Am fascinated by people who seemingly can't go about a simple task, like picking up a pizza, without starting some sort of racial incident.

From the article:

> The woman in the video […] has since been charged with ethnic intimidation and harassment.

> "When we viewed the video, it was really over the top. It was a racially-fueled, profane rant directed at their heritage and it's not going to be tolerated," said Hatboro Chief of Police James Gardner.

Thank you for charging her with a crime.

If it was just some low-key racism we would have let it go. /s

Oh no not that! However will she cope with her slap on the wrist?

What crime would you charge her with?

More than a third degree misdemeanor

What crime though? Not saying she isn't a piece of shit just that besides harassment I don't think she committed any crime.

I haven’t seen the full report and file so it would be inappropriate of me to specify a particular crime without full knowledge of all the elements present.

However it is reasonable to comment that on the face of it and from the limited information available weighed with the lack of contra indications that her conduct rises above the level of the offense charged

That's OK. Be inappropriate

If I read the law correctly the ethnic intimidation charge is second degree misdemeanor.

​(b) Grading.--An offense under this section shall be classified as a misdemeanor of the third degree if the other offense is classified as a summary offense. Otherwise, an offense under this section shall be classified one degree higher in the classification specified in section 106 (relating to classes of offenses) than the classification of the other offense.

I leave being inappropriate to those charged with hate crimes 😉

There is no underlying offense reported which may be poor reporting. But as it stands I see it as a 3rd degree misdemeanor.

Ethnic intimidation is an add-on crime, which means that the crime cannot exist independently

Ethnic intimidation is graded one degree higher than the primary offense.

So if the primary offense of criminal mischief is a summary offense, the accompanying ethnic intimidation charge would be a third-degree misdemeanor.

However a first-degree misdemeanor terroristic threat motivated by racial hatred will be accompanied by an ethnic intimidation charge would be graded as a third-degree felony.

Amen

It said harassment.

"has since been charged with ethnic intimidation and harassment."

Guilty. Poor speed reading then not poor reporting 🤣. A summary offense on the face of it

I went and watched the video and was amazed at this woman. She flips from screaming racist crap to pulling her phone out and crying victim. I just wish they had kept recording so we could see what line of bull she lays on the cop that comes in.

Can’t a lady enjoy her SSRI’s Xanax and white wine in peace?

These articles keep referring to her as a CPA. Does anyone have more information because she does not come up as a Ceritified Public Accountant on https://cpaverify.org/

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Only one active individual named Bellew in the entire country and not her

Someone else was misidentified at first, and that person was a CPA.

If you don't know what you are talking about and need to use mental gymnastics, maybe just keep your mouth shut.

When she says, "Oh, I know you," to the cop, I knew she was a piece of shit.

This article got her to comment on the situation.

Waste of journalism, waste of public resources. Lady should have been banned and denied service. Classic example of how people can’t manage a little piece of shit. Bag it up and toss it out. Don’t smear it on my screen.

Good..no reason to act like that.

Its so calculated and smug.

At least she acknowledged it was wrong

Thanks for linking! I am glad she feels horrible about it and wants to apologize.

I love that he walked in while she was in full rant - which came to a stop in a loud screech. Rita Bellew. We shall hear from that misfit again.

You're denied service when you say, F YOU. When you pull this bs even in Pensyvliantucky you go directly to jail

Il bet everything I own she isn’t going to jail for words.

With a bunch of excuses for it. She’s only sorry because she is facing consequences for her actions.

How do you know my crazy bitch neighbor who wanted to call the cops on me because she was trespassing in my yard screaming threats about killing my dog?

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Getting downvotes cause people crave toxic racism content and outrageous penalties for words and waste of government resources and public works to garner ratings. When will you realize this is the content that keep you from doing anything positive. Your frequency is what you frequently. This is low frequency content that you crave.

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Oh she's horrified and feels terrible now that everyone was made aware of how much a piece of shit she is.

> she described herself as “emotionally unstable.” She’s dealing with multiple breast cancer diagnoses, Bellew said, and she’s a caregiver to her ill father.

The caretaker role is extremely hard, I’ve been there. * But* clearly she was spewing hatred that is deeply ingrained. I’m kind of disappointed she got her refund.

I’m sure she thinks she is the victim.

Acknowledged it was wrong bc she got caught. She still belives it.

Yep. When I hear a middle aged white guy saying "everything is so woke now you can hardly leave the house without being called a racist or a misogynist"

No, Todd, you can't leave the house with sexually harassing or racially antagonizing people. Everyone else is just fine.

She’s only admitting it was wrong because she was caught and it went viral. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have given a shit.

Fuck this bitch! I had testicular cancer and went though chemo in 2014 and was dealing with severe alcoholism/withdrawals and not once did I yell at a customer service worker or say anything racist. I hate when these blob people say “I’m not racist” and try to explain why they yelled crazy racist shit by saying they are stressed, newsflash Karen… YOU ARE RACIST!

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she took no responsibility for her actions, actually blamed her dying father for stressing her out, played the "poor me I'm sick" card, and then within a single breath had gone from being apologetic to playing the victim and saying she's being harassed.

That lady is a narcissist and a bully. Full stop.

I take care of my elderly gram and I know sometimes I get frustrated and short with folks. The thing is, even when I'm at my worst I never start saying racist shit.

Stupid bitch. Hope she enjoys the coverage.

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this lady 110% seems like the type to lie about having cancer because she got caught for this shit and is mortified

classic blob person 😂

Know what really gets at those minorities? Start crying about being white on video. What a piece of trash.

Nah. Now I’m a simple man. I see a racist and I want to see their lives ruined. So this coverage, that she got charged, and the pizza place doing good business is the exact kind response said words deserve. Be responsible for your words and deeds.

Cool. Good for the pizza man and his business. But she’s still not “going to jail” lol

So more people that don’t understand free speech. Ethnic intimidation? So another unconstitutional law. Don’t need to make up unconstitutional laws infringing on rights to arrest people. Disorderly conduct trespassing are just two valid reasons to arrest her. Oh a third disturbing the peace, now we can argue the merits and constitutionality of some of these but they are long standing laws not some new bullshit. Sorry to tell you freedom of speech protects ‘hate speech’ protects the racist and the worse among us. It’s easy to protect speech that is wholesome and universally accepted like puppies are cute, but it’s harder to protect speech you find abhorrent and offensive. But protected it is.

Yeah let’s ruin her life get her fired and push her to self delete herself am I right…. Fucking people today

And yet, here you are...so...

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If I recall it’s a misdemeanor and if she has no prior record I can’t imagine she’ll go to jail either. However, that’s not the important thing. The important thing is that, all things considered, it’s very much an open and shut case. I mean they got her on 4K here. She very likely, unless there is some kind of intervention resulting in the charges being dropped of course, to be found guilty.

Whenever she looks for a job that record will stay with her for at least a decade. The very public nature of this event, what she said, and the criminal record will insure no company will even remotely want to have anything to do with her.

This is why it’s important to be responsible for your words and deeds. Not just the neighborly thing to do. It can have terrible consequences as this lady will now find out.

Yea no doubt. The court of public opinion will put her in an social prison. Have a great day

Spoiler: She doesn't. She is only saying that because she was video taped and charged.

Sarcasm warning. For those that can’t understand sarcasm

100 percent she will have her head shaved for her next court appearance because of the “chemo.”

I’ll be very happy when my town isn’t on the news anymore. But very glad this was the response.

Seeing them jam packed with people is the best.

Wizened GenXer here and let me tell you my generation sucks and is an embarrassment. But to the point of your first sentence here's an anecdotal story about that.
I'm ex-military, was a paratrooper and then was attached to JSOC, spent time running with 7th SFG way back when. To be clear, I wasn't SF, I just happened to do early generation field sat phones (yes, as fucking heavy as you are imagining) and they were like, ooh, we can do comm links from anywhere in the world. We're taking your guys until we get our own. Also, for the purposes of this story, I was in a fraternity in college.

Anyway, fast forward to me in circa 2015, 4 kids now, coach in lacrosse, soccer, community activist. Daughter is playing travel lacrosse. There's this one family, kind of anti-social keep to themselves type, well, the parents are, kids were nice. Anyway, they are pre-MAGA Tea Party nut jobs. And the dad latches on to me cause word spread of my military service and he was also in a fraternity. On paper I am a right wingers wet dream. Except I am a pretty easy going left leaning type, big Teddy Roosevelt fan, very anti-religion, a weird blend of Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine. Like I am a big fan of capitalism, with regulations, big fan of freedom, with responsibility, big fan of discrimination, but on people's character, not demographics, big fan of what we do for the least amongst us is more important than what we do for the most entitled and so on.

We're at a tournament one day and with travel teams you have multiple teams designated by age, so my daughter was I think 5th/6th grade at the time. And the start of these things can be clusterfucks. Like 15 fields, 40 or so teams, poor signage, especially if you're new to the whole thing. I see this family with their daughter and she's in our program but probably a 3rd grader. So the MAGAs have camped next to us and I don't care, I'll talk to anybody and we know enough to navigate the conversation towards kid's sports and a few other safe topics.

I see this other lost family so I walk over to see if I can help them and then we chat for a bit, they were at the completely wrong end of the tournament. I walk back and the dude says to me, 'You're so politically correct...' and I was like, 'What?' and then it dawned on me, the lost family was black. I just gave him a 'you're a dick look' and we picked our shit up and went over and hung out with the rest of the team families and had a grand ole time.

He was always complaining to me about how this country was heading in the wrong direction (remember this is like 2013-2014 and I remember asking how and he would say stuff like 'free speech man, you can't say anything in this country anymore without getting in trouble' and stuff like that. I realized what these fucks are angry about is that they can't make fun or belittle minorities, or gay people, or women, without suffering consequences for it and it really pisses them off.

Not all speech is protected. If she had written ot all down and posted it online, she wouldn't have been arrested.

Nope. Lots of people go through cancer and take care of their parents. It doesn't turn you into a racist. It makes you irritable, sure, but it doesn't make you give a shit if a private company plays a Spanish TV station on their property. She was a racist bitch long before cancer and she can fuck all the way off.

For me, it was the part where she said all the racist stuff.

I looked for her as well on PA’s license verification system and didn’t find anything. As a CPA, they’re giving us a bad name by just blindly reporting that she is as well without verifying.

Speech is also verbal. ‘Hate speech’ is protected speech regardless of its form.

she would definitely feel better if everyone spoke english there duh.

Drunk as shit.

Hopefully the racist penalties stack if she doesn't learn her lesson and does it again

She is an appalling swine

>I realized what these fucks are angry about is that they can't make fun or belittle minorities, or gay people, or women, without suffering consequences for it and it really pisses them off.

I would say, even more specifically than this, is that the American social arrangement literally contained the idea that even if you were the most downtrodden dirt farmer white, you were still de facto better than the queers, jews, blacks, mexicans, etc.

Taking that away has made the poorer end of the confederate spectrum extremely angry. They literally feel like their birthright was taken from them... the birthright being of course the right to "make fun or belittle minorities, or gay people, or women, without suffering consequences"

Plus, when compared to an even wider swath of american citizens (containing a wide mix of brilliant and lovely people of many races and backgrounds) these guys look more and more what they are... a relic of america's disgusting racial history that is in rapid decline of social power

I didn’t know cancer made you racist. I was mad at the sun when I had skin cancer but never screamed at people with accents.

1. Very glad you are still here

2. The way you phrased that is hilarious

&gt;I would say, even more specifically than this, is that the American social arrangement literally contained the idea that even if you were the most downtrodden dirt farmer white, you were still de facto better than the queers, jews, blacks, mexicans, etc.<

I think that has been pretty apparent since Obama was elected. I think the wealthier end of the neo-confederate spectrum came to the happy conclusion that they could make a lot of cash off of fueling that poorer end anger, by direct donations and by running on a platform as such and legislating shit like tax cuts for the wealthy and deregulating business to lower cost regardless of the danger in doing so.

This is a poorly written non fact checked article. shes not a hatboro resident. She left this town over a year ago and now resides in NJ. She was here seeing family.

Lyndon Johnson was spot on when he said, "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

How long before she tells us it's "not who she is?"

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She said, and I quote "It wasn’t about race, Bellew insisted, and she’s “not a racist.”"

Incredible. The woman is so fucking delusional.

She’s dealing with multiple breast cancer diagnoses, Bellew said, and she’s a caregiver to her ill father.

When I was going through chemo for my cancer in 2021 my dad was diagnosed with cancer himself. We were both going through chemo for cancer and the stress of it all never made me a racist pile of shit.

And then the lying. The outright lying when she was being recorded the entire time. These people really do believe they create their own reality.

Probably they should have, yes. Everyone has unconscious biases, and some about race in particular. That means everyone is a little bit racist. You can self monitor and try to be aware of when it is influencing your actions, but no one does that perfectly.

We can't prosecute people as criminal every time we behave like a flawed person. We would all be in jail.

To be clear, I'm speaking about your implication that every offense should be prosecuted. I'm on board with this one, it's egregious, she was leaning in to actively attack someone for their race and she was fully aware of what she was doing.

Plot twist: they totally got the sarcasm, but they really do want to dox her and make her life miserable

Having to care for a sick father doesn't have a side effect of causing racism. That has nothing to do with the fact that she is a racist piece of shit and her trying to use this as an excuse tells you everything you need to know about this worthless loser. All anyone has to do is watch the video to know everything they need to know about this asshole.

Can confirm. I had cancer and it didn't make me racist.

The racists in this country have been emboldened since 2015 to be outwardly racist. We had a POTUS who gave these people the courage to be outwardly racist in public when before they'd keep it to their closed circles of like minded people. This is one of the legacies of Donald J. Trump.

The original poster looked her up. What was his intentions? Wanted to just see her employer? They wanted to cancel her they wanted others to attack

Have you suffered a recent blow to the head?

I could not have said it better myself. It's interesting because I am a 42 year old straight white guy and nobody ever accuses me of being bigoted in any way. It's because I'm not a fucking bigot.

Yeah, I know. I'm saying: your edit to add a "/s" isn't going to save you from the downvotes. They were from people who are pro-dox, and who correctly read the sarcasm in your original reply.

Sounds like DeSantis

So this woman has never heard anyone speaking another language? Stay home lady!

> Asked about her racist language toward the owner, she described herself as “emotionally unstable.” She’s dealing with multiple breast cancer diagnoses, Bellew said, and she’s a caregiver to her ill father. She described her behavior as an angry outburst as a result of “being overwhelmed with everything else in [her] life.”

Plenty of people go through cancer, and deal with caring for elderly relatives and don’t go on racist tirades. Those things don’t suddenly turn you into a racist. You are already that way, but do a good job of hiding it.

If she’s honest about showing remorse she needs to expose herself to new people and new points of view to change those deeply ingrained beliefs. But we know she will inevitably end up on some conservative talk piece where she can continue to play the victim and stoke the same old prejudices.

Lyndon B. Johnson said it best. This is from when he was POTUS.

>We were in Tennessee. During the motorcade, he spotted some ugly racial epithets scrawled on signs. Late that night in the hotel, when the local dignitaries had finished the last bottles of bourbon and branch water and departed, he started talking about those signs. "I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it," he said. "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

It's really fun (but not really) watching these types of people do a complete 180 when you mention having served in the military. Side note, I hate the whole "thank you for your service" thing that has been programmed into our population. Yeah, I served, but I was an electronics tech fixing radios in the repair shop. Teachers and nurses are much more deserving of this kind of respect imho.

Alcohol.... Doesn't excuse it. But. Alcohol.

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This quote from Mississippi Burning lives rent free in my head:

“Ward : Where does it come from? All this hatred?

Anderson : You know, when I was a little boy, there was an old negro farmer that lived down the road from us, name of Monroe. And he was... well, I guess he was just a little luckier than my daddy was. He bought himself a mule. That was a big deal around that town. My daddy hated that mule, 'cause his friends were always kidding him that they saw Monroe out plowing with his new mule, and Monroe was going to rent another field now he had a mule. One morning, that mule showed up dead. They poisoned the water. After that, there wasn't any mention about that mule around my daddy. It just never came up. One time, we were driving down that road, and we passed Monroe's place and we saw it was empty. He just packed up and left, I guess, he must of went up north or something. I looked over at my daddy's face. I knew he done it. He saw that I knew. He was ashamed. I guess he was ashamed. He looked at me and said, If you ain't better than a n*gger, son, who are you better than?

Ward : You think that's an excuse?

Anderson : No it's not an excuse. It's just a story about my daddy.

Ward : Where's that leave you?

Anderson : My old man was just so full of hate that he didn't know that bein' poor was what was killing him.”

I wonder if she's been conflated with that poor innocent CPA that the general public harassed, and maybe journalists aren't doing their due diligence.

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Good. Her actions have consequences so I'm glad the cops decided to do the right thing. Next time I get pizza I'm going to Amy's to show my support, I live close to them.

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She should be legally allowed to say whatever she wants.

However, the man who the comments were being directed at should be allowed to walk around the counter and knock her the fuck out.

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Ya! We ordered sandwiches last weekend and the place was packed. They had to close for a break on Tuesday because they were overwhelmed. It’s been so good to see the support, and that the community is much more than that shitty person. The owner and the staff are great people ❤️

Yessssssssssssss

So a neighbor of Doctor Oz?

Hoping that you were able to hold onto your sobriety my friend.

None of that is an excuse. Sorry. Cancer is horrible. It doesn’t make people racist.

Even my toddler had enough sense to do that when caught crum pawed in the cookie jar.

Didn't mean I could leave the cookie jar down that low on the counter anymore.

Good. She can stay over in NJ then, they can have her.

>Thank you for charging her with a crime.

It's kind of prosecutorial overreach. If the Karen actually fought it with a trial she might win. Luckily, she'll probably plea and be forced to do community service or something. Maybe she'll get put somewhere that she'll learn some valuable lessons.

There is no "Hate Speech" statute in PA. It's an enhancement charge of Ethnic Intimidation. In this case, it's secondary to the charge of Harassment--which is an overreach on the prosecutor's part. All things considered she'll probably plea out and the overreach won't matter.

> it’s very much an open and shut case.

Care to share some similar case law that backs up your assertion? Nothing that happened here fits the Harassment statute as defined by PA and the Ethnic Intimidation charge only sticks if the Harassment charge prevails. She'll likely plea out but it's not exactly clear she would lose if she were stupid enough to push it to trial.

Threatening someone is not protected speech. She threatened to run him out of town.

Me 3....

Hear Hear ! Excellent observation and analysis! Reddit free Award 🗯💥💫^

Amazingly, most of us manage to handle stress without shouting racist things. She’s looking for sympathy she in no way deserves.

Who knows what the people on the receiving end of the rant are going through? It’s hard to work in this kind of business where you’re always face to face with people, and you can’t really miss work.

waiting on the inevitable GoFundMe

Lovely. Hopefully not in a part with lots of immigrants…when I lived in NJ, everywhere I went, someone was speaking in some other language, or listening to it via music, TV, etc…it’s kind of charming unless you’re this lady.

Hm. Maybe speaking English cures cancer? I will have to look into that for my family member…

If she was on those, maybe she wouldn’t be a raging bitch?

And here come the racists crawling out of the woodwork to gaslight people. Your second sentence applies to this woman, not the person you responded to.

OK?

Whenever I hear people talk about freeze peach in situations like this, I know for a fact they are racist nut jobs themselves, they just have the social grace to hide it behind freeze peach bullshit.

>words

I bet you would feel differently if these "words" were about you and your kind.

They’re being babies about being told what to do. They are children with no humility and will kick and scream us all into an early grave.

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Yay

Now THAT'S entertainment.!

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Yeah its a good case study for how stupid the internet community actually is. Similar in summary to the Boston Bombers this idiot site mistakenly misidentified

That said, low quality internet slueths are a problem. "Cancel culture" is not.

Anyone who unironically uses the words/phrases "woke" or "cancel culture" are objectively idiots, and likely closet bigots (afraid of being "caught")

I think being humiliated online, where it seems her whole life is spent, is the real punishment

Also, racism is bullshit and racists are trash people and objectively awful

But it shouldnt be illegal to be mean

Good.

Then the courts will take care of it and your pissing and moaning is unnecessary

Except legally, its not. So you are wrong

Its easy to get upset when you dont understand what you are talking about

Rita Bellend

My advice to this lady: stop watching Fox and start thinking about what it could be like for other people who are experiencing similar difficulties. That's called empathy.

First off, don't diminish your service, you put yourself out there when most others will not, whether that was to HALO jump into an al Queda compound or repairing vital equipment, it was all important.

Secondly, I hear you on that. I hate when people thank me for my service. Most times it the equivalent of saying 'god bless you' when someone sneezes, like they feel they have to, its a platitude now. I get a lot of people are just trying to be nice but it does make most veterans feel uncomfortable. And yeah, there are a ton of people in our society doing vital things that don't get the recognition they deserve. My wife worked as an ER nurse, while pregnant with twins, while getting her masters at night. That is hardcore.

Breast cancer and being a caretaker is still not an excuse to be a raging racist.

> Ethnic intimidation is known as an add-on crime, which means that the crime cannot exist independently. Ethnic intimidation is filed with other crimes if it is believed that a crime was motivated by “malicious intention” based on the victim’s race, color, religion or national origin. Underlying offenses include crimes of violence like aggravated assault, or property crimes like arson, criminal mischief or criminal trespass.

Wait, she works for the feds, too?! WTF!

Why are they giving this dumbass a microphone and an opportunity to defend herself?

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She said during her racist rant "I'm a CPA, I bet you don't even know what that means," which is why people misidentified that other woman due to her being a CPA and their vague resemblance to one another.

Along with her face, she gave a lottt of personal info/clues out during her tirade, so much so that she was identified by people in the neighborhood within a couple hours. Small town, word travels...

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So I listened again. I didn’t think she was drunk the first time. On the second listen, right at the beginning, she’s definitely drunk. Doesn’t make her any less of a piece of trash, but a drunk one.

I dunno. I get drunk and have never started ranting racist crap.

Did I say it was ok?

No.

I only implied that I thought she sounded like she was drunk. I wasn't excusing her behavior or racist rant.

Sorry, I didn’t mean to say you were implying it was okay.

Agreed.

It's ok. We are good. I misread your comment also. Peace.

Lyndon J was a piece of shit, do not emulate or look up to the man.

No worries here.

Hill country honky Tonkin Rita Bellew?

oi do you have a loicense to speak your mind?

I think what helped me was traveling outside America after college and not the get high in youth hostels in Europe travel but some hardcore hiking in the Sahel in Mali, in Amazonian Peru, hopping around the Leeward Islands. Meeting people in abject poverty and they being friendly and kind for the most part made a huge impression on me.

Kind of made me see how you should judge people on their character and not skin color or who they love. Character matters, in fact, to me it is all that matters, we’ve seemed to have lost an appreciation for that value.

I was unaware cancer caused racism. The more you know I guess.

She's already dying a slow, painful death by cancer and chemo, that's punishment enough. It'll only be a matter of time till it reaches her pancreas, or her bones, or some other part of her body where she'll be in constant agony. Hope she makes peace with herself before that happens.

Damn it, I ordered from the wrong pizza place that day. Would have loved to witness this stupidity since im in a neighboring town!

Am not convinced she is a lady.

You do not like it when a racist doubles down on herself?

You probably just never had anyone point out your nonsense before.

Sure Princess that’s it 🤣