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on the boy of the hour do you have any reviews i only we do five stars cozy smart

girlie incisive love this so much i think i'd have friends if i lived in the UK that is by

Mikhail Gila health that's so sweet that's. That's very, very nice. Thank you so much. Yeah, thank you so much. What a cheat after not having some of us. Yeah, we're finally out of the review drought. Don't speak too soon. One drop of water is not out of the drought. Yeah. That was very, what's the word? Insightful. No. Uh, romantic. No. Creative. No. Beautiful.

No. What is it? I don't know. That's fine. I'm sure someone will tell us. I think I meant poetic. Poetic?

Famously love poetry. What are we talking about today, I all need?

Today we're talking about the inauguration of Donald Trump and the fashion industry being

fucking bootlickers.

Which is a bit on the nose, isn't it?

More specifically, I would actually argue, is the fashion press. So I feel like if you

follow any kind of fashion Twitter accounts or Instagram accounts or like anyone vaguely who likes

or posts about fashion, you probably saw something about Melania's hat. Yeah. Melania wore a

fucking disgusting hamburger hat. Right, you did't be called a hambrugler, yeah. Have you not? Is that an original gamble? No, no, it's not. Oh, that's so funny. You should have blanked it was because I really did just believe you there. It's the hamburger hat. It's like hiding her eyes. It's like a wide rim. People are saying like she wore it so that Trump couldn't kiss her and hide her expression.

They're like, oh my God, slay my queen, Melania. Don't put up for this while cucking her husband.

Cucking her husband. It made me, the first thing I thought when I saw it and you can't see half her faces, remember when everyone was saying that she had like lookalikes going around? Yeah, well, see Hamstitch is trying to look for press surrounding these lookalikes and you couldn't see any in America so maybe this is like how, like there were no American articles so got me, got me to to thinking no it didn't

I don't know why I said that

me thinks

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