Humble Stacker

Somebody said UAE is a shopping mall pretending to be a country.

I recently took an international flight into the US, and it was really strange. The flight was full of Indians who honestly seemed to be from somewhere pretty remote; it was obvious quite a few of them had never been on an airplane before. The woman next to me didn’t know how to buckle her seatbelt; she didn’t know how to put her bag in the overhead storage; she had a phone charger she didn’t know how to plug in either. She couldn’t really speak English beyond “You help.” when she wanted me to help her do something or “You want?” while repeatedly pointing down — I figured out she was trying to trade seats with me (I said no, and she just clicked her tongue in disapproval). I saw various interactions between the Indians in the seats around me and the flight attendants — none of them could speak English, using primarily hand gestures to communicate; they were also extremely dismissive and almost rude to the flight attendants, never thanking them, shoving trash in their faces expectantly, waving them away with a flick of the wrist. The bathroom situation was pretty unfortunate. I wanted to pee before we took off, and I was behind two of them in line. They both went, and when it was my turn, I saw that the most recent person hadn’t flushed, leaving a large amount of fecal matter in the toilet bowl. There was also a new hand soap dispenser which was still unopened, which informed me that the two previous passengers had not washed their hands. And, I kid you not, there were footprints on the toilet seat. I think they were squatting over it. None of this is to pick on random people on a flight — I was just struck by how unfamiliar this cohort was with airplanes, by their total lack of English, by their non-Western behaviors and clothes, and by the fact that despite all of this, they were somehow flying to the US (final destination unknown). They were not a unified group either; I didn’t get the impression that the different families/individuals knew each other. If it was just a single family, it might not be that weird, but it was dozens. I had never seen anything like it before

If he can produce a divorce agreement signed by both parties as of today, I will immediately issue a public apology. If he cannot, yet claims in the media and in his book that he is already divorced, then that is a clear misrepresentation to the public — yet another example of him making such claims with confidence.