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At that moment...you obtuse fuck...
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She never left her mother's side, you eye-rolling idiot.
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Carson wrote:She never left her mother's side, you eye-rolling idiot.

You heartless monster...a two year old cried. She cried. At the age of two. :cry:

Maybe that's how soulless, inhuman villains like you roll in Luxembourg or Slovenia or wherever the heck you are...but there is a WAR being waged right this very moment on America's southern border.

Maybe we've all lost connection to what makes us civilised people. In that case we deserve to drown in a sea of tears. Salty, two year old tears. :cry: :cry: :cry:
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Papa Willie wrote:
Goober McTuber wrote:Nice photo, you fat FUCKING retard. When I have time, I'll hook this up to my 60" flat screen and see what it looks like.
Did you like me when I shat all over your 28 page redundancy thread? :bode:
You shit on virtually every thread you post in. I'm pretty used to it.
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Papa Willie wrote:
Goober McTuber wrote:
Papa Willie wrote:Did you like me when I shat all over your 28 page redundancy thread? :bode:
You shit on virtually every thread you post in. I'm pretty used to it.
But I only PURPOSELY shit on your threads. :hfal:
So most of your driveling meltage is beyond your control. Duly noted.
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Laura hits the nail on the head.

Butkus didn't wear an earring.
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Papa Willie wrote:
Goober McTuber wrote:
So most of your driveling meltage is beyond your control. Duly noted.

I'm only here to make you melt. You should pay me money just for worshiping me so much.
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Yes, I am money. Thank you.
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Oh my, there must be some mistake.

Fake news, and all that, right?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/pu ... c19226ddd4

Trump supporter with underground bunker of guns and child porn sentenced to 16 years
A Maryland man who had an underground bunker full of machine guns, explosives and child pornography has been sentenced to more than 16 years in federal prison.

The sentencing Wednesday for Caleb Andrew Bailey, 31, of Waldorf, came more than two years after he was first arrested in a case that originally began as an investigation into a suspicious package he sent through the mail.

“I screwed up beyond words and I will never forgive myself,” said Bailey, who ran as a delegate for Donald Trump before the Republican National Convention and ran for a seat in Maryland’s 5th congressional District. “The damage I’ve done haunts me.”

Bailey had attempted to ship hundreds of rounds of ammunition without a permit to a store in Wisconsin in February 2016, but the box broke open at a U.S. postal facility, according to court filings. Bailey called to ask about the undelivered package, leading the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to Bailey’s home.

While executing a search warrant, investigators uncovered a cache of machine guns, unregistered short-barreled rifles and explosive devices. Authorities also found recording equipment and electronic devices containing more than 2,000 files depicting child pornography, including videos of teenage boys he recorded surreptitiously, according to his plea agreement.
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Dude should be going away for longer than 16 years. Plus a few of the dad's of the kids he recorded should each get a few minutes to give him something to remember them.

As for your bolded headline, this is why people can't stand the media. Why does the fact he supported Trump in the election have anything to do with him getting busted with guns and child porn? It doesn't, unless the paper has an agenda, which clearly they do.
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I changed the headline to reflect better accuracy.
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You are truly one of the worst pieces of shit to ever post on this board. Start giving up your paycheck for reparations now and then you can shut the fuck up about your racist blasts.
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June 17, 2018.
Derron wrote:Nice reach around to your boy there.

He is fucking bullet proof. Despite what you hand wringing bleeding pussy liberals think Trump is da man until the next election and will handily win reelection at which time you both hopefully hang yourselves from the closest shower rod, or at the least become a couple of babbling fools foaming at the mouth with your Trump sucks signs panhandling on the corner.
Softball Bat wrote:Derron, the FBI raided M. Cohen's office (which they would not have done if they didn't know that he has committed a crime(s)) and now have a treasure trove of fun information regarding Donald's sordid past.

Have you ever heard of the Sword of Damocles?

Google.


Have fun!

BOOM!




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Seems they rather just lay there, get fucked and play victim
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He is now backtracking on his million dollar promise to Elizabeth Warren.
Don the Con is at it again.
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He said he would give a mil if she took test and it said she had native blood. She did. It did. He didn’t. Typical con job.
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The actual tribe does not agree that her test shows Indian blood. At best this sounds inconclusive.
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She made a huge misstep on this. It's not like she's been front and center on issues affecting Native Americans.
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Joe in PB wrote:Laura hits the nail on the head.

You have a lot to be ashamed about.
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88 wrote:
Kierland wrote:He said he would give a mil if she took test and it said she had native blood. She did. It did. He didn’t. Typical con job.
He should donate a million to the Cherokee Nation to help salve the wounds Warren has inflicted upon it.

...but maybe someday when they learn
Cherokee nation will return.


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President Donald Trump, with an empty public schedule and a litany of festering grievances, spent Tuesday unleashing fresh vitriol at his enemies over Twitter. His targets began with Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who this week released a DNA test seeking to rebut Trump's insults about her claims of Native American heritage. But he soon moved on, griping about the porn actress who alleged to have spent the night with him, fake news, the Russia "witch hunt."

For Trump, the practice of insulting people on Twitter now seems as routine as signing a proclamation for National School Lunch Week (as he did on Friday) or phoning embattled world leaders (he conferred for 20 minutes with Saudi King Salman on Monday). But the latest string was marked by its spite against women who have challenged him, including a cruel jab at the adult film actress who says she had a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006.

"Now I can go after Horseface and her 3rd rate lawyer in the Great State of Texas," Trump tweeted, delighting in a judge's decision on Monday to dismiss a defamation lawsuit brought by porn actress Stormy Daniels. "She will confirm the letter she signed! She knows nothing about me, a total con!"

The last sentence, insisting Daniels knows little about him, seemed a veiled rebuttal of the claims made in Daniel's recent book, including an unflattering description of Trump's private parts.

If Trump -- or anyone -- was hoping that might be the end of it, Daniel's riposte to the President made clear the anatomical feud would continue.

"Game on, Tiny," she wrote.
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schmick wrote:a man who wins so much, whores have to pay him.
He got a refund... from a hooker.

Love Trump or hate him, that would be BODE.
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Dinsdale wrote: He got a refund... from a hooker.
The biggest problem with getting paid by hookers is all the glitter and oil on the bills.
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The money is going to lawyers not Don the Con. So from one prositute to the next.
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Way too many words for our resident dimwits, but fairly damning examination of our Embarrassment-in-Chief's world view.
Donald Trump has dug a moral hole through the middle of America's foreign policy -- and he's not sorry at all.

The President's reaction to the apparent murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul offers the clearest evidence yet of his turn away from a foreign policy rooted in universal human values.

The crisis is instead showcasing Trump's radical form of "America First" realpolitik, his promise not to infringe other nations' sovereignty with lectures on human rights and his trust in the word of autocrats.

In his unrepentant conduct of American foreign policy, Trump is lurching from a path taken by every president since World War II, who all believed to various degrees that American leadership was needed to create a world safe for democracy, open commerce and freedom.

And it will be seen around the world as an unmistakable sign that there is no cost for heinous behavior -- after all, it happened days after a US-based journalist for a top American newspaper was apparently killed before his body was reportedly chopped up in an official Saudi government building.


Washington often failed to honor its values -- in the carpet bombing of Cambodia, for instance, or its support for Arab dictators. And many in the Middle East saw post-9/11 foreign policy as deeply hypocritical.

But for 70 years, the United States has been a beacon for dissidents in totalitarian nations, acting as a guarantor of democracy and peace in Europe and Northeast Asia. It waged a Cold War to defeat Communism, enhancing its claims of benevolent foreign policy leadership.

It is that legacy of moral clarity that the Trump administration is burning in the mystery over what happened to Khashoggi.

Three days ago, Trump was promising "severe" punishments for Saudi Arabia after the journalist vanished, in an episode that flouts every conventional American principle on how governments should treat their people.

But now, the President has shifted his tone and is abetting the kingdom's evolving narrative on Khashoggi's disappearance.

Jarring footage meanwhile of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo beaming in photo-ops Tuesday alongside King Salman and ruthless son Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, or MBS, encapsulated a closing of ranks with Riyadh.

The President told The Associated Press that blaming Saudi Arabia for Khashoggi's disappearance was another case of "guilty until proven innocent," an echo of his rhetoric concerning the sexual assault allegation against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

It all looked like an administration more concerned with insulating its relationship with the Saudi royals, key players in its effort to squeeze Iran, than seeking answers about what happened to Khashoggi.

Pompeo's spokeswoman Heather Nauert said the secretary of state had thanked the King for ordering "a thorough, transparent and timely investigation" into Khashoggi's disappearance. While body language and official statements do not convey everything that goes on behind the scenes, Pompeo's demeanor hardly suggested a rebuke was delivered.

His trip only compounded impressions created by Trump, who gave credence to shifting Saudi denials of involvement and acted as a PR agent for the king, on Monday, relaying his comment that "rogue killers" were to blame.

On Tuesday, Trump, who sources told CNN was frustrated with news coverage about the Khashoggi episode, bought into an explanation offered by the crown prince, who many experts believe knew what was in store for Khashoggi if he did not order his elimination himself.

"Just spoke with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia who totally denied any knowledge of what took place in their Turkish Consulate," Trump tweeted. "Answers will be forthcoming shortly."

Three sources familiar with the case say the Saudi mission to interrogate and possibly abduct Khashoggi was organized by a high-ranking officer with the main Saudi intelligence service. It's unclear whether the crown prince authorized either contingency but CNN previously reported that the operation could not have happened without his direct knowledge.

The President's handling of the Khashoggi case epitomizes the doctrine of individual national sovereignty he laid out at the UN General Assembly.

"Whatever those values may be and they have been in the past in terms of foreign policy, they are no longer important and he has made that very clear," said Ivo Daalder, president of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, co-author of a study of Trump's foreign policy, "The Empty Throne," published on Tuesday.

"His basic view is what you do is your problem as long as you leave us alone," Daalder said, maintaining Trump was closer to China's worldview in this context than a traditional American one.

Trump has left little doubt that in his deal-driven ideology is designed to leverage financial wealth and will not be deflected by human rights concerns.

"We are not here to lecture -- we are not here to tell other people how to live, what to do, who to be, or how to worship," Trump said during his first foreign trip -- to Saudi Arabia -- last year.

Then, in a revealing interview with CBS's "60 Minutes" on Sunday, the President frankly said that he didn't want to sanction Saudi Arabia because it could cost firms like Boeing and Raytheon billions in arms deals and cost jobs.

In the same interview, he indicated that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's repression would not disrupt their relationship -- which he had previously compared to a love affair.

"Let it be an embrace. Let it be whatever it is to get the job done," Trump said.

And he hinted that as long as Russian President Vladimir Putin did not kill his opponents on US soil, he would look the other way.

"I rely on them. It's not in our country," he said.

While Trump cozies up to autocrats and strongmen like Putin, China's Xi Jinping, Kim, Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines and MBS, he has insulted leaders of American allies. He has called journalists "the enemy of the people."

Critics believe such rhetoric has offered license to repressive leaders in places like Turkey, Russia and the Philippines -- not to mention MBS, whose recklessness has turned into a political embarrassment for the US.

Mona Charen, a conservative commentator, said on CNN's "The Lead with Jake Tapper" that Trump had taken realism to extremes and that Khashoggi's case was so "flagrant" it cried out for US moral leadership.

"The world is full of bad actors and sometimes you have to deal with them and that is the world we live in. But what isn't acceptable is an attempt to whitewash what they are, an attempt to let them off the hook," she said.

Trump views criticism of his approach as the naive complaints of a political establishment that led America into nearly two decades of foreign wars and disdained the voters that put him in office in 2016.

He thinks the United States has been a soft touch, letting its values get in the way of maximizing its power while savvier nations have taken advantage while getting fat on its generosity -- see NATO.

Even in his own party, there are those who believe his abandonment of American core principles and global leadership is catastrophic.

"There isn't enough money in the world to purchase back our credibility on human rights and the way nations should conduct themselves," Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, said in an interview on CNN's "New Day" on Tuesday.

What Trump does next will decide whether Washington is able to credibly criticize strongmen like Putin and Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, he said.

"We can't say anything about that if we allow Saudi Arabia to do it and all we do is a diplomatic slap on the wrist," Rubio said.

A senior administration official told CNN's Barbara Starr that the decision on what to do with the Saudis may be the "the most consequential" of Trump's presidency, since it will dictate whether US military leaders and diplomats can maintain a moral high ground on human rights.

That's unlikely to change Trump's mind, since any rupture with the Saudis would endanger his effort to destabilize and pressure Iran.

He is relying on Saudi Arabia to release more oil onto the market to meet demand after pressuring allies to stop imports from Iran.

Riyadh, of course, has considerable influence on the state of the global economy and therefore Trump's own prospects of re-election with its power to engineer spikes in global oil prices.

In the longer term, foreign policy traditionalists worry about what Trump's ideological turn means for the American-led world order.

"The order in essence was based in trust. People had to trust the United States to ultimately do the right thing. You were willing to give it room to fail and to make mistakes but then to come back," Daalder, a former US ambassador to NATO, said.

"He has fundamentally broken that trust."
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Just another Con from the Don. It’s all about the money.
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Shouldn’t Trump be given the Nobel Peace Prize for his call for restraint?
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No
Any other stupid questions?
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Goober McTuber wrote:Way too many words for our resident dimwits, but fairly damning examination of our Embarrassment-in-Chief's world view.
Donald Trump has dug a moral hole through the middle of America's foreign policy -- and he's not sorry at all.

The President's reaction to the apparent murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul offers the clearest evidence yet of his turn away from a foreign policy rooted in universal human values.

The crisis is instead showcasing Trump's radical form of "America First" realpolitik, his promise not to infringe other nations' sovereignty with lectures on human rights and his trust in the word of autocrats.

In his unrepentant conduct of American foreign policy, Trump is lurching from a path taken by every president since World War II, who all believed to various degrees that American leadership was needed to create a world safe for democracy, open commerce and freedom.

And it will be seen around the world as an unmistakable sign that there is no cost for heinous behavior -- after all, it happened days after a US-based journalist for a top American newspaper was apparently killed before his body was reportedly chopped up in an official Saudi government building.


Washington often failed to honor its values -- in the carpet bombing of Cambodia, for instance, or its support for Arab dictators. And many in the Middle East saw post-9/11 foreign policy as deeply hypocritical.

But for 70 years, the United States has been a beacon for dissidents in totalitarian nations, acting as a guarantor of democracy and peace in Europe and Northeast Asia. It waged a Cold War to defeat Communism, enhancing its claims of benevolent foreign policy leadership.

It is that legacy of moral clarity that the Trump administration is burning in the mystery over what happened to Khashoggi.

Three days ago, Trump was promising "severe" punishments for Saudi Arabia after the journalist vanished, in an episode that flouts every conventional American principle on how governments should treat their people.

But now, the President has shifted his tone and is abetting the kingdom's evolving narrative on Khashoggi's disappearance.

Jarring footage meanwhile of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo beaming in photo-ops Tuesday alongside King Salman and ruthless son Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, or MBS, encapsulated a closing of ranks with Riyadh.

The President told The Associated Press that blaming Saudi Arabia for Khashoggi's disappearance was another case of "guilty until proven innocent," an echo of his rhetoric concerning the sexual assault allegation against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

It all looked like an administration more concerned with insulating its relationship with the Saudi royals, key players in its effort to squeeze Iran, than seeking answers about what happened to Khashoggi.

Pompeo's spokeswoman Heather Nauert said the secretary of state had thanked the King for ordering "a thorough, transparent and timely investigation" into Khashoggi's disappearance. While body language and official statements do not convey everything that goes on behind the scenes, Pompeo's demeanor hardly suggested a rebuke was delivered.

His trip only compounded impressions created by Trump, who gave credence to shifting Saudi denials of involvement and acted as a PR agent for the king, on Monday, relaying his comment that "rogue killers" were to blame.

On Tuesday, Trump, who sources told CNN was frustrated with news coverage about the Khashoggi episode, bought into an explanation offered by the crown prince, who many experts believe knew what was in store for Khashoggi if he did not order his elimination himself.

"Just spoke with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia who totally denied any knowledge of what took place in their Turkish Consulate," Trump tweeted. "Answers will be forthcoming shortly."

Three sources familiar with the case say the Saudi mission to interrogate and possibly abduct Khashoggi was organized by a high-ranking officer with the main Saudi intelligence service. It's unclear whether the crown prince authorized either contingency but CNN previously reported that the operation could not have happened without his direct knowledge.

The President's handling of the Khashoggi case epitomizes the doctrine of individual national sovereignty he laid out at the UN General Assembly.

"Whatever those values may be and they have been in the past in terms of foreign policy, they are no longer important and he has made that very clear," said Ivo Daalder, president of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, co-author of a study of Trump's foreign policy, "The Empty Throne," published on Tuesday.

"His basic view is what you do is your problem as long as you leave us alone," Daalder said, maintaining Trump was closer to China's worldview in this context than a traditional American one.

Trump has left little doubt that in his deal-driven ideology is designed to leverage financial wealth and will not be deflected by human rights concerns.

"We are not here to lecture -- we are not here to tell other people how to live, what to do, who to be, or how to worship," Trump said during his first foreign trip -- to Saudi Arabia -- last year.

Then, in a revealing interview with CBS's "60 Minutes" on Sunday, the President frankly said that he didn't want to sanction Saudi Arabia because it could cost firms like Boeing and Raytheon billions in arms deals and cost jobs.

In the same interview, he indicated that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's repression would not disrupt their relationship -- which he had previously compared to a love affair.

"Let it be an embrace. Let it be whatever it is to get the job done," Trump said.

And he hinted that as long as Russian President Vladimir Putin did not kill his opponents on US soil, he would look the other way.

"I rely on them. It's not in our country," he said.

While Trump cozies up to autocrats and strongmen like Putin, China's Xi Jinping, Kim, Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines and MBS, he has insulted leaders of American allies. He has called journalists "the enemy of the people."

Critics believe such rhetoric has offered license to repressive leaders in places like Turkey, Russia and the Philippines -- not to mention MBS, whose recklessness has turned into a political embarrassment for the US.

Mona Charen, a conservative commentator, said on CNN's "The Lead with Jake Tapper" that Trump had taken realism to extremes and that Khashoggi's case was so "flagrant" it cried out for US moral leadership.

"The world is full of bad actors and sometimes you have to deal with them and that is the world we live in. But what isn't acceptable is an attempt to whitewash what they are, an attempt to let them off the hook," she said.

Trump views criticism of his approach as the naive complaints of a political establishment that led America into nearly two decades of foreign wars and disdained the voters that put him in office in 2016.

He thinks the United States has been a soft touch, letting its values get in the way of maximizing its power while savvier nations have taken advantage while getting fat on its generosity -- see NATO.

Even in his own party, there are those who believe his abandonment of American core principles and global leadership is catastrophic.

"There isn't enough money in the world to purchase back our credibility on human rights and the way nations should conduct themselves," Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, said in an interview on CNN's "New Day" on Tuesday.

What Trump does next will decide whether Washington is able to credibly criticize strongmen like Putin and Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, he said.

"We can't say anything about that if we allow Saudi Arabia to do it and all we do is a diplomatic slap on the wrist," Rubio said.

A senior administration official told CNN's Barbara Starr that the decision on what to do with the Saudis may be the "the most consequential" of Trump's presidency, since it will dictate whether US military leaders and diplomats can maintain a moral high ground on human rights.

That's unlikely to change Trump's mind, since any rupture with the Saudis would endanger his effort to destabilize and pressure Iran.

He is relying on Saudi Arabia to release more oil onto the market to meet demand after pressuring allies to stop imports from Iran.

Riyadh, of course, has considerable influence on the state of the global economy and therefore Trump's own prospects of re-election with its power to engineer spikes in global oil prices.

In the longer term, foreign policy traditionalists worry about what Trump's ideological turn means for the American-led world order.

"The order in essence was based in trust. People had to trust the United States to ultimately do the right thing. You were willing to give it room to fail and to make mistakes but then to come back," Daalder, a former US ambassador to NATO, said.

"He has fundamentally broken that trust."
Amazing how you treat op ed as if it was some kind of factual material. That may be your longest shit and paste piece ever.
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He thinks the United States has been a soft touch, letting its values get in the way of maximizing its power while savvier nations have taken advantage while getting fat on its generosity -- see NATO.
Hilarious take. The US supports NATO way more than it should and the other nations gravy trained NATO.
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BY what matrix do you base your opinion dummy?
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Kierland wrote:No
Any other stupid questions?
Why? With this one action he did more for peace then the previous pres.
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Kierland wrote:BY what matrix do you base your opinion dummy?
You talking to me bitch ??
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Shlomart Ben Yisrael wrote:
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Kierland wrote:He said he would give a mil if she took test and it said she had native blood. She did. It did. He didn’t. Typical con job.
He should donate a million to the Cherokee Nation to help salve the wounds Warren has inflicted upon it.

...but maybe someday when they learn
Cherokee nation will return.


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Left Seater wrote:
Kierland wrote:No
Any other stupid questions?
Why? With this one action he did more for peace then the previous pres.
Even if that were true, so what?
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Derron wrote:
Kierland wrote:BY what matrix do you base your opinion dummy?
You talking to me bitch ??
Gee ya think? It was posted right after your post. Are you so dumb that you need a post YOU wrote quoted in the very next post to know what is going on?
Stupid is as stupid does... bitch!
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Kierland wrote:
Left Seater wrote:
Kierland wrote:No
Any other stupid questions?
Why? With this one action he did more for peace then the previous pres.
Even if that were true, so what?
You really aren't smart.
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Papa Willie wrote:
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You really aren't smart.
He's short physically & mentally. He should go and find his real dad, and give him a tongue-lashing for only shooting 1/4 of a wad in his mother. Midget obviously didn't get the full load.
And if anyone knows about getting a full load, it's Melty.
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LS,
Nice white flag.
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Papa Willie wrote:
Left Seater wrote:
You really aren't smart.
He's short physically & mentally. He should go and find his real dad, and give him a tongue-lashing for only shooting 1/4 of a wad in his mother. Midget obviously didn't get the full load.
I don't know about that. Since his mother was a Tijuana whore fucking donkeys in the alley shows
she was getting splashed with some pretty good loads. Something must have got through.
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Kierland wrote:LS,
Nice white flag.
Whatever you say Moving Fail.
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