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[Back from travel.  I hope that some of our readers have been following the trail and travail of foreign correspondent and journalist Lara Logan, recently of '60 Minutes' fame.  She is causing quite a consternation in the lamestream media who have targeted her for destruction since she has blown the whistle on the whole progressives' propaganda machine.  Her interview on tonight's Mark Levin show was superb.  gjr]

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364 responses to “Sandbox – 7apr19”

  1. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Who is the dumbest person in Congress? Unfair question, too many to choose from.
    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/apr/10/maxine-waters-goofs-grilling-banks-student-loans/
    Who is the dumbest person in the media? Again, unfair question. Too many to choose from.
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2019/04/10/fact-checkers-cuomo-claims-hes-never-heard-dem-open-borders

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  2. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Paul, the number on his inauguration day is immaterial. It doesn’t matter. Most every President starts his term with the hopes of the nation that they’ll be the person needed in the orifice.
    This President, more than any other in my memory, was hit from before the start of his term with wave upon wave of false news stories designed to cripple his effectiveness.
    So Paul, you’ve pulled a technique right out of the old book from the 1940’s: How to Lie With Statistics. You’re being laughed at.

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  3. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Freak out?
    “A newly released transcript of Baker’s October, 2018 testimony reveals the former top bureau lawyer said messages between the two lovers “worried” him and that he was concerned whether some decisions in the Clinton email investigation may have been “driven by political bias.”
    “Baker told Congress, “So I only read like a couple [Strzok/Page text messages], literally a couple. But that was enough for me to hear, that it freaked me out. And I was worried and I thought we need to get on top of this quickly.”
    https://bongino.com/new-transcript-strzok-page-text-messages-freaked-out-top-fbi-lawyer/?fbclid=IwAR3H-tYrDxQQ4JcZq-dfE1tbT05YalLSt9gTTW0353-8pK4HGPU3UEsnHOw

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  4. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    I really don’t care, but using the exact same poll with the exact same polling outlet at the exact same time in their Presidencies, Trump is stomping Obama…not that it matters.
    ———————————————-
    Just sit back at let them form into their circular firing squad. Reparations.
    “Sens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and former San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro have proposed slavery reparations.”
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/45826/losing-issue-majority-americans-actually-oppose-paul-bois?%3Futm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro
    We don’t need to lift a finger. They are on the wrong side by endorsing GND, day of birth abortions, wide open borders, reparations, etc.

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  5. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Do you deny the numbers Gregory? You are giving your interpretation of what they mean which is a different question.

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  6. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Paul, why do you keep asking?
    Do you think you’ll get another answer besides “That’s a stupid question!”?

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  7. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Thanks Gregory
    You have clarified my concern that you have no interest in facts only your own peculiar spin. The FACTS are that Trump has fallen 14 points since Jan 2017 pure and simple. I’ll continue to bring that up when necessary.

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  8. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Paul, tell us some more about Russians.

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  9. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Squawk, squawk, squawk is all it sounds like to the world oh great pony tail of ignorance. Just a broken record after 2 years of pompous pronouncements of the imminent end to the Trump Presidency. Now you are all shown to be self deluding liars and fools.
    Rancid Russian dressing
    Rancid Russian dressing
    Rancid Russian dressing SQUAWK!
    😉

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  10. Bill Tozer Avatar
  11. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    That’s a stupid conclusion, Paul. You go right ahead and keep citing it.
    If Trump got 51% of the vote in an election tomorrow, would he probably win or would he lose?
    (cue the Final Jeopardy! theme, cut a check to Merv Griffin’s estate)

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  12. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    I looks like only a retired Pope can tell the whole truth of the problems origin –
    It’s written with his signature precision and clarity of insight and offers a piercing account of the origins of the crisis and a ­vision of the way forward.
    The church’s still-radiating crisis, Benedict suggests, was a product of the moral laxity that swept the West, and not just the church, in the 1960s. The young rebels of 1968, Benedict writes, fought for “all-out sexual freedom, one which no longer conceded any norms.”
    Benedict adds: “Part of the physiognomy of the Revolution of 1968 was that pedophilia was now also diagnosed as allowed and appropriate.” This might strike contemporary readers as puzzling. But those who lived through that wretched decade will remember that some of the leading ’68ers also advocated “anti-authoritarian education,” which involved some pretty ­unsavory interactions between adults and children. Hippie communes weren’t child-friendly places, either.
    “I have always wondered how young people in this situation could approach the priesthood and accept it, with all its ramifications,” Benedict writes. “The extensive collapse of the next generation of priests in those years and the very high number of laicizations were consequence of all these processes.”
    The church, in other words, was no more immune to the disorders of that decade and its aftermath than the rest of society.
    How come? Benedict blames clerics and theologians who, in the ­aftermath of Vatican II, abandoned natural law — the notion that morality is written into ­human nature itself and can therefore be grasped by human reason — in favor of a more “pragmatic” ­morality.
    Under the new dispensation, “there could no longer be anything that constituted an ­absolute good, any more than anything fundamentally evil; there could only be relative moral judgments.”
    https://nypost.com/2019/04/10/former-pope-benedict-blames-churchs-scandals-partly-on-the-60s/
    😉

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  13. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Looks like Trump is seven points higher than Obama was at the same time. I wonder why?

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  14. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    -@ 4:38 pm. Why? Why, why, why? Perhaps we should ask the Mr.Carville, aka The Swamp Thing, aka the Ragin’ Cajun, aka the man who said, “Its the economy, stupid.”
    New Poll:
    https://bongino.com/new-poll-americans-love-trumps-economy/?fbclid=IwAR1yuwRxKl7if0agHM4l7YDZZqH0FzTXgWgXjCnq_9p-159LiL3s-Ea0tUI
    ———————-
    -Banned by Intragram. Some folks don’t take disappointment graciously.
    https://www.theblaze.com/news/instagram-star-sobs-over-idea-of-getting-real-job?fbclid=IwAR0S8zJd6f-4K2VFmUhCay88CpWbOX3Zwgdr9ZTHqD2LhyTq8FtReFwtHX8

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  15. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Gregory
    You are basing that on the flawed Rasmussen Poll that was 9 points off the mark in the last election. Consensus polls for RCP and Nate Silver all have him down by around 9. If you have faith in Rasmussen then you are supporting weak information but in reality who cares what you think.

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  16. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    All those 17 Intel agencies can’t be wrong….neither can their accomplices in the fake news.
    Quote of the day, week, and month.
    “I’m not talking about the FBI necessarily, but intelligence agencies more broadly,”-Barr.
    https://thefederalist.com/2019/04/10/barr-confirms-multiple-intel-agencies-implicated-in-anti-trump-spy-operation/

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  17. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    weak information but in reality who cares what you think.
    Posted by: Paul Emery | 10 April 2019 at 05:17 PM
    Sounds like someone needs to look in the mirror when you are talking about yourself in reality.
    😉

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  18. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Last week: We must protect. Mueller!
    This week: We must subpoena Mueller!
    ——————————————
    Here’s the talking points from the Botox Queen: Barr is off the rails!
    “Let me just say how very dismaying and disappointing that the chief law enforcement officer of our country is going off the rails yesterday and today,” Pelosi told reporters as she kicked off House Democrats’ annual “issues” retreat at a golf resort 35 miles northwest of Washington.
    “Asked if she has confidence that Barr will fairly conduct his investigation into how the FBI carried out their Russia probe, Pelosi offered a terse, one-word answer: “No.””
    ———-
    More talking points:
    Barr “is the attorney general of the United States of America, not the attorney general of Donald Trump.” ——the Botox Queen
    Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., accused Barr on Twitter of “peddling conspiracy theories.”
    “He is acting as an employee of the president,” (House Majority Leader Steny) Hoyer said. “I believe the Attorney General believes he needs to protect the president of the United States.”
    “This type of partisan talking point may please Donald Trump, who rails against a ‘deep state coup,’” Schiff said, “but it also strikes another destructive blow to our democratic institutions.”
    House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., told Fox News that Barr’s vow to probe the FBI’s 2016 counterintelligence probe amounted to nothing more than “Republican conspiracy theory nonsense.”

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  19. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Gobble a couple of Prozac’s oh great pony tail of ignorance, yet another wet dream turns into a pipe dream, seems to be your pattern over the last few years. –
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/treasury-dept-declines-house-request-for-trumps-tax-returns/ar-BBVOOou?ocid=spartandhp
    😉

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  20. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    So 0’s WH council is brought down by the Presidents NY street fighter sharks non-Trump shenanigans.
    We are actually seeing the system right itself. A big DC fish at the heart of 0’s administration is the first domino to fall no the day the AG says those bitches spied on an opposition political campaign.
    Holder, Lynch, 0 etal will push Hoover and the Watergate pikers off the pages of dirty political history at the highest levels of infamy. Barr is going to have fun being the clean up man who knows every nook and cranny in the swamp. Sweet!
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/greg-craig-obama-white-house-counsel-foreign-lobbying-violations
    😉

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  21. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Don, you might like this. Right up your alley. Dovetails with Ilhan Omar. Kinda long and explains how the Poppinjays got suckered again.
    “Like Israel’s Bibi Netanyahu, Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman is so hated by the press, he might as well be a Republican.”
    https://thefederalist.com/2019/04/10/media-war-saudi-arabia/

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  22. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Palooka 517pm
    Punchy, you’ve tried that line before. Didn’t sway anybody then, either.
    Not even Nate Silver makes your claims about Rasmussen. They’re a serious player in polling, and I suspect you know it.
    You’re only punching there because it’s the only target you have.

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  23. Ozz Avatar
    Ozz

    For the fourth time, Bundy’s claim to public land again ruled “delusion”. Todd, go set up a “Go Fund He” page for your loser “free man” buddy.
    https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2019/04/cliven-bundys-claim-that-all-public-land-belongs-to-state-of-nevada-is-simply-delusional-judge-rules.html?fbclid=IwAR1aOjVKDO89tCj3pUAuLjeaTnHq22KLdEA6gitvu1c1mPHQwfLh3A9xwos

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  24. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett
  25. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    WINNING!
    US weekly jobless claims drop to the lowest level since 1969
    The number of Americans filing applications for unemployment benefits dropped to a 49-1/2-year low last week.
    https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/11/weekly-jobless-claims.html
    😉

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  26. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    That’s a nice way to tee up re-election. Its the economy stupid! –
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/11/poll-58-of-voters-approve-trump-economy-ahead-of-2020/
    😉

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  27. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Looks like the entire Dem playbook for 2020 can be distilled down to if you vote for Trump you are a racist. If you vote Republican, you are a racist. That’s their whole ball of wax.

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  28. fish Avatar
    fish

    Prausner says “right-wing kids” are aware that they should keep their family lives private, but she adds that a telltale sign of right-wing extremism is that there are usually no American logos on their parents’ clothing.
    This is not to say there aren’t visual signs which can indicate a child is from a right-wing family, however, the researcher points out. Prausner warns that, while most people wouldn’t recognise them as such, “accurate braids and long skirts” serve as a warning sign that a child has right-wing parents.

    Hey Steve……or any of the OZZ co-pilots. Once you get tired of the environmental shakedown racket I think that you could have a bright future in writing for lefty German parents periodicals!
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2016/09/25/blond-cheerful-families-dangerous-right/

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  29. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Good find on the German magazine and the ‘crazy right wingers in our midst’.
    I like this line especially:
    “Researcher of right-wing politics, Eva Prausner, says a huge danger of right-wing families is that they seem normal.”
    Go figure. Until dad starts wearing a dress to work, we’ll picket their house.

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  30. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Speaking of Germany, in regards to ‘lectric cars.
    https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2019-bmw-electric-car-german-engines/

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  31. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: scenes | 11 April 2019 at 07:52 AM
    Go figure. Until dad starts wearing a dress to work, we’ll picket their house.

    ….and for extra powerful mojo…..make sure that dress is rocking an American Apparel logo!
    https://www.americanapparel.com/en/women-s-dresses_cat33449

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  32. fish Avatar
    fish

    Thank god….! Another column of Undocumented Democrat reinforcements!

    “NEW SUPER CARAVAN HEADS FOR AMERICA…..”

    https://news.yahoo.com/hundreds-migrants-form-caravan-honduras-head-us-103035580.html

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  33. Paul Emery Avatar

    Bad day for Trump His buddy Jullian Assange has been busted in England. Here’s just a few quotes from Trump praising Wikileaks. Taking advantage of Wikileaks stolen emails during the campaign makes Trump an accessory to a crime.
    October 10, 2016 in Wilkes-Barre, PA: “This just came out,” Trump said. “WikiLeaks, I love WikiLeaks.”
    October 12, 2016 in Ocala, FL: “This WikiLeaks stuff is unbelievable,” Trump said. “It tells you the inner heart, you gotta read it.”
    October 13, 2016 in Cincinnati, OH: “It’s been amazing what’s coming out on WikiLeaks.”
    October 31, 2016 in Warren, MI: “Another one came in today,” Trump said. “This WikiLeaks is like a treasure trove.”
    November 4, 2016 in Wilmington, OH: “Getting off the plane, they were just announcing new WikiLeaks, and I wanted to stay there, but I didn’t want to keep you waiting,” said Trump. “Boy, I love reading those WikiLeaks.”
    https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-wikileaks-campaign-speeches-julian-assange-2017-11

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  34. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Pencil Neck Geek: Hero or Inchworm?
    “The Florida Republican introduced the Preventing Extreme Negligence with Classified Information Licenses Act, or PENCIL Act, a nod to Trump’s insults calling the California lawmaker “little pencil neck Adam Schiff.”…….
    “”I’m so proud of the work of Chairman Adam Schiff, in stark contrast to the irresponsible, almost criminal behavior of the previous chair of the committee,” Pelosi said in Schiff’s defense during a press conference last month, referring to the past chairmanship of Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), another staunch Trump ally.”
    https://thehill.com/homenews/house/438386-gaetz-introduces-pencil-resolution-to-oust-schiff-from-house-intel

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  35. fish Avatar
    fish

    Wow……finally caught a white guy pulling one of these stunts! Most of these have been “Smolletts”!
    https://nypost.com/2019/04/10/deputys-son-arrested-in-connection-to-fires-at-historically-black-churches/

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  36. fish Avatar
    fish

    I am so getting one of these……once they cost $548.00 at Sams Club.

    SONY unveils TV that’s bigger than double-decker bus…

    https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47867038

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  37. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 11 April 2019 at 09:15 AM
    Taking advantage of Wikileaks stolen emails during the campaign makes Trump an accessory to a crime.

    I hope you’re a better guitar player than “jailhouse lawyer” Palooka…….

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  38. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Fish @ 7:47 am.
    Cheerful kids are dangerous, roflma. Thanks, made my day. Yes, the Leftinistas are a glum lot. Danger Will Robinson, cheerful kids, danger! Being glum and unfun is the first sign of a Progressive Green Libertarian Socialcrat….as well as the last sign.
    Guess they pop over here just to do their daily vomit on our happy feet.
    But, enough about the addicted to outrage freaky types. Laughter is the best medicine.
    “White House National Security Adviser John Bolton could not stop laughing when played a clip of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D., N.Y.) discussing her opposition to “tactile” nuclear weapons on the campaign trail.
    “Bolton was played the clip of Gillibrand, which was caught by the Washington Free Beacon on Monday, during an interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt. Gillibrand twice refers to “tactile” nuclear weapons, saying the administration’s embrace of them was reason enough for her to oppose the entire National Defense Authorization Act. Gillibrand was likely attempting to discuss tactical nuclear weapons.
    “Bolton, after collecting himself, said he is willing to take a meeting with Gillibrand to hear her thoughts on our nuclear arsenal.
    “As national security adviser, I don’t get involved in politics, but I’ll just say maybe Senator Gillibrand could give me a call and tell me what she knows about those tactile nuclear weapons,” Bolton said. “I’d be interested in learning it.”
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xy9zPlz_Vpc

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  39. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Bill Tozer | 11 April 2019 at 09:44 AM
    Yeah……as Scenes pointed out….normal is a lefty indicator for evil!

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  40. Paul Emery Avatar

    So fish in your view it’s ok to use stolen material during a political campaign.

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  41. Paul Emery Avatar

    Trump quote 2016:
    “I love Wikileaks”
    Trump today:
    “I know nothing about Wikileaks”
    Our Liar in Chief is in classic form.

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  42. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 11 April 2019 at 10:02 AM
    So fish in your view it’s ok to use stolen material during a political campaign.

    Hey everybody look who’s here…..it’s Matlock!
    OK Palooka…..do you have any proof that Trump used Wikileaks material in the lead up to the election? Second, if proof does exist and that is indeed a crime why hasn’t he been charged with something by now?

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  43. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The American hating, anti-Semite, jihadi just cant help herself from showing her true colors –
    The New York Post on Thursday escalated the situation, publishing a jarring image of the Twin Towers on its front page, taking her quote out of its context. President Trump’s campaign quickly shared the image.
    At a Council on American-Islamic Relations fundraiser in Woodland Hills, Calif., last month, Omar said the organization “was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something, and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.” (CAIR was actually founded in 1994. According to the Washington Post.
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/new-york-post-stirs-ilhan-omar-controversy-with-911-cover-144144001.html
    😉

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  44. Paul Emery Avatar

    Fish
    Are you saying Trump didn’t use stolen Wikileaks material in his campaign? Really????

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  45. fish Avatar
    fish

    Hmmmm……what’s that smell? Smells like electrical wiring burning….!
    Oh…..just Palooka trying to think of something else to use as an argument! Carry on!

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  46. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 11 April 2019 at 10:28 AM
    Are you saying Trump didn’t use stolen Wikileaks material in his campaign? Really????

    Ah…the emphatic question! Good! Stick with the Palooka Brand™ classics.
    Moving on…..
    Do you have proof? If there is proof is that a crime?

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  47. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    When something is published by the mainstream or others and it is picked up and used in campaign material it is perfectly legal. Just like Paul Emery and his p[als made up stuff on my project to try and defeat Fran Grattan. But he seems to have forgotten he did it himself. What a friggin hypocrite.

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