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Manufactured Headlines vs Real Influence This is the difference between Catherine, Princess of Wales and Meghan Markle in a nutshell. Look at Catherine in Italy. She isn’t producing a dozen headlines every day about where she is, what she’s thinking, what she’s wearing or what some “source” supposedly told... the press. She isn’t constantly feeding the media a new story to keep herself in the news. And yet thousands of people turned up to see her. The crowds were enormous and the media were scrambling to get a spot. Then look at Meghan in Geneva. For someone who manages to generate headline after headline after headline, you’d think there would be people lining up to see her. There weren’t. You can brief journalists. You can leak stories. You can have PR pushing your name into the news every other day. But you cannot manufacture genuine public interest. You cannot brief thousands of people to turn up. You cannot leak a story that makes a crowd appear. You cannot PR your way into being someone people actually want to see. And we’ve seen the same thing with their various projects. Meghan and Harry can heavily promote something and have the press tell us how exciting, successful or important it is, but eventually you have to face the reality of whether people actually show up, buy it or support it. As Ever arrived with the breathless “sold out in an hour” headlines. Months later, the leftover stock was sitting around Netflix headquarters long enough to become office giveaways. That is not a mystery. That is what happens when the story is bigger than the market. At some point, the difference between being in the news and being wanted by the public becomes very difficult to ignore. Catherine isn’t constantly trying to get people talking about her. She doesn’t have to. People are already interested. They turn up. They want to see her. The media want to cover her. That’s real influence. And that is something no amount of briefing, leaking or headline generation can replicate. Anyone can buy a headline, but you cannot brief a crowd into existence.show more

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Meghan Markle can copy Diana’s clothes. She can copy the poses, the expressions, the carefully staged photos, and she can have endless articles written trying to sell the idea of “Diana 2.0.” What she can never copy is why people loved Diana in the first place. Diana’s connection with people wasn’t created by PR teams, media leaks, paid narratives, or carefully curated branding. It came from a genuine ability to connect with ordinary people in a way that felt natural and authentic. People saw compassion, warmth, vulnerability, and empathy. They felt that she genuinely cared about the people she met. You cannot manufacture that. You cannot buy it. You cannot force the public to believe it through headlines. The curtsy comparison is a perfect example. Diana carried herself with grace and respect because she understood the institution she had married into and knew that one day her son would inherit it. Whatever disagreements she had with the monarchy, she never seemed to lose sight of the fact that William’s future was tied to it. Meghan chose to turn a curtsy into a joke for a global audience. Diana understood the significance of the role. Meghan appeared more interested in mocking it. The more Meghan tries to recreate Diana’s image, the more obvious it becomes that she is imitating the surface while missing the substance. Wearing similar outfits doesn’t create the same legacy. Recreating photographs doesn’t create the same impact. Invoking Diana’s name doesn’t create the same emotional connection. Diana became Diana because people chose to admire her. Not because the media told them to. Not because a PR team convinced them to. No amount of media campaigning can make people see Meghan as Diana 2.0 if the public doesn’t genuinely feel it for themselves.

Meghan Markle can copy Diana’s clothes. She can copy the poses, the expressions, the carefully staged photos, and she can have endless articles written trying to sell the idea of “Diana 2.0.” What she can never copy is why people loved Diana in the first place. Diana’s connection with people wasn’t created by PR teams, media leaks, paid narratives, or carefully curated branding. It came from a genuine ability to connect with ordinary people in a way that felt natural and authentic. People saw compassion, warmth, vulnerability, and empathy. They felt that she genuinely cared about the people she met. You cannot manufacture that. You cannot buy it. You cannot force the public to believe it through headlines. The curtsy comparison is a perfect example. Diana carried herself with grace and respect because she understood the institution she had married into and knew that one day her son would inherit it. Whatever disagreements she had with the monarchy, she never seemed to lose sight of the fact that William’s future was tied to it. Meghan chose to turn a curtsy into a joke for a global audience. Diana understood the significance of the role. Meghan appeared more interested in mocking it. The more Meghan tries to recreate Diana’s image, the more obvious it becomes that she is imitating the surface while missing the substance. Wearing similar outfits doesn’t create the same legacy. Recreating photographs doesn’t create the same impact. Invoking Diana’s name doesn’t create the same emotional connection. Diana became Diana because people chose to admire her. Not because the media told them to. Not because a PR team convinced them to. No amount of media campaigning can make people see Meghan as Diana 2.0 if the public doesn’t genuinely feel it for themselves.

Queen Esther

144,029 views • 3 months ago

Princess Catherine is everything Meghan Markle wanted people to see when she married into the Royal Family: the admiration, the respect, the influence and that effortless global profile. The difference is that Catherine actually earned it. She didn’t spend years telling everyone how misunderstood she was or how important her voice should be. She quietly got on with the job, turning up, carrying out her duties, and letting her actions speak louder than any interview or statement. Over time, people came to respect her because they saw real consistency, dignity, and commitment. Meghan seemed to believe the title alone would deliver the same level of admiration. It doesn’t work like that. Respect isn’t something you can demand, buy, marry into, or claim just because you think you deserve it. People decide for themselves whether you’ve earned it. That’s why Princess Catherine is respected, and Meghan Markle is still chasing the kind of respect she thought would come automatically. Respect isn’t a wedding present. It’s built brick by brick, year after year. Something Meghan Markle will never understand.

Queen Esther

132,004 views • 3 months ago

When Just Meghan Markle Isn’t Enough. One of the funniest examples of media manipulation is how they constantly refer to Catherine as “Kate Middleton” while bending over backwards to call Meghan “the Duchess of Sussex” in every other sentence. What makes it so amusing is that “Kate Middleton” still outshines “The Duchess of Sussex.” Catherine doesn’t need a title to be recognised, admired, respected, or loved. Call her Kate Middleton, Catherine, Princess of Wales, or future Queen - people know exactly who she is. Meanwhile, the endless insistence on “Duchess of Sussex” for Meghan, despite her no longer being a working royal and despite years of attacking the institution that granted the title, creates the opposite impression. It proves that “Meghan Markle” alone isn’t enough to carry the headline. Catherine never has to lean on hers. However, Meghan Markle needs HRH on a gift basket sent to a so called friend and “Meghan, Duchess of Sussex” announced when a journalist arrives for an interview, despite there reportedly being only two people there. Talk about overcompensating. 🤭 That constant need to attach the title to everything doesn’t make her seem more important. It highlights how little standalone impact “Meghan Markle” actually has. And to everyone who claims to hate the monarchy while insisting on calling her “The Duchess of Sussex” at every opportunity, thanks for proving the point. If titles are so meaningless and outdated, why cling to this one so desperately? The truth is, you’re not promoting Meghan Markle. You’re promoting the title. And in doing so, you’re highlighting exactly how much of the appeal is tied to being a Duchess rather than simply being Meghan Markle. I understand the frustration. She’ll never be the future Queen. But the constant reliance on the title only reinforces what many of you are trying so hard to deny: Meghan Markle alone isn’t enough.

When Just Meghan Markle Isn’t Enough. One of the funniest examples of media manipulation is how they constantly refer to Catherine as “Kate Middleton” while bending over backwards to call Meghan “the Duchess of Sussex” in every other sentence. What makes it so amusing is that “Kate Middleton” still outshines “The Duchess of Sussex.” Catherine doesn’t need a title to be recognised, admired, respected, or loved. Call her Kate Middleton, Catherine, Princess of Wales, or future Queen - people know exactly who she is. Meanwhile, the endless insistence on “Duchess of Sussex” for Meghan, despite her no longer being a working royal and despite years of attacking the institution that granted the title, creates the opposite impression. It proves that “Meghan Markle” alone isn’t enough to carry the headline. Catherine never has to lean on hers. However, Meghan Markle needs HRH on a gift basket sent to a so called friend and “Meghan, Duchess of Sussex” announced when a journalist arrives for an interview, despite there reportedly being only two people there. Talk about overcompensating. 🤭 That constant need to attach the title to everything doesn’t make her seem more important. It highlights how little standalone impact “Meghan Markle” actually has. And to everyone who claims to hate the monarchy while insisting on calling her “The Duchess of Sussex” at every opportunity, thanks for proving the point. If titles are so meaningless and outdated, why cling to this one so desperately? The truth is, you’re not promoting Meghan Markle. You’re promoting the title. And in doing so, you’re highlighting exactly how much of the appeal is tied to being a Duchess rather than simply being Meghan Markle. I understand the frustration. She’ll never be the future Queen. But the constant reliance on the title only reinforces what many of you are trying so hard to deny: Meghan Markle alone isn’t enough.

Queen Esther

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Mikel Arteta’s beautiful praise to his staff and players. “That's when you have a difficult period. I think the best thing that you can do instead of talk a lot is observe. Look around you and see how people react. How they talk, how they look at you, how they judge you, what they do. Do they look at themselves, do they start to criticise other people? “Look around and you're going to learn the environment and the people that you have around you. “I cannot be prouder to work in a club with people that the only thing they could do is ask, what else can I do to help? “When you have people like this, I don't know if it's gonna take another week or two, but something good it will happen at the end because we deserve it.”

Mikel Arteta’s beautiful praise to his staff and players. “That's when you have a difficult period. I think the best thing that you can do instead of talk a lot is observe. Look around you and see how people react. How they talk, how they look at you, how they judge you, what they do. Do they look at themselves, do they start to criticise other people? “Look around and you're going to learn the environment and the people that you have around you. “I cannot be prouder to work in a club with people that the only thing they could do is ask, what else can I do to help? “When you have people like this, I don't know if it's gonna take another week or two, but something good it will happen at the end because we deserve it.”

Connor Humm

48,588 views • 4 months ago

The BBC and the British press will never get over the fact that all their attempts to diminish and break this woman, from the time she was simply a 23 year old courting the Future King of the UK, to now as the Future Queen Consort of the UK, all failed. Out of ALL the Royal Women in the World and in the BRF, Catherine is ONLY one they single out to call her by a nickname and her maiden name🤡 "Kate Middleton" is NOT even her name; It was NEVER her name. She was born and raised "Catherine Elizabeth Middleton". She always introduces herself as "Catherine". "Kate" is a childhood nickname used by her family and friends. Are you her family? are your her friend?🤡 So the BBC saying "Kate", who is "Kate"?🤡 The level of disrespect and familiarity is off the chart and that is why you do not allow this familiarity with people from the get-go. How hard is it to call someone by their given name? Why is she the only one singled out ? Because, my dears, They cannot get over the fact that Catherine has never and will never lower herself to play their media games and give her any access to herself or her family🔥 Catherine, just like William, are organically popular, they have never needed the press to hype them up or do PR for them. The press has zero control over them and that is what they are punishing Catherine for. And you wonder why Prince William treats the British press like with the "detached contempt" he does ?🤡 They can try but they cannot diminish Catherine. In Life, there are women who need crowns and titles to feel like Royalty. But Catherine is of the breed of women who naturally exude all the attribute of a Queen. Just look at her and you see Royalty personified. No one, not even blood royals, have her natural grace, elegance, poise and pull with the British Public. No one. You cannot teach her level of grace, you are born with it or not😌 Catherine never made a fuss about Titles because she is a woman who knows who she is and where she is going in Life and that is why she will keep shining for being herself, and the BBC will keep covering her so they can feed their children and pay their bills☕️ #CatherineTheGreat #PrincessofWales 📹 Kensington Palace

The BBC and the British press will never get over the fact that all their attempts to diminish and break this woman, from the time she was simply a 23 year old courting the Future King of the UK, to now as the Future Queen Consort of the UK, all failed. Out of ALL the Royal Women in the World and in the BRF, Catherine is ONLY one they single out to call her by a nickname and her maiden name🤡 "Kate Middleton" is NOT even her name; It was NEVER her name. She was born and raised "Catherine Elizabeth Middleton". She always introduces herself as "Catherine". "Kate" is a childhood nickname used by her family and friends. Are you her family? are your her friend?🤡 So the BBC saying "Kate", who is "Kate"?🤡 The level of disrespect and familiarity is off the chart and that is why you do not allow this familiarity with people from the get-go. How hard is it to call someone by their given name? Why is she the only one singled out ? Because, my dears, They cannot get over the fact that Catherine has never and will never lower herself to play their media games and give her any access to herself or her family🔥 Catherine, just like William, are organically popular, they have never needed the press to hype them up or do PR for them. The press has zero control over them and that is what they are punishing Catherine for. And you wonder why Prince William treats the British press like with the "detached contempt" he does ?🤡 They can try but they cannot diminish Catherine. In Life, there are women who need crowns and titles to feel like Royalty. But Catherine is of the breed of women who naturally exude all the attribute of a Queen. Just look at her and you see Royalty personified. No one, not even blood royals, have her natural grace, elegance, poise and pull with the British Public. No one. You cannot teach her level of grace, you are born with it or not😌 Catherine never made a fuss about Titles because she is a woman who knows who she is and where she is going in Life and that is why she will keep shining for being herself, and the BBC will keep covering her so they can feed their children and pay their bills☕️ #CatherineTheGreat #PrincessofWales 📹 Kensington Palace

Canellecitadelle

227,038 views • 9 months ago

"You can either produce excellence or you can avoid criticism. But you cannot do both of those. The reason that you don't have certain excellence that you want is because you are afraid of getting criticized. You are afraid of the judgment that comes with it. You are afraid of standing out. You are afraid of being alone. You are afraid of people looking at you. You are worried about what people think of you. There are 2 categories of things in this world: 1) Things that are up to you 2) Things that are not up to you Which category does your reputation sit in? Your reputation is not up to you. I'm the one who associates your reputation with something, not you. You just do things. What's up to you? How you act. Your decisions. Your actions. That is up to you. Your reputation is not up to you. Here's how I know that: You all have a reputation about me and it's not in my control. I get to say and do whatever I say and do up here. I am in control of saying it. I am in control of doing it. The moment words leave my lips, who has control over what is done with those words? You! You are in control of what you think of me. And there's no way everybody in this room is going to think the exact same thing about me. No way. When it comes to exceptional, what we've got to understand is you can spend your whole life trying to avoid criticism and earn reputation, and it still won't be in your control. We can waste a lot of time missing out on excellence we could have been producing if we were just simply LESS trying to engineer what we wanted other people to think about us."

"You can either produce excellence or you can avoid criticism. But you cannot do both of those. The reason that you don't have certain excellence that you want is because you are afraid of getting criticized. You are afraid of the judgment that comes with it. You are afraid of standing out. You are afraid of being alone. You are afraid of people looking at you. You are worried about what people think of you. There are 2 categories of things in this world: 1) Things that are up to you 2) Things that are not up to you Which category does your reputation sit in? Your reputation is not up to you. I'm the one who associates your reputation with something, not you. You just do things. What's up to you? How you act. Your decisions. Your actions. That is up to you. Your reputation is not up to you. Here's how I know that: You all have a reputation about me and it's not in my control. I get to say and do whatever I say and do up here. I am in control of saying it. I am in control of doing it. The moment words leave my lips, who has control over what is done with those words? You! You are in control of what you think of me. And there's no way everybody in this room is going to think the exact same thing about me. No way. When it comes to exceptional, what we've got to understand is you can spend your whole life trying to avoid criticism and earn reputation, and it still won't be in your control. We can waste a lot of time missing out on excellence we could have been producing if we were just simply LESS trying to engineer what we wanted other people to think about us."

Brian Kight

308,877 views • 1 year ago

“Leadership isn’t about just serving yourself and being proud that you have done something for yourself, except if you are delivering something. If you are leading people and you are delivering, and you see the benefits reflected in the lives of those people, then you can have personal satisfaction and pride. There’s the practice of it, the real tangible results you can see and hear from people. That makes the biggest difference. With that understanding, the rest becomes a choice of how you are going to live your life and the purpose of any service or leadership role. We can learn the theory but in the end, the practice is ours. You can study and have degrees bestowed upon you about leadership and be there teaching leadership, but the moment you step out of the door, the choice is yours.” President Kagame

“Leadership isn’t about just serving yourself and being proud that you have done something for yourself, except if you are delivering something. If you are leading people and you are delivering, and you see the benefits reflected in the lives of those people, then you can have personal satisfaction and pride. There’s the practice of it, the real tangible results you can see and hear from people. That makes the biggest difference. With that understanding, the rest becomes a choice of how you are going to live your life and the purpose of any service or leadership role. We can learn the theory but in the end, the practice is ours. You can study and have degrees bestowed upon you about leadership and be there teaching leadership, but the moment you step out of the door, the choice is yours.” President Kagame

Presidency | Rwanda

22,205 views • 9 months ago

📽️ Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex to the British media and their mouthpieces.. YOU ARE MAKING PEOPLE WANT TO KILL ME. Listen to the two videos below so that tomorrow they can't tell you they did NOT know. - Receiving death threats because of the 'MEGHAN MADE KATE CRY' lie, while Kate Middleton and the Royal Family stayed quiet for almost three years, knowing that Meghan was receiving death threats and living in fear for her life and that of her son, etc. Then they removed the security from them in the middle of the night. Before they did that, they told the media where Harry and Meghan were in Canada, knowing that their lives—especially Meghan's—were in danger. That was pure evil. They wanted them dead and still want them dead, especially Meghan. TYLER PERRY IS A HERO. MEGHAN NEEDS TO APOLOGIZE TO WHOM, FOR WHAT? The nerve of the mouthpieces demanding that she and her husband apologize to the royal family. 😡😡😡 I'm glad that she and Harry did the Oprah interview and the Harry and Meghan Netflix documentary so that we have their words on record. The British media have learned nothing from the death of Jason Arday. They have not learned what hate can do to people, what it can make people do to themselves, or what hate can make people do to others, because they believe the lies that the British media have spread. 99% of the stories they spread about Meghan (and Harry) are lies and fabrications.

📽️ Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex to the British media and their mouthpieces.. YOU ARE MAKING PEOPLE WANT TO KILL ME. Listen to the two videos below so that tomorrow they can't tell you they did NOT know. - Receiving death threats because of the 'MEGHAN MADE KATE CRY' lie, while Kate Middleton and the Royal Family stayed quiet for almost three years, knowing that Meghan was receiving death threats and living in fear for her life and that of her son, etc. Then they removed the security from them in the middle of the night. Before they did that, they told the media where Harry and Meghan were in Canada, knowing that their lives—especially Meghan's—were in danger. That was pure evil. They wanted them dead and still want them dead, especially Meghan. TYLER PERRY IS A HERO. MEGHAN NEEDS TO APOLOGIZE TO WHOM, FOR WHAT? The nerve of the mouthpieces demanding that she and her husband apologize to the royal family. 😡😡😡 I'm glad that she and Harry did the Oprah interview and the Harry and Meghan Netflix documentary so that we have their words on record. The British media have learned nothing from the death of Jason Arday. They have not learned what hate can do to people, what it can make people do to themselves, or what hate can make people do to others, because they believe the lies that the British media have spread. 99% of the stories they spread about Meghan (and Harry) are lies and fabrications.

THE SUSSEX SOLDIER 🪖

19,785 views • 11 days ago

#RHOSLC after show! Angie says there are a couple of people in the group who need to take accountability and realize that what they are doing is not working. She says you can still have hard conversations without trying to expose, ruin, dig up, release, or lie about people without proof. Angie adds that some people have learned they can say things and it gets legs, but the show is not about that. She hopes a couple of people can learn to move differently.

#RHOSLC after show! Angie says there are a couple of people in the group who need to take accountability and realize that what they are doing is not working. She says you can still have hard conversations without trying to expose, ruin, dig up, release, or lie about people without proof. Angie adds that some people have learned they can say things and it gets legs, but the show is not about that. She hopes a couple of people can learn to move differently.

Bye Wig Hello Drama

41,251 views • 7 months ago

MEGHAN MARKLE: “I WAS BEING FED TO THE WOLVES.” So why is she going back to the wolves? Harry and Meghan moving back to the UK is the clearest evidence yet that the story they sold the world about the Royal Family and Britain is a BIG FAT LIE. You don’t take your children back to the very country you described as toxic, racist and harmful to your family. You don’t choose to raise them there after telling the world how desperately you needed to escape it. And why would Harry willingly bring Meghan and their children back to the UK when Meghan herself claimed that life there had pushed her to the point of wanting to kill herself? Harry and Meghan lied about the Royal Family. Harry and Meghan lied about the racism. Harry and Meghan lied about William and Catherine. Harry and Meghan lied about the UK. Because you don’t spend years telling the world how toxic, racist and intolerable a place is, then voluntarily bring your children back to that very place unless the reality was nowhere near the story you sold us. Meghan Markle is going back because she knows she was never the prey. She was the wolf in sheep’s clothing all along. Harry and Meghan Markle are LIARS!!!

MEGHAN MARKLE: “I WAS BEING FED TO THE WOLVES.” So why is she going back to the wolves? Harry and Meghan moving back to the UK is the clearest evidence yet that the story they sold the world about the Royal Family and Britain is a BIG FAT LIE. You don’t take your children back to the very country you described as toxic, racist and harmful to your family. You don’t choose to raise them there after telling the world how desperately you needed to escape it. And why would Harry willingly bring Meghan and their children back to the UK when Meghan herself claimed that life there had pushed her to the point of wanting to kill herself? Harry and Meghan lied about the Royal Family. Harry and Meghan lied about the racism. Harry and Meghan lied about William and Catherine. Harry and Meghan lied about the UK. Because you don’t spend years telling the world how toxic, racist and intolerable a place is, then voluntarily bring your children back to that very place unless the reality was nowhere near the story you sold us. Meghan Markle is going back because she knows she was never the prey. She was the wolf in sheep’s clothing all along. Harry and Meghan Markle are LIARS!!!

Queen Esther

109,751 views • 9 days ago

Bring Class, Elegance & Decency Back. Princess Catherine proves you don’t need shock value to stand out. In an era where attention is often the goal, she represents a kind of elegance that is increasingly rare. That’s much harder to achieve. Her greatest strength is that she understands the difference between being noticed and being respected. Anyone can generate headlines. Very few can earn genuine admiration year after year without constantly reinventing themselves or demanding the spotlight. She is the Princess of Wales.

Bring Class, Elegance & Decency Back. Princess Catherine proves you don’t need shock value to stand out. In an era where attention is often the goal, she represents a kind of elegance that is increasingly rare. That’s much harder to achieve. Her greatest strength is that she understands the difference between being noticed and being respected. Anyone can generate headlines. Very few can earn genuine admiration year after year without constantly reinventing themselves or demanding the spotlight. She is the Princess of Wales.

Queen Esther

176,997 views • 2 months ago

A woman said she was afraid to post on social media because she was worried people would judge her. In response, as if to say, “Who cares?” His point in general : stop being afraid of what other people think. Are you really going to let the fear of getting only five likes or someone making fun of you stop you from sharing something meaningful? The truth is, people judge everyone. Some people are beautiful, some are intelligent, and some have a lot of money or funny—but none of that makes them more important than you. No one is so special that their opinion should determine how you live your life. People will always have opinions about you, no matter what you do. If you spend your life trying to satisfy everyone or worrying about how others judge you, you’ll never be truly happy. Share the posts you want to share. Tell your story. You can’t control what other people think. By posting authentically, you might inspire others and make a positive difference in ways you’ll never even know. #DemetÖzdemir

A woman said she was afraid to post on social media because she was worried people would judge her. In response, as if to say, “Who cares?” His point in general : stop being afraid of what other people think. Are you really going to let the fear of getting only five likes or someone making fun of you stop you from sharing something meaningful? The truth is, people judge everyone. Some people are beautiful, some are intelligent, and some have a lot of money or funny—but none of that makes them more important than you. No one is so special that their opinion should determine how you live your life. People will always have opinions about you, no matter what you do. If you spend your life trying to satisfy everyone or worrying about how others judge you, you’ll never be truly happy. Share the posts you want to share. Tell your story. You can’t control what other people think. By posting authentically, you might inspire others and make a positive difference in ways you’ll never even know. #DemetÖzdemir

aya 🤍𝓒𝓮𝓻𝓮𝓷

27,919 views • 2 months ago

as I'm sure many of you have come to realize - "waking up" is very different from "understanding" why things in the world and on TV seem to be happening at a pace and in a way that you cannot affect or do anything about - nor can you look or walk away, for very long. that's the place I needed to get to in order to understand that we really are watching a scripted movie, that in fact, the only thing we can do is know about it, wake people up to it and enjoy the show - and PRAY. this clip encapsulates where it's all headed and why.

as I'm sure many of you have come to realize - "waking up" is very different from "understanding" why things in the world and on TV seem to be happening at a pace and in a way that you cannot affect or do anything about - nor can you look or walk away, for very long. that's the place I needed to get to in order to understand that we really are watching a scripted movie, that in fact, the only thing we can do is know about it, wake people up to it and enjoy the show - and PRAY. this clip encapsulates where it's all headed and why.

The Rubber Duck ™

32,584 views • 11 months ago

Meghan Markle could have had all of this. If she’d just accepted that the Crown wasn’t there to serve her, but that she was there to serve something much bigger than herself, she could have become one of the most significant royals in modern times. Coming from Hollywood, she had a front row seat to the exact world she was so desperate to impress. After years of chasing status in those circles, she found herself in a position where the very people she desperately wanted validation from would have been standing when she walked into the room because of the institution she represented. The thing she never got is that the respect isn’t for the individual. It’s for the Crown, the role, and the centuries of service behind it. Those who understand that thrive. Those who think they’re bigger than it? They crash and burn. A few years ago, when the monarchy was under real pressure and Catherine was fighting serious health issues, Harry and Meghan had a genuine chance to step up and build something positive. Instead they chose to wage war on the very institution that gave them their platform in the first place. They wanted the prominence without the protocol, the status without the hierarchy, and the influence without any accountability. The saddest part is Meghan couldn’t accept playing second fiddle to Catherine. In the end, refusing to accept her place in the institution is exactly what cost her the platform she had inside it. Pride really has undone a lot of people. And it might end up being the defining lesson of Meghan Markle’s whole story.

Meghan Markle could have had all of this. If she’d just accepted that the Crown wasn’t there to serve her, but that she was there to serve something much bigger than herself, she could have become one of the most significant royals in modern times. Coming from Hollywood, she had a front row seat to the exact world she was so desperate to impress. After years of chasing status in those circles, she found herself in a position where the very people she desperately wanted validation from would have been standing when she walked into the room because of the institution she represented. The thing she never got is that the respect isn’t for the individual. It’s for the Crown, the role, and the centuries of service behind it. Those who understand that thrive. Those who think they’re bigger than it? They crash and burn. A few years ago, when the monarchy was under real pressure and Catherine was fighting serious health issues, Harry and Meghan had a genuine chance to step up and build something positive. Instead they chose to wage war on the very institution that gave them their platform in the first place. They wanted the prominence without the protocol, the status without the hierarchy, and the influence without any accountability. The saddest part is Meghan couldn’t accept playing second fiddle to Catherine. In the end, refusing to accept her place in the institution is exactly what cost her the platform she had inside it. Pride really has undone a lot of people. And it might end up being the defining lesson of Meghan Markle’s whole story.

Queen Esther

452,801 views • 2 months ago

Meghan Markle: Writing About ‘Princess Kate’ in 2014, ‘I Didn’t Know the Royal Family’ in 2021 Meghan sat with Oprah and said she went into royal life naively. The family was not something they followed at home. She did no research. She never looked her husband up. Everything she needed to know, Harry was already telling her. Then she added the line that gives the game away: thank God she hadn’t researched, or she would have been in her head about it. Hold that against how ordinary people behave. It is not normal adult behaviour. Most people marrying into any close family do some homework. They ask questions. They learn the names, the dynamics, the rules of the house. They do it out of respect, self-preservation and basic courtesy. Marrying into the British monarchy is that instinct multiplied. You are not joining a nice family in Surrey. You are walking into an institution with protocol, history, press machinery and a public that already has opinions before you open your mouth. Saying you felt no need to look any of that up, and that Harry telling you “everything we thought I needed to know” was enough, is not charming innocence. She made not bothering to look sound like a personality trait. It puts the burden on them to brief you, protect you, and translate a 1,200-year-old system around your feelings. Ordinary people do not get that luxury and do not expect it. Put her words next to the record and it gets sharper than naivety. She did not grow up in a vacuum. In 2014, on her own blog, she was writing about William and Kate’s wedding, “Princess Kate,” pomp, and grown women clinging to the fantasy. That is not “it wasn’t part of conversation.” That is a woman who had already formed a take. Then she sat with Oprah and gave us the other side of the story: blank slate, never researched, never looked him up, thank God she hadn’t or she would have been “in her head.” That’s the bit that should stop people. “I didn’t know” is the setup for “so none of this is on me.” If she walked in wide-eyed, every clash becomes proof the institution failed her, instead of a clash between her expectations and a job she declined to study. Naivety becomes a moral alibi. Normal people in that position would have done the opposite. They would have over-prepared. They would have been slightly embarrassed not to know the anthem, the curtsy, the difference between the family and the institution. She framed not knowing as virtue. That is not how a respectful newcomer talks. That is how someone talks when the story they need is: I was unspoiled, they were the problem. This is her being uniquely evil. It is a habit. Rewrite the small facts until they serve the larger narrative of injured innocence. If the blogs she wrote get rewritten, the Google search gets rewritten, and “I didn’t know” becomes the convenient version, why would the rest of the interview be any different?

Meghan Markle: Writing About ‘Princess Kate’ in 2014, ‘I Didn’t Know the Royal Family’ in 2021 Meghan sat with Oprah and said she went into royal life naively. The family was not something they followed at home. She did no research. She never looked her husband up. Everything she needed to know, Harry was already telling her. Then she added the line that gives the game away: thank God she hadn’t researched, or she would have been in her head about it. Hold that against how ordinary people behave. It is not normal adult behaviour. Most people marrying into any close family do some homework. They ask questions. They learn the names, the dynamics, the rules of the house. They do it out of respect, self-preservation and basic courtesy. Marrying into the British monarchy is that instinct multiplied. You are not joining a nice family in Surrey. You are walking into an institution with protocol, history, press machinery and a public that already has opinions before you open your mouth. Saying you felt no need to look any of that up, and that Harry telling you “everything we thought I needed to know” was enough, is not charming innocence. She made not bothering to look sound like a personality trait. It puts the burden on them to brief you, protect you, and translate a 1,200-year-old system around your feelings. Ordinary people do not get that luxury and do not expect it. Put her words next to the record and it gets sharper than naivety. She did not grow up in a vacuum. In 2014, on her own blog, she was writing about William and Kate’s wedding, “Princess Kate,” pomp, and grown women clinging to the fantasy. That is not “it wasn’t part of conversation.” That is a woman who had already formed a take. Then she sat with Oprah and gave us the other side of the story: blank slate, never researched, never looked him up, thank God she hadn’t or she would have been “in her head.” That’s the bit that should stop people. “I didn’t know” is the setup for “so none of this is on me.” If she walked in wide-eyed, every clash becomes proof the institution failed her, instead of a clash between her expectations and a job she declined to study. Naivety becomes a moral alibi. Normal people in that position would have done the opposite. They would have over-prepared. They would have been slightly embarrassed not to know the anthem, the curtsy, the difference between the family and the institution. She framed not knowing as virtue. That is not how a respectful newcomer talks. That is how someone talks when the story they need is: I was unspoiled, they were the problem. This is her being uniquely evil. It is a habit. Rewrite the small facts until they serve the larger narrative of injured innocence. If the blogs she wrote get rewritten, the Google search gets rewritten, and “I didn’t know” becomes the convenient version, why would the rest of the interview be any different?

Queen Esther

89,089 views • 6 days ago

Tyrod Taylor says you can prolong an NFL career by how you treat people and keeping the main thing the main thing “What I would tell a younger kid or rookie coming into today’s game is how you treat people goes a long way, first and foremost.” “And keep the main thing the main thing. Football is what got you here, and football is what’s going to prolong your career.” “In today’s society, social media is a reality. It’s good in some aspects, but it also can be misleading. You never know exactly where people are, what people are going through.” “Some people early on, maybe out of ego, may try to fit in or try to keep up. And it reflects keeping the main thing the main thing, which is football.”

Tyrod Taylor says you can prolong an NFL career by how you treat people and keeping the main thing the main thing “What I would tell a younger kid or rookie coming into today’s game is how you treat people goes a long way, first and foremost.” “And keep the main thing the main thing. Football is what got you here, and football is what’s going to prolong your career.” “In today’s society, social media is a reality. It’s good in some aspects, but it also can be misleading. You never know exactly where people are, what people are going through.” “Some people early on, maybe out of ego, may try to fit in or try to keep up. And it reflects keeping the main thing the main thing, which is football.”

Josh Chambers

35,539 views • 23 days ago

Reflections on the Sussexes’s ability to communicate in a way that is relatable, authentic and too their heart and their true passions. Both Prince Harry and Meghan The Duchess of Sussex were a breath of fresh air including in how the communicate. But that caused resentment which I think is the bedrock of the ‘she’s a bully’ vague feelings based allegations to reframe her. But at the same time her approach prompted imitation by fellow royals who were there long before and suddenly ‘try’ to switch up to keep up, is often inauthentic. And while you can try it in print, can you go in in person? Because you cannot change your personality and the energy and vibe you exude.

Reflections on the Sussexes’s ability to communicate in a way that is relatable, authentic and too their heart and their true passions. Both Prince Harry and Meghan The Duchess of Sussex were a breath of fresh air including in how the communicate. But that caused resentment which I think is the bedrock of the ‘she’s a bully’ vague feelings based allegations to reframe her. But at the same time her approach prompted imitation by fellow royals who were there long before and suddenly ‘try’ to switch up to keep up, is often inauthentic. And while you can try it in print, can you go in in person? Because you cannot change your personality and the energy and vibe you exude.

Glow Lee

12,429 views • 7 months ago

Being rich is not FU MONEY. (sorry for the low volume. there are critters around me) There are many people in this space who are "rich". But they are not free. If you ask a lot of people "What does it mean to be free?" you get 3 core principles. "Being free means to do what I want, when I want, and with whom I want." 1. To do "what you want" you have to know yourself and what makes you happy and fulfilled. To have purpose. 2. "When I want" means time. This is you most precious gift, pleb. I see my last block out there on the horizon being mined. Don't waste time. Understand when you have enough, and get on with your life. 3. "With whom I want" means you need to cultivate deep friendships NOW so that at the end of your life people remember you as someone they admired and loved. There are people in this Bitcoin space who will never have enough things, or enough Bitcoin. They will stand in front of you at a Bitcoin conference and never engage with you while "working the room" with their eyes. You can have FU MONEY sooner than you think. Think quietly on the above and realize it is not a number. It's what is between your ears and in your heart.

Being rich is not FU MONEY. (sorry for the low volume. there are critters around me) There are many people in this space who are "rich". But they are not free. If you ask a lot of people "What does it mean to be free?" you get 3 core principles. "Being free means to do what I want, when I want, and with whom I want." 1. To do "what you want" you have to know yourself and what makes you happy and fulfilled. To have purpose. 2. "When I want" means time. This is you most precious gift, pleb. I see my last block out there on the horizon being mined. Don't waste time. Understand when you have enough, and get on with your life. 3. "With whom I want" means you need to cultivate deep friendships NOW so that at the end of your life people remember you as someone they admired and loved. There are people in this Bitcoin space who will never have enough things, or enough Bitcoin. They will stand in front of you at a Bitcoin conference and never engage with you while "working the room" with their eyes. You can have FU MONEY sooner than you think. Think quietly on the above and realize it is not a number. It's what is between your ears and in your heart.

George Bodine

73,195 views • 11 months ago