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Speaking My Mind: Celebrity Transformations, Hamas Hypocrisy, and Free Speech Debates
Ever noticed how quick people are to judge what they don't understand? Today's candid morning reflection dives into the frustration of watching uninformed critics attack public figures like Charlie Kirk while openly admitting they know nothing about him. It's not the unhinged rants from predictable quarters that bother me—it's the supposedly reasonable people who speak with unearned authority.
The contradictions don't stop there. When "Hacks" actress Hannah Einbinder ended her Emmy acceptance speech with "Free Palestine," she likely never imagined Hamas-affiliated media would enthusiastically share her message—while simultaneously censoring her bare shoulders for "moral purity." The cognitive dissonance is striking: championing a cause without recognizing the fundamental values at stake. Speaking of recognition, Jennifer Lopez's latest platinum blonde transformation has fans doing double-takes, with many mistaking her for Gwen Stefani after what appears to be significant cosmetic work.
Meanwhile, Starbucks continues its downward spiral with plummeting sales and customer experiences that fail to meet even basic expectations. Despite CEO promises of improvement, dirty stores and interminable wait times plague the once-dominant coffee chain. My suggestion? Create separate drive-thru lanes for mobile orders—a simple fix that could dramatically improve customer satisfaction. Beyond these observations lies a deeper question about free speech in America: should hate speech laws exist at all? My position is clear—in America, even offensive speech deserves protection under the First Amendment. What's your take? The conversation continues at TheAmericanist.com, where my upcoming article and video will further explore these pressing issues.
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Well, hello, good morning, happy Tuesday, all right, carol, here coming at you, I have some things swirling around in my head. Not marbles, although you know, some may say so, but I read on my way out of work yesterday. I don't even know. I read something that just really got under my skin and I need to blog about it. I'll do a video about it. It's a whole topic. It's to address the ignorance and I say ignorance in all seriousness about people who know nothing about Charlie Kirk but yet they want to run their mouth. And I'm not talking about the total left unhinged rants that you see by these pink haired, blue haired, piercing faced people. No, I'm not talking about them. I'm talking about regular, everyday people who know nothing about Charlie but yet they want to run their mouth and try to sound intelligent, but they're not, because obviously they don't. They even admit they don't know anything about Charlie Kirk, yet they feel like they have to run their mouth about him to try to. Well, I'll address it in my blog post and in the video that I'm going to do. In the meantime, I have some stories here. I am sorry, I don't know why, in the morning it doesn't happen the rest of the day, but in the morning my throat and my voice just do not want to work. All right, so here we go.
Speaker 1:I have three stories for you First. Well, first, before I get to the stories, I want you to go to my YouTube channel, subscribe and, like I did a video yesterday about why the Southern Poverty Law Center must be shut down. Please go read that, like it and share it. All right? So the first story I have for you is Hamas mouthpiece praises Hannah Einbinder's free Palestine Emmys message, but censors her bare shoulders in a video. Oh, this ought to be brilliant. From the New York Post.
Speaker 1:Of course I don't watch the Emmys anymore. I forgot they were on. I did want to watch Maureen Callahan's live stream of making fun of it when it was on Sunday night, but I totally forgot about it. Anyway, you've seen the highlights of this actress from Hacks, which, by the way, I love that show. I know that she's had episodes like this before, so I knew that going in watching that show. But I love Jean Smart and this show is really good and I hope you watch it because it makes fun of both sides.
Speaker 1:So this story from the New York Post is about the actress who went on a rant when she won her Emmy, when she won her Emmy Gosh. Okay, let me just read it to you. When the biggest raves come from a Hamas-linked media, maybe even Hollywood starlet can realize her message isn't quite as morally triumphant as she imagined. Ending her Emmy acceptance speech with Free Palestine won Hannah Einbinder cheers inside the Peacock Theater, since it was the usual impeccably progressive La La Land crowd. But the YouGoGirl coverage by the Hamas and Islamic Jihad-linked news network should have given her at least some doubt, particularly since the outlet blurred her bare shoulders to preserve fundamentalist moral purity. So there you go. Maybe next time you want a free Palestine, hannah, cover up your shoulders. Maybe cover up your head too, because that's what they want. You talk about women's rights. You don't have any rights with them. So do you understand that, little girl? I hope you do.
Speaker 1:All right, moving on to the next story, let me go back to my feed, because I had to get out of that because it kept popping up stupid ads. Okay, so this next story is amazing and you have to go look at it, because it's all in images. Fans mistake Jennifer Lopez for Gwen Stefani in new platinum blonde glam selfies and, oh my gosh, she looks just like Gwen Stefani. I'm scrolling through these pictures. I'm like that is Gwen Stefani. I'm scrolling through these pictures. I'm like that is Gwen Stefani. That is not Jennifer Lopez. It's Gwen Stefani, but nope, it's Jennifer Lopez, and she does. She looks nothing like Jennifer Lopez anymore. I don't know what she's done to her face. I don't know if she's had those fat things removed from her cheeks. She's had some kind of plastic surgery. She looks nothing like herself. She does look like Gwen Stefani.
Speaker 1:All right, moving on to the next one, starbucks needs proper managers. No one needs to wait 11 minutes for a drink with a cute message scribbled on the side. Now I still want a cute message scribbled on the side. That does not bother me, but when I come to the store and you're not prepared to make my drink and I do have to wait in the line for seven minutes when I ordered it online ahead of time, yes, I have a problem with it. However, the one store that I go to, the people that normally work there, that I have built a relationship with, they know I'm coming and they already have it ready. The other day I went and it was a whole new crew and, sure enough, I had to freaking wait there in the line for seven damned minutes because they weren't there in time to turn the damn machines on. Okay, I'm sorry, I'm moving on. Let me read the story. Actually, all right. Starbucks Okay, I already read that.
Speaker 1:Starbucks CEO Brian Nickel told Fox Business last week he's ahead of the schedule in his plan to turn the faltering coffee company around. So apparently Starbucks is in trouble. A year since Nicole pledged to improve the Starbucks environment and speed up ordering times. Its stores at least the ones in the Big Apple are plagued by the curse of the app-driven service business lack of floor management. If Starbucks actually has bosses, they're in their offices counting coffee beans. Starbucks sales fell for the sixth straight time, down to two percent between April 1 and June 30 this year. They won't improve until customers' experiences live up to Nichols' idea of what it should be the absence of old school management.
Speaker 1:What, what do you mean? Absence of old school management? You do this, you don't do. That is obvious to a guy like me who's enjoyed starbucks coffee since they opened in my upper east side building 30 years ago. And it gets worse every year. I bet people are. I bet the employees are being babies. You can't tell me what to do. You're being as aggressive, you're being too assertive, uh-uh-uh-uh, my many branches are filthy. Oh no, don't tell me that my friend found starbucks at lexington avenue, in east 77th street, as gross as the subway station next door. Oh, my word, no mounds of. I can't maladoria, malad, I can't even say that word. Garbage filled the bathroom which an employee unlocked for him. There was no toilet paper. Okay, we don't need to go on about the bathrooms.
Speaker 1:I'm ready to quit Starbucks for another reason too, the same reason millions of other Java junkies are doing it, namely, endless waits for even the simplest products. It can't take half a lifetime to get a no frills cappuccino. I agree, and I also have, and you can go finish reading that if you like. I know most of you don't care. I know it's popular to hate Starbucks. I get it, I like Starbucks. I'm just going to tell you that right now, I don't care. I like them, I like the drinks. Now I even like the plain black coffee. I do Sue me, I don't care.
Speaker 1:But the other suggestion that I would like to give Starbucks is that have a separate drive-thru lane for the people who have ordered ahead with their mobile orders, because in your mobile ordering app thing you have, do I want to pick it up in store or do I want to pick it up in the drive-thru? Either take that out and make people walk in and get it or make a separate lane for people, because I get behind these people and they're sitting there. They don't know what they want. They got to order this and then I have to wait for them to make their order ahead of me. Give me a separate lane. I've ordered ahead. I've used your app. I've ordered ahead. I've already paid for it. Even give me a lane that I can swing through and pick it up. Okay, I mean, chick-fil-a has several lanes. Other drive-thrus have several lanes. You can do the same. Okay, we need to move on to the question of the day, and I do have one, my question of the day.
Speaker 1:So Pam Bondi, I guess, went on a rant somewhere about cracking down and going after people for hate speech and somebody retweeted that and they said nope. And I want to know, because here's the thing, all of these people who created these hate speech laws are leftist, liberal lunatics, because they got offended because someone may have called them a name or something, and so we have these hate laws, now hate speech laws. Um, we have these hate laws, now hate speech laws, and I want to know do you think that we should have hate speech laws? I do not. I think hate speech should be included, is is should be protected by free speech. I don't think there should be such thing as hate speech. I think you should. We're america. We should not have laws like that. What are your thoughts on that? And again, be looking for an Americanistcom.
Speaker 1:I'm coming out with an article today. If I can get to it Hopefully I will. It may take me time because I've got a lot of stuff I want to cover and I'm going to have to take a few hours to figure it out. And then I'm also going to do the video. Okay, it may be out today, maybe tomorrow or maybe even Thursday, I don't know. I hope to get it out today, though, really, if we're not busy at work. Okay, I got to go. Thanks for listening. Have a great day.
Speaker 1:Oh, one more thing I just you know I talked about maybe I've let a couple of days have gone by now with the Charlie Kirk assassination and everybody immediately started blasting these people who were cheering for his death and I thought I don't want to participate in that. I do not want to do that. I said I couldn't get down in the mud with y'all. I just thought that was atrocious. I would rather share Charlie Kirk's message than to highlight and pimp out and promote the crazies. But you know what? I've changed my mind. I'm going to join you. I'm going to blast the idiots out there because they do need to be blasted. Okay, that's it. Now I got to go Bye.
