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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

"fucktangle of shitkazooery" — you're welcome, America

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Bob Bowden's avatar

This 28-point peace plan is the biggest clusterfuck since Michael Scott’s “45-point 45-day plan” to turn Dunder Mifflin around. At least the 45-point plan was pure bullshit, whereas the 28-point plan is the Christmas wish list authored by Vlad Putin

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Zito, Anthony's avatar

Nice comment, but please say "surrender plan".

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Chet Brandt's avatar

This US negotiations team would fuck up a wet dream!!. Talk about ineptitude??!!!

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Mps's avatar

I may have missed something, but is Ukraine actually involved in the drafting of these “plans”?

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Bob Bowden's avatar

Funny how DJT yelled “hoax” about his 2016 actions that reeked of collusion with Russia, and now as President he’s behaviorally doing Russia’s bidding right out in the open

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Betsy L's avatar

No, of course not.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

No, not in any way.

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Bonnie Council's avatar

Well, until the time comes for him to try to wrangle a Nobel Peace Prize for himself again. Then his name & paw prints will be all over whatever is finally signed, whether good or bad for Ukraine & Europe.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

The post was asking whether *Ukraine* was involved. No, Ukrainians were completely left out.

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

AND of course, Vlodomyr Zelenskyy would never walk into that trap - especially after what they did to him in the Oval Office. HE knows his Country was invaded by Russia - it was not a 'mutual war' the way frump and his idiots are deperately trying to make it seem. What's obvious now is how Rubio is being set out as the fall guy in all of this. I wonder if that was the plan all along OR, if because simp vance grew to hate him so much HE set this in motion deliberately to make Rubio take whatever blame might ensue when it all goes wrong? I won't use 'if' because there IS never any 'negotiating' with a murderer like putn. By the way - there's mention of Witkowski 'liking' putin? No, he literally worships him --did anyone see that photo of him patting his fucking HEART as putin walked into the room? He's in LUV. MY theory? The fuckers here have to look at, listen to the insanely stupid big orange dumbfuck slug every day, so when they see/hear someone with a functioning brain (evil as it is) like Putin's, then remember that video of him riding BAREBACK with his shirt off on a horse - on a BEACH, no less, they lose their shit and realize they're backing the wrong horse (so to speak) so are all in on pleasing the 'beeyootiful' one as they think of the KGB poisoner. Just a wee theory of mine, mind. They're going to hand US over to him anyway, so want to stay in good with their new 'boss'.

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DJ Headthrob's avatar

At least Michael Scott snagged a free limo ride.

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Bob Bowden's avatar

What a great episode of The Office!

However this episode of The Trump Administration is inducing even more cringe than Pam’s endless wait for possibly poisoned food at Jan Levinson’s Dinner Party

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DJ Headthrob's avatar

You could never draft a sitcom from this administration. NO ONE would believe it. Veep was close. But at least most of those characters had an iota of intelligence.

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Susan Keefer's avatar

Witkoff was quoted on Twitter yesterday as saying how much he likes Putin. 🤬

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arne link's avatar

What is it with Putin that makes them love him so much. Is there something in the water? Is it his manly scent? They just get weak-kneed in his Prescence like Teenie boppers with Elvis. So weird for actual adults to act this way. I think Putin drugs them, I really do. Russia has the best drugs.

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Eric Smith's avatar

Even Prime Minister Neville “Peace in our time” Chamberlain, who got played by Hitler prior to WWII, could negotiate better than these Shitweasels with Vlad “the impaler” Putin. What a bunch of surrender monkeys.

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Christina Kasica's avatar

It's important to raise the Neville Chamberlain problem here. I recall that a big MAGA issue (non-issue in my mind because I didn't see an American war in the environment) in the 2024 election was that Trump would "bring peace." But a Chamberlain-style peace of appeasing and kowtowing to a dictator and lying down to let the dictator stomp on his/our prone body is not, in my mind, acceptable. I have been a proponent of peace my whole life. But now Trump has forced me to modify that stance. I can only get behind a just peace. I can't support a fake peace achieved by caving in to a dictator's wants and whims (and here I mean Putin, 'cos Trump sure ain't smart enough, competent enough, or even marginally strong enough to be a dictator), giving Putin everything he wants and nothing anybody else wants, and agreeing for all of us, Ukrainians and Americans alike, to live in "peace" as his slaves forever after. No. A just peace, or no peace at all. (And now, with the revelations about where the MAGA troll farms with the Trump-as-peace-bringer rhetoric come from--Russia/Nigeria/Asia--I can see that the whole "peace"-bringer idea was Putin's to begin with.)

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Robert Eckert's avatar

Ending the principle that nations need to respect each other's borders, which cannot be changed by force, will guarantee a period of wars all over the world as every grievance between neighbors escalates.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

Cheeseburger-eating surrender monkeys

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Ethereal Fairy's avatar

I see what you did there.

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Susan Kemp's avatar

Chamberlain gets somewhat of a bad rap. From what I’ve been able to find out, Chamberlain was trying to buy time. Great Britain was woefully unprepared for war and needed time to ramp up or it would have been overrun immediately.

That having been said, what this regime is doing regarding the Russian-Ukraine war is not appeasement, it’s downright collusion with the enemy. Russia was not only the aggressor but is committing war crimes by targeting civilian populations and having shipped Ukrainian children to Russia. If there are even records showing where those children were sent, it could be years before they could be reunited with their families, years of anti-Ukrainian/pro-Russian brainwashing that may never be erased. That is more than enough for him to be hauled before a tribunal in The Hague, along side Donny, Miller, Kegstand, et al for the murder of people on fishing boats in international waters. I think trump should be tried for and convicted of treason, which would nullify his presidency, remove his entire government from office, and dismantle everything he has done.

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

EVERY word of this, Susan!

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Bonnie Council's avatar

I’ve always thought Putin’s great talent is figuring out which world leaders he can most easily manipulate with flattery & empty promises, a trap trump fell into a long time ago. The others (Witcoff, Rubio, et al) are just lemmings.

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Linda Weide's avatar

According to Ukrainian born Lev Parnas a former Trump fixer now turned enemy, and Canadian journalist Dean Blundell, Putin and Trump want this "peace" deal signed before the Epstein Files are released to share what Putin has on Trump, and what Russia's role has been, thus the pushed up deadline that no one thinks can be met. And, there are people who are adult in age who are not adult socially and emotionally. That would be what we are getting an overdose of from Trump and his ilk, and all of the people he interacts with. It is a relief to be annoyed with Merz, but not feel like he is the emotional age of a child. At least not yet. I do not want to listen to these people because doing so degrades me. They degrade us all. Every day I feel grateful that none of my friends or family act anything like this.

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

AND Lev's son Aaron Parnas does daily 'reports' and 'breaking news' which are all ANTI-FRUMP and pro-democratic real facts and truth, bringing us all up to date on the latest shitfuckery, chicanery and outright skullduggery he KNOWS about. He's a nice young guy who's routinely attacked BUT also supported by so many of us on Instagram. Might be on other platforms too - unsure. He's always walking somewhere - so thin and purposeful. GOOD guy.

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Joe Witkowski's avatar

Putin’s 007 spy background makes Donny spooge down his pantlegs and onto his cankles.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

EW.... getting a visual, Joe. 🤦‍♀️😂😂😂

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Cheri Collins's avatar

😂

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

eww - but true, true, true. ;)

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Mps's avatar

Ewww ewww ewww

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Susan Keefer's avatar

🤢🤮

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Robert Eckert's avatar

Putin has a copy of whatever awful tape in the Epstein files they are all fighting like mad to keep in the dark, and everybody who works for Trump knows that Putin's butt must be continuously kissed to keep him from releasing it.

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

I'd put money on it involving the several LITTLE BOYS whose parents were paid off by mister frump when they were only 10 - 12 after he was accused of raping them! WHY would he pay millions to each family when he never paid anyone? (remember him fighting like mad against the very IDEA of having paid Stormy a mere $130,000?) Parents who TOOK that money canNOT hold their SONS or other children to silence, fwiw, even IF those little kids were told it - and still believe so. NOT TRUE - I think one or two might be coming forward as adults - let's hope.

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

They are Republicans. They are and always have been STUPID.

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Ethereal Fairy's avatar

And evil! Their motto is: " I got mine, fuck you!"

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Steve Kelly's avatar

Vlad is the epitome of greed, cruelty, lust and power (and incompetence) that they worship.

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

Remember too - he got to where he was BY being the most efficient POISONER in the KGB, working his way up to higher status. He's SO crafty at figuring out how to poison another human by even touching them - which is how so many of those he wanted gone were 'eliminated' - many without any knowledge or fanfare. BUT he LOVES others knowing - and being terrified of his capabilities. That little smirk of his? Wouldn't it scare YOU or any of us? Of course it would. Would any of US eat or drink anything - or not want to have on gloves or kevlar under our clothing around him?

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Monnina's avatar

Remember Putin is a trained Romeo FSB officer. The sad fact is how easily he can seduce these MAGA men. And what is an Acting Archivist ? The title conjured up pictures in my head of Rubio as Richard Burton thundering out tracts of historical Shakespeare plays.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

The Archivist keeps all the federal records. It was the former Archivist who repeatedly demanded the boxes of classified documents Trump kept by his toilet. That is why Trump needs that office to remain vacant.

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Stranger Than Friction's avatar

Marco is an Archivist who will do whatever is asked of him by trump&co. If that means never writing in the ratified by 38 states ERA Amendment, so be it. (There are also redder purply states whose R governments will sue to prevent it, but that was only a threat against the last legit Archivist and a story for another day.) R.E. is correct about the classified docs case, too.

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Ethereal Fairy's avatar

Many of which, are probably the evidence from the Russian connection investigation, much of which ties in with Epstein. He got them back, unfortunately when he returned.

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

So which more AWFUL secret papers are buried IN Ivana's purported 'grave'? I don't believe SHE's there (is probably cremated and in an urn on her daughter's mantel). That casket was SO HEAVY it caused a couple of the pallbearers to nearly drop it!

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Cheri Collins's avatar

😂

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Lynn Van Haren's avatar

Money

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arne link's avatar

Yes, but it feels like more than that. There is something homoerotic about it. IDK, it's just weird.

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Lynn Van Haren's avatar

This gang of grifters seems to be only motivated by money, IMHO

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Ethereal Fairy's avatar

Like him being obsessed with Arnold Palmer's schlong?

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Chet Brandt's avatar

Right. How bizarre was drumph’s statement in saying that? And now bizarre,insane comments are an everyday occurrence….and the MSM does (says) nothing—- crickets.

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Ethereal Fairy's avatar

Putin, whatever we feel about him, is highly trained, in psychological warfare. They know he could have them killed, and they know they are not alphas, but poseurs, thumping their chest for the rubes. Putin, is a stone cold killer.

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Michelle Vancura's avatar

Putin has info on Trump and the whole damn bunch of them that could ruin them and possibly send them to prison. They’re scared to death of him and will gladly do his bidding.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

"Something in the water"? 🤣🤣🤣

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Keith's avatar

auto flower is from siberia

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Linda Weide's avatar

It is my understanding that Witkoff and Trump are in together on the Cryto business, and Russia is investing. I assume that is why and what Witkoff is negotiating. "What do you want us to do in order to invest in our crypto?"

"Here is a list of our 28 points. Get Ukraine and Europe to accept these and then we will invest some more in the crypto business."

"It's a deal!"

All of their business is tit for tat with foreign countries and American businesses.

Rubio is 4th in line to replace Trump. Witkoff isn't on the list. Of course Trump might want to can Rubio, but he cannot officially replace him without Congress approving it, and they seem less friendly to Trump right now.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Rubio has replaced Walt Nauta as Trump's chief valet, obediently schlepping compromised docs like Putin's Peace Plan around DC and stacking up his worthless responsibilities for devalued agencies in some toilet. Meanwhile, Vance is flexing his nuts as the future POTUS.

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Joe Witkowski's avatar

Does Rubio also fetch diet Cokes for Orange Hitler like Walt Notta Useful Fucking Molecule in that little dickhead’s body?

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DuduLovesBubu's avatar

To compare against some recent Bobby Brainworms news, I wonder if this new "Walt" Rubio has taken to "felching" the bullshit straight from Dear Leader's loaded diaper. That would explain the shit eating grin.

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

Methinks vance imagines he'll 'inherit' the magat base - but might have a huge fucking disappointment coming his way. magats do NOT like him at all!

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Zito, Anthony's avatar

I couldn't decidedat first whether you meant 'cryo' or 'crypto'. Exciting times, eh?

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Steve Kelly's avatar

Yea, he seems nice.

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Ethereal Fairy's avatar

Considering how far up his ass he is, that is probably true.

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Stephen Brady's avatar

Jeff - you are the all time master of neologisms. Words we didn't know we needed until they exploded out of your computer.

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Dr J's Sanity Space's avatar

Wins internet today!

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arne link's avatar

Wins hands down. Life in the Tiedrich household must be so much fun.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

No doubt!

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

Every morning, Jeff writes for us a fucktangle of Tiedrichery. We try to share it with our friends and coworkers, and they look at us like we're C*R*A*Z*Y.

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MountainBoyMike's avatar

yes, thank you Jeff, and when I get to archiving all the Jeffisms over the years, this one will be on the list!

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Tess's avatar

Yes…we will all use that!!

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Susan Niemann's avatar

THE. BEST! The Keystone cops gif was icing on this sad cake. It's serious stuff, I know, but I laughed my ass off the whole way through. These idiots are so incompetent, maybe the rest of the world will take pity on us?

Nahhhhh....

We're all going to die. 🤦‍♀️

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Lisa59's avatar

LOL!!!! Yeah, We're so fucked. 🤣 It's an extra gummy morning.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

HA! I cant have any in Spain. 😤😭😭😭😭😭

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Lisa59's avatar

Well, you're in Spain. 😉🩷 Enjoy!!! 😎

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Susan Niemann's avatar

CBD drops aint cutting’ it! LOL! But they do pour a strong vodka and tonic! 😜

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Lisa59's avatar

Fabulous!! 🍸

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David (Dave) Jaspers's avatar

I'm still struggling to pronounce "shitkazooery".

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arne link's avatar

Practice, practice, practice.

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

it took me a bit - but I finally got it: shit-ka, zoo-eh-ry. OR if you're into kazoos, just shitkazoo - eh,ry. :) Our 'head' of our Chromatic harmonica club/newsletter HATED and despised the very idea of kazoos - so of course the more juvenile-mentality-minded members would try to tease him with mentions and even blowing the damn things. He'd throw a FIT. Compared to our REAL instruments, he said they were nothing but stupid and annoying toys - and not even good enough to be called that, lol. He is admittedly a curmudgeon.

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Lisa59's avatar

Your words are hysterical!! 🤣 They're really healing in a way. This level of pure stupidity we are witnessing is this 😱 and you give us levity in the moment. It takes the elephant foot off my chest. They're all so fucking dumb. 🫣 Thank you.

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arne link's avatar

But they are evil. I can excuse people for being dumb, but this crowd is purely evil.

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Lisa59's avatar

They're completely void of empathy and compassion. They're pathological. I used to work in mental health. I found humor whenever I could. I dealt with these types and their victims. It's incredibly sad and fucking insane at the same time.

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

EVERY WORD of both these posts, Lisa. THANK you I feel so much the same.

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Sue Fishkin's avatar

Nobody creates vocabulary like you Jeff (visualize hearts and bubbles floating around you)

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

Oooohhh, I SO love that visual. I see his computer room with Jeff AND Mrs. Spouse all giggly and enjoying those hearts and bubbles while laughing themselves silly over his latest bon-mots. FAN-tastic. :)

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Sheila Riley-Callahan's avatar

Best line of the day! Period!!!!!

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Susie's avatar

I couldn’t share that with my sister fast enough! We use your posts to communicate daily and this shit is everything! Every. Thing!!! 🤣👏🏻🤣👏🏻🤣

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Joyce's avatar

You just hit Shakespeare Level 5.

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

I’ll add that to my vocab,

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CE's avatar

The best!

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

here's another reason to despise Rubio. I came across this while researching all the 'jobs' Marco currently holds. he's the one who negotiated the deal to send immigrants to that slave-labor gulag in El Salvador.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/03/americas/el-salvador-migrant-deal-marco-rubio-intl-hnk?cid=ios_app

apparently I wrote about it in February and forgot about it.

https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/just-a-couple-of-dudes-planning-war

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Karen Rockwell's avatar

To be fair, he's probably forgotten too.

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Joyce's avatar

It speaks to the the bottom-level dregs that Donnie Demento scraped up to present for confirmation that there were people believing that Rubio was "at least qualified" for his (first) job. Remove the "at" and the belief becomes accurate. He is exactly like the rest--cruel, monumentally stupid (ask him about dinosaurs: he's going to struggle mightily), spineless, and wholly useless when he's not raking in cash for himself or causing chaos.

I think we can subtract one job from his list: 'Murrica don't give no aid no more to them ungrateful beggar countries. Them folks ain't neevin Christian!

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Joe Witkowski's avatar

The little greasy fucker (along with fellow bearded clam greaseball Ted Cruz) also highjacked $3 million in Catholic relief aid around the embargoed Cuban communist government for hurricane assistance. They won’t even help US blue states with hurricane assistance!!

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FTrump And FPutin Too's avatar

‘Murica furst!

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DJ Headthrob's avatar

"Little Marco: Unhappy at Last."

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Keith's avatar

it's ALL 'little marco's' SOP! after all he is the world's greatest water bottle juggler!

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FTrump And FPutin Too's avatar

I don’t think anyone suspected marco was capable of orchestrating such evil deal making crimes against humanity. To the Hague with him! And All of Them.

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Dayna Keiser's avatar

He’s simply reprehensible.

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Chris Duncan's avatar

He also seems to be behind the plan to attack Venezuela. Florida Cubans think the US should intervene all over Latin America.

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Barbara Ferrara's avatar

I thought he was also the librarian of Congress, but it looks like that’s Todd Blanche (acting)

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Carlye Hooten's avatar

Fucking hell... 🤦🏽‍♀️🦧

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Cheri Collins's avatar

🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 That is me, growling about Rubio.

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JOEL's avatar
Nov 24Edited

You can make fun of all of these traitorous shitstains (Trump, Rubio, Witkoff, JDVance, Kushner) all you want, but what they are doing is NOT funny. Not. Funny. At. All.

Trump, our disgusting President, is Putin's Puppet. No doubt because Putin has a ton of kompromat on Trump.

This horseshit, traitorous plan does nothing other than give Putin exactly what Putin wants - Ukrainian territory. This is nothing other than appeasement. That's what Neville Chamberlain did for Adolf Hitler. Hitler, the most murderous, scumbag, fucking piece-of-shit ever to reside on Planet Earth. Now, we have an American President who is doing Putin's bidding.

Please, I would like to know what the fuck Congress is doing to say "FUCK NO" to this shit show. This isn't a peace plan. This is an American President telling a Russian dictator he can do whatever the fuck he wants to.

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arne link's avatar

Congress is trying to sneak out the back door without being noticed. This whole thing is terrifying.

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Charles J. Gibson's avatar

Currently, our blazing US Congress is ruled by a bunch of arse-kissing boot-licking Dear Leader cowards. Also, Putin's Peace Plan limits the size of the Ukrainian military, and prohibits Ukraine from becoming a NATO member. Both points clearly allows further rape of Ukraine by Putin.

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David M Marko's avatar

Here is the peace plan in one sentence. 'Vladdy take all your shit and go back to Moscow'. Full stop. No negotiatiions. If you don't agree we will sanction you until you collapse. Unfortunately, this will never happen because Putin has Donny and his billionaire fuckwits by the financial balls.

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Joe Witkowski's avatar

Send in the Space Nazi’s now-fired acne-addled 22-year old DOGE-bags one at a time to try and take out Putin. If they get bullet-riddled, we at least get something for the salaries we paid those useless little spreadsheet jockeying fucks.

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Paula Dean's avatar

Don't hold your breath.

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Doc Blase''s avatar

1,152 days give or take.

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Leu2500's avatar

Re cognitively impaired. Dementia docs told us it would be significant when Trump stopped playing golf. Well, despite it being 60-ish in DC Sun, Trump did not play golf. He didn’t even leave the WH. They called a lid at ~10:30 am.

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

well that's certainly a thing to keep an eye on

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Ole Anderson's avatar

It’s a definite Bellweather. If he misses two weekends in a row then you can start counting the days.

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Cheri Collins's avatar

🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼

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Richard's avatar

What he stayed in Washington? Guess he’s reeling from new boyfriend wunderkind Mamdani.

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arne link's avatar

He's pining away in the Lincoln bedroom with posters of Mamdani on the walls.

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Ole Anderson's avatar

One Giant one like the one of himself he had on display in Washington not long ago. He’s got a major bromance stoked up albeit I think it’s a bit one sided.

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

What is a lid?

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Tex237's avatar

That’s when the press are told that nothing else will be on the President ‘s agenda that day.

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Doc Blase''s avatar

About 28 grams.

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Kay-El's avatar

1. I read that peace plan / Rubio nonsense last night and my head exploded too. Off to the head factory yet again today for probably the 15th time this year.

🙄

2. The funny money melt down warms my heart knowing that Trump is probably crying into his Diet Coke. More ketchup please!

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

I called JP Morgan Securities 3 months ago to confirm that my 401(k) had no exposure to crypto (it didn't), and minimal exposure to AI (it was only 0.5%)

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Charles J. Gibson's avatar

Honestly, I just don't understand this crypto currency thing. Can you tell me: Are there actual coins and paper currency used for this pipe dream? Are the main holders/investors of this "currency" trying to push US currency out of the markets?

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

It's a bit like the Pet Rock from the 70s, except with the Pet Rock, you actually got a rock

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Kay-El's avatar

Best explanation I’ve seen. 😂

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Cheri Collins's avatar

I agree Kay-El!

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Charles J. Gibson's avatar

OK, now I get it.

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David M Marko's avatar

I don't get it either. To me it seems like an elaborate Ponzi scheme. To say that it is fungible, negotiable currency is laughable. It has to be turned into dollars for value. It's like any collectable, it's only worth what someone is willing to pay for it, except you don't have anything tangible, just a promise.

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Nancy Braus's avatar

The minute I heard about crypto, I understood it was the best money laundering tool in the history of legal tender. No record of who owns what, it seems that you can transfer it with no record. You are embezzling from your boss, stealing from your elderly mother, taking bribes for pardons from federal prison (who would do that?,) and crypto is your answer.

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Paula Dean's avatar

Since we ended the Gold Standard, cash has only the value we assign to it. It's basically a promise by the Federal Reserve, and if some economic catastrophe occurred we'd be holding worthless paper. Crypto is even worse. Unless you buy 'stable coin', which is backed by real money, your Crypto is only as valuable as an NFT with a picture of tRump made to look like a superhero.

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

And if USD is replaced as the world's reserve currency, um....grab your ankles, everyone.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Try paying for your utilities, medical services, mortgage, or food in crypto. A currency that has to be redeemed into a weakening dollar to be materially worth anything is Monopoly money. Vaporware. Might as well invest in gold sneakers.

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

There you go one extra step for what, liquidity is what you need from currency!

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Charles,It’s the clumsiest fiat in the world, a long series of ‘passcodes’ is the way in. It produces nothing quarterly reports would just be the stock price and it should go down way down. It’s purely gambling.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

Fiat money without any fiat

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Cyndi's avatar

If you want an actual explanation, here you go.

Cryptocurrency is a legal form of Ponzi scheme, in which later investors are paid out of earlier investments and nothing of actual value is owned or created. In the long term, they always collapse, but first creators usually make a bundle at all other investors' expense.

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

The word scheme gives you the perspective on why the Trump family was interested.

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Joe Witkowski's avatar

It’s like gold bricks except:

• no gold, not even compostable ratfuck like the criminals dealing in it

• the only bricks are the heads of the dumbfucks buying it

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Pam Humphrey's avatar

No and yes.

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Cathy 98280's avatar

👆Best answer of all. 👍

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

When simply telling falsehoods about Ukraine is insufficient, amp up those lies and tell the world you have a peace plan, except don’t include, Ukraine, one of the countries that is in the war.

How do even the MAGAT morons believe this daily ration of nonsense?

Release the unredacted Epstein Files!

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Kay-El's avatar

I know, right?! Because coming to terms with reality means everything you’ve believed for years is utter bullshit.

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Harold Miller's avatar

The American capitulation to Putin would be laughable if mothers and babies and elderly citizens weren’t being slaughtered on a massive scale in Ukraine.

Last night 60 Minutes profiled the carnage inflicted on a Palm Sunday missile attack on a civilian bus in the Ukrainian city of Sumy.

Putin is a war criminal!

Why is the Trump administration on his side?

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Kim Steeves's avatar

Because the Trump administration is murdering people in fishing boats. Because the Trump administration are murdering immigrants who are being deported or disappeared.

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Charles J. Gibson's avatar

Currently, our blazing US Congress is ruled by a bunch of arse-kissing boot-licking Dear Leader cowards. Also, Putin's Peace Plan limits the size of the Ukrainian military, and prohibits Ukraine from becoming a NATO member. Both points clearly allows further rape of Ukraine by Putin. Imagine, if it were the Trump administration handing a similar "peace plan" to Nazi Germany. Europe would be the largest lock-step, Jew-hating, fascist, anti-freedom country in the world.

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george  campbell's avatar

Real people who are not even armed , are dying . Flat out murder ..

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

Money and kompromat.

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

Why is Trump on Vlad’s side?

Trump is stupid selfish self involved knowledge less of anything empty of any human compassion damaged in need of mental health and help ..,,, get the picture?

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Doreen Dalesandro's avatar

Because agent orange et al are also war criminals🤬

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Diane Rose Halstead's avatar

We need to generate a list of nicknames for Steve Dick-off Witkoff. He is causing so much damage to Ukraine, and we need to HURT him BACK.

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Paula Dean's avatar

I submit for your consideration: Shitwit Witcoff.

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

I submit Steve Fuckoff.

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

It used to be Fuckallthewayoff, but they shortened it when his family landed at Ellis Island.

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arne link's avatar

Ooooh, Good one! I think that maybe you won the internet today.

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

Thanks! But there’s SOOOO much competition here! 😂😂😂

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Susan Niemann's avatar

👏👏👏👏👏

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Joyce's avatar

Witless.

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DJ Headthrob's avatar

Steve Jerkoff. Neville Chamberpot.

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

Well a name that ends in “off” gives us some good possibilities.

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Joe Witkowski's avatar

The Fucking Realtor running US foreign policy - Twatkoff

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Susan Niemann's avatar

HA!

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eliza james's avatar

Also still waiting on a "list of potential ideas" for healthcare from these fucking idiots.

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Joyce's avatar

Two weeks! It'll be right there! Comin' up!

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Neal Stiffelman's avatar

Vance—soulless couch-fucking huckster—is deep in the Putin-loving cabal. Rubio is merely soulless.

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Fred's avatar

It’s just CHAOS with only the future of the world at stake. What a bunch of blithering idiots. And the MSM just reports this crap and doesn’t call it out as a plan that sells out Ukraine.

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Diane Rose Halstead's avatar

Anne Applebaum had an excellent article in the Atlantic about exactly that. She knows the deal. She excoriated Rubio, Witkoff, Trump, Kushner, all of them.

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Michael Guenon's avatar

Occam’s Razor: Follow the money.

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Morons.

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Tess's avatar

I have no words…dumbfucks in charge…disgusting.

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Susie's avatar

I think you found the perfect word: disgusting. 🤢

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Diane Rose Halstead's avatar

Rubio is just a limp dick. But sending Witkoff in over and over again to make things worse is like a domestic abuse situation. It’s spiraling. But I keep fantasizing about Witkoff getting struck by a Ukrainian drone…

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Jan Moon's avatar

Limp Dick. And Trump is a Lame Duck. First cousins. Hahahahaha.

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Diane Rose Halstead's avatar

Isn’t it really a 29-Point Peace Plan?

Point 29: “Release the Full Epstein Files!”

That would solve all conflicts.

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Keith's avatar

isn't the FBI scrubbing donnie johnboy's name FROM the epstein files?

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arne link's avatar

Workin' day and night scrubbing those files. There will be nothing left if anything is ever released.

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Ole Anderson's avatar

1000 Feebies have been hard at it for months now. Those pages are all going to be white as snow from all the scrubbing.

No Donnie anywhere.

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Goodnight Johnboy!

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Diane, very good way to slide in your point #29 it is.

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Dr J's Sanity Space's avatar

Part of me is sitting back saying: heh heh, natural kerfuffle of a bunch of incompetent, insecure and immature so-called "men" effing up politics, but the other half of me is just sick at how low the US of A has gone. I can't begin to imagine how we will survive this though I will not lose my hope and optimism (at its lowest level) that we will...

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Paula Dean's avatar

It's a conundrum. We love to see this administration embarrass themselves on a global scale, but we hate the real world damage that results. We can only hope they finally make one humiliating mistake too many and get themselves arrested for treason.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

As shown by MTG's quick resignation in January, the Republicans may be priming themselves for a transition via the 25th Amendment (while desperately hoping Trump goes comatose first). Maybe a final ketchup bottle hitting Mike Lil Johnson upside the head would make him enough of an angry little bitch to agree to dump Trump.

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

I'd been hoping for a 25th amendment solution myself, Sharon, but then I was informed that removal on that basis involves both the approval of most of the Cabinet AND a two-thirds "yea" vote of both Houses. IOW, harder to achieve than an impeachment conviction.

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Runfastandwin's avatar

at this point I am oscillating between it’s probably good and it’s terrifying that the government is run by morons.

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

the answer is 'both'

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

I think the Wheel of Moron needs about one thousand names but dopey gets ten slots (I know your thinking sluts) but that’s the past now it’s just Loomer as a door prize for participation, she belongs on the wheel definitely.

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Patricia Harmanci's avatar

So far Zelenskyy has played it cool against the so-called U.S. Peace Plan. I’m sure he wants to scream “What the fuck!”.

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

But Ukraine about 2nights ago used US provided ATACAMS (sp) and massacred a power plant near Moscow so it gets more complicated.

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Doreen Dalesandro's avatar

Paul, I’m hoping that European countries will provide Ukraine with enough military support to make the US irrelevant. I get whiplash trying to keep track of agent orange and his so-called negotiators’ position on the war🧐

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Patricia Harmanci's avatar

Yes. It’s never back/white, it seems. Thank you for t hi s bit of news.

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