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[Well, the Dems are looking to an approach to 'Medicare for All' designed by a couple of Univ of Mass economists that promises "You'd be able to keep your doctor with no premiums or copays, and overall spending would decline."  Now where have we heard all that before?  The many holes in this plan (here) also recommend its alternative use as a sieve.  gjr]

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326 responses to “Sandbox – 29mar19”

  1. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Fox News again goes after Trump
    “Fox News host Shepherd Smith on Monday utterly destroyed President Donald Trump’s entire immigration policy, saying his threats to cut aid to Central America, close the border, and build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico were no solution, and calling instead for comprehensive immigration reform.
    “Critics say stopping the aid would make things worse back home in Central America and those countries, and create more movement north,” Smith said, reminding viewers that the vast majority of migrants were fleeing violence and poverty. “Closing the border doesn’t stop them.”
    https://www.rawstory.com/2019/04/foxs-shep-smith-utterly-destroys-trumps-rationale-for-closing-the-border-and-cutting-central-american-aid/
    “Even opponents admit it might be a scare tactic for the Mexicans,” he added. “But closing the border would stop legal movement and jobs and trade and tourism.”

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  2. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Todd
    Did you bother to read Georges link, yes or no?

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  3. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Paul Emery, yes or no. Did you go down that rabbit hole? Yes or no!

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  4. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    What rabbit hole Todd? Can you be specific?

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  5. AVMan Avatar
    AVMan

    Good letter in the Union,,,
    After his election in 2006, Daniel Ortega polarized the electorate in Nicaragua, demonizing the press and demanding personal loyalty from government workers. All public appearances were turned into campaign rallies for his core base of supporters. Sound familiar? When Ortega rewrote the constitution, he gave himself a third consecutive term as president.
    So, let’s not be complacent about Dictator Trump. The Framers devised a mechanism for addressing threats such as this. It’s called impeachment, and it’s time we used it before Donald Trump does any more harm to this republic.
    https://www.theunion.com/opinion/letters/linda-schuyler-horning-the-dangers-of-dictator-trump/

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  6. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    BillT@4:00PM
    My sweetie doesn’t make misstatements, it’s a new world of diversity of facts.
    Everyone needs to get their heads around the diverse, post-colonial, gender-mobile world where things are whatever you want them to be.
    Them Crazy Eyes, you just need to believe.

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  7. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Death of a thousand cuts, now they are remembering the plagiarism from his first failed run for prez –
    https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/joe-bidens-2020-run-is-over-before-it-started-heres-why
    😉

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  8. Walt Avatar

    Yet Dougy and the like can’t tell us just what the “dictator” has done to be a “dictator”.
    And you still can’t impeach because you don’t like him.
    Name the real crime Dougy….

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  9. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Oh the long knives are out for Biden. Has the claw marks of My Gal all over him.
    -It was my beloved Mr. X that wrote the speeches for Biden that Creepy Joe got blamed for plagiarism and sunk him. Mr. X put those words in Dumb Joe’s mouth, ROFLMAO. Mr. X got around.
    -My, my. Clappper said Obama ordered the Russian probe and knew there was no collusion by March 2017. Good thing the media was leaking like a sieve in March, 2017 to push the narrative along. The Enemy of Peope working hand in hand with the Police State.
    https://www.oann.com/clapper-obama-ordered-russia-probe/

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  10. Walt Avatar

    Biden has a hair smelling fetish. Look at all the photos on Drudge!

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  11. Scott O Avatar

    Emery at 1:58 – quoting Shep Smith -“…and calling instead for comprehensive immigration reform.”
    I hear this phrase constantly, Paul – maybe you can tell us what good is any kind of ‘reform’ when they are freely pouring across the border.
    Take your time, Paul – I’m sure there’s a bumper sticker out there somewhere that can provide you with an answer.

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  12. Scott O Avatar

    Walt 4:47 – Trump is a dictator, don’t ‘cha know. So it follows that whatever he does is what a dictator does.
    It’s the same as “Trump is a racist”. No use in asking what he has said or done to earn that title. He is a racist, so whatever he says is racist.
    It’s called the ‘big lie’ technique. Just say he “colluded with the Russian govt” a few billion times and that makes it so. The fact that Mueller can’t find the evidence shows the whole thing was rigged.
    Don’t worry – the Dems in the House will get to the bottom of this. They obviously have nothing else to do.
    Paul has put down the hammer down and declared that Trump is finished. Now how many times has the KVMR news guy claimed that?
    Meanwhile our racist dictator has just saved the nation (at least for now) from an out of control left wing judicial system.

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  13. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    How many days since the election? Multiply that by 30 and you will have your answer Scott@554!
    😉

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  14. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    @ 5:00 pm
    He is biden his time……
    Well, looks like those righties are gloating and making moving pictures. That should make most unassuming. One thing about Trump is he delights in flushing the Leftes’ punch bowl.
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ8MZrH2nwU&time_continue=117

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  15. Paul Emery Avatar

    One more for tonight
    Stephen Moore, Trumps nominee for the Fed is a piece of work but is consistent with Trumps affection for cheats and crooks.
    “Moore is laden with personal baggage. In 2012, he was held in contempt of court for not paying $300,000 in spousal and child support. Two years later, the IRS accused him of trying to claim too much of his payments to his ex-wife. The agency says it is still owed more than $75,000 in back taxes and penalties.”
    https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/04/01/trump-adviser-stephen-moore-doesnt-belong-federal-reserve-editorials-debates/3331683002/

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  16. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    8:22 pm. That was a rather link you posted. Yum yum. Want more. Igor want more.
    ————
    Oh my. He broke her. Sounds serious. He really did break her. After Uncle Eskimo Kiss Joe, we have the daily bonus. First 60 seconds tells me she has a hard road to hoe.
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/04/01/kamala_harris_a_lot_of_us_have_yelled_at_the_tv_or_gone_to_therapy_because_of_donald_trump.html
    —————————-
    Fact is stranger than fiction. How about adding one Valerie Plume for Senate, NM. to
    the mix. Wow. The band is getting back together. Ya know, Livingston is Comey’s lawyer representing James on his upcoming legal troubles. Criminal law stuff. Lying to Congress, Obstruction of Justice, abuse of power, and boot licking My Gal. Anyway, it’s a small world.
    “And Joe Wilson? Apparently, he was unavailable for comment on Plame’s potential bid. The two quietly divorced in 2017.”
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/04/valerie-plame-for-senate-anyone.php
    Hubba hubba. She’s available.

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  17. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    They were too busy towing the 0 party line and spewing rancid Russian dressing to the koolaide guzzlers. Its starting to look like their virtue signaling in a circular firing squad.
    https://www.thecut.com/2019/04/what-was-the-washington-post-afraid-of.html
    😉

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  18. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    PaulEmery@9:06 sez: some stuff.
    Hey! Remember Russian collusion????
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/04/01/noam_chomsky_trump-russia_collusion_claims_a_joke.html
    “NOAM CHOMSKY: I think it is so farcical that I barely even read the reports. It’s a joke.
    If there was any interference by the Russians, it is essentially undetectable. There are careful analyses of what happened in the election, you can see how it changed, how the money poured in, other things. There is no sign of any Russian effect.
    Furthermore, it is almost incredible from the beginning. What happened in the Senate and the House in 2016? Did the Russians interfere in the Senate elections? They went exactly the same ways.
    The whole thing is a bad joke for all sorts of reasons. For one thing, there are countries that do interfere in American elections, openly and publicly and forcefully. One of them even sent its Prime Minister to address a joint session of Congress to attack the initiative being taken by the sitting president. Is that interference? That was Benjamin Netanyahu. That’s only part of it, there was large scale massive interference. Any other country did that, we’d have a huge scandal.

    Furthermore, does the U.S. interfere in elections? In Russia for example, yes, and proudly. In 1996, Clinton took pride in the fact that large scale U.S. interference in the Russian election swung it to the favor of Boris Yeltsin. The U.S. goes far beyond interfering in elections, it overthrows governments. ”

    Who knew that the KVMR news crew would be opposed to Noam Chomsky and in bed with the 17 intelligence agencies? We live in strange times.

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  19. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Oh noooooo!
    I have just learned that we only have a 3 week supply of avocados if the Mexico border is closed. Tequila is also in short supply. Damn, I’ll have to stock up on both.
    And for another thing… today is my first day as an official ward of the state. April Fool’s Day is the first day I’m a valid Mediscare card holder. Those of you who say it’s Socialist are correct, it is socialism with an American face, like it’s evil twin, Social Security, where we (and our employers) pay in when we’re young, and pretend that’s the money that is propping us up now.
    In the bad old days, old folk down on their luck became burdens on their children but in today’s world, that doesn’t happen anymore.
    I am now a burden on everyone else’s kids. Thanks, guys! Keep them dollars flowing, and keep of my lawn!

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  20. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Good job Gregory. Suck up all that whiteman’s money while it is still available. And for bonus for you today, they revisited Biden’s earlier run when Pat ripped off Bobbie and JFK’s speechs, threw in some British orators and fed it to a youngerJoe Biden…and Little Joe got run out of race right then and there. Revenge for Bork. And guess who wrote the legal opinion for Office of Legal Counsel which confirmed and cemented the constitutional tgrounds that a sitting President cannot be indicted. Yep, Bork Revenge #2. Enjoy OPM.

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  21. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Oh my. I never thought I would post Stephen Colbert in this lifetime, but it’s geting weird out there. Must be The Reckoning. First time for everything.
    COLBERT ON JOE BIDEN SNIFFING WOMEN’S HAIR: THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO DO THAT ARE ‘DEAD HUSBANDS TEACHING YOU POTTERY’
    ‘But I can see why someone might find that inappropriate’
    https://news.grabien.com/story-colbert-joe-biden-sniffing-womens-hair-only-people-who-do-ar?fbclid=IwAR3tOoOV1eKzvlt7wg0gAPKjFkrP6_nWGkL5w3ud-7mMDEhogJPavgjGXPM

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  22. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Steve Moore is a treasure. He has had some personal problems but he and his ex-wife resolved their issues. And he is in negotiations with the IRS on the tax issues as he and his accountant disagree with them. So maybe we should look at Paul Emery’s personal life and see if we can trash him for some things? You libs are too ready to destroy before all the facts. And now you are doing it too each other. I want to thank you for doing the vetting of all your candidates. Just like Al Gore did to Dukakis. Thanks.

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  23. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    What a deal
    Scenes is now a Noam Chomsky fan. People do change, I’m thrilled at y9our evolution scenes. Try reading Manufacturing Consent by Noam for a starter. I guess my crusading is having an effect.
    “Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media is a 1988 book by Edward S. Herman (1925-2017) and Noam Chomsky, in which the authors propose that the mass communication media of the U.S. “are effective and powerful ideological institutions that carry out a system-supportive propaganda function, by reliance on market forces, internalized assumptions, and self-censorship, and without overt coercion”, by means of the propaganda model of communication.”
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent

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  24. Walt Avatar

    Well Paul has “claimed” to be a lot of things.
    He’s been busted for cultural misappropriation. A REAL sin for Proggys. Not sure which religion he’s following this month.

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  25. Walt Avatar

    Love it.. Blood in the water. Now Hawaii citizens are fed up with their anti gun LIB overlords.
    http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2019/04/02/gun-owners-federal-suit-hawaii-open-carry-law-amounts-an-outright-ban/
    By Rick Daysog | April 1, 2019 at 5:35 PM HST – Updated April 1 at 8:43 PM
    HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – Gun owners are taking aim at Hawaii’s open carry law, saying it’s unconstitutional.
    A federal court lawsuit was filed last week on behalf of four owners who said they applied for but were denied open carry permits.
    “Hawaii’s de facto ban on all manner of carry by ordinary citizens both implicates and violates the Second Amendment,” attorney Jim Hochberg wrote.
    Under Hawaii law, a resident can carry a firearm in public only if he or she can prove that they have an urgent need for one or if they have an exceptional circumstance.
    But the suit alleges that police departments have only issued one such permit since 2013.
    “You can go back before that and you can see that one was not given for many, many years,” Hochberg said.
    The suit comes after three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals last year ruled in favor of a Hilo man, who said he twice applied for an open carry permit but was denied
    But that decision was set aside until the entire 9th Circuit hears the Hawaii Attorney General’s appeal.
    Hawaii lawmakers believe that loosening the law is a bad idea.

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  26. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Walt writes that I’ve been ” busted for cultural misappropriation.”
    Hun???? What’s that???

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  27. Walt Avatar

    Neither Celt nor Druid.,,, Emery. Your Greek.

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  28. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Greek I am from my mothers side. The rest is North England Scotch Irish.
    I’m done with Todd for now. All of you know of his sad demise so I don’t need to repeat it.

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  29. Walt Avatar

    No your not.. Your own words, “Dad was from England”.
    Post your DNA results.
    Men get most of “who they are” from the Mother.
    At BEST you may be 18% English.
    I’m 20% Irish/ Scott. I gave taken the tests. I know where the family bones are buried.
    Even the Cornish are considered Celtic. So boost my % to 45%.

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  30. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Who cares Walt
    All for now.

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  31. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “Scenes is now a Noam Chomsky fan. People do change, I’m thrilled at y9our evolution scenes. Try reading Manufacturing Consent by Noam for a starter. I guess my crusading is having an effect.”
    What a fine example of a tu quoque pivot. By claiming to be thrilled at an apparent hypocrisy on Scenes’ part, you completely ignore the obvious and solid punch Scenes landed to your midsection: Chomsky, with impeccable leftist cred, refuses the stampede of the Russia! crazies to point out the silliness of it.
    It’s likely not a single vote was changed by Russian “meddling”.

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  32. Russ Avatar
    Russ

    Jessica Morse’s underdog campaign to oust Rep. Tom McClintock from Congress in 2018 was unsuccessful, but it helped land her a new job — in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration.
    Newsom appointed Morse, of Pollock Pines, as Deputy Secretary of Forest Resources Management at the California Natural Resources Agency, the governor’s office announced last week. According to the agency’s organizational chart, Morse will report to Secretary for Natural Resources Wade Crowfoot. The post pays $165,000. That’s nearly as much as the $174,000 she would have made as a member of Congress.
    Morse made climate change and its impacts on California’s forests a key focus of her congressional campaign in a district that encompasses Sierra Nevada communities from Lake Tahoe south to Yosemite and Kings Canyon.
    Read more here: https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article228699879.html?cid=DM10373&bid=109886906#storylink=cpy

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  33. Russ Avatar
    Russ

    Test Test Test
    For some reason, text captured from the Sac Bee will not post, if the URL is included.
    Jessica Morse’s underdog campaign to oust Rep. Tom McClintock from Congress in 2018 was unsuccessful, but it helped land her a new job — in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration at $160K a year.

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  34. Ozz Avatar
    Ozz

    Russ 10:31
    Turn off your ad blocker or go to gay porn mode (a Todd Juvinall default setting) on your browser.
    Your article:
    Linking the warming climate to the increasingly catastrophic fires California has endured in recent years.
    Read more here: https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article228699879.html#storylink=cpy

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  35. Ozz Avatar
    Ozz

    Seems all Sacbee links are blocked when adblock is on.

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  36. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Its getting too easy –
    In response to Ocasio-Cortez’s remarks, Cheney tweeted: “We knew the Democrats let dead people vote. According to AOC, they can run for president too.”
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-and-liz-cheney-disagree-on-twitter-over-knowledge-of-22nd-amendment-constitution
    😉

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  37. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Gosh and Golly Gregory, Noam has a mind of his own and his own opinions. Imagine that. Have you read Manufacturing Consent? You should read it before expressing an opinion on Chomsky.

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  38. George Rebane Avatar

    SacBee test – “Two Dixon teenagers died of apparent electrocution Monday, reportedly after trying to rescue a dog from an irrigation canal that afternoon, according to reports by California Highway Patrol, the Dixon Fire Department and a local news outlet.” Apparently their text does copy/paste.
    https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article228724129.html
    And so do their links.

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  39. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Eric Holder killed a rapper?!?
    Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore says Sunday’s fatal shooting of rapper Nipsey Hussle was the outcome of a personal dispute with suspect Eric Holder, and not part of the wave of gang violence that swept through the city’s South Central region in March
    https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2019/04/01/nipsey-hussle-violence-breaks-out-rappers-memorial/3338854002/
    😉

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  40. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “Gosh and Golly Gregory, Noam has a mind of his own and his own opinions. Imagine that. Have you read Manufacturing Consent? You should read it before expressing an opinion on Chomsky.”
    There you go again, Punch. One, even Chomsky doesn’t claim major authorship of Manufacturing Consent, giving the nod to most of it to his co-author. Second, it doesn’t take believing all of Chomsky’s work to take him as an honest broker when it comes to manufactured delusions such as Russia!Russia!Russia! stampede.
    Chomsky is super competent in linguistics, but I don’t think you’re particularly up on that.

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  41. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    The Ozz fumblefingers is a classic Keachie brain fart. Reminds me of this scene with comedian Emo Philips, with Weird Al in his movie debut and finale.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK9ZFhPodZ8

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  42. Walt Avatar

    I care Emery. Greeks are not known for telling the truth… Remember? You know,, some of that “dirt digging” as referenced before. Then again,, your Greek side DID invade back in the good ol’ days. Some of your Roman kin may have left a “deposit”.

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  43. Russ Avatar
    Russ

    Bidenfreude
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/04/mid-week-in-pictures-bidenfreude-edition.php
    Put down your coffee before watching these pictures, it will save your keyboard.
    Russ

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  44. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Chi coms will be chi coms –
    U.S. Secret Service agents said they seized four cell phones, a laptop computer, an external hard drive and one thumb drive from Zhang. An examination of the thumb drive showed it contained malicious malware, agents said.
    At about noon on Saturday, Zhang approached secret service agents at a checkpoint in a parking lot across from the club just north of Southern Boulevard along the Intracoastal Waterway. She said she wanted to use the pool at the club, agents wrote. She presented the agents with two Republic of China passports to confirm her identity, they said.
    A manager at the club initially thought Zhang was related to a member who shared the same last name and cleared her to come in. But when Zhang got to the reception desk, she changed her story, agents said.
    Instead of visiting the pool, Zhang said she had come to the club to attend a United Nations Chinese American Association event. Knowing there was no such event planned, the receptionist contacted federal agents.
    Zhang insisted she had come to the club to attend a “United Nations Friendship Event” between China and the United States, agents said. She explained she arrived early to familiarize herself with the grounds and to snap some pictures, agents said.
    Recognizing that her story had changed several times, agents took Zhang into custody after they said she became “verbally aggressive.”
    https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/20190402/chinese-woman-arrested-at-mar-a-lago-while-trump-was-in-town
    😉

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  45. Walt Avatar

    Before Emery can complain,, Trump has put his healthcare plan on hold. Let’s just say I already called that one. Nancy and the gang would NEVER put Trump’s plan up for a vote. No matter how good for the people it is. The LIBS will never pass anything to puts Trump in a good light.

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