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[Wow!  Didn't mean to let the last sandbox overfill with over 300 comments.  But lots of important stuff to discuss and provide links for, among the unfinished ones being the asymmetrical Cambridge Analytica turmoil and the latest findings surfacing about Mueller's doings at the FBI.  gjr]

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243 responses to “Sandbox – 20mar18”

  1. Reality Bites in Our Blue County Avatar
    Reality Bites in Our Blue County

    Ah yes, once again we see our favorite white impotent, uneducated right wing racists on display right here, on the blog of the phoniest phony of them all. And all in denial once again. Seems that guns are the new porno habits for several of you losers, isn’t that right? and you know who you are. So yes, we are watching your lies and your treasonous rhetoric very carefully. For the rare science oriented amongst you old washed up geezers, y’all may want to check out the latest Scientific American. Several of you fit the exact profile of gun toting nutjobs as described by therein. Constant fear of non-white races, change and a new world. Guns replace the potency of masculinity long lost to multiple divorces and the frustration of a sexless lonely life. Kind of like that young punk christian terrorist in Austin. But much more pathetic when you saps reach age 55. You saps are going to be very very sad in the near future. Enjoy your fantasy world while it lasts. see ya soon.

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  2. L Avatar
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    George @ 3:54
    You know you’re over the target…

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  3. Bill Tozer Avatar

    Ah, they are watching us and our treasonous words berry berry carefulfuly.
    This is great. We have our first Russian bot grace our conversation. How cool is dat?

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  4. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Bites at 1104pm
    Confirmation bias at work. Enjoy your fantasy, whoever you are… Michael P Anderson perhaps?
    Personally, I’ve not purchased a firearm since before 1990 so the social pathologies of the piece don’t hit home. Better luck next time.

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  5. Marillyn Lock-Heed Avatar
    Marillyn Lock-Heed

    ,,,all is forgiven by trumpski,,,now that we at lock-heed were invited to say a few words at the whitehouse about how great our vapor fleet of F35s may someday be…
    thank you all and here is wishing you a merry MAGA and a happy CovFeFe on the new and improved Fox News Presidency!!!

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  6. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    What is with all these trolls?

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  7. George Rebane Avatar

    Re 1104pm & 757am – Readers may note visitations from the local fringe Left. These people make no pretense at being able to discuss issues or offer their own views on current events. Their frustrated forte appears to be just lambasting those commenters who don’t live in their tightly defined world. But the question always remains – if our forums here are so irrelevant, misguided, and (again) “treasonous” – why do they bother to post their screeds? Methinks they’re not getting their needed attention elsewhere.

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  8. jon smith Avatar
    jon smith

    Guy drives a car into Travis and it blows up. He is immediately labeled a terrorist. Oh yeah, Travis has a wall and armed guards but that didn’t faze him.
    Christian conservative blows up a bunch of bombs in Texas but he is a “troubled young man.”
    A 30 billion dollar wall is going to stop this??

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  9. Bill Tozer Avatar

    Trump better veto the spending bill. The neo-cons are running around yelling, “Military Spending, military spending, we got military spending!” That is all the neo-cons say, do, and think. It’s like watching the lying libs. Just run around waving the military spending banner and all is well.
    Yes, we desperately need to rebuild our military after Obama, Hillary (big time), toe licker Lynshay Graham and grunt sandwich McCain decimated our military by playing games in shithole countries. That decimated our men and women.
    The spending bill has money for building security walls in foreign countries, but no defense of our country. This bill is a generational sellout.
    Reagen got his agenda through only AFTER shutting down the Gov’t. Time for Trump to drain the swamp….the neo-con -illiberal con Swamp.
    It will be a rocky road at first, but worth it. Veto the Schumer-McConnel -Pelosi-Ryan happy pill bill.

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  10. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    jon smith | 23 March 2018 at 08:55 AM
    Of course we say he is a terrorist. You must have terrible reading skills.

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  11. Paul emery Avatar
    Paul emery

    Draining the swamp of neocons really Bill. He just hired one Bolton I’m surprised you could say anything so stupid. Usually you’re reasonably clever

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  12. George Rebane Avatar

    ToddJ 909am – Of course Mr smith has terrible reading skills, as we have noted before. But he continues a useful service illustrating to readers what fruits one can expect from attempts to communicate with a blinkered liberal. Here we note the latest futile thread that began with my 354pm.

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  13. ArchieBunker Avatar
    ArchieBunker

    Can you imagine if you tried to run a ‘real’ company the way Trump is running the White House? Amateur Hour…just hire bozos off the boob tube…

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  14. Bill Tozer Avatar

    Paul, the neo-cons have always been a problem. The Swamp will never be fully drained. The reason we do not have The Wall, fiscal restraint, and a host of other items is because the Liberals and Neo-Cons never wanted those items. Never.
    Bolton is not as half cocked as he is made out to be. However, he supported Mitt Romney for Sec of State, so what more can I say…expect John Bolton would get walked over by Eoropean Socialists like they steamrolled Kerry. Neither am I so naive to say we should pull out of Afghanistan tomorrow and leave a note on the door that reads, “Next time you allow terrorist to flourish here, give us a call and we will be back.”
    Enjoy my neo-con bashing, Paul. I always said we have to clean up our side of the street before doing after the Dems.
    Trump did not write this monstrosity, Congress did. It’s no use bashing Mad Max or Peloski cause you can’t fix stupid. The bill probably contains 100,000 lawnmowers to mow the grass to prevent illegals from sneaking in, lol. What a embarrassment to our nation. She is a walking talking agrument for abortion.
    I urge Trump to veto this bill. Money for Sanctuary cities, billions for UNEARMARKED projects. and on and on it goes. Sure, some is good like money for hardening our soft target schools. But, when Chucky says the era of austerity is over, I know it’s one big poison bill I can’t swallow.
    We don’t have a revenue problem. We have a spending problem. Before the lady Great Recession, we called them “liars loans”. The RINO’s are liars.
    https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/1020724671411088/?type=3&theater
    Can’t fix stupid.
    https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/1020729624743926/?type=3&theater

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  15. Bill Tozer Avatar

    Typo alert. “Except Bolton WON’T get walked over by European socialists like Kerry. “ Excuse and forgive my use of caps. This budget has been hot under the collar.

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  16. George Rebane Avatar

    ArchieB 931am – It appears that Mr Bunker is unaware that Ambassador Bolton held several positions in the federal government before becoming a FN contributor, as have many other notables from previous government and military service who offer their opinions and analyses on all media outlets. And now that you know …

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  17. jon smith Avatar
    jon smith

    Todd 9:09, GR 9:25 – Can you tell me what is wrong with my reading skills?
    Austin City police chief:
    “But what I can tell you having listened to that recording, he does not at all mention anything about terrorism, nor does he mention anything about hate. But instead, it is the outcry of a very challenged young man talking about challenges in his personal life that led him to this point.”
    When do you call a terrorist a “challenged young man?” Only when he is a white conservative Christian. I can hear you thinking now, “But, sputter, but, what about Obama? What about Benghazi? And those emails.”

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  18. Bill Tozer Avatar

    Archie, love how the Lefties paint Larry Kudlow as a boob tube celerity. Your ignorance is revealed on this one. Kudlow has a long history before the boob tube. He ain’t just some talking head reading the prompter like some airhead delivering the evening news. No, Mr. Kudlow has a long published history of his views and bio. He is opposed to tariffs, BYW.
    Bolton is a tough cookie and will get on the same page as Trump on geo-political policy, unlike the “Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran Johnnie”. Bolton knows the chain of command.
    And yes, I voted for McCain…before his thinker got destroyed with that awful brain tumor. May he Rest In Peace..sooner than later. Like Fluke, the voters of the Great State of Arizona have had enough of the man loved by the Liberals, affectionaly dudded by the Lamestream Leftist Media “The Maverick”.
    https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/longtime-nr-friend-john-bolton-joins-longtime-nr-friend-larry-kudlow-in-the-white-house/

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  19. Bill Tozer Avatar

    On a lighter yet still somber note, it’s happening.
    On of my favorite conservative sites has been warning for quite some time that FB is blocking them. It goes like this. Once a small conservative site reaches 250,000 daily hits, they start getting throttled down and disappearing…or hard to find.
    A few months ago, the site disappeared. A Google search had buried the site on page 2 and when found, it took me to some Texas high school football team home page. Yes, the spelling was correct. Luckily, I had the site in my favorites, so I was good to go.
    As of last night, the site does not exist anywhere…even n FB searches.
    The silver lining is for the reader(s) who do not appreciate the memes I post. Sure, some are childish and some may have found them not funny and even crude. So, the now such readers can take some comfort in the fact that my main source of memes is gone with the wind.
    Oh well. I was warned repeatedly by the site what was happening to them and other smaller conservative sites, so I should not be surprised. I ‘m knew they would come after us rowdy Deplorables fine women and men sooner or later. Kinda wish they were wrong, instead of always being right.
    http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/03/22/revealed-mark-zuckerberg-wants-to-trade-free-speech-for-safety-and-having-an-informed-community/

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  20. ArchieBunker Avatar
    ArchieBunker

    Bolton gives Fox viewers what they want. Lots of bomb, bomb, bomb; bomb-bomb Iran and North Korea and Syria and who knows who else. He is another blowhard who is trying to make up for the fact that he joined the Reserves so he would not die in a rice paddy and now he doesn’t want to lose face with the Enlistees.
    I put him in the category of deluded war hawk.
    “Many Iraq war advocates indulged unrealistic and ideological fantasies of what would happen after the invasion, but the war didn’t happen because of a “belief in essential progress.” (That wouldn’t have made the war any less unjust, but it simply isn’t true.) The motivation behind the invasion was an irrational fear of a foreign threat that was wildly exaggerated in the minds of the war’s supporters. The war was the product of panicked overreaction, dishonest claims, and shoddy reasoning. Above all, it was the product of having enormous military strength and no compunctions against using it against a much weaker country. Continuing to insist on the supposedly high-minded reasons for launching an illegal war almost fifteen years after the fact shows that many hawkish supporters of the Iraq war still won’t accept that the war was a massive blunder and terrible crime.”
    http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/the-delusions-of-iraq-war-hawks/

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  21. Bill Tozer Avatar

    Prager Univeristy (which I use to post Hillsdale College articles) just got banned from YouTube. It is a fact based site.
    The plan is unfolding as we are headed into a fascist state. But, we knew that. Then again, the “private sector” can set their own rules and ban all conservative voices…so I am not upset. Besides, the human spirit that burns with the fire within for personal liberties and freedoms can not be extinguished by those who always force their will on others. Fascists by definition force their ideas on others and demand compliance…or else.
    Funny, I used to protest stuff. First one was one afternoon down at the School District office’s in high school over allowing some of us to grown our hair longer that the top of the collar. Chanted and marched around yelling stuff and even were joined by some fine female students demanding to be allowed to wear pants more often than the once a year on “pants day.” Some Board of Education lady came out crying and all upset. This was when FM radio was not widespread and some tiny tiny FM underground station played a song for us as word hit other towns, lol.
    Funny, after all these years, from jungle rot on my feet within my government issued boots to deadlines and commitments (what to leave in, what to leave out) I am still once again part of the counter-revolution,. The Deplorables are today’s counter-revolution. Go figure.
    Here is the song that tiny FM station played that evening moons ago. Oh my, youth is wasted on the young. FYai, I can only listen to that crap for 20 seconds now. Got bigger fish to fry.
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1RPovmMwef8

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  22. Marillyn Lock-Heed Avatar
    Marillyn Lock-Heed

    ,,,gosh,,, trumpski is all sad in the face that he was forced to sign a 1.3 trillion spending bill,,,i guess that makes it all ok… 😦 😦 😦
    ,,,now let’s hear about the big bad bogey men here in cali who want to build some high speed rail,,, instead of a wall
    ,,,buncha hypocrites!!!

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  23. Marillyn Lock-Heed Avatar
    Marillyn Lock-Heed

    ,,,prager is a major douche,,, musk manned up and had his tesla and spacex facebook sites deleted himself!!!
    https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/2/19/1635270/-Prager-University-How-Billionaires-Proselytize-Rightwing-Ignorance-to-Children

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  24. jon smith Avatar
    jon smith

    Hey Marilyn, when are you going to show Trump his invisible F-35?

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  25. Bill Tozer Avatar

    Well, I am disappointed with the spending bill. I will get over it, The healing process has begun. There will no blocking roads, no burning cop cars, no trashing businesses. That who we are on the Right.
    Now, if Shawtee, the bongo dude from the OWS drum circle, was as upset as I was over the budget, man oh man Nobody would be safe from destruction of Starbucks windows, smashed ATMs, arson, and the rape & robbing of homeless women in the tent camp. Always a silver lining.
    Not even a dumpster fire. Good to be back in Mayberry…if only in my mnd…Knda like being in Nevada City turning the clocks back to safer times…except thar occasional bank robber and hordes of drug addicts hanging out off Broad Street…

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  26. Paul Emery Avatar

    Todd asks me to “Please supply the readers here with your pre-invasion information by Bolton.”
    Here’s a Bolton quote
    “”We are confident that Saddam Hussein has hidden weapons of mass destruction and production facilities in Iraq,” Bolton said in 2002 while serving as President George W. Bush’s undersecretary of state for Arms Control and International Security. That wasn’t true, as we’d later discover after it was too late.
    Here’s where Bolton says the war in iraq was all about oil.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ09U_a80MM
    Also He was a major figures along with Cheney a Rumsfeldt that were drumming for war in Iraq within days after 9/11. He was one of the signatories to the influential, pre-9/11 neo-conservative “Project for a New American Century”, which openly called for the unilateral removal of Saddam Hussein.
    http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/john-bolton-donald-trump-314509430

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  27. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    But Paul Emery yu said Bolton was all about pushing invasion. These quotes don’t say that at all.

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  28. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Your Youtube is from 2011 apparently. And what he said is not how you said he said. You really show us all why the media is not to be trusted. Thanks for keeping us informed of the lousy reporting you media types produce every day.

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  29. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    My Bolton quote was about him supporting the invasion of Iraq Todd. Do you deny that he supported the invasion?

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  30. jon smith Avatar
    jon smith

    The party of “family values”, fiscal responsibility, and state’s rights has pretty much lost any and all credibility under Trump. 1.3 Trillion? How many wives, affairs and hush money payouts? Sessions ignoring the will of state voters? Trump has upended everything you supposedly believe in and yet he’s your go-to guy? A common jellyfish has more spine.
    “But what about Obama?”

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  31. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Paul Emery, if you are certain then print or post his quotes that say he is supporting the invasion.

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  32. Marillyn Lock-Heed Avatar
    Marillyn Lock-Heed

    The Commander-in-Chief aka Priceline Negotiator hemmed and hawed, then signed the massive spending bill but issued a stern warning that he wouldn’t do that again!

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  33. Paul Emery Avatar

    For Todd.
    “Following perceived Iraqi unwillingness to co-operate with UN weapons inspections, core members of the PNAC including Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, R. James Woolsey, Elliot Abrams, Donald Rumsfeld, Robert Zoellick, and John Bolton were among the signatories of an open letter initiated by the PNAC to President Bill Clinton calling for the removal of Saddam Hussein.[19][24] Portraying Saddam Hussein as a threat to the United States, its Middle East allies, and oil resources in the region, and emphasizing the potential danger of any weapons of mass destruction under Iraq’s control, the letter asserted that the United States could “no longer depend on our partners in the Gulf War to continue to uphold the sanctions or to punish Saddam when he blocks or evades UN inspections.”
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century

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  34. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Great, thanks

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  35. Bill Tozer Avatar

    Re: School security
    This one reminds me of the old joke, “Why did the prophet have visions of dying? Because he was being stoned.”
    “Every classroom has been equipped with a five-gallon bucket of river stone. If an armed intruder attempts to gain entrance into any of our classrooms, they will face a classroom full students armed with rocks and they will be stoned,” said Dr. David Helsel.
    http://wnep.com/2018/03/22/superintendent-says-students-are-armed-with-rocks-in-case-of-a-school-shooting/
    Well, it only took a stone for a shepherd boy to slay the mighty giant Goliath But, then again, old unarmed women throwing rocks at the shooters armed with rapid fire Hotchkiss designed M1875 mountain guns did not help them from getting slaughtered at Wounded Knee Creek. All in all, it was better than wasting away under government run housing, food, education, and care. Always a silver lining.
    The ole basket or rocks should fit into the school budget, one would think.

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  36. Bill Tozer Avatar

    @ 4:16 pm
    Better tread lightly. Trump is letting the Bush gang back in. The only thing worse than BDS is not TDS, but having them both joined together in the same place and time. The MOAB of Derangement Syndrome like this world has never seen.. We are entering uncharted waters here. Watch out for incoming, this may be ugly….or more fun than a barrel of monkeys. 🙂

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  37. jon smith Avatar
    jon smith

    Where is Bessee??? I need my weekly fix of market information. Just how badly can el Trumpbo rattle those invested in a stable and peaceful economy?
    Tariffs, mass defections, 1.3 trillion budget, more extramarital affairs, and bringing in Bushy’s favorite super hero Bolton (mustache and all) has worked its magic. Great week apparently! And the conservatives lap it up.

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  38. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    Hey George! Congratulations on being nominated as Citizen of the Year by our local Rotaries!

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  39. George Rebane Avatar

    BarryP 524pm – Aw shucks – thanks Barry.

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  40. jon smith Avatar
    jon smith

    Congrats on Citizen of the Year. We disagree on most things, and you are invariably wrong, but you have done well by this community. Thanks GR.

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  41. Paul Emery Avatar

    Trump is a man who has no friends and likely soon to have no wife. How much can she take? First the porn star then the Playboy bunny and soon the DVD.
    From Fox:
    The saga between President Trump and the pornographic film star Stormy Daniels took on a new dimension on Friday evening when Daniels’ lawyer discussed a DVD he claimed “contains evidence” relating to the pair’s relationship.
    “If ‘a picture is worth a thousand words,’ how many words is this worth?????,” Michael Avenatti, the lawyer, tweeted on Thursday. The message was accompanied by a photo of what appeared to be a DVD in a white sleeve on a countertop. Avenatti finished the tweet with hashtags of #60minutes #pleasedenyit and #basta, the foreign word for “enough.”
    An interview Daniels (whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford) recorded for “60 Minutes” is to air Sunday.
    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/23/stormy-daniels-lawyer-fires-warning-shot-with-mysterious-dvd-says-contains-evidence.html

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  42. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Well deserved @ 524! Way to go Dr. R! 😉

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  43. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    toes 248pm
    tomorrow is a big March for the kiddie crusade against ugly guns, but April 20 remains the next reaallly big March agin ugly guns.

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  44. Scott Obermuller Avatar

    “Trump has upended everything you supposedly believe in and yet he’s your go-to guy?”
    Hardly everything, but lefties are never shy about superlatives. He humps gals he’s not married to – wow – just like Dr MLK and he got a national holiday in his name.
    Great on SCOTUS pick, good on ignoring the BS about CO2 in the atmosphere, fairly good about upholding immigration law – cautiously optimistic about dealing with China, N Korea and Russia – really pissed about the budget, although it seems like that’s par for the course. The whole damn fed govt has been out of control for decades, so nothing really new there. The funny thing is that the Dems got a lot of what they wanted but will continue to lie about the Rs trying to starve the poor and cut off access to abortions for women. It is beyond me why Rs ever think the Dems will like them if they play nice. We can look forward to the Dems controlling the legislature and spending all their time impeaching Trump – then we’ll have Pence.
    Careful what you wish for.

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  45. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    I think Trump may break JFK’s record for doing the nasty. What a hoot!

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  46. Paul Emery Avatar

    Getting close Todd but that’s a hurdle for any man.

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  47. Scott Obermuller Avatar

    Gregory at 6:25 – After April 20th, how will we know the difference?
    They probably won’t learn any more or less.

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  48. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    JFK and Trump are studs.

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  49. jon smith Avatar
    jon smith

    Gregory- April 20? Is that a joke? 4/20 is National Marijuana Celebration Day, or something like that.

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