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Me, first again???
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The OC pic is sort of creepy. A “sinkhole” in solid rock, hosting water and a few trees.
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Carrying this through from last night…
Discussion of the Boxer engine.
https://www.subaruforester.org/threads/boxer-engine-and-durability.336089/
Interesting thread, thanks. I just got my first Subaru (Impreza -great little car so far!) a few months ago to replace an EcoBoost F-150 which was an absolute piece of crap. I had the F-150 for less than 3 years and decided to ditch it. Had a new engine in it within the first 5k miles. Main control valve for the automatic transmission crapping out was the last straw for me.
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I didn’t even know that the Harbor Bridge at Corpus Christi was being replaced.
Of course, one of my favorite periods was when Fay and I would just head off down the Coastal Bend looking for adventure. (Insert recording of The Judds’ Young Love here.)
Fay’s problem with heights was never more vivid than when crossing the old Harbor Bridge – with a white-knuckled grip on the door. And my leg.
The apex of the bridge – where you can see only the sky for an intolerably long stretch – can be quite unnerving.
(I still don’t understand how she survived driving through the cliff-sided mountains of Europe in a pickup w/camper with her ex and the kids.)
The new CC Harbor Bridge is constructed like a big Lego project with many of the giant, pre-cast pieces being cast in nearby Robstown (Mom’s birthplace).
The new version will be the longest cable-stayed bridge in the country.
Harbor Bridge Project site:
https://harborbridgeproject.com/And now, this is vary scary:
https://www.constructiondive.com/news/texas-dot-stops-construction-of-800m-figg-designed-harbor-bridge/567495/ -
Dang, y’all snuck in while I wasn’t looking. Neat picture, Utah?
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3 Dude
I’ve been trying to decide what to buy – for what will likely be my last car. I really like the two larger Subaru models, but I simply cannot find confirmation that the Boxer problems with oil consumption have been solved. I’m not confident that you can get 200K miles out of one.
I’m also leery because several sources talk about the relatively high cost of Subaru replacement parts.
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This is being labelled as death knell for Biden campaign…
QUESTION: “Would you be willing to sacrifice…hundreds of thousands of blue collar workers in that transitioning to that greener economy?” BIDEN: “The answers yes.”
https://twitter.com/FrancisBrennan/status/1207838340231380992
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#3 Doooooooooooooood: What year was your truck? Mine is a 2016 with the 2.7 ecoboost and it works just great. No problems at all. A friend has a 2015 with a 3.5 ecoboost and he loves his as well.
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#3 Doood, thanks for bringing that over, very interesting, although I’m not sure if I agree with everything said. A boxer engine is one of the most balanced engines that there is and this keeps vibration down. My favorite boxer engine is the old super reliable BMW twin, a buddy of mine has one with over 200K on it. My second favorite is the VW, of course, it is air cooled, unlike the Subaru.
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Who knew that Shannon had a Texaco station back in the day? 😉
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I’ll just say, monitor your oil closely.
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I think it’s part of the contract when you buy a Subaru that you must maintain at least three virtue-signaling bumper stickers, one of which must be a “Coexist”.
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Morning gang. Got some rest last night and feel not so tarred this morning. I love the suspension bridges, and silly me even thinks the Fred Hartman Bridge is a work of art. And apparently the State of Texas does not want to build any of those diversity type bridges like the folks in Flarada. Who knew that Christmas was right around the corner? That’s right, it means more college football, just when I was getting over my addiction to is with the end of the regular season. One thing for sure, no matter how bad the cravings may get, I’ll not stoop to the level of watching anything NFL.
Not sure of today’s agenda for me, but I hope that you all’s agenda includes having a great time and a great day.
Here’s SS version of the Fred Hartman. https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g56620-d7269289-Reviews-The_Regency_Suspension_Bridge-San_Saba_Texas.html
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#3 Doooooooooooooood: What year was your truck? Mine is a 2016 with the 2.7 ecoboost and it works just great.
Mine was same year – same engine. I am thinking I just got a lemon, but being my first Ford, I’m soured on them for good. If I ever go back to a pickup it won’t be a Ford.
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I’m also leery because several sources talk about the relatively high cost of Subaru replacement parts.
I’ve finally reached the point in my life where I will absolutely purchase the extended warranty. That Ford experience made me a believer. I’ll likely flip the Impreza in 5-ish years. I am having fun driving a manual 5-speed for now though.
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I think it’s part of the contract when you buy a Subaru that you must maintain at least three virtue-signaling bumper stickers, one of which must be a “Coexist”.
Blech! I have 2 and only 2 stickers on mine – 1 for each band I’m in.
But I’m not giving up on drinking IPAs just yet. 8^)
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When you buy a Suburu in Houston, does it come with a cat or dog, or do you supply your own?
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Impeachment analysis: As is his custom, Adam Schifft lied to Nancy about having the goods for sure on Trump this time, so she reluctantly caved in to the impeachment mania. Now, she is stuck with that albatross, since they could not even wait until the next election to let the voters have a say in the matter. Now that she has an impeachment vote in her pocket, she’s decided to hold on to it for a while – no rush after all. The 30 odd house members that are from districts that Trump won were just told to commit political suicide for the sake of the party, they did it by voting for impeachment, and now Nancy won’t move it forward. I guess Dems don’t have any problem lying to each other as well as lying to all of us.
So, what is she going to do. Who knows, but mostly, who cares. She has exposed the House majority, all to satisfy lying Adam Schifft. What a maroon. Of course, the Dems have always shown disdain, even for their own voters as evidenced by the primaries last time around when they put Barney Sanders out to pasture in favor of hiliary. Oh well, keep it up Dems.
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Not sure if this will work, but I did supply my own dog:
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I think it’s part of the contract when you buy a Subaru that you must maintain at least three virtue-signaling bumper stickers, one of which must be a “Coexist”.
I asked my niece if I were to move to Portland, would I be required to drive a Subaru?
She replied, “Especially if you’re a lesbian.”
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Is that a great face, or what?
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#21, LOL.
After I got mine I asked Mrs. Dude if she thought I ought to start wearing skinny jeans and grow me one of those handlebar mustaches and I just kinda got the side eye.
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About the Ford F 150 ecoboost, I have no firsthand knowledge, but my son-in-law’s buddy, who hunted with us, bought one right after they came out, 4-5 years ago? He had all sorts of problems with it and got rid of it a 3 years old, he was planning on keeping about 5 years, but he sold it before the value dropped all the way through the floor. He waited 3 years because of the rapid depreciation in the first couple of years. He also said the millage wasn’t as good as his 5.3 Chevy and he thought that was because the turbo was running most of the time, on the Hiway. He’s an Aggie Engineer and bought the truck because he thought it was new Hi-Tech, but then decided, not so much.
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Portland, being a major Western outpost for Militant Lesbianism, I envision all these chicks riding around in their Subaru’s, with their hairy armpit freak-flags flying, and their dogs in the back.
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Is that a great face, or what?
Yup, it looks like a Mutt and I do love Mutt’s. 😉
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2007 GMC Duramax with proper, vintage grille and badge.
This is a test post to see if FB is still blocking my posts.
The Old GMC webpage on FB and they have blocked him?!?!
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By the way, Doood.
Cisgender, straight niece has an Impreza and they like it.
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O.M.G. Now I have visions of armpit fur blowing outside the car windows. Stop!!!!
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My 2016 2.7 eco., 3.30 rear end, 4 door, has 50k on the clock and it is as strong as ever. I get right at 20 mpg combined city/highway during the summer with A/C always blasting. I don’t drive slowly. In the winter I gain about 2-3 mpg. Steady 80 mph on cruise control, no A/C, will get about 25 mpg. I should stipulate that I get the oil changed at about 8k with full synthetic, and I change the filters regularly as well.
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GJT says:
DECEMBER 20, 2019 AT 9:30 AM
O.M.G. Now I have visions of armpit fur blowing outside the car windows. Stop!!!!Now the really woke ones are braiding the armpit hairs.
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Wow, you stretch the oil change to 8k?
I can’t bring myself to go past five.
I don’t care what the oil and car industries recommend.This climate is hard on oils and these tight engines.
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#33 – full SYN could go 10,000 actually
Just because it can doesn’t mean I do!
the longevity of Gracie’s 2nd & 3rd (the current one) engines is testimony to the quality of Mobil1 20w/50 V-Twin synthetic.
Machine shop only had to take 0.010 off her cylinders to clean them up very nicely – that was December of 2013 w 120,000 on that engine…….this current build has 115,000 on the clock and still runnin strong
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As Old Skeeter used to say, change the oil when it’s dirty.
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#33 – full SYN could go 10,000 actually
Yup, that is one of the reasons why I use Synthetic oil, I change it every 5K, but if I slip a little and go 6K, I’m not worried.
I don’t have anything against the ecoboost or turbo’s in general, it’s just that I’d not have a turbo in a daily driver unless it was a diesel. Turbos produce lots of heat and the bearings are rough on the oil, but with Synthetic oil that should not be a problem. I also wonder if you can get 200K out of a turbo, I don’t know. I like old fashioned cubic inches and my GMC 5.3 truck, gets 19.6 MPG, driving around here, about 1 MPG better than the Clear Lake area with all the stop lights. I get 23-25 MPG, driving mid 70’s on the freeway so I’m very pleased with my mileage. I have a big old comfortable truck, that I can tow anything I need to and still get good mileage. The computer controlled engines are amazing. That said, to each his own. 😉 -
#34 Katfish, you are right about that, your Hawg, being air/oil cooled will last many miles longer with Synthetic oil. 120K and 115K on a motorcycle is phenomenal.
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I asked Mrs. Dude if she thought I ought to start wearing skinny jeans and grow me one of those handlebar mustaches…
A top knot is probably right out, huh 😉
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My sidekick at NASA has a Subaru Legacy and loves it. His wife bought it before she became disabled and now it is his daily driver. If he’d know that he would inherit it, he’d have got one of those Foresters. If you didn’t know, every Subaru comes with all wheel drive and the Legacy is dirt cheap, he paid about $24K, out the door a few years ago.
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My Tacoma came with synthetic oil from the factory and they recommend changing every 10k. That was almost impossible for me to accept but I looked at the oil at 10k and it was nearly as clear it was brand new.
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A top knot is probably right out, huh
For more than one reason, YES!
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Heh.
Dood’s man bun might have to be situated a little bit on the low side. -
We’re told it’s your 1st Amendment right to burn an American flag. But burning the queer flag is a hate crime that will get you 15 years in prison.
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40 Hammie
Four trips a month to the airport and back might qualify as less than Severe Duty.
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45 Shannon
That’s true. Although I do drive to Lafayette once a month. Still, I never log 10k miles in a year.
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Do you get some kind of parking discount? Where do you park?
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I use the Ecopark lots that the airport runs. The one at Hobby is walking distance to the terminal.
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Why Yang doesn’t have a chance with the Dem rank and file.
(See first video.)
https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/andrew-yang-drops-trumpian-truth-bomb-on-msm-democrats/
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The tape from when Epstein tried to commit Arkancide the first time is now missing.
But the Californicate congresswoman who employed a Chinese spy for 20 years assures us there is no Deep State and she’s still getting her millions.
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Like watching a bunch of monkeys trying to hump a doorknob.
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#52 HA!! I saw that last night on Fox, Tucker’s show and I laughed my ARSE off!! 😀
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Is that dude an Anglo-Hispanic?
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This phony pens an op-ed stating Trump needs to go then goes on the network that lies more than any other (Newspeak CenemaNN) to promote his sanctimonious BS.
And I’m sure he was perfectly fine with the usurping Kenyan and the girl caressing Pizza Guy Quid Pro Quo Joe.
The Swamp and the Deep State are very deep.
Bet he ends up voting for Bootyplug.
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#49 phil
Dan Bongino featured that story, and I liked his label on it.
Representation without taxation.
https://bongino.com/census-2020-illegal-immigration-is-about-to-steal-house-seats-from-the-gop/
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No one is above the law except illegal aliens and corrupt Blood Money Sucking Vampyres like Pastramilosi Skin, the coup coup for cuckoo puffs Schifty Schitter and Pizza Guy Quid Pro Quo Joe.
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Stat!
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That was a long week. We done.
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Some cultural Marxists got all bent because some Cadets were playing the circle game at the Army/Navy game last week. Wayciss!
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Junior Johnson, a racing icon who ran moonshine before NASCAR fame, dies at age 88
NASCAR icon Junior Johnson, whose rich history as a driver, mechanic and team owner began as a moonshiner outrunning the law in the NC mountains, has died, NASCAR said Friday. He was 88.
Read more here: https://www.heraldonline.com/sports/nascar-auto-racing/article238603098.html#storylink=cpy
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First, I didn’t realize he was still alive. Second, he was only 88??? Figured he’d be in his 100s.
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I knowed he was still around but yeah, seems he would’ve been older. I guess his “moonshining” was mostly for tax evasion purposes rather than runnin illegal likker.
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52 phil
You gotta hand it to Sean Davis. Not many people can get Tucker Carlson to lose it like that. That was hilarious.
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66, 52
I’m surprised that hasn’t been condemned as wayciss.
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Surely sounds pretty SERIOUS to me!!
So, let’s review. While America was mesmerized by the pro-wrestling event on Capitol Hill, Congress agreed to maintain the government’s “authority” to kidnap you, to keep spying on you without a warrant, to continue unconstitutional wars, and to spend you deeper into debt.
As TP tells us RTWDT !!
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link for my FAILED attempt on #68
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4 Shannon
When I saw that this morning, I knew and remembered that name, Figg, related to the Florida disaster, before I even clicked on your link.
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A top knot is probably right out. As I recall Dooode has as much a chance of pulling that off as Hamous.
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I bet most here remember Freebo.
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Johnny Be Good
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kitty daisy & lewis
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#70
Even worse, the current iteration of the NDAA extended provisions written into the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act that effectively authorize government kidnapping. The vaguely worded sections purport to authorize the arrest and “indefinite detention” of anybody the president decides might be associated with “terrorism” and subject them to the law of war. In effect, the government can deem you a terrorist and lock you away without due process. Government kidnapping may sound like hyperbole, but that’s exactly what the NDAA authorizes in effect.
that’s some eye popping sheet in the now Divided States of Orwellica.
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#66 TP
After reading the article in link number 70 I think the BMS joined@thehipparties tossed the public an impeachment banana and while we were scrambling to get it they passed a 1.4 trillion bill that makes monkeys out of all of us.
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RE: Junior Johnson
It’s hard to avoid being famous when these people like you.
On December 26, 1986, President Ronald Reagan granted Johnson a presidential pardon for his 1956 moonshining conviction. In response to the pardon, which restored his right to vote, Johnson said, “I could not have imagined anything better.”
In the mid 1960s, writer Tom Wolfe researched and wrote an article about Johnson, published in March 1965 in Esquire, and reprinted in Wolfe’s The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby. This was eventually reprinted in The Best American Sports Writing of the Century, ed. David Halberstam [1999]. The article, originally entitled “Great Balls of Fire”, turned Johnson into a national celebrity and led to fame beyond the circle of NASCAR fans. In turn, the article was made into a 1973 movie based on Johnson’s career as a driver and moonshiner. The movie was entitled The Last American Hero (a.k.a. Hard Driver). Jeff Bridges starred as the somewhat fictionalized version of Johnson, and Johnson himself served as technical advisor for the film. The movie was critically acclaimed and featured the Jim Croce hit song, “I Got A Name”.
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Hmmm. Trump is ending the war on light bulbs.
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I thought we kinda went with LED.
I was sitting at the dining room table on my laptop several years ago and two of those curly bulbs in the light above just decided to catch fire. If I had t been there the house would’ve probably burned down.
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Subarus
Back in the 1970s and 80s, the ultra hip, leftist, I’m-very-cool-and-you’re-not Volvo station wagon was very popular in places like Austin, Boulder, Ann Arbor, Boston and Marin County, CA. The Subaru has taken its place and is the demand mode of transport for the frenzied carbon footprint activities of painfully politically correct.
My very good, lefty friend up here is getting ready to purchase his 3rd Subaru Forester. It’s okay and moderately comfortable, but the fit and finish of the interior is lacking to me. The doors seem lightweight – not solid – to me. I don’t know, it’s just not my kind of vehicle.
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I’ve settled with LEDs now that they’re reasonably priced. I have a closet full of incandescents that I never use because the LEDs don’t die. Got rid of the curlycues a long time ago.
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A nice bit of writing from Ann Coulter.
All of this would be of limited interest outside of psychological circles, except for the fact that these voluntary hellholes are adjacent to our country, which is why our southern border is always besieged with desperate Latin Americans.
They’re fleeing the very systems that they voted for, and which (80 percent) would willingly vote for again.
https://vdare.com/articles/ann-coulter-we-too-can-be-a-failed-latin-american-state
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My 81 year old mother has a Subaru. I don’t remember which one. It’s not the large
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Any of us Couch Critters know anyone this stupid?
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I refused from the beginning to ever buy any of those CFL bulbs. I always thought something was very rotten about the way the whole thing went down through the Bush and Obama administrations.
It turned out to be one of the biggest crony capitalist guvment trough feeding fits in recent history. GE, Philips, Sylvania funded environmentalist groups and “independent scientific research”, spent millions on lobbyists and got the legislation and regulations they wanted. It bankrupted all the smaller bulb manufacturers because they couldn’t afford to build new factories to build the CFLs and handle the toxic mercury involved. Voila ! Suddenly there’s only 3 or 4 bulb manufacturers in the West.
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Can you imagine anyone being mean enough to traumatize their children on Christmas morning with something like this???
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I always thought something was very rotten about the way the whole thing went down through the Bush and Obama administrations.
Yup.
I’m not surprised that the dimly lit bulb brained Dizzy Crawford Dunce and the usurping Kenyan went along with ridding the earth of one of the greatest inventions known to mankind the incandescent bulb.
Deep State Losers the both of them.
The Dizzy Dunce asks…Is that a Hostess Ding Dong in your pants are are you just glad to see me?
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As of now I’m done with politics till after Christmas.
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Fixxin to be southbound for more new HEROs
Stay AWAY from Malls and Yall enJOY!
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Be safe Katfish!
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