Do you remember in America where hostesses used to greet you with a smile when you entered a restaurant?

Dressing grooms used to be clean and shopping malls weren't so dirty.

Airlines actually got you where you needed to go and Uber drivers could communicate with you in English.

Buildings weren't covered in graffiti and drug addicts weren't openly shooting up in the streets.

These may seem like small, unimportant things, but there are a microcosm of a greater issue.

Streets are filthy because no one cares enough to clean them up.

Workers lack basic communication skills and pride in their jobs, and that's just the expectation now.

We've all been conditioned to accept this degraded society as our new normal,

and that's why it only continues to get worse. We're forced to accept the ugly as beautiful,

and able to Karen, if we ask somebody to do their job properly. We're told to applaud the

subpar and uplift the mediocre in society. Well, I'm tired of it. The United States is an empire

reaching its final stages of decline, and this episode is dedicated to the brutal truth of how

we've gotten here. Welcome back to another episode of Rapid Fire. My name is Savannah Hernandez.

I was supposed to be here with you on Monday, but I was stuck traveling from Florida back to Texas

at the airport for three days. Yes, I had the most horrific airline experience of my life,

but before we get into that story and why I'm so upset about the absolute degradation of the

United States of America about how we are rotting from the inside out,

I just want to say thank you to every single one of you who support my show,

who meet me at events, who are kind enough to come up to me when you recognize me on the street

and tell me that you watch the show and that you support my work. Now, it was horrific

being stuck at the airport for two and a half days, dramatic saying three days, but two and a half.

I was stuck on a plane on the tarmac for three hours and this girl came up to me. I believe her

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