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Meghan Markle’s Defective Brand, Blake Lively’s Hair Loss Scandal & Kamala Crashing Out
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Meghan Markle’s luxury brand drama is getting messier… Blake Lively’s beauty empire may be facing major backlash… and Kamala Harris is somehow still leading early 2028 Democrat chatter. We’re breaking down the biggest headlines Hollywood and politics can’t stop talking about. On today’s Spot On with Link Lauren: Meghan Markle’s As Ever controversy, melted chocolates, royal shade, and whether her influencer empire is becoming more style than substance. Then, Blake Lively’s haircare scandal, consumer complaints, and why her beauty brand may already be struggling. Plus: Mindy Kaling’s honest weight loss comments, Brad Pitt’s shocking family fallout, Stephen Colbert’s TV criticism, the White House checkpoint shooting, and Kamala Harris’ latest political chaos. Pop culture, celebrity scandals, media hypocrisy, politics, and the stories everyone else is too scared to say out loud. Let’s get into it. Lean: Huge Memorial Day Sale and Lean is 25% off!! Visit https://TAKELEAN.com and ente...
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Link Lauren
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Link Lauren
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Link Lauren
Well, my friends, welcome back to Spot on with Link. Lauren. Happy Monday. I did not want to take Memorial Day off. I thought some of you might be at home. You might be hiding out from your family. Maybe you're watching us with your family right now. I put together a ton of fun topics. I said, let's just do some fun. Let's go over the news. There was a shooting at the White House. Everyone at the White House is okay, but the shooting has spawned a ton of memes on the Internet. Megan Markle. She's also still having some quality control issues with her brand. People are receiving defective products like I did. So we'll break all of that down. Blake Lively's brand is also going down the tube. So I think people have just moved on from these celebrities who put their names on things to make a quick buck, but maybe they're not actually that passionate about it. So we've got all of that and more. But I want to start off by saying this. I don't like to say happy Memorial Day because I know it's a solemn day for so many of you. I know it's a tough day for so many of you. But I will up today with such gratitude for the men and women in uniform who have sacrificed so I can sit here on this camera and run my mouth. I would not have a career if it weren't for the First Amendment, if it weren't for free speech. And these things do not come for free. So I am incredibly grateful to those who have sacrificed and those who've made the ultimate sacrifice. And if you are feeling alone today, if you're feeling sad, if you're feeling depressed, don't run from those feelings. Just don't hide from them. We are a community on here. We are sending love to you and lifting you up. And my hope is over the course, course of this episode, you can have a little bit of a reprieve and a little bit of an escape. So I love all of you and I love our country and if you're watching us from other parts of the world like Australia, New Zealand, the uk, just ignore all of that. But I love all of you and God bless America and because we live in America and I got bills to pay, we have to pay some bills really quickly. We have a 60 second ad and we'll be back real quick. So stick around. Everybody's talking about weight loss injections because the results are so dramatic. They work by lowering blood sugar and reducing appetite. So what if you're looking to lose weight but not interested in painful weekly injections, especially when you hear about some of those intense side effects. That's why doctors created a weight loss supplement called Lean. And the results are remarkable. The studied ingredients in Lean have been shown to lower your blood sugar, burn fat by converting it into energy, and curb your appetite and cravings so you're not as hungry. But listen, Lean is not for the casual dieter. With only a few pounds to lose, the doctors at Brickhouse Nutrition created Lean for frustrated dieters with 10 or more pounds to lose. Here is even better news. They're having a huge Memorial Day sale and lean is 25% off. Visit take lean.com and enter. Thank you, 25 for 25% off. That's promo code. Thank you 25@take lean.com. well, Meghan Markle, the duchess of scam a lot. That little huckster, she's still, still doesn't seem to have real good quality control at her brand. As ever. As you know, I received a candle without a wick and I remind you of this every single day. Okay, the wickless candle has become a recurring character on the show. It's going to start charging me an appearance fee. I don't know. But over the weekend, something went so viral. Okay. A young woman received chocolates from Meghan Markle's brand. It looks like some type of PR package. She's got the jams and the jellies and the flower sprinkles that I've tried. They're right here, if you remember on this show, I tried them. The chocolates seem to have melted. But it's not just that they melted. They look like they've absolutely just disintegrated, like they weren't packed properly. And if you are selling a food product, right, if you're selling food like chocolates or jams or jellies or whatever the hell it is, you should be able to get it to the consumer and the customer still intact, right? The bar is on the floor. The bar is so low, it's in the seventh ring of hell. We're not expecting much here from any celebrity brand, especially Meghan Markle. But when I look at these chocolates, imagine opening this. What is this? It's just diabolical. So shout out to this woman. I'm so sorry. Maybe Meghan Markle can reach out and say, listen, let me offer you a refund. Let me send you something new. Let me give you something to make up for your troubles. But then again, if you are ordering products from Meghan Markle's brand in a sincere way, not like me, just because you want to try them on your ridiculous podcast, if you're ordering Meghan Markle's prod products for real, you got to take a good look in the mirror and question where you stand in life. Okay? You should question where you are now. Meghan Markle, over the weekend, she was still promoting her product. She put out this interesting video where she. Where she talked about her kids favorite flavors of her jams and jellies and how she liked the marmalade law. Take a look real quick.
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Everyone in my family has a different favorite. My husband loves the raspberry with a lips of strawberry.
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Link Lauren
Aren't both? And I like them on. Number one. I have a hard time believing Megan Markle. Okay, I call a flag on the play. I don't know what that means, but I think it's a sports term. Okay? When Megan Markle said her favorite is the marmalade, I. I tried the marmalade. As you all remember, I tried the marmalade. It was absolutely disgusting. In my opinion. It was one of the worst things I've ever had in my mouth. And I dated in New York City for about six years. If my mom's Bible study is watching, I apologize. It's a joke. It's a joke. I'm a cherub, okay? But nonetheless, it was one of the worst things I've ever tasted and had in my mouth. It was pretty terrible and diabolical. Okay? I've eaten hot dogs from 711 and felt better about it, and I went to bring up this clip just to refresh if you're newer to the show. This is what happened when I tried her orange marmalade. Let's try the orange marmalade. Okay. Oh, it smell. It smells really bad. I'm sorry. Okay. It smells really. It smells terrible. You guys. I feel like. I feel like I'm on the show Fear Factor, where they have to, like, eat slugs and stuff. I feel like. Oh, my God. I feel like I'm at fat camp and they're, like, forcing me to eat vegetables or something. I don't know if fat camp is real. Okay. No. I literally feel my throat closing. Oh, my God. Orange marmalade tastes like crap. I actually feel sick. That's really not good. So when she says with a straight face that her favorite is the orange marmalade, I have a hard time taking her seriously. Now, as I've said before, I think we could use Meghan Markle's products for something useful. I'm gonna be honest. I think in the military, if you have to do some kind of torture, like a Zero Dark Thirty situation, you know that Jessica Chastain movie, if you're trying to do, like, waterboarding or you're playing loud music to torture someone to get information out of them, if we still do that anymore, because I know everybody's gone a little bit weak, so. But if we still do some torture at some black sites, they should bring out Meghan Markle's orange marmalade. They should bring out the jams and the jellies. They should bring out the flower sprinkles, okay? Imagine if you have a terrorist tied down at the black site. You got the interrogation team, and they're just not talking. You've tried everything. You've tried everything. Waterboarding to get them to talk, make them take one little bite of Megan's flower sprinkles. They'll be singing like songbirds, okay? They will be out there going, this is what happened. This is what happened. So if you ever need to get information or if you're looking to just lose weight really quickly, have a couple of bites of Meghan Markle's products. Your intestines will be flipping and turning like Simone Biles at the Olympics. Allegedly, okay? I don't want to catch that lawsuit from Meghan Markle, in my opinion, okay? If you're looking for a touch of bulimia, that was dark. Okay? Anyway, let's move on to something else. Also, over the weekend, Meghan Markle is copying Prince William and Catherine once again. You know, anytime William and Catherine do something, Meghan Markle has to copy it. She's a little bit of a copycat. She has no original ideas. Prince William was on a radio show and he spoke about scones. Let me read you a little bit about this. So he went on a radio show where they brought up scones. When the host asked how he liked his scones, he said the way he learned from Queen Elizabeth is how he loves to eat his scones. Now, Meghan immediately comes up with a post about the scones. And she puts her cream and her jams on just the way William said. So I think Megan does watch William and Catherine very closely because Catherine will wear something, then suddenly she's wearing it. Catherine will be out with the kids. Suddenly Megan is back posting those weird Children of the Corn pictures of her children, Archie and Lily from the back. Okay? I told you all the Meghan Markle family albums. The kids are going to be from behind the back of their heads. Okay? So I believe this. I believe that Meghan Markle, she probably saw the clip going viral online on Twitter and on social media, and she decided, let's do some scones. And she probably thinks that this is really getting to the royals. Hello. They're real royalty over there. Okay? They're not bothered or concerned with you. Now, our last Meghan Markle story before we move on. I know some of y' all get tired of the royals, okay? We're going to move on to some more exciting things. The last thing I want to point out, Meghan Markle, she is still merching. She is still selling her clothes on some weird website that she's allegedly an investor in. Let me read you about this. So she's back to being an influencer. After listing her as ever promo, she has since listed her outfit. We have it up on the screen. She's monetizing her fashion through an AI styling platform. One off. Okay? It should be called knockoff. One off. It's called knockoff, honey. Okay? This broke down the luxury looks featured in her recent Instagram promo. Now, across multiple clips, she's promoting her lifestyle brand and she's wearing a very expensive wardrobe. So she put up apparently 92,000 British pounds worth of clothes from the row. Celine, Cartier, Chanel, Dior, Oscar de la Renta and Anine Bing. Some standout pieces include a £47,000 diamond necklace, 22,000 pound Cartier watch. Y' all can do the conversions, okay? Y' all can do the Conversion. I'm not a mathematician. So anyway, nonetheless, all you need to know about this. She's still merging like she was at Bondi beach when she went down to meet with survivors of a horrific anti Semitic terrorist attack and she decided to sell her outfit. She's still selling hers. There are people, most of us, who just want to pay our bills, go to the grocery store, get our food, pay our health insurance, all of those things. And you've got this ex wannabe Duchess promoting about $100,000 worth of clothing. She's on here promoting what, $7,000 bracelets, $47,000 necklaces. Is she so out of touch from the real world? She's living in that McMansion in Montecito with Oprah as her neighbor, and that's the life she lives. She doesn't care about working class Americans. Meghan Markle wants to be a sort of Gwyneth Paltrow, Martha Stewart rich luxury brand. But how are you going to do a rich luxury brand to bring it on home with a wickless candle? You're selling flower sprinkles and calling it luxury. I could go out into my yard and get some dirt and gravel and toss it on top of a cheesecake and call it luxury. So I'm having a hard time taking you seriously. That Meghan Markle, she wants to be an influencer so badly, but she doesn't have the chops to be an influencer. That's the thing. How are you going to be an influencer when you have no follow through and no thought processes of an influencer even looking at the clips right now? If Meghan Markle wanted to win and be relatable, she would go and work with people who are less fortunate, people who need help. She would not be merching $47,000 diamond necklaces. So that's who Meghan Markle is. But we're gonna move on to some more Hot Topics. Now on to another celebrity brand that seems to be going down the tubes. Blake Lively has a brand, it's called Blake Brown Beauty, and it sells at Target and some other retailers. Apparently they thought they were going to do a hundred million dollars in profit and she's bar couple million, allegedly. I don't want Blake Lively to sue me. So I'm going to be saying allegedly, allegedly, allegedly, because she is basically litigious swine. Okay? She is the reason her career has gone down the tubes with the whole Justin Baldoni lawsuit. I still to this day don't even know what the lawsuit was about to this day, I don't know why she was fighting with Justin Baldoni. Everything I learned about the two of them, I learned against my will. But here's. Here she is, I guess she's promoting her hair products. And they do, you know, shampoos and things that are supposed to grow your hair and be great for your hair. My thing with Blake Lively selling hair products is that she probably wears extensions every single day. I imagine anytime you see her on a red carpet in a movie, she's got pieces and extensions. So her selling hair products, hell, maybe I could use some of them. But there are folks reporting some concerns. Some concerns. So radar alleges that Blake Brown beauty shows consumer complaints return concerns and weaker performance. These complaints reportedly include dryness, brittleness, frizz, greasy texture, scalp irritation, tangling, and hair fallout and shedding. This is not looking good. This is not looking good for Blake Lively, you guys. I'm losing brain cells talking about this right now. I'm losing brain cells. Okay? Anyway, so I think what happened was she launched her brand, then she got entangled, no pun intended, in this lawsuit. Now her likability and favorability have gone down the tubes. The focus groups don't like her anymore, if you had to ask me. And now, according to Puck and some other places, her business partners want out. So the reporting suggests that Blake Brown may have had some launch awareness, but not enough long term traction. The launch got tangled up with the Justin Baldoni lawsuit, which created negative press and distraction. Now the Italian partners allegedly want out. They're saying, ciao, arrivederci. I don't know how to speak Italian. But nonetheless, they're like, bitch, bitch, you tanked your career. Nobody wants to buy shampoo from you anymore. When we can go get some Pantene at the grocery store, we can get some good old fashioned Aqua Net. We don't need to pay luxury prices to get hair products from Blake Lively. So we wish her well. But like I always say, I like to branch this out. Okay, Meghan Markle, Blake Lively. Take these women as cautionary tales. These are women who got high on their own supply. They got too big for their own britches. They thought they were the hot stuff. They thought they were hot fuzz. And guess what? God, karma, the universe came along and humbled them. Okay? Humble those two girls. So if you always think that there's a bigger, better deal, or the grass is greener on the other side, or you've got the upper hand, or you have all the cards, take a second. Be grateful for where you are and what you have. And don't try to play nasty little games. Don't try any get rich quick schemes because karma is going to come back around. Now that I'm sitting here and I've had some iced tea this morning and the caffeine is kicking in, I think Meghan Markle and Blake Lively should just team up. They should do a tour together. Blake Lively, Meghan Markle should do a brand and a tour together called the Unbearables, the Insufferables. Okay? They could go city to city and they could just team up because one unbearable woman, another unbearable woman put it together. Maybe they could do something. They could come out with a line of products called Canceled. You know, we've been canceled. We ruined our own careers. Like Meghan Markle went from being British royalty to selling orange marmalade. Blake Lively was a very wealthy, successful actress. Now her partners are pulling out. Ryan Reynolds might be pulling out too. Oh, too soon. So anyway, we got to go to a commercial. We got to pay some bills because unlike Blake Lively, I don't have 10,000 investors. So we have a quick 60 second ad. Y' all can breeze through. Whatever. We will be right back. Stick around. Starting something new, especially a business, is hard. So much work goes into this thing that you're not entirely sure will work out and it can be hard to make that leap of faith. It helps when you have a partner like Shopify on your side. Shopify is the commerce platform behind millions of businesses around the world and 10% of all e commerce in the US from household names like Mattel and Allbirds to businesses just starting out. With hundreds of templates, Shopify helps you build a beautiful online store that matches your brand style. 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Link Lauren
Now speaking of body image and celebrities, we have to talk about actress Mindy Kaling. Now, as y' all know, I don't watch a lot of these new shows. I will watch the same show over and over and over again. So I really don't know this woman from at. She's apparently from the office. She had some other TV shows. We'll put her up on the screen. Well, she's gone viral over the last week. I think this headline has gotten 19 or 20 million views because people just aren't having it. Okay, this is the headline. Mindy Kaling shares the reason behind her scrutinized weight loss journey. Okay, Everyone on the Internet believes she's on Ozempic. You can look at the pictures. Clearly she has lost a lot of weight. We have to stop calling it a journey. When a woman shoots themselves up with a fat shot to drop the LBs, that is not a journey. A little journey. We're not doing the journey anymore. I'm sick of the freaking journey with the Mindy Kalings and the Lizzos and the Meghan Trainors. And people are calling, you know, bs. They're calling Shade on this because Mindy Kaling is one of those girls who really was like, I'm bigger. I'm curvy. I'm a real looking woman on television. The second these celebrities could lose the weight with the fat shot, they did. So she has not confirmed that she is doing a GLP1 drug. But basically, a lot of people around here are discussing on background that this did not come from her hitting the gym. In fact, I don't think we've seen a picture of her in a gym. I don't think we've seen a picture of her in her gym. So here's what she had to say. Minnie said her weight loss journey shifted from vanity to wanting to live longer and stay healthy for her three children. Health, not appearance, was the goal. She said she Wanted to lower risk, like diabetes, improve longevity, especially with family history on both sides. Okay, that makes sense. I understand. What's it called? The A1C. The Ace A1C3. I know y' all are going to know what I'm talking about. So there are folks who do take the ozempics and the GLP1s to get those numbers in a better place. So I understand that. But the reason this headline has 20 million views is because she is the latest actress to go from I'm just like you, I'm a regular woman at a normal weight to skinny, skinny, skinny, skinny, skinny. Okay. She turns to the side, she might disappear. So that's Mindy Kaling. She also says it was lifestyle changes, not extreme dieting. She said she lost the weight through smaller portions, balance and focusing on overall health, not restrictive dieting. I don't believe it. But, Mindy Kaling, we wish you well. I think we gotta stop calling it a journey when a celebrity who has access to peptides, GLP1s, drugs, treatment, chefs, trainers. We gotta stop calling it a journey when these rich celebrities lose weight. I mean, if this is where journalism has gone these days, we're in trouble. We're really in trouble now. Speaking of journalism and liberal media dying out, Stephen Colbert is officially off the air. Bitch. So Stephen Colbert is officially off the air. He's been sent packing to retirement with his weird ear. His weird ear that I can't seem to look at. But Stephen Colbert, he did his last show a couple days ago. I spoke about this on social media. I did a video on Instagram. Really, really, really going in on him. Stephen Colbert. The liberals were acting like someone died. The liberals were like, thank you, thank you for your sacrifice and everything you have done for our country. Stephen Colbert. I'm like, really? Pete Buttigieg, y' all remember Mayor Pete, you know, who went from fixing potholes in South Bend, Indiana, to being Secretary of transportation? He did a video. Practically on the verge of tears. Practically on the verge of tears. No one's gonna miss Stephen Colbert. He's no Johnny Carson. Johnny Carson had 55 million people tune in to his final show. Stephen Colber maybe had a couple of million, maybe a few million. And I bet a lot of those were airports. A lot of those are airports. And people just tuning in out of shock value. But you can see him with Michelle Obama and all of these Democratic elites. Barack Obama. We've got the pictures up on the screen. This is what happens. It takes someone who might have been funny, might have been Interesting. They get a touch of sitting at the cool kids table, of being a part of the Democratic elite, going to those private dinners and private parties where I don't even want to know what goes down. You get a touch of that lifestyle. You're now no longer in touch with working class Americans, with the people who were your original viewers to begin with. So you get a taste of fame and the money. You start hanging out with the Obamas. Your comedy suffers and you become a partisan hack. And here's what I had to say. We have a picture. This is the Stephen Colbert staff. We'll put it up on the screen. It looks like about 200 people. Here's what I said. The entire TV model is outdated. All these people and the best they could come up with were boring anti Trump jokes every night. If you need that many people to prop you up, then you're not really worth your salt as a host or a comedian. That's the truth. Okay? You're running a 40, 40 million dollar deficit at your show. You're making $15 million a year even with the deficit. You've got hundreds of people propping you up and there are no jokes, there's no humor. I have no writers, okay? I wish I did. I have to sit here on this camera and just talk to you guys from the heart, okay? I had to come up with things off the top of my head, you know what I'm saying? And promote my teas and whatever we promote on this show. Stephen Colbert is making $15 million a year. He's got 200 people propping him up. The buffoonery, the tomfoolery, the malarkey, the utter calamity of it all. So. Stephen Colbert. Anyway, we don't really need to talk more about this because he's been sent into retirement. I never thought my career would outlast Stephen Colbert's, but I'm still here, bitch. Okay, we'll be right back. We have another hot topic before we go to another quick ad because I gotta pay my bills. Brad Pitt. This is in the news over the weekend from Page. He apparently is never going to marry again after Angelina Jolie alienated him from their children following a brutal split. Now, if you recall, on our last episode, we discussed the fact that several of their children have dropped the last name pit. Okay, I believe Angelina has turned the kids against Brad. Has he been open about his issues with alcohol? For sure. Was he father of the year every single day? No, he's admitted to that and been open to that. But when you're being overrun in your house by the United nations and kids who are speaking 10,000 different languages. No wonder the guy's drinking. If I came home from working on set and filming Ocean's Twelve or whatever great movies he's done. If I come home from set and I just want to relax and every kid has their own nanny. They're all running around with toys, speaking different languages because some of them, you know, they grew up in the huts and they're not, you know, civilized yet. So anyway, they're not integrated into the household. I'm kidding. So he comes home. No wonder you're gonna start drinking. You're gonna start reaching for a bottle. You're gonna start pouring yourself some Jameson, some scotch. I don't know. I don't really know anything about alcohol, but I understand why Brad Pitt was probably drinking to numb all of that. And then Angelina, let's face it, she's a weirdo. Running around with, you know, vials of blood on her neck, doing her we are the World Kumbaya, United nations stuff, We've had it. Okay? I would like to say I'm in a very happy, committed relationship, but I don't think he would mind me getting a hall pass with Brad Pitt. I know the children have. Have dropped the last name Pitt. Many of us would be in line to take that last name. Okay, So I understand Angelina's kids, they want to be such and such Jolie. They don't want to be Pitt anymore. I think there are plenty of people who are willing to become such and such Pitt. Okay? If my dad was Brad Pitt, I would have kept that damn last name, okay? I'd be riding that last name to the bank. A little bit of nepotism. All right, so anyway, Brad Pitt, he says he doesn't want to marry again. I understand it if you've been married a few times. You've been in high profile relationships. He's worth a lot. He's probably worth hundreds of millions of dollars, I imagine. 3, $400 million. Why do you want to get married again? And then you have to have that conversation. Are you going to do a prenuptial? Any woman marrying Brad Pitt is not going to want a prenup. I wouldn't sign a prenup if I married Brad Pitt. I'm taking the money from Ocean's. 11, 12, 13. Mr. And Mrs. Smith Fight Club bitch. Anyway, nonetheless, let's move on. We have a quick ad and then we are back to discuss the shooting at the White House. Have you gotten caught? Up in the red light mask craze, but you just don't see results. It's because those masks don't work because, well, they can't work compared to what doctors use. Most of those masks are helplessly underpowered. The red light therapy that's actually proven to work is from Light Stem. It's made in the USA and has sold over 60,000 devices to dermatologists, cosmetic surgeons and estheticians. Guessing your red light mask brand can't say that. The best part is this. You can actually have a light stim at home now. I have the light stem ellipsa and love it. 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Link Lauren
Well, you might have heard over the last few days there was a shooting at the White House. Everyone is okay at the White House. The President is fine. I think it was some crazy guy who was walking by the executive office building and went and Secret Service shot at him. Took him down, took him out. That's basically the Cliff notes of it all. But the reason it's still in the news, one of the reporters from NBC, her name is Julie Serkin, she has gone absolutely viral. She has become a meme. Now, I have never met her, I've never been in the press pool with her. That I know. I'm sure she's a nice, lovely woman. I do not watch NBC. I don't really watch any mainstream media. But she seems like a nice woman. She has gone viral for her reaction to the shooting. Take a look. What is that? Sounds like. Today, but this obviously comes just a couple weeks after a shoe day at the White House. So this has gone totally viral and I just want to say, okay, she is taking it in stride. She did a post, she said, I'm glad I could take one for the team with at NBC SNL on summer break. Thanks for the memes, Internet. Hope you'll stick around for the reporting. So she did this post on X. She seems to be laughing, she seems to be smiling as someone who has been turned into a meme before. It comes quick and then it's gone in a couple of days. So people are going to forget. But I'm glad she's taking it on the chin. I found it to be funny. I found some levity in the midst of the violence and what would have been a horrible news story because I was watching that and she's going, what was that? What was that? That's me. That's me on a first date ignoring all of his red flags. Okay, that is me when my boyfriend asks if I've taken the trash out and done the dishes. What was that? What? What was that? That's literally me. And so it's become a viral meme and I understand why. I want to show you one of these. This is her looking back at the Barack Obama new presidential library. Let's roll that. What is that? What is that? That sounds like I need whatever cocktail drug she is on. She's probably not on any drugs. I'm sure she's. She's a lovely woman, Julie. Don't hate me. But her doctor, I don't know. This could be an ad for anti anxiety medication. It could be an ad for depression medication. I mean, this woman is the face of unbothered me when it comes to fight orf flight. I am a flight kind of person, okay? I don't stick around for any of the chaos or the buffoonery or the tomfoolery. If I hear I'm hitting the ground, I'm sprinting, I'm getting out of there. But I also understand, like when you have an earpiece in, when you're in sort of an ambient environment. And there are other people recording news hits around you. It can be hard to figure out what's going on. And then I've been in the press pool on trips with the president and these other reporters, so often they're kind of down in their phones or they don't have as much situational awareness that you would expect a reporter to have. I've been with reporters and I'll say, oh, my God, look who's who. Look who's walking in right now. Some big foreign leader or dignitary. And they're going, where? What? We missed it. It's like, yeah, get up and look around. Okay? That's where the magic is. That's where the action is. And so God bless Julie Serkin and God bless everyone. I'm glad that they're okay. Our last little political story. The DNC released what they're calling an autopsy report on Kamala Harris to figure out why she lost the 2024 election. They spent millions of dollars on this. Almost two years putting this together. I could have told you for free why Kamala Harris lost the election. She had horrible policies. She oversaw the worst border invasion in American history. Then she went down to the border wearing expensive jewelry for a 12 minute photo op. She chose Mr. Jazz Hands Tim Walls to be her vice president. Everything was an utter calamity. Okay? She ran on a platform of abortion, men and women's sports, more inflation, more crime, open borders, none of which were popular even within her own party. And so that's why Kamala Harris lost. And when she did do interviews, she sounded like a drunken sailor who could barely form coherent sentences. Okay? She sounded like Anna Nicole Smith. Well, we've been unburdened by the burdens of what's burdening us. Like, let's. Let's get it together. The fact that she was one heartbeat away from the nuclear codes anyway is horrific and diabolical. So they've done this autopsy, and basically all it showed was that they still want to blame Joe Biden for her loss. I'm sorry. You spent billions of dollars and you still lost. That's on you. That's on you, sweetheart. I actually think you could have taken advantage of the short Runway you had, but you hid from reporters for 40 days. Now, the last thing I want to discuss. Kamala Harris is the overwhelming front runner for the 2028 Democratic primary. This is according to a new Rasmussen poll. She has 34% of support. Gavin Newsom is 12% and dropping. You see, AOC and Pete Buttigieg, Josh Shapiro, Mark Kelly, Andy Brashear, JB Pritzker. They're all on there. So it'll be interesting to see what happens. I don't see a Kamala Harris presidency in my lifetime. Okay. I don't see. Because she would get distracted on the way to the Oval Office. I mean, you could leave a trail of margaritas out like Hansel and Gretel and just trap Kamala Harris, okay? The only thing she works hard at is finding the nearest open box. So I don't see a Kamala Harris presidency in my lifetime. But the survey was based on 1045 likely voters. This was a few days ago, making it an early pulse check rather than a strong forecast for 2028. So it'll be interesting to see what happens with Ms. Kamal Amity. Ms. Kamal Amity Harris. Ms. Cabernet. Kamala Cackles. Ms. Cackles over here. It'll be interesting to see what happens. But if they do make her the Democratic nominee, oh, my God. It'll be like Christmas and Hanukkah and Kwanzaa and my birthday and anniversary all wrapped into one. Because the content is just gonna give and give and give. Every time she opens her mouth, it's a disaster. Which is such a gift for those of us who are commentators and who get paid to speak for a living. And I would love to just hold up a mirror to her. I followed her entire campaign for the last 107 days. I can't wait. If she's the nominee again, put her and Newsom on a ticket. Oh, my God. It's like the Betty Ford ticket. Ticket. Anyway, I love you guys. Thanks so much for tuning in to Spot on with Link. Lauren. We will be back on Wednesday. If this is your first episode, I hope you enjoyed. I hope you survived. I hope you're still here. If you've been with us for a long time, I'm incredibly grateful for all of you. I love reading all of your comments. I read everything. I pour over all of it on here, Instagram X, all across social media. And I'm brainstorming, planning some more ways for us to connect more intimately and have more chats and things going throughout the week. So stay tuned for for that over the course of the next few episodes. But we will see you back. Be well. And like I said, if you're spending Memorial Day alone, if it's a sad, solemn day for you, we're sending love to you. We're uplifting you. We're praying for you. We are a family on here. And just because you feel like crap today, you might be feeling depressed right now doesn't mean you're gonna feel that way in six hours or tomorrow or a week from now. We are horrible at predicting how we're going to feel in the future as human beings. So I love all of you, but I'm gonna go spend the rest of the day with some of my family, luxuriating, eating a cheeseburger. Goodbye.
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