Speaking My Mind: Celebrity Transformations, Hamas Hypocrisy, and Free Speech Debates

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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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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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 justreally got under my skin and I

(00:25):
need to blog about it.
I'll do a video about it.
It's a whole topic.
It's to address the ignoranceand I say ignorance in all
seriousness about people whoknow nothing about Charlie Kirk
but yet they want to run theirmouth.
And I'm not talking about thetotal left unhinged rants that

(00:48):
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 wantto run their mouth and try to
sound intelligent, but they'renot, because obviously they
don't.
They even admit they don't knowanything about Charlie Kirk,

(01:11):
yet they feel like they have torun their mouth about him to try
to.
Well, I'll address it in myblog post and in the video that
I'm going to do.
In the meantime, I have somestories here.
I am sorry, I don't know why,in the morning it doesn't happen
the rest of the day, but in themorning my throat and my voice

(01:33):
just do not want to work.
All right, so here we go.
I have three stories for youFirst.
Well, first, before I get tothe stories, I want you to go to
my YouTube channel, subscribeand, like I did a video
yesterday about why the SouthernPoverty Law Center must be shut
down.
Please go read that, like itand share it.

(01:53):
All right?
So the first story I have foryou is Hamas mouthpiece praises
Hannah Einbinder's freePalestine Emmys message, but
censors her bare shoulders in avideo.
Oh, this ought to be brilliant.
From the New York Post.
Of course I don't watch theEmmys anymore.

(02:14):
I forgot they were on.
I did want to watch MaureenCallahan's live stream of making
fun of it when it was on Sundaynight, but I totally forgot
about it.
Anyway, you've seen thehighlights of this actress from
Hacks, which, by the way, I lovethat show.
I know that she's had episodeslike this before, so I knew that

(02:42):
going in watching that show.
But I love Jean Smart and thisshow is really good and I hope
you watch it because it makesfun of both sides.
So this story from the New YorkPost is about the actress who
went on a rant when she won herEmmy, when she won her Emmy Gosh

(03:09):
.
Okay, let me just read it toyou.
When the biggest raves comefrom a Hamas-linked media, maybe
even Hollywood starlet canrealize her message isn't quite
as morally triumphant as sheimagined.
Ending her Emmy acceptancespeech with Free Palestine won
Hannah Einbinder cheers insidethe Peacock Theater, since it

(03:30):
was the usual impeccablyprogressive La La Land crowd.
But the YouGoGirl coverage bythe Hamas and Islamic
Jihad-linked news network shouldhave given her at least some
doubt, particularly since theoutlet blurred her bare

(03:50):
shoulders to preservefundamentalist moral purity.
So there you go.
Maybe next time you want a freePalestine, 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 withthem.
So do you understand that,little girl?
I hope you do.
All right, moving on to the nextstory, let me go back to my

(04:14):
feed, because I had to get outof that because it kept popping
up stupid ads.
Okay, so this next story isamazing and you have to go look
at it, because it's all inimages.
Fans mistake Jennifer Lopez forGwen Stefani in new platinum
blonde glam selfies and, oh mygosh, she looks just like Gwen

(04:38):
Stefani.
I'm scrolling through thesepictures.
I'm like that is Gwen Stefani.
I'm scrolling through thesepictures.
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 JenniferLopez anymore.
I don't know what she's done toher face.
I don't know if she's had thosefat things removed from her
cheeks.
She's had some kind of plasticsurgery.

(04:58):
She looks nothing like herself.
She does look like Gwen Stefani.
All right, moving on to the nextone, starbucks needs proper
managers.
No one needs to wait 11 minutesfor a drink with a cute message
scribbled on the side.
Now I still want a cute messagescribbled on the side.
That does not bother me, butwhen I come to the store and

(05:20):
you're not prepared to make mydrink and I do have to wait in
the line for seven minutes whenI ordered it online ahead of
time, yes, I have a problem withit.
However, the one store that Igo to, the people that normally
work there, that I have built arelationship with, they know I'm
coming and they already have itready.
The other day I went and it wasa whole new crew and, sure

(05:44):
enough, I had to freaking waitthere in the line for seven
damned minutes because theyweren'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 readthat.
Starbucks CEO Brian Nickel toldFox Business last week he's
ahead of the schedule in hisplan to turn the faltering
coffee company around.
So apparently Starbucks is introuble.

(06:05):
A year since Nicole pledged toimprove the Starbucks
environment and speed upordering times.
Its stores at least the ones inthe Big Apple are plagued by
the curse of the app-drivenservice business lack of floor
management.
If Starbucks actually hasbosses, they're in their offices
counting coffee beans.

(06:26):
Starbucks sales fell for thesixth straight time, down to two
percent between April 1 andJune 30 this year.
They won't improve untilcustomers' experiences live up
to Nichols' idea of what itshould be the absence of old
school management.
What, what do you mean?
Absence of old schoolmanagement?
You do this, you don't do.
That is obvious to a guy likeme who's enjoyed starbucks

(06:49):
coffee since they opened in myupper east side building 30
years ago.
And it gets worse every year.
I bet people are.
I bet the employees are beingbabies.
You can't tell me what to do.
You're being as aggressive,you're being too assertive,
uh-uh-uh-uh, my many branchesare filthy.
Oh no, don't tell me that myfriend found starbucks at

(07:12):
lexington avenue, in east 77thstreet, as gross as the subway
station next door.
Oh, my word, no mounds of.
I can't maladoria, malad, Ican't even say that word.
Garbage filled the bathroomwhich an employee unlocked for
him.
There was no toilet paper.
Okay, we don't need to go onabout the bathrooms.

(07:34):
I'm ready to quit Starbucks foranother reason too, the same
reason millions of other Javajunkies are doing it, namely,
endless waits for even thesimplest products.
It can't take half a lifetimeto get a no frills cappuccino.
I agree, and I also have, andyou can go finish reading that
if you like.
I know most of you don't care.
I know it's popular to hateStarbucks.

(07:56):
I get it, I like Starbucks.
I'm just going to tell you thatright now, I don't care.
I like them, I like the drinks.
Now I even like the plain blackcoffee.
I do Sue me, I don't care.
But the other suggestion that Iwould like to give Starbucks is
that have a separate drive-thrulane for the people who have

(08:20):
ordered ahead with their mobileorders, because in your mobile
ordering app thing you have, doI want to pick it up in store or
do I want to pick it up in thedrive-thru?
Either take that out and makepeople walk in and get it or
make a separate lane for people,because I get behind these
people and they're sitting there.

(08:41):
They don't know what they want.
They got to order this and thenI 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 canswing through and pick it up.
Okay, I mean, chick-fil-a hasseveral lanes.
Other drive-thrus have severallanes.
You can do the same.

(09:01):
Okay, we need to move on to thequestion of the day, and I do
have one, my question of the day.
So Pam Bondi, I guess, went on arant somewhere about cracking
down and going after people forhate speech and somebody
retweeted that and they saidnope.
And I want to know, becausehere's the thing, all of these

(09:24):
people who created these hatespeech laws are leftist, liberal
lunatics, because they gotoffended because someone may
have called them a name orsomething, and so we have these
hate laws, now hate speech laws.
Um, we have these hate laws,now hate speech laws, and I want

(09:49):
to know do you think that weshould have hate speech laws?
I do not.
I think hate speech should beincluded, is is should be
protected by free speech.
I don't think there should besuch thing as hate speech.
I think you should.
We're america.
We should not have laws likethat.
What are your thoughts on that?
And again, be looking for anAmericanistcom.
I'm coming out with an articletoday.

(10:10):
If I can get to it Hopefully Iwill.
It may take me time becauseI've got a lot of stuff I want
to cover and I'm going to haveto take a few hours to figure it
out.
And then I'm also going to dothe video.
Okay, it may be out today,maybe tomorrow or maybe even
Thursday, I don't know.

(10:30):
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.
Oh, one more thing I just youknow I talked about maybe I've
let a couple of days have goneby now with the Charlie Kirk
assassination and everybodyimmediately started blasting
these people who were cheeringfor his death and I thought I

(10:55):
don't want to participate inthat.
I do not want to do that.
I said I couldn't get down inthe mud with y'all.
I just thought that wasatrocious.
I would rather share CharlieKirk's message than to highlight
and pimp out and promote thecrazies.
But you know what?
I've changed my mind.
I'm going to join you.
I'm going to blast the idiotsout there because they do need

(11:16):
to be blasted.
Okay, that's it.
Now I got to go Bye.