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Frigey Mini: Yet another regular person mountbatten-windsor update · Journey to the Fringe

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  Now, Chelsea, there's one lovable man that doesn't
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  have much going for him in his life that we like
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  to do a follow -up on every now and then. His
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  name is British Andy, or regular person Andy.
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  I was like, there's too many to list. I know.
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  Who is it going to be? But I'm just seeing his
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  beautiful face right here. They never pick a
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  nice picture. I love that. And, like, he's wearing
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  a suit. They really, like, clearly made a point
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  of making him look like an absolute ass. I love
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  that. I love that. I got a story here from two
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  days ago. I got so fucking fed up with this guy.
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  I just love that they take all the worst photos.
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  This article comes from May 29th from the BBC,
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  written by Sean Coughlin and Ben King. Article
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  title, Palace was handed Andrew's controversial
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  envoy email six years ago. Oh, I saw, I came
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  across this article. I didn't read it though.
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  Buckingham Palace was handed email six years
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  ago that would have shown that Andrew Mountbatten
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  Windsor, which I can't even say formerly known
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  as Prince Andrew, was sharing confidential government
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  information while a trade envoy according to
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  court documents. It has emerged that an archive
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  of 30 ,000 emails containing information about
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  the former prince's controversial financial dealings
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  was given to the Lord Chamberlain, the most senior
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  officer in the royal's household in 2020. The
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  emails had been taken from a personal business
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  contact of the former Prince Andrew. When asked
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  about what happened to the emails, Buckingham
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  Palace said, Since there is no ongoing police
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  inquiry concerning Mr. Mountbatten -Windsor,
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  they're doing it too. It is not possible to provide
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  any comment on these matters. Last week, Thames
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  Valley Police issued a fresh appeal for people
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  to come forward with information following Mountbatten
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  -Windsor. Wow, they are just... Is that dead
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  naming him or is that just like... I don't know,
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  it sounds like they're... Yeah. Isn't that what
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  he is now? It just sounds like they're kind of
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  bullying him or... picking on him with it, doesn't
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  it? By just, like, saying it as much as they
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  can. Yeah, and not, like, Prince Andrew or Andrew.
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  Or Mr. Mountbatten -Windsor. Just following Mountbatten
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  -Windsor's arrest. That's nicer than I'd call
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  him. Following Mountbatten -Windsor's arrest
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  on suspicion of misconduct in public office.
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  But a search of court documents has revealed
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  that a large cache of emails relating to Mountbatten
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  -Windsor's finances has already been sent to
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  palace officials, years before the current inquiries
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  began. The emails have been subject of a legal
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  dispute and document from a high court judgment
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  in April of 2021, show that a copy of the archive
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  had been provided to the Lord Chamberlain in
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  May of 2020. In June 2022, a subsequent High
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  Court ruling refers to an email dated 10th of
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  July 2020 saying the emails had been, quote,
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  delivered to Buckingham Palace, end quote. This
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  was after the then Duke of York had stepped down
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  as a working royal in the wake of the BBC interview
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  in November 2019. Oh, bringing up good memories
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  there. There's a slight problem with the sweating
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  because I have a... peculiar medical condition
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  which is that I don't sweat or I didn't sweat
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  at the time and that was actually yes I didn't
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  sweat at the time because I had suffered what
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  I would describe as an overdose of adrenaline
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  in the Falklands War when I was shot at and I
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  simply it was it was it was almost impossible
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  for me to sweat and it's only because I have
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  done a number of things The contents of that
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  archive, with emails up to June 2013, are not
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  fully known, but there have been glimpses of
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  how relevant they could be. Earlier this year,
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  the Telegraph published email showing Mountbatten
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  -Windsor had requested a confidential briefing
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  from Treasury officials in 2010, then shared
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  it with a personal business contact, giving it
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  to him, quote, before you make your move, end
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  quote. So it's just some nice insider trading
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  right there. The briefing had been about problems
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  in Iceland's baking industry, and the recipients
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  had been Jonathan Rowland, whose father, David
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  Rowland, had taken over the Luxembourg arm of
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  a failed Icelandic bake cop thing. which became
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  Bank Havaland. Jonathan Rowland previously confirmed
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  to the BBC that these published messages about
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  Icelandic Bank had been taken from his account
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  and were part of legal proceedings. It indicates
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  that they would have been part of the archives
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  later sent to the palace. And it was in those
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  court battles over the alleged theft of the emails
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  that it was revealed that copies had been given
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  to the palace. The emails have a particular significance
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  as they relate to a highly controversial time
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  in Mountbatten -Windsor's financial dealings
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  with the Rowlands and Banca Hovland, which later
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  faced sanctions from regulators in the UK and
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  the EU. While it is not known what happened to
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  the emails shared with the palace, the release
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  of the Epstein files earlier this year in the
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  US showed Mountbatten -Windsor's closeness to
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  the Rowlands. The Epstein files show Mountbatten
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  -Windsor promoting their business ventures and
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  gave personal assurances for David Rowland as
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  his, quote, trusted money man, end quote. Ex
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  -wife Sarah Ferguson was also recorded as receiving,
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  quote, Rowland bank loan, end quote. According
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  to court documents, the email sent to the palace
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  had been taken from Jonathan Rowland's account
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  after a dispute with a business colleague. They
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  have been obtained by a retail entrepreneur,
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  Kevin Stanford, former majority owner of All
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  Saints, who had been in separate dispute. over
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  investments in the cop thing bank. Court documents
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  say that Stanford offered the archive of emails
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  to the authorities in Monaco and Luxembourg and
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  shared them with a number of people, including
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  Lord Chamberlain. In 2020, the post of Lord Chamberlain
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  was held by Lord Peel, whom the BBC has contacted,
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  but Buckingham Palace has responded on his behalf.
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  It's a role, according to the Royal Family website,
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  which includes, quote, overseeing the conduct
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  and general business of the royal household,
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  end quote. The emails were given to the palace
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  during the reign of the late Queen Elizabeth
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  II. There has been tougher approach to Mountbatten
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  -Windsor under the reign of King Charles, including
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  taking away his titles after Mountbatten -Windsor's
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  arrest, a statement from the king said the law
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  must take its course. That's probably far enough.
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  There's actually quite a bit left of the article.
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  We've already established you can't read it all.
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  We can't. Sometimes we do. But I think it's pretty
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  clear that they were very aware. even before
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  the Epstein stuff came out, that he was a pretty
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  terrible person. I think we did know that, yeah.
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  I think it's been known for a long time that
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  he's a very shitty person. I love the decline
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  we've seen in his naming practice through the
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  years of reporting on him. I did have to pull
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  up this picture that you're looking up of him
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  in like mid -sentence, mid -word even. He's got
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  to get those front teeth fixed. They don't look
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  great. And I hope that he doesn't, even though
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  he's, I mean, he's suffered a status downgrade
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  to Mountbatten -Windsor. Should be down to regular
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  person Andy. But it's here that I'd like to remind
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  everybody listening and share this with more
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  for this reminder. There are more of us than
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  there are of them. The royals I'm talking about,
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  but also the people who aren't releasing the
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  Epstein files, the billionaires, the people that
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  are controlling all of this. And I'm just so
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  sick of them now. Like, we have more control
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  over this than they'd like us to think. They
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  sure do. And that is kind of why there's been
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  a weird, I don't know, far right move by tech
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  bros. Yeah. Weirdly enough. And I feel like I'm
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  just going to put a caveat on this. It is not
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  a call to action. It's a call to discussion of
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  what we can do as a fairly large group who is
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  being, I don't know, looked down upon by an upper
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  class who thinks they can do anything they want.
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  Like, we're the ones that have the power, people.
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  And I'm just so sick of hearing all of this about
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  all this stuff and how they're not facing consequences.
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  Like, all he's getting is a downgrade in his
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  status. Actually, now that I think about it,
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  it wouldn't be considered regicide to kill Prince
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  Andrew because he's just a common person. In
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  fact, I think there might be, they might have
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  stripped his... can't be murdered rights from
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  criminal law. It's true because he did have something.
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  What right did he have stripped from him? I can't
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  remember. I just love his downfall. He's such
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  a piece of shit. He's so good. He's such a piece
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  of shit. I just want this to happen to all of
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  them. But his is so comical because he just,
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  like, he's an idiot. Like, he's just a big piece
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  of shit idiot. Who thinks he's better than everybody?
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  Yeah, and so this fall from grace, I'm not saying
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  that I wouldn't love a fall from grace of anybody
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  that is in power. Take any billionaire, for instance.
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  So to all those orcas, I say sink the rich and
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  hopefully you become wolves again and then start
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  sinking humans. They're land yachts. Yeah, they're
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  land yachts. Anyhow, whales listening because
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  we know you're listening. You've got 48 hours.
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  Get those legs. Get those land yachts. Anyhow,
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  bye. Bye.