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Oh. You have nailed the Duchess of Monticito.

Her "job is to be, not to do".

She and her husband are a complete waste of space.

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This is gold, Tanya ;) South Park wrecked Meghan and Harry with the worldwide privacy tour. “Where rank materialism meets bogus activism” - that describes the fake duchess and her target market perfectly: the American Democrat sanctimonious coastal elite luxury belief class.

I predict Markel will hire our stunning and brave national youth poet laureate for the American Riviera Orchard launch party like Biden did for his inauguration: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/youth-poet-laureate-commissar-amanda-gorman

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Markle is an empty vessel. Which ever way the wind is blowing is where you will find her. And Harry, he’ll be clutching her skirt and whinging about how hard his life has been. Pathetic, the both of them.

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I am so grateful the Free Press exists, to publish articles such as the one today which held the New York Times’ feet to the fire for its reporting on Hamas. This is extremely important journalism.

It was immediately followed by the most baffling article I’ve ever seen in the Free Press— a scandal rag piece, whose only purpose, as far as I can tell, was to be mean to a woman for starting a home goods company.

What on earth were you thinking?

Here’s the breakdown of the article:

1st Paragraph — accuses the woman of being a prostitute (“in the business of selling herself.”).

2nd— makes fun of the name of her new business.

3rd— accuses the woman of liking beautiful things because she herself is not beautiful.

4th— asserts that a promotional video of the woman stirring a pot in the kitchen for her new home goods company, is fundamentally sinister to the history of… England? Humanity? America? It’s not clear. It’s just sinister.

5th— makes fun of the woman for being biracial and implies that because of that she does not belong in a nice place like “an Orchard by the sea in America.”

6th— accuses the woman of being shallow and selfish because… No reason is given.

7th— claims that the woman’s identity makes it impossible for her to actually want to pursue good in the world.

8th— claims that the woman’s act of marrying a man she loved was slimy and despicable.

9th— Asserts a wish that the woman’s new business fails and that people laugh at her.

This is the worst sort of British tabloid slush. It’s just mean. And it serves no purpose, other than to imply that Meghan Markle merely existing and living her life, while her sister-in-law is having medical difficulties, is somehow unconscionable.

Why did the Free Press publish this?

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The editor

While Ms Gold’s piece is mildly amusing I would request that you spike all such stories in the future. Any media coverage only encourages them to continue their self absorbed behaviour designed mostly to be nasty to the Royal family. Please,ignore them.

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Word salad indeed.

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Archwell, American Riviera, etc. Well then, let’s see it! It’s always a logo and an announcement, but never any stuff. Where’s the beef?

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“which sounds like an address given by an immigrant to a taxi driver, asking to be taken to paradise.”

I died laughing.

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Not a pig. Just a simple-minded opportunist. She seems to be failing miserably.

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I really don't understand all the vitriol always directed at this woman. Seriously. It is so weird

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Could the name be more pretentious.

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Not a fan (her ghosting of her father, for example, who did so much for her) but the hatred directed at this woman is unhinged.

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Hey Bari If I wanted Royal Family gossip I'd read the Daily Mail. Keep the Sussex grifters off your page and keep bringing us serious content.

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Never have understood how titles based on hereditary privilege and endowed with massive wealth can ever be squared with the DEI/SJW vibe that the Duchess attempts to project. If white colonialism/oppression is the wellspring of humanity's ills, then the Royal Family of Great Britain, which resides as keepers of the English traditions of empire, are the modern avatars of historical apex predators. The morally congruent alternative for Meghan and Harry would have been to marry for the love I presume they share and surrender their titles as a demonstration that hereditary elitism has no place in modern informed society. For a "person of color" to accept a royal title is equivalent to admitting that hereditary elitism is fine as long as non-whites can be in on the scam.

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Mar 21·edited Mar 21

While this article is humorous-some of you people are literally unhinged in your dislike of this woman. The vitriol is so out of proportion to whatever her "crimes" are (marrying a prince? leaving a ridiculous system with him?) American Riviera Orchard is a truly awful mouthful, and this whole thing (from what we can surmise from a vague instagram posting) seems a little tacky and 2018, but I don't think it's the worst thing ever.

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Mar 21·edited Mar 21

As I replied to the daily newletter, she is not, and never has been, a princess.

What she seems to be is someone who has chosen to follow the career trajectory of Wallis Simpson. I doubt it will end well. And whilst she stirs her pot of goop, I seem to hear the words "Hubble bubble, toil and trouble....."

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