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[Is everyone ready for Biden in the stretch run, or the coronavirus' continuing impact on the securities markets?  All of it the fault of President Trump.  gjr]

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223 responses to “Sandbox – 1mar20”

  1. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The fix is in, again –
    The announcement drew heavy criticism on social media, with several users accusing the DNC of shutting Gabbard out of the race.
    “God forbid Tulsi gets back on the debate, right?” one asked.
    “Funny how you waited, then, to make this change until after Tulsi earned a delegate,” another observed. “I’m not sure which I hate more, the DNC for this continued primary/debate rigging, or the voters who will just be good little sheep and vote for your corrupt party anyway.”
    Another called the move “utterly corrupt,” and another mused, “Translation: We have to do everything we can do keep Tulsi off the debate stage.”
    Gabbard has battled the Democrat establishment over the course of her presidential bid. She told reporters in January that CNN never gave her an explanation as to why it excluded her from its series of town halls with Democrat candidates — candidates including Deval Patrick, whose performance fell below Gabbard’s in the national polls.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/03/04/dnc-to-change-debate-rules-as-tulsi-gabbard-reaches-delegate-requirement/
    😉

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  2. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The DNC is suppressing its own voters for November –
    The Democrat establishment appears to be rallying behind Biden.
    Citing long lines, voting machine issues, and reports of Sanders appearing on the second page of some ballots, Democrat voters across the country, mainly supporters of the socialist senator, suggested that the DNC was manipulating the election against the Vermont lawmaker.
    Sen. Sanders himself has blasted the DNC for taking measures that benefit his rivals.
    “The Democrat establishment came together and crushed Bernie Sanders, AGAIN,” Trump said on Twitter on Wednesday, echoing comments he has made in the recent past.
    In 2016, many of Sanders’s supporters accused the DNC of stealing the Democrat party’s presidential nomination from Sanders and giving it to Hilary Clinton, who lost to Trump.
    Former DNC Chairwoman Donna Brazile also indicated that the Democrat party rigged the election in favor of Clinton.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/03/04/dnc-denies-rigging-election-against-socialist-sanders-narrative-coming-from-republicans/
    😉

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  3. George Rebane Avatar

    DonB 627pm – Are you implying that President Trump wants to run against Bernie? 😉

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  4. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    No Dr R, I am noting that the DNC is assisting the prez by pissing off Bernie bros so much they are going to sit on their hands in November.
    😉

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  5. Walt Avatar

    It would be a good bet that Trump would like to take on the Commie. It’s as anti American as it gets. I think Trump would love to expose it for what it is.
    All Trump would have to do is hold Sanders’ feet to the fire, on how he plans to pay for all that free shit.
    Then there is that admission of how old people with cancer will just have to die.
    Trump could put the brakes on the Commiecrats for who knows how long.
    Even the LIBS know Comrade Sanders is bad news for them.

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  6. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Well, I looked at a headline by media Critic Howard Kurtz blasting fools for saying put a fork in Biden. Opps, I indeed called Biden toast. I was merely premature.
    Foolish error. I should have known better. When that apparatus kicks it into turbo, mountains are moved. Did I say apparatus? I meant apparatchik. There, much more accurate.
    Amy, Peter, and Tom on a coordinated pull out right before Super Tuesday with Bloomberg three days later, all supporting Biden and a sea change in media cheerleading. No more talk of Medicare For All or that silly New Green Deal. Nope, it’s three cheers for Biden now. I bet Michael Moore’s blood vessels on his temples are exploding. BTW, saw a recent pic of Rosie the Pig, but I was wrong! It’s wasn’t O’Donnell, it was Michael Moore. I had to do a double take, lol. They have both seen better days.
    All the big donor boyz, politicians, mega corporate types, the whole shebang, the whole apparatchik made a decision. They choose Biden. It is the same Industrial Political Media Complex. And, when you ponder upon The Industrial Clinton Complex was bigger than the DNC and included kings, oligarchs, and the highest (and lowest members) of the bureaucracy and Deep State),……well, it just amazes me that one man and his Twitter machine is still standing. Heck, he ain’t simply still standing, he is on the move and smoking them rats out. He is not human.
    All that to say is thank your lucky stars they went safe and with Joe Biden. Now we can start talking about his mental health. Diminished capacity…if there was much of a capacity to start with.
    No matter how they package Joe and rewrite his record and bio, it’s still ole Joe for Trump to slap around. Good news. And Joe wants your guns….putting Beto in charge. Get woke, go broke.
    And whatz up with black babies rubbing on Joe’s blonde leg hairs and straightening them out??? Was that the time with Corn Pop or the time in South Africa with Nelson??

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  7. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    I do have one question about this article.
    https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/03/joe-biden-not-a-socialist-just-a-scoundrel
    Is Biden smart enough to be a scoundrel?

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  8. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: scenes | 05 March 2020 at 08:43 AM
    ….is Biden smart enough to be a scoundrel?

    I think at one time he was greasily cunning enough for participation the ongoing Northeastern Political Knife Fight. Having achieved OG status he has been resting on his laurels for years now!
    Probably not going to help him in his contest with GEOTUS.

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  9. Walt Avatar

    Some morning fiber to help things along.
    https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/03/05/california-republicans-lead-in-6-of-7-districts-lost-to-democrats-in-2018/
    “California Republicans are hopeful for a comeback in 2020 after early election returns from Super Tuesday showed them leading in six of the seven congressional districts they lost to Democrats in the 2018 midterm elections.”

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  10. Walt Avatar

    On the local level,, seems we ain’t as “Blue” as a few think.
    Or maybe team blue ain’t as hip to paying more taxes, just like team red.
    But listening to team blue, here, they are happy to fork over more money.

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  11. fish Avatar
    fish

    Schumer threatens Kavanaugh, Gorsuch on Supreme Court steps…
    ‘You won’t know what hit you’…

    Just for fun I think the Supreme Court ought to send out Ruth Bader Ginsburg to kick Chucky “Moobs” Schumers scrawny ass!
    https://www.nationalreview.com/news/schumer-claims-conservative-supreme-court-justices-will-pay-the-price-if-they-rule-against-abortion-advocates/

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  12. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Lol
    NOAH: IF BIDEN HAD BEEN OPEN EARLIER WITH HAVING HIS SISTER AS A WIFE, HE WOULD HAVE WON UTAH

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  13. George Rebane Avatar

    BillT 935am – That was cold Mr Tozer 😉
    Administrivia – again I draw your kind attention to the 5mar20 update of the latest Scattershots.

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  14. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    So George this comment by Trump should pretty well finish him off. Unbelieveable that the POTUS would say this in direct contradiction to ALL medical advice.
    “So you can’t put them down in the category of the overall population in terms of this corona flu and/or virus,” Trump continued. “So you just can’t do that. So, if, you know, we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work. Some of them go to work, but they get better.”
    https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/dangerous-lies-experts-slam-trump-suggestion-coronavirus-patients-go-to-work-and-get-better/

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  15. Walt Avatar

    So Emery wants to empty the streets, and stop all work.
    Yup, that’s good for the economy.
    Now how many has the common flu killed Emery?
    You sure LOVE that “never Trump” web sewer.

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  16. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 1040am – Yes, another occasion to celebrate the demise of Trump – how many of those have we had now? But to the joy of your point. If you listen carefully to what Trump actually said, there is nothing outlandish about it. To begin, he never told people diagnosed with the coronavirus to go to work – that’s liberal bullshit. But he did correctly characterize the preponderance of how prediagnosed flus and the coronavirus behave in the aggregate. Every year since time immemorial the overwhelming fraction of people, those who have had such viral infections asymptomatically or with low level symptoms, have gone on with their routines and recovered. The President’s words addressed this well-known effect, and was meant to quiet unreasonable fears of low probability events. Of course Trump haters see everything of this sort as one more opportunity to attack and harm, regardless how such beratings affect the less-read population (here concerned about the spread of the coronavirus). Politics über alles!

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  17. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 05 March 2020 at 10:40 AM
    “These are really dangerous lies,” tweeted The Nation‘s Jeet Heer.
    “Trump has had briefings from the nation’s best doctors and scientists on COVID-19 and he still spouts total, dangerous bullshit,” added climate scientist Peter Gleick.

    ….and you will know him from his enemies!
    You do realize that this is exactly what’s going on PunchyBot? Most people with COVID-19 are asymptomatic, going about their day, and quietly recovering.
    These complaints are probably better handled in an e-mail to George…..ya know….minimize any ridicule to which you might otherwise be subjected.
    Jeet Heer…..Peter Gleick……? A partisan nitwit with a penchant for Comic Books and a discredited Climate Alarmist……ugh….weak sause Punch!

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  18. Walt Avatar

    Think about it Emery,, your a “mamma nature” kind of guy,, Just 100 years since the Spanish flu was out to cull the herd.
    Mother Earth “fixing” the imbalance of that “overpopulation”
    You hippie types have complained about.
    Only now do you bitch because Gaia has you on her list.

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  19. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 05 March 2020 at 10:40 AM
    I thought you would be in a better mood considering Tuesdays results? Yet here you are still thinking that Trumpwhining will have some impact.
    After all Punch…..with the party coalescing around Biden the establishment candidate looks to at least make the election a horse race.
    Buck up lil soldier!

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  20. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Amazing response George left me wordless as to how you respond to this unbelievably stupid and thoughtless comment by our president. Would you have given Obama the same response all things being equal?

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  21. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 1214pm – Not sure at all that my answer about Obama would make any more sense to you, since you apparently do not understand my 1105am. But for what it’s worth, not only would I “have given Obama the same response”, but in my mind the question would not have even come up as it didn’t with Trump, until you started citing the TDS responses to the President’s misunderstood words.

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  22. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Misunderstood words George???
    You stated that ” The President’s words addressed this well-known effect, and was meant to quiet unreasonable fears of low probability events.”
    Does that not mean that in your mind if you are feeling symptoms don’t worry about it, continue going to work and it will probably go away. Do you think that opinion should be echoed by the medical community as the proper response to this medical emergency?

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  23. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 05 March 2020 at 12:14 PM
    Still thinks that endless complaining to George is going to un-president him.
    #sad

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  24. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Also George isn’t Trump deliberately undermining the Center for Disease Control who state:
    “The CDC has advised that anyone exhibiting symptoms of coronavirus such as a fever, coughing, and/or shortness of breath stay home from work, avoid public areas as much as possible, and seek medical attention.
    “You should restrict activities outside your home, except for getting medical care,” the CDC’s website states. “Do not go to work, school, or public areas. Avoid using public transportation, ride-sharing, or taxis.”
    https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/dangerous-lies-experts-slam-trump-suggestion-coronavirus-patients-go-to-work-and-get-better/

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  25. fish Avatar
    fish

    I’d be worried Punch….some of the “Crack News Staff” at KVMR are likely carriers……you’re in the target demographic….you probably are using the same microphone pop filter….!
    Just sayin…..

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  26. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Oh, Punchy is just upset that with the Corona-19 is shutting down public gatherings and he can’t sell no darn tickets. It’s all Trump’s fault.
    Yep, this will be like a squirmy wormie in Punchy’s mellon, boring a hole from one ear to the other. Just like that Stink-Ass sign in Nirvana City, a quaint place to visit. Restaurants are expensive, though. Anyway, Punchy sat on the Guerrilla Street Artist work for ten days before he exploded over here. “We must stop the racism, George!” “The Nazis are marching down the street just like in they did in Skokie, Illinois!” I heard about a Hitler B-Day Party years ago in GV and there was a Nazi flag flying on a house in Nevada City two decades ago! I am not reassured!!!
    What made him think Nazis used the endearing term, ‘Stink Asses’? I don’t see the connection.
    Anyway, that’s the 2nd time (in a row) for Punchy bitching that the President is not reassuring him and addressing his fears.
    The worm turns and digs deeper in Punchy’s peace of mind. He will go mad, I tell ya. Trump gives him no relief from tension, anxiety, and an upset tummie.

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  27. Scott O Avatar

    Paul 12:46 – “Does that not mean that in your mind if you are feeling symptoms don’t worry about it, continue going to work and it will probably go away.”
    No – that isn’t what the president said nor George.
    But keep swinging, Punchy. Although I would caution you that you’re probably going to hit yourself more often than anything else.
    A word of caution: Folks – please be kind to our little pal from his stool of wisdom on Spring Street. The poor guy realises he has to vote for Lyin’ Biden. A stuttering, ignorant old party hack that can’t even make up a lie that makes sense.
    Paul’s in a very dark place right now as he crawls along his fav streets of Nevada City searching for a bumper sticker that might give him a clue as to what his next move is.

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  28. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Trump quote Scott. What does this mean to you?
    ““So you can’t put them down in the category of the overall population in terms of this corona flu and/or virus,” Trump continued. “So you just can’t do that. So, if, you know, we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work. Some of them go to work, but they get better.”

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  29. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    “Amazing response George left me wordless…”
    Thank Heaven for small blessings. Maybe Grope and Hope Biden will sniff Punch’s hair and rub in nose on the back of his ponytail.

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  30. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    #sad @ 116 even for the pony tail of ignorance. Lame selective editing, I am sure KVMR is oh sooo proud. You have to wonder of the pony tail of ignorance actually listened to the unedited audio? NAW he’s a po’ ol’ fakenewsman.
    😉

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  31. Walt Avatar

    And just what would one of your Commiecrats do Emery?
    Waive a magic wand and make it go away? Is the virus PRO Commie?
    Will Biden or Col. Sanders open up quarantine camps? That must be your solution. But how you would bitch if Trump did.
    Let’s hear it Emery,, your real good at the complaint counter.
    Tell us how a LIB will come up with cure tomorrow..
    (cue the crickets)

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  32. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 116pm – You and yours are embellishing Trump’s words. He did NOT say people “exhibiting symptoms of coronavirus such as a fever, coughing, and/or shortness of breath” should go to work and public places. There are many levels of feeling a bit under the weather that are below those symptoms, symptoms we all have from time to time, and with which we go on with our daily round and then feel fine. Trump’s words clearly meant – to me and mine – that if today you have such minor discomforts, then don’t blow them out of proportion and immediately think you got the coronavirus (or flu) – that is a very low probability event. React to your feelings with the same prudence today as you would have always reacted were not the coronavirus in the news. If your symptoms get worse, then again, treat them as you would have in the past, which may include seeing your doctor. For some reason, I don’t think you get any of this.

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  33. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Bill Tozer | 05 March 2020 at 01:05 PM
    Just like that Stink-Ass sign in Nirvana City……

    L’affaire Stink Ass……an RR classic!

    “George
    Another sign has emerged. I’ll send you a copy. It was from May 9 last year and also was blocking a crucial road sign which illustrates a total disregard for public safety.

    Disregard….total.

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  34. Walt Avatar

    HEY EMERY.. Some of of your Proggy Press is trying to save face.
    ” While it’s true he didn’t outright say that people with the coronavirus should go to work, he essentially implied that if …..”
    Gotta love you and yours “fixing”,,, “this is what he REALLY meant to say…”
    Your really stocking up on crickets.

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  35. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    I remember a workoholic co-worker, a technician, in the mid ’80’s. I had a private office and a computer that one day, he needed to use. To program a bunch of PAL and PROM chips. No problem, come on in.
    After about an hour I mentioned he didn’t sound very good… coughing, blowing his nose. That’s when he fessed up that he also had a fever and felt like crap… but he had too much work to do.
    So did I but I took off a week from work as a result of coming down with a bad case of the flu that he gave me. I suspect my boss thought I was a slacker… the kind of boss that had the department secretary call up people who had taken a sick day to see if they were really home and sick.

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  36. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    A postscript… perhaps the coronaviral run will finally change the work ethic that it’s OK to infect everyone with what you got.

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  37. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Gregory | 05 March 2020 at 02:02 PM
    So did I but I took off a week from work as a result of coming down with a bad case of the flu that he gave me.

    And now most employers specifically tell “sick”….really sick….feverish, leaky nosed, hacking cough employees to stay home to prevent what you suffered. For the past two weeks though, anybody with the sniffles is just certain they’re dying from “Chinese Lung” and Punchy is simply grabbing at another straw…..hoping that something, anything will finally stick to Trump!
    No Corona virus but a normal kill 15,000 a year flu season and nary a peep would be heard from PunchyBot.
    Again….#sad!

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  38. Walt Avatar

    Well of course not Fish,, it don’t work with his narrative.
    Can’t blame it on Trump. As usual, when confronted with facts that contradict his crap, Emery goes dark.
    I’m sure Emery can tell us how Sanders of Joementia will make it all go away overnight.(Right Emery? You as good with solutions as with bitching.)

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  39. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    A double barrel kiss of death –
    New York Times joint endorsement of Warren, Klobuchar was double-barrel misfire
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-york-times-joint-endorsement-warren-klobuchar
    😉

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  40. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    As usual the Circle of Jerks cannot engage in a meaningful discussion without resorting to personal attacks. So be it.

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  41. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    First Texas death due to Coronavirus ID’ed at bus stop.
    https://youtu.be/LawuQG8Z81w

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  42. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    ‘meaningful discussion’ is hilarious from the po’ ol’ party parrot who never read or listened to the actual words and just parrots squawk! #SAD squared. LOL
    😉

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  43. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 05 March 2020 at 02:51 PM
    As usual the Circle of Jerks cannot engage in a meaningful discussion without resorting to personal attacks. So be it.

    Oh Punchy……you headline your little missives “George”……as if it’s meant to be a private communication but you post it in a public forum.
    I’ve no doubt you have his e-mail. Why not just dash off a little note using that medium instead of exposing yourself to the ridicule of those who find you silly and tedious?

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  44. Walt Avatar

    simple questions are now personal attacks?
    You actually have to answer something Emery to claim “meaningful discussion”. Which is something you just don’t do.
    Must be tough to run scared from a common ditch digger. Questions just too complex?

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  45. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Nevada County police blotter: Caller reports Bernie Sanders supporters
    1:03 p.m. — A caller from a business in the 200 block of Sierra College Drive reported Bernie Sanders supporters breaking federal laws. The caller was not sure what laws were being broken, but wanted the police to respond so he doesn’t have to contact the FBI.
    ——.
    A mime?
    12:42 a.m. — A caller from Sacramento and Prospect streets reported a man standing in the middle of the road like a mannequin or a scarecrow. He could not be located
    Probably the traitor went back to Berkely.

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  46. fish Avatar
    fish

    Man if you really want to see skilled tap dancing go back to the “Stink Asses” thread…..Punchy makes Fred Astaire look like he’s crippled!
    https://rebaneruminations.typepad.com/rebanes_ruminations/2018/08/ruminations-24aug18/comments/page/1/#comments
    I’d forgotten just how funny that particular comment thread was…..!
    Classic lines like: “I disagree George. Details are everything in the search for truth.”
    Powerful stuff…….

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  47. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    KVMR News
    On the hunt for stink asses
    Chasing their own tails

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