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BlueNinja0 The Mod with the Migraine from Taking a left at Albuquerque Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
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#241176: May 5th 2018 at 6:35:39 AM

The idea of an open furry politician is just amusing is all.
Until they show up for a Congressional vote in ears and a tailnote , I question their devotion to their fursona. tongue

That’s the epitome of privilege right there, not considering armed nazis a threat to your life. - Silasw
ElSquibbonator Since: Oct, 2014
#241177: May 5th 2018 at 6:39:26 AM

I was talking about the second Bush, not the first.

DrunkenNordmann from Exile Since: May, 2015
#241178: May 5th 2018 at 6:42:58 AM

[up][up] There's something of an unofficial dress code in politics - not showing up in the right type of suit tends to get you strange looks in general.

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#241179: May 5th 2018 at 6:46:20 AM

If you're talking about the House, it's not just an unofficial dress code.

There was a bit of a kerfuffle about it last year about this time when Speaker Ryan updated the dress code. In regards to furries, though, I don't think he updated it *that* much....

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#241180: May 5th 2018 at 6:51:00 AM

[up] I said "in politics" to keep it general, as I'm not familiar with how specific institutions handle this kind of stuff.

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#241181: May 5th 2018 at 6:58:39 AM

@Ironball What bluff did he call? All Trump did was yell back, the most successful thing he did was manage to not get baited into launching an attack, which I’m oretty sure he wanted to do and got talked out of.

not showing up in the right type of suit tends to get you strange looks in general.

Simply, solution, turn up in a fursuit with their fury persona wearing an appropriate business suit.

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#241182: May 5th 2018 at 6:59:11 AM

I never said this is relevant to anything. I found it to be a mere trivia piece, something interesting that got my attention and something that would no doubt get a Democrat dragged over the coals for.

But I suppose if it has no bearing on her political track record - which I'm being told is very typically Republican - there is no problem whatsoever.

edited 5th May '18 6:59:52 AM by FergardStratoavis

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#241183: May 5th 2018 at 7:06:18 AM

Simply, solution, turn up in a fursuit with their fury persona wearing an appropriate business suit.
[lol]
something interesting that got my attention and something that would no doubt get a Democrat dragged over the coals for.
It would be an issue for a Democrat because Faux News/Breitbart would make it an issue by playing "Look at the freak!" and extending any questionable furry event past the point of hyperbole. They won't do that to a fellow Republican unless there's someone poised to out-primary her that they like better.

That’s the epitome of privilege right there, not considering armed nazis a threat to your life. - Silasw
RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#241184: May 5th 2018 at 7:34:17 AM

As funny as it is, I hope this brings her more scrutiny and doesn't overshadow her politics. A brief scroll through her tweets suggests she was looking into a class-action suit against striking teachers, for one.

It's been fun.
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#241185: May 5th 2018 at 8:02:04 AM

[up][up][up][up]

North Korea's brinksmanship - standard practices has been to ignore North Korea like the noisy kid throwing a temper tantrum, rather than engage in the same rhetoric. Again, purely accidental, but in the end he seems to have pulled a Riggs - he out-crazied crazy.

Edit: And to reiterate - there are a lot of factors in play that we simply aren't privy to, such as what pressure China may have been putting on Un, what Tillerson and the State Dept. were saying in talks with North Korea, etc. Trump was something of a catalyst, but so was North Korea's more blatant behavior, as I doubt their launching the missile over Japan would have gone well with any President. Un just happened to do it while we've got the most volatile personality in the White House we've ever had in the modern era.

edited 5th May '18 9:07:45 AM by ironballs16

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#241186: May 5th 2018 at 9:31:09 AM

The way my Korean coworker sees it, this Korean deal has been in the making for a long time but got strangled several times by Korean Conservatives. According to her Moon Jae-In is a longtime politician who's been fighting for this kind of deal for a long time, was around for the first attempts at the deal, remembers what the Conservatives did to sabotage it, and has been working for a while behind the scenes trying to avenge his political allies since the failure of the deal involved a lot of corruption and led to a politician's suicide, and now that he's in power, he's playing Trump like a fiddle, sucking up to him while also getting him to sign off on policies that would make South Korea's military stronger and more independent of the US, so that Trump and future US leaders have less ability to meddle in their business anymore.

edited 5th May '18 9:37:10 AM by AlleyOop

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#241187: May 5th 2018 at 9:37:27 AM

It's probably worth noting the symbolic importance of having a recent Olympics in South Korea in getting North Korea to play ball with South Korea. (I may be overrating the impact, but Kim Jong Un does seem to like sports.)

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#241188: May 5th 2018 at 10:32:06 AM

Representative Kelly Townsend Wants to Know What a Furry Is

State representative Kelly Townsend, a Republican from Mesa with a habit of making inflammatory comments, is getting a real education after she asked what a furry was in a Twitter post on Friday morning.

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#241189: May 5th 2018 at 10:34:46 AM

Am I the only one seeing that and thinking "Oh, this gunna be good"?

edited 5th May '18 10:36:27 AM by sgamer82

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#241190: May 5th 2018 at 10:36:34 AM

That was already brought up and the general sentiment seemed to be "why should anyone care?"

megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#241191: May 5th 2018 at 11:09:11 AM

Amid Knife Crimes, Trump Compares London Hospital to ‘a War Zone’

LONDON — If anyone had any hope that President Trump would adopt a more conciliatory tone toward Britain before his visit in July, it was dashed on Friday, when he appeared before a National Rifle Association conference in Dallas and took a jab at London’s crime rate.

“Knives, knives, knives, knives,” he said, mimicking a stabbing motion as he defended gun ownership in the United States.

Saying that Americans’ rights to carry guns were “under siege,” he said: “I recently read a story that in London, which has unbelievably tough gun laws, a once very prestigious hospital right in the middle is like a war zone for horrible stabbing wounds.

“They don’t have guns. They have knives and instead there’s blood all over the floors of this hospital.”

The reaction in Britain was weary humor and bewilderment, with many in the news and on social media questioning where the president got his information.

The writer and performer Robert Webb wrote on Twitter: “Well, it’s a beautiful day here in Trump’s war zone. I’ve been to the shop and didn’t get even mildly stabbed. Now we’re nicely stocked up on tinned goods & I won’t have venture out again till Tuesday. Phew!”

According to the BBC, Mr. Trump may have used as inspiration a Radio 4 interview last month with a London trauma surgeon, Dr. Martin P. Griffiths, who said he was treating stabbing victims “on a daily basis.”

He added that some of his military colleagues had described their practice at the institution as similar to that of a military camp in Afghanistan. The interview was picked up by Mail Online.

But the surgeon, who works for the Royal London Hospital, responded on Twitter to Mr. Trump, suggesting he had missed the whole point and saying he was “happy to invite Mr. Trump to my (prestigious) hospital.”

  • Happy to invite Mr Trump to my (prestigious) hospital to meet with our mayor and police commissioner to discuss our successes in violence reduction in London @Sadiq Khan @metpoliceuk @NHS Barts Health #Windrush Awards [1]

Karim Brohi, a trauma surgeon at the Royal London Hospital and director of London’s major trauma system, said in a statement on Saturday that while knife violence was “a serious issue” in London, “to suggest guns are part of the solution is ridiculous.”

He added: “Gunshot wounds are at least twice as lethal as knife injuries and more difficult to repair. We are proud of our world-leading service and to serve the people of London.”

Knife crime in Britain rose by 21 percent last year, according to figures released in September by the Office for National Statistics, which compiles an authoritative survey of crime in England and Wales, and stabbings in London were at their highest level in six years. At least 38 people in London have died from knife crime so far this year, according to the Metropolitan Police.

A government poster campaign in some parts of London has promoted the virtues of “living knife free.”

Analysts say that the surge in violent crime has been driven by factors like rivalries between drug gangs, cuts to youth services and social programs and the ease with which teenagers can now taunt and provoke one another on social media.

The American president previously suggested that schoolteachers should get a “bit of a bonus” to carry guns — a position backed by the N.R.A. But in February, under pressure after a gunman killed 17 people at a school in Florida, he ordered the Justice Department to consider banning so-called bump stocks, which allow semiautomatic guns to fire at nearly the rate of a machine gun.

Mr. Trump’s latest remarks came weeks after he accepted Prime Minister Theresa May’s invitation to come to Britain, after canceling an earlier plan to visit.

The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan — who previously faced criticism by Mr. Trump and Donald Trump Jr. over his handling of terrorist attacks in the city — had warned that the president could face protests if he visited the capital.

Politicians and anti-Trump campaigners across Britain said they would stage mass protests.

edited 5th May '18 11:09:23 AM by megaeliz

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#241192: May 5th 2018 at 1:00:04 PM

I think it's relevant because it further highlights Republican hypocrisy in regards to sexual deviancy.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#241193: May 5th 2018 at 1:03:14 PM

I mean, assuming being a furry is "deviant" I don't think it underscores any hypocrisy if she really doesn't know what that is.

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#241194: May 5th 2018 at 1:12:38 PM

[up] combined with [up][up] is a bit why I'm thinking "'Dis gun be gud". It's a mind-blow waiting to happen. To be honest I'm finding the whole thing more amusing than anything else.

edited 5th May '18 1:15:17 PM by sgamer82

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#241195: May 5th 2018 at 1:17:18 PM

I mean, assuming being a furry is "deviant" I don't think it underscores any hypocrisy if she really doesn't know what that is.
I think [up][up] meant more generally how Republicans will scream bloody murder about anything a Democrat did that was impropernote  while simultaneously trying to sweep under the rug their own, far worse, behaviornote .

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#241196: May 5th 2018 at 1:19:48 PM

We've heard about the record number of Congressional Republicans retiring, but right now NY State Republicans are also getting ready to drop like flies. In the past week or so 5 Republican State Senators have announced their retirements, giving the State Democrats a rare opportunity if they can exploit this, especially since several are long serving members whose districts might change parties without a familiar face/name.

NY Times article about the 5th Senator to resign, and here's a local newspaper talking about the resignation of the third of those five.

From the local newspaper article:

Bonacic is the third Republican senator in three days to drop their re-election bids in the closely divided Senate, where Republicans hold a one-vote majority with the help of a rogue Democrat.

His district includes parts of Ulster, Orange and Delaware counties, as well as all of Sullivan County.

Sen. Kathy Marchione, R-Halfmoon, Saratoga County, announced Wednesday she wouldn't run in November, citing a desire to spent more time with her family.

Senate Deputy Majority Leader John De Francisco, R-De Witt, Onondaga County, told the Auburn Citizen he too wouldn't seek re-election.

...

Bonacic's district will be particularly coveted by Democrats.

The district has a Democratic enrollment edge, according to state Board of Elections records.

Among active voters, there are 64,410 Democrats, 53,441 Republicans and 42,785 unaffiliated voters. There are also 3,306 voters belonging to the Conservative Party and 9,096 with the Independence Party, which the eventual Republican candidate will hope to capitalize on.

I've lived relatively close to those counties (Orange, Sullivan, Ulster) and while I haven't lived in them my feeling is that they would be a very tough but not outright impossible pickup. As little as a decade ago I wouldn't have expected thing to look even that good for Democrats.

But all this does make me wonder how many other state have local and state politicians feeling the heat and retiring without getting the same attention Congress does.

Republicans in Congress want to use the Congressional review act in new ways to potentially undo decades of regulations from government agencies

Republicans in Washington — having funded the government for six months, passed their tax law, and failed to repeal Obamacare — have an opening ahead of the 2018 midterm elections for another top priority: deregulating the administrative state.

They appear to have found a clever tool to achieve that goal: a novel use of the Congressional Review Act, the 1996 law that gives Congress extensive power to invalidate rules established by federal agencies and, in doing so, making it more difficult for any future administrations to resurrect the policies that lawmakers have struck down.

Republicans already worked overtime to undo the Obama administration’s last-minute regulations during the first 60 legislative days of the Trump administration. That was under the more conventional understanding of the CRA, which states that Congress has 60 days after a rule takes effect to pass a resolution disapproving it.

But GOP lawmakers are now using a new wrinkle in the CRA, one that would allow them to go back much further and nix much older federal rules — some of which have been in place for decades. Under the law, in order for a rule to be considered in effect, it must have been submitted to Congress for review. If a rule hasn’t been submitted, then it isn’t technically in effect for the CRA’s purposes — which means the Trump administration could submit it now and start the 60-day clock for Congress to pass a resolution invalidating it.

“Any rule that was not submitted since this act became law in 1996 can be nullified now,” Paul Larkin, a senior legal fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, who wrote a Harvard Journal of Law and Public policy article outlining how the CRA could be used this way, told me. Hundreds or thousands of existing federal rules could be vulnerable, per the best available estimates.

Larkin and Republican aides on Capitol Hill say the primary goal here is to hold the executive branch accountable: The point of the CRA is to give Congress oversight of the rules that an administration puts into effect. “If the agency didn’t submit it to Congress, the agency acted unlawfully,” Larkin said.

But GOP aides and law experts also acknowledge a secondary effect: If a federal rule is invalidated under the CRA, future administrations are barred from creating a new rule that is “substantially similar” to the one that was disapproved of. So for the rest of time, agencies will be limited if they try to create new regulations on the same subject.

“It’s another way of throwing sand into the gears of the administrative state,” Nicholas Bagley, a law professor at the University of Michigan, told me. “It’s a backdoor way for Congress to circumscribe agencies’ substantive power in the future.”

The Senate approved its first CRA of a years-old federal rule last week, overturning a guidance from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau related to racial discrimination in auto lending from 2013. The question now is: Was that a one-and-done? Or was it the start of a bigger crusade while Republicans still control all three branches of government? There is only so much time available on the Senate floor, after all.

edited 5th May '18 1:21:21 PM by TheWanderer

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#241197: May 5th 2018 at 1:22:12 PM

I think meant more generally how Republicans will scream bloody murder about anything a Democrat did that was improper while simultaneously trying to sweep under the rug their own, far worse, behavior

I'm aware, but that doesn't necessarily make this particular woman a hypocrite. At least not in this particularly area.

megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#241198: May 5th 2018 at 1:26:08 PM

Mueller team questions Trump friend Tom Barrack

WASHINGTON (AP) — Investigators working for special counsel Robert Mueller have interviewed one of President Donald Trump's closest friends and confidants, California real estate investor Tom Barrack, The Associated Press has learned.

Barrack was interviewed as part of the federal investigation of possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia in the 2016 election, according to three people familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations.

The specific topics covered in questions from Mueller's team were not immediately clear.

One of the people who spoke to AP said the questioning focused entirely on two officials from Trump's campaign who have been indicted by Mueller: Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, and Manafort's longtime deputy, Rick Gates. Gates agreed to plead guilty to federal conspiracy and false-statement charges in February and began cooperating with investigators.

This person said Barrack was interviewed "months ago" and was asked a few questions about Gates' work on Trump's inaugural committee, which Barrack chaired, and but there were no questions about the money raised by that committee.

A second person with knowledge of the Barrack interview said the questioning was broader and did include financial matters about the campaign, the transition and Trump's inauguration in January 2017.

Barrack's spokeswoman, Lisa Baker, declined comment.

Barrack has rare access and insight into Trump going back decades, since their days developing real estate. Barrack played an integral role in the 2016 campaign as a top fundraiser at a time when many other Republicans were shunning the upstart candidate. Barrack later directed Trump's inauguration.

While the specifics of Barrack's questioning were unclear, Mueller's team has asked several other witnesses about the flow of money related to the campaign.

Investigators have for months been inquiring about the Trump campaign's finances and compliance with federal election law, according to four people familiar with the matter.

Prosecutors' questions have been wide-ranging, these people said, touching on the campaign's data operations, its relationship with data-mining company Cambridge Analytica, payments to Gates and whether there were arrangements that weren't disclosed in filings to the Federal Election Commission, they said.

The four people familiar with the investigation spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss details of the confidential interviews.

The investigators' questions about the campaign's finances have come up in interviews dating to early fall while prosecutors were preparing the first indictment against Manafort and Gates.

Barrack, a wealthy real estate investor with close ties to several Mideast leaders, met Trump in 1988 when he negotiated the sale of The Plaza Hotel in New York to Trump. Barrack's publicist in 2016 described the men as having since "solidified a lifelong friendship between themselves and their families."

Barrack employed Gates last year, wrapping up operations on the Presidential Inaugural Committee, before Gates was charged by Mueller.

Barrack spoke glowingly of Trump in a CNBC interview in early 2016.

"He's one of the kindest, and actually most humble, friends that I've had," Barrack said. "I have so much respect for him because at this point in his career, wandering into the milieu was not easy, and he's changed the dialogue of the debate."

Barrack also was among the featured speakers at the Republican convention where Trump formally received the nomination.

Days after Trump's victory in November 2016, Barrack told CBS' "This Morning" that Trump was like an ultimate fighter during the campaign who used "whatever tools necessary to convey a really disruptive message." Barrack said America would see "a softer, kinder" Trump now that Trump had won the presidency

Mueller's investigators have interviewed dozens of witnesses in the probe into Russia's meddling in the 2016 election. They have also secured the cooperation of former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn and former Trump foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos.

But few witnesses have as much insight into the president's lengthy business career and all facets of his campaign and administration as Barrack.

And this happened months ago, and we're only finding out about it now.

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#241199: May 5th 2018 at 1:43:56 PM

While we're on the subject of the Trump speech about London's knife crime:

Trump's knife crime comments are ridiculous, says London surgeon

Trauma system director rejects US president’s suggestion that guns are a solution to stabbings

The suggestion by Donald Trump that guns are part of the solution to knife crime in London is ridiculous, a trauma surgeon in the capital has said.

The US president told the National Rifle Association convention in Dallas on Friday that a “once very prestigious hospital” in London was .

He appeared to be referring to reported comments from Martin Griffiths, a lead trauma surgeon at the Royal London hospital, in Whitechapel, who likened the spate of stabbing victims coming through the doors .

Prof Karim Brohi, another surgeon at the hospital and the director of London’s major trauma system, said knife violence was a serious issue for London.

“We are proud of the excellent trauma care we provide and of our violence reduction programmes,” he said in a statement on Saturday. “The Royal London hospital has cut the number of our young patients returning after further knife attacks from 45% to 1%.

“There is more we can all do to combat this violence, but to suggest guns are part of the solution is ridiculous. Gunshot wounds are at least twice as lethal as knife injuries and more difficult to repair. We are proud of our world-leading service and to serve the people of London.”

In response to comments on Twitter, Griffiths wrote:

"Happy to invite Mr Trump to my (prestigious) hospital to meet with our mayor and police commissioner to discuss our successes in violence reduction in London @Sadiq Khan @metpoliceuk @NHS Barts Health #Windrush Awards"

In his speech, Trump used a familiar argument to defend gun ownership, asking whether vans, trucks and cars, which have been used by terrorists, should be banned. Then he turned to knives.

“I recently read a story that in London, which has unbelievably tough gun laws, a once very prestigious hospital, right in the middle, is like a war zone for horrible stabbing wounds,” he said. “Yes, that’s right, they don’t have guns, they have knives and instead there’s blood all over the floors of this hospital. They say it’s as bad as a military war zone hospital.”

Trump stabbed the air several times with an imaginary knife and muttered: “Knives, knives, knives.

“London hasn’t been used to that. They’re getting used to it. Pretty tough. We’re here today because we recognise a simple fact. The one thing that has always stood between the American people and the elimination of our second amendment rights has been conservatives in Congress willing to fight for those rights. We’re fighting.”

The London mayor, Sadiq Khan, who has previously clashed with Trump over terrorist attacks in the capital, declined to respond to the president’s latest remarks.

Charlie Falconer, a former justice secretary, said: “Trump makes Londoners dislike him more, and the US dislike London more. Mutual dislike is not good as the UK leaves the EU. Trump gives the impression he couldn’t give a fig.”

"4.88 per 100000 murdered in US per annum, 0.92 per 100000 in UK. Implication UK has similar murder rate to US except knives not guns obviously false. Trump lies on everything, but lots of people in US now believe London a knife-armed war zone."

The shadow home secretary, Diane Abbott, set Trump’s comments in the context of Conservative cuts to policing resources and the influence that has had on the rise in violent crime.

"Hardly see how violent crime in London justifies the licensing of guns in the US. Last month a leaked Home Office doc stated that it was Tory police cuts that "likely contributed” to a rise in serious violent crime."

The most recent complete set of official data on crime in the US, the 2016 uniform crime report published by the FBI, showed that there were 5.3 murders and non-negligent manslaughters per 100,000 people, equal to 53 per million.

Police-recorded crime in England and Wales for the same period, published by the Office for National Statistics, showed 10 homicides - murder and manslaughter - per million.

It was not immediately clear which story Trump had read about London, but it was possibly a Mail Online article published last month, which had the headline: “Surgeon says he is regularly treating children in school uniform for gun and knife wounds in London hospital which is ‘like Afghan war zone’.”

The article quoted a BBC Radio 4 interview with Griffiths and said the Royal London had treated a record 702 stabbing victims in 2017. “Griffiths said colleagues who served in the military likened their work at the London hospital to being back at Camp Bastion, the British forces base in war-torn Afghanistan,” Mail Online reported.

Trump is due to make a “working visit” to the UK on 13 July, with mass protests expected.

Khan tweeted last month: “If he comes to London, President Trump will experience an open and diverse city that has always chosen unity over division and hope over fear. He will also no doubt see that Londoners hold their liberal values of freedom of speech very dear.”

So yeah, it's almost like he doesn't know what he's talking about or something radical like that.

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#241200: May 5th 2018 at 2:13:28 PM

In other news, the more I see of Richard Painter, the more I like him.

I mean, how he shut down @Alan Dersh here is just beautiful. He immediately calls his untruths for what they are, lies, and refuses to let him demean the Reputation of Robert Mueller.

And his responses on Twitter afterward.

I am pleased to debate with anyone the civil liberties issues involved with various tactics used by prosecutors against organized criminals and, occasionally, presidents. But anyone who goes on TV to slander the reputation of Robert Mueller is going to get an earful from me. [1]

After this afternoon’s pathetic dialogue on MSNBC with Alan Dershowitz, I look forward to real debates on real issues with someone who is intelligent, dignified and capable of staying on point. I look forward to debates with Senator Tina Smith.

He even has Walter Shaub's endorsement.

Hey @Alan Dersh, Richard has more integrity than you and loves his country more than you do. I witnessed first-hand @RWPUSA holding Bush's nominees to high ethical standards. All I've seen from you is arrogance blended with theatrics evincing an unquenchable thirst for attention.

@RWPUSA is also a better person than you, @Alan Dersh. (For one thing he doesn't subscribe to your morally bankrupt advocacy of torture.) You shouldn't be talking about his reputation, especially given the state of yours. What you should do is apologize for calling him a liar.

edited 5th May '18 3:06:40 PM by megaeliz


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