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Spot On with Link Lauren
Meryl Streep Mocks Anna Wintour in Vogue, Meghan Markle’s Retreat Grift, and the Bizarre Solo Wedding Fad
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Link Lauren dives into the topic of single women throwing weddings for themselves without grooms, Meghan Markle’s Australian retreat debacle, Democrats tanking in the polls, and Anna Wintour's desperation on display as she forces her way onto the cover of Vogue along with Meryl Streep. Lightstim: Upgrade your skincare routine with the medical-grade technology dermatologists trust and save 10% by using code LINK at https://LightStim.com Cowboy Colostrum: Get 25% Off Cowboy Colostrum with code LINK at https://www.cowboycolostrum.com/LINK Lean: Get 20% off plus free rush shipping when you go to https://TAKELEAN.com and use code LINK. LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos every day: https://bit.ly/3HQiCRD Watch full clips of Spot On with Link Lauren here: https://bit.ly/3G2ayga Find the full audio show wherever you get your podcasts: Apple — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spot-on-with-link-lauren/id1812663737 Spotify — https://open.spotify.com/show/2RPHR4jKTJqkruxJjn6kzn?si=d35cb43...
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Podcast Host (Link Lauren)
Well, my friends, welcome back to Spot on with Link. Lauren, if this is your first time tuning in, this is a show. We're going to break down the calamities of Hollywood, the circus of Washington, D.C. and everything in between. I want to start off by asking, okay, how are we all doing? It's hump day. It's Wednesday. Let's celebrate the fact that we made it to Wednesday. This week has felt about 10,000 years long. Okay. But we have made it to Wednesday. Happy hump day. This a lot of news going on in the world. Right? I saw before we sat down, we are moving toward peace with Iran. Peace in the world. We'll continue to pray for peace, but every other influencer and podcaster is covering the war in Iran. They're covering all of this hard news. What I want to do over the course of this episode give you a little bit of a reprieve, take you on a vacation. Okay. We have some fun topics. We're going to get into some politics as well. Gavin Newsom's wife continues running her mouth. The Democrats are underwater, but we have some fun stories. Okay. There are these women in the New York Times who are throwing their own weddings because they didn't expect to be single at their ages. And their friends are entertaining this. They're going to destination weddings where there's no groom. So we're going to break all of that down. I have the entire article. We're also going to discuss Meghan Markle's retreat. We got a huge reaction on the last episode. I don't think any of you have signed up to go to Megan Markle's retreat. I think it's about $3200 for the VIP package and you don't even get a solo picture with her, guaranteed. So we'll continue to give you more information on and why it is important. Right. There's so many small businesses that are Owned by women here in the United States of America. Meghan Markle, she's going around giving speeches like this female entrepreneur. Every business has been run into the ground, okay? It's a slap in the face to women who are actually running their own small businesses. To anybody, men or women, who are running their own small businesses. So we'll break that down. We also have to talk about this new Devil Wears Prada movie that's coming. Okay? Hollywood has no original ideas. They're rebooting everything from 20 years ago, 40 years ago, 60 years ago. We're going to discuss that. Anna Wintour and Meryl Streep, they did this photo shoot for Vogue. Anna Wintour, I guess after being in the industry for decades, she's decided to put herself on the COVID of the magazine. So we have all of that and more, but we have to pay some bills really quickly. We have a quick ad and then we'll be back in 60 seconds. Stay put. 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. 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I never expected to see this, but we have found an article in the New York Times. It's titled A wedding weekend, no spouse required. I actually printed the article. That's how you guys know I mean business. I printed this article. Basically, what's going on? There are these women who are in their 40s, 50s and so forth, who Are throwing themselves their own destination weddings because they're single. And they did not plan to be single at this station in life. They wanted to have a man. They wanted to have a husband and a family. But they think, you know what, we want to go out there and celebrate this time in our lives. And I thought, okay, let me give this a benefit of the doubt for a second. Because there's no shame in being single. Many of you watching might be single. You might be at home alone right now. Doesn't mean you're lonely. Doesn't mean you have any less value in society. I still think it is crazy to throw yourself a destination wedding and invite all of your friends when there is no husband, okay? There's no husband. Am I the crazy one? Has everybody just taken acid and I'm still living in reality? Let me tell you why I would not entertain this number one, I don't do destination weddings, okay? Even my closest friends know I'm not coming to your destination wedding. I don't care if we are blood oath good friends. I don't do destinations. I don't like to leave my house, okay? If you want me to come to your wedding, it either needs to be in my living room or my backyard or then about a five minute drive of my dwelling, okay? I am not the one to come to a destination wedding. So much so that even family friends have stopped inviting me to their destination weddings because I'm not going to come, okay? If I'm going to use my air miles and my hard earned money, it's going to be to take myself on a vacation, not to come to your destination wedding, okay? That's number one. Number two, I don't understand these people who aren't just having a reality check with these girls, okay? Wouldn't you sit your friend down and say, listen, honey, it's okay that you're single, we get it. But do you need to throw your own wedding and put it in the New York Times? Right? People might think this is a little kooky and crazy. And I want to read you about this one woman, okay? Her name is Brittany Allen. She's apparently 40 years old and this was her 40th birthday. So she threw a wedding in the English countryside. She walked into the room to Paco Bell's canon Indeed. Now, Paco Bell's canon indeed. It's that famous chord progression you hear at almost every single wedding. Maroon 5 used it in a song. So she's got the wedding music. She apparently wore a bridal gown, a white poofy bridal gown that we have pictures of and we'll put up on the screen. So there are people online defending her, saying this isn't a wedding. It's a celebration of her 40th year on earth. She's having a, you know, 40th birthday. This is not a wedding. Don't knock her. Okay, context clues, people. Okay. Destination. Surrounded by her friends and family. She's wearing a white, poofy bridal gown. Bridal gown. And she walked into the room to Paco Bell's Cannon. Okay. One plus one is two and two plus two is four. This sounds like she's having a wedding to herself. Okay. I feel like I'm taking the SAT test. She's wearing a white poofy gown. She's coming down an aisle. Oh, this might be a wedding. You know, it's like there are certain outfits you wear in certain places. If you see someone in a wedding gown, you expect that they're at a wedding. Okay. That there's a bride in a groom. If you see someone in an orange jumpsuit, you assume maybe they have escaped a prison. If you see someone in a hospital gown, you would expect them to be at a hospital. This is like an IQ test. Okay? It's like a, B or C. Where is this woman that she is wearing a bridal gown and entering the room to Paco Bell's Cannon, surrounded by her friends and family. Hmm. Where's Waldo? So she threw herself her own wedding. And I think the issue with this is you have an entire generation of girls, a lot of these millennials, who were raised on Sex in the City and a lot of this girl boss feminism, Right? And it's okay to celebrate yourself, but I really think they were just raised on Sex in the City because this is a whole storyline from Sex and the City. Carrie Bradshaw, played by Sarah Jessica Parker on the show. There was this running gag that she was going to get married to herself, that she was in love with herself. She wore a necklace with her name on it. How much of a narcissist you have to be? You're wearing a necklace with your own name on it. Hello. But we actually found this clip from Sex in the City that I think relates to this. Take a look. Hi, it's Carrie Bradshaw. I wanted to let you know that I'm getting married to myself. Oh.
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Podcast Host (Link Lauren)
Bye. I am telling you, this 40 year old girl, Britney, who's in the New York Times throwing herself her own non wedding wedding she has to have seen that Sex and the City episode, in my opinion, okay? But I think she's a little kooky and nuts. I also think her 35 guests, her friends and family, and childhood friends who they say traveled far and wide to celebrate with her, I think y' all are also crazy. Okay? If you guys went to do an intervention, that would make sense to me. If you went to watch the spectacle, that would make sense to me. But anybody who shows up at this cockamamie non wedding wedding without a groom, you need help, okay? You need help. So anybody out there, if you're having a wedding to yourself, please drop a comment. This is a new trend I've never heard of, okay? I think it's okay to just say, look, I'm single and I'm going to be happy that I'm single. I'd also love to hear from you guys because I think you might have some opinions on this. Now, speaking of delusional women, I want to switch topics to Meghan Markle. On our last episode on Monday, we discussed this female feminist retreat that she's throwing in Australia. In about two weeks, we'll be covering this. I think it's actually 10 days from now. So people are paying thousands of dollars, okay, to go sit in a dingy hotel conference room and listen to Megan Markle, I guess, espouse life advice. I guess she's going to be giving business advice. But every business she has started has failed. And I didn't expect you guys to have such an overwhelming reaction in the last episode to this. But look, okay, look at this conference room. Imagine you pay $3200 to go listen to an ex duchess, an ex duchess tell you how to live your life, okay? This is a woman with all of the privileges afforded to her a rich, famous husband. She lives in a mansion in Montecito. And I feel terrible for these women who are paying thousands of dollars to go listen to Meghan Markle and a cheap conference room under dingy fluorescent lighting with, you know, a smorgasbord of, you know, some food thrown out on a table. Absolute, utter calamity. But that's their cross to bear. That's their prerogative. Now, speaking of her businesses, right, as this retreat approaches, there are actually some pictures and videos that have come out from the company. And we have those will put them up on the screen. You can actually see they're showing off kind of the rooms and the amenities and where you might be staying if you come to the conference. This is the conference room that they seem to be really proud of. So I have heard that ticket sales are not great, which could explain why they are doing a blitz to push this. I think most people have common sense and they don't want to come here. Life advice from Meghan Markle. Now, the journalism world has also sort of turned on Meghan Markle. Vanity Fair put out this expose a few days ago where they list every single business Meghan Markle has had that has failed. And actually there's this cover of Vanity Fair called American Hustle that they had a little bit while ago. And so Vanity Fair, they've been open to calling out Meghan and Harry because these are two little hucksters, right? They're two little hucksters. They start a business, a few weeks later, they're over it, right? Meghan Markle, she was going to start, as ever, and it was going to be this huge lifestyle company. She was trying to rival, you know, Mother Goop with Gwyneth Paltrow. She was going to rival Mother Goop. She did a couple of jams and jellies, she sent some dog biscuits to her friends, and that was the end of it. So they really are this American Hustler couple. But Vanity Fair, I want to go through some of these businesses Meghan Markle has had. And then I'll tell you why this is important. So they had the Netflix project, Harry and Megan, that was only six episodes. They did Heart of Invictus, that was five episodes. They did With Love, Megan, they that only had two, eight episode seasons and a holiday special. They did the Girl Scout cookie special, which I thought was pretty ridiculous. She also did her podcast, Confessions of a Female Founder. I think she only did about nine or ten episodes of that entire podcast, Confessions of a Female Founder. So basically, everything Megan Markle touches, she gets bored with, right? She goes from one passion to the next, okay? One passion project to the other. And it's this sort of like manic jump from thing to thing. There's a reason we don't hear from Prince Harry much anymore. And the reason, I think, is a slap in the face. I think it's a slap in the face that she's going and speaking at conferences, that she's acting like she's this female founder, that she's acting like she's this incredible entrepreneur. It's a slap in the face because 39.2% of small businesses in this country are owned by women, right? There are incredible women running businesses. I have friends who own clothing stores. I have friends who are doing this great needlepoint embroidery. Embroidery business that they started with their family businesses of all different shapes and sizes that are run by women. These are women who start their businesses from scratch, okay? They have to go to the bank and beg for a loan, beg, barter and steal to get their businesses off the ground. Meghan Markle, right? They were given millions of dollars from Netflix. She was British royalty, okay? Hollywood rolled out the red carpet for her. She's all of these privileges that normal women and men do not have when they are trying to start a small business. And she doesn't even respect her own businesses, okay? She starts something, then she's over it. She does this, then she moves on to the next. Oh, she was going to do Netflix. Now Netflix is done with her. Everything she does collapses. And then she has the audacity to go out there and speak like a female founder. The female entrepreneurs that I could see someone paying to go listen to are people who started a business in their bedroom with absolutely nothing and they grew it into a massive conglomerate, right? I would go and hear from that person. I want to hear from working class Americans who are running small businesses and I want to know, okay, what went wrong with shipping and packaging? What were some of the pitfalls you experienced in the first year or two getting your business off the ground? That's who I want to go hear from. But Meghan Markle is sort of cosplaying a female founder when all she found was a rich, famous husband, which you guys know I give her credit for, okay? She bagged the most eligible bachelor on earth. A guy with major mommy issues, okay? Maybe not the sharpest tool in the shed, but handsome, good looking, royalty, okay? Might not have a Mensa level iq, but if you're royalty, okay, we're willing to do a lot. So Meghan Markle, she bagged the most eligible bachelor on earth. Nothing she did before that was ever a hit. She wasn't on a huge hit show. She was trying to hustle and make it in Hollywood. She had a little blog. Every woman on earth has a blog these days. I mean, I think. I think everyone I know, okay, is running a blog and trying to influence. I think my mailman is also an influencer, okay? Filming videos out the driveway like everybody is trying to influence. Meghan Markle is not special, but she's so delusional and she's this grifter that she's going to go out there and pretend to be a female founder. So kudos to Vanity Fair for listing some of her businesses. There are actually way more that they could have listed. But they were like, listen, we don't have the time, we don't have the energy. So it'll be interesting to see what happens with the conference. We'll be back covering it and just sort of seeing what goes down. I think there are going to be some sleuths and some spies on the inside and seeing exactly what she says, seeing how it goes. It'll be interesting to see if the people who paid 3200 get a solo shot with Megan. My guess is because of the backlash, they will because of all the backlash. They're like, look, we got to give these people a solo shot if they're paying thousands and thousands of dollars, but we got to pay some bills really quickly of our own. And then we'll be right back this spring. 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Podcast Host (Link Lauren)
Well, Gavin Newsom's wife is the gift that keeps on giving. There's nothing I want more than for Jennifer Newsom just to keep talking between now and 2028. Jennifer, listen. Listen up, honey. Do not stop talking, okay? Don't stop talking. Don't listen to the people around you. Keep telling stories. Keep talking about your philosophies and your ideologies because everybody online has come to the conclusion in our opinions, you're cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs, okay? You are bat s H I t insane. Okay? I want to go through two clips that have gone viral recently. So Jennifer Newsom, she went viral yesterday because she told this story about visiting prison prisoners at San Quentin and running over and killing her sister. Take a look.
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Jennifer Newsom
I lost my older sister a few days before my seventh birthday and I blame myself for her death. And I share that because that they ultimately were accused of committing these violent crimes and sentenced for life. And I think it shocked them that this, you know, blonde lady who was, you know, the interviewing them had a similar story, was perhaps in the wrong place at the wrong time and. But wasn't punished the way they were because clearly it was an accident, but that theirs was probably an accident too.
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Podcast Host (Link Lauren)
So this is more of Democrats soft on crime policy. She is telling prisoners that they are there because something they did was an accident. Okay? I had an accident when I was six years old. So you're in here because of an accident, okay? What if someone like murdered 15 people? Okay? Bank robbery, like these aren't all accidents, okay? But the Democrats are always going to side with prisoners, criminals, illegals. That's always what they're going to do. Okay? Jennifer Newsom, she's literally nuts. Okay? And Jennifer Newsom, for her to be so soft on crime, she travels with armed guards and security and lives in a nice home, okay? She's the first partner of California. She doesn't call herself the first lady. She's the first partner of California. But what really stuck out to people online is did she just slip in there that she killed her little sister? Apparently, from what I found online, she allegedly was in a golf cart accident when she was six years old and she backed into her older sister Stacy, who was 8 years old, on a family vacation in Hawaii. So did we just find out that she backed into her sister and that is a family secret or have people known about this? If you've known about this, let me know. But I think this is the first time millions of people realized, oh, this is kind of weird. And I honestly don't blame Jennifer Newsom. I blame the family because the parents. Why are the parents letting the six year old run around in a golf cart on vacation in Hawaii? This is like White Lotus. This is like a script or a storyline you would see in White Lotus on hbo. Max. Okay? This is some spooky, kooky stuff right here. The six year old backs into the sister with the golf cart in Hawaii. Something is fishy, something is rotten in Denmark. And a lot of people have said, why doesn't Gavin Newsom tell his wife to stop talking? How can you tell your wife to stop talking when she has so much dirt on you? Okay. Jennifer Newsom has children with Gavin. She's been around for years and years, I think 20 years, God knows how long. She knows where everybody is buried. Gavin Newsom can't tell Jennifer Newsom anything. Okay? Because she could turn around and say, remember back in 2012 on June 3rd, you did that. I'm going to go tell this. She probably knows all the things about Gavin Newsom that the public would like to know. And that's why he's got to keep her placated. He's got to let her go do what she wants to do and give these ridiculous speeches. But it becomes clear every single day she's kind of insane. So another one of Jennifer Newsom's crusades. She really has this war against men and masculinity and she's trying to take down young men. We have a clip. Take a look.
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Jennifer Newsom
Boys that spend time online are moving a little bit. I'm trying not to be political here, but are moving to the right and being sort of influenced by the Andrew Tate's and some of that sort of alt right socialization online that we know is very, very dangerous. My husband and I were alarmed when our kids were watching sports online and my son knew about Andrew Tate and thought he was pretty cool and thought that his Republican grandfather, who's not a Trumper but a fiscal conservative, thought that my father would. Would like Andrew Tate. So that's scary.
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Podcast Host (Link Lauren)
So what's scary to Jennifer Newsom is that her sons might be moving to the right. The reason your kids are going online and they're looking at, quote unquote, conservative influencers and podcasters is because, as we learned in our last episode, you like to give your little boys dolls to play with when you read them stories. You say that you change the gender of the main character to be female so your kids can know that women's stories matter. You talk all the time about deconstructing gender roles and how limiting gender norms can be. Young boys with that testosterone, once they hit puberty, they don't want to hear all of that. Crap. Jennifer Newsome, okay? And what she considers alt right and far right more often than not is just common sense. You know, the fact that her sons probably believe there are two genders. Maybe her kids are rooted in faith. Maybe they want, you know, secure borders, they want common sense policies. She probably considers that far right because she's such a far left progressive. I mean, her policies are almost Marxist and anti American. I think when you're trying to confuse little boys and trip them up and mess with their gender, and that's very sick. That's a sickness, in my opinion. And there's a reason Jennifer Newsom should not be near anyone else's children and she shouldn't be in a position of power. But I think we've exhausted Jennifer Newsom. God knows what we will uncover between now and the next episode will probably continue to find out more about her. Because every time she opens her mouth, she's telling prisoners about running over her sister, allegedly when she was 6. Her young boys, they go on the Internet and they believe they're two gender. Suddenly she thinks her kids are far right and being shoved, you know, with propaganda. So Jennifer Newsom, she'll keep talking and Gavin won't do anything to stop her. The last thing I'll say really quickly is there was this Axios article where they talked about how Gavin Newsom is trying to be more culturally normal. Well, if he's trying to be culturally normal, this is not helping. Okay? The Democrats have a major problem we're about to get to in a second with seeming normal, okay? As much as they try to attack the Republicans and attack the right and attack conservatives and Democrats are insane. Listen to Jennifer Newsom, one of the most prominent Democrat women in the country right now, and how she speaks in this weird psycho babble. So Democrats do have a problem trying to seem culturally normal. Culturally normal. But this isn't helping you. Gavin Newsom, actually. But he can't divorce her because she probably has all the dirt and blackmail on him that we could only imagine. Now, really quickly, there is a CNN poll that is going viral from Harry Enton, and it shows us just how bad the Democrat Party is doing now. There are millions and millions of Americans who I think aren't so enamored with either party right now. I think most Americans are actually independent thinkers. If you look at a lot of the data, there are people who voted twice for Obama and then voted for Trump in 2016. That's something Hillary didn't expect. I think she thought she had all of the Obama coalition Unlocked People will vote for candidates who are compelling and interesting to them. They're not loyal blindly to a party, okay? And so I'm going to say that first and foremost, there are people who are fed up with both parties. But when you look at the Democrats, okay, and you live in a two party system right now, how can you go and support some of what is going on? And so I want to put this first poll up, okay? This is a poll about midterm years with a GOP president, okay? The Democrats are only up 5. If you look at past years, they were up 11 points, up 8 points. They are only up 5. And this is with the entire mainstream media behind them, attacking the president, constantly trying to stop his agenda, all of the social media wars. The Democrats are still only up 5 because they can't overcome bad policies. Now let's put up number seven, okay? This is the Democrats and that favorability right now. If you look at the Republican Party and midterms year, in midterm years with a GOP president, the Republicans are up 5. In the past, Democrats were up 12. They were up 18 points. They were up 12 and 18 points. The Republicans are still up in terms of favorability in this midterm cycle compared to Democrats. Now, will Republicans hold the House? I don't know. Will they hold the Senate? I don't know what's going to happen. I don't have a crystal ball in November. But what this data shows us, even on cnn, they have to admit, as much as people want to call out both parties, as much as people are fed up, I think with a lot of politics in general right now, I think people are fatigued. The Democrats, they want men and women's sports, open borders, criminals running amok on the streets. They want to deconstruct and get rid of gender norms, as Gavin Newsom's first partner, Jennifer is telling us, right? They have these radical ideologies and policies. They want to keep importing people into our country who hate us, who don't respect our customs and norms. That is the foundation of the Democrat Party, okay? The Democrat nominee in 2028, it might not be Gavin Newsom. It might be like a transgender person with a trend like teardrop tattoo, okay? They're going to put Dylan Mulvaney with a teardrop tattoo and a couple of members of MS.13 up at the convention. That's the Democrat base right now, okay? Trans people and illegal migrant criminals. That is who they want to support above all else. It doesn't matter if 80% of Americans say they don't want men and women's sports. Even in a New York Times poll, the Democrats are going to fight to keep boys in women's sports and in their locker rooms. Like there's something really sick going on with the Democrats and it's been happening in the last few years and it's just reached fever pitch. And so it was funny to see the folks on CNN shocked. They were genuinely shocked that Republicans had a higher net favorability, way higher than the Democrats right now, than the Democrats in past cycles who used to have up 18 points, up 11 points, 10 points, you name it, okay? We've never seen anything like this. And it's because you just can't overco insane, crazy policies, okay? Most Americans, most working class Americans, they don't want to hear all this liberal garbledygook that we get from Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom and J.B. pritzker, okay? They want criminals to stay in prison. They want borders to be secure. They want men and women's sports to be for men and women, okay? They want common sense policies. And you can't continue pushing radical ideologies and expect your favorability to go up. But we got to pay some bills really quickly. We have a quick 60 second ad and then we're back, okay, with a story about Meryl Streep, Anna Wintour, Vogue and the Devil Wears Prada remake. Okay, we'll be back. Everybody's talking about weight loss injections because the results are so dramatic. They work by lowering blood sugar and reducing appetite. But 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. Well, listen up because that is exactly why doctors created a weight loss supplement called Lean. And the results are remarkable. 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What a snooze fest. What a depressing bore. But I will go see the Devil Wears Prada because you know what? It's date night. It's something to go do. And I'll get to relay what happened to you guys. But the cast of the Devil Wears Prada, they've done these photo shoots with Vogue recently. Vogue has been very involved in the rollout of the films. And on the COVID of Vogue right now, okay, you have Anna Wintour and Meryl Streep. Now, obviously, Meryl Streep's character in the Devil Wears Prada is based off of Anna Wintour and Vogue and working at the company and working at Conde Nast. And there are some folks who are saying, oh, we love this. We love seeing them together. We love seeing them playing these characters and being on the COVID of Vogue. I actually have a different take. Yes, it is tongue in cheek. It is self aware for Anna Wintour to play a version of herself. But this is an accomplished woman, right, who has been running a massive business for decades. And what this shows is no matter how successful you are, no matter where you come from in life, if you stay in the limelight long enough, you end up playing a caricature of yourself. You end up playing this sort of version cartoon person that people expect from you. And that's what we're seeing with Anna Wintour, right? She's playing this caricature. And I also think it's a little bit of desperation because print sales are so, so down in the United States right now. Print sales are down that Anna Wintour has put herself finally on the COVID of Vogue. But it's almost like Oprah Winfrey, y' all are ever at, you know, the checkout at the supermarket getting your groceries, and you see Oprah's magazine. Oprah always puts herself on the COVID okay? Oprah, for some reason, all she does is put herself on the COVID of the magazine every single month. I guess that's what Anna Wintour is doing. But Anna Wintour, a year ago, she never would have done this. She never would have done this. There's something very downhill about it. I think in their minds, they probably think it's avant garde. It's interesting. We're going to put her on the COVID with Meryl Streep. These are two women. They're both 76. The photographer, Annie Leibovitz, is 76. They're celebrating women of all different ages. That's great. I don't care how old they are. But there's something that feels very end of days about it for the print industry. When Anna Wintour is putting herself on the COVID of Vogue, okay, Instead of highlighting other interesting stories across the country, that's when you know the print industry is going down. In the article's title, it's titled Meryl Streep and Anna Wintour on power, Fashion and acting the part. Now, they did this whole interview, okay, about feminism and being women. And I want to read you this quote that stuck out to me. This is from Meryl Streep. I'm stunned at how women in power have to have bare arms on television while men are covered in shirts and ties or suit. There is an apology built into women. They have to show their smallness. It's compensatory. The advancements of women in the second half of the 20th century and the beginning of this one have been destabilizing. It's as if women have to say, I'm little. I can't walk in these shoes. I can't run. I'm bare. Not threatening. What is this elite, liberal, bizarre language? Women have to apologize for themselves. They have to show their bare arms on television. Women can wear whatever the hell they want in America. What is even going on? And Meryl Streep, she's probably worth hundreds of millions of dollars. She's been famous for decades. Anna Wintour is worth God knows how much. She's been in the limelight for decades and has had power. And they're sitting around complaining. It's still not good enough. Women have to say, I'm little, I can't run. I'm bare. Not threatening. It's destabilizing. What about just saying, thank you, thank you for my career, thank you to the public for supporting me? You know, not everything has to be a feminist manifesto. And this is why Vogue is going down, okay? This is why print sales are going down. Because Vogue has decided. And you can even look at who Anna Wintour is friends with, right? She's best friends with Huma Abedin and Alex Soros. I don't think she has a single conservative friend in her Rolodex. The reason the print sales have gone down. They have decided to buddy up to the Liberal elites, they put Jill Biden on the COVID three times, Michelle Obama on the COVID three times. They're really only interesting and interested in highlighting these liberal stories that appeal to about 10% of the population, Right? The audience that watches MSNBC religiously, the audience that listens to Pod Save America. That's who Vogue is going for. And if they can't figure out with all of their expertise and how long Anna Wintour has been in this industry, if she can't figure out why sales are going down, then maybe she wasn't cut out for this job. All right? Maybe it's time to really move on. And she's tried to pass the torch to this new girl, Chloe Malley, Chloe Mall. And I feel like she's throwing her a bone by putting herself on the COVID of Vogue. But if you don't start highlighting conservative women, independent women, Republican women, women who have lived different lives than you and your elite friends, then you deserve to have your business go down, because the country is very diverse. They are a cornucopia of stories that you could be telling right now. And what does Anna Wintour decide to do in this midterm year with everything going on? She puts herself on the COVID of Vogue with Meryl Streep playing caricatures of who they really are.
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Okay? Performing who they really are. What Anna Wintour could do. I'm just brainstorming here, okay? Anna Wintour could go and find women who are running small businesses, female entrepreneurs, women who are working on farms, women who are working in environments that are unsavory, right? Highlight those women's stories, okay? Get those stories out there. No matter if they're Republican, Democrat, Independent, who cares? That is how you could actually sell the magazine, okay? That's how you could actually move the needle. Because the era we're in now, I guess nobody's told them this at Vogue. We're in an era now where people want real American human stories. People online, they don't care what Meryl Streep has to say. They care about what Jane Doe has to say who's filming a reel on Instagram. Right? Everybody's become a little bit of a celebrity because everybody has the opportunity now to film and share what they're going through and their insights on the world. And so I think what Vogue should do, if I were them, move to highlight those stories and focus less on buddying up to Hollywood and the Democratic elite establishment. Right? Meryl Streep gets enough press. Anne Hathaway gets enough press. These women are all over magazines all the time on red carpets. I think if Vogue really wants to break the Internet, bring in some women who are doing interesting things across the aisle. Well, my friends, thank you so much for tuning into Spot on with Link Lauren. I love that we can cover a wide range of topics on the show. I can't wait to read all of your comments about Meghan Markle's retreat and a wintour, putting herself on the COVID of Vogue. And of course, that woman who threw her own wedding. She's throwing her. She's throwing her own wedding. This is what's going on in 2026. Okay, I also want to hear from you guys on the Democrats favorability. I want to hear in the comments why you think the Democrat Party has lost their way. But we will see you on the next one. By.