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Mar 21, 2017 14:42:37   #
Progressive One
 
Loki wrote:
More cut and paste. Have you ever had an original thought that was not some sort of ghetto insult?


why do trailer park whites always reference ghettos when talking to blacks when they are from the white ghettos themselves?

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Mar 21, 2017 14:49:34   #
Progressive One
 
House GOP alters health bill
Republicans make last-minute changes to the Obamacare repeal plan in a bid for votes.
REP. KEVIN BRADY of Texas, center, one of the authors of the Obamacare repeal plan, said he was optimistic the bill would pass. (J. Scott Applewhite Associated Press)
By Lisa Mascaro and Noam N. Levey
WASHINGTON — Scrambling to round up votes to roll back the Affordable Care Act, House Republican leaders made a series of last-minute changes late Monday to their Obamacare repeal bill ahead of this week’s vote.
The changes, which senior GOP leaders hope will sway wary conservative and moderate lawmakers, are aimed at building momentum for House passage while punting more substantive fixes to the Senate.
President Trump planned to come to Capitol Hill on Tuesday morning to rally House Republicans to close the deal.
“I’m optimistic the legislation not only passes the House in a strong way, passes the Senate, gets to the president’s desk soon,” said Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas), one of the bill’s authors.
It was unclear whether the changes being discussed would be enough to satisfy conservatives still angry that the repeal legislation preserves major parts of Obamacare or the growing number of centrist GOP lawmakers who have voiced concerns about how many people are scheduled to lose coverage.
“While I’ve been in Congress, I can’t recall a more universally detested piece of legislation than this GOP healthcare bill,” tweeted Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.).
To win over conservatives, House GOP leaders are proposing to give states new authority to limit who qualifies for Medicaid, the government health plan for the poor, and impose work requirements for some aid recipients.
And to appeal to moderates, the amended legislation would provide additional assistance for Americans nearing retirement who rely on insurance marketplaces created through Obamacare, as the healthcare law is often called.
These 50- and 60-year-old consumers were scheduled to see huge premium increases under the original Republican plan, which independent analyses concluded would force many to go without coverage.
House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) said over the weekend that “we have to have more assistance” for those Americans.
The changes unveiled Monday night do not specify what the additional assistance will look like, however, and the proposal would call for the House to effectively let the Senate decide.
In an echo of the kind of back-room deals that Republicans accused Democrats of using to pass Obamacare, the amended House plan also includes an arcane provision designed to win over wavering GOP lawmakers from upstate New York that would specifically require the state to pay some Medicaid costs currently borne by rural New York counties.
The revisions do not include any provisions targeting high drug prices, even though Trump told a rally in Louisville on Monday night that the bill would.
Republican leaders have worked frantically over the last several days to tweak the plan to gain broader support.
But as they did, parallel negotiations were underway at Mar-a-Largo, the president’s estate in Florida, where Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and a small group of conservatives, including the House Freedom Caucus’ Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), huddled with administration officials.
Cruz also met Monday afternoon at the White House with other Republican senators.
The competing efforts showed the difficulty facing Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) as they try to unite Republican factions around an alternative healthcare plan.
Potentially adding to the challenge, a group of 87 leading physician and patient groups — including the American Lung Assn., March of Dimes and American Academy of Pediatrics — on Monday sent a letter to Ryan and McConnell warning that the Medicaid changes in the House legislation “would leave millions without the healthcare they rely on.”
The full effect of the changes on patients remains unclear; the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office hasn’t completed an analysis of the amended GOP plan. GOP leaders said they expected an update from the budget office before Thursday’s vote.
Wavering lawmakers were also hit with stern warnings from leaders that their votes would be noted by powerful conservative interest groups such as the National Right to Life Committee and the National Retail Federation.
“These next few days could define us for years to come,” wrote GOP Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) in a memo to his team responsible for rounding up votes.
The original House GOP bill was projected to nearly double the number of people without health coverage over the next decade, increasing the ranks of the uninsured by 24 million.
Millions of consumers would also see skimpier health coverage and higher deductibles under the Republican plan, the budget office projected.
And although average premiums for those who buy their own insurance are projected to be lower after 2020 than under Obamacare — partly because plans will cover less — many consumers will pay more over the next few years than they would under the current law.
Hardest hit in the long run would be lower-income Americans and those nearing retirement, according to the budget office, which estimates that over the next decade, the GOP legislation would cut about $1 trillion in federal healthcare assistance to low- and moderate-income Americans.
Obamacare is credited with extending coverage to more than 20 million previously uninsured Americans and driving the nation’s uninsured rate to the lowest levels ever recorded.
House Republican leaders have been looking for ways to relieve the burden on older consumers by increasing subsidies, Ryan said Sunday on Fox News.
The original GOP legislation slashed assistance for these Americans, allowing insurers to charge them more while simultaneously making smaller insurance subsidies available to them.
The Medicaid changes under discussion in the House seem aimed at winning over reluctant conservative lawmakers, many of whom sharply criticized the original GOP legislation as maintaining too much of the original healthcare law.
House leaders are now proposing to give states extra federal aid if they impose work requirements on so-called able-bodied adults who receive Medicaid health benefits.
lisa.mascaro@latimes.com
noam.levey@latimes.com

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Mar 21, 2017 14:54:57   #
Cool Breeze
 
Progressive One wrote:
They trying to have a fall guy even though t-rump is the one who stated it:

Fox News pulls analyst over wiretap assertions
Andrew Napolitano had made unverified claims that supported Trump’s accusations.
ANDREW NAPOLITANO, above in 2011, cited unnamed sources when saying that British intelligence “most likely” provided former President Obama with transcripts of Donald Trump’s recorded calls in Trump Tower. (Richard Drew Associated Press)
By Stephen Battaglio
Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano is being kept off the air indefinitely amid the controversy over his unverified claims that British intelligence wiretapped Trump Tower at the behest of former President Obama.
Fox News did not respond to inquiries about Napolitano’s status Monday. Napolitano was conspicuously missing from the network’s coverage of the confirmation hearings on Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch — an event in which he typically would have played a significant role. He has not been on the air since Thursday.
People familiar with the situation who could speak only on the condition of anonymity said Napolitano is not expected to be on Fox News Channel any time in the near future. Napolitano was not available for comment. On March 4, President Trump first tweeted the accusation that Obama ordered his “ ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory.”
“Nothing found,” Trump tweeted. “This is McCarthyism!”
The tweet has been widely discredited, but last week, Napolitano heightened the controversy — and caused a major embarrassment for Fox News — when he presented a scenario on several programs that backed the accusation.
The former New Jersey Superior Court judge, citing unnamed sources, said that the British foreign surveillance agency, the Government Communications Headquarters, “most likely” provided Obama with transcripts of Trump’s recorded calls.
“By bypassing all American intelligence services, Obama would have had access to what he wanted with no Obama administration fingerprints,” Napolitano wrote in a column on FoxNews.com.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer cited Napolitano’s charge last week when asked why President Trump continues to stand by his initial claim. The British spy agency sharply denounced Napolitano’s allegations, saying they are “utterly ridiculous and should be ignored.”
That rebuttal did not stop President Trump from citing Napolitano as a source again when he was asked about the wiretapping claims at a Friday news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
“You shouldn’t be talking to me; you should be talking to Fox News,” said Trump, who described Napolitano as “a very talented lawyer.”
Fox News gives its analysts much more latitude than correspondents and anchors in regard to what they can say on the network.
But Napolitano said on one program that “Fox News has spoken to intelligence community members who believe that surveillance did occur, that it was done by British intelligence.”
Fox News, however, did no such thing, forcing its anchors to walk back Napolitano’s statement.
“Fox News knows of no evidence of any kind that the now-president of the United States was surveilled at any time, in any way,” Shepard Smith told viewers Friday.
In a statement read on the Fox News program “MediaBuzz” on Sunday, Napolitano defended his comments. He said he “reported what the sources told me, reported it accurately and I do believe the substance of what they told me.”
On Monday, FBI Director James Comey testified before Congress that he had “no information” supporting Trump’s claims. He testified that the Obama administration did not ask the British agency to spy on Trump — nor would it ever make such a request because it would be “expressly against the construct” of intelligence agreements between the U.S. and its allies.
stephen.battaglio@latimes.com
They trying to have a fall guy even though t-rump ... (show quote)


Hey P! Andrew Napolitano is toast!
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/03/20/fox-stand-wiretapping-lie-fire-analyst-pushed-trumps-claim.html

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Mar 21, 2017 15:02:44   #
Cool Breeze
 
Loki wrote:
More cut and paste. Have you ever had an original thought that was not some sort of ghetto insult?


Cut and Paste! Those of your ilk believe their belief is the final authority! They consult with no one but themselves. You need an enema!

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Mar 21, 2017 15:05:46   #
Cool Breeze
 
Progressive One wrote:
House GOP alters health bill
Republicans make last-minute changes to the Obamacare repeal plan in a bid for votes.
REP. KEVIN BRADY of Texas, center, one of the authors of the Obamacare repeal plan, said he was optimistic the bill would pass. (J. Scott Applewhite Associated Press)
By Lisa Mascaro and Noam N. Levey
WASHINGTON — Scrambling to round up votes to roll back the Affordable Care Act, House Republican leaders made a series of last-minute changes late Monday to their Obamacare repeal bill ahead of this week’s vote.
The changes, which senior GOP leaders hope will sway wary conservative and moderate lawmakers, are aimed at building momentum for House passage while punting more substantive fixes to the Senate.
President Trump planned to come to Capitol Hill on Tuesday morning to rally House Republicans to close the deal.
“I’m optimistic the legislation not only passes the House in a strong way, passes the Senate, gets to the president’s desk soon,” said Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas), one of the bill’s authors.
It was unclear whether the changes being discussed would be enough to satisfy conservatives still angry that the repeal legislation preserves major parts of Obamacare or the growing number of centrist GOP lawmakers who have voiced concerns about how many people are scheduled to lose coverage.
“While I’ve been in Congress, I can’t recall a more universally detested piece of legislation than this GOP healthcare bill,” tweeted Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.).
To win over conservatives, House GOP leaders are proposing to give states new authority to limit who qualifies for Medicaid, the government health plan for the poor, and impose work requirements for some aid recipients.
And to appeal to moderates, the amended legislation would provide additional assistance for Americans nearing retirement who rely on insurance marketplaces created through Obamacare, as the healthcare law is often called.
These 50- and 60-year-old consumers were scheduled to see huge premium increases under the original Republican plan, which independent analyses concluded would force many to go without coverage.
House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) said over the weekend that “we have to have more assistance” for those Americans.
The changes unveiled Monday night do not specify what the additional assistance will look like, however, and the proposal would call for the House to effectively let the Senate decide.
In an echo of the kind of back-room deals that Republicans accused Democrats of using to pass Obamacare, the amended House plan also includes an arcane provision designed to win over wavering GOP lawmakers from upstate New York that would specifically require the state to pay some Medicaid costs currently borne by rural New York counties.
The revisions do not include any provisions targeting high drug prices, even though Trump told a rally in Louisville on Monday night that the bill would.
Republican leaders have worked frantically over the last several days to tweak the plan to gain broader support.
But as they did, parallel negotiations were underway at Mar-a-Largo, the president’s estate in Florida, where Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and a small group of conservatives, including the House Freedom Caucus’ Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), huddled with administration officials.
Cruz also met Monday afternoon at the White House with other Republican senators.
The competing efforts showed the difficulty facing Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) as they try to unite Republican factions around an alternative healthcare plan.
Potentially adding to the challenge, a group of 87 leading physician and patient groups — including the American Lung Assn., March of Dimes and American Academy of Pediatrics — on Monday sent a letter to Ryan and McConnell warning that the Medicaid changes in the House legislation “would leave millions without the healthcare they rely on.”
The full effect of the changes on patients remains unclear; the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office hasn’t completed an analysis of the amended GOP plan. GOP leaders said they expected an update from the budget office before Thursday’s vote.
Wavering lawmakers were also hit with stern warnings from leaders that their votes would be noted by powerful conservative interest groups such as the National Right to Life Committee and the National Retail Federation.
“These next few days could define us for years to come,” wrote GOP Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) in a memo to his team responsible for rounding up votes.
The original House GOP bill was projected to nearly double the number of people without health coverage over the next decade, increasing the ranks of the uninsured by 24 million.
Millions of consumers would also see skimpier health coverage and higher deductibles under the Republican plan, the budget office projected.
And although average premiums for those who buy their own insurance are projected to be lower after 2020 than under Obamacare — partly because plans will cover less — many consumers will pay more over the next few years than they would under the current law.
Hardest hit in the long run would be lower-income Americans and those nearing retirement, according to the budget office, which estimates that over the next decade, the GOP legislation would cut about $1 trillion in federal healthcare assistance to low- and moderate-income Americans.
Obamacare is credited with extending coverage to more than 20 million previously uninsured Americans and driving the nation’s uninsured rate to the lowest levels ever recorded.
House Republican leaders have been looking for ways to relieve the burden on older consumers by increasing subsidies, Ryan said Sunday on Fox News.
The original GOP legislation slashed assistance for these Americans, allowing insurers to charge them more while simultaneously making smaller insurance subsidies available to them.
The Medicaid changes under discussion in the House seem aimed at winning over reluctant conservative lawmakers, many of whom sharply criticized the original GOP legislation as maintaining too much of the original healthcare law.
House leaders are now proposing to give states extra federal aid if they impose work requirements on so-called able-bodied adults who receive Medicaid health benefits.
lisa.mascaro@latimes.com
noam.levey@latimes.com
House GOP alters health bill br Republicans make l... (show quote)


Its all smoke and mirrors! They have no plan!

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Mar 21, 2017 15:09:02   #
Progressive One
 
Cool Breeze wrote:
Cut and Paste! Those of your ilk believe their belief is the final authority! They consult with no one but themselves. You need an enema!


I cut and paste because these people are too ignorant to entertain opinions so let them go argue with the fkig authors....tell them why they don't know what they are talking about.

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Mar 21, 2017 15:12:02   #
Progressive One
 
Cool Breeze wrote:
Its all smoke and mirrors! They have no plan!


They really don't, but these people are willing to get screwed and let their families get screwed also....just to spite Obama's legacy....which will still exist here in CA..

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Mar 21, 2017 15:13:22   #
Progressive One
 
THEATER REVIEW
Banality of evil, revisited
Robert Schenkkan’s ‘Building the Wall’ is a response to the rhetoric of the day.
CHARLES McNULTY THEATER CRITIC
How does darkness overtake a nation? The philosopher Hannah Arendt took up the subject in her book “Eichmann in Jerusalem,” which investigated the mystery of how ordinary Germans transformed into murderous Nazis.
The face of evil, Arendt discovered, wasn’t a demon lurking in the cellar but the factory supervisor in the nice house across the street. Those carrying out the orders that led to the extermination of millions of Jews along with other marginalized groups became part of the bureaucracy of genocide. This startling and still controversial insight — that the Holocaust was executed not by sadists but by conformist clerks and self-interested middle managers — inspired the famous subtitle of Arendt’s book: “A Report on the Banality of Evil.”
Robert Schenkkan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (“The Kentucky Cycle”) who co-wrote the screenplay for “Hacksaw Ridge,” has a new play that explores the concept of the banality of evil in our own backyard. “Building the Wall,” which opened Saturday at the Fountain Theatre, imagines the unimaginable happening in Trump’s America.
In a program note, Schenkkan acknowledges a debt to Gitta Sereny’s “Into That Darkness.” He describes her book as “an attempt to understand the bleakest of the Nazi horrors by focusing on one ordinary man who, for a brief moment, found himself with unlimited power.”
The parallels with “Building the Wall” are clear, but the play was written expressly in response to what Schenkkan sees as the threats posed by Trump’s dangerous rhetoric and his reopening of the “authoritarian playbook,” which calls for the creation of “a constant state of crisis” and the scapegoating of “minorities with appeals to nationalism, racism and isolationism.”
The crisis in the background of this two-charac-ter play, directed with unflagging concentration by Michael Michetti, is an incident in Times Square that “irradiated” two square blocks and allowed Trump to impose martial law. The year is 2019, but “near future” might be a more accurate delineation for this terrifyingly plausible work of dystopian fiction.
Bo Foxworth, who appeared in last fall’s South Coast Repertory production of “All the Way,” Schenkkan’s Tony Award-winning drama about Lyndon B. Johnson, plays Rick, the supervisor of a private prison who has been arrested and placed in solitary confinement for crimes that take some time to be revealed. Judith Moreland portrays Gloria, an African American history professor who talks with Rick in a chilly prison meeting room (conjured in all its generic menace by set designer Se Oh). She wants to understand what motivated his actions, and in return she’ll give him an opportunity to tell his side of the story.
The play, which arrives at the Fountain in the first stop in a series of productions set to open across the country as part of the National New Play Network’s rolling world premiere program, unfolds as a conversation between a liberal professor who happens to be a black woman and a Trump supporter who can’t understand why white Christians can’t defend their identity too. The two sniff each other out, challenging ideological assumptions while finding unexpected points of connection, but Schenkkan is less interested in the psychological dance between these characters than in the events that put Rick behind bars.
It may not seem entirely credible that Rick would divulge to a stranger with antithetical political views the dark secrets he tried to keep from his wife, but Schenk- kan’s writing rarely hits a false note. Rick’s confession, centering on the detention of immigrants whose legal status is in dispute, builds steadily to a terrifying climax.
The play connects the violent sentiments of political rallies with policies that find an opportunity when chaos strikes the nation. The ratcheting up of the war against terrorism permits the rounding up of immigrants, which leads to the practical problem of how to hold a swelling population that can’t entirely be repatriated. Rick, in charge of one of the detention centers, is beset with managerial problems that become human catastrophes. Harrowing descriptions of the sanitation emergency are soon eclipsed by the graphic misery of the cholera epidemic that breaks out.
The situation only degenerates from there. Step by step, Schenkkan gets us to see the way the collapse of institutions leads to the collapse of morality and the rule of law. “Building the Wall” conjures what appears to be a worst-case scenario, though who would dare presume to know what the worst-case scenario even is anymore?
The acting in this 90-minute, intermission-less production is scrupulously well observed. Moreland, delivering a magnificent performance, finds subtle ways to convey the weight of Gloria’s conscience. The character is obviously a first-class academic, but she’s hardly dispassionate. Her experience as a target of hateful prejudice informs her research.
More to the dramatic point, the depth of Gloria’s responsiveness helps her to understand political views diametrically opposed to her own. She may wince at the faults in Rick’s reasoning, but she recognizes his alienation and powerlessness.
Foxworth neither sentimentalizes nor demonizes Rick, who recounts with blasted neutrality the path from his hardscrabble youth as military brat to his patriotic enlisting in the Army after Sept. 11 to his seduction as a veteran by Trump’s law-and-order message.
Rick isn’t by nature a bad man, but that doesn’t exculpate him of the atrocities committed on his watch. As a character, he may be the incarnation of an idea in a carefully arranged dramatic argument, but Foxworth personalizes the figure just enough for us to believe in his existence — and to wonder about the extent of his complicity.
“Building the Wall,” which would benefit from a touch more variety in the writing, stays on top of the headlines with mentions of Trump’s blocked travel bans and Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions’ favorable stand on federal use of private prisons. Schenkkan will likely have to do some tinkering to keep the play up to date in future productions. But there’s no denying that this dramatic object lesson is expertly laid out.
Even a lapse at the end into rhetoric, when Rick incongruously stutters into academic speech (“What is a wall? It’s a, a construct, a, a device, for keeping people out”), cannot mar the effectiveness of this expedited theatrical construction. “Building the Wall” should be seen and shuddered over, if only to heighten our collective vigilance.
The theater historically has provided a forum for citizens to contemplate the agonizing issues of the day, and it’s heartening to see Schenkkan and the Fountain respond with such celerity to present dangers.
charles.mcnulty@latimes.com
Twitter: @charlesmcnulty

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Mar 21, 2017 15:29:12   #
Loki Loc: Georgia
 
Progressive One wrote:
have you ever talked like you wasn't wearing crotch less panties?


Bra, I talks like I not wear them things alla time. Nomesayn?

Have you ever posted a paragraph that you authored that contained no lies, and no boasting?
Nope.

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Mar 21, 2017 15:39:02   #
Progressive One
 
Loki wrote:
Bra, I talks like I not wear them things alla time. Nomesayn?

Have you ever posted a paragraph that you authored that contained no lies, and no boasting?
Nope.


Only when I show what you people don't know or haven't done....you all turn into lies to save face...but that is okay....as long as it is truth in the real world...nobody is worried about the dishonest M.O. of you people to declare false what you don't want to believe...and with me that would be everything I say that represents stellar achievement or a positive progressive mindset.....you all like the black guys with their pants hanging..and your toadies.....like the white boys do also....but you all will overlook them..........

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Mar 21, 2017 15:41:36   #
Loki Loc: Georgia
 
Progressive One wrote:
Only when I show what you people don't know or haven't done....you all turn into lies to save face...but that is okay....as long as it is truth in the real world...nobody is worried about the dishonest M.O. of you people to declare false what you don't want to believe...and with me that would be everything I say that represents stellar achievement or a positive progressive mindset.....you all like the black guys with their pants hanging..and your toadies.....like the white boys do also....but you all will overlook them..........
Only when I show what you people don't know or hav... (show quote)


One more paragraph of self-aggrandizement. You must be one insecure twerp. Between the boasting and the exaggerations and mendacity, you may have convinced yourself your crap is true. You see, Professor Pendejo, I really don't care one way or the other, but I DO find you amusing at times.

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Mar 21, 2017 15:47:50   #
Progressive One
 
Loki wrote:
One more paragraph of self-aggrandizement. You must be one insecure twerp. Between the boasting and the exaggerations and mendacity, you may have convinced yourself your crap is true.


Nah....I'm like you white boys....I call it self-esteem...what am I supposed to do when you crackas tell me I'm on welfare with a GED and the total opposite has always been true? believe your asses? As so far as true...only you saltines call things untrue but cannot say why they are untrue.......because you're some stupid fks......so start saying why they are untrue ............and prove it........or shut the fuck up........

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Mar 21, 2017 16:14:09   #
payne1000
 
Randy131 wrote:
My name is Randy Hemmerle, and I look forward to our meeting with great anticipation.


Where do you live, Randy?

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Mar 21, 2017 16:35:50   #
Raylan Wolfe Loc: earth
 
Progressive One wrote:
I cut and paste because these people are too ignorant to entertain opinions so let them go argue with the fkig authors....tell them why they don't know what they are talking about.


More copy and paste for the fact free right wing nuts!

Billy O'Reilly of Fox News Just Told Trump to Stop Lying so Much!

http://crooksandliars.com/2017/03/bill-oreilly-just-told-trump-stick-truth



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Mar 21, 2017 17:10:52   #
Progressive One
 
Raylan Wolfe wrote:
More copy and paste for the fact free right wing nuts!

Billy O'Reilly of Fox News Just Told Trump to Stop Lying so Much!

http://crooksandliars.com/2017/03/bill-oreilly-just-told-trump-stick-truth


These people lie so much that lies no longer exist...look at ao...according to him, he came to my house...knocked on my door...created a rape/serial killer accusation...and what did the rest do? silent agreement.....but won't hesitate to call me a lie on something credible....these are some real POS people.........

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