It's easier to bitch than stitch,
It's easier to whine than mine.
It's easier to make noise than to exhibit poise.
It's easier to say "I'm fucked," than to construct.
To sit in the gutter counting your woes
In shit-caked jeans with a runny nose
Ranting in puddles of frozen piss
Demonstrates only that something's amiss.
So, in the bleak winter
Go shovel some snow ––
...... Cheer up the aged
...... And those who are caged.
...... Some joy you might find
...... If you read to the blind.
...... Don't play the whore,
...... Instead scrub the floor
Now get up and go!
In summer, each lazy laddie
And each slothful lass
Should get off their ass
And go mow the grass.
Don't pout and make wishes
Just go wash the dishes.
If you need to find labor,
Go help your neighbor.
Demanding is easy
Producing is hard
Protests are sleazy
Thus saith The Bard.
EPILOGUE
There's always something you can do.
Don't succumb to feeling blue.
Salvation's found in helping othersThere's always something you can do.
Don't succumb to feeling blue.
Not thinking you deserve your druthers.
Never worry. Never fear.
Just do your best to spread good cheer.
Needed work is never done;
Effort's where we find our fun.
And if you're old, and stuck at home,
You can always write a poem.
But if you find your mind in fog,
For Heaven’s sake DON’T start a BLOG!
~ FreeThinke
TOO GOOD 4U to MISS
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| HUMA-LIATION, 2016. Why do they never learn? |
| Clinton aide Abedin announces separation from Weiner |
| Politico, by Nick Gass Original Article |
| Top Hillary Clinton adviser Huma Abedin on Monday announced that she has decided to separate from her husband, Anthony Weiner, the former congressman who has been repeatedly caught sexting with other women. "After long and painful consideration and work on my marriage, I have made the decision to separate from my husband," Abed in said ... "Anthony and I remain devoted to doing what is best for our son, who is the light of our life. During this difficult time, I ask for respect for our privacy." The announcement comes after the New York Post reported on Weiner´s latest ... [AHEM!] |
But if you find your mind in fog,
ReplyDeleteFor Heaven’s sake DON’T start a BLOG!
No kidding!
The blogosphere should be renamed the bitchosphere.
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DeleteI agree, but I'm here to remind you and everyone who comes here, and bothers to read what I try to offer, –– and most of MYSELF –– that WE, as INDIVIDUALS, really DO have the POWER to COUNTERACT the persistent negativity –– not so much by SCOLDING, of which I do plenty, i admit, but by persistently standing up for what-we-believe-to-be the Truth, and by constantly reinterpreting timeworn pearls of wisdom in our own words –– and by taking every available opportunity to be CREATIVE and LIFE-AFFIRMING.
By the way, thank you so much for publishing the Good News about the University of Chicago finally coming to its senses and for the articles exposing the fallacies of Rewarding Failure and Mediocrity while deliberately Ignoring –– and even DISCREDITING –– Excellence.
As I said at your blog earlier, SYNCHRONICITY! Great Minds Think Alike once again. ;-)
The age of the WATB's is surely upon us.
DeleteFT,
DeleteI will not totally abandon stitch and bitch during this election season. Too much is a stake!
Good one, and great advice. The best way to pull yourself out of the doldrums is to turn your gaze outward and help someone.
ReplyDeleteEgg-ZACK-Lee! ;-)
DeleteAnd I'm here to tell you, as a 75-year-old survivor of a soap-operatic existence, that the formula WORKS.
It's AMAZING what we can accomplish if we just don't GIVE IN to OURSELVES.
As you probably understand after knowing me for several years I enjoy dressing up homely, fairly obvious, tried and true advice in rhyme to try to make it more appealing.
We might as well do our best to make the dally grind amusing lest we succumb to gored and depression.
'Tis often said, "Art is useless."
I firmly disagree. ART is the very thing that makes LIFE worth living.
OFF-TOPIC but significant:
ReplyDeleteMay I ask that your prayers and good wishes be offered to my lifelong friend and mentor Kathleen who is scheduled to undergo hip-replacement surgery today at 10:30 AM EDT.
Kathleen, a wise, very brave, strong-minded person celebrated her NINETY-THIRD birthday this February 12.
Thank you.
Naturally, our prayers and best wishes go every day for the recovered good health and strength of our friend AOW, who is suffering with a persistent kidney ailment. That should go without saying.
I hope no one misses the significance of "OH WOW! THEY'RE DONE!" at the bottom of the page.
ReplyDeleteWhat does that say to you?
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ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, the average cited at RealClearPolitics. com still shows HRC ahead by more than four points.
DeleteI'm beginning to suspect RCP may be manipulating the data.
Mine's getting bigger! Your Mexican "Wow they're done" picture is true! Want something done fast? Hire a Mexican!
ReplyDeleteThat has certainly been my experience. We are very foolish to regard Mexicans and other Central and South Americans as universally "undesirable."
DeleteGangsters, Drug Lords, Pregnant Women who come here to DROP ANCHOR BABIES, and others who come STRICTLY to TAKE ADVANTAGE of Democrat-Generated LURES in the form of "FREEBIES" should be discouraged and DEPORTED.
However, the willing workers, which comprise a majority should be welcomed with open arms and treated as Honored Guests a the very least.
We need most desperately to learn once again how to DISCRIMINATE and sort the "wheat" from the "chaff," then act accordingly.
I'd give anything if my experience were the same.
Delete24/7/365 since May 2005!
Yes, I'm jaded.
WE NEED MAJOR IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT AND REFORM ASAP!
The illegal who ruined my spine was a hard worker. No doubt about that. But he lacked proper liability insurance.
DeleteAnd what this chickenpox vaccine has done to me!
I'm sorry, AOW, but you leave me with no other choice than got say that while I have nothing but empathy for your troubles, it is both intellectually INDEFENSIBLE and morally WRONG to blame an ENTIRE SEGMENT of HUMANITY for the offense of ONE of its members.
DeleteWhat happened to you is admittedly dreadful, BUT it is more the result of BAD LUCK –– and a GOVERNMENT unwilling to ABIDE by its OWN LAWS –– than it is of "ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION" per se.
The position you have taken is frankly the moral equivalent of "MARRIAGE is the SINGLE GREATEST CAUSE of DIVORCE."
I hope this doesn't anger you, but either I stand up for what I believe to be right and true, or I have no right to exist.
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DeleteWe are going to disagree a bit.
I do not blame an ENTIRE SEGMENT of HUMANITY for the offense of ONE of its members.
The cab driver who ruined my back should have been required to carry the proper insurance. Why wasn't that checked by the cab company every year? Why didn't the court find the cab company negligent?
Officer of the court that horrible day: "The sympathies of the court lie with the poor immigrant. If the situation were reversed, he'd be taking you to the cleaners."
And it's not just one individual, either. "The chickenpox vaccine was specifically for the purpose of protection against the large population of illegal immigrants." So stated my primary care physician –– an immigrant himself, BTW.
We should not deem an ENTIRE SEGMENT of HUMANITY as saints or devils -- based on the actions of a few -- or the behaviors of one.
I'm telling you now that immigrants are "not all of a piece." No group is!
I think we’re more or less “talking past each other” on this issue, my friend.
DeleteI believe your complaint should be lodged MORE against the obviously LOONY “court,” and the NEGLIGENT cab company, than the DRIVER.
I do wonder what would have happened had the driver been a blond-blue-eyed, crew cut, corn-fed, square-jawed Iowa farm boy with white even teeth and lots of muscles instead of a poor Chicano, don’t you?
I’ll bet that undoubtedly-leftist court would have made sure that blond boy was RUINED forever. Since so many of The Chosen have come to dominate the Law, American Justice appears more and more to have become both anti-Christian and anti-American.
Apparently, leftists just ADORE Reverse Discrimination.
However, a good part of our problem with Illegal Immigration is strictly our OWN fault. We are where we are, because the government has turned a bind eye to the situation and steadfastly REFUSES to ENFORCE the LAWS already on the books.
WHY our government has turned against normal Americans, and become pro-Foreign, pro-Criminal, pro-Exotic, pro-Abnormal, pro-Depravity and pointedly ANTI-AMERICAN is THE question to which everyone with even half a brain should be trying to find a proper answer.
FT,
DeleteI do wonder what would have happened had the driver been a blond-blue-eyed, crew cut, corn-fed, square-jawed Iowa farm boy with white even teeth and lots of muscles instead of a poor Chicano
He was from Ghana and had been under a deportation order since the early 1980s. The car accident I had occurred in 2005.
The attorney representing his insurance company was of Iranian descent.
I believe your complaint should be lodged MORE against the obviously LOONY “court,” and the NEGLIGENT cab company, than the DRIVER.
Oh, I'm angry with the cab company and the insane court than I am with the driver -- although he refused to report the accident at all, thus delaying my ability to be recompensed for the damage to my Crown Vic Police Interceptor (totaled, BTW -- that's how fast he was going when he flew through a 4-way stop sign).
BTW, a cab company is rarely held responsible. It's because of the way the cab ownerships are structured. The cab company does not own the cabs; the drivers do. Many of these drivers have zero assets and drop the required insurance when they first register with the cab company.
DeleteI'm talking about Yellow Cabs -- not gypsy cats, BTW.
I never see any cab driver here who is a blond-blue-eyed, crew cut, corn-fed, square-jawed Iowa farm boy with white even teeth and lots of muscle. Not for many years now.
DeleteWhatever happened to those kinds of cab drivers, anyway?
Huma ditched her non-Halal wiener after Hellary called her on the carpet.
ReplyDeleteWhere did you read that? Or is it just something you have SURMISED?
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DeleteDr. Freud was right. Sometimes a weiner is just a weiner, but a flower can be so much more.
DeleteAre you aware that the REAL Georgia O'Keeffe spelled her name with a double-F?
DeleteI was surprised to fund that out too, since it never occurred to me that anyone would spell the name that way –– O-K-E–E–F–F–E –– but she did.
Does Being a pervert qualifie Anthony (Carlos Danger ) Weiner to run for president in the Democratic Party?
ReplyDeleteNow you know the kind of scum and corrupt incompetent filth iwho will be going to be hanging around the White House with Carlos Danger and Slick Willy and all those other Democrat assholes if that POS Crooked Hillary gets elected.
ReplyDeleteThat's right. Trump will bring real class to the White House!
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DeleteAll right. It's time to CUT the CRAP.
DeleteEnough Cheap Shots about a sad, sick someone who doesn't really matter.
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ReplyDeleteWiener bragged to the lady he was sexting with that he was a big wheel in NYC. I'd say he's the city's most prominent wiener, based on the photos.
ReplyDeleteWhat a virile man. This is what happens when a wife abandons her place in the home. The turn to women like me who know how to please a man.
ReplyDeletePLEASE!
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DeleteNOTE: I want to thank everyone for the SENSITIVE, CARING RESPONSE we RECEIVED to my request for PRAYERS and GOOD WISHES to go to my dear friend, Kathleen, who went though HIP REPLACEMENT SURGERY at 10:30 this morning at age NINETY-THREE.
ReplyDeleteYou are all so incredibly KIND, and SENSITIVE to the needs and feelings of others I could CRY tears of GRATITUDE ––– NOT.
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ReplyDeleteAccording to the Real Clear Politics average, Trump has gained 2.3 points nationally over the last few weeks after diving in the polls following the Democratic National Convention in late July.
ReplyDeleteTrump has even halved Clinton's lead in one national poll. In the latest Morning Consult survey released Sunday morning, the billionaire businessman is now only behind the former secretary of state by 3 points after previously trailing last week 38 percent to 44 percent.
Sorry to have to tell you that RCP has HRC up by FIVE points.
DeleteI'm not happy about it, but facts are facts, aren't they?
Now our best plan of atttack would be to try to PROVE these [olls re MANIPULATED by D'Rat Operatives.
We can SURMISE all we like, but it does no good. It's just blowing off steam.
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ReplyDeleteYes what?
DeletePlease give us some idea of what you are supporting.
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DeleteDear Delusional "Trump Supporter,"
ReplyDeleteYour candidate is losing because he's a deeply flawed human being; he has no understanding about foreign or domestic issues; he's shown himself to be vulgar, mean-spirited, a bullshitter, and above all else, an unapologetic racist.
You and your fellow Trump supporters refuse to see what an abhorrent man he is and how he is everything the GOP base hates in a politician and human being. But because he has a temporary "R" after his name, all of his hideous flaws are acceptable. YOu've decided to project everything evil onto Hillary Clinton, while ignoring the creep you blindly support.
No. The polls aren't wrong. Trump may have the base, people like you, solidly behind him, but the rest of America is not dwelling in fantasy land. You Goopers said the same thing 4 years ago about Romney (a saint compared with the repulsive Trump), and you and the rest of the Gooper base were gobsmacked when Mr. Obama won by a very healthy margin.
Continue to delude yourself into thinking there're millions of silent Trump supporters out there that the pollsters don't know about, and you'll be double, triple, and quadruple gobsmacked on election night.
How nice to hear once again from Today's Answer to TOKYO ROSE –– the polite-but-innately-vicious disseminator of demoralizing pro-COMMUNIST, faux-HUMANISTIC, anti-LIBERTY, anti-FREE ENTERPRISE, anti-AMERICAN PROPAGANDA.
DeleteI do not adore Donald Trump, but I support him, because he is the ONLY possible ALTERNATIVE to the HORRIBLE PROSPECT of being ruled by H. RODHAM CLINTON –– very possible the WORST candidate EVER to aspire to the presidency.
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ReplyDeleteYou would be more welcome here if you stuck to the topics introduced in the post, and if you were able to tell us something we didn't already know.
DeleteI agree with your sentiments regarding Senator McCain, who turned EIGHTY today, –– I DESPISE HIM –– but neither he nor his Ms Ward challenger were mentioned in the post.
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ReplyDeleteYou’ve lost the right to argue this.
ReplyDeleteSo, now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, the question remains – Is Hillary Clinton physically or even mentally capable of serving as President of the United States?
A recently surfaced image of Hillary struggling to walk up a set of stairs is raising questions.
Via WND:
In this heated presidential race where being “fit” and “stable” have become terms in the arsenal of both campaigns, startling photographs emerged Sunday showing Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton apparently getting help in climbing up some stairs.
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ReplyDeleteWe do NOT accept insulting, vituperative, accusatory remarks about ANYONE except Public Figures, and even there we out best to discourage the unrestrained use of profanity and vulgarity.
DeleteTrump hasn't said anything racist. Hillary says racist crap all the time. But only if you care about facts and CRAP like that.
ReplyDeleteCan you imagine if Trump imitated blacks like she does? He'd be eviscerated. They operate according to different standards applied by the racist left . and THE IDIOTS AT THE progressive BLOG THRIVE ON THAT bull- CRAP
Perhaps so, but it would help a great deal if you could provide a clearcut example of a FACT or two to support your sweeping accusations.
DeleteLeftists are very big on "facts," so it well behooves US to provide them to strengthen OUR position.
Even though leftists are past masters at using selected "facts" to promote their LYING agenda, and tend always to argue in LEGALISTIC terms, WE cannot counteract them with mere complaints and accusations.
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ReplyDeleteHuma is happy to be out from under the oppressive Weiner!
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DeleteAnd by the way FT. I know it's a hard step to change your ways at your advanced age. But must you go around deleting everyone's comments?
ReplyDeleteI'll have to go back on Moderation, I guess., Baysider.
DeleteI won't have this place used as a public toilet or a city dump. Neither will I allow guests got post remarks that have nothing to do with the topic or topics addressed in the post.
I certainly don't delete EVERYBODY, but to avoid the kind of thing that happened to poor Lisa's blog I HAVE to delete about 30-40% of the garbage that gets tossed in here, or we'd reek like an open sewer.
When I'm on Moderation visitors cannot see what or how much I eradicate.
FT you have deleted the last post that you will EVER delete of mine. I'm done here!
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DeleteIs that a promise, TOM? If so, I'm glad, because I couldn't hope to get better news.
DeleteBuh Bye!
Frankly, all this weiner talk has me petered out.
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ReplyDeleteOver the weekend, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick decided to take a stand: He sat during the national anthem. He announced that he was doing so in order to join the Great Crusade for Social Justice: “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color. The media quickly hailed Kaepernick as a hero. Colin Kaepernick stood tall while sitting down! And that started it all.
ReplyDeletePeople like Free Thinke here and his ditto head followers became indignant and a writting. Fury began. Talk snot boycotts, suggestions of him being fired, blacklisted and the best goes on.
I have so far refused to address the Kaepernick nonsense.
DeleteWe drive to keep this a Nonsense-Free Zone. It's hard work, because we are continually assaulted by pseudo-intellectual leftist guerrillas like you.
I'll leave your asinine remark, because it's such a blatant example of the kind of mendacious rhetoric and deceitful accusatory tactics people of your wretched ilk habitually employ.
WOW
ReplyDeleteWow, what, PP?
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ReplyDelete“We’re losing our country. Look at the Super Bowl salute to the Black Panther cop killers. It’s time to stand up and vote for GRy Johnson for president and vote for me, David Duke for the U.S. Senate.”
ReplyDeleteA robocall from white nationalist and former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke urges voters to vote for him for U.S. Senate in Louisiana and for Gary Johnson for president.
“Unless massive immigration is stopped now, we’ll be out numbered and outvoted in our own nation. It’s happening,” Duke says. “We’re losing our gun rights, our free speech. We’re taxed to death. We’re losing our jobs and businesses to unfair trade. We’re losing our country. Look at the Super Bowl salute to the Black Panther cop killers. And that tramp Beonce parading around like she was hot shit.
“It’s time to stand up and vote for Gary Johnson for president and vote for me, David Duke for the U.S. Senate.”
In a phone interview with BuzzFeed News on Monday, Duke confirmed that the call was his.
“Everyone is saying they’re voting for Duke and Gary Johnson ,” he said. “A blind man told me he was voting for Duke and Trump. The response has been overwhelming.”
Here’s the full text of the robocall:
“Hi, this is David Duke. I’m sorry I missed you. I’m running for U.S. Senate. I’ll tell the truth that no other candidate will dare say. Unless massive immigration is stopped now, we’ll be out numbered and outvoted in our own nation. It’s happening. We’re losing our gun rights, our free speech. We’re taxed to death. We’re losing our jobs and businesses to unfair trade. We’re losing our country. Look at the Super Bowl salute to the Black Panther cop killers. It’s time to stand up and vote for Donald Trump for president and vote for me David Duke for the U.S. Senate. I’d love to hear from you. To find out more contribute or volunteer for the DavidDuke.com. Go to Davidduke.com. Together, we’ll save America and save Louisiana. Paid for by the Duke campaign.”
Surely you jest, right?
DeletePlease don't ever bother to come back. You are not needed here.
You must be out of your mind.
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ReplyDeleteAS I SEE IT, A BLOG IS A PLATFORM FOR FREE SPEECH, IF YOU CAN'T SEE IT THAT WAY THEN I'd SAY GOOD-BYE TO YOU.
ReplyDeletePLEASE LEARN ONE THING IF YOU WANT TO HAVE A SUCCESSFUL BLOG, DON'T DELETE PEOPLES COMMENTS.
YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY BLOGGER IN TOWN.!
AND I DON'T WANT TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH ANYONE THAT IT NOT A FREE SPEECH ADVOCATE, THIS IS WHY SHAW'S BLOG IS SO UNSUCCESSFUL.
As far as I'M concerned you and people LIKE you are more than welcome to DROP DEAD!
DeleteNow GET OUT of HERE and STAY OUT.
Tis nae worthy of your time to waste it on such cockwombles. Good on you for throwing out the trash.
DeleteIm not so sure why there is so much controversy over this, but I don't think that I even want to get involved in it. So, I'll say my piece and be gone.
ReplyDeleteI wanted to speak about the lies, and Hypocrocy of the Democrat Party, and why I am supporting Donald Trump. We FINALLYhave a Republican candidate whi is telling the truth about the Democrats party and the Canidates history. Trump is firing on all of these cheats and liars, while Hillary rests her sick and her tired old ugly bones away from the press, she feels that she has a lead and wants to stay as far away form making any speaches or comments that may expose her lies. She was pictured in this mornings newspapers in the Hamptons where she had been attendeing a "Fund- Raisert" with an audiance of her celebrity friends, were she was wearing a Tent or or whatever the hell that thing she was wearing was. She was pictured walking on the beach with Bill talking to the little people... If there are any "Little People" in the Hampton's.
I'm not what "controversy" you mean, DD, but you always make a great deal of sense, are always responsive to the substance of any given post, and are, therefore, ALWAYS welcome to post here.
DeleteI only wish you'd visit us more frequently.
Thanks, I'll try too.
DeleteTalk about "Whining"... Let's talk about our "Commander in Cheese"
DeleteI've noticed that a lot of people are pretty happy with Obama when he 'dictates' and overrides the legislature., and his Disregard For Our Constitution And The Rule Of Law , they seem to be really happy when he does that. Why is that?
But when Trump talks about people who are losing their good paying jobs to illegal invaders, gun rights, Hillary's e-mails, Obama's lack of good sense and his sympathy towards Muslims, and his attitudes toward terrorism. The bleeding heart Liberals, (Progressives) call him hateful... Go figure!
And I suppose when Obama is blaming the Republicans for the divide in Race relations thats fine?
FOR the RECORD:
ReplyDeleteHRC has been publicly called a “coward” for not holding a press conference for the past 240-odd days?
Au contraire. Her strategy is more that of a cagey, slippery, super-savvy, well-managed political operative. HRC is manipulative to the nth degree –– she hasn't one sincere bone supporting her dumpy, sagging, desperately unattractive body.
Klintona the Kackling Krook is the Kraftiest Kween of Kalkulation in Kreation.
Worse than that from the overpowering stench of Korruption that surrounds her wherever she goes KKK is a Kwintessential KUNT.
Remember you read it here first.
Who could argue with that?
ReplyDeleteMy message to Colin Kaepernick, Yes you creep, this is America and it IS your right to sit on your sorry ass when the National Anthem is being played instead of standing, but it’s also MY right to speak out about your shameful disgusting, ungreatful, ways. So my wish is that I hope you break both of your legs, then you’ll have a good excuse for not standing when the Nationsl Athem is being played or sung.
ReplyDeleteKaepernick and Lochte belong in the same category –– an over-exposed MEDIA-DRIVEN phenomenon ca,curated by the enemedia to DISTRACT the public from the HORROR of HRC and the emerging STRENGTH and SUPERIORITY of Mr. TRUMP.
DeleteThe ENEMEDIA wants always to be in CONTROL of the presidential campaign. THEY set themselves up to choose OUR candidates OFR us, and then t push THEIR chosen favorite to VICTORY.
Figures such as Lochte and Kaepernick, –– neither of whom matters a tinker's dam in the Great Scheme ––, are highly USEFUL in aiding and abetting the enemedia's hidden agenda.
Very good speech Mr Trump, I just wrote this on Hillary's page she is a liar, Trump only wants to protect people against criminal illegal workers, this is also good for Mexicans, where many smugglers bring people from other continents to Mexico to smuggle them to US, Trump will help Mexicans if cartels of drug dealers be stopped, Trump never insulted any nations, even President of Mexico knows that, otherwise he would not invited Trump to Mexico. This meeting will have a significant positive impact on American-HISPANIC voters for Trump.
ReplyDeleteWhere was Hillary, in the Hamptons with the money people?
I guess her Speach writer was on vacation.