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  1. AVMan Avatar
    AVMan

    …continued…
    Small World,,,probably Trump’s go to gal,,,whose date was she?
    ,,,President Donald Trump threw a Super Bowl watch party where he cheered on the New England Patriots, the team owned by his friend Robert Kraft, alongside a curious guest: the founder of the day spa where Kraft would be accused of soliciting sex days later.
    There is even photographic proof. Trump at some point turned in his seat at his West Palm Beach country club on Feb. 3 for a selfie with Li “Cindy” Yang, 45, who founded the Orchids of Asia Day Spa in Jupiter, Florida. The Miami Herald first published the photograph.,,,
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-watched-super-bowl-founder-162128671.html

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  2. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: AVMan | 08 March 2019 at 02:26 PM
    …….still President dugsKKKi.

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  3. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Looks like the loons on the left that thought Manifort was their savior has all evaporated like water vapor from a E Cig. The left are so desperate in their attacks on Trump they are now pushing away all the moderates and indies. Thak you AOC etal and Jew hating babes you are self-destructing.

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  4. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Man. First we had All AOC All The Time, then Jos Smollett all the time, then All Ilhan Omar all the time. Opps, she did it again.
    https://nypost.com/2019/03/08/ilhan-omar-obamas-a-pretty-face-who-got-away-with-murder/
    Opps, that was not what she said or meant
    https://nypost.com/2019/03/08/ilhan-omar-backtracks-claims-media-distorted-obama-remarks/
    Maybe Nancy is right. Omar is too stupid to know what she is saying and when she does open her mouth, she does not what she said or meant what she said or…yep, she is that stupid. And a lightweight too boot. Boring…..
    —————-
    Opps, better FactCheck Wa Po. They get it wrong again, and again. Not a reliable source.
    https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/07/washington-post-cynthia-nixon-mike-pence/
    Boring……and stupid. Best to turn out the Enemy of the People.

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  5. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    16 Felony’s oh shit –
    Jussie Smollett update: ‘Empire’ actor indicted on 16 felony counts by grand jury
    A Cook County grand jury has returned a 16-count indictment against “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett, according to court records.
    Updated 3 minutes ago
    CHICAGO (WLS) — A Cook County grand jury has returned a 16-count indictment against “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett, according to court records.
    The Cook county State’s Attorney’s Office confirmed the indictment, which they said was returned by a grand jury on Thursday.
    Smollett was originally charged with one felony count of disorderly conduct for filing a false police report by the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office on Feb. 20.
    There have been dozens of twists and turns since “Empire” start Jussie Smollett reported being attacked. Here are some key moments from the start of this story.
    Now the grand jury has returned 16 felony counts of disorderly conduct for filing a false police report.
    The TV actor claimed he was the victim of a vicious hate crime in the Streeterville neighborhood on Jan. 29. He said two men physically attacked him while yelling racist and homophobic slurs, threw a chemical liquid on him and looped a rope around his neck.
    The grand jury returned two separate sets of charges. The first set are related to what Smollett told officers about the alleged attack, including that the attackers called him racial and homophobic slurs, struck him with their hands, put a noose around his neck, and poured some sort of chemical substance on him.
    The second set of charges are related to the second interview Smollett had with police about the alleged attack later that day.
    https://abc7chicago.com/jussie-smollett-indicted-on-16-felony-counts-by-grand-jury/5177586/
    😉

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  6. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Yawn.
    House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) has hired a campaign consultant who also lobbies on behalf of the head of a Russia propaganda outlet, even as he launches an extensive investigation into President Trump’s alleged Russia ties, according to a report.
    The Daily Beast on Thursday reported that Nadler’s campaign consultant is Ezra Friedlander, a lobbyist and political consultant who runs outreach to the Orthodox Jewish community for Nadler’s campaign.
    However, he is also a public-relations executive whose newest client is the wife of Kirill Vyshinsky, the head of Russian state news media outlet RIA Novosti’s Ukrainian arm.
    That means Nadler has his own questionable ties to Russians, as well as that his campaign is paying a consultant that is doing lobbying work for a Russian propagandist.
    The propagandist, Vyshinsky, is actually now in a Ukrainian jail, where he faces treason charges after Ukrainian security forces raided RIA Novosti’s offices in Kiev, according to the Daily Beast.
    Ukrainian authorities have accused Vyshinsky of illegally fomenting support for the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014 — which the U.S. strenuously opposed.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/07/nadler-campaign-consultant-russia/
    https://www.thedailybeast.com/hes-connected-to-jerry-nadler-and-russian-state-media?ref=home

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  7. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    What happens in comrade bernies socialist paradise when the commissars have stolen literally everything!
    Suddenly there’s a whole class of people whose pockets are no longer worth picking.
    “If they steal your wallet, there’s nothing in it,” says Yordin Ruiz, 58, a shoemaker.
    As opposition leader Juan Guaidó struggles to wrench control of this South American country from President Nicolás Maduro, a bigger drama is playing out in the background. The economy is in free fall. Opportunities are disappearing – even for thieves in one of the world’s most crime-ridden countries.
    Robbers who used to zip around Caracas on motorcycles, shoving pistols into car windows and demanding wallets, are now reduced to walking. There simply aren’t spare parts for their bikes. In the past, thieves often snatched cellphones from passengers on the little buses that clogged Caracas highways. But public transportation barely functions anymore.
    https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/How-bad-is-Venezuela-s-economy-Even-the-13672835.php
    😉

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  8. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    My first comment on Robin Diel’s article in the Union on media bias.
    “Excellent observations. We who have been involved in politics have experienced the bias for many years. The reporters are all cut from the same liberal teachings cloth so they report the way they were taught. Republicans bad, democrats good. White people bad, all others good. Instead of reporting the facts they pepper the articles with opinions. And now we see their approval ratings at all time lows. About the same as Congress. Now that Pelosi is in charge we see one day and move on news when her caucus screws up. A R would get hammered for weeks. If the press does not clean its own barn, they will be replaced by internet news and all tose biased reporters will be “coding” for big tech.”

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  9. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Hey a jihadi terror telethon!
    World
    Lebanon’s Hezbollah appeals for donations to combat sanctions
    AFP 9 hours ago
    Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said he expects more US sanctions against the movement (AFP Photo/HO)
    Beirut (AFP) – Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement on Friday called for donations from its popular base because it says it is coming under financial pressure as a result of Western sanctions.
    Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s appeal came after Britain announced on February 25 that it would seek to make membership of the Shiite movement or inviting support for it a crime.
    It also follows the United States ramping up sanctions against the group, with its latest raft of measures in November targeting Nasrallah’s son Jawad, among other individuals.
    “The sanctions and terror lists are a form of warfare against the resistance and we must deal with them as such,” Nasrallah said in a televised speech.
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/lebanons-hezbollah-appeals-donations-combat-sanctions-154940976.html
    😉

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  10. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    The Russian Collusion Conspiracy: A nice list of 35 key players that need to be interviewed and investigated. In outline format by department. I see John Carlin made the list.
    http://thefederalist.com/2019/03/08/35-key-people-involved-russia-hoax-need-investigated/

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  11. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Now that’s going to distract the bay area Antifa’s and beyond!
    US regulators clear path for genetically modified salmon
    https://www.apnews.com/1be7085378684f4990e240870e7c546c
    😉

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  12. Walt Avatar

    Trump may be right. ISIS may be done. When their fearless leader is nowhere to be found.
    Has anyone checked to new goat hearder in Nevada City?
    https://www.foxnews.com/world/as-caliphate-crumbles-isis-fighters-rage-over-absent-leader-al-baghdadi

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  13. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    This is not the way to catch up on that massive fundraising gap but hey if grandpa Joe thinks this is the most productive use of his time. How many votes there again?
    https://www.hometownlife.com/story/news/local/south-lyon/2019/03/08/former-south-lyon-mayor-meets-former-vp-joe-biden-shopping-st-croix/3103165002/
    😉

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  14. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Now why would David Duke support Ilhan Omar? Of course that is proof positive that Omar is a racist. David Duke supports the new Dems. First Nancy says Omar is too much of an idiot to know what she says and now White Supremists support Omar. David Duke knows one when he sees one. If David Duke supports Omar, then Omar is part of the White Supremists Nazis.
    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/03/08/ben-shapiro-noted-something-odd-about-medias-reaction-to-former-kkk-grand-wizard-giving-props-to-ilhan-omar-n2542825

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  15. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    In the “two wrongs make a right” category: Trump, in laying out his excuses for not turning over requested documents to congressional committees said that “President Obama, from what they tell me, was under a similar kind of a thing — didn’t give one letter. They didn’t do anything. They didn’t give one letter of the request. Many requests were made; they didn’t give a letter.”
    Just who is the “they” who told trump Obama didn’t comply with document requests? They should be fired because IT’S A LIE. Or trump just made it all up as usual because he is a serial liar.
    The Obama administration did , IN FACT, provide mountains of documents to Republican instigated investigations into such things as Benghazi (hundreds of thousands), Solyndra (300,000), alleged bias at the IRS (1.3 million), and Fast and Furious (more than 10,000).

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  16. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Bobbie… unfortunately, the massive doc dumps missed a number of docs that were requested.
    https://www.propublica.org/article/the-facts-behind-obamas-executive-privilege-claim
    I checked… I don’t think ProPublica is a biased source, not that should make a difference. For Fast and Furious, Eric Holder was awarded the prized Contempt of Congress citation… I wonder if Atty General Holder has it framed in his office?
    To dump a “mountain of documents” onto Congress to obscure what didn’t get provided is a well known dodge. It does soothe the hearts of weak-minded supporters.

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  17. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: RobertaCross | 09 March 2019 at 09:52 AM
    Oh RobertaBot…….beliefs dashed……..Obama and Trump……two peas….one pod.
    #SOSAD

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  18. George Rebane Avatar

    re Gregory 1014am – dumping a “mountain of documents” is a dodge well known to all but progressives who are gratified by the size of the stack, not its contents. As Gregory points out “It does soothe the hearts of weak-minded supporters.”

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  19. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    GeorgeR, Since Trump is the Executive in the three-pronged “equal” government, what if he asked for Schiffs tax returns or had subpoenas for all of those lovelies? Why is it just a one way street with this “oversight” responsibility? Besides what about Executive Privilege? Anyway, maybe a bit of one-ups-man-ship on this crap would silence those lousy democrats.

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  20. Paul Emery Avatar

    What do you think Trump has to hide Todd?

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  21. Scott O Avatar

    Paul – do you even understand what the expression ‘two way street’ means?
    What does Schiff or any other Dem have to hide?
    Can the police just show up at you door any time day or night and waltz in to inspect everything?
    No?
    So- what is Paul hiding?
    Of course, THAT’S different.
    Cause ‘situational ethics’.
    Do you really think the Trump haters at the IRS just skim through his returns?

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  22. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Just when you thought you were out they drag you back in!
    “If you’re a high earner in New York and you move to Florida, your chances of a residency audit are 100 percent,” Barry Horowitz, a partner at the WithumSmith+Brown accounting firm, told CNBC. “New York has always been aggressive. But it’s getting worse.”
    New York is also working extensively to catch those high-worth individuals who fake their move to Florida in a bid to avoid paying steep taxes in New York.
    Unlike in New York, where punitive tax rates apply to fund its burgeoning public sector and welfare state, Florida’s residents aren’t subjected to any income or estate tax.
    Even Blanca Ocasio-Cortez, mother of pro-tax Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, touted Florida’s low-tax system after fleeing the Big Apple.
    “I was paying $10,000 a year in real estate taxes up north. I’m paying $600 a year in Florida. It’s stress-free down here.”
    — Blanca Ocasio-Cortez
    Yet New York’s get-tough approach toward its former residents may pose some dangers in the long-term. While recouping unpaid money works for the state’s treasury in the short-term, such practices create a hostile environment for the wealthy that threatens to accelerate their exodus.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/new-york-goes-after-residents-fleeing-overtaxed-blue-state-for-low-tax-states-with-intrusive-audits
    😉

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  23. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Why do you think he’s trying to hide anything, Paul?
    It might be the principle of the thing.
    OK, I had a good laugh at that too, but what is private remains private, and what remains Executive Privilege remains privileged to the Executive.
    Schiff is a lying weasel but I get it, he’s your lying weasel.

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  24. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Post your tax returns here Paul Emery. And then we’ll talk.

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  25. Ozz Avatar
    Ozz

    Todd 11:05-
    What don’t you understand about legislative investigative authority? Last time I, or anyone else checked, the executive branch was not in the business of conducting investigations. Your toss-away phrase about “equal” government ignores the different responsibilities of the branches of government. Maybe you missed that with your 11th grade education at NU.
    Are you getting ready for a hot date night at the Brunswick massage and manicure? I can smell the Aqua Velva from here.

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  26. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    ozz 1202pm
    “Last time I, or anyone else checked, the executive branch was not in the business of conducting investigations.”
    The last time I (or anyone else) checked, the Federal Bureau of Investigations was in the Executive Branch.

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  27. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    G @ 1208 – Now don’t start expecting facts to get in the way of the talking points for lefties.
    😉

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  28. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    George 10:21 –how can you talk about ‘dodges’ in the age of trump? Pretty funny.. What do you call the mountains of lies trump has spread, the constant chants of ‘witch hunt’ and ‘fake news’ (none of which provides any rebuttal what-so-ever to the issues in question) if not dodging ? Why? because there is no rebuttal to the truth. All the guilty can do is try and discredit the sources, which is exactly what the ‘witch hunt’ and ‘fake news’ mantra attempts to do.
    Did you happen to catch the Other Voices column in the Union about brain function and conservative thinking? Very informative and backed by research. Hard to refute given what is written and talked about on this blog.

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  29. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    In fact, George, you and Greg’s responses were dodges. Instead of focusing on the actual question of trump lying about Obama era documents as an excuse for him not releasing documents, you focused on defining what a dodge entails and then turned that dodge into an attack on Democrats, as usual. Are you sure you weren’t boxers… dodge and punch seems to be a common tactic.

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  30. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Don @ 10:22 am
    Re: Maher: Social Justice Warriors ‘a Cancer on Progressivism’ — ‘Just Want to Bitch’
    Yes and no. What Maher fails to articulate is the SJWs are working to dismantle Progressivism, to overthrow it by any means they can muster. Things are moving at a high rate of speed. We have witnessed the dead of the Liberal Democrat to the new Progressive to now the Democrat Socialist. The Progressives are the enemy here. A return to the Social Democratic Labour Party (before the major faction of the Social Democratic Party (the Bolsheviks-majority, “bigger”, more) changed their name to the Communists after seizing control of power. Progressivism is out of favor with the New Plan. SJWs are a cancer to Progressivism….only if you are a Liberal or Progressive or New Democrat.
    Maher is 100% correct on the bitch comment. Any objective reader can pull up past appearances, interviews, and talks by Ilhan Omar. One big bitch fest. Bitch, bitch, bitch. He father worker in the government under the Marxist Dicator in Somalia as a teachers teacher,, i e, a teachers’ instructor telling them what to say and teach. All Omar’s relatives worked for the government until the civil war (Blackhawk Down stuff).
    Rather than talk about her life in Somalia or her 4 years in a Kenyan refugee camp, she spends the lion’s share bitching about her time in Virginia. Her family moved to Virginia first and she became a citizen a 17. She bitches how kids would put bubblegum on the back of her hair or hijab. She bitches about the time kids jumped on her back as she was changing for gym class.. I assume they were girls who jumped on her back or pushed her in the girls locker room. She bitches and bitches about everything.
    —As a side note, after 20 years of becoming a citizen and speaking American English, Nancy says she does not understand the meaning of words she speaks, She has spent her entire adult life in America and does not have an accent, but no know what she say. 🙂
    As side note #2, all Israel haters are America haters and all America haters are Israel haters. Omar simply articulates the majority opinion and consensus of the Islamic World.
    3) Side note #3
    Let’s ask Starticluz what he thinks. Quick, someone please pull the fire alarm so we can get out of here and end this press conference. BTW, he took no question and left the room, ROFLMAO.
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BD6Gdr-k9Ks

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  31. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Just what documents has Trump been asked for, Bobbie? Begin at the Beginning.
    His tax returns are private, by law.
    What else?

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  32. George Rebane Avatar

    ToddJ 1105am – Good question.
    RobertC 1212pm – Remember, we don’t reason the same way, so I had no compunction to start examining your assertion of Trump’s lies about Obama’s documents, and you didn’t understand my 1021am.
    In any event, I draw readers’ attention to ‘The Amygdala Struggles’.
    https://rebaneruminations.typepad.com/rebanes_ruminations/2019/03/the-amygdala-struggles.html

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  33. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Don @ 12:04 pm
    Maher on fission. You nailed it. The Dem candidates as playing nice now, but their primary will get ugly. Real ugly. Bloody. Right now they will just go around and throw out a few Bernie lines and be civil. A year from now, civility will be out the door. Sctach off Beto. Don’t see two white guys (one D and Trump) running for President in 2020. Sherrod Brown had me concerned, but he dropped out. Scratch Amy.
    ————————
    I am one for one on predictions. Figured Manafort would get 3-5. I based this on his age, health, and crime. All tax related stuff from 2010-2014. He earned every penny legally and did not rip off pension funds or investors. The banks he got money from will not or have not lost a penny. No prior criminal record, squeaky clean. Owes 6 million he hid to avoid the taxman.
    So, I figure Smollett will get 0-6 months. There is one caveat. I am the only one who thinks Jusse did not do his crimes for more money. He was making 70k an episode and had resigned for 100k an episode. The show was doing ok and he had much prestige in the black and gay community. No, he did it for more fame, more attention, more stardom..an illusive thang.
    He will plead it down to no time (maybe a couple of weekends) and some restitution IF he publicly reads a statement that he hatched the plot, planned the caper , paid for it, and takes full responsibility and apologies for lying to the police and public. His ego, his Pride, his insatiable need for attention may prevent him from biting the bullet and taking the humiliation…and thus redemption. 0-6 months, depends if he can level his pride.

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  34. Ozz Avatar
    Ozz

    Trump autographing the bible like he wrote it. Family values and all that jazz. His sheep are a bit confused.

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  35. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Dr. Rebane @10:21 am
    “re Gregory 1014am – dumping a “mountain of documents” is a dodge well known to all but progressives who are gratified by the size of the stack, not its contents. As Gregory points out “It does soothe the hearts of weak-minded supporters.”
    Boy, the Dems were singing the blues and bitchin’ up a storm when they got a document dump of 100s of thousands of docs they requested before the Kavanaugh hearings, lol. And they wanted more. First it was they have too much to go through with too little time and then they said it wasn’t enough. No pleasing some people.
    I see they subpoenaed Trump’s pollster, ROFLMAO. And Sessions. Oh, the message is clear. Anyone who dared work for or volunteered for Trump or had any dealings with Trump in any capacity will have their lives torn upside down, ripped a new one, and publicly disgraced. Even CEOs of banks and gals who run companies that did business with the Trump Empire.
    They are doing th old fishing for a perjury trap. The process is the punishment. Interesting to note that George the Greek never even met Trump and the FBI did not bother to interview him until 2017, after the election. And Manafort volunteered to run Trump’s campaign for free to get name recognition. Now the Blue Mob is demanding Manafort rot in prison for the rest of his live for tax evasion in 2010-2014, ROFLMO. One fakenews expert on TV said Manafort worked in our government and was a Putin spy. Manafort never worked in the Gov’t! Oh my.
    Good thing Pat Cadelll died or else they would slam him for giving Trump some free advice on the phone.
    Bottomline: That Meuller must not be very good or thorough. Just look at ALL the stuff he missed. Sloppy work.
    The process is the punishmment….and the punishment is the process. Put them all in the Black Hole of Calcutta and let them rot in hell. How dare they have anything to do with Trump! Traitors!

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  36. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Ozz | 09 March 2019 at 01:24 PM
    Trump autographing the bible like he wrote it. Family values and all that jazz. His sheep are a bit confused.

    Evidently you missed scenes earlier offering! Apparently it’s a book with multiple authors!
    https://i.redd.it/9epnkop6a3l21.jpg

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  37. Ozz Avatar
    Ozz

    Tozer 1:36
    Replace the name Trump with the name Hillary and it’s all good ’cause she must’a did something wrong. We couldn’t find anything, but Lock Her Up anyway. Yeah, yeah, yeah, those libs and their witch hunts.

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  38. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Ozz | 09 March 2019 at 12:02 PM
    Honestly you are a true moron. Gregory points out the FBI! How about the IRS and the EPA and a myriad of other agencies, all in the Executive branch that investigate. Heck even the BLM and Forest Service have investigators. So once again OOZE/Swallows/Pelline you have made a ass of yourself. And for some reason, you mention grade levels as if trying to demean me or others. Doesn’t work. But your fourth-grade diploma is showing here.
    Oh and please cite the provisions in the US Constitution giving the Legislature “oversight” responsibilities. Waiting to see if you have any brains at all.

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  39. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    The Ozz sez: “Trump autographing the bible like he wrote it. Family values and all that jazz. His sheep are a bit confused.”
    https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/03/trump-signs-bibles-alabama-tornado.html
    “Atten may have been shocked by the move, but it isn’t as odd as you might think. The Post talked to Peter Manseau, the Smithsonian’s curator of religion, who said many past presidents have signed Bibles, including President Barack Obama. And it’s not like Trump was handing out stacks of signed bibles, but rather, he was doing what some people asked of him. “Presidents seem to sign a lot of random things put in front of them,” Manseau added.”
    Dude, aren’t you ever even a tiny bit embarrassed?

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  40. Paul Emery Avatar

    And Trump is your lying weasel Gregory

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  41. George Rebane Avatar

    Now who is so dim as to claim that there has been no evidence of wrongdoing with Hillary? Most people have known for years that she is America’s clemency queen – someone should get her a license plate that reads ‘WD-40’.

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