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He's also got the money to dangle over their heads. I bet there were many, many open and veiled threats about inheritances and loans. They're all extremely fawning in exactly the way you'd expect of people who are shit-scared they won't hear their names mentioned in the will.

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It's always sad to see a child rejected by a parent, and I doubt she'll see much of the inheritance, but my guess is that Tiffany is the lucky one here. Her mother seems to have her head screwed on fairly straight, and she's protected her daughter from Donnie's toxic attention and manipulation. Jezzus....no wonder Trump is so popular with the family values bunch, eh?

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They are performing a vital and necessary function. They cooperate with each other, mostly and share large carcasses. They raise their young in safe and loving environments seeing to their needs.In all ways they are superior to Reb politicians and most of their followers.

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Not a bent farthing.

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Including going out and voting themselves.

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Director of the FBI, because I think they're going to have an opening soon.

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Not gonna get bamboozled again.

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I spent a summer in Texas installing wooden Pencing. Hot, not very fulfilling work. Sounds familiar.

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Oh, that would be awesome.

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Yeah, well, whatever. He could have taken his US military skills over and helped out the army there after he was done here. It's not like his beloved ultra-orthodox settlers are joining.

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Well, yeah, but I don't really want to give money to SomeLobbyistWonTheCoinToss.Org. Is there one the campaign prefers?

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I love your flowing prose!

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"Passionate," I believe he called some similarly-enthusiastic supporters.

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Luckily he's a putz, and is still about 1.7 million behind the Khmer Rouge.

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Pence. Only useful in the United Kingdom these days.

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Well, they did fuck up that church...

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