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[Anyone willing to offer a guess as to the date on which the Senate will deliver its verdict?  I'll even take your MAB numbers to see who has the most accurate view of when this kabuki performance will end.  gjr]

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619 responses to “Sandbox – 16jan20”

  1. odlaW Avatar
    odlaW

    ,,,Nice plagiarism Biker Bill,,,

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  2. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    You Go Girl!!
    Martha McSally selling ‘liberal hack’ shirts to fundraise off confrontation with CNN reporter
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/martha-mcsally-selling-liberal-hack-shirts-to-fundraise-off-confrontation-with-cnn-reporter
    ——-
    ROFLMAO
    Chilling!’ ‘Vile!’ ‘Vicious!’ WashPost Wails After McSally Calls CNN Reporter, ‘Liberal Hack’
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kristine-marsh/2020/01/17/chilling-vile-vicious-washpost-wails-after-mcsally-calls-cnn
    ROFLMAO x 2
    SUPERCUT: CNN Rages for Hours About ‘Indecent’ Slam of Manu Raju, ‘Liberal Hack’
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2020/01/17/supercut-cnn-rages-hours-about-indecent-slam-manu-raju
    Good job, girl. You rock my world.

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  3. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Feeling the love –
    LSU quarterback Joe Burrow praised President Donald Trump after the team’s visit to the White House Friday, saying that the president showed everyone “so much love.”
    Burrow’s comments were reported by Bloomberg reporter Jordan Fabian who tweeted the player’s remarks.
    “Joe Burrow on Trump,” Fabian tweeted. “He showed so much love to everyone on our team. I don’t care if you’re a Republican, Democrat, don’t care about politics at all, that was an awesome experience for everybody.”
    https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2020/01/17/joe-burrow-praises-trump-after-white-house-visit-he-showed-so-much-love/
    😉

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  4. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Yes brother Bill @216 and its the swing states where it matters most, who cares what his CA, NY numbers are. Be afraid all you socialist dems in the clown car be very afraid, all he needs is a couple of points in a handful of states and he bulldozes the sacrificial lamb put up by the socialist dems. Lets not forget the historically low unemployment for Hispanics and Asians too. –
    Two polls show President Trump taking a third of the black vote. I doubt that could happen. But if it did, he would be a lock for reelection, given relatively large numbers of black voters in swing states.
    Trump just needs the black vote to move toward him a little bit to tip swing states his way. Even Virginia could be in play if this is true.
    According to the Washington Examiner:
    Kanye West isn’t the only one anymore.
    A growing number of polls show that President Trump is gaining the support of black voters above what any Republican president has ever received. Both Emerson Polling and Rasmussen Reports have it at about 34%, a stunning number.
    And a new Zogby Analytics survey found that African American support is at the “highest levels of the year,” driven by a strong economy, historically low black unemployment, and Trump’s agenda to support minority small businesses, historically black colleges and universities, and passage of criminal justice reform.
    “Not surprisingly, all African Americans do not hate Trump!” pollster Jonathan Zogby said in sharing his data with us.
    https://www.whitehousedossier.com/2019/12/16/polls-showing-explosion-of-black-support-for-trump/
    😉

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  5. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Don
    Black vote and an open window. Heck, the Lamestrem mocked Trump for campaigning in MI and PA during 2016. Boy, did they laugh at such an absurd idea.
    https://thefederalist.com/2020/01/17/how-trump-can-triple-his-support-among-black-voters-in-2020/

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  6. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 203pm – Given all the historically good news for blacks today – ranging from the economy, jobs, to representation in business, government, media, entertainment, and their ease of getting into colleges, etc, etc. Why do you think that they still dislike Trump who has done so much for them, and why continue to vote for Dems who have delivered them into horrible crime-ridden, drug-infested urban ghettos? Is there something deeper going on here, which makes it impossible for them to see their true benefactors instead of clinging to the party that has been their historic nemesis? What’s going on here? Your thoughts?

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  7. Walt Avatar

    Damn Joe,, Beto is a Latino?
    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2020/01/17/biden-appears-to-believe-beto-is-latino-n2559679
    “In an interview with The Dallas Morning News, Biden was asked if he would consider former Rep. Robert “Beto” O’Rourke or former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro as a running mate.
    “And look, I’ve spoken to each of them and spent some time talking to them. My plea to both of them is that they stay engaged. They are talented, talented people and there are a number of Latinos that have endorsed our former Secretary of Interior — whole lot of people who are going to — I can guarantee you that there’s going to be Latinos in my cabinet, guarantee you there’s going to be Latinos in my White House, and both of them are qualified.” ”
    A Mexican Irishman,,, or an Irish Mexican???
    Biden has more memory issues than Emery.

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  8. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Just posting Poll numbers George. They are what they are. Trump needs to distance himself more precisely from his white supremacist racist fellow travelers that seem to be hanging out in his camp as well as publicly supporting his Presidency.

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  9. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Trump minus one.

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  10. Walt Avatar

    That’s OK Emery,, You have ANTIFA. A fine upstanding LIB degenerate ORG. The new and improved KLAN. And still in hoods no less.

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  11. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Educate yourself oh lame pony tail of ignorance, you continue to hold that title. LOL
    Please review –
    Posted by: Don Bessee | 17 January 2020 at 04:10 PM
    😉

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  12. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Take this and add my @617 you get a George McGovern election, thanks socialist dems!
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/people-will-sit-at-home-sanders-supporters-threaten-to-boycott-vote-if-democrats-nominate-a-centrist
    😉

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  13. fish Avatar
    fish

    Gaffemaster Joe strikes again……

    “He immediately followed that up. “There will be Latinos in my cabinet and I guaranteed there will be Latinos in my White House. And both of them are qualified,” he said referring to O’Rourke and Castro.
    But maybe if he were actually considering them, he might want to know that Beto isn’t Latino? Robert Francis O’Rourke is of Irish descent, Beto was a nickname given to him by his father……”

    Ehh……I guess if 1/1024th Indian can pull it off Beto can be a Flexican!
    https://www.redstate.com/nick-arama/2020/01/17/sounds-like-biden-thinks-beto-is-latino/

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  14. Walt Avatar

    Here ya’ go! Gotta love those “VOTE FOR ME” LIB promises.
    https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2020/01/18/ige-pledged-end-homelessness-hawaii-by-what-happened/
    “Four years ago, Gov. David Ige made a big pledge: His administration would functionally end homelessness in Hawaii by 2020. Anyone who ended up on the street, he said, would be helped and housed within a few weeks.”
    And it’s worse than ever.
    Justa taste of what’s to come from the VERY pretty Gavin Nuisance and his homeless crusade.

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  15. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Let the school kids eat more meat at breakfast and stop trying to force kale on poor kids who should be able to eat normal like everyone else. Forcing the schools to waste tons of money by forcing a cookie cutter unappealing, flavorless meal and not having options the kids will eat fails both goals of feeding kids with balanced nutrition and not wasting the money. –
    Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said the changes will let “school nutrition professionals have more flexibility to serve appetizing and healthy meals that appeal to their students’ preferences and subsequently reduce food waste.”
    The School Nutrition Association (SNA), which represents school nutrition directors and companies that sell food to schools, has long said many of the Obama administration standards are unworkable and overly prescriptive, resulting in higher costs and fewer students participating in lunch programs.
    “Schools and school districts continue to tell us that there is still too much food waste and that more common-sense flexibility is needed to provide students nutritious and appetizing meals. We listened and now we’re getting to work,” Perdue said in the statement.
    The proposal also aims to make “it easier for schools to offer school lunch entrees for a la carte purchase, thereby reducing food waste.”
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-administration-roll-back-school-212931522.html
    😉

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  16. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    George
    Speaking of gaffes no one can compete with the weird twisted babblings of our President. Here’s some recent ones from this week.
    At a political rally held Tuesday night in Milwaukee, Donald Trump performed this role again. Yahoo News reports:
    “I’m also approving new dishwashers that give you more water, so you can actually wash and rinse your dishes without having to do it 10 times – four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10,” he said, likely attacking Department of Energy regulations.
    “Sinks, toilets and showers, you don’t get any water. They put restrictors on and now they made them permanent.
    “You go into the shower — and I have this beautiful head of hair, I need a lot of water — and you turn on the water [and] drip, drip, drip. I call the guy, ‘something wrong with this?’ ‘No, sir, it’s just the restrictor’. So you’re in there five times longer than you’re supposed to be, you use probably more water and it’s a very unpleasant experience. We’re getting rid of the restrictors, you’re going to have full shower flow, full sink.”
    During the Milwaukee rally, Trump also repeatedly mimicked flushing a toilet.
    Our president also has a special obsession with dishwashers. “Remember the dishwasher?” he asked, as if it were a relic of the past. “You’d press it, boom! There’d be, like, an explosion. Five minutes later you open it up, the steam pours out … Anybody have a new dishwasher? I’m sorry for that.” Trump also told his almost all-white crowd that their “dishes will be beautiful” because of his presidency.
    https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/heres-the-bizarre-truth-about-the-power-of-donald-trumps-toilet-obsession/

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  17. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Creepy Uncle Joe: ““He immediately followed that up. “There will be Latinos in my cabinet and I guaranteed there will be Latinos in my White House. And both of them are qualified,” he said referring to O’Rourke and Castro.”
    Using the new Blue Mob Math, lemme see, 15 primary cabinet members, 13.3% of electorate is Hispanic (per Pew), victimhood correction factor of 1.5
    That gives you 2.9925 members. Let’s say three members of the primary cabinet. There’s a little wiggle room there for someone with a non-Hispanic gggrandfather or so. Easy peasy.

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  18. Walt Avatar

    WOW Emery,, Falling for parody news stories. Whatever gets it up for ya’…..

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  19. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    It seems those pink pussy hats are more than a bit frayed. LOL
    CHICAGO (AP) — Days after President Donald Trump killed an Iranian general and said he was sending more soldiers to the Middle East, about 100 protesters stood on a pedestrian bridge over Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive with an illuminated sign that read “No War in Iran.”
    Some 200 people marched in the bitter cold near Boston, while a few dozen people demonstrated on the steps of Los Angeles City Hall and at similarly sized gatherings across the U.S.
    Three years after Trump took office and millions of people swarmed to the Women’s March in Washington and companion marches across the country, these typically modest protests are often the most visible sign of today’s Trump resistance.
    https://apnews.com/bfabbf7df2b7a411117590d4840f314b
    😉

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  20. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    @6:58 pm
    Whoever grows or peddles kale should be shot on sight for being a menace to society. Serving that crap at schools qualifies as cruel and unusual punishment and child abuse.
    Unidentified Food Object.

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  21. 🐠 Avatar
    🐠

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 17 January 2020 at 07:01 PM
    Speaking of gaffes, no one can compete with the weird twisted babblings of our President

    Malarkey!
    https://tenor.com/view/joe-biden-malarkey-gif-15695553

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  22. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Meanwhile in the real world – WINNING!!!
    When President Trump first imposed tariffs on foreign steel in 2018, steel company owner James Howard didn’t approve.
    “As soon as they even talked about a tariff, we were getting price increases, and they were rapidly going up,” Howard told FOX Business in April 2018.
    But he’s since changed his tune.
    “We’ve really had a pretty good year,” Howard said Friday in a new interview on FOX Business’ “The Claman Countdown.” “What I was speculating … all those price increases and stuff, it didn’t have a big effect.”
    https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/steel-company-owner-thought-trump-232514513.html
    😉

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  23. Bill Tozet Avatar
    Bill Tozet

    @ 7:44 pm
    The march ain’t what it used to be.
    WHAT IF THEY HELD AN ANTI-TRUMP WOMEN’S MARCH AND ONLY 10,000 CAME?
    “Leaders of this year’s event say they are planning “small-scale events” in the days leading up to the march. It looks like the march itself will be a small-scale event.”
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/01/what-if-they-held-an-anti-trump-womens-march-and-only-10000-came.php
    https://www.facebook.com/PatriotPost/photos/a.82108390913/10156995419770914/?type=3&theater

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  24. Bill TozetR Avatar
    Bill TozetR

    @ 7:44 pm
    The march ain’t what it used to be.
    WHAT IF THEY HELD AN ANTI-TRUMP WOMEN’S MARCH AND ONLY 10,000 CAME?
    “Leaders of this year’s event say they are planning “small-scale events” in the days leading up to the march. It looks like the march itself will be a small-scale event.”
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/01/what-if-they-held-an-anti-trump-womens-march-and-only-10000-came.php
    https://www.facebook.com/PatriotPost/photos/a.82108390913/10156995419770914/?type=3&theater

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  25. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Moi above
    What the hay is going on?
    A glitch, a glitch. Molokai Boss, da glitch. I was typing and the keys were acting weird and, pesto!…..the darn thing sent and it came out in two colors. The Matrix is not perfect. Was not operator error. Now, who to blame, oh who to blame.
    Wrong day to pick to quit sniffing glue.

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  26. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: BillT@8:21PM
    Ya got yer chance tomorrow.
    https://www.theunion.com/news/womens-march-this-saturday-in-nevada-city/
    There should be at least a few men there trying to pick up strays, so there’s even the possibility of a gentlemen’s drum circle I guess.
    Given that it’s a “global march for women’s rights, climate action, and democratic and social justice”, and the central principle of Emerianism, they’ve probably decided that Trump hates women, the climate, and justice. No word yet on his Nazi tendencies.

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  27. L Avatar
    L

    File a demurrer (no actionable felony or misdemeanor has been alleged) so, at best a civil case. If that, a cross-complaint for coup attempt is in order and the AG is working on that. Move along, nothing to see here.

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  28. fish Avatar
    fish

    Yeah……weird.

    IT’S WEIRD HOW “FIX AMERICA’S DEMOCRACY” ALWAYS TURNS OUT TO MEAN “RIG THINGS SO THE LEFT ALWAYS WINS.”

    Harvard releases radical proposal to fix America’s democracy that divides Washington D.C. into 127 new states, adding enough votes in Congress to rewrite the constitution and eliminate the Electoral College.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7896199/Harvard-releases-proposal-fix-Americas-democracy-divides-Washington-D-C-127-states.html

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  29. Scott O Avatar

    fish 7:23 – The issue is that the left needs to have a pure democracy and get rid of our Republic. Their problem is that they need to disarm the citizenry first. If they ever manage to move forward with mob rule too quickly (i.e. – getting rid of the electoral college) before fire arm confiscation, then a breakdown of Constitutional law will lead to mass violence. And they know who wins that one.
    Hard to believe someone spent more that 2 seconds considering that crackpot scheme of 127 states from DC. Shows how far gone some people are.

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  30. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    It appears the Harvard Law Review is the new Harvard Lampoon.

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  31. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Gregory | 18 January 2020 at 08:01 AM
    Some notions are so ridiculous only an academic could believe them….

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  32. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Scott O | 18 January 2020 at 07:55 AM
    Shows how far gone some people are.

    The intoxicating effects of a lust for power……..

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  33. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    https://harvardlawreview.org/2020/01/pack-the-union-a-proposal-to-admit-new-states-for-the-purpose-of-amending-the-constitution-to-ensure-equal-representation/
    Yah gotta love the extremely partisan tone of the thing.
    It’s probably interesting for Republicans to find themselves not the establishment for the first time in some while. Go figure that the country is split between traditional America and some kind of coalition between multinational corporations, schools, iron rice bowl .gov types, and a ragtag army of people who just agree on what they don’t like (Emerianism).
    It’s not such a bad thing in some ways. It seems like the old school Chamber of Commerce guys are having to dust off their arm chairs and, like Conan, really think about what is important in life.

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  34. George Rebane Avatar

    The Harvard Reorganization Plan would make virtual serfs of the Americans who remain in the ‘fly-over states’. They would live and work under federal mandates from a government in which they have no voice. California has already pioneered such a one-party future in which the majority can vote for untold amounts of OPM from fellow Californians, and also from folks living in Ohio and Idaho. The HRP is just the latest of proposals by the indigenous anti-American elites to destroy this fair land.

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  35. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: George Rebane | 18 January 2020 at 08:56 AM
    The Harvard Reorganization Plan would make virtual serfs of the Americans who remain in the ‘fly-over states’.

    A feature not a bug!

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  36. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    @ 7:23 am and group
    This is why the cultural wars are a real war.

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  37. rcross Avatar
    rcross

    In the ‘pot calling the kettle black’ category: a quote from Sean Hannity “Lying, propagandizing, I guess, pays for people. It pays pretty well. So what’s that? These are con artists now, you know they’re just liars, they’re just advancing a political agenda.

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  38. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Bagdad Bob @ 9:59 am
    Well, it looks like Lizzy Warren won’t be shaking Sean Hannity’s hand, either. Nor Trump’s.
    https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/01/elizabeth-warren-political-persona-entirely-false/?
    It’s all good.

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  39. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Baghdad Bob
    You need to take a deep breath so you might get something right for once. I keep rooting for you, Little Boo-Boo, but you are making it tough. Sean (and Orange Man Bad) was talking about the journalists that you love.
    You might also try to find sources that don’t sing to the choir of unhinged folks tripping on their own dicks.
    https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/sean-hannity-lying-propagandizing-i-guess-pays-people-it-pays-pretty-well
    “Gee Yogi, Mr. Ranger would not like that.”
    “ Leave it to me, BooBoo”

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  40. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    The climate column today says we turn a gallon of gas 96 pounds) into 20 pounds of CO2. Did anyone read that?

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  41. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    New Hampshire Is Fighting Back to Defend the Electoral College
    How would National Popular Vote states pinpoint a national tally with so much information missing?
    They couldn’t. Any “national popular vote total” generated would be an invention of the imagination. Such a situation surely would give the Supreme Court even more cause to strike down National Popular Vote’s efforts to effectively eliminate the Electoral College without the constitutionally required approval from a supermajority of states.
    James Madison once wrote that state governments should respond to “ambitious encroachments of the federal government” with “plans of resistance.”
    National Popular Vote is not an “ambitious encroachment of the federal government,” of course. It is a group of states colluding to bypass constitutional requirements.
    But Madison would surely find “plans of resistance” appropriate in this context, too.
    https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/new-hampshire-fighting-back-defend-electoral-college

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  42. rcross Avatar
    rcross

    Red Square Bill 10:29 — Oh yeah– Hannity is pure truth right just like trump.. LOL? You might also try to find sources that don’t sing to the choir of unhinged folks tripping on their own dicks, otherwise known as Repulicans

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  43. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    OOPs gallon of gas is 6 pounds.

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  44. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Roberta Cross | 18 January 2020 at 10:56 AM
    ……the choir of unhinged folks tripping on their own dicks….

    Always comes down to dicks with you doesn’t it Bertie?
    Sounds like a girl just needs to go git her some!

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  45. I know Joe Koyote Avatar
    I know Joe Koyote

    IMPOSTER ALERT!
    I know Robert Cross and he never posts as rcross. He never posts as Bob Cross, but may post as robert Cross or Robert cross or Robert Croww. but never rcross.
    IMPOSTER ALERT

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