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[This is your Happy Valentine's Day sandbox in which we may pursue all the divers love affairs that ended badly with sexual harassment and abuse and … which are now the newly preferred weapon in the armory assembled to destroy President Trump's administration.  I'm sure when this has run its course, a new one will already be fashioned and ready to deploy.  gjr]

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204 responses to “Sandbox – 14feb18”

  1. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Ahhhhhh, fresh kitty litter! That wont last for long, here is a little lunch snack for the po’ ol’ pollhead. Its the economy stupid.
    https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/14/trump-polling-democrats-republicans-407315
    😉

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  2. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Oh my feelings are hurt Fish.

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  3. fish Avatar
    fish

    Why?

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  4. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Amazing to see our President outsmarted by a porn star.

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  5. fish Avatar
    fish

    Amazing that you think that!

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  6. Xeno Avatar
    Xeno

    A GOP donor first hired Fusion GPS to investigate Trump. Later, Clinton campaign and DNC paid Christopher Steele to keep looking.
    He was paid £130,000 for his undercover work.
    Stormy Daniels was paid $130,000 for her undercover work.
    Looking forward to her dossier on what she uncovered.

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  7. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    In the meantime… by politico’s poll, the generic GOP congressionalcritter vote is in the plurality by 1%.
    Push harder on the Stormy Daniels story guys.
    — NEW POLITICO/MORNING CONSULT POLL: “Poll: GOP gains on generic ballot, Trump approval ticks upward,” by Steve Shepard: “Fully 39 percent of registered voters say they would support the GOP candidate for Congress in their district, while 38 percent would back the Democratic candidate. Nearly a quarter of voters, 23 percent, are undecided.
    “Voters are split almost evenly along party lines. Democratic voters break for their party, 85 percent to 5 percent, while Republicans similarly favor the GOP, 84 percent to 8 percent. Among independent voters, 26 percent would vote for the Democrat, 25 percent for the Republican and nearly half, 49 percent, are undecided.” http://politi.co/2srdzA5

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  8. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “The new year has also produced a Trump polling bump. In the new poll, 47 percent of voters approve of the job Trump is doing as president, while the same percentage disapprove.
    Among Democrats, 16 percent approve of Trump’s job performance and 80 percent disapprove. The numbers are almost exactly inverted among Republicans: 82 percent approve, while 16 percent disapprove. Trump is still underwater among independents: 39 percent approve and 49 percent disapprove.”
    http://politi.co/2srdzA5

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  9. Walt Avatar

    LOL Proggys, keep yapping about non issues. Did Stormy provide a receipt?
    I believe there is a jealous proggy. He can’t afford Stormy.

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  10. Bill Tozer Avatar

    After years of accusing states of voter suppression, the Center for American Progress, citing election security, wants to make voting tougher for Americans serving overseas in the military.
    The left-wing public policy group issued a report Monday, “Election Security in All 50 States,” that called for stricter standards to prevent cybermeddling in elections by foreign governments, including banning military stationed abroad from submitting ballots via email or fax.
    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/feb/13/liberal-group-restrict-overseas-military-voting/

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  11. Xeno Avatar
    Xeno

    ConservoCrickets abound…

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  12. fish Avatar
    fish

    About which particular issue?

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  13. jon smith Avatar
    jon smith

    Bill 1:14-
    Would you put your credit card number on an email? If so, you should take remedial computer training.

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  14. Walt Avatar

    How much are you forking out today xeno in hopes of “getting any” tonight?
    In other words,, your pay’n for it”.
    Flowers? 30 bucks Dinner out? ( Drive through Mc D’s most likely) 20 bucks.
    Drinks at the bar? 40 bucks.
    Then the credit card bill for her hair dresser, 100 bucks, New skimpy outfit?(if your lucky) $$$
    What? that time of the month? Good thing you have the Internet. Plenty of “that”for free.
    Have a great Valentine’s night.

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  15. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “Stormy Daniels was paid $130,000 for her undercover work”
    -Xeno, Warrior Princess, 1221pm
    No, she had $130k pushed across the table just before the election, a tip to insure no press. The earlier story she told, in print, was that she was dreading he’d try to pay her (he didn’t at the time) and that it wasn’t kinky.
    Yes, Trump is a horndog. So is Bill Clinton (or at least, Bubba was a horndog).
    I do feel for Melania and their son. Not so much for Hillary and their spawn who joined the family monkey business.

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  16. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    What man in America has not had a fantasy about a woman and some have one about a porn star. My guess is that most guys are dawgs and think the story is a plus for their support for the Trumpster. Others that don’t are pussified and worthless.

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  17. Xeno Avatar
    Xeno

    Does Trump really have “big hands”? Princess Xeno wants to know! Maybe Stormy will tell all. She says confidentiality agreement is null and void now.

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  18. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Xeno is fixated on Trump’s lower horn. Hmmm.

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  19. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Wow, raising campaign funds for dems must have been getting too hard-
    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/02/14/dem-congressional-candidate-busted-trying-to-hawk-stolen-ring.html
    😉

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  20. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    The school shooter in Broward County has been identified as a 19 year old ex-student, Nicolas Cruz.

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  21. Bill Tozer Avatar

    @ 1:57 pm
    Another confused Dem. Does not even know if it is a girl or a boy. A piece of human garbage. Totally insane.

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  22. George Rebane Avatar

    BillT 114pm – Natch, it has always been the Dems who have known about and pioneered new approaches and methods of suppressing voters whose votes they did not like. It started during Reconstruction and went all the way to the 1950s when they changed horses in midstream. And now they want to do everything they can to have their constituents vote early and often, and in every precinct they can reach on election day. But making it easy for our military to vote? no, no, no, because those are almost all the wrong kind of votes. Good catch Mr Tozer.
    Also, please see today’s Scattershots update about the latest from Shifty Schiff and friends.

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  23. jon smith Avatar
    jon smith

    That “thoughts and prayers” thing doesn’t seem to be working very well.

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  24. Walt Avatar

    That non disclosure agreement say she can’t tell people he’s hung like a Clydesdale, with balls to match.

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  25. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    “it has always been the Dems who have known about and pioneered new approaches and methods of suppressing voters whose votes they did not like.”
    Given what has happened recently in red states with voter ID laws, making it more difficult to register and vote, illegal gerrymandering, etc. that all have targeted minorities (likely democratic voters), I would say your statement is a classic example of fake news/propaganda.

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  26. Bill Tozer Avatar

    First thing to do is find out is what drugs the shooter was on. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are the common denominator among the shooters. Then find out what laws the19 year old broke. Many i hazard to guess. Then, after all the thousands of hours of how he got the gun, what kind of gun used, etc….then after all that pass a law that outlaws evil.
    In an totally unrelated piece of information, 1/3 of all ex-cons in the US live in Florida.

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  27. George Boardman Avatar

    If sex is the “preferred weapon” against our revered leader, Trump is supplying the ammunition.

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  28. Walt Avatar

    Cross whats anyone and everyone to vote. As long as they vote Liberal. Go it.
    Get stopped by a cop and have no ID, you go to jail till they find out who you are. If voting is that important to n individual, they would get that ID. You need it to get welfare.
    So Bobby, just who are these people that claim to have been stopped as you say? Bigfoot?

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  29. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Bored Georgeman, amazing that it’s sex from a decade before he ran for public orifice that you and your bros are focusing on.
    How soon they forget.
    At least the GOP had Clinton lying about an affair in the Oval Orifice in a civil deposition about his dropping trou and asking for, um, favors from a state employee brought to him for the purpose by state troopers.
    I get it… you’re grasping at, umm, hmmm, straws as there is still no there there at the Russkie Collusion Follies and Trump’s moral fiber was factored into the Nov ’16 election. The next election (house and senate) is in 9 months and the Democratic Party is homeless.
    Or maybe it’s that they’re Houseless. Senate-less, too. And behind in the generic polls.

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  30. George Rebane Avatar

    RobertC 314pm – You’re a bit rusty on your US history and must needs change the subject. OK. Where voter ID laws have been instituted, they have NOT shown to have suppressed the voting rates of any constituency, and they have been wholeheartedly approved by the black voters. The “difficulty” you cite is non-existent; complying with voter ID laws is much easier than checking out of a grocery store with a cart full of groceries. (But it does prevent more Dems voting than are registered or even live in a precinct.) And gerrymandering is an old American custom practiced with equal ferocity by both parties who, from time to time, are successfully challenged in the courts by the other party. Citing that as an implied Republican only perennial is yet more proof that you slept through your history classes.

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  31. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    Not Bigfoot Walt, American citizens. You apparently aren’t aware of two recent Supreme Court decisions in the last few months that both ruled that Republican’s illegally gerrymandered districts in their favor, along with several previous decisions that overturned Republican re-districting plans that were found to be racially biased by clumping racial minorities together in wildly gerrymandered districts in order to dilute their voting power, and because racial minorities typically vote Democratic, increase the likelihood of republican victories in other districts. These
    Several red states have reduced early voting and precinct hours all of which make it more difficult for working people to vote. A judge recently overturned the Texas voter ID law stating that the law was “enacted with discriminatory intent — knowingly placing additional burdens on a disproportionate number of hispanic and African-American voters.” This kind of crap has gone on in every red state in America as the pubbers try to find a way to hold on to power as the numerical minority that represents the unenlightened self-interest of the wealthy at the expense of the rest of the American people.
    These things are UNCONSTITUTIONAL. So I guess the real question is:
    Do you support the Constitution or do you support the Republican Party? Concerning the legality of these matters you can’t really have it both ways.
    George: Just what were those new approaches and methods of voter suppression the Dems pioneered? Curious people want to know. I would think wheelchair ramps only helped republicans get out the vote, considering their core demographic of mostly white and aging Americans.

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  32. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: jon smith | 14 February 2018 at 03:07 PM
    That “thoughts and prayers” thing doesn’t seem to be working very well.

    You should probably mount an immediate campaign to effect a ban of privately owned firearms nationwide.
    Keep us informed as to your progress.

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  33. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Robert Cross | 14 February 2018 at 04:12 PM
    Why don’t you just come out and say that the democrats need every last room temperature IQ possessing urban dweller to vote in order to make another run at power now that they’ve thrown the working class over the side?

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  34. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Gerrymandering is a product of both parties. Can’t wait to see the unconstitutional GM of all the Northeast States and other democrat strongholds. Could be kinda fun.
    Alas my position remains it is up to the states to do the deed as the US Constitution says that very thing.

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  35. Walt Avatar

    Now Bobby.Forget so soon how Ca. got away with it? I went through the process to e on that redistricting commission.
    I saw how the game was played. Got all the way to step three and THEN shown the door. ” we have plenty of your kind,, Thanks.” The Right wound up with little say in it. A LIB judge let it slide. Imagine that.

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  36. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    fishy: I think most of the demographic information points to the fact that a large contingent of trump supporters are white males with a high school diploma or less. So your IQ argument is null and void
    Todd: If gerrymandering is a product of both parties, please cite the instances when a Democratically controlled statehouse has been busted by the Supreme Court for trying to rig districts in their favor.

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  37. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    Fishy: “they’ve thrown the working class over the side’. Yes the Democrats have done just that to curry the favor of Wall St. donors. The Republicans have been doing that since the 1920’s. Currently there is no political party that represents working Americans and if you think trump is the savior of the working class you’re as delusional as he is.

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  38. George Rebane Avatar

    RobertC 412pm – They are too numerous to list in a comment stream. Most students of history know that the Democratic Party since Jackson has been the party of slavery, the founders of KKK, and the extended practitioners of Jim Crow for openers. Their subsequent destruction of the black family required a more nuanced federally funded approach. It is, after all, the Dems who drove the mobile blacks from their Jim Crow south to the cities of the then Republican north. But for those history challenged curious people, I would refer them to the most recent recounting of which I am aware – ‘Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party’ (2016) Dinesh D’Souza. Focus on Chapters 2,3,4 of this NYT #1 Best Seller that illuminates the Democratic Party through the life and times of Hillary Clinton. And also focus on the presented facts, not on the ideological bent of its author (to which these responses usually descend). Bet the farm, that none of this history has been taught in our union-dominated public schools.

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  39. Walt Avatar

    Cross can go “F” himself. You think you and Proggys are smarter than all the rest? LOL! You voted for “O”!! Dumbass,,,
    The whole point behind “O” was to ruin the nation. And damned well nearly succeeded.
    Where are your OWS lowlifes today?
    A whole generation of deadbeats.

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  40. Scott Obermuller Avatar

    “A judge recently overturned the Texas voter ID law stating that the law was “enacted with discriminatory intent — knowingly placing additional burdens on a disproportionate number of hispanic and African-American voters.”
    Additional burdens – what a laugh.
    And just what were those ‘additional’ burdens?
    Might have to remember your name? Might have to be a citizen and not an illegal?
    “Several red states have reduced early voting and precinct hours all of which make it more difficult for working people to vote.”
    Yeah – after you get off work you can’t go out and party all night. Or you might have to get up an hour earlier. Give me a break. The left has never been able to produce one actual citizen who wasn’t able to vote due to voting laws.
    Hey Bobby – why don’t you just be honest and admit that left wing whities really think that non-whites are too lazy to get up early and too drunk or stoned to dry out by the time the polls close.
    I always managed to vote during the decades that I worked full time. I happen to believe that non-whites are just as capable.
    Am I wrong?

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  41. Xeno Avatar
    Xeno

    Bill 1:14pm
    George 2:48
    Looks like a couple more Republican readers get punked by Russian Bots,
    Bill gets his news from the Unification Church of Sun Myung Moon. George happily hitches himself to that bandwagon.
    Everything you read in the Washington Times is true?
    Let me know when you find the military voting article on the Center for American Progress site
    Try these. Good luck.
    https://www.americanprogress.org/press/release/2018/02/12/446297/release-cap-election-security-report-finds-states-remain-vulnerable-hacking-systemic-failure/
    https://www.americanprogress.org/press/release/2018/02/12/446419/release-johnson-klobuchar-warn-state-voting-systems-remain-vulnerable-hacking-urge-congress-fund-upgrades-2016-election/

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  42. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    BobbieC 509
    I suggest you get some common sense and a bit of knowledge about the issue. The R’s were shutout of the majority in Congress for forty plus years as the democrats had it all and they gerrymandered themselves into that hegemoony. I admit the R’s did not sue as they already knew the Judiciary was stacked against them. Bit I bet you could do some research and come up with some cases that will satify you.

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  43. Scott Obermuller Avatar

    Xeno at 6:02 – no actual hacking was mentioned. No actual malfeasance.
    “remain vulnerable”! You mean like your bank account? Or Hillary’s secret SOS server in her home?
    Everybody is ‘vulnerable’, fool. Get it off the internet and then it isn’t vulnerable.
    Use exclusive secure hard lines and paper ballots. Why is there a constant need for more money? If a really secure system were set up, the Dems would howl like coyotes.

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  44. Bill Tozer Avatar

    I get so tired of this. Ok, here we go again. History does not begin today. The Democrat Party history of racism.
    http://www.nationalreview.com/article/420321/whitewashing-democratic-partys-history-mona-charen
    Democrats voted to keep Africans Americans in slavery, opposing the 13th Amendment which officially freed the slaves. Only four Democrats voted for it.
    Republicans also passed the 14th Amendment which granted slaves U.S. citizenship; Democrats voted against it.
    Republicans also passed the 15th Amendment which gave slaves the right to vote. Not a single one of the 56 Democrats in Congress voted for it.
    Shame on them.
    Furthermore, Republicans passed all of the Civil Rights laws of the 1860s — including the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Reconstruction Act of 1867 following the Civil War.
    The Republican Party itself was founded as the “anti-slavery party” in 1854. The party subsequently gave us President Abraham Lincoln and ultimately, the Emancipation Proclamation which led to the liberation of slaves.
    Republicans supported African Americans not only in the 1800s, but in modern times as well.
    In the 1960s, with the exception of Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson, who was instrumental in the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act in the wake of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the truth is that Democrats were the largest single blockade to civil rights.
    But don’t take my word for it.
    Long after slavery was over, the Democratic Party continued down their path to deny African Americans their rights. Wikipedia refers to this as the era of “disenfranchisement” when “Democrats worked to exclude blacks” from civil liberties.
    PBS reported, “The Democratic Party identified itself as the ‘white man’s party’ and demonized the Republican Party as being ‘Negro dominated,’ even though whites were in control.”
    The Democratic Party was responsible for passing Jim Crow laws, in addition to Black Civil Codes that forced Americans to utilize separate drinking fountains, swimming pools, and other facilities in the 20th century.
    Even Democratic icons such as Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Act while in the U.S. Senate. Sen. Al Gore, Sr., D-Tenn., also opposed it.
    http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/before-charlottesville-democrats-voted-for-racist-policies-for-more-than-100-years/article/2631947
    If the new Cultural Revolution was serious, wouldn’t it also demand that the Democratic Party be put in a museum somewhere, away from decent people, along with those Confederate statues?
    We could put Democrats in exhibits, behind glass, watching white political bosses chomp cigars and pass out goodies for votes, as minorities were relegated, as they are today, to failing schools and lost educational opportunity and neighborhoods that have become killing fields for the young and old.
    And in great museums, the Democrats could be studied, safely, without endangering the sensibilities of the children.
    http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kass/ct-statues-democrats-kass-0820-20170818-column.html

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  45. Bill Tozer Avatar

    With the Democrat Party’s long history of racism, is it any wonder that they now are afflicted with the White Savior Complex?
    https://www.facebook.com/BaneUnrated/photos/a.406113909505237.1073741828.406106636172631/1499559260160691/?type=3&theater
    Yo liberals; it’s ok to be white. But, being the Lefties that you are, I do get why you suffer from White Guilt. Sucks to be you.
    https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1258179020982799/?type=3&theater

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  46. jon smith Avatar
    jon smith

    Two more kids just died from their bullet wounds in Florida. Y’all gotta hope and pray a little bit louder I guess. Carry on.
    Anyone have a better answer than, “We need more guns?” Lots of finger pointing from you guys. How about some suggestions other than the normal NRA talking points?

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  47. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    George 5:52
    History is history…. the past.. to justify the present because of past actions is fallacious. It is the old ‘two wrongs make a right” argument.. So what if the Democratic Party gerrymandered two hundred years ago. What is happening now is the pressing concern and to rationalize current actions as acceptable because the other guys did it two centuries ago is a little weak. D’Souza is a poor source. His questionable work should be taken with a grain of salt. So we are back to square one. In recent memory when has a Democratically controlled state legislature been ordered by the Supreme Court of the United States to redraw district lines because the districts they created were illegally construed to favor themselves. Answer: none
    The same for you Todd.. come up with a recent example and I will stand corrected.
    http://www.salon.com%2F2016%2F10%2F21%2Fdinesh-dsouza-adulterous-felon-and-disgraced-academic-has-hit-a-new-low

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  48. George Rebane Avatar

    re RobertC 902pm – As predicted, they don’t counter the presented facts, but only vilify the messenger. And their ‘facts’ (check 602pm links) are non-existent; only allegations unsupported by any evidence that exists in no archive.

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