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232 responses to “Sandbox – 23apr19”

  1. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The Ukrainian comedian that’s president elect is not laughing at putins latest bullshit –
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/ukraines-zelensky-urges-russia-sanctions-citizenship-rule-change-162015482.html
    😉

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  2. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Creepy grampa joe’s kick off was a lead balloon, first the left labeled him mr. no we cant, the creepy video and then –
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/25/joe-biden-echoes-trump-maga-slogan-americas-coming-back-like-we-used-to-be/
    The kiss of death?
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/25/michael-avenatti-endorses-joe-biden-for-president/
    😉

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  3. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    With Scenes’ Gal, the possibilities are endless.
    “Clark went on to point out that the situation for Ocasio-Cortez was even more embarrassing, considering the fact that she is a co-sponsor of legislation introduced by Yarmuth earlier this month — and Yarmuth is also a member of the Progressive Caucus.”
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/46420/ocasio-cortez-tries-attack-gop-lawmaker-being-ryan-saavedra?%3Futm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dwbrand

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  4. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    That dog don’t hunt –
    Biden claimed — falsely — that Trump called neo-Nazis who marched in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017 “very fine people” — when, in fact, Trump said the neo-Nazis “should be condemned totally,” as the transcript proves.
    The former vice president was repeating a hoax perpetrated by Democrats and the mainstream media to cast Trump and his supporters as bigots who are, in Biden’s words, a “threat to this nation.”
    This is the same Saul Alinsky divide-and-conquer nonsense the left has employed for years. It is a dishonest and shameful attempt to put 63 million people on their heels.
    I am outraged.
    I am outraged because eight years ago, I joined the most pro-Israel website in the world. Breitbart News was founded by two best friends, and my mentors, Andrew Breitbart and Larry Solov … both Jewish. These men created a site designed to call out the exact hypocrisy exhibited by Biden this morning. And the idea for the site was conceived — guess where? — in Israel.
    https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2019/04/25/pollak-joe-biden-jew-antisemite-charlottesville/
    😉

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  5. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Progressive means going backwards, right? Vote for Joe. He will Make America Like It Used to Be:
    https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/joe-bidens-presidential-prospects/
    “We were the good guys and now we’re not. Now we’re not. People look at this country in horror and say what happened to America? It breaks my heart. I love that he’s doing it he’s– taking this tack. It’s not just about policy right now. He’ll get to that. But America, look at this and say do we want this America back or don’t we? Basically that’s what it comes down to.”
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kristine-marsh/2019/04/25/joy-behar-gets-emotional-over-biden-remember-when-people-didnt

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  6. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Oh my. Gallop has Climate Change near the bottom of the heap.
    https://news.gallup.com/poll/249092/americans-say-government-immigration-lead-woes.aspx

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  7. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee
  8. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Another narrative fail for the po’ ol’ fakenewsman –
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/acting-pentagon-boss-cleared-ethics-wrongs-internal-inquiry-154422614.html
    😉

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  9. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Is she there to help stomp out the creepy gampa joe issues, how did that work out for Weinstein?\
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/25/harvey-weinstein-adviser-and-chairman-mao-fan-anita-dunn-reportedly-joining-team-biden/
    😉

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  10. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    from https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6961289/I-actually-like-parents-Trump-tells-reporters-children.html
    “President Donald Trump gave life advice to the children of the White House staff and the reporters who cover him on Thursday afternoon, telling them: ‘Never take drugs, don’t drink alcohol, don’t smoke, enjoy your life.’”

    “‘I even love the media today, I see these beautiful children, products of the media, and I actually like you much more than your parents,’ he told the kids.”
    lol. He really is The Man.

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  11. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Guess I will put this here.
    “In decades past, professors from western universities were quietly smuggled into Soviet classrooms. Now, we are the ones spiriting the divergent voice into our midst through the back door, hoping we are not called out by a new version of secret police.
    “The irony must be particularly rich for Legutko. The students and faculty of Middlebury College provided a live demonstration that profoundly proved his treatise: only a narrow band of thought will be allowed in the brave new world being crafted in the name of “democracy.”
    “Legutko never got the hearing he deserved at Middlebury. But his rejection proves the utter truth he writes, “In its essence, liberalism is unabashedly aggressive because it is determined to hunt down all non-liberal agents and ideas, which it treats as a threat to itself and to humanity.”
    https://thefederalist.com/2019/04/26/newest-middlebury-college-fracas-illustrates-democracy-turns-totalitarian/

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  12. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    I’ve never heard of Legutko or his book, so I’ll read it and check it out.
    pointed to by the article referenced @8:48
    https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/ryszard-legutko-middlebury-politruks/
    He does use the word ‘hoodlum’ in the interview, which I rather like. SJH. Social Justice Hoodlums. It has a nice ring to it.
    According to one etymology dictionary, it’s likely from the Bavarian German ‘Huddellump’ or ‘ragamuffin’.

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  13. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Just checking in. The Cornish sure had the crime and punishment problem down pat.
    Read up on the Bodmin jail.( Took a look around.. ol’ grand Dad may have made a visit or two..) hanging was a big spectacular sport back then. Yup, no wonder plenty people came from here.

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  14. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Scenes @ 9:12 am
    Read your link. Loved the ending. Yes, fear is the Big One. The absence of fear does present a problem for the authoritarians.
    ——————-
    Guess I will put this link here. Too many topics covered to pigeon hole under one quote.
    https://quillette.com/2019/04/21/the-twilight-of-liberalism/

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  15. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    WINNING!
    US economy grows by 3.2% in the first quarter, topping expectations
    https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/26/gdp-q1-2019-first-read.html
    😉

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  16. fish Avatar
    fish

    “Let’s be blunt: As a supposed friend of American workers, Joe Biden is a phony. And now that he’s running for president, Biden’s huge task is to hide his phoniness.”
    As long as we get a fair amount of “Shotgun Joe Biden Gaffe Factory” quips I’ll be satisfied!
    So let it be written….so let it be done!
    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-26/joe-biden-puffery-vs-reality

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  17. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    There he goes again….me thinks he doth protest too much. Coup, coup, coup.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/john-brennan-trump-sociopathic-ramblings-mueller
    ———————-
    https://bongino.com/senators-claim-new-text-messages-may-show-fbi-spied-on-trump-after-election/?fbclid=IwAR2kH-_na6_zDgD-9qGrJ-MwT-u7JvHDygHWfVTajTorNoJEvMZscmdysQA
    ————————————-
    “The Mueller report exposes the dossier claims as pure fiction. Yet in describing the actions of the Trump campaign figures the FBI accused, the report assiduously avoids any mention of the dossier or its allegations. Mr. Mueller refers to Mr. Steele and his work largely in passing, as part of the report’s description of how former FBI Director James Comey informed Mr. Trump of the dossier’s existence. The dossier is blandly described several times as “unverified allegations compiled” by Mr. Steele.
    Once Mr. Mueller established that the dossier was a pack of lies, he should have investigated how it gained such currency at the highest levels of the FBI. Yet his report makes clear he had no interest in plumbing the antics of the bureau, which he led from 2001-13. Instead, he went out of his way to avoid the dossier and give cover to the FBI.
    The special counsel had another, more pressing reason to look at the dossier: It fell within his core mission. Since its publication by BuzzFeed in January 2017, we’ve learned enough about Mr. Steele and Fusion GPS to wonder if the Russians used the dossier for their own malign purposes.”
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/04/who-was-colluding-with-whom.php

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  18. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Yup –
    Once again our emotions and minds are being toyed with. The people who blackmailed the Yankees into dumping Smith’s version of the original God Bless America are not trying to clean up American racism. They’re sowing seeds of division and undermining American pride under the bogus pretense that they’re promoting racial harmony. No rational person of any color thinks eliminating a dead woman from Yankee Stadium improves race relations.
    In fact, it does the opposite. It creates the impression of a ridiculous racial double standard. A long-dead white woman is held to higher standards than any millionaire or billionaire black rapper. You wanna hear an anti-black song? You don’t have to go back to the 1930s. Go listen to my ‘favorite’ rapper Dr. Dre’s ‘Rat-a-tat-tat.’ He brags about never hesitating to put an n-word on his back.
    https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2019/04/26/fs1s-jason-whitlock-slams-media-hypocrisy-on-kate-smith-ban/
    😉

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  19. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Bill.. you would love this place in Saint Ives we are at tonight. A castle turned hotel. They just about hold it for you if you need to talk a leak. Service is top notch. ( At 300 pounds a night it should be.)
    Yup,, living it up in Cornwall.
    Hey Emery.. you need to book yourself at The Minack theater. Bring your cane. The steps are murder.

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  20. George Rebane Avatar

    Walt, we love your trip vignettes. Keep it up and make them longer. 😉

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  21. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Will do George. Will have time tonight to bring all of you up to date. Have yet to scratch the Jag. I rented. That is a wonder all it’s own with the sheep trails the GPS navigation puts me on.

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  22. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Re: Lunch bucket Joe enters the race.
    Oh, his kickoff video was dark. Very dark, gloomy, pessimistic. Then he said he wants to make America like it used to be….like Make America Great Again? Well, plagiarism and Biden are synonymous.
    But, what I find most troubling about Moe Biden is:
    a) he let Republicans question Anita Hill after she made serious allegations against Clarance Thomas. How dare he let the accused’s side be heard. Blasphemy! Unlike the Kavanaugh theatrical display of the the reenactment of the Salem Witch Trials, the FBI did investigate the allegations since the FBI had jurisdiction because both the accused and the accuser were federal employees. The FBI’s probe uncovered some rather unflattering and disturbing new evidence which ran counter to Ms Hill’s truthfulness. A pattern of deceit. The Senate Judiciary Committee opted not to press charges on Ms. Hill when all was said and done.
    How dare Joe Biden let people question her! He should have protected her!! Never question the accuser! Never.
    b) Biden said that heads of state and foreign government officials have been calling him begging him to run. Hmmmm. That sounds like a violation of the Hatch Act. That sounds like Creepy Joe was colluding with foreign governments to effect the 2020 elections. That sounds like violations of the law. We need to get a special prosecutor on this right now and investigate foreign meddling in our elections.! No time to waste. Get a FISA warrant to “surveil” all his communications and everyone he has contact with and all members of his campaign…..going back years. And everyone who who has ever make contact with anyone who has made contact with anyone associated with Biden or his campaign.
    The Pandora’s Box has been opened.

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  23. Paul Emery Avatar

    Off to the high country for a few days. Not much need to hang out here. The Circle of Jerks infesting this blog are content with their self stimulation and can do well without my agitations for the time being.

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  24. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 27 April 2019 at 11:40 AM
    Ken Jones approves this message……

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  25. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    punch 1140am
    agitations… is that Punchyspeak for making crap up and then running away?
    Regarding Joe Biden… I find it high-larious that Anita Hill has rebuffed Creepy Joe’s first attempt at apology for not laying out the red carpet for her ‘high tech lynching’ of Clarence Thomas at his nomination hearing.
    What about an apology to Robert Bork, who Biden Borked relentlessly at his hearing? Oh, yeah, can’t do that. #1, Bork is white, #2 Bork is cis-gendered male, and #3 Bork is dead.

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  26. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Well ECO nuts, the pet here are not a bit happy with the ECO power. They are ready to use these windmills to string up the a-holes that conned them into putting them up.

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  27. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Hey Walt.
    Thought you where taking a break, not a va-ka. Enjoy your R&R and take in those sights. Well, since you passed many a ewe, did you see any that looked like Punch? There’s one in every crowd….er….herd….not to disparage farm animals with the broad brush.
    At least you are doing it right. My Mom dreamed of going to those places her whole life. When she finally got to the castles, she could not make it up the stairs. Knees were too old. :).

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  28. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Bill. They sure like doors in these places. And stairs too. Like a rat maze.
    No, not one Emery clone in any field.. yet. You will have to bug the good Dr for the evidence in pictures. He has the goods.
    It’s 9:00, and after three pints of Cornish cider, I’m pretty well done for the night. Take care my friends

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  29. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    I remember when they told us that it won’t snow in winter ever again and grandparents across the land will have to describe what snow is to the next generations. Not necessary. Just take the kids to Detroit in late April.
    https://weather.com/storms/winter/news/2019-04-26-winter-storm-xyler-forecast-midwest-great-lakes-northeast
    ——————
    Walt:
    Seen any of these over there?
    https://www.facebook.com/290215804950756/photos/a.295476267758043/352722518700084/?type=3&theater&ifg=1
    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10161580280920526&set=gm.665091117279335&type=3&theater&ifg=1

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  30. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Bill.you sure can find’m.but no,, not yet. Got out of London as fast as we could.
    I fear the list of speeding tickets I may have racked up. Radar cams all over the place. I hear that when it’s posted 70, they mean it. No five over allowed. I will know when I return the rental car. It’s added to the bill.

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  31. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The left is so far gone they would do this on a high holy day –
    Donald Trump Jr. shared the photo in a tweet and said, “Disgusting. I have no words for flagrant anti-Semitism on display here. Imagine this was in something other than a leftist newspaper?”
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/27/new-york-times-publishes-antisemitic-offensive-cartoon-forced-to-apologize/
    😉

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  32. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Good guy with a gun –
    A man opened fire inside a San Diego synagogue Saturday and a good guy with chased him out of the building and opened fire on this fleeing vehicle.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/27/suspect-opens-fire-in-synogogue-good-guy-with-gun-shoots-back/
    😉

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  33. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Nancy can say there is no anti-Semitism in the Democrat House with a straight face to the camera, but the problem did not go anywhere. She will say whatever she needs to. And to think the political public relations arm of Hamas is CAIR.
    Interesting read.
    “The failure of the Arab states to come to the aid of the Palestinians is far from a new development. In fact, the Palestinians have long lamented that the Arab world has turned its back on them.
    Less well understood is Abbas’s readiness to sacrifice the livelihood of tens of thousands of families of public employees for the sake of supporting Palestinian terrorists. Abbas’s remarks at the Arab League gathering in Cairo and other statements he has made in the past few months demonstrate his preference for the well-being of terrorists over the ability of hard-working employees to put bread on the table for their families.

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  34. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Campus Life
    “In this instance, the innocent victim didn’t react violently. He calmly booted up his own computer and filed a complaint against his roommate with the administration’s bias reporting system. Kind of makes you well up with vicarious pride, no?
    “Ben Shapiro is known for his inflammatory speech that criticizes and attacks the African American community,” wrote the student in his complaint. “I thought hate had no place on MSU’s campus yet MSU has roomed me with someone who supports hate speach” (misspelling in the original quote).
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/46481/limbaugh-many-university-campuses-are-playgrounds-david-limbaugh?%3Futm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dwbrand
    Which leads me to this link. Little Piglet is always angry in the pics. Must be campus life nowadays.
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/46466/writers-medium-account-suspended-challenging-amanda-prestigiacomo?%3Futm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro
    Which led me to this The bottomline
    https://m.facebook.com/PatriotPost/photos/a.82108390913/10156347136545914/?type=3&source=48

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  35. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Don @ 5:30 pm
    “It doesn’t matter whether President Trump committed a crime,” Warren said.
    “This isn’t even specifically about Donald Trump himself,” Warren said. Right – it’s about overturning the results of a presidential election that didn’t put Hillary Clinton in the Oval Office.
    And the other punchline is: Mueller tried to have Trump fired. 🙂

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  36. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Hollywood’s hubris is amazing to behold, legacy? A has been tv star from the 80’s who now is only in low budget tv movies. WOW!
    https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/04/27/report-lori-loughlin-worries-that-college-admissions-scam-is-ruining-her-legacy/
    😉

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  37. Scott O Avatar

    https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/04/26/rosanna-arquette-i-feel-terrorized-living-under-a-fascist-regime/
    Mental illness. Unless you’d like to argue otherwise.
    Where’s Ooooze and the other lefties?
    Hiding under their beds.

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  38. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Fancy title: Student Government Gender Relations Director at University of Notre Dame.
    “Jarrett, a junior, tweeted March 29: “The only thing this has taught me is that men are gross and they don’t deserve opinions and I categorically do not want to f*** them.” This was in response to harassment she received on a post of herself wearing bike shorts to protest an op-ed that called leggings immodest.
    “She said in other tweets regarding men: “I have a lot of sex with men for someone who condemns so vehemently giving men opportunities to disappoint me,” and “Cory Booker is the only man who is allowed to speak ever again thank you this has been a PSA.”
    “In yet another example of statements that have caused some to worry about her ability to be the leader of positive relationships between genders at Notre Dame, she said in an Instagram post last year: “You can trust [women about their bodies]. If we wanted your ignorant, irrelevant opinions, we’d ask.”
    “In defending herself against Morris’ concerns, Jarrett said at the meeting that “as director of Gender Relations, I would want to make sure that we have discussions about how to relate to other genders on campus in ways that don’t make people feel alienated or hurt or sad or scared,” the Observer reported.”
    https://www.thecollegefix.com/men-dont-deserve-opinions-tweeted-new-director-of-gender-relations/
    Well, she has a point. Men are filthy oppressive gross beasts and women are equal to men.

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  39. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Practical politics or islamophobia? You know what the dems will say –
    Macron singled out foreign religious funding, especially from Turkey, saying that it also contributed towards the problems with political Islam in France and vowed tighter controls on foreign funds coming into the country.
    Last year, the French president had made overtures at reforming Islam in France that would see an increased French influence on the training of imams as well as an overhaul of the organisation structure of Muslim groups.
    A study that was conducted as a part of a project advising Macron discovered that the radical form of Islam known as Salafism had an almost monopoly on the intellectual currents of Islam across the country.
    French-Tunisian Islam expert Hakim el Karoui of the Montaigne Institute, who authored the report, recommended tackling foreign funding of imams to counter the phenomenon.
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/04/27/macron-vows-tackle-political-islam-act-ii-presidency/
    😉

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  40. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Just a socialist scamster and this is not the first or last one-
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/participants-in-aocs-fun-run-didnt-know-they-were-donating-to-her-campaign
    😉

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  41. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Had a good walk around Saint Ives today. Great people. Vary dog friendly. Just about every shop has a water bowl out for the many critters. The dogs are more well behaved than the street people back home.

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  42. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    The Cornish sure knew how to work granite huge blocks make up most of the buildings around here. No wonder the use of the stone back home is so good.

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  43. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Interesting that the trolls seem to travel in a pack with the pony tail of ignorance…
    https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/04/27/cnn-jake-tapper-admits-trump-did-not-call-neo-nazis-very-fine-people-in-charlottesville/
    😉

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