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[Time for some fresh sand as we defocus from the SHC affair.  gjr]

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221 responses to “Sandbox – 14jan18”

  1. Walt Avatar

    Playing by your rules Paul, Gregory wins.
    I’m the referee here.
    So you want to use that “one day” poll to claim victory? LOL!!

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  2. Walt Avatar

    And after a year, and Trump doing such a superb job getting America out of the ditch “O”andCo. sunk it in,, your late penalty is a case of the good stuff.

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  3. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Paul Emry will never pay up. He is a piker.

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  4. Bill Tozer Avatar

    TDS rears it’s ugly head again. Hmm. Ok, TDS never lowers its ugly head, but let’s not quibble over such minor details.
    OMG, it’s Trump the umbrella Nazi. Pure Evil!
    https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/melania-trumps-1500-coat-probably-got-wet-rain-232356379.html

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  5. Walt Avatar

    How come we didn’t get the memo? The State of Jefferson had first dibs. But, whatever gets the job done.
    http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2018/01/15/new-california-declares-independence-from-rest-of-state/
    “SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — With the reading of their own version of a Declaration of Independence, founders of the state of New California took the first steps to what they hope will eventually lead to statehood.
    To be clear, they don’t want to leave the United States, just California.”

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  6. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Paul, the poll that counted in Nov 2016 had Trump at 46.1, which is just about where he is now. It was also about where Obama was after his first year in office.
    What he had at the time of his inauguration was the normal goodwill where folks who didn’t hate the winner but voted for someone else, or didn’t vote at all, decide the winner is the President and deserve their place.
    What happened this time was the constant drumbeat of DNC house organs chanting Russia Russia. MSNBC hosts looking at the camera and stating there was a candidate under FBI investigation at the time of the election and it wasn’t Hillary Clinton. We now know that was not the case, but the damage was done.
    Unfortunately, Paul, you are such a mathematical nothing, it’s pretty impossible to talk about statistics with you in a meaningful way. Trump is where he was on election day. Yes, the drumbeat of attack poodles in the press have wounded his standing, as have his, ahem, unconventional ways of communicating in twits. We have not had a president without political experience (national, state or local) who talks like a real estate developer from Queens because he is a real estate developer from Queens.
    Nothing succeeds like success and nothing fails like failure. Trump has unwound much of the Obama presidency and fulfilled many of his campaign promises. The Main Street economy is roaring, the stock market is booming. Regulations continue to be peeled back and it appears profits from multinationals that have been stuck overseas are being repatriated for domestic spending and investment.
    Trump haters, rejoice! Maybe the economy can be derailed if you try hard enough and if that’s what you really want.

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  7. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Gregory
    All you look at is the Rasmussen polls and “about where he is to day” as you put it is meaningless. the consensus polls show his at -17 or so and before the election he was -2 which is about what he lost the popular vote by. you can’t put a lipstick on that pig with any credibility because you are only looking at one poll The consensus poll tells the story you don’t want to hear and that story is that Trump has historic lows after his first year.

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  8. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    -17 is meaningless, Paul. Compared to what? The “consensus poll” (meaning the Rassmussen Approval Index?) is a measure of how many more really hate the President vs really like the President. An interesting number… but how many approve as a whole is what would decide an election if held that day.
    -2 is meaningless. Compared to what? Yes, before the Russia crap was flung into the fan, there was less hate and more support from the GOP.
    He won the electoral vote at a 46.1% of votes cast. He’s right about there now, before a resolution of the Mueller investigation, before the tax overhaul has a chance to do anything, before the lessened regulatory burden has a chance to work.
    It might not but your incessant cheerleading for failure is not going to hurry anything along. Give it a rest.

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  9. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Gee which socialist supported candidates benefit from this crap!
    https://www.theunion.com/news/local-news/school-for-revolutionaries-hosting-grass-valley-workshop/
    😉

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  10. MAGA CoVfefe! Avatar
    MAGA CoVfefe!

    Rewind,,,”’I did not have sexual relations with that woman”’,,,Fast Forward,,,”’That whore did not pee on me”’
    MAGAMAGAMAGAMAGAMAGAMAGAMAGAMAGAMAGAMAGAMAGAMAGAMAGAMAGAMAGAMAGAMAGA

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  11. Scenes Avatar
    Scenes

    re: Don Bessee@11:10PM
    From the article.
    “The time for revolution is now, believes Cobb.”
    Too funny. h/t to The Princess Bride
    “You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.”

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  12. George Rebane Avatar

    re DonB 1110pm – It’s actually another novel exercise of the First Amendment to teach people how to do away with the document that grants them that right.
    https://www.theunion.com/news/local-news/school-for-revolutionaries-hosting-grass-valley-workshop/

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  13. Walt Avatar

    How’s that fear of pregnancy going Dougy? Once again showing your stupidity. There is no “C” in the Samoan language.

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  14. Bill Tozer Avatar

    Funny that our own Brother Ben worked hard on the Stein campaign. I kept waiting for his name to appear in the Union article but it was not meant to be. Green Socialist. The time is ripe. Revolution is in the air. The time is right. for a Street fighting man….what can a poor boy to do but sing for a rock and band.
    No wonder Nirvana City is called the Berkeley of the Foothills.

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  15. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Excuses, excuses Gregory You were the one touting the Rasmussen poll just yesterday. Now you say it’s meaningless. Ha Ha

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  16. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Here it comes
    Bannon ready to sing. Get your popcorn folks it’s gonna be a show
    “Former White House adviser Steve Bannon is willing to cooperate with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into whether President Donald Trump’s campaign coordinated with Russia to influence the 2016 election, according to multiple media reports late Tuesday and early Wednesday.
    “Mueller will hear everything Bannon has to say,” a source told The Daily Beast, which first reported the news on Tuesday night.
    Axios confirmed on Wednesday that Bannon ― who reportedly received a subpoena last week to testify in the special counsel’s investigation ― “intends to fully cooperate with Mueller.” Though the subpoena asks Bannon to appear before a grand jury, Bannon struck a deal to be interviewed directly by prosecutors instead, CNN’s David Wright said.”
    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/

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  17. Walt Avatar

    Old news Paul, Bannon has been told to clam up. Muller went outside the agreed “scope”.

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  18. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 17 January 2018 at 09:36 AM
    Here it comes
    Bannon ready to sing. Get your popcorn folks it’s gonna be a show

    ….yawn!
    These breathless fever dream announcements would have more oomph if you weren’t so consistently and embarrassingly wrong!

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  19. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Bannon is under Executive Privilege. Paul Emery will have to get his “jollies” from someone else. And Rassmussen has Trump at 45% positive. Just like election day results.

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  20. Walt Avatar

    Paul.. Your Huff&puff tell you this?
    “Then, hours into Bannon’s closed-door testimony on Tuesday, Bannon’s lawyers informed the White House from Capitol Hill that the questions would extend beyond the scope of what the White House understood the agreement to be. At that point, the White House told Bannon not to answer any further.”
    Guess not.

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  21. Bill Tozer Avatar

    Well, I have already got my popcorn ready and am on my 4th bowl. This is great fun watching the Court Jester perform for us. Dance, Punchy, dance! Here is a copper coin for your beggar’s cup. Now, sing, dance, play the lyre , and tell us more funny stories. Make us laugh as the 5th bowl of popcorn is ready. Entertain us, jester, entertain!

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  22. Bill Tozer Avatar

    I did thoroughly enjoy what Roger Stone did. He told Congress he would be glad to testify, but only in open session. No closed doors, open session only. He was never called to answer questions, lol.

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  23. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Winning! Apple announces the repatriation of $360 BILLION and 20,000 new jobs in the US. The repatriation tax = $54 Billion bucks on this one transaction alone. 😉

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  24. Bill Tozer Avatar

    I fear the new wife will have a heart attack. She looks overweight. Same reason I cannot vote for the obese Oprah. Heart attack.
    https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/983537171796505/?type=3&theater

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  25. Walt Avatar

    Paul I hear the Scooper is up for grabs. Time to break into the news business on a large scale. You could be the “uncle” Paul to Motherjones.

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  26. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    No Paul, the poll isn’t meaningless, your interpretation of it, the number pulled out of context to mean something else, is.
    -17! Historically low! The drop between his popularity on Inauguration Day and today? By one poll, or by running all poll numbers no matter how lousy they were during the campaign and put them into the RCP Poll-O-Matic average!
    Wow, that’s terrific Bass!
    Not.
    http://www.goodeatsfanpage.com/humor/snl/bassomatic.htm
    Today, Trump’s approval is 45%, meaning 55% disapproval/meh! So is that a -10 by your interpretation?
    Trump got 46.1% of the popular vote, meaning about 54% voted NOT for Trump, including me. Does that mean he was -8… or does it mean he was -2, the gap between him and the DP candidate?
    What a tangled web you weave, Paul.
    I choose to not play with the numbers to torture out a different answer. It’s about 45% approval today, by Rasmussen’s methodology, their decision about Likely Voters vs. Anyone who is willing to answer their questions when they call them on the phone. The number is an approximation and I am satisfied any error is unintentional.
    I’d put me in the meh! category… except I believe 100% that he is legally the President by the Constitution and find the continual effort by Snowflake-Americans to perform a coup d’etat do-over to be the most odious of any post election grieving I’ve witnessed.

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  27. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Porn Star goes public on Trump romp
    Porn star Stormy Daniels has now gone on the record in an interview with In Touch Weekly about her alleged sexual encounters with President Donald Trump.
    Report Advertisement
    In an interview filled with cringe-worthy details, Daniels says that sex with Trump was “textbook generic,” while expressing regret that she ever had an affair with Trump back in 2006, shortly after his wife Melania gave birth to their son, Barron Trump.
    “[The sex] was textbook generic,” she said. “I actually don’t even know why I did it, but I do remember while we were having sex, I was like, ‘Please, don’t try to pay me.’”
    She reportedly became involved with Trump after he invited her to dinner in his hotel room after meeting her at the American Century celebrity golf tournament in July 2006. After Daniels went to the bathroom after dinner, she said she returned to see Trump lying in bed beckoning her toward him.
    “And I was like, ‘Ugh, here we go,’” she said. “And we started kissing.”
    Trump’s relationship with Daniels first became public after the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that Trump attorney Michael Cohen had paid her $130,000 to keep quiet about their affair. Cohen tells In Touch that he still denies any allegation that the president had an affair with Daniels.
    http://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/stormy-daniels-describes-sex-with-trump-in-cringe-worthy-detail-ugh-here-we-go-please-dont-pay-me/

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  28. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    ‘Report Advertisement’ What is that? @1132 So that is an advertisement? 😉

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  29. Bill Tozer Avatar

    Finally, there is one judge in CA that has returned sanity to the courtroom. Not only did the judge reject the defense motion that the accused was not competent to stand trial, the judge also rejected the insanity defense.
    The illegal alien is more than competent to stand trial. In a usual move, the defense attorney told the judge that his illegal alien client indeed murdered two LE officers in cold blood as well as wounding others.
    Guess the only question is to send him to prison to be with his own kind or to sent him back to the Sanctuary City (River City) to be with his own kind. Decisions, decisions.
    Obama commented that “You did not build that, I did.”
    http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article195120434.html
    In other crime news, I cannot believe these so called “facts”. Must be fakenews.
    “The data there shows the convictions for everybody who entered the prisons system from January 1985 through June of this last year … It just shows that certain groups are convicted at much higher rates than their share of the population … [roughly 75 percent] of the crime committed by undocumented immigrants or illegal aliens is committed by those who are 15 to 35 years of age.”
    http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/01/16/dreamer-age-illegals-crime-rate-double-young-americans-says-report/

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  30. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “Textbook generic” sex, freebies from a porn star? Golly, Paul… doesn’t the Russia Dossier paid for by the Clinton campaign claim Trump to be into all sorts of kinky stuff?
    Does that mean you’ve abandoned the Russian piss pros story?

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  31. Walt Avatar

    Paul is just jealous of Trump. Even 13 years ago hippie chicks would pass on Paul.
    Trump must have been one hell of a lay, if she didn’t want to get paid. Maybe just hoping she would wind up preggers? ( lost that bet, no retirement plan in a Trump mansion.)
    Your really going gutter Paul, Only outhouse buttwipe gossip rags are running your pulitzer prize find.
    Your desperation is showing.

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  32. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    BAM!! DOW 26,115 up 322. Blew through another 1000 in a week. Triple records. 😉

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  33. Bill Tozer Avatar

    Walt penned, “Only outhouse buttwipe gossip rags are running your pulitzer prize find.”
    Yep, Punchy ran that one by last night citing another outhouse buttwipe gossip rag, the Huff-n-Puff Farting Post. He will run with that one for sure. Hey, free sex is best. 🙂
    In other hilarious news, this one gave me a big belly laugh and had me rolling.
    “It’s fake!’ ‘Too bad. Mines Not.”
    http://tribunist.com/news/its-fake-too-bad-mines-not-security-guard-casually-shoots-armed-robbers-video/?utm_source=ITA

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  34. Walt Avatar

    Bill I love movies with happy endings.

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  35. Scenes Avatar
    Scenes

    re: Billt@12:49
    Oh well, there’s no point in hatefacts. Some wise guy will invent, from whole cloth, a theory about how it’s all about poverty. And then someone else will correct for poverty by looking up crime stats corrected for income. And then nothing gets resolved as everyone mutters in their corner.
    I have another new theory in addition to CAL-50, the income tax that will save the day, and that’s to do an experiment in mass immigration based on gender.
    Let’s say we let in quite a few younger people, aged from 16-30, but they all have to be healthy females. No males allowed. Men, after all, are the source of most crime…plus we could stand the admixture.
    Just watch the harridans cut loose when they see 1,000,000 good-lookin’ women enter the US in a gang. You betcha there’d be a big change in immigration law from a big part of the Left toot sweet.

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  36. Bill Tozer Avatar

    Concerning the 25th Amendment…..hope burns eternal.
    https://patriotpost.us/articles/53494
    Now, I just cannot believe how dumb those afflicted with TDS are. I have been waiting for them to discover the details of that which they speak, but I am tired of waiting. After jumping through some loopholes, it takes 2/3 of BOTH houses to remove Trump. Impeachment is easier, dummies.
    “If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.[3]
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
    https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/983540665129489/?type=3&theater
    https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/983538551796367/?type=3&theater

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  37. Walt Avatar

    Paul.. You have competition. Just who is going to “lose it” first?
    http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/17/morning-joe-mika-accuses-trump-of-bribing-dhs-sec-nielsen/
    And Jerry’s Crazy train isn’t even on the tracks, yet Proggy news has reserved all the tickets.

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  38. Walt Avatar

    Found a group for Paul!! Run with it Emery!!
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/shortcuts/2018/jan/17/the-girther-movement-is-donald-trump-fatter-than-the-white-house-doctor-says
    Scales LIE!! Tape measures can be “fixed”!! I’m sure Trump paid’m off!(with hookers?)
    This keeps getting better and better.

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  39. Bill Tozer Avatar

    Scenes, @ 1:19 pm.
    Great idea. Now that is one policy us red blooded Americans can get behind. I am, afterall, an equal opportunity employer. Besides, I have grown tired of playing with my Thai Guy pool boys. To help facilitate the new immigration policy (as a selfless act of public service), I submit for your consideration a list. Yes, Latin America is represented twice just be prove I am not a bigot. Now let’s get ready for some good ole Russian Collusion.
    https://www.wonderslist.com/10-countries-with-the-most-beautiful-women/
    Sorry Walt, but Sweden is on the other list at #17. Ah heck, let’s take the top 17 or top 23 if they fit the criteria.
    BTW Walt @ 1:44 om. What do you mean who is going to “lose it” first? Most confusing. I don’t rightly know who was first, but hey both have already “lost it”.

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  40. Paul Emery Avatar

    Walt writes:
    “Trump must have been one hell of a lay, if she didn’t want to get paid.”
    So Walt, you are agreeing that Trump had an affair with a Porn Star.

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  41. Scenes Avatar
    Scenes

    re: GR@2:22PM
    I suppose it depends on the ‘news’ source. To their credit, the top two stories at the Washington Post are:
    “Kelly expresses optimism about ‘dreamer’ deal without suggesting timeline”
    “Race to replace Tim Murphy is a test of Trump in western Pennsylvania”
    plus they ran an article on Apple and the $38B.
    Huffington Post?
    “AUNT OF LOCKED-IN SIBLINGS: DAD WATCHED ME SHOWER”
    “EX STAFFERS: RIGHT-WING THINK TANK PROTECTED STALKER”
    lol. No doubt the KVMR news complex gets that good ol’ HuffPo news 24/7 plus the odd DailyKos bulletin. Anything to keep their crazy base up in arms.

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  42. MAGA CoVfefe! Avatar
    MAGA CoVfefe!

    Only ONE LB. to go and Trumpski achieves GREATNESS!!! All of a sudden FAT will be TOTALLY COOL around here!!!

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  43. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    So Punchy, you are agreeing Trump doesn’t do kink (thus calling into question the Russia Dossier cooked up by Fusion GPS) and was a nice enough guy to charm a porn star now and again over the space of a year? Or maybe he was just rich and famous enough that she let him **&&EW her $%^&W to see where it might lead!!!
    FYI, Stormy Daniels played the “Porn Star” role in Steve Corell’s mainstream hit, The 40-Year Old Virgin. Maybe I’ll get around to watching it.
    PS No one thought he was a choirboy.

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  44. Bill Tozer Avatar

    @ triple deuce
    . Not a chance Dr. Rebane. But, the 20 second spots on my transistor radio says Apple is investing 350 billion in our Homeland. I can’t read your many WSJ links because of the paywall thang. Yes, we have circled that barn before…….
    Not a chance I say. Why?
    https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/983546211795601/?type=3&theater
    Why? This is why.
    https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/982516051898617/?type=3&theater
    Any chance for this one?
    https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/982519721898250/?type=3&theater

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  45. Scenes Avatar
    Scenes

    “No one thought he was a choirboy.”
    It’s rare in any case. Obviously power+money is some strong mojo.
    Thank goodness we didn’t have blogs (aside from taverns) in JFK’s day. Paul could opine that “I WOULDN”T HAVE VOTED FOR HIM THE SECOND TIME IF HE HADN”T A’ BEEN SHOT!”

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  46. Walt Avatar

    Bill.. That would be “lose their mind”.(I know.. WAY too late)
    Paul. Your gripe about Trump and a hot chick is amusing.
    You backed Edwards who was screwing his mistress while his wife was in her death bed. There is a special place in Hell for that guy.
    Yaaa Paul, say what you like about Trump.

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  47. Paul Emery Avatar

    Yeah I know Walt and I regret supporting him. Do you feel the same way about Trump having an affair with a porn star 2 years after his soon was born?

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