A&E caves! by whozit

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Sounds like WBC support DD, but not t'other way 'round.

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Saturday, December 28, 2013 10:42 AM

WHOZIT

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Westboro Baptist Church Announces Picket Of A&E In Support Of Phil Robertson

“Don’t apologize Duck Dude!” goes the message from Duck Dynasty Phil Robertson’s latest supporters, the Westboro Baptist Church.

Phil Robertson’s support network includes the Westboro Baptist Church.

The Westboro Bullying Corporation has made clear that they support and stand behind Robertson’s comments likening homosexuality to bestiality. With their trademark “God Hates F*gs” hashtag, they blasted off a few tweets on the topic (as usual with the Westboro Bigot Cowards, profane language follows):

“A&E suspended Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty 4EVER for telling you fags won’t go to heaven. Hello?! GOD HATES FAGS”

“@AETV Quack Quack! New York City Headquarters perfect for world class WBC picket. Stay tuned! #godhatesfags! #godhatesSSM!”

“WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH TO PICKET A&E, (236 E. 45th ST, NYC) SAT., FEB. 1, 2014 FROM 4-4:30PM. Fags run A&E! #DuckDynasty#PhilRobertson“

It should come as no surprise whatsoever that the Westboro weirdos would schedule a picket in support of Phil Robertson and his comments. It should come as no surprise that they decide to praise Phil Robertson for his incendiary remarks.

Pretty much says it all. Happy for those like zit who "thank god" for their cohorts.

Millions of normal people came to Phil's defence, these loonatics are like Jesse Jackson, they're media whores looking for TV camaras. Many are really pissed that "the little guy" took on A&E, GLAAD and Jesse Jackson and made THEM back down. YOU should be proud of the Robertson family, they took on an evil corp and won.

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Saturday, December 28, 2013 11:29 AM

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Originally posted by whozit:
YOU should be proud of the Robertson family, they took on an evil corp and won.

You got suckered.

A&E got a bigger audience for Duck Dynasty and the Robinsons got free advertisement for their Duck Dynasty merchandise. The joint A&E/Robinson prayer for today is: "Dear Lord, let us be thankful for fools. But for them we could not succeed. The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes. Ahem."

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Saturday, December 28, 2013 11:42 AM

MAL4PREZ

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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by whozit:
YOU should be proud of the Robertson family, they took on an evil corp and won.
You got suckered.

A&E got a bigger audience for Duck Dynasty and the Robinsons got free advertisement for their Duck Dynasty merchandise. The joint A&E/Robinson prayer for today is: "Dear Lord, let us be thankful for fools. But for them we could not succeed. The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes. Ahem."

Yep. It all went exactly as planned. Someone at A&E will get a raise for this!

Funny tho. This is the first time I can recall Westboro supporting something. I hope they're all very happy together.

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Saturday, December 28, 2013 12:56 PM

WHOZIT

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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by whozit:
YOU should be proud of the Robertson family, they took on an evil corp and won.
You got suckered.

A&E got a bigger audience for Duck Dynasty and the Robinsons got free advertisement for their Duck Dynasty merchandise. The joint A&E/Robinson prayer for today is: "Dear Lord, let us be thankful for fools. But for them we could not succeed. The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes. Ahem."

No surprise, everyone on ALL these realality shows are plugging something.

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Sunday, December 29, 2013 9:42 AM

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Funny tho. This is the first time I can recall Westboro supporting something. I hope they're all very happy together.

But they're not " together ", by any stretch of the imagination. WBC sure as hell WISHES they were in on some of DD's fame and notoriety, but all they're trying to do is piggy back ( but not in a homosexual way ) off of DD's success.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

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Sunday, December 29, 2013 10:17 AM

JONGSSTRAW

I watched an old episode where Phil showed his gandson where the vagina was on a female crawfish. Then he picked up a male crawfish and explained, while pointing to the pecker, how they perform the act and produce more crawfish. Seemed to me to be much simpler and a lot less gross than the film my school showed us in 6th grade.

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Sunday, December 29, 2013 10:57 AM

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I watched an old episode where Phil showed his gandson where the vagina was on a female crawfish. Then he picked up a male crawfish and explained, while pointing to the pecker, how they perform the act and produce more crawfish. Seemed to me to be much simpler and a lot less gross than the film my school showed us in 6th grade.

Which is sort of ironic, as it use to be that most folks learned about sex and understood " how things worked " by watchin the farm animals. Now, such things are seen as 'vulgar' and uncouth by the Left, who instead preach that pretty much anything OTHER than normal sex is 'proper', 'progressive' and 'civilized'

Oy, what a world !

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Sunday, December 29, 2013 11:37 AM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

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Now, such things are seen as 'vulgar' and uncouth by the Left, who instead preach that pretty much anything OTHER than normal sex is 'proper', 'progressive' and 'civilized'

Are you speaking for someone else again?

Of course you are.

Do you have the faintest idea who "the left" is, and what "they" think?

Of course not!

Step out of your echo-chamber, son. See the light.

Oh, BTW- Don't watch A&E. Don't know Duck Dynasty from duck's ass. Couldn't care less.

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Sunday, December 29, 2013 11:57 AM

STORYMARK

As I said they would all along. Sad how many people bought into an obvious publicity stunt - and now we'll have to listen to a bunch of tool s thinking they "won" by being played like a harp.

"Goram it kid, let's frak this thing and go home! Engage!"

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Sunday, December 29, 2013 12:03 PM

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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by whozit:
YOU should be proud of the Robertson family, they took on an evil corp and won.
You got suckered.

A&E got a bigger audience for Duck Dynasty and the Robinsons got free advertisement for their Duck Dynasty merchandise. The joint A&E/Robinson prayer for today is: "Dear Lord, let us be thankful for fools. But for them we could not succeed. The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes. Ahem."

However it went down, Duck Dynasty isn't going anywhere.

This isn't bad. This is good.

A "civilized" government should be able to provide and maintain public discourse such as this to mitigate hateful blowup episodes like "truck dragging" that happen when you suppress something fully.

Sorry UBER LIBS.... you're not getting rid of Duck Dynasty anytime soon.....

I don't even watch the show. I haven't had cable in 5 years. I only know as much about it as people I work with talk about it.

The scales can only tip Sooooooo far one way before they begin to tip back the other way.....

And that is EXACTLY as it should be.

When the scale only tips one way..... that's a day we should all be afraid of....

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Sunday, December 29, 2013 12:20 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

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A "civilized" government should be able to provide and maintain public discourse such as this to mitigate hateful blowup episodes like "truck dragging" that happen when you suppress something fully.

This is not a "civilized government" providing anything, this is a corporation doing the providing AND the taking away. And the re-providing.

First rule: Before engaging in game, properly ID players.

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Sunday, December 29, 2013 12:20 PM

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and now we'll have to listen to a bunch of tools thinking they "won" by being played like a harp.

Indeed.

They've been pwned!

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Sunday, December 29, 2013 12:23 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

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Now, such things are seen as 'vulgar' and uncouth by the Left, who instead preach that pretty much anything OTHER than normal sex is 'proper', 'progressive' and 'civilized'

Fucking amazing, or it would be if it were from anyone we considered as real. How far did he have to reach to convince himself that animals having sex is "vulgar and uncouth" to the left...especially given it's "the left" which wants SEX EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS and the right who consider that unacceptable?

Again why I often think Rap just spews what he does to get attention...surely even HE isn't stupid enough to think "The Left" only consider things "other than normal sex" as proper??? He'd have to be completely insane to actually believe that...surely?

...surely?

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Sunday, December 29, 2013 12:24 PM

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Fucking amazing, or it would be if it were from anyone we considered as real. How far did he have to reach to convince himself that animals having sex is "vulgar and uncouth" to the left

So far up his ass, his hand came out of his mouth?

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Sunday, December 29, 2013 12:32 PM

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So far up his ass, his hand came out of his mouth?

"vulgar and uncouth" ?

Nailed it!

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

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Sunday, December 29, 2013 12:35 PM

STORYMARK

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So far up his ass, his hand came out of his mouth?

Nailed it!

Wow, a moment of uncharacteristic honesty!

"Goram it kid, let's frak this thing and go home! Engage!"

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Sunday, December 29, 2013 12:39 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

STORY, you get the "replacement keyboard penalty" of the day.

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Sunday, December 29, 2013 12:51 PM

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT

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Now, such things are seen as 'vulgar' and uncouth by the Left, who instead preach that pretty much anything OTHER than normal sex is 'proper', 'progressive' and 'civilized'
Are you speaking for someone else again?

Of course you are.

Do you have the faintest idea who "the left" is, and what "they" think?

Of course not!

Step out of your echo-chamber, son. See the light.

Oh, BTW- Don't watch A&E. Don't know Duck Dynasty from duck's ass. Couldn't care less.

'S okay, Sig... You know, ALL them RWA's think exactly alike: Westboro, Ol' Phil, the Raptard...
S'

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Sunday, December 29, 2013 1:03 PM

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RWA's ... Reading, Writing, Arithmetic ?

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

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Sunday, December 29, 2013 3:19 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Oh, boy, THIS is going to be fun: "Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson: Marry Girls When They’re About 15 Or 16"

This new video is simply unbelievable. Does this guy forget that this is a world where everything is recorded? In the video above Phil Robertson says the following in a rather disturbing monologue.

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“Now that’s a woman. They got to where they’re hard to find. Mainly because these boys are waiting 'til they’re twenty years old before they marry them. Look, you wait 'til they get to be twenty years old and the only picking that’s going to take place is your pocket. You got to marry these girls when they’re about fifteen or sixteen and they’ll pick your ducks.”

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Robertson is no stranger to doing just that. He began dating his wife Marsha when she was fourteen and he a legal adult. They married two years later when she was just sixteen. The age of consent in Louisiana is seventeen years old, and it is a crime for anyone regardless of age to engage in sexual relations with a fourteen year old. If a person is under seventeen, it is illegal for anyone more than two years older to have sex with them. No matter what, it is likely that Robertson broke at least one law. ( http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2013/12/phil-robertson-in-2009-men-should
-marry.html)]

Oh, yeah, real paragon of religious virtue:

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For Phil, seven years between the ages of 21 and 28 were like sliding down a muddy river bank. He drank too much whiskey, ran wild, smoked marijuana, popped pills and hunted ducks, leaving his wife, affectionately called “Miss Kay,” to raise their three sons alone. http://www.southeastoutlook.org/news/features/article_8bea6dc0-051c-11
e3-9628-0019bb30f31a.html

Then, of course, after throwing said wife and kids out because she'd become a “holy roller, a Bible thumper and goody two shoes", he found religion...and is now the paragon saint of right-wing conservatives.

The fun is just getting started...I'm so happy for all our right wingers, this is just the kind of guy they no doubt want us all to emulate!

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Tuesday, December 31, 2013 10:27 AM

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A "civilized" government should be able to provide and maintain public discourse such as this to mitigate hateful blowup episodes like "truck dragging" that happen when you suppress something fully.
This is not a "civilized government" providing anything, this is a corporation doing the providing AND the taking away. And the re-providing.

I'll give you that, Signy. I misspoke, but only in the very strictest terms.

Please allow me the opportunity to expound in a little more detail the very short reply that you responded to. I know that with you, I really don't have to ask. For what comes off as a hard core Liberal much of the time, you do have a very open mind. (If you leaned just as much to the right as you do to the left, that opinion of mine would have been the same... I just would have swapped out Liberal for Conservative ;))

Since we all agree that Duck Dynasty is about money, and we can likely agree that we all work and consume entertainment while paying a large portion of our income (money) to an ever more oppressive Government that has supposedly taken us Trillions of dollars into debt that we can never hope to pay off.... I don't think it's very far fetched to think that the Government plays a LARGE role in what we can and cannot watch in our "free" society, what with that $70k per person or so tax bill even the BABIES just born this week owe the second they come out of the womb.

The best part is, the Government didn't even have to lift a finger or even give an opinion here. The seeds have already been planted and have effectively budded. Divided WE fall.....

Our Government has many times RUINED lives of "public servants" and celebrities who spoke out for dissenting opinions on either side of the coin. Goddamn... I'd never be politician material. I probably post one thing a day here on average a year that I wish I could take back. It must be a HORRIBLE life to be the President or any one of his innocent-bystandard family and have every action and/or word under the public microscope. Poor Chelsea. For reals.....

This Government that has everybody so scared that it would seem for the Execs at A&E like a better idea to just get rid of somebody who said something that somebody might not like... even though he is one of the main "earners" on that particular "block" (pimp-talk)

This is nothing new. This is the VERY stuff I was bitching about when GWB was President and all the new laws being made under the Patriot Act that would further allow the ushering of us all into an Orwellian future under HIS watch.

I personally view the rash decision to remove Phil Robertson from Duck Dynasty the EXACT same way view watching a 60 year old woman buying a bottle of wine getting carded at the local grocery store. As ridiculous an act as either of these were, whatever network executives who green-lit giving him the axe were operating under the very same duress as the near-minimum wage register clerk who asked a wrinkled old woman for her ID.

FEAR.

The network executives were not stupid in making that original decision to "make the problem go away". In this PR/HR world we live in, the only possible scenario where I would see A&E NOT firing Phil Robertson would be if the board of directors were made up entirely of the regulars from the World Poker Tour. Had that been the case, and they went "all in" by NOT firing him, well.... really.... what would they have had to gain by taking that gamble? In Businesspeak, what would have been their R.O.I.? (Return on Investment)

My guess is that they would have had NOTHING to gain by taking a stance and keeping him on the show. Time will tell. He's back now and, at least in the short term, Duck Dynasty is getting so much media coverage that even both of my Grandmas know about it now. Chances are the show would have died had this decision not been reversed, and now that he's back it's getting more exposure than it ever did before. Had they taken the gamble and let him stay in the first place, they may have jeopardized not only Duck Dynasty, but any of their other franchises as well. Sure, Breaking Bad is done now, but who am I to say that 50% of The Walking Dead's fan base isn't homosexual or at least proactively Pro Homosexual?

In the end, it was a smart decision to remove him. A decision based on Fear. A fear that Our Own Government has slowly over the decades (centuries?) been conditioning within each and every one of us.

That being said, as ridiculous as it was to do so, the clerk at the grocery store probably made an even smarter decision to card that 60 year old woman. There's no golden parachute for her when she gets fired from one of her possible three jobs for not carding somebody on the wrong day and gets the store fined $500.00 for not carding somebody underage. Not to mention the anguish that paying her own $500.00 ticket for "breaking the law" will impact her family considering she's already lost the income the family already counted on.

Merry Christmas, kids. You were all very good this year, so there is no lump of coal in your stocking. There's also no toys. This year, Santa brought you lessons that your health and family are all any kid truly needs and that you should always obey the Government, or else Santa doesn't bring any presents for you. Mom will see you even less next year when she has to work 4 part-time jobs to make up for the money she's not making since getting fired from her 3rd job for the heinous crime of supplying a 20 year old kid with booze........

I hope that clears up any thoughts anyone might have had, at least in this particular case, that I'm a complete idiot.

Like any good Cult Leader, the Government can completely sit back in this instance and watch the "puppets" dance without ever voicing an opinion.

You know me Sigs. I'm not against gay rights. I also admitted that earlier this post that I've never seen Duck Dynasty. Although I've read the article you posted here, I didn't go as far as to read his thoughts on the issue. I don't need to. I'm sure they weren't really that bad at all, actually, especially given the horrible images/videos/thoughts that are implanted in your kids via the internet every day you let them use their shiny new computer without any parental controls set.

Who knows? Maybe when Phil Robertson was a teen, he and his hillbilly friends used to beat up blacks and gays and drag them on the pavement with their truck? If that were to have happened, he should be in a different place right now.

Sticks and Stones, People......

Grow the fuck up....

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Sunday, January 5, 2014 12:46 PM

I guess I killed another thread here.....

I'm just curious, before this thread gets filed away into the abyss of obscurity here... was the reason nobody else posted because of my vulgarity, or are you all stumped, or did I pretty much say everything that was to be said?

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Sunday, January 5, 2014 1:08 PM

REAVERFAN

I think the righties tried so hard to keep this relevant, they're disappointed to learn that Phil is just another phony wacko taking their cash.

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Sunday, January 5, 2014 1:23 PM

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I think the righties tried so hard to keep this relevant, they're disappointed to learn that Phil is just another phony wacko taking their cash.

I'd love to argue that point with you RF, but without ever having watched the show, I have absolutely no basis to do so. I actually needed an explanation one night about a year ago why we were selling posters with a bunch of scary looking biker-beards to kids in the toy section. As much as I LOVED tech growing up, I needed a kid to explain to me what the hell "Angry Birds" was just 6 months prior....... ;)

Personally, without ever having seen the show, I would assume that everyone on it is probably more intelligent than you would ever give them credit for (like WWE cast members), and before they "grew" into their current jobs they were probably pretty clean cut trying to get regular people jobs.

I'm holding my ground though that Phil had that stupid-ass beard since Jeasus walked the earth though. You could probably pick out Rye seeds out of it that pre-dated my birth....

Disgusting lot they are...

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Sunday, January 5, 2014 4:41 PM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I guess I killed another thread here.....

I'm just curious, before this thread gets filed away into the abyss of obscurity here... was the reason nobody else posted because of my vulgarity, or are you all stumped, or did I pretty much say everything that was to be said?

Those who disagree w/ you often use all manner of vulgarity themselves, so I'm guessing it was the "stumped" thing.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

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Sunday, January 5, 2014 4:54 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

RUSH LIMBAUGH is a BLUE PILL ADDICT!

As evidence of "rape mentality"
Tuesday, July 30, 2013 8:11 PM
MAL4PREZ
And just remember, according to Rappy, the term befitting a women who wants the insurance she pays for to cover medications affecting her reproductive organs is whore

Wednesday, July 31, 2013 4:23 PM
little rappy
The term applies

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Sunday, January 5, 2014 5:04 PM

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Those who disagree w/ you often use all manner of vulgarity themselves, so I'm guessing it was the "stumped" thing.

"I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts".

Thanks for keeping it real, Rethug :)

Ain't it weird to almost be on the same side Rap?

I hope it all keeps moving like that, back and forth, in a pendulum like motion....

If we weren't allies this many years later, and we weren't enemies 4 or 8 years from now, and then friends and/or allies again 4 or 8 years later, and then frenemies 4 or 8 years from then...........

A red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts for sure. ;)

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Sunday, January 5, 2014 5:08 PM