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What Will Be Will Be
Today’s vote in Critterville will give a hint whither we goest.
Attribution: BETTER NOT TO KNOW by Randall Enos, Easton, CT
41 thoughts on “What Will Be Will Be”
nodding off in the meantime
Biden-Harris HQ
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A feeble and tired Donald Trump once again falls asleep in court
There’s one of those neighborhood library boxes up there in Jersey…. I’ve been stocking it every time I go up for a couple of years now. In fact, boxes like that are the only place you can donate all the extra books I’ve gathered. There are far too many for the daughter (though a great many will end up there in boxes and I’ve made a few bookcases for wherever they have room), the libraries don’t want them, goodwill and such don’t really want them.
So, like the bee rhat has gathered too much honey etc etc
“One woman miscarried in the lobby restroom of a Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to check her in.”
“Another woman learned that her fetus had no heartbeat at a Florida hospital, the day after a security guard turned her away from the facility.”
“And in North Carolina, a woman gave birth in a car after an emergency room couldn’t offer an ultrasound. The baby later died.”
“Federal law requires emergency rooms to treat or stabilize patients who are in active labor and provide a medical transfer to another hospital if they don’t have the staff or resources to treat them. Medical facilities must comply with the law if they accept Medicare funding.”
“It’s happened despite federal mandates that the women be treated.”
Sturge, additionally you may find a 2nd&Charles store in your area. They pay cash or store credit, not a lot for each, but it adds up if you have a lot of books. It worked out great for us when we moved and downsized.
2nd & Charles wouldn’t take either of our two sets of encyclopedias. Damn, I wish I’d kept at least one set of them. But they were heavy to move, nobody else wanted them, so they went to the trash. I still prefer to look stuff up in an actual book rather than wacky wiki.
VA medical centers have free books available. I donate five for each one I take.
That’s a good idea…..VA. ✔️
What to do with books has always been a problem in this house. Some I keep… and some I give away.
We have a local fair in August that’s put on by a local church… there’s a big used book sale in the basement of the church. I used to buy books there… now I give books to them.
But of course… I still go to bookstores and buy more books!
The neighborhood ladybug release is cancelled due to rain (they set them free yesterday without anyone around), and it’s raining sideways so Record Store Day isn’t happening for me, either.
The book I’m saving for summer, after I get situated, is Terry Allen’s biography; almost 600 pages. I just wonder if he and C’Bob ever crossed paths?
Buckwheat pancakes and coffee and rumbles of thunder.
Check out the independent book stores as well. Powell’s in Oregon buys used books and I’m certain there are others nationwide that do the same.
Authors of the Day:
Jackie Cooper
PLEASE DON’T SHOOT MY DOG
The autobiography of Jackie Cooper.
Once, when hardbacks were like 50 cents apiece at the Goodwill., I wound up with a whole wall full of celebrity books Seems like every celebrity in any field had a book out telling their story. Jackie’s was one of the better ones.
By far, the absolutely best one is
SONGS MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME, by Marlon Brando.
BRING ON THE EMPTY HORSES, by David Niven Another good one.
A quite weird one in a “The last days of old Country Music” kind of way:
SOME GAVE TOO MUCH, My Story About Billy Ray Cyrus by Kari Reeves, the daughter of Del Reeves. (“Six Days on the Road”)
Wiki:
My Billy Ray Cyrus Story, Some Gave Too Much, is the first unauthorized biography about country superstar Billy Ray Cyrus, as told through the eyes of Kari Reeves, ex-lover, friend and career advisor. This is the book Billy Ray doesn’t want you to read. Reeves, daughter of Grand Ole Opry legend Del Reeves, chronicles her four year relationship with Billy Ray begining with their first encounter – when Billy Ray, a nervous, aspiring country singer came to her office for an interview – to that fleeting moment she and Cyrus shared at his triple platinum party, given in honor of his having achieved sales in excess of three million units of his first album, Some Gave All, My Billy Ray Cyrus Story is a touching story of love and friendship, and the making of a country music megastar. Learn all of the intimate, sexy, details about this intriguing, mysterious hunk from Flatwoods, Kentucky.
and for unwanted paperbacks, give them to your local jail and detention facilities. call ahead ’cause some might require the covers be torn off. not sure whether any take hardbacks.
took a couple of boxes of louis lamour westerns into the local hoosegow for a neighbor awhile back. they were much appreciated.
Someone had come up with this brilliant concept: (brilliant by country and western standards). Write a goofy country song and invent a dance to go along with it, then find someone willing to record the song and then spring it on an unsuspecting public. Thus….. the “Achy Breaky Heart” song burst forth and took the (country and western) world by storm.
Well, Billy Ray capitalized on the line-dancing craze of the ‘90s, that’s why all the 90’s country has the same beat
Today’s country has a beat to which to be aggrieved
Billy Ray done good with it….real good…did good with his daughter too.
I’d have Achy Breaky’d my ass off if they’d thrown it at me. 🙂
That song RAINED money. lol
“We’re going into Nashville……set your drum machines to A-47 and LOCK ‘EM.”
House Republicans and Democrats both made impassioned pleas to support Ukraine, highlighting the war crimes of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“Without our help, a democracy is certain to fall to a murderous, Marxist, socialist dictator,” said Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-N.C.), adding, “My ears have heard the numerous testimonies of unthinkable acts by the Russian military.”
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the former speaker of the House, didn’t mince words in describing those atrocities.
“Vladimir Putin has instructed his troops to use rape, kidnapping and murder in front of family members as a weapon of war to demoralize the people of Ukraine,” she said.
glad to see the speaker finally woke up and spoke up
It was a remarkable moment: After introducing a package of bills that includes military aid to Ukraine, Mike Johnson flatly told reporters on Wednesday that enabling Ukraine to defend itself is in the best interests of America and the world. This surprised a lot of people who had wrongly assumed the House speaker was effectively functioning as a stooge for Vladimir Putin—and Donald Trump—and would thus slow-walk Ukraine aid to death before ever allowing a vote on it.
Johnson’s new stance has attracted a good deal of positive attention. But I want to highlight an aspect of it that’s been overlooked because it’s an important tell about the true state of MAGA ideology and what it’s demanding of Republicans these days.
“I really do believe the intel and the briefings that we’ve gotten,” Johnson said, in a moment that became a mini-speech. “I think that Vladimir Putin would continue to march through Europe if he were allowed. I think he might go to the Balkans next. I think he might have a showdown with Poland, or one of our NATO allies.” If so, he added, we might find ourselves sending troops to defend allies from Putin later.
Did we really hear the speaker say that he believes what our intelligence services have told him about the long-term consequences of cutting off aid to Ukraine?
This is a direct challenge to the MAGA worldview in multiple ways. Johnson is treating Putin as the aggressor in the Russia-Ukraine conflict and acknowledging his broader imperialist designs, which is heresy to some MAGA Republicans. But he’s also flatly declaring that on these matters, the deep state is very much to be believed.
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and then there’s mtg (aka MM and KK) with her two cents … make that rubles…. thrown in
Attribution: Moscow Marge by Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune, UT
Former Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) went after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) for her anti-Ukraine position in an interview on CNN Friday.
“Moscow Marjorie has reached a new low,” Buck said in an interview on CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront” with anchor Erica Hill. “You know, during the Russian Revolution, [Bolshevik Revolution leader Vladimir] Lenin talked about American journalists who were writing glowing reports about Russia at the time as ‘useful idiots.’”
“And I don’t even think that Marjorie reaches that level of being a useful idiot here,” Buck continued. “She is just mouthing the Russian propaganda, and really hurting American foreign policy in the process.”
[…]
It’s not the first time Buck has referred to Greene as “Moscow Marjorie”. The Colorado Republican coined the nickname earlier this month when disagreeing with former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) assessment of Taylor Greene as a “very serious legislator”.
“My experience with Marjorie is, people have talked to her about not filing articles of impeachment on President Biden before he was sworn into office, on not filing articles of impeachment that were groundless made on other individuals in the Biden administration,” he told Erin Burnett in a separate CNN interview.
“And she was never moved by that. She was always focused on her social media account,” Buck continued. “And Moscow Marjorie is focused now on this Ukraine issue and getting her talking points from the Kremlin and making sure that she is popular and she is getting a lot of coverage.”
Heartedly second the recommendation of Niven’s Bring on the Empty Horses as well as his other book, The Moon’s a Balloon. It must have been horrific for a man known as a witty Recontour, to suffer an illness that robbed him of his voice.
Someone had to have gotten to Johnson to have him do a 180 on Ukraine. Something in the backroom occurred because he had, stalled, not slow walked, Ukraine. Could it be Dems telling him he can be speaker as long as he does what Joe tells him to do? Along with knowing a couple resignations and he would be the minority guy in the house. Maybe Buck talked to him real nice (and slow) and opened the good book, not that book, the other book, odds on staying speaker book.
If he stays on this path a few necessary bills could be taken care of. Such as the budget for 2025.
MTG. Smart money’s on fucking idiot.
Stupid money too.
Ukraine aid passed House with most Republicans voting against it for Putin.
how soon will senate pass it?
Shumer said he will have Senate vote on it this weekend. Don’t know if Senate has anyone around right now though.
The Putin party says nyet. I’d say Johnson’s not long for his seat.
today’s meme…
Of the 4 Repugs who didn’t vote was chickenshit Alex Mooney, “my” critter. For or against- Mooney can’t help. I guess he couldn’t get through to Dumbass for his marching orders.
One day in April, 25 years ago, we watched 13 families as they grieved. Their loss was felt by people far beyond Columbine High School‘s community – grief moved its way through the state, around the nation and worldwide.
Forever in our memories are 13 faces that correspond to 13 names. Their stories led to changes across the country in how schools and police departments react and respond to school shootings.
“In a case being heard by the court Wednesday, the Biden administration is challenging Idaho’s enforcement of its abortion ban in medical emergencies, putting a spotlight on what has been one of the most politically explosive flashpoints in the aftermath of Roe’s demise.”
“The Justice Department maintains that federal law requires hospitals to offer abortions if necessary to stabilize the health of emergency room patients, even in states like Idaho that ban that procedure.”
“The lawsuit has proceeded somewhat under the radar and has been overshadowed by the other blockbuster abortion case at the Supreme Court this year, concerning the federal regulations for abortion pills.”
“Idaho argues that the Biden administration is trying to retrofit the federal law known as EMTALA – or the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act – to “create a nationwide abortion mandate in hospital emergency rooms.”
“A bipartisan Congress enacted EMTALA in 1986 to address the issue of “patient dumping,” the practice by hospitals to refuse emergency room care to patients, often uninsured, in order to save costs.”
“The case could turn on how the justices read the term “unborn child” in EMTALA. The term is referenced multiple times in the law, which includes scenarios in its definition of medical emergencies where the health of an unborn child is in serious jeopardy and transfers of patients in labor that would put the safety of their unborn child at risk are restricted.”
“The references to the “unborn child” were added by Congress in 1989 to make clear the EMTALA’s protections applied to women who showed up to hospitals because they were in labor or facing other pregnancy-related medical emergencies.”
“Supreme Court briefs filed by Idaho point to the language to argue that EMTALA’s “text demands equal treatment for ‘the unborn child.’”
“Republican leaders in Congress are torn over what to do with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene after the congresswoman spoke at a weekend event organized by a white nationalist who marveled over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as the crowd erupted in chants of “Putin!”
“Greene defended her appearance at the America First Political Action Committee event, saying she will continue sharing her message to “every corner” of the U.S. She has said she did not personally know the organizer or his beliefs, and participated so she could speak to the large crowd.”
“But the organization is not unfamiliar to Greene or several other Republicans in Congress including Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., who has said they had briefly considered forming an America First Caucus in Congress. Another, Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., who has also spoken to the group.”
It’s always the NYT comments that are most enlightening and entertaining. The only reason I subscribe.
The entire world realizes the Trump marriage is a union of convenience and expedience. Money for her and an attractive woman on his arm. She had the child, likely through scientific means and not naturally to fulfill a clause in the contract. She remains as it is a financial windfall if she does when he’s gone…..if there is anything left. Otherwise, they live separate lives.,,,when he needs her he calls and hands her a stack of cash for a guest appearance.
The piece that completes the puzzle.
Start putting two and two together, time lines, when, where and how they met. She is a Russian plant, introduced into Donald’s life as part of Putin’s long term strategy to get Donald elected to the presidency. It was her job to hook him, convince him to run and she did so. It worked. There is no other credible reason why she would want to be married to him or to stay with him. There are plenty of rich guys out there with looks, manners and better behavior.
“Former President Donald Trump’s rally in North Carolina – set to be his first since the start of his hush money criminal trial began in New York – was postponed Saturday due to concerns over severe weather.”
Dang it, Bink, that lightning bolt was so close!
“Trump called into the Wilmington rally from his airplane, with his message played over loudspeakers at the rally.”
“We’re devastated that this could happen, but we want to keep everybody safe,” Trump told supporters. “There seems to be some thunder and lightning and it’s a pretty big storm so if you don’t mind, I think we’re going to have to just do a raincheck, I’m so sad.”
How are they all safe if they are already at the rally? Isn’t it really about keeping his sorry backside safe?
BB,
thanks for the heads up on the vote. here’s what CNN reports:
Schumer says Senate will begin voting on foreign aid package Tuesday
From CNN’s Morgan Rimmer
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer took procedural steps Saturday for the Senate to begin voting on the House-passed foreign aid package Tuesday afternoon.
The chamber was supposed to be in recess next week, but it is coming back to pass this legislation.
…must have been a mispronunciation in my incantation 🫤
Twitter meme:
The Nodfather
Representative Spratz, who was born in Ukraine, voted nay on the aid package.
nodding off in the meantime
Biden-Harris HQ
@BidenHQ
A feeble and tired Donald Trump once again falls asleep in court
There’s one of those neighborhood library boxes up there in Jersey…. I’ve been stocking it every time I go up for a couple of years now. In fact, boxes like that are the only place you can donate all the extra books I’ve gathered. There are far too many for the daughter (though a great many will end up there in boxes and I’ve made a few bookcases for wherever they have room), the libraries don’t want them, goodwill and such don’t really want them.
So, like the bee rhat has gathered too much honey etc etc
https://apnews.com/article/pregnancy-emergency-care-abortion-supreme-court-roe-9ce6c87c8fc653c840654de1ae5f7a1c
“One woman miscarried in the lobby restroom of a Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to check her in.”
“Another woman learned that her fetus had no heartbeat at a Florida hospital, the day after a security guard turned her away from the facility.”
“And in North Carolina, a woman gave birth in a car after an emergency room couldn’t offer an ultrasound. The baby later died.”
“Federal law requires emergency rooms to treat or stabilize patients who are in active labor and provide a medical transfer to another hospital if they don’t have the staff or resources to treat them. Medical facilities must comply with the law if they accept Medicare funding.”
“It’s happened despite federal mandates that the women be treated.”
Sturge, additionally you may find a 2nd&Charles store in your area. They pay cash or store credit, not a lot for each, but it adds up if you have a lot of books. It worked out great for us when we moved and downsized.
https://brandneue.co/2nd-and-charles
2nd & Charles wouldn’t take either of our two sets of encyclopedias. Damn, I wish I’d kept at least one set of them. But they were heavy to move, nobody else wanted them, so they went to the trash. I still prefer to look stuff up in an actual book rather than wacky wiki.
VA medical centers have free books available. I donate five for each one I take.
That’s a good idea…..VA. ✔️
What to do with books has always been a problem in this house. Some I keep… and some I give away.
We have a local fair in August that’s put on by a local church… there’s a big used book sale in the basement of the church. I used to buy books there… now I give books to them.
But of course… I still go to bookstores and buy more books!
The neighborhood ladybug release is cancelled due to rain (they set them free yesterday without anyone around), and it’s raining sideways so Record Store Day isn’t happening for me, either.
The book I’m saving for summer, after I get situated, is Terry Allen’s biography; almost 600 pages. I just wonder if he and C’Bob ever crossed paths?
Buckwheat pancakes and coffee and rumbles of thunder.
Check out the independent book stores as well. Powell’s in Oregon buys used books and I’m certain there are others nationwide that do the same.
Authors of the Day:
Jackie Cooper
PLEASE DON’T SHOOT MY DOG
The autobiography of Jackie Cooper.
Once, when hardbacks were like 50 cents apiece at the Goodwill., I wound up with a whole wall full of celebrity books Seems like every celebrity in any field had a book out telling their story. Jackie’s was one of the better ones.
By far, the absolutely best one is
SONGS MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME, by Marlon Brando.
BRING ON THE EMPTY HORSES, by David Niven Another good one.
A quite weird one in a “The last days of old Country Music” kind of way:
SOME GAVE TOO MUCH, My Story About Billy Ray Cyrus by Kari Reeves, the daughter of Del Reeves. (“Six Days on the Road”)
Wiki:
My Billy Ray Cyrus Story, Some Gave Too Much, is the first unauthorized biography about country superstar Billy Ray Cyrus, as told through the eyes of Kari Reeves, ex-lover, friend and career advisor. This is the book Billy Ray doesn’t want you to read. Reeves, daughter of Grand Ole Opry legend Del Reeves, chronicles her four year relationship with Billy Ray begining with their first encounter – when Billy Ray, a nervous, aspiring country singer came to her office for an interview – to that fleeting moment she and Cyrus shared at his triple platinum party, given in honor of his having achieved sales in excess of three million units of his first album, Some Gave All, My Billy Ray Cyrus Story is a touching story of love and friendship, and the making of a country music megastar. Learn all of the intimate, sexy, details about this intriguing, mysterious hunk from Flatwoods, Kentucky.
and for unwanted paperbacks, give them to your local jail and detention facilities. call ahead ’cause some might require the covers be torn off. not sure whether any take hardbacks.
took a couple of boxes of louis lamour westerns into the local hoosegow for a neighbor awhile back. they were much appreciated.
Someone had come up with this brilliant concept: (brilliant by country and western standards). Write a goofy country song and invent a dance to go along with it, then find someone willing to record the song and then spring it on an unsuspecting public. Thus….. the “Achy Breaky Heart” song burst forth and took the (country and western) world by storm.
Well, Billy Ray capitalized on the line-dancing craze of the ‘90s, that’s why all the 90’s country has the same beat
Today’s country has a beat to which to be aggrieved
Billy Ray done good with it….real good…did good with his daughter too.
I’d have Achy Breaky’d my ass off if they’d thrown it at me. 🙂
That song RAINED money. lol
“We’re going into Nashville……set your drum machines to A-47 and LOCK ‘EM.”
going on now
House to vote on Ukraine, Israel aid bills: Live updates – The Washington Post
glad to see the speaker finally woke up and spoke up
Mike Johnson’s Shockingly Pro-Ukraine Speech Really Sticks It to MAGA | The New Republic
and then there’s mtg (aka MM and KK) with her two cents … make that rubles…. thrown in
Attribution: Moscow Marge by Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune, UT
Buck takes swing at ‘Moscow Marjorie’: She is just ‘mouthing the Russian propaganda’ | The Hill
Heartedly second the recommendation of Niven’s Bring on the Empty Horses as well as his other book, The Moon’s a Balloon. It must have been horrific for a man known as a witty Recontour, to suffer an illness that robbed him of his voice.
Someone had to have gotten to Johnson to have him do a 180 on Ukraine. Something in the backroom occurred because he had, stalled, not slow walked, Ukraine. Could it be Dems telling him he can be speaker as long as he does what Joe tells him to do? Along with knowing a couple resignations and he would be the minority guy in the house. Maybe Buck talked to him real nice (and slow) and opened the good book, not that book, the other book, odds on staying speaker book.
If he stays on this path a few necessary bills could be taken care of. Such as the budget for 2025.
MTG. Smart money’s on fucking idiot.
Stupid money too.
Ukraine aid passed House with most Republicans voting against it for Putin.
how soon will senate pass it?
Shumer said he will have Senate vote on it this weekend. Don’t know if Senate has anyone around right now though.
The Putin party says nyet. I’d say Johnson’s not long for his seat.
today’s meme…
Of the 4 Repugs who didn’t vote was chickenshit Alex Mooney, “my” critter. For or against- Mooney can’t help. I guess he couldn’t get through to Dumbass for his marching orders.
https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/columbine-25-years-family-friends-remember/73-8d56ac8e-5e6a-4611-af55-ffa97b3f8739
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/20/politics/abortion-supreme-court-idaho-emergency-care/index.html
Part 2 of my 8:53am post:
“In a case being heard by the court Wednesday, the Biden administration is challenging Idaho’s enforcement of its abortion ban in medical emergencies, putting a spotlight on what has been one of the most politically explosive flashpoints in the aftermath of Roe’s demise.”
“The Justice Department maintains that federal law requires hospitals to offer abortions if necessary to stabilize the health of emergency room patients, even in states like Idaho that ban that procedure.”
“The lawsuit has proceeded somewhat under the radar and has been overshadowed by the other blockbuster abortion case at the Supreme Court this year, concerning the federal regulations for abortion pills.”
“Idaho argues that the Biden administration is trying to retrofit the federal law known as EMTALA – or the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act – to “create a nationwide abortion mandate in hospital emergency rooms.”
“A bipartisan Congress enacted EMTALA in 1986 to address the issue of “patient dumping,” the practice by hospitals to refuse emergency room care to patients, often uninsured, in order to save costs.”
“The case could turn on how the justices read the term “unborn child” in EMTALA. The term is referenced multiple times in the law, which includes scenarios in its definition of medical emergencies where the health of an unborn child is in serious jeopardy and transfers of patients in labor that would put the safety of their unborn child at risk are restricted.”
“The references to the “unborn child” were added by Congress in 1989 to make clear the EMTALA’s protections applied to women who showed up to hospitals because they were in labor or facing other pregnancy-related medical emergencies.”
“Supreme Court briefs filed by Idaho point to the language to argue that EMTALA’s “text demands equal treatment for ‘the unborn child.’”
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-marjorie-taylor-greene-race-and-ethnicity-europe-mitch-mcconnell-6dd6985db085537fcb103c0d022ac775
From 2022:
“Republican leaders in Congress are torn over what to do with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene after the congresswoman spoke at a weekend event organized by a white nationalist who marveled over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as the crowd erupted in chants of “Putin!”
“Greene defended her appearance at the America First Political Action Committee event, saying she will continue sharing her message to “every corner” of the U.S. She has said she did not personally know the organizer or his beliefs, and participated so she could speak to the large crowd.”
“But the organization is not unfamiliar to Greene or several other Republicans in Congress including Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., who has said they had briefly considered forming an America First Caucus in Congress. Another, Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., who has also spoken to the group.”
It’s always the NYT comments that are most enlightening and entertaining. The only reason I subscribe.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/20/opinion/melania-trump.html
e.g.
The piece that completes the puzzle.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/20/politics/north-carolina-trump-rally/index.html
“Former President Donald Trump’s rally in North Carolina – set to be his first since the start of his hush money criminal trial began in New York – was postponed Saturday due to concerns over severe weather.”
Dang it, Bink, that lightning bolt was so close!
“Trump called into the Wilmington rally from his airplane, with his message played over loudspeakers at the rally.”
“We’re devastated that this could happen, but we want to keep everybody safe,” Trump told supporters. “There seems to be some thunder and lightning and it’s a pretty big storm so if you don’t mind, I think we’re going to have to just do a raincheck, I’m so sad.”
How are they all safe if they are already at the rally? Isn’t it really about keeping his sorry backside safe?
BB,
…must have been a mispronunciation in my incantation 🫤
Twitter meme:
The Nodfather
Representative Spratz, who was born in Ukraine, voted nay on the aid package.
https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2024151
Is she taking orders from Putin or just hanging out with mTg too much?
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