly tried to help her find a ‘famous British man‘
......I love strategy. She tries PR as a holy sainted genuine mother feminist, and they start printing bits from their files....here weee gooooooo!
To be honest, when I first saw the story, I thought it was a terrible faux pas on the part of Prince Charles's staff! Meghan insulted the King of Morocco and then dressed like a bag lady at a mosque in South Africa. If I had been the UAE Crown Prince, I would have wondered if the Prince of Wales were having an undiplomatic go at me!
My second reaction was to assume, as many others have, that the Harkles have been throwing tantrums again -- possibly triggered by the wave of good pre-Christmas publicity for the Cambridges -- and Prince Charles decided to put being a father over being a diplomat and senior royal.
But then @Sandie made this point:
I doubt that Charles has family photos of him with the Harkles at places like Balmoral, Highgrove or Clarence House, as he does with the Cambridges (other than that family birthday photo) ... hence the wedding photo.
It reminds me of @KensingtonRoyal commemorating Archie's first birthday by running the Christening photo again. The main thing it told us is that there were simply no other photos of the Cambridges with "Harry's son." (It would be hilarious if they used it again next year. But I think they'll make the Harkles' desire for "privacy" their excuse for not saying anything at all.) Maybe the Harkles' wedding photo in the Morning Room is just the first part of a message that will wrap up with an updated family photo of Prince Charles, Camilla and the Cambridges next week!
(Okay, that last part was written while I had my tin fascinator on!)
TWO zingers across the bow:
Her face is so different from ones we have since seen, they must have been having a joke with that part of the headline too...”is that you?”
And, thus line is pure molten snarky killer gold:
“At the time, she was only recognisable to U.K. audiences as Rachel Zane from Suits, and very likely would have been a complete unknown to anyone who hadn’t watched the show.”
Just in time for the holidays, I guess it’s on!
Great comment.
I have asked Santa for more tin foil for Christmas. I am going to need it.
Why are the prestigious MSM outlets like the NYT & CNN giving her air time? I don’t get it. I’m under the impression that she’s universally loathed for her woke phoniness. Could all of us be wrong?
Not exactly prestigious. People occasionally check for the important stories. If the NYT and CNN are covering it, they aren't important or are disinformation/propaganda. If they *aren't* covering it, they're covering up something damaging to their cause.
That photo has been there since their wedding. It's the only public acknowledgement of them and their family that Charles has ever put up.
I've always thought that Charles saw Meghan's addition to the family as a PR coup for the family as far as trying to project a multi-cultural, diverse royal family.
Putting that photo in the public rooms immediately after the wedding was part of that ongoing PR strategy.
I find it interesting that he hasn't removed it despite not being a fan anymore, but i suppose as long as Harry remains married to her, the PR optics for his agenda continue to work.
And it wrong foots the Harkles determined efforts to pretend they are unwelcome at the palaces even if the reality may be so.
Mauvey/pink lipstick and eyeshadow instead of the brown toned/nude lipsticks and smokey eye with heavy liner an fake eyelashes. She appears to have added a few individual lashes, but not the usual heavy strip.
She is not wearing heavy bronzer and has gone for a pinker blush.
Unfortunately, she is using a pink toned highlighter on her upper cheeks and nose which makes her look very pasty in the mid face. The pink highlighter is a stark contrast to her yellower under tones.
I presume this is a did to look "softer".
@Enbrethiliel,
Great comment.
I have asked Santa for more tin foil for Christmas. I am going to need it.
You should have asked for it in festive colors to celebrate the various holidays throughout the year. Maybe you can text Santa an update?
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Odious woman.
CNN is said to have been hemorrhaging viewers the last few years.
And trust in the NYT has allegedly plummeted with increasingly poor reporting (errors, lack of research, too many retractions) and generally messy journalism since Mexican business magnate/investor and billionaire Carlos Slim became the majority shareholder in 2015;;he sold off half his shares in 2017. His purchase in 2015 gave the financially flat-to-struggling NYT a much-needed rescue, for which they publically thanked him. The NYT is increasing subscribers though with growth this quarter through various methods.
Oddly, the righteous hero stance of the NYTimes is offset by the consideration that Slim owns serious interests in tech, gas&oil, telecom, broadcasting, retail and other businesses around the world. Some have blamed his monopoly hold in Mexico for destroying and preventing small business growth in Mexico, and contributing to the cycle of poverty there. That however might appeal to their elite banking readers.
Spot on! She created a war with the papers and media, so you reap what you sow I guess? And they keep suing them?
The funny thing about PR, and wanting your story printed in the DM or elsewhere, is that they get to review the article and edit before print. Which is how we end up with 4-5 ANTI Megs version stories for every Hero’s segment she attempts. They won’t let her outrun herself. Must drive her nuts.
I think it’s illusionary to get people guessing, and her bloating is from her Montecito Lattes and fillers. She’s looking worse IMO. But the eyes. Watch the eyes when she talks. Dark, dark soul.
It does look like the same blouse. Just imagine the damage she could do if she put the same effort and research into her "projects" as she does researching people and speeches to copy.
But maybe she did and she does?
Imagine if they did move to Africa for a year and had Netflix follow them, disappeared working, and came back. That is the way to solicit funds and open a ground breaking charity. Playing ex-RoYaL Barbie is such a fail.
Exactly! She gets crazy as she stays behind in the story count, and keeps spinning, and paying for planted stories but cannot catch up. Does she know it is impossible? Those she pays are probably delighted, though.
The 20,000+ DM comments are scathing and hilarious.
If the photo of the Empress came out on Friday an Markle pre-recorded her bit prior to airing last night, she would have had a very short time to find a similar blouse.
I know that bowed blouses are "in" this year. Even the Guardian had a story.
Vogue France referred to it as this years bourgeois trend.
I also loved the picture (pre Louis) of the Cambridges out with the Tyndalls at some country fair type event. Charlotte is riding on Kate's back and George is riding on Mike's shoulders. It was such a normal, happy, everyday family kind of get together and photo. Very normal.
Have never seen one like that from Grip and Drip. Not one picture where a relative is holding him. Only one of Harry holding him and its weird looking.
Have we ever seen a true and verifiable photo (as in others are around to vouch) of Grip or Drip holding/playing with Archie in a loving manner?
I've always thought that Charles saw Meghan's addition to the family as a PR coup for the family as far as trying to project a multi-cultural, diverse royal family.
Putting that photo in the public rooms immediately after the wedding was part of that ongoing PR strategy.
I find it interesting that he hasn't removed it despite not being a fan anymore, but i suppose as long as Harry remains married to her, the PR optics for his agenda continue to work.
Even if the Queen only moves around the photos on her desk once a year, she shows a greater ability to adapt a fixed vision to changing circumstances. There are new framed photos each time, to keep things interesting -- but they all reflect her desire to focus only on her direct heirs as the future of the monarchy.
What is Prince Charles' vision of his future reign? I can see why he would have been happy when Meghan joined the Firm. He must be aware that the UK is a great deal more multicultural than it was at his Investiture as Prince of Wales, and having a biracial daughter-in-law would make him -- despite his old fogey status -- look like more of a modern ruler. He might be as enamored of that updated image of him the way Meghan is of the title Duchess of Sussex; and because he can't let go of it, he also can't adapt his strategy of dealing with the Harkles.
"Any chance the instant latte was part of Oprah's "favorite things"?
Apparently not. Per DM, O said it could have been had she received it earlier.
Wow, her face looks like a pink hamster who's found the cheese pantry - Megan dear, are you OK?
Lol Lol
The surgery! The Doris Day blouse, flattering haze, highlights smears and unctuous lip colour! I kept looking for a kitten.
But, all for nought.
The ballooned lips still smirk and smile at the wrong sad parts of her prepared speech. Bad acting award! And the gauzy fairyland garden setting does not counteract the self-absorbed smugness of the delivery. Forget the topic, she is nearly quivering in her Mrs Doubtfire blouse from the thrill of knowing she was able to buy time on CNN.
I think it is possible Madame thinks when Biden must step down due to dementia or Alzheimer’s (my lovely sweet father-in-law died of Alzheimer’s horrid disease recently, and was much like Biden 7 months ago, so my opinion is firm in this sad situation) —- and when Harris is sworn in, she will turn to Meghan as her VP. I think M is that delusional. So thus begins her creepy Kamala Harris stalking. Catherine, looks like you’re safe now.
All M needs is to marry a rich man with sons, photogenic stepchildren....
But Kamala won’t bring her in. She knows what M is capable of, as they rose in similar ways.
Meghan's appearance on CNN- She looks very pretty but has obviously decided to change up her look. There is something very Kate-ish about her look, except for her hair. AND, I daresay.....she has a puffier face and lips. Let the pregnancy rumors fly. That is afterall what she wants.
I know Meghan is doing the PR blitz thing where she and Harry appear everywhere in your face. It seems like the wind has changed direction as far as the public go with this type of approach. First thing is that celebrities are now greatly devalued. People have not appreciated being preached at whether its about politics or Covid or anything else. Especially by a figure who is polarizing and not liked. Frankly I get sick and tired of seeing them. They invade my peace of mind LOL. This approach just will not succeed in the long run for them. If Meghan is still so unliked even after her miscarriage missive, then she really is on the way out. For all Meghan's cunning and wiles, she isn't a stupid person; she has to know how disliked she and Harry are.
Politics does hold a key for Meghan though. Frankly I am the most worried that she will get some kind of alliance with the American political system. And yes that would likely be with or through Kamala Harris. I am not a fan of Kamala Harris but I was happy for her as a woman that she attained such a high office. Meghan wants this....oh so badly. This is what she's angling for. Some sort of political influence. I don't know how it will flesh itself out but she's working on something.
Lastly Charles and the picture on the table. Charles is easily manipulated both by Harry and Meghan. I was disappointed to see the photo on the table since it shows that the manipulation still works on Charles. It's a shame really. If it wasn't for Charles, their goose would be cooked.
Also, she had a government job in the Uk and abandoned it after 2 minutes. Bad track record, selfish and short term. Political allies want Long Haul Loyalists.
I think the coffee co was Oprah’s find, and she does have a soft spot for HARRY, and knows they are on the verge of financial and reputation all ruin and threw them a bone. Notice how Oprah isn’t appearing with them in public or directly via Instagram. It’s a soft plug. She’s hoping she can still make a buck off Harry but won’t risk her own rep for it.
If that’s as far as their only A-List contact is willing to take things (a local SB coffee distributor that Oprah owes something too) then this is bad news for Meghan.
Who can dig up the connection between coffee startup and Oprah? That’s what I’m waiting for. Did Oprah run over the owners dog on a Montecito winding road? Something something? Who is the coffee person.
Selling latte drink packets, of course. And coordinating your awkwardly moving yet smirking mouth’s lipgloss to the flower behind you. The slide and bump of your misshapen new purpled lips do pull away attention from your weirdly dead eyes which only twinkle with mirth when you read a sad caring line. Your face bubbles with “look at my new nose, Hollywood!” But you look like a bubble tea mishap.
No miscarriage. No Archie. No critical thinking skills. No clue.
Clevr Blends, an actual company, has only 6 staff. SIX. Its founder is a 2014 UC Santa Barbara grad who worked another blends startup in South America.
MM has 12 staff simply devoted to her PR, and she is unemployed.
The Mirror says there were more than a few raised eyebrows in the Palace over this new MM endeavor.
Funny how they require funding from organic Duchy products, which they do not publicly support, to help push the latte mix of a Santa Barbara blonde.
Words dropped or were swallowed above ^^^^ —- should say “start up with partners in South America”
Something's cooking. She wants to change the narrative completely.
The queen has sent a very strong message with her pic of Wessexes, Cambridges, Waleses and Anne. The Harkles are no longer a part of the Firm. In three months they will be gone for a year and already fading.
The only significance Rachel Meghan Markle has now is the one we are prepared to give her. She is there while we are discussing her. She can be entertaining - her latest bout of surgery made me think of a game of spot the difference, whereby two pictures of her are placed next to each other and players are required to point what areas on her face and body were surgically changed or treated, and guess the price. (❁´◡`❁)
She joined the endless numbers of moneyed nobodies who want to make a splash in the USA.
The only part I am sorry for - you now have two quasi royal hypocrites on your soil. Harry is included into the package unfortunately.
Funny how they require funding from organic Duchy products, which they do not publicly support, to help push the latte mix of a Santa Barbara blonde.
Good catch! There were so many small enterprises that she could have supported in the UK, but didn't. But she has no problem with them essentially supporting her while she "invests" in other businesses that will never pay off for anyone in the Duchy.
Happily, the chances of this being another "one and done" thing that won't really get off the ground are very high. But that's hardly a point in her favor.
Maybe she wants back in, fast, so Daddy Charles will pay her legal bills and debts.
Then she can tuck Harry into a royal playpen, and sneak back to Heathrow and scoot alone back to LA, as an unencumbered, surgically remade diva, ready to find husband #4. She’ll tuck Harry’s rings, stripped of the Diana diamonds, into another shipping envelope when the time is right.
I think she wants a Musk or a Bezos now that she’s had a small taste of money. Plus, it costs money to run for President. Maybe she is arranging an Amazon sales meeting for the latte packets — but really must talk to Jeff about it, secretly; well, for security, you know, yah...
Now all we are seeing are sympathetic stories of Meghan. The miscarriage, her food do-gooding and American Queen posturing. While Harry is stuck to zooming around low key initiatives calling himself a raindrop.
Meghan’s always been jealous of Harry’s popularity and I think we are seeing her evil tricks up front and center now, especially if Netflix just wants Harry. She’s pushing her personal ‘brand’ (whatever the hell that is) hard.
My point (sorry it didn't come across) is that she was not successful ON HER OWN. She hustled like madness to get Harry. If she was talented in a normal sense that hustle would have gotten her a famous, high money career of her own by her own doing.
She needs harry more than he needs her (just like Disney and IMHO the drink packets)
Oprah does some marvelous things to whittle down her nose with make up shading.
Interesting too, that it does look like she’s trying to distract Harry with his family affairs again, push him back into their fold. Once she takes (what she sees) as his power and dwarfs him in her head and ‘brand’ and makes him feel like the size of a gnat (how he has any dignity left is beyond me), she will truly be finished with him. All I’m seeing is a woman getting even more greedy and wanting to run her ‘charity and business’ activities without having to split the earnings 50/50 in a divorce. We might see the divorce sooner rather than later due to this. The signs of devaluing Harry are all there.
I really do hope her ego keeps growing.
Well whatever is happening, I guess we can be reassured that Ms. Markle is going no where private. More appearances expected.
I also doubt this product will go very far via her promotion. Lots of stuff like this out on the market. I mean, good for the founder, hope she does nicely....but it isn’t going to soar to the stratosphere due to Markle, or Harry, neither of whom look particularly healthy. Sorry, Oprah.
(And the company gives just 1% to food charity, so it isn’t a huge PR story. Nice, but nothing special here.)
Maybe M hopes to dangle the the young earth girl blonde founder as a jump off for Harry, to get rid him and get a divorce settlement...
I read this as "Meghan Markle invests $28 in oatmeal company".. Had to go back to re-read it
I think she's grasping at straws and I think Oprah is tossing her a bone in case she, Oraph, needs Drip (but she'll never be invited to a Royal event again for helping the Harkles escape)
My husband made me stop the Meghan hero video last night after the first few seconds. He pointed out that the wide-panned angle of the bench with just Meghan on it, without Harry is extremely strategic to disassociate herself with him. She’s showing us she is fine without her man.
I also noticed that she was only taking up half of the screen. (Of course, when she has to share it with Prince Harry, she makes sure she's more centered than he is. She was more generous toward that cushion she was sharing the bench with than she has ever been with her own husband.)
She's also making a big statement with color. Am I the only one who thinks that the pinks and purples of the video were deliberately selected because they clash with a natural redhead's coloring?
Nothing to do with Harry, all hail Queen Meghan.
- Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to U.S. Congress in 1968
- Geraldine Ferraro, the first female VP nominee for a major party in 1984
- Hillary Rodham Clinton, the first female presidential nominee that went past the primary in 2016
Is it just me? I don't see a big market for instant oat-milk coffee.
It's not just you! Even I know that instant coffee is a hard sell in the US market -- and the oat milk seems there merely to differentiate from alternatives with soy milk or almond milk, and not because it adds real value. So Meghan and Oprah get points for supporting a small business run by a woman at a challenging time for entrepreneurs . . . but did they choose Clvr Blends because they thought their support would pay off for the company? That is, did they believe Clvr Blends had a real chance at succeeding, whether or not it got a boost from their endorsing it?
I agree with @AnT that it's not going to go far, even with both of them promoting it. And if we can see that, they themselves couldn't have missed it. So why Clvr Blends and not a similar "woke-ish" company with better chances on the market?
https://www.npr.org/sections/politicaljunkie/2009/01/why_hasnt_biden_resigned_his_s.html
Agree. I'm just holding my breath, waiting for someone to discover that the oat milk lady has connections to SS because nothing else makes sense.
Puds: I think the changes in the nose and chin are explained by heavy use of make up shading and filters."
The space between her nose and her upper lip is much bigger than the last time we saw her on a Zoom call. That is always a Nose Job tell.
Plus the width of her nose is much narrower AND the tip of her nose and nostrils are subtley upturned where they used to turn down.
This is her nose in March 2020
https://www.hawtcelebs.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/meghan-markle-at-commonwealth-service-at-westminster-abbey-03-09-2020-4.jpg
First Nose job after April 2020 ( she only shaved the sides and added an implant along the ridge which is still visible in this Zoom call)
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/04/30/13/27840148-8273671-Celebrity_makeup_artist_Ruby_Hammer_has_revealed_how_Meghan_Mark-a-5_1588249806152.jpg
Also notice the skin bleaching and the eyebrow lift
Same nose job after it's settled.
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/08/30/09/32560360-8678495-image-a-1_1598776591819.jpg
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/09/13/00/32960464-8725331-It_comes_after_it_emerged_Prince_Harry_and_Meghan_have_signed_a_-a-31_1599951860789.jpg
Btw, this was her nose on her wedding day ( look at the very tiny gap between nose tip and her upper lip)
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/04/30/13/27840300-8273671-image-a-3_1588249527486.jpg
Today's nose job (2nd Nose job since March) also notice the under eye filler, completely frozen botox face
https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5fd76ba0210000f00d73ea07.png?cache=dgacf97d5e&ops=scalefit_630_noupscale
is this another blind about Meghan?
Louise - really good catch! (food insecurity on CNN and pitching lattes)
wow, that is really bad placement timing. Just on many levels.