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"Get a sharp shooter" Tourism executive condemned for Trump comment. · The Slippery Slope

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  Well, I read this article and I had to take a little time
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  because myself, I read the article and I just start
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  thinking the stupidity of the person and my inner monologue
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  starts going off and I'm just like ranting to myself about the
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  stupidity of the things that were said by this person.
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  And I think even even more so is the, the lack of the, the lack
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  of thought, the lack of self reflection, the inability to
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  take accountability for the words that you say.
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  No self reflection, just complete, just complete,
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  complete. That's a word, just complete,
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  insufferable hubris. Just stupidity and hubris,
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  that's all. I can think when you have
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  someone say something like this and you're supposed to be this
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  kind of public figure, you'll build as a so-called expert and
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  this is what you say. So anyway, my inner monologue
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  kind of like had a bit of a rant and then I'm like, OK, I don't
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  want to. I don't want to say all these
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  other things that I was thinking about, but let's read the
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  article together. Get my OK, so this came out
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  career mail. Nice person from Queensland.
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  From Queensland. Some people should just not
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  speak. Really, really get a
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  sharpshooter tourism executive condemned for Trump comments
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  It's the QLD tourism executive has apologised after suggesting
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  Donald Trump's assassination would boost the supply at an
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  industry events. There's her face right there.
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  Look, isn't that just the face of that's the fight?
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  It's see her face like that and you go, Oh yeah, OK.
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  She should be talking at a public event for sure.
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  Tourism executive Melanie Anderson reference the possible
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  assassination. A high-ranking QLD tourism
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  executive high-ranking. Dare I say she should not be any
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  kind of rank. She should be bang out the door.
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  She's apologized. Well, when you read what she
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  says, she hasn't really apologized.
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  Like I said, no accountability, No, no ability to reflect on
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  what she's saying. No taking account.
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  OK, I've said this. No, no, it's one of those
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  apologies where it's like, oh, I'm sorry that, you know, I'm,
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  I'm sorry that you, I'm sorry you felt this way.
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  I don't know. She's only saying this because
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  people have called her out. That's all.
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  So high-ranking QLD tourism executive has apologized for
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  sensationally declaring the assassination of U.S.
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  President Donald Trump could help boost the state's hotel
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  supply. QLD Tourism Industry Council
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  strategy and advocacy general manager Melanie Anderson was an
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  expert panelist. They got to stop using this word
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  expert. They've obviously don't
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  understand what expert means. It's lost all meaning.
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  Stop using the word. She was an expert panellist at
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  the Property Council of Australia's official QLD 2026
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  Hotel Outlook research launch. That's all one sentence.
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  There's no one. There's no one at the Courier
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  Mail know how to structure a sentence anymore.
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  That is way too long. It's basic, basic English
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  people. She made the poor joke in
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  response to a question about what her one priority would be
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  to help boost the state's hotel supply.
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  I would say get a sharpshooter for Donald Trump, she said.
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  Ha ha ha, how funny that would fix the problems right now and
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  let us get on with business. I I read things like this, like
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  these dumb comments and I just think, wow, reprobate mind the
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  inability to think clearly. We just, some people, just that
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  we, we've just lost it here in Australia.
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  So get a sharpshooter that would fix the problems right now and
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  let us get on with business. Yeah, OK.
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  Property Council executive, Queensland executive director.
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  I'm so ashamed, embarrassed that this is Queensland saying this.
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  This is the kind of stuff you'd expect to come out of someone's
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  mouth from Victoria or NSW. But Queensland.
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  Come on Brikey, so just care car have you pronounced that took to
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  the stage after the panel and distances her organization from
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  the comment. There's a picture of Trump there
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  after he got shot in the ear. Remember and remember someone
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  actually died when this happened.
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  Someone else actually died. So, you know, when you when
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  you're advocating for bullets to go flying around to kill one
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  person, remember other people quite often get injured too, you
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  clown. The Property Council does not
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  support or endorse the assassination of heads of state.
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  She told the audience of about 150 people at the lunch.
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  Asked by the Courier Mail to respond, QTIC chief executive
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  Natasia Wheeler notice it's all women.
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  It's all women in charge of this thing.
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  Condemned Miss Anderson's comments and said the matter was
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  being investigated. What's there to investigate?
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  She says it out in public. I never understood this whole
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  wheel. The matter is being
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  investigated. It you know, anyway comments
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  made today, it just getting the investigation.
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  It's just a copy out because it's just a copy out.
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  Basically you're saying, well, I just don't want to answer your
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  question. So I'm going to say the matter
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  is being investigated. As someone who's been a part of
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  actual investigations, you know, things where you have to
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  investigate because you don't know the truth, you don't know
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  what was said and what was done, and you're actually gathering
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  evidence. When the thing happens in front
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  of you, when you've got footage and you've got eyewitness
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  accounts and you've heard it yourself, what's there to
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  investigate? You go up there, you say numpty,
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  what are you doing? It's a 2 minute investigation.
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  What were you saying? Why?
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  Anyway, comments made today by QT IC team member at an industry
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  event was inappropriate and do not reflect the views or values
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  of our organization. Mrs. Wheeler said QTIC is
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  committed to supporting and advocating QLD's tourism
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  industry in a professional and respectful manner and there is
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  no place for those comments within our sector or our
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  organization. She should be fired.
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  Later, Miss Anderson issued an apology saying she regretted
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  making the comments. So like I said, there's no real,
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  there's no real self reflection, taking accountability.
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  It's just pure hubris. I apologise for causing offence.
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  That's always the, it's the lightweight, it's the what's
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  the, what was that brand that drink, the Claytons apology.
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  You know, I'm not really sorry. I don't think that I shouldn't
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  have said it. I'm just, I'm sorry that I
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  caused offence to you. I apologise for causing offence
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  and distracting from the event Missus Anderson said.
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  She added, I have worked in the QLD tourism industry for more
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  than 20 years and I've seen first hand how much the current
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  Middle East crisis is hurting QLD tourism operators,
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  businesses and communities. And she's talking like she's a a
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  war hero. I've seen the devastation that's
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  been caused by the destruction by the and you know, it just
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  touched my heart and I just said this.
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  What what is she even saying here?
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  I've seen all these things happen.
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  I've seen first hand because what you've been over in the
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  Middle East while they've been bombing and while everyone's
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  been fighting. Were you there in the Middle
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  East when in Iran, when, you know, it was only what not even
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  a year ago that Iran had was responsible for killing about 30
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  odd thousand of its own citizens, you know, 30 or
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  thousand of its own citizens. Or maybe when Hamas who was
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  supported by Iran went in and killed 1000 people in one day in
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  Israel. Were you there then?
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  Did you see all that? And that's why you've said all
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  these things So obviously Donald Trump.
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  So Trump survived 2 assassination attempts during
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  his 2024 campaign, including blah, blah, blah.
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  The most recent attempt on his life came last month when an
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  armed man rushed the Security Perimeter Property Council.
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  This is her Jess care car have you saying she was forced to
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  distance herself. Australians linked to comments.
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  This is actually links into another story that happened just
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  the other day too Linked to comments appearing to Insight.
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  The assassination of Mr. Trump have had their ability to travel
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  to the US impacted media personality and probably one of
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  the let's say one of the people who you just wish would not have
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  access to a telephone, social media, the Internet at all.
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  Abby Chatfield. I just, I don't understand why
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  anyone listens or watches her. I just, oh, you know, she, she,
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  I won't say anything because I'll say anything.
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  Media personality Abby Chatfield apologized earlier this month.
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  Again, her her apology too, was not really an, an actual
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  apology. It was just, oh, I'm sorry, you
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  know, I'm sorry you got offended and I'm sorry that I've been
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  caught saying these things. I'm sorry that you called me
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  out. Oh, and then she kind of
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  completely denies that. You've just all taken it the
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  right way. That's not the way I I meant it.
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  But when you look at what Abby Chatfield actually did say,
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  you're like, that's exactly what you meant.
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  So she apologized earlier this month for allegedly signaling to
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  American in cells to assassinate Mr. Trump in a video she posted
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  online last year. That's exactly what it comes
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  across to. It's funny because anyway, Jack
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  Field posted a 10 minute apology claiming the comments were she
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  made were taken out of context. Like I said, you watch her video
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  when the original video and you're like, there's no taking
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  it out of context. Again, someone who doesn't
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  understand the meaning of context, what it actually means.
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  It's like they just come up all if we say this phrase here,
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  everyone will go oh context. It's like, Oh yeah, if we say
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  expert, oh expert, they know context.
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  Again, things that we should stop saying if you don't know
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  what the meanings are. Her herbology came after
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  Australian musician boyfriend Adam Hyde, known professionally
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  as Kelly the cock holiday was denied re entry into the US at
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  the Canadian border midway through a tour.
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  It's a bit of a shame because I'm not a fan of, you know,
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  Peking Duck or Kelly Holder. You, you know, I'm not a big
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  fan, but I don't mind his music. But you know, some people just
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  need to, hey, if you're going to be a musician, be a musician and
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  don't say anything else. And remember, if you're going to
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  be a musician, you want to or you, you're going to be out
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  there in the public spotlight and you want to do these things.
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  You need a good and you're a man.
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  You need a good woman behind you.
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  If you're a woman, you need a good man behind you and you need
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  someone who knows how to not talk and not say rubbish that's
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  going to affect you because now oh Mr. Holiday is going to his
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  career is affected by his numpty girlfriend.
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  Holiday posted he was unsure why he was refused re entry despite
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  having proper visa documentation.
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  Here's the thing, we all know why.
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  OK it was you refused entry because Chatfield.
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  Chatfield can't just stop talking.
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  She just, you know, and her and her little apology are taken out
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  of context. But let's getting back to this
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  other, this other thing, this other.
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  Listen, I just really find it hard to comprehend how people
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  like this Melanie Anderson, a tourism executive.
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  Oh, you know what? What's the old the old proverb
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  about, you know, thinking before you speak, run everything
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  through the filter. You've got a brain, supposedly
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  you think about it before you just blurt it out and talk about
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  not being up to date, not really understanding geopolitics.
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  I mean, you know, come on. And we we blame it all at lay it
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  all at the feet of Trump. And then it's like, well, here's
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  a good thing. Let's just advocate for his
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  assassination. That that's intelligent.
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  The lack of intelligence of someone in her position for
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  saying something like that. Yeah, she should be ashamed.
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  She she needs to really reflect and apologize properly, reflect
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  on what she's saying and maybe just think, yeah, I just should
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  not have said it. Not just the whole, well, I'm
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  sorry if you were offended. Give a proper apology, you know,
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  think about this, if that was someone saying it about you or
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  about your husband or family or someone that you loved your
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  father, how would you feel about that then You just shouldn't say
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  things like that. But inability to think because
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  the mind has been decayed and reprobate mind is running
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  rampant throughout this nation. Unfortunately, it's here in QLD
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  by the truckload. Anyway, this is all just my
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  opinion and I'm J Fallon and thanks for listening to the
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  Slippery Slope podcast. They just feel