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April 16, 2025 - Lionel Nation
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Mocked Memed and Trolled: Was This the Most Useless Space Mission Ever?
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I love when somebody doesn't know that things have changed.
I love when somebody doesn't know that it's a different world.
It's a different audience.
And they don't really understand it.
Or they don't know what they're trying to do.
They don't know kind of how they...
Like, where do they fit into this?
Caitlin Collins and CNN is the last vestige, the last connector between a time that was just a couple of years ago, really, if you think about this, and now.
I mean, think about this.
We are looking at, as we speak right now, it has been 84 days.
We're looking at like three months since the inauguration.
84 days.
And in 84 days, things have changed so drastically.
It's not even funny.
And she doesn't understand what's going on.
And by the way, that's the video which I just dropped.
But the Amazon Blue Origin, it sounds like a toilet bowl cleaner.
Doesn't it like Blue Origin or something?
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It's the best one there is.
And that's what I want to talk to you tonight about, my friends, about people who just don't seem to get it.
It's a story that I've loved forever.
It's a story about people who don't understand how the particular message has been lost and how, more importantly, how the radical left in particular has been, dare I say, Really unable to grasp what's happening.
They really don't know.
They really don't understand what's happening.
So we're going to be talking about that.
We're going to be talking about a lot of other great things.
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All right, my friends.
Let me just talk about something which I think is still one of the most important things.
And by the way, special thanks to our good friend Fred Haddad Jr.
Gifting 10 Lionel Nation memberships.
Thank you, Freddie.
You are indeed the reason God made Oklahoma, and I mean that sincerely.
Let's talk about this.
Because it's not just about the trip, so to speak.
It's the concept of not knowing what's over.
Just like this Caitlin Collins doesn't understand it, neither do these folks.
They don't get it.
They don't understand it.
And I find it wonderful.
Absolutely wonderful.
This is the celebrity, I guess, space flight that gave them 10 minutes, I think, of weightlessness.
Well, 4 minutes, yes.
Oh, 11 minutes flight, excuse me.
4 minutes of weightlessness.
Very good.
See that?
And a firestorm of ridicule.
Nobody.
But nobody saw this and liked it.
Let me say this again.
You know, we may talk about Caitlin Collins.
Some people may like her.
Other people don't.
Nobody liked this.
Nobody!
And this Lauren Sanchez and Bezos and Bezor, whatever, they're looking at you like, what?
People don't like it?
Don't you think it's cool?
No!
It was a joke in Gayle King.
Completely out of her mind.
With Oprah crying, it's like, do you not understand what year this is?
Do you not understand where we are?
That's what I find fascinating.
Now, my friends, when Blue Origin, what does Blue Origin sound like?
I think it's a toilet bowl cleaner or something.
I don't know.
When the NS-31, as though there's an NS-30, but when the mission took off, featuring this all-female civilian crew, did you not?
Lawrence Sanchez, on the A, the Sanchez.
Lawrence Sanchez.
Gayle King.
Katy Perry.
Katy Perry?
I don't even know who...
Anyway, it was intended to be a moment of inspiration and historic symbolism of some stories.
And instead, it became this media circus, but a joke and a punchline of countless jokes online from the moment.
But this Lawrence Sanchez is a joke!
And they don't get it.
Katy Perry doesn't get it.
They're saying, what are you talking about?
They became the bane of late night monologues, even fast food chains, you name it, from the get-go, from the take-off, so to speak.
People were labeling this launch a cockamamie publicity stunt.
That was one of the...
Quotes.
That was mild.
Masquerading as some kind of progress while Blue Origin and Lauren Sanchez promoted the mission.
Remember this?
They said it was a statement of female empowerment.
What?
Nonsense!
Female empowerment in aerospace.
They're still laughing at this.
Just go today.
They're not done with this.
I thought, okay, maybe a day or so.
No!
And for anybody, for any joke to sustain this much, the public and the press weren't buying any of it.
Not without questions about, I don't know, substance, authenticity, spectacle, who knows, whatever it was.
Now, what was the space milestone?
It was a joke!
It was a joke!
What was intended as some kind of triumph for women in space, I guess, quickly spiraled into ridicule as a joke.
Remember the flights that heavily made up the stylized promotional nonsense, the materials, tight designer flight suits by body what?
Bodycon.
Oh, they're called body cars by Mons, M-O-N-S-E?
I don't know.
And then there was this, they called them fashion forward crew photos.
And everybody, it was like a cataclysm, a tsunami of internet commentary and laughing, suggesting the whole thing felt more like some kind of weird two-bit magazine spread.
Yeah, it's a joke.
Even Anna Wintour wouldn't do this.
And social media went berserk.
Nobody liked it.
They called the crew the real housewives of low Earth orbit and space Barbies.
But they like this.
How about glam knots?
Is there anything glamorous about them?
Is Gayle King glamorous?
Is Katy Perry glamorous?
I'm asking you.
When you look at Lauren Sanchez, you say glamorous.
It's a joke.
You see, Bezos trip and he fell, and Elon's thinking, I don't understand this.
Elon said, I'm going to make, I'm going to make history.
We're going to go to Mars.
We're going to, and these chidroulas.
Anyway, the mission from the get-go.
It was absolutely attacked relentlessly.
This was some of the best trolling anybody's ever seen.
It was across every platform, from Twitter and X and TikTok.
And people were comparing Blue Origin, the capsule, to a high-end party bus.
With some people saying that the only thing orbiting was their egos.
I mean, it went on and on.
Even brands jumped in.
Wendy's Fast Food, remember Wendy's, took a jab at Katy Perry with this post.
Can we send her back?
When you've lost Wendy's?
Now the tweet, which I guess had a photo of Katy Perry floating mid-flight in her flight suit, got millions of views.
And there was all kinds of debates that were inspired about whether...
Private space flights had become a playground for elites rather than a platform for exploration.
Again, remember, from those of us in our generation, when space, you know, Grissom Schirra and Scott Carpenter, we knew all the names.
Neil Armstrong, well, whatever.
And late night, oh my god, they, let's see what SNL does.
Finally, I'm agreeing with a lot of these people, these late-night, quote, comedians.
Actually, the writers, because they're just reading them.
The talk show people, they wasted no time in jumping on this.
Jimmy Kimmel, his writers, not Jimmy Kimmel, his writers said, NASA just called, they want their dignity back.
It's not really NASA, but that's okay.
But it made a joke out of this, and believe it or not, this made the whole notion.
Of any kind of exploration, it set it back, because when you think of spaceflight, you're going to be thinking of her.
Colbert said, this is his quote, if you've ever wanted to see what a Bravo crossover with SpaceX looks like, now you have it.
And the critics were very, very upset with the fact that the flight lasted just over 10 minutes, including only, I guess, a few minutes of weightlessness.
And it involved no piloting, no scientific experimentation, nothing.
I mean, it was technically a suborbital spaceflight.
The mission didn't even match the gravitas or the importance of a riskier space program, you know, of the past.
It didn't even come near it.
And then there were people that were supposed to be journalists and writers.
These folks, I have these...
People from everywhere came out of the woodwork.
Even the left and right, everybody denounced it.
The Guardian described the mission as space tourism masquerading as social justice.
Oh my God.
Imagine Lauren Sanchez.
You know when she got back, she says, I can't believe it.
Why don't they love this?
Why don't they love me?
BuzzFeed, I guess that's important, called it Performative pop feminism.
Nobody liked it.
Let me just tell you something.
Nobody.
Nobody.
And then there's the fashion backlash.
Now, central to the criticism, apparently, from all these people, I guess what the main gripe was was the wardrobe, okay?
So you have these custom-made flight suits, okay?
And they were all tailored using 3D body scans.
And they're supposedly sleek, you know, skin-tight, and clearly designed for aesthetics and not for any kind of functionality.
And though labeled as functional, they called it functional, whatever that means by blue origin and months, M-O-N-S-E, I'm sure I'm pronouncing it correctly.
This brand...
But behind it, drew immediate comparisons to catwalk attire rather than engineering necessity.
I mean, it was a joke.
And for many, the optics felt tone deaf.
Critics argued, and are still saying, that trying to pair the two and to combine luxury branding with a space mission marketed as some barrier-breaking moment for women empowerment, It was a diluted joke.
There was one tweet or a moment that said they called it empowerment.
We saw a $3,000 jumpsuit and a photo shoot.
People went crazy.
And then there's, who is this Emily Ratajkowski?
Ratajkowski?
I don't know who these people are.
I'm not proud of them.
Oh.
Oh, a model.
She's a model.
Yeah, you know what that means, right?
Anyway, so this, whoever she is, she apparently weighed in because she's got to be a part of this because this is a time when everybody can jump in and get out.
You would think the best comedians like the Kathy Griffins or whatever would jump in.
This is easy.
Anyway, she said she slammed.
She's slamming is a big word.
They always say a slam.
Anyway, she slammed the mission as a fashion vanity stunt.
In a zero-gravity Instagram reel.
Oh!
I love this.
Now, Lauren Sanchez and Gayle King aren't going to sit back and let you say, by God, they're going to fight back.
The women on board didn't stay.
No, Lauren Sanchez, in particular, launched a brutal, a fierce retort, a riposte, a counter.
A fierce defense of the mission and its goals.
Speaking to the...
I forget who it was.
The Post or somebody.
She said, this is Lauren, people should come and visit Blue Origin and see what we do before criticizing.
See what we do?
These flights inspire young girls.
That's what this is about.
Are you...
See, this is like the Caitlin Collins.
They are deluded.
They don't understand.
They are deluded and delusional.
And she's also the most frightening person.
She's into that cat lady, that Bride of Wildenstein category.
Oh my God!
You know, she's almost into that.
Kimberly Guilfoyle that kind of look like, where are you going with this?
Which fascinates to me.
And I will admit, why do you do that?
It's one thing where you can say, oh, she went through a windshield.
Oh, you know, hey, poor thing.
Hey, you look great.
But it supposedly says, no, no, I want this.
I want you to make me look like this.
Fascinates me.
So the Sanchez, the Sanchez.
She acknowledged the scrutiny over their appearance, but she basically rejected.
She tossed aside the idea that dressing well somehow invalidates their message, if that's what they call it.
We're allowed to be proud of how we look, how we dress, and still be serious about space and science.
Science, you didn't do anything.
This was a chance to say, don't I look hot?
You've got to understand something.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I think you know this.
So critical, so important, so...
Monumentally necessary for so many people is this thing about looking cool and looking hot.
It means more than anything.
Then there's this Gayle King.
By the way, Gayle, did you wear your wig?
Don't you have to take that off in case there's some kind of a problem?
Don't you think hair extensions and stuff under the helmet or whatever they're going to have to wear?
I'm dead serious about this.
If there's some kind of a...
Of a problem.
Don't you think having extraneous polystyrene hair filaments might be a problem?
She echoed what Lauren said and she told the press that she was fired up.
She was fired up.
This is what she says.
Fired up by the critics.
And she repeated and emphasized the symbolic value.
Ah!
Symbolic of seeing women, especially women of color.
Oh, here we go.
And diverse backgrounds taking part in something historically exclusive.
Oh, it's exclusive.
It excluded rational thought.
See, there's that DEI thing.
She can't get around it.
They can't get around it.
These people, they live for this.
It's the most important thing in the world to them.
They didn't get the memo.
You don't have to fly the rocket to belong in the conversation about space, she said.
What is this conversation years ago?
Somebody came up with this thing and said, let's have a conversation.
And what a conversation means basically is nothing.
The guy on the subway platform talking to his hand, some schizophrenic, is having a conversation too with his hand.
It means nothing.
It's one of those code words.
Now, Katy Perry, I don't know, do you see where she now is in the Russell Brand thing?
See, Russell Brand's kind of going, he's got all kinds of problems.
He's still like an idiot, still talking, still yammering, still talking.
Still talking.
Katy Perry is the most, I guess, pop culture.
Do you think she's even involved in pop culture anymore?
Katy Perry?
Is she on one of those...
I don't even know what she's...
Katy Perry?
Who would you pick?
Who is the number one?
Now, if you got somebody, I hate to say it, like maybe...
Who would be...
I mean, Britney Spears or...
I don't even know who a pop...
I don't know.
I don't know where Katy Perry is.
Look, I'm the wrong person to ask.
The whole thing is stupid.
But she fancies herself as being the most pop culture focused.
She...
Kind of, they said, she leaned into the humor, and she reposted memes of herself floating with the caption, Zero G, full glam, deal with it.
Full glam.
See what she says?
See?
You're jealous.
You're jealous.
Don't you understand what's going on?
You're jealous.
And this is what it's about.
The cool girls, the cheerleaders, the models, this is it.
And they're saying, you don't get it because you're jealous.
I don't even know who the other ones were.
Do you know them, who they were?
Oh, yeah.
Scientists, DEI, it was a waste of time.
Now, this event, this spectacle, has reignited, of course, the debate, the very serious debate about the growing divide.
This divide between private space tourism and traditional space exploration.
And those who are critical, the critics argue that billionaires and celebrities are hijacking the concept of space for personal branding.
And it leaves behind the ideals of scientific advancement.
And this notion of international collaboration and discovery, they're making a joke out of this.
Pretty soon they're going to be doing fake cancer research.
Pretend visits.
We're going to the NIH where today, Lauren Sanchez, in her carefully tailored white jacket, is going to be doing, she's going to be titrating some antibiotic.
Well, those people who are supporters of Blue Origin, I guess the crew plus Bezos, they claim that, you see, they say that visibility is part of progress.
See, that's what you don't understand.
See, Lauren, Sanchez.
Sanchez.
Points out that, you see, when young girls see someone like her in a space suit, you see, she says it sparks curiosity and ambition.
Her argument is that representation matters, even if it comes with glamour.
She thinks it's kind of like the Real Housewives, like Teresa Giudice.
They think This is what I find fascinating.
That they are absolutely, not just stunning, but off the charts.
And that you are jealous of her and that you are unable to grasp or appreciate the reality of this.
You're unable to understand what this means.
Because you're jealous of her.
Because you want to be Lauren Sanchez.
She's beautiful.
You're not.
She's rich.
You're not.
She's got a billion dollar wedding.
You don't.
She's the exemplar of femininity and pulchritude.
And you are not.
And you're jealous of her.
You want to look like her.
You want to be her.
That's all this is.
They hate her.
And the rest of these gals, Lauren Sanchez, she's just bringing them along.
It's about Lauren Sanchez.
Sanchez.
See, other folks remain rather unconvinced.
And they say that while space should be inclusive, whatever that means, turning into some VIP lounge sort of undermines the seriousness of this.
And this divide, this chasm, if you will, between PR spectacles and meaningful scientific achievement.
It appears bigger and wider than ever.
But Lauren Sanchez has no interest in this.
That's the beautiful part about this.
And Bezos will look at you like, I don't know, she wants to go.
Bezos looks like so whipped, so bent, so...
Meanwhile, Elon, with his son, Elon, you don't even know where he lives.
He drives up Tesla.
He still, I want to say this, adds a degree of dignity to this.
So is this really a historic first?
Or is this some first in optics?
You know, it's true that the, let me get this straight, the NS-31, see it's the NS-31 mission.
Give it a number.
This is the first Blue Origin flight with an all-female civilian crew.
It's not a crew, they're passengers.
When I go on a plane, I'm not a crew member, I'm a passenger.
It was the most heavily curated, brand-driven, nothing.
It was so short, it was over with.
And the combination of this conviviation or whatever, of presentation plus marking, whatever it is, it makes it difficult to kind of distinguish and parse and segregate the event from the optics.
And we're still going to be...
Let me ask you this.
Was it empowering?
Let me ask you.
How do you think that was empowering?
Did it empower anybody?
No.
It was nonsense.
Huh?
It empowered their egos, but you can't empower young people when you're laughing at it.
Again, what is the message of DEI?
Qualifications and ability means nothing.
It's all your checkbox stats.
Was it substance over style?
Absolutely.
Well, I guess to them, that for many people the question is whether these women could go to space, because all they did was they sat there, they didn't do anything.
But why they went, what this theoretically achieved, and how it was sold to the public, that's the story.
That's the issue.
So, the final verdict, if you will.
This is so funny.
Regardless of intent, Regardless of what they intended.
Regardless of their goal.
The mission has achieved one undeniable fact.
It did capture public attention of sorts.
Whether it was for the space flight or the backlash or the laughter or the jokes or people watching or people talking about it and the mockery and the trolling and everything.
Yeah, it got attention.
And they're talking about it.
And they're laughing.
And nobody's debating anything.
They're laughing at it.
It is a complete and total failure.
But Lauren Sanchez doesn't care about this because it's about her.
It's completely solipsistic.
It's stylistic.
It is just, I mean, this blue origin.
And again, they keep calling it a crew.
They're passengers.
When you go on a bus, You're a passenger.
When you go in a cab or an Uber or a Lyft, you're a passenger.
I mean, I guess in their mind, it might count as some kind of success, but it really is a different thing.
This set people back.
I'm being very serious about this.
This wasn't about space.
This was about image and bullshit.
And it was about influence.
It was about who gets to wear the suit and what it means.
And Oprah crying.
Oprah has whatever shred of relevance, dignity, anything that is remotely opposite, anything that is intellectually or spiritually connected through some kind of weird kind of a Real or imagined or systemic concatenation between fantasy and reality.
Oprah is so done, so through.
She's this relic.
She's the Rula Lenska of our times.
Ask your parents.
And this mission, supposedly they're saying it didn't go far, but it made, I guess, in their minds, some kind of an impact.
Yeah, it was a joke.
It was a joke.
They're going to be talking about this forever.
This is the part.
This is the thing which is the most important.
One time years ago, I forget where I was, but there was this thing called Mrs. America.
And you must understand something.
I absolutely, on behalf of women, despise any kind of beauty pageant.
I don't even know if we have beauty pageants anymore.
Maybe we do.
I don't know.
But they are a modern version of the minstrel show.
They're the worst, and women should just stay away from them.
Because whatever they wanted to be years ago, it's not what they are now.
Especially with trans people.
So years ago, there was this thing called Mrs. Mrs. America?
No, Mrs. USA.
Anyway, there were moms.
And then later on, they had seniors.
And I thought, this has gone too far.
This is really going to work.
This is so sad.
Women who I guess missed out or used to be beauty queens or used to be homecoming queens or whatever the hell it is, they were doing these, you know, it's kind of like Lauren Sanchez.
And I thought, do these people, have they lost any all self-dignity?
What are they doing?
Well, I'm just proud of how I look.
No!
You're doing this for you!
This has nothing to do with talent, ability.
It's about you.
In this pathetic, mirrored self-reference that you don't understand.
It's sad.
And that's the part.
They live in such a cosmic, inertial bubble.
They don't understand this.
They don't understand this.
Raul says, did the girls make traveling and speak Sheik?
I like the way you put S-H-E-I-K.
Very interesting.
Kind of like the original Sheik.
Remember this?
Not the Iron Sheet, Eddie Farhat.
Remember the guy with the pencil, the wrestler, and anyone.
Thank you, Raul.
And then he says, flying in space does nothing for science.
For astronauts to do, but not, I agree, not Lauren Sanchez.
Pilgrim says, they had a tranny playing Mary Lincoln on a few Jeopardy questions.
I've had it.
They are tripling down.
That is true.
Johnny Madness is talking about spaces.
Have you seen NASA's?
Yuck.
I have not.
Sean Martin says, Oprah, a joke?
Getting her back-end money?
You know what?
We don't know about how this works.
We do not know this.
Because remember, with USAID being what it is, That's a different story.
Look, whatever you do, wait a minute, here's Chris Cox.
Chris Cox says, what was funny to me is all women crew went for a ride on a phallic transport and they weren't allowed to drive.
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.
You know, listen, not only is the event, the devices of it, particularly phallic, but the whole Amazon, the whole logo is.
Cut Up Chatter says, we are suffering in Maine under an egomaniac.
I hope that you get to the bottom of that one.
Thank you, by the way, for that.
When you have girls, there's this I saw something the other day which I find fascinating.
There is a subtext of people in the world who are into working out in bodybuilding.
And I remember when we were all, we were in high school when Stay Hungry and Pumping Iron came out and gyms were big because Arnold put it all on the map and everybody wanted to.
And there was a degree of symmetry, and there was Frank Zane, and you know, and Arnold was genetically gifted, but he did droids, but still, it was a different thing.
Okay, cut to today.
Now you have freaks.
Then somebody came along, and they had women who decided they were going to work out, and they took on masculine features like you can't believe.
I'm not going to go into the specifics of this, but you can only imagine.
There's a new trend.
I don't know if you've seen this.
There are women that if you looked at their face, you would say, oh, this is a woman.
This looks like a young lady who's, uh-huh.
And then if you look below her, she's got the body of, you know, Sergio Oliva.
It's the strangest women who are gargantuan but don't have that face.
You know, that hard face.
That Lauren Sanchez kind of face.
But without, you know what I mean?
It's weird.
So, the question is, is that a move?
Is that some kind of an elevation point for women, he asks.
Is this what women aspire to?
Who are the women Who are the women who actually do something that young women should look up to?
Cut Up Chatter says, she's trying to pace Trump, but she does not have the balls.
Defy the whole country.
Where are the handcuffs?
Wow.
I'm with you on that one.
I think who, you talking about the main governor or whatever, or Lauren Sanchez, or I like, anytime I get into conversations, With a number of people, and you see Xi and he.
I'm always saying, who?
Xi.
Which Xi?
The one?
Who?
Xi Jinping.
Wait a minute, what?
Who's on first?
Now, if you're going to talk to young ladies, look at the people who are today, in terms of women.
I would be saying, look at Nobel laureates.
Madame Curie.
Madame Curie was so, oh my God.
Remember that one picture?
Was it in France?
I forget where.
Was it Budapest?
Or someplace where all of these scientific notables were out there and there.
Everybody from Max Planck to this to Heisenberg.
And there's Madame Curie.
Unbelievable.
The women who are cancer researchers, the women who are physicists, the ones who are great athletes, the women who are...
This...
Do not...
Just do me a favor.
When I...
This is not about diversity when you have people who are millionaire diverse people.
I don't know what diverse means.
You do know that that word has meant nothing.
It's been reduced to nothing.
It doesn't mean anything.
It's people who basically use everything in their power to...
It was...
I remember years ago, we had this...
We had a fraternity.
Had a great time in college.
All we did was we just had this great bunch of guys and we just used to just drink beer and...
We didn't really do anything, but it was fun.
Well, all of a sudden, somebody came along and they said, we're going to have, we had big sisters and little, I said, what is this?
And it was these girls who were like the, whatever it was.
Okay, fine.
Didn't matter.
And then, we were at this, at a meeting, one of the rare meetings I ever attended.
And one of the girls, who I think was the Little Sisters of Minerva, it was SAE as a group, Little Sisters of, I don't know what the hell it was.
She said, I've got an idea.
Let's have an auction, an auction, a slave auction, where you bid on us or something.
And I raised my hand and I said, let me get this straight.
I, we, Are going to take these young ladies like yourself, who for whatever reason are aligning yourself with this fraternity.
And you want to have a competition where we bid on you for what exactly?
And then causing problems and embarrassment?
Let's assume somebody here doesn't get a bid.
This is about you, isn't it?
This is about you.
And they looked at me like, how dare you?
I said, do you understand what's happening here?
This is Lauren Sanchez.
Lauren Sanchez says, I want to promote me, but I'm going to come.
Okay, I got an idea.
How about we do this Blue Origin?
I'll say it's about other people, but it's not.
But it's about me.
And I remember saying at the time, This is the most ridiculous thing in the world.
You're basically going to be asking some woman or some girl to feel bad?
You're pitting each other against in this stupid, archaic contest?
For what exactly?
What are we bidding on?
You're bidding on this because you think you're the hottest.
Oh my god.
Oh, did I call it?
But I hate bullshit.
And I've always hated it.
I cannot stand when somebody...
I'll give you another example.
When I was in high school, I was very lucky because we had all...
It was a Jesuit high school and it was just boys or whatever it was.
Men, boys.
And we were at some event and I really was because I've got my 50th My 50th anniversary, high school reunion coming up, and I have, I really, I guess you're supposed to show up, but I really don't have any interest in this whatsoever.
I really don't.
But anyway.
But at one of them, the 30th, or the, I happen to be in town, I say, ah, what the hell.
So these folks, My fellow classmates, so they were saying, remember how we won the division champion or some game or something?
And I'm turning to people and I said, do you remember that?
No, I said, I didn't even know we had a game.
I don't know, what are you talking about?
But he, this fellow, was on the team, the football team.
So I, of course, did my magic and said, excuse me, I don't remember anything about this game.
Most of us, we weren't on the team, most of us didn't attend it, and we couldn't care less about some game that doesn't mean anything to us now.
30 years ago, when you beat Haines City in the Division 2, whatever, are you kidding me?
Do you mean to tell me, and they're looking at me like, not now.
I said, out of my four years at this institution, do you think at any moment I would look back at this stupid game where apparently you think you either were the star or whatever, that I would look at this as a benchmark of my...
Again, as you can imagine, I piss people off.
Because it's the audacity.
It's the absolute audacity of the whole thing.
I wish somebody would just come out and say, Hi, my name is Lauren Sanchez.
I'm an egomaniac.
I want to go to space.
My fiancé, theoretically, is Bezos.
So I'm going to bring a couple of dames on board just to make it look like it.
But it's really all about me.
I would respect that more.
Tell me the truth.
Tell me the truth.
Just tell me what it is.
I wish the Oscars would say, this has nothing to do with talent.
This is about which, because while we get this USAID, USAID funding, which actor or actress was the most involved, the most, the most transgender DEI or whatever, because that's all it's become.
I wish people would just tell me this.
Just tell me this.
Did you see AOC and Bernie in this latest little attempt at whatever the hell it was?
Did you happen to catch this?
Cutup says, diversity is now a mud puddle, no meaning.
And don't forget, diversity Equality.
Don't forget ESG also.
Environmental, social, and government or something.
They had all these words, but anyway.
Did you happen to see...
Thank you, by the way, cut up.
Did you see this?
Did you see this, Ma?
Did you?
Did you see this?
And they had, you know, she came out, she did her thing, and there's Bernie.
And I wanted to say, more importantly to these people, do you understand that this one here, if anything, is going to split your Democratic Party in half?
That's why she's being promoted.
She has nothing to say, AOC.
Nothing.
She can't even pronounce oligarchy correctly.
And Bernie, by the way, was the same one who, when they went after his wife, remember that?
They were going to prosecute her for some kind of transgression or whatever.
He backed down.
He got off because...
Basically, Hillary told him, basically, you know, you better drop out of this.
And he did this.
And he's going to do it again.
So you think he's going to go through this again?
Are you kidding me?
This is the best.
You do know what you're doing here, right?
You're basically picking two losers who aren't Trump.
That's what I wish people would say.
If she said, you don't understand something.
I'm now kind of like this new version of more of the leftist.
They're not serious about this.
They're just like play setters because it'll be somebody else that they're going to pull up at the last minute.
But be honest with me.
Be honest with me.
Like this Caitlin Collins.
I just put this thing up right now.
This video.
I want to ask the question.
Why are you suggesting for a moment, Caitlin, do you really think that El Salvador or Venezuela or anybody Is going to send back?
Seriously.
Is going to actually, truly, literally, theoretically, honestly, actually send back?
What?
Do you mean this?
Do you mean this, Caitlin?
I mean, this is the most important thing in the world, I can tell you.
Do you honestly mean this?
Do you really think this?
And the answer is no.
Here is that link, by the way.
So I wish people would just tell me to just tell the truth.
I don't understand it.
SNL this week did this white lotus thing where all they did was make fun of this woman's teeth.
That's all they've got.
Mean, mean, mean, nasty.
I wish people would say, do you think for a moment?
Do you really think that there's anything to this?
Do you remember when SNL was so ahead of the game?
This is it.
It's all mean spirit.
So anyway, what we need is people like me coming forward and saying specifically, this is what's happening.
Do what you want to do.
Just don't lie to me.
This was Jeff Bezos' wedding gift to his wife, this thing.
And the other woman came along because they're trying to make her look like...
But it's the Lauren Sanchez show.
You know it, and I know it.
I love how Salvadoran just laughed at them.
Oh, I know.
It was beautiful.
But remember, this is it.
Look at this.
I like this.
Lionel, you are taking debate on this story.
Too sultry to talk about it.
It is stupid and not funny, like SNL.
Now, you know he doesn't get what's going on, alright?
And thank you for that, Nick.
You know you don't get this.
You don't get what's happening here.
You do know that.
And by the way, this is great because sometimes we know we need somebody who doesn't understand.
The significance of something, to be in the group who raises their hand and says, kind of like, this doesn't make any sense, or you don't understand it.
One time in high school we had this guy who says, this doesn't make any sense, and the teacher, the priest, Father May, says, no, no, you don't understand it.
You don't get this.
You don't see this.
So, it's this thing, it's like, I don't get it, so you're wrong.
Thank you for that, I appreciate this, because you've got to understand this.
There is a depth to this that has nothing to do with Lauren Sanchez.
It's bigger than that.
And I want to thank you for that because sometimes I can't, sometimes I need somebody to say something which is, for lack of a better word, stupid to make the point made.
So I want to thank you for that because I could not have said it better myself because what you just said was, again, I'm sorry to be so crude, stupid because you're missing the point because there's a subtlety to this.
And I thank you.
We know what's happening.
We understand it.
They don't.
I want them.
I don't.
Whenever something blows up in their face, whenever something just...
Remember New Coke?
Remember that?
They took the Coca-Cola formula and they said, no, let's change it.
Remember that?
It was one of those things in life where they think, they don't get it, do they?
They really don't.
They don't get it.
They don't understand it.
And there's been so many times where I've said, these people just don't get it.
They don't understand it.
And there's nothing better than providing us with a punchline.
In any event, dear friends, you have a great and glorious day.
Thank you so much from my friends for my cut-up chatter and thank you so much and Chris Cox and Sean Martin and Johnny Mazza Spaz and Pilgrim.
Thank you so much.
Thank you for being a part of this.
Thank you for...
For enjoying this moment and sharing it with us.
It means a lot to me that you're here.
Don't forget to follow us on Follow Mrs. L at Lin's Warriors.
Our other channel at Lionel Legal.
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And check out this brand new piece.
I hope our friend gets it.
Regarding...
It's pretty easy.
I spoke rather simply.
So I hope you understand it.
I hope you got it.
Maybe yes, maybe no.
But it's about this incredible...
Caitlin Collins, who I don't think really understand it.
So in any event, thank you.
Thank you, dear friends.
Have a great and a glorious and a beautiful day.
Don't ever change.
I mean that sincerely.
And until we meet again, remember, the monkey's dead.
The show's over.
Sue you.
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