I had to have an emergency open heart surgery. It’s it’s a million dollars. My children Childern’s going to be paying for it. I have to win the lotto to be able to pay that off.
Girl! If you ran for president, I'd vote for you in a HEARTBEAT!!!!! you are saying exactly what i feel like MOST of America actually thinks. Also, alcohol is the devil fr! My fiance is currently waiting for a liver transplant bc he was failed by the American Healthcare system and was drinking alcohol to sleep (bc ptsd gave him nightmares) and got cirrhosis, was failed by the Healthcare system again (missed a diagnosis) and went into liver failure! He's 34! He only drank for a few years! Like 3?
Girl you are a GENIUS!! love this experiment where you accidentally mention the highest-cpm keywords in the entire platform 💸💰 That RPM is going through the roof girl! 🙏 Please share just how great it goes revenue-wise 💪 I'm a huge fan of yours. Love your persona here on YT 🤩
Agree with everything but especially the nurses should make more point and the alcohol point. I had an alcohol abuse problem and no one noticed until it developed into drug addicition because alcohol is so widely accepted. It took me years to realize that alcohol was the root of my addiction issues!
8 months of unpaid internship was brutal, lots of free labor, plus schooling, plus working on my free time anytime I could so that I don't drown. Interns should at least get minimum wage to get by...
Thissssss the pet insurance thing - they wouldn’t cover my dog and we had to put out $15k 🙃 she was born with Atlantoaxial subluxation (basically her vertebrae was pinching her spinal cord) but she was born with it. #maybelline
You have to go to college to become a medical professional. It’s not fair but it is what it is. Can’t practice medicine with a degree from RUclips university 😂
Me watching this as a PhD student in biomedical engineering & screaming PREACH about the loans. I went to a in state uni for undergrad & out of state for grad school. I made it to this point with less than 50k in loans & I’m so relieved that I had a plan in mind ahead!! So PREACH BLAIR on googling your earning potential before diving into this mess of academia
Yesss! My son knows he wants to be a dr so he already has specialties in mind that’ll pay for his schooling. He’s starting in a few weeks. I’m still scared. lol He will be ok even if he goes with his backup plan, thankfully.
As Gen X, I love people having different opinions. It is good to have a society of different INDIVIDUAL opinions. I love how big your balls are, and keep being you.
I was confused as to why you decided to mention your generation but it’s probably because you are inferring that other generations don’t value differing opinions. We do, actually. Thats why we are generally more accepting of new ideas such as gender identity while older generations are clinging onto more conservative beliefs about gender, just as an example. What we tolerate much less is racist, sexist, homophobic, and ableist “opinions” that are based on upon nothing except, “I don’t understand this mambo, jambo let’s keep things the way they are
@@Noise_floorxx I have 2 friends who have transitioned. ❤ love them dearly. She started the video mentioning people getting offended. Gen X has a pretty rational tolerance before getting offended. Are you offended? There was so much projection in your comment. 😂❤😂
I'm from NZ. We are a capitalist nation, however, we have free public healthcare, a decent social welfare system and university costs around $5k a year. I have a BA, pgdip and MA in psychology and all up it was $30. And my loan doesn't acquire interest, ever and my repayments are based on income. You have to earn a certain amount in order to make repayments
Agreed with EVERYTHING. I don't think this is controversial at all. So many people are privileged for unpaid internships, I was when I was in medical school. Given, some aren't and work two jobs- not to invalidate those. I think healthcare is the best prime example of internships being unpaid. I went to school for 5 years and worked 1000+ hours of hard UNPAID labor in clinicals to be an MRI technologist(and Xray) and image the human body with magnets all day. I think clinicals after a certain point should be paid. Sure, the first 6 months you practice and shadow techs all day but after that? After that you do xray and MRI techs jobs for them for FREE and don't get paid for another year or few years. Most nurses and doctors are the same. Residency for doctors doesn't pay enough though. Healthcare workers should be paid more, period. I'm afraid we will reach the time where people don't want to be medical workers due to the high workload, exhausting training & hours and low pay. I quit the idea of healthcare and that I was 'actually' helping others when I found out that I made the hospital $1000 to $5000 an hour scanning patients who went into crippling debt from that invoice and a small fraction of that profit hospitals made never got paid to the life-saving professionals like nurses and doctors I worked with all day. I went into healthcare to help people BUT that doesn't mean I don't also have bills to pay. Doctors, nurses, techs, assistants, the janitors that clean up blood all day, no one get paid enough for saving lives and the aftermath of that. It's so sad. I'd love to see changes in my lifetime where doctors get paid more, the ratio of nurses to patients increases and healthcare is affordable. I don't think I'll ever see that in my lifetime but I can only have hope.
Blair you're right! Agree with all your opinions.Especially that alcohol is a poison. 1 year and 1 month sober myself! witnessing everyone else drunk while you're sober It is a whole different experience 😂
I agree with everything!! Why am I always telling people that I’m “boring” because I don’t drink/enjoy alcohol😂😅I don’t actually think I’m boring, I’m just worried everyone else might think im boring because I don’t drink sigh…
Hey Blair, I'm the nurse you gifted scrubs to in January! Since you mentioned nurses and their salary in the video, nurses can make either a lot of money or very little depending on the state they live in. I live in a big west coast city and hospitals start new nurses out at $45 an hour here and senior nurses make like $75 an hour! But in other states that number is closer to $30 an hour for new nurses. IMO we should be paying our nurses WAY more for all the crap they put up with from patients and providers. Please post more videos like this, I love hearing what you have to say and I genuinely think in 20 years you could run as president LMAO
Love this. Thank you Blair. My ex husband (when I lived in America) had cancer. The cost for 3 months of chemo and radiation and ‘extras’ was almost 800k. Even with insurance at our 20% that we had to pay… nearly made us bankrupt. We lost our dream home and lived in debt. So I agree that healthcare shouldn’t be a luxury. Thankfully I am back in my birth country (the uk) and I’m so thankful for the NHS. ALSO…. unpaid internships are complete and utter bullshit. Thank you for this vlog ❤
God I love you. I’ve always noticed how intelligent your vocabulary is. In a way that sets you apart from all other influencers I’ve ever found. Now that I know you’re a well-educated woman, it makes perfect sense! Not saying one couldn’t get a vocabulary like yours on their own, but going to a good school sure helps. Stay you, please! The smart girls who also happen to care about the right foundation shades NEED you! You’re our sole representative, haha. A real life modern day Elle Woods! 💞
College is bs lol. 80k in debt for 2 years of a 4 year degree i dropped out of because i only decided to do it to make my mom happy... Even though i was not interested in it at all. Either i went to college or i got kicked out. Was a pretty shitty couple of years and i wish i was allowed to take a year off to find myself.
Girlies if people are being weird about your choice not to drink alcohol, just tell them you have a pollen / dust allergy or smth basic like that and you're taking meds for it, so you shouldn't drink. Just make sure to research what basic allergy med is used in your country in case someone asks. I used to drink but realized I don't actually enjoy it and quit, it was so hard explaining to friends why I stopped but I figured out that I shouldn't be drinking with my allergy meds anyways so people usually stop asking questions / pressuring you if you mention it!! And please do research yourself what alcohol exactly does to your brain, you'd be shocked. Thank you Blair so much for mentioning it!! Most of people I know aren't aware that drinking has such long term effects.
I take meds that cause projectile vomiting if washed down with alcohol. And it’s not just puking it’s like flying 3 feet from my mouth 😂 it’s insane. So I can’t drink unless I want to feel like I’m dying. So that’s my excuse. Or I just put it to them straight and say I just don’t like it. I don’t find it fun
I was like that too many years ago but still got nerve if I asked why I don't drink, like really? Why I should search for excuses for not poisoning myself
I live in the UK we have free healthcare I feel so much for people in America who don’t 😢 it’s not as good as private but I’m so grateful we don’t have to pay for it, student loans here you start paying back when you start earning a certain amount so that’s not too bad, Vets bills here are so high and it’s the same they don’t cover existing conditions , someone I know who was 28 just died because she was an alcoholic and left behind a 10 year old daughter so there’s not anything I don’t agree with you on xxx
For the young people that don't know what they want to do, it's really good to take a gap year or two, and work and stay in another country/countries. It will broaden your mind so much, and it might be scary to take that leap but at least you have more time to figure out what you want before you get stuck in a system with loads of college debt.
Girl, none of these are controversial and none of these would ever get you cancelled because we can all see the bullshit that is happening (unfortunately…)
Need more distrust fund! I love hearing you talk about all things!! I agree about the alcohol thing. I decided to stop drinking cause I just felt yuck while drinking. I’m in a long term relationship and people would always assume I don’t drink because I’m pregnant (definitely not in the plan). I also get told often “oh you’re still fun”, yeah duh I don’t need to drink to be fun. Treat sober people like normal fun people.
I am from Europe and thank God we have free education. If I where American I would try get schoolarships, do comunity college than transfer, or go to Eruope and study for much less money. Like even if you are not Europien you can study in Europe for so much less money. You can pay your rent and living cost and plan ticket and college for like 10x less then in USA.
I did an unpaid intership for a well known PR firm that I was SUPER excited about. It was the biggest let down of my life. I don't come from money. I was living off loans, trying to get as much out of this internship as possible. The president of the firm KNEW this about me and basically made sure I learned nothing. She was just weirdly abusive and made me a gopher. Why even waste my time like that? So cruel.
So basically you guys should come to canada to study and for health care! Giving birth is free!! 🤣 but for emergency care you may have to wait 14h and to see a specialist you might wait 2 years but hey 🤷🏽♀️ its free 😅
that TEENAGERS are allowed to--and have to in the first place--take out tens of thousands of dollars for school is outrageous. this is why im going to another CONTINENT for my education! the system is broken in the us
I totally agree with you on the student loans and the healthcare in America! It’s honestly atrocious. I have tried to explain to my father that wanting universal healthcare does not mean we want “communism”. It’s very bizarre to me that some People will use that as an argument against universal healthcare and universities. It’s so impossible to be able to pay all bills, have an emergency fund and also save for retirement. A lot of people in my generation that are in 30s can’t even buy a home. Then they wonder why more of us are choosing not to have children. Don’t even get me started on childcare and the lack of help for mothers in the us!!! I liked this video and I’m glad you brought up these topics. ❤
This. I currently have to find an internship until September and most of them are unpaid and I have to do it for 40 hours a week. And like I have to do this because then the three years I studied will be pointless. But how is that normal that I am gonna work a full time job and live with no money? 💀 the best option is saw was 600€ a month, thats not even rent lmao
girlie i thought u were gonna drop something like "i don't think gay people should have rights🤓☝" imo this is not "controversial," this is progressive and i think we need a lot more people that think like u
You forgot to mention car insurance! Agents tell you, don’t file for a claim because your insurance will increase. So what is the point of getting it and no matter what my premium will get higher
The alcohol opinion❤️ alcohol is literally a drug. Also the way it makes people dumber and dumber by time.. i have friends where i can literally feel how they‘re dumber than 5 years ago… it‘s so weird because i‘m just 26 imagine in many more years :( makes me very sad. Also if you get into how many doctors and everything are drunk while working :) or think it‘s okay to have a glass or something.
not else pisses me off about how expensive college is in America.... people need people that educate themselves, especially in the health care industry why are you gonna make it astronomical when your ass needs that doctor just as much as the rest of us do! and I feel like there's a shortage of so many professionals lately. It's like after Covid something shifted
Psych grad and neuroscience researcher here! Alcohol does technically 'numb' our brains, that's why people blackout when they have had too much to drink. As for the Prefrontal Cortex (PFC), it does inhibit our actions etc. The reason for this is that our PFC is vital for decision making, strategizing, and general 'moral' type actions. When drinking alcohol, the first thing to go (functionally) is our PFC. From there other brain structures begin to fail us as well or become the dominant one. For example, the hypothalamus is for our more primitive decisions and that is why we see more reckless behavior in drunk individuals (Such as anger, which also involves the amygdala)! Without the PFC being as active, there's nothing really there in our brain to go "Is this the best decision?". Awesome video, couldn't agree more with... everything!! Sending love.
Do you think we’ll ever look back as a society and realize how absolutely bizarre it is for these entertainment videos to be about serious/deep/interesting topics yet the speaker is putting on makeup… it’s really objectively strange.
I worked for Sobey’s (a very large grocery store chain) for a very long time. They were awful. They would intentionally give all their employees just under full time hours so they wouldn’t have to give anyone full time benefits. Yet there making like $600 million
I think a big problem with Healthcare is using insurance for too many things and the huge administrative and billing costs now with insurance (and how billing is so complex to increase chargeable items). If you go to urgent care and pay out of pocket it's a fraction of the cost with insurance, as just one example. We should shrink the administrative costs of billing and it will help brings costs down. We have less doctors and huge administrative departments in hospitals now. And I believe this is also seen in countries with government-run healthcare; they have a large administrative cost to process all the transactions.
I am a trauma ER RN and I agree with everything you are saying. This actually gives me hope. I quit drinking alcohol 9 months ago because I agree it is poison. I tell people give it 30 days. When was the last time you have gone 30 days without a drink? Try it and see how you feel.
Q about alcohol: why you have to explain yourself if you don't drink poison? And if someone don't drink water ( for example) and say it, everyone is like "oh, ok"?
Pre-existing condition is banned to discriminate against for not being able to get insurance BUT the issue is it can be undone. Affordable Healthcare Act banned insurance companies from not allowing people with conditions to not be cover especially since it was required to get healthcare (or face a 500$ tax penalty). I know this as someone with multiple conditions that would not be covered without Affordable Healthcare mandating companies to cover me, and in collage i was poor - tax independent - and paid the tax penalty since my former state would not give me healthcare cuz i did work enough (even tho my full time job was being an engineering student who also worked 25-30hrs a week part time). The tax penalty is paused/over rn but can be brought back. each your company gives you a form that shows the months you had healthcare to proof you had coverage for if they bring back the penalty. One thing to note tho since I have pre-existing conditions what 1 person gets covered for free since it's a routine check I have to pay for since it's a test that can be related to my condition, but also to get other tests covered by insurance you need the condition to be diagnosis. It's a mess
Actually you just made me think about healthcare and education, think- doctors are getting paid in relation to their educational debt and we have to pay that price. Maybe?
I thinks its crazy that free healthcare is considered communist by many people in the USA. No country in the EU is communist, quite the opposite. Even the deeply conservative and neoliberal people here understand that workers need to be healthy in order to generate capital :D
Common sense here. You don’t need makeup but I understand you, gurl. I wish I heard this 20 years ago when I was choosing a college/university to attend. I chose the university I did because my sister went there, and she chose the university because her friend chose it. I didn’t have any kind of educated leadership whatsoever and I feel like this kind of content is #supremeguidance.
I just had to quit my job and go back to just disability because my rent increase was the same amount as I was making at the job. So I was working only to pay rent. They keep the poor, like me, poor. Whomever doesn't want people that are poor to succeed. I have continued to become more and more poor and have less and less money. And if I try to work, whomever takes all of that money. Your thoughts are wonderful. But until someone who isn't poor, whose actually Super Wealthy decides to change things nothing will change. It takes people with money to actually make change. Like passing bills and laws and whatever. And telling whomever stop making the poor more poor and the rich megarich. It's just a fact.
10:20 you're right. And for anyone to think this has anything to do with socialism or communism or that it's a sin to be conservative and feel this way, which I am. Look at Socialist and Communist countries. Do you see happy people? Do you see amazing health care and perfect politicians? No, you see large amounts of corruption and enormous gaps in haves and have nots. They don't have student loans... okay... for the sweat shop labor and poor housing. So no. Equating the RIGHT way to build a civilization with the wrong way.. is just insane. Education and health care equal higher productivity and production. Stabile economies, longer life expectancy, stronger family units, smarter children and adults. Civil growth. Fleecing people with student debt and excessively expensive health care and housing only benefits the ones doing the fleecing. At their people's expense. Literally You're being thrown under a bus, robbed and expected to ask for more. In my case, as a conservative, why the hell would I ever want that? We spend billions to fund other people's problems and wars but like Blair said 200K for having twins! How is that fiscally responsible or supporting families? You want to support families make education and health care affordable. Give women access to whatever care we need. Stop banning medical procedures! If you have billions to spend, fix your own country. Soap box over.
I believe we needca flexible economic system that socializes some things like health and education but stays capitalistic in other such as construction, goods and services.
I don’t think you are truly a conservative in the American political sense. Maybe culturally (Christian?, NASCAR or pro wrestling fans in the family?, anti abortion? want 3 or more kids?, guns?) but maybe you’re not fiscally conservative. I think you are probably capitalist in that you believe in free markets,, but you can be both liberal and a capitalist. Universal free college education and healthcare would only work if we either raise taxes (mostly on the rich) or re-prioritize our huge defense spending to do better things. You sound like you’re for that. I am too and I’m a liberal democrat.
I love this. Do not apologize for having opinions. Be true to you and your authentic self. So many people feel the same way as you, but as women, we are conditioned to not complain.
In response to getting more work piled on once you had done your own, if the prize for winning the pie eating contest is another pie, it's time to look for another job 😢
My parents were very neglectful of me growing up but still found time to push the “you have to go to college to get a good job” message… now that I’m grown… wow we’re they wrong. 1- college isn’t for everyone 2- if you don’t have a passion for something, don’t go to college thinking you’ll find your major eventually. What twisted logic is that, this is what you’re doing for the rest of your life. 3- if my parents weren’t so narrow minded I could’ve learned a trade earlier, not had student debt lingering over my head, and I would’ve found the confidence I have now knowing that I’m actually good at something and can provide something to the world, and all as a college dropout 🤗 And 4! If you don’t have a support system with family, think again if you want to go to college. Doing this without a support system is borderline impossible (props to those that got through it all alone❤️)
Blair I have Subscribed to your channel and I really really love your videos so so much you are looking so beautiful and I wish you reach 2 Million Subscribers very very soon!!♥️♥️🥹
As a person that went to university and has higher education, I totally agree with you. The loan amount I singed when I was a teenager is astounding! I was so young and had no adults to explain things to me, I’m still glad I have my degree. However, I encourage young people to look and review properly what they are signing.
health issues took me out of college early. i took the loan at 18, with the impression that i would graduate and start a career and be able to pay it off. the health issues cost me the partial scholarship and i couldn’t afford to return. if i could have predicted the future, i wouldn’t have taken the loan. and i am pro gap year, i wish i had taken one
I went to a private college had an unpaid internship at a tv station because i was a communicatios major. Anyway they gave me stupid things to do. One of them was wrapping gifts. I am a horrible gift wrapper. I am talking sloppy and uneven sides. Anyway they gave me a bad review because of the gift wrapping i did. I feel like it was a waste of my time. They need to get rid of these unpaid internships.
On the college thing, don't be afraid of trade school if you are actually interested in a trade. Trade school is cheaper and faster than traditional universities and a lot of trade jobs earn a great wage. It's something you can also do even knowing it's temporary. You can earn money doing it then decide later if you want to get a degree.
it’s getting worse as far as hospitals go. big hospital systems are buying up all the small ones and local doctor practices and the cost for patients goes up considerably. And yes alcohol is poison.
Girl, I'm Española and lived 6 years in the states and have pretty much the same opinions as you...and no, they aren't communist opinions, pretty much all Europeans think this about North Americans (specifically U.S.A) 😘❤️💃🏼💃🏼
Go to medschool in Latvia at an international English language class, pay 14.5k per year for medical and 15k per year per dentistry. Best universities, lowest costs, sexy women’s environment producing the most worlds supermodels per capita, Art Novoa world heritage site architecture, healthy food. ❤
1:08 - "Student loans are a scam".... Wait I thought these were *controversial* opinions... smfh America lmfao ANYWAYZZZ love u girl keep blessing my youtube algorithm i totally agree alcohol =/= social life, i stopped drinking and going out and realized i had no friends... but yea i guess thats the whole "growing up" thing :')
Question for ppl who like modern design for EVERYTHING....why? Imo it feels very clinical, I get the psychology of it being clean and whatnot but is it THAT or something else? Can you explain if you like modern?
219) They ask you about wine[80] and gambling. Say, "In them is great sin and [yet, some] benefit for people. But their sin is greater than their benefit." And they ask you what they should spend. Say, "The excess [beyond needs]." Thus Allāh makes clear to you the verses [of revelation] that you might give thought Verse 219 from surat al baqarah, The holy quran.
my mom has been a nurse for 16+ years, my dad owns two stores for 20+ years and somehow my family has been renting for my entire life, i am aware i live in a expensive area as i live near many colleges i still find it absurd that my parents work 9-5/5 and still can’t afford a three bedroom house!
Blair you're so funny lol trust me I went through the same thing around 28, until then i was a huge partyer. Then my frontal lobe snapped into place lol All of the sudden i cared about my long term health, and realized my lifestyle was making me ill. I smoked cigarettes and was constantly getting sick with tonsillitis. So i quit and also quit drinking. Lots of people asked questions but didn't really want to hear the answer. I'm 37 now and literally HALF of those people are addicts and are in bad situations. Some dead. 😞 It's heartbreaking.
Girl I feel you! I feel the same way about school! I signed up for $40k in student loans with a signature in 2007 before the market crashed. I had no idea what I was signing up for. I was 18. I feel like everyone should take a gap year. Idk how someone that is 18/barely an adult can decide what they want to do for the rest of their lives.
Me running for president with this 18 minute podcast episode lol
We love you blair! 🧚🏻♂️
Hi queen walnut. I'm moving to London next year!!! happy to see you out there scoping the scene for us other international walnuts 👯♀💃
I had to have an emergency open heart surgery. It’s it’s a million dollars. My children Childern’s going to be paying for it. I have to win the lotto to be able to pay that off.
Girl! If you ran for president, I'd vote for you in a HEARTBEAT!!!!! you are saying exactly what i feel like MOST of America actually thinks. Also, alcohol is the devil fr! My fiance is currently waiting for a liver transplant bc he was failed by the American Healthcare system and was drinking alcohol to sleep (bc ptsd gave him nightmares) and got cirrhosis, was failed by the Healthcare system again (missed a diagnosis) and went into liver failure! He's 34! He only drank for a few years! Like 3?
Girl you are a GENIUS!! love this experiment where you accidentally mention the highest-cpm keywords in the entire platform 💸💰 That RPM is going through the roof girl! 🙏 Please share just how great it goes revenue-wise 💪 I'm a huge fan of yours. Love your persona here on YT 🤩
"Gofund Me shouldn't be America's healthcare plan" - yes girl! Say it louder for the people in the back!
Agree with everything but especially the nurses should make more point and the alcohol point. I had an alcohol abuse problem and no one noticed until it developed into drug addicition because alcohol is so widely accepted. It took me years to realize that alcohol was the root of my addiction issues!
"Barely people, somehow legal - unpaid intern" - Bo Burham
8 months of unpaid internship was brutal, lots of free labor, plus schooling, plus working on my free time anytime I could so that I don't drown. Interns should at least get minimum wage to get by...
Thissssss the pet insurance thing - they wouldn’t cover my dog and we had to put out $15k 🙃 she was born with Atlantoaxial subluxation (basically her vertebrae was pinching her spinal cord) but she was born with it. #maybelline
I'm here for the bouncy beautiful hair .... and your straight shoot no bs opinions. The business pants are super cute too
You have to go to college to become a medical professional. It’s not fair but it is what it is. Can’t practice medicine with a degree from RUclips university 😂
gee I wish I said that
Thank You Smarty, you are a Genius !!!
Normalize changing your point of view as you get older and being around other people
It should be normal! That’s how we grow and evolve
@gomezf90 are you saying that “growing up” isn’t normal?
It doesn't seem like it is when grown adults act like children.
Realizing alcohol isn't good for you is part of growing up but not everyone gets there.
THANK YOU!
Me watching this as a PhD student in biomedical engineering & screaming PREACH about the loans. I went to a in state uni for undergrad & out of state for grad school. I made it to this point with less than 50k in loans & I’m so relieved that I had a plan in mind ahead!! So PREACH BLAIR on googling your earning potential before diving into this mess of academia
Yesss! My son knows he wants to be a dr so he already has specialties in mind that’ll pay for his schooling. He’s starting in a few weeks. I’m still scared. lol He will be ok even if he goes with his backup plan, thankfully.
@@dianaw4072THERE ARE SPECIALTIES THAT WILL PAY FOR YOUR SCHOOLING?!
As Gen X, I love people having different opinions. It is good to have a society of different INDIVIDUAL opinions. I love how big your balls are, and keep being you.
I was confused as to why you decided to mention your generation but it’s probably because you are inferring that other generations don’t value differing opinions. We do, actually. Thats why we are generally more accepting of new ideas such as gender identity while older generations are clinging onto more conservative beliefs about gender, just as an example. What we tolerate much less is racist, sexist, homophobic, and ableist “opinions” that are based on upon nothing except, “I don’t understand this mambo, jambo let’s keep things the way they are
@@Noise_floorxx I have 2 friends who have transitioned. ❤ love them dearly.
She started the video mentioning people getting offended. Gen X has a pretty rational tolerance before getting offended. Are you offended? There was so much projection in your comment. 😂❤😂
@@hollamonEmy friend just transitioned too! And I’m 38
@@Noise_floorxx you sound triggered af
college in America is way too expensive.. there’s adults in their 30s and older still paying off their student loans..
This is incredibly true
Oh way past 30s. Lol
35 here and still paying even with loads of scholarships and grants 🙃
I waa one of them.
I'm from NZ. We are a capitalist nation, however, we have free public healthcare, a decent social welfare system and university costs around $5k a year. I have a BA, pgdip and MA in psychology and all up it was $30. And my loan doesn't acquire interest, ever and my repayments are based on income. You have to earn a certain amount in order to make repayments
Agreed with EVERYTHING. I don't think this is controversial at all. So many people are privileged for unpaid internships, I was when I was in medical school. Given, some aren't and work two jobs- not to invalidate those.
I think healthcare is the best prime example of internships being unpaid. I went to school for 5 years and worked 1000+ hours of hard UNPAID labor in clinicals to be an MRI technologist(and Xray) and image the human body with magnets all day. I think clinicals after a certain point should be paid.
Sure, the first 6 months you practice and shadow techs all day but after that? After that you do xray and MRI techs jobs for them for FREE and don't get paid for another year or few years. Most nurses and doctors are the same. Residency for doctors doesn't pay enough though.
Healthcare workers should be paid more, period. I'm afraid we will reach the time where people don't want to be medical workers due to the high workload, exhausting training & hours and low pay.
I quit the idea of healthcare and that I was 'actually' helping others when I found out that I made the hospital $1000 to $5000 an hour scanning patients who went into crippling debt from that invoice and a small fraction of that profit hospitals made never got paid to the life-saving professionals like nurses and doctors I worked with all day.
I went into healthcare to help people BUT that doesn't mean I don't also have bills to pay. Doctors, nurses, techs, assistants, the janitors that clean up blood all day, no one get paid enough for saving lives and the aftermath of that. It's so sad.
I'd love to see changes in my lifetime where doctors get paid more, the ratio of nurses to patients increases and healthcare is affordable. I don't think I'll ever see that in my lifetime but I can only have hope.
Blair you're right! Agree with all your opinions.Especially that alcohol is a poison. 1 year and 1 month sober myself! witnessing everyone else drunk while you're sober It is a whole different experience 😂
I agree with everything!! Why am I always telling people that I’m “boring” because I don’t drink/enjoy alcohol😂😅I don’t actually think I’m boring, I’m just worried everyone else might think im boring because I don’t drink sigh…
Hey Blair, I'm the nurse you gifted scrubs to in January! Since you mentioned nurses and their salary in the video, nurses can make either a lot of money or very little depending on the state they live in. I live in a big west coast city and hospitals start new nurses out at $45 an hour here and senior nurses make like $75 an hour! But in other states that number is closer to $30 an hour for new nurses. IMO we should be paying our nurses WAY more for all the crap they put up with from patients and providers. Please post more videos like this, I love hearing what you have to say and I genuinely think in 20 years you could run as president LMAO
Some nurses here in ohio only make 24 an hour and i make 26 in a factory.... think about that
Love this. Thank you Blair. My ex husband (when I lived in America) had cancer. The cost for 3 months of chemo and radiation and ‘extras’ was almost 800k. Even with insurance at our 20% that we had to pay… nearly made us bankrupt. We lost our dream home and lived in debt. So I agree that healthcare shouldn’t be a luxury. Thankfully I am back in my birth country (the uk) and I’m so thankful for the NHS. ALSO…. unpaid internships are complete and utter bullshit. Thank you for this vlog ❤
"Go fund me shouldn't be Americas healthcare plan"
PERIOD!!!
I cacked😆 it's so true
God I love you. I’ve always noticed how intelligent your vocabulary is. In a way that sets you apart from all other influencers I’ve ever found. Now that I know you’re a well-educated woman, it makes perfect sense! Not saying one couldn’t get a vocabulary like yours on their own, but going to a good school sure helps. Stay you, please! The smart girls who also happen to care about the right foundation shades NEED you! You’re our sole representative, haha. A real life modern day Elle Woods! 💞
Fr the real Elle
College is bs lol. 80k in debt for 2 years of a 4 year degree i dropped out of because i only decided to do it to make my mom happy... Even though i was not interested in it at all.
Either i went to college or i got kicked out. Was a pretty shitty couple of years and i wish i was allowed to take a year off to find myself.
Your hair!! The layers and curls look phenomenal ❤
Girlies if people are being weird about your choice not to drink alcohol, just tell them you have a pollen / dust allergy or smth basic like that and you're taking meds for it, so you shouldn't drink. Just make sure to research what basic allergy med is used in your country in case someone asks. I used to drink but realized I don't actually enjoy it and quit, it was so hard explaining to friends why I stopped but I figured out that I shouldn't be drinking with my allergy meds anyways so people usually stop asking questions / pressuring you if you mention it!! And please do research yourself what alcohol exactly does to your brain, you'd be shocked. Thank you Blair so much for mentioning it!! Most of people I know aren't aware that drinking has such long term effects.
I take meds that cause projectile vomiting if washed down with alcohol. And it’s not just puking it’s like flying 3 feet from my mouth 😂 it’s insane. So I can’t drink unless I want to feel like I’m dying. So that’s my excuse. Or I just put it to them straight and say I just don’t like it. I don’t find it fun
I was like that too many years ago but still got nerve if I asked why I don't drink, like really? Why I should search for excuses for not poisoning myself
I live in the UK we have free healthcare I feel so much for people in America who don’t 😢 it’s not as good as private but I’m so grateful we don’t have to pay for it, student loans here you start paying back when you start earning a certain amount so that’s not too bad, Vets bills here are so high and it’s the same they don’t cover existing conditions , someone I know who was 28 just died because she was an alcoholic and left behind a 10 year old daughter so there’s not anything I don’t agree with you on xxx
For the young people that don't know what they want to do, it's really good to take a gap year or two, and work and stay in another country/countries. It will broaden your mind so much, and it might be scary to take that leap but at least you have more time to figure out what you want before you get stuck in a system with loads of college debt.
Girl, none of these are controversial and none of these would ever get you cancelled because we can all see the bullshit that is happening (unfortunately…)
˝These controversial opinions might get me cancelled˝....proceeds to tell three opinions most of the world agrees with.
Need more distrust fund! I love hearing you talk about all things!!
I agree about the alcohol thing. I decided to stop drinking cause I just felt yuck while drinking. I’m in a long term relationship and people would always assume I don’t drink because I’m pregnant (definitely not in the plan). I also get told often “oh you’re still fun”, yeah duh I don’t need to drink to be fun. Treat sober people like normal fun people.
I am from Europe and thank God we have free education. If I where American I would try get schoolarships, do comunity college than transfer, or go to Eruope and study for much less money. Like even if you are not Europien you can study in Europe for so much less money. You can pay your rent and living cost and plan ticket and college for like 10x less then in USA.
I did an unpaid intership for a well known PR firm that I was SUPER excited about. It was the biggest let down of my life. I don't come from money. I was living off loans, trying to get as much out of this internship as possible. The president of the firm KNEW this about me and basically made sure I learned nothing. She was just weirdly abusive and made me a gopher. Why even waste my time like that? So cruel.
That's disgusting💔
So basically you guys should come to canada to study and for health care! Giving birth is free!! 🤣 but for emergency care you may have to wait 14h and to see a specialist you might wait 2 years but hey 🤷🏽♀️ its free 😅
Just gotta say………
FACTS.
that TEENAGERS are allowed to--and have to in the first place--take out tens of thousands of dollars for school is outrageous. this is why im going to another CONTINENT for my education! the system is broken in the us
I totally agree with you on the student loans and the healthcare in America! It’s honestly atrocious. I have tried to explain to my father that wanting universal healthcare does not mean we want “communism”. It’s very bizarre to me that some People will use that as an argument against universal healthcare and universities. It’s so impossible to be able to pay all bills, have an emergency fund and also save for retirement. A lot of people in my generation that are in 30s can’t even buy a home. Then they wonder why more of us are choosing not to have children. Don’t even get me started on childcare and the lack of help for mothers in the us!!! I liked this video and I’m glad you brought up these topics. ❤
It'll take societal collapse before they understand, it's so infuriating.
Controversial opinion - cancel culture and being afraid of getting cancelled is killing creativity
This. I currently have to find an internship until September and most of them are unpaid and I have to do it for 40 hours a week. And like I have to do this because then the three years I studied will be pointless. But how is that normal that I am gonna work a full time job and live with no money? 💀 the best option is saw was 600€ a month, thats not even rent lmao
girlie i thought u were gonna drop something like "i don't think gay people should have rights🤓☝" imo this is not "controversial," this is progressive and i think we need a lot more people that think like u
You forgot to mention car insurance! Agents tell you, don’t file for a claim because your insurance will increase. So what is the point of getting it and no matter what my premium will get higher
The alcohol opinion❤️ alcohol is literally a drug. Also the way it makes people dumber and dumber by time.. i have friends where i can literally feel how they‘re dumber than 5 years ago… it‘s so weird because i‘m just 26 imagine in many more years :( makes me very sad. Also if you get into how many doctors and everything are drunk while working :) or think it‘s okay to have a glass or something.
not else pisses me off about how expensive college is in America.... people need people that educate themselves, especially in the health care industry why are you gonna make it astronomical when your ass needs that doctor just as much as the rest of us do! and I feel like there's a shortage of so many professionals lately. It's like after Covid something shifted
Maybe you're better than I thought you were. I accept the responsibility for judging you.
Psych grad and neuroscience researcher here! Alcohol does technically 'numb' our brains, that's why people blackout when they have had too much to drink. As for the Prefrontal Cortex (PFC), it does inhibit our actions etc. The reason for this is that our PFC is vital for decision making, strategizing, and general 'moral' type actions. When drinking alcohol, the first thing to go (functionally) is our PFC. From there other brain structures begin to fail us as well or become the dominant one. For example, the hypothalamus is for our more primitive decisions and that is why we see more reckless behavior in drunk individuals (Such as anger, which also involves the amygdala)! Without the PFC being as active, there's nothing really there in our brain to go "Is this the best decision?". Awesome video, couldn't agree more with... everything!! Sending love.
Do you think we’ll ever look back as a society and realize how absolutely bizarre it is for these entertainment videos to be about serious/deep/interesting topics yet the speaker is putting on makeup… it’s really objectively strange.
We love a queen who cares💗
15:16 you look like a conservative Fox News reporter and I'm living for it
all facts.
happy i’m not alone in all these thoughts.
it’s so frustrating.
I worked for Sobey’s (a very large grocery store chain) for a very long time. They were awful. They would intentionally give all their employees just under full time hours so they wouldn’t have to give anyone full time benefits. Yet there making like $600 million
That’s British right?
@@tiffanyroseangeles34 no it’s American owned company I believe. I live in Canada
Red Robin does that as well
I think a big problem with Healthcare is using insurance for too many things and the huge administrative and billing costs now with insurance (and how billing is so complex to increase chargeable items). If you go to urgent care and pay out of pocket it's a fraction of the cost with insurance, as just one example. We should shrink the administrative costs of billing and it will help brings costs down. We have less doctors and huge administrative departments in hospitals now. And I believe this is also seen in countries with government-run healthcare; they have a large administrative cost to process all the transactions.
Yes to suspending opinions till a better argued one comes along!!
"if you're studying economics check your salary"................... im pretty sure they will have....this is the dumbest sentence i've heard...
I am a trauma ER RN and I agree with everything you are saying. This actually gives me hope. I quit drinking alcohol 9 months ago because I agree it is poison. I tell people give it 30 days. When was the last time you have gone 30 days without a drink? Try it and see how you feel.
Q about alcohol: why you have to explain yourself if you don't drink poison? And if someone don't drink water ( for example) and say it, everyone is like "oh, ok"?
Love this video! It triggers me so much that you put much more Make-up on your right side 😢😂❤
Pre-existing condition is banned to discriminate against for not being able to get insurance BUT the issue is it can be undone. Affordable Healthcare Act banned insurance companies from not allowing people with conditions to not be cover especially since it was required to get healthcare (or face a 500$ tax penalty). I know this as someone with multiple conditions that would not be covered without Affordable Healthcare mandating companies to cover me, and in collage i was poor - tax independent - and paid the tax penalty since my former state would not give me healthcare cuz i did work enough (even tho my full time job was being an engineering student who also worked 25-30hrs a week part time). The tax penalty is paused/over rn but can be brought back. each your company gives you a form that shows the months you had healthcare to proof you had coverage for if they bring back the penalty.
One thing to note tho since I have pre-existing conditions what 1 person gets covered for free since it's a routine check I have to pay for since it's a test that can be related to my condition, but also to get other tests covered by insurance you need the condition to be diagnosis. It's a mess
Actually you just made me think about healthcare and education, think- doctors are getting paid in relation to their educational debt and we have to pay that price. Maybe?
No they’re not getting paid enough 🤣🤣 they’re not the ones getting super rich it’s the buisness people behind them
I thinks its crazy that free healthcare is considered communist by many people in the USA. No country in the EU is communist, quite the opposite. Even the deeply conservative and neoliberal people here understand that workers need to be healthy in order to generate capital :D
Common sense here. You don’t need makeup but I understand you, gurl. I wish I heard this 20 years ago when I was choosing a college/university to attend. I chose the university I did because my sister went there, and she chose the university because her friend chose it. I didn’t have any kind of educated leadership whatsoever and I feel like this kind of content is #supremeguidance.
I am so confused, as an European I thought your „controversial“ opinions are the average opinions about these things 🤔🤯
I just had to quit my job and go back to just disability because my rent increase was the same amount as I was making at the job. So I was working only to pay rent. They keep the poor, like me, poor. Whomever doesn't want people that are poor to succeed. I have continued to become more and more poor and have less and less money. And if I try to work, whomever takes all of that money.
Your thoughts are wonderful. But until someone who isn't poor, whose actually Super Wealthy decides to change things nothing will change. It takes people with money to actually make change. Like passing bills and laws and whatever. And telling whomever stop making the poor more poor and the rich megarich. It's just a fact.
10:20 you're right. And for anyone to think this has anything to do with
socialism or communism or that it's a sin to be conservative and feel this way,
which I am. Look at Socialist and Communist countries. Do you see happy people?
Do you see amazing health care and perfect politicians? No, you see large amounts
of corruption and enormous gaps in haves and have nots. They don't have student loans...
okay... for the sweat shop labor and poor housing. So no. Equating the RIGHT way to
build a civilization with the wrong way.. is just insane.
Education and health care equal higher productivity and production. Stabile economies,
longer life expectancy, stronger family units, smarter children and adults. Civil growth.
Fleecing people with student debt and excessively expensive health care and housing
only benefits the ones doing the fleecing. At their people's expense. Literally
You're being thrown under a bus, robbed and expected to ask for more.
In my case, as a conservative, why the hell would I ever want that?
We spend billions to fund other people's problems and wars but like Blair said 200K for
having twins! How is that fiscally responsible or supporting families?
You want to support families make education and health care affordable.
Give women access to whatever care we need. Stop banning medical procedures!
If you have billions to spend, fix your own country.
Soap box over.
I believe we needca flexible economic system that socializes some things like health and education but stays capitalistic in other such as construction, goods and services.
@@d.haskins3840 Yeah. Capitalism is like every other system. By it's self it's not a bad thing, but people abuse it.
I don’t think you are truly a conservative in the American political sense. Maybe culturally (Christian?, NASCAR or pro wrestling fans in the family?, anti abortion? want 3 or more kids?, guns?) but maybe you’re not fiscally conservative. I think you are probably capitalist in that you believe in free markets,, but you can be both liberal and a capitalist. Universal free college education and healthcare would only work if we either raise taxes (mostly on the rich) or re-prioritize our huge defense spending to do better things. You sound like you’re for that. I am too and I’m a liberal democrat.
I love this. Do not apologize for having opinions. Be true to you and your authentic self. So many people feel the same way as you, but as women, we are conditioned to not complain.
ITS THE INSURANCE COMPANIES GETTING RICH!!
AND THE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES GETTING RICH
In response to getting more work piled on once you had done your own, if the prize for winning the pie eating contest is another pie, it's time to look for another job 😢
speaking so many facts. period big sista ❤
My parents were very neglectful of me growing up but still found time to push the “you have to go to college to get a good job” message… now that I’m grown… wow we’re they wrong. 1- college isn’t for everyone
2- if you don’t have a passion for something, don’t go to college thinking you’ll find your major eventually. What twisted logic is that, this is what you’re doing for the rest of your life.
3- if my parents weren’t so narrow minded I could’ve learned a trade earlier, not had student debt lingering over my head, and I would’ve found the confidence I have now knowing that I’m actually good at something and can provide something to the world, and all as a college dropout 🤗
And 4! If you don’t have a support system with family, think again if you want to go to college. Doing this without a support system is borderline impossible (props to those that got through it all alone❤️)
Normalize you doing this. It’s so nice to see your intelligent side ( I know you’re smart but you mostly show your wild, snarky side) lol
Blair I have Subscribed to your channel and I really really love your videos so so much you are looking so beautiful and I wish you reach 2 Million Subscribers very very soon!!♥️♥️🥹
As a person that went to university and has higher education, I totally agree with you. The loan amount I singed when I was a teenager is astounding! I was so young and had no adults to explain things to me, I’m still glad I have my degree. However, I encourage young people to look and review properly what they are signing.
Ugh Blair I needed the student loan talk 10 years ago 😭 LMAO no but this is awesome tell those kids cause no one told me!!
I really love these sit down talking vids
This was such a well done video.
Absolutely everything spot on.
Gurl I think you are just spitting FACTS ❤❣️🥴🫶✨
love your channel!! you’re amazing🩷🩷
girl, these are the least controversial opinions i have ever heard . . .
The Walnut's Internet is the Internet I signed in for
YES, FACTS!!! AGREED!
health issues took me out of college early. i took the loan at 18, with the impression that i would graduate and start a career and be able to pay it off. the health issues cost me the partial scholarship and i couldn’t afford to return. if i could have predicted the future, i wouldn’t have taken the loan. and i am pro gap year, i wish i had taken one
Girl, who are you chatting with that disagrees with these things ? These are all super valid
Successful rightwingers probs
Blair, what are your thoughts on cannabis?
I don't thin they are controversial at all lol
I went to a private college had an unpaid internship at a tv station because i was a communicatios major. Anyway they gave me stupid things to do. One of them was wrapping gifts. I am a horrible gift wrapper. I am talking sloppy and uneven sides. Anyway they gave me a bad review because of the gift wrapping i did. I feel like it was a waste of my time. They need to get rid of these unpaid internships.
I agree with you sis. I’m a travel nurse and even we aren’t getting paid that good anymore…if you can even find a job
On the college thing, don't be afraid of trade school if you are actually interested in a trade. Trade school is cheaper and faster than traditional universities and a lot of trade jobs earn a great wage. It's something you can also do even knowing it's temporary. You can earn money doing it then decide later if you want to get a degree.
it’s getting worse as far as hospitals go. big hospital systems are buying up all the small ones and local doctor practices and the cost for patients goes up considerably.
And yes alcohol is poison.
Girl, I'm Española and lived 6 years in the states and have pretty much the same opinions as you...and no, they aren't communist opinions, pretty much all Europeans think this about North Americans (specifically U.S.A) 😘❤️💃🏼💃🏼
Same here girl! 4 years were more than enough to find out the american dream is pretty fucked up. US, just on vacation😊
Go to medschool in Latvia at an international English language class, pay 14.5k per year for medical and 15k per year per dentistry. Best universities, lowest costs, sexy women’s environment producing the most worlds supermodels per capita, Art Novoa world heritage site architecture, healthy food. ❤
1:08 - "Student loans are a scam".... Wait I thought these were *controversial* opinions... smfh America lmfao ANYWAYZZZ love u girl keep blessing my youtube algorithm i totally agree alcohol =/= social life, i stopped drinking and going out and realized i had no friends... but yea i guess thats the whole "growing up" thing :')
And our health insurance is $600 monthly 😑 as a Latvian in Miami I cannot will not ever get used to this, we have a 10k deductible too. Yep
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Question for ppl who like modern design for EVERYTHING....why?
Imo it feels very clinical, I get the psychology of it being clean and whatnot but is it THAT or something else?
Can you explain if you like modern?
What camera are you using? Thank you Blair ❤
Canon g7x mark 2 :)))
How’s your boyfriend max’s liquidated company doing and best mate who’s in prison
🩷🩷 Your makeup Slayyyyys Walnut!!😀✌🏼
219) They ask you about wine[80] and gambling. Say, "In them is great sin and [yet, some] benefit for people. But their sin is greater than their benefit." And they ask you what they should spend. Say, "The excess [beyond needs]." Thus Allāh makes clear to you the verses [of revelation] that you might give thought
Verse 219 from surat al baqarah, The holy quran.
my mom has been a nurse for 16+ years, my dad owns two stores for 20+ years and somehow my family has been renting for my entire life, i am aware i live in a expensive area as i live near many colleges i still find it absurd that my parents work 9-5/5 and still can’t afford a three bedroom house!
uppaid internships is unfortunately common, i’m a pr major and im required to do an internship and majority will be unpaid
opinion #1 : I agree
Blair you're so funny lol trust me I went through the same thing around 28, until then i was a huge partyer. Then my frontal lobe snapped into place lol All of the sudden i cared about my long term health, and realized my lifestyle was making me ill. I smoked cigarettes and was constantly getting sick with tonsillitis. So i quit and also quit drinking. Lots of people asked questions but didn't really want to hear the answer. I'm 37 now and literally HALF of those people are addicts and are in bad situations. Some dead. 😞 It's heartbreaking.
Girl I feel you! I feel the same way about school! I signed up for $40k in student loans with a signature in 2007 before the market crashed. I had no idea what I was signing up for. I was 18. I feel like everyone should take a gap year. Idk how someone that is 18/barely an adult can decide what they want to do for the rest of their lives.
I totally agree with you! You are a smart, beautiful and big-hearted young woman💖