Saturday, December 31, 2022

Wishing all Pilgrims

  





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Do Your Own Research

 


Pilgrim, what do you know about Ray Epps and his participation in the January 6, 2021 Capitol riots? Well, the Jan 6 committee has just released the transcript of his testimony to their group. See below.


But before you read this testimony, you need to view the video tapes of Epps on January 5 and 6, 2021. Above is the best I could discover of this live evidence. I failed in my attempt to find this footage without commentary. So, Pilgrim, ignore Tucker Carlsons editorializing and just watch Ray Epps in action.


Next, read the transcript of his interview here: Ray Epps Jan 6 interview. Note the word “interview” and not “testimony” suggesting it was not under oath.


Now, you are a original researcher and can come to your own conclusion about Epps’ role … and why he has not been arrested and charged like hundreds of others seen in these video clips.


Afterward: Here is Epps whispering into another’s ear right before this one broke down the barrier. I still can’t find the video although I’ve seen it.




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Powerline Pic



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Black Teeth



During my visit to the dentist the other day, he related the following:

Years ago in Japan, when the son of wealthy parents got married, they would paint the bride’s teeth with a silver solution. This bound with nascent decay and stopped it … making the woman capable of a longer working life.

However, there was a downside to this unique dental hygiene — it turned the new wife’s teeth black … which soon became an indication of family wealth.

Soooo … poor Japanese women took to painting their teeth black … pretending to be wealthy. … a rather strange fad.

But no stranger than some societal memes in this country … say rap “music” and drag-queen shows for children?



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Mostly Cajun Pic


Speechless …



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Headlines

 


Conservatives’ latest MxCarthy ask: A broad Biden admin investigation

The Fed won’t be what drives markets in 2023, wealth manager says

‘They know I did nothing wrong’ — Trump responds after Jan 6 committee withdrawal subpoena

Report: Biden admin will not comply with House Republican subpoenas

Italy finds no new COVID variants among Chinese visitors so far

U.S. considers airline wastewater testing as COVID surges in China 

Texas begins placing shipping containers in El Paso sector of border as Biden ignores crisis

Federal prosecutors open investigation into George Santoss

Democrat wins Arizona attorney general race after recount

Putin says Russia expects China’s Xi to make a state visit in Spring

ICE doesn’t have records on nearly 400k illegals they released

Pete dead


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Friday, December 30, 2022

Simulated Reality



Elon Musk has famously speculated that we are all living in a massive simulation in some giant quantum computer many years hence … to be stylishly mimicked by many other Mensa wannabes.


This idea of a giant simulation is based upon the notion that future quantum computers would have effectively unlimited storage and processing capacity to the pont that every item and event in the universe could be created and controlled virtually and rationally … kinda like under the theory of intelligent design.


If you need another analogy, think  of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg’s “meraverse”  coming to an ultimate fruition.


Now Pilgrim, although I can understand the logic behind intelligence design …  See: God’s Gifts … I can’t completely bite … there are too many things that don’t seem too well designed. And I also definitely cannot swallow the giant simulation of our reality.


Why?


Simple… if everything is an enormous dancing set of Qbits in a gigantic quantum computer … then what is simulating this dancing set of Qbits in this same computer? An even bigger quantum computer?


Reducto ad adsurbum!



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daily timewaster Pic

 


Once upon a mattress …



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Quotable Quote



With all the recent mysterious deaths in Russia, it’s beginning to look a lot like Arkansas back in the Clinton 1990s.. — Fletcher



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My 2023 Predictions



-  Putin will step down or die … meaning Russia will withdraw from Ukraine … including Crimea

- Zelensky and Biden share the Nobel Peace Prize

- RIP: Jimmy Carter, George Soros, John Fetterman, Kim Jong Un

- Trump is indicted by the Special Counsel Jack Smith and convicted in DC court on documents charge. Receives no jail time and still runs for nomination.

- DeSantis and Newsome announce for president in their respective parties

- China economy slows to a crawl … spawning more unrest … Xi will be forced to relax autocracy.

- Japan will develop nuclear weapons


STAND UP FOR THE NEW YEAR!


Headlines

 


Santos scandal crashes into McCarthy speakership battle

FTX diverted $200 million of customer money for two venture deals that caught the SEC’s attention

Democrats seek more sweeping changes in America’s election laws

Drama: Kanye goes ‘missing’ …

Trump’s tax forms to be unveiled Friday morning

Elon Musk tells Tesla employees to not be bothered by stock market craziness

Justice Gorsuch blasts lawmakers, says SCOTUS should not be ‘policymaker of last resort’

Bolsonaro headed to Mar-a-Largo?

Judge: Jan.6 committee evidence suggests Trump asked rally crowd to break the law

Explosions rock Ukraine cities as Russia launches ‘more than 100 missiles’ in waves

Pope Francis says former Pope Benedict is ‘very sick’

Google employees brace for cost-cutting drive as anxiety mounts …


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Thursday, December 29, 2022

The Dentist

 


To memorialize my having a tooth pupulled today, I offer you W.C. Fields in The Dentist.



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Powerline Chart

 


Obviously Apple is a big factor. And I’m not sure if Taiwan is included in these numbers as exports … but it seems more likely as imports.



STAND UP TO CHINA!


Media Maggots

 


Where is the media outrage when President Biden can’t be bothered to visit his catastrophe on our Mexican border because he has “more important things to do” … or even notice the dozens freezing to death from our winter blizzards … while he rakes his third luxury beach vacation this year gratis of billionaire boot-lickers and US taxpayers … not counting his constant “lidded” weekends at his Rehoboth Beach manse?


Oh that’s right, they ran their outrage dry while piling on President Trump when he once played golf four times in a month!


Afterward: I call them media maggots because they are feasting on a dying America.



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Headlines



Supreme Court blocks lifting of Trump-era Title 42 border policy

Southwest warns of more flight cancellations as meltdown draws federal scrutiny

Backlog of US asylum claims tops 1.5 million

Second war threatens to explode in Europe [Serbia v. Kosovo] …

Republican Jewish coalition denounces Santos for lies about his credentials

Tesla stock is headed for its worst month, quarter and year on record

Arizona judge denies request to sanction Kari Lake over election lawsuit

Unclear fate for Brazil’s brash Bolsonaro …

Co-leader of Whitmer kidnapping plot gets 16 years in prison

More than 60 killed as blizzard is wrecking havoc across U.S. 

Biden heads to Virgin Islands for vacation as dozens of Americans freeze to death 

BUST: Tech giants lost a combined $433 billion this year …


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Wednesday, December 28, 2022

Babylon Wasp

                    


Trump’s Truth Social social-media site has opened an on-line store … called Ultra MAGA Mart … that is offering a wide array of patriotic items … here are a few of them:

- A vellum edition of Mein Kampf personally autographed by The Don himself — $50

- A folio of copies of ten Top Secret documents that the FBI overlooked in its Mar-a-Largo raid— $35

- An authentic copy of a Mussolini brown shirt:  S, M, L, XL, XXL— $43

- The original Adolph Eichmann Argentine passport with a certificate of authencity — $15,000

- A video of a young Donald Trump marching in the infamous 1978 Nazi parade in Skokie, Illinois — $15

- A cookbook of Adolph Hitler’s favorite recipes — $18


All orders over $100 are shipped free.


(Afterward: in case this satire went over your head, it is really Biden who is playing Goebels in this passion play.)



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Woodsterman Pics





Yes, both under that ever-alert Bill Barr …



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Powerline Chart



Amazing what an oft repeated canard can accomplish …



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Headlines

  


‘This makes my head hurt’: Connecticut used disaster aid to rebuild million-dollar homes

Katie Hobbs seeks sanctions against Kari Lake after Arizona judge dismisses election challenge lawsuit

Where’s Joe? Biden gives only seven formal interviews in 2022

Rand Paul’s annual ‘Festivus’ report: $482,276,543,907 in waste

Rep.-elect Santos admits lying about his credentials

China turns to lemons, peaches and traditional medicine in wake of COVID wave

New York governor declares state of emergency in response to historic winter storm

After Buffalo blizzard, scramble to find food, essentials …

Ukraine takes 2 steps forward, 1 step back in its anti-corruption fight

China to scrap quarantines for international travelers in an essential end to zero-COVID

Biden admin pressured Twitter to censor medical experts who questioned CNC COVID guidence

Kyiv aims for peace in Feb. … Russia says Ukraine must surrender even as Putin retreats


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Tuesday, December 27, 2022

Reader Contribution


 

 Dear Santa:  When I was a child, my father cheated on my Mom and didn't love my family.   Later, my parents divorced.  Soon after, my mother died in a car accident.   My brother and I could only live in my grandma's old house.  Grandma's sister was an alcoholic.  The whole family lived on my grandma's savings.   Grandma recently died.  My Uncle Andy is barely keeping himself out of jail from day to day.  My brother left home and won't talk to us any more.  Dad, now 73, had to go out to work to support the family and eventually he is going to want me to do the same thing.  Yours sincerely,  Prince William 




Thanks Rick …



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This is Your FBI

 

Note the scales of Justice on the seal!

See: U.S. News story


Our ever-alert FBI can quickly ferret out worried PTA members and abortion factory prayers but can’t be bothered with scabby greenies.


Christopher Wray  is a tool of the tools.



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Woodsterman Pic

 



Three dog night …



STAND UP FOR TRIED TENDERNESS!

 

Headlines

 


Pennsylvania politics are heated. It soon could be chaos

Beijing roars to life a month after zero-COVID lockdowns fade, but China is not out of the woods yet

Latest ‘Twitter Files’  reveal company was in contact with multiple government agencies

Poll shows most Americans have forgotten the real meaning of Christmas

China sends 71 warplanes, 7 ships toward Taiwan in 24 hours

Three killed in second attack on Engels base deep inside Russia

Hollywood has lost $500+ billion in market value this year

Migrants spend frigid Christmas morning on El Paso streets

South Korea launches jets, fires shots after North flies drones

Putin claims Russia ready to negotiate over Ukraine, Kyiv says Moscow doesn’t want talks

Dismissal of Keri Lake’s election lawsuit proves voter disenfranchisement no longer matters

Blizzard buries Buffalo in 4 feet of of snow


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Monday, December 26, 2022

More Cute Animals


From Feral Irishman blog


I need my cup of puppies …



STAND UP FOR MORNINGS!


How Did I Do?

 

Below are my predictions for 2022 … along with an indication of how well I did:


 - New virus introduced from China —  Probably not

- Taxes will not go up — What was I thinking?

- RIP: Jimmy Carter, Rush Limbaugh, Bob Dole, Ayatollah Khamenei — 2, maybe 3 (the Ayatollah) out of 4 … actually Dole died late in 2021

- 5 key indictments in Durham Russiagate investigation — Only 2 with no convictions … one guilty admission

- Bear market correction led by Bitcoin, Zoom and Tesla — Major win!

- Dems take one of the two Georgia Senate runoff races — A miss … they took both

- Hunter Biden will skate — So far

- Joe Biden will resign or be removed from office using 25th Amendment — The Kamala insurance policy is working

- Dr. Fauci wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction — Not yet



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Freedom of the Press



Our founding fathers championed freedom of the press …. hoping to keep our government in check … never imagining that these two  could end up in bed together.



STAND UP FOR ADVERSARIES!


Money Laundering

 



Why is it called “money laundering” when it just as frequently converts clean money into dirty money? 




STAND UP TO THE BIDENS!


Headlines



‘Big Brother is protecting you’; Eric Adams pledges stronger policing, more technology for 2023

Airlines cancel 1,000 lights during severe winter storm and scramble to rebook holiday travelers

Pelosi wishes Americans a ‘Happy Schwanza’

Yuma hospital CEO: Providing care to migrants is ‘unsustainable’

 Arizona judge rejects Lake’s election lawsuit

18 die as massive storm brings rain, snow, cold across the U.S.

California loses more residents than any other state this year

Texas grid emergency … Raining BATS …

Christmas Eve missile strike kills at least 7 in Ukraine’s Kherson

Tesla suspends production in its Shanghai plant according to an internal notice

Recent string of errors in federal statistics were all in Democrats’ favor

3 busloads of migrants dropped at Kamala Harris’ home


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Sunday, December 25, 2022

Root Cause



Pilgrim, didn’t our Mensa member President of Vice, Kamala Harris, after extensive consultation, tell us a root cause of the hoards of illegal migrants coming to the United States was  because of global warming (aka, climate  change)? 


Let me see … hundreds of thousands are leaving warm, even hot  climates to trek to our freezing cold (in the tens and twenties) southwestern states?


Klueless Kamala, I suggest yo rethink this canard …


Afterward: Anyone notice that Americans are moving south in droves? Would they be doing this in order to burn up first?



STAND UP TO OUR BORDER CZARINA!


Greenie Goobers




Just when the greenie goobers have convinced the sheeple that the world is soon going to burn up, Mother Nature reminds then who is in charge.



STAND UP FOR DENIERS!


Three Kings


 

Casper, Melchior and Balthasar … all meaning “king” in three different ancient languages.



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Headlines

 


Biden signs defense spending bill ending military vaccine mandate

Why everyone thinks a recession is coming in 2023

House passes $1.7 trillion omnibus disaster 225-201, 9 Republicans vote in favor

Jan 6 report ignores Nancy Pelosi’s role in failing to secure the Capitol

Hawley says he wasn’t at the Zelensky event because he ‘didn’t want to be part of a photo-op’

S&P 500 and Nasdaq close higher Friday, but fall for the third straight week

Biden’s COVID czar finally admits masks aren’t very effective

Mall of America on lockdown after shooting leaves one dead

Republicans back Zelensky but balk at future aid

TIKTOK banned on government devices in spending bill passed by Congress

LOL: VP Harris complains media ‘not covering the strength of her leadership’

Trump calls on House to obtain Biden financial records


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Saturday, December 24, 2022

Quotable Quote



Pilgrim, we should fully support, but not slobber over the lesser of two evils … Zelensky … for there will come a day when we will have boxed ourselves in.  — Fletcher


Afterward: Perhaps why much of Europe has been hanging back with their help?



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Powerline Pic

 






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The Major Difference

 


Conservatives castigate their swamp creatures … lefties applaud theirs. — Fletcher



STAND UP TO THE SWAMP!


Obvious Truth

 


Most of the world’s problems can be traced to poor or no communications. — Fletcher



STAND UP FOR TALKING!


Headlines

 


FTX founder Bankman-Fried to be freed on $250M bond

Facebook parent Meta agrees to pay $725 million to settle privacy lawsuit

Senate passes massive $1.7 trillion spending bill

18 GOP Senators help Dems pass bloated spending bill

U.S. officials: Russia is increasingly relying on Wagner in Ukraine

Most supply chain managers expect problems to persist at least through 2024

U.S. life expectancy reaches 25-year low

Joe Biden delivers Christmas message without saying the word Jesus

Florida is the fastest growing state: Census data shows

Airlines cancel thousands of flights as winter storms and bitter cold sweep across U.S. before Christmas

Arizona forced to dismantle shipping container wall thanks to Biden admin lawsuit

Facebook riddled with ex-CIA agents …


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Friday, December 23, 2022

More on Factcheckers

 


“Snopes is for dopes.” — Fletcher


Most, if not all, of the “factcheckers’ on the internet …Politifact, Snopes, etc. … are encamped on the left.


Before you put your blind faith in these babinzos Pilgrim, ask yourself … have they ever … even once … agreed with anything that embarrassed the Democrats?


No? What are the odds?



STAND UP TO BABINZOS!


Deep Freeze



Pilgrim, can you make out the ghost of Global Warming Past lurking in the temperature gradients of this weather map?



STAND UP FOR POLAR BEARS!


Headlines

 


Zelensky comes to Washington and pulls neither punches nor asks

Semiconductor namer Micron announces 10% staff reduction, suspends bonuses

As expected: FBI blames ‘conspiracy theories’ after being exposed by Twitter Files

McCarthy threatens to block bills of GOP Senators who vote for Omnibus bill

Biden to send Patriot missile system [to Ukraine] … Putin vows to deploy Satan Ii nukes …

Top FTX, Alameda execs plead guilty in connection to Bankman-Fried case

Gold at $4,000? Analysts share their 2023 outlook as inflation, recession fears linger

Incoming House Judiciary Committee chairman says he’ll probe DOJ spying on Devin Nunes, Congressional investigators

Zelensky to Congress: ‘Your money is not charity’

Turkey hikes minimum wage by 55% as inflation and living costs crisis bite

House Republican panel releases counter report on Jan 6

Storm blast major travel delays … Airlines cancel flights …


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Thursday, December 22, 2022

Biden Sleaze



Was there any sleazy trick that the Biden bunch didn’t do to stop a Republican sweep in the November midterms? How about reporting and bragging about an astounding million new jobs created in the second quarter … right before the voting … when the real number was 10,000?


See: Powerline blog revelation for details.


“I’m not joking!”


STAND  UP TO GOVERNMENT LYING!


Today’s Poser



It’s been almost a year and a half since the one trillion (with a T) infrastructure bill was passed in a bipartisan Congress. So, dear reader, have you seen any evidence of spending on highways, bridges, tunnels, airports and such? 

No?

Don’t count spending on lawyers or lobbyists or NGOs or other Democrat leeches!



STAND UP AGAINST LEECHES!


Headlines


What Zelensky wants — but is unlikely to get — from Biden

Mortgage refinance demand surged 6%, as rates dropped to lowest level since September

Twitter Files Part Eight reveals company directly assisting U.S. military psy-ops

Senate advances $1.6 trillion omnibus spending bill

Elon Musk on Twitter: I’ll resign as CEO

Only one Trump tax return as president got mandatory IRS audit, report says

Biden administration asks SCOTUS to end Title 42 — but delay suspension of restrictions

House votes to release Trump’s tax returns 

Taliban bar women from university education in Afghanistan

Ukraine’s Zelensky to visit Washington today in high-stakes trip to rally support

Delaware Supreme Court strikes down voting by mail and same-day registration

Winter storm threatens major travel delays … big Chicago blizzard …


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Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Omnibus Bill



Something for everyone … on our credit card!



STAND UP TO GREED!


daily Timewaster Pic

 



Imagine the root canal performed on thisSiberian-found mammoth tusk …



STAND UP FOR MAMMOTHS!


Kindergarten



It’s very frustrating to have a government that acts like a kindergarten teacher … not leveling with us on COVID, UFOs, the Kennedy assasination secrets and the like.

Perhaps if we Americans stopped acting like 5-year olds?


STAND  UP FOR LEVELING!

Headlines

 


Germany is (still) a Huawei hotspot in Europe

Bank of Japan shocks global markets with bond yield shift

Twitter Files Part 7 reveals how FBI and DOJ discredited factual info about Hunter Biden’s business dealings

Special prosecutor has history of indicting presidents …

Judge strikes down California gun law modeled after Texas abortion measure

Auto executives are less confident in EV adoption than they were a year ago

Judge allows two of Keri Lake’s election challenge claims to head to trial 

6.4 mag quake shakes Northern California …

Harvey Weinstein found guilty of rape in Los Angeles

FTX founder Bankman-Fried sent back to Bahamas jail in day of courtroom chaos

Biden’s COVID vax mandate for federal contractors blocked by appeals court 

Release of Trump financials could herald new era for taxpayer privacy …


STAND UP FOR AMERICA!


Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Fact Checking the Fact Checkers

 


Pilgrim, if you put blind faith with the fact checkers on the internet, please read the following carefully to see how this game is played.


The issue for today is — Do more people who have been vaccinated die of COVID more. than the unvaccinated?


The claim out of England was that this is the case … which was then contested by the “fact checkers.” Read this seeming debunking here: Yahoo News Story. Read it carefully then come back for more.


Basically, the statistics collected showed that 4.8 times as many vaccinated patients died in England for each unvaccinated patient who died.


OK, in this article Politifact says this is a biased claim primarily because it doesn't account for the fact that 90% of the population was vaccinated and  “A very small percentage of a large population is still more people than a higher percentage of a very small one." This, of course, is true.


However, there is still a flaw in this logic … and that is that it assumes that the ratio of COVID patients … both vaccinated and unvaccinated … is the same as the vaccinated ratio … 9 to 1. Of course, if this be the fact, what’s the point of the vaccine? Both vaxed and unvaxed would need to be getting sick at the same rate.


We are not given the number of people, both vaccinated and unvaccinated, who actually got COVID … key numbers.


How do we resolve this? Well, to me, let’s use what the pharma companies themselves claim … that their vaccines are effective over 90% of the time.


This would mean that only about 10% of the 90% of the vaccinated general population should get COVID … or 9% of the general population.


Conversely, 90% of the 10% of the unvaxed general population should get COVID … or also 9% of the general population.


Shazam! Suddenly we realize that the number of patients from both the vaxed and unvaxed populations should be roughly the same. Yet those who have been vaccinated are dying at 4.8 times the rate of the unvaxed!


QED … (and don’t trust the fact checkers!)


STAND UP FOR LOGIC!


Interesting Factiod

 


The Biden administration has drained 180 million barrels of oil from our Strategic Oil Reserve over the last year … leaving it seriously depleted.. They have just decided to buy back 3 million barrels.


La De Da …



STAND UP TO STUPIDITY!


Powerline Chart

 


The U.S. aspires to be as big a wielfare state as Socalist Europe. Apparently we have left them in the dust!



STAND UP TO SOCIALISM!


Headlines

 


Biden marks 50th anniversary of death of wife, daughter

Elon Musk polled Twitter on whether he should step down as CEO. Most voters said yes

New files: FBI pressured Twitter to find fictitious evidence of foreign influence on the platform

Arctic air set to blast much of the U.S. right before Christmas …

Qatar slams EU corruption accusations, puts energy cooperation in doubt

Ukraine war updates: Russian drone attacks take out power supplies in Kyiv, Ruble tumbles

Sens. Gassley and Harley slam DHS for restrictions on ‘disinfo’

47 years later Spielberg regrets impact ‘Jaws’ has on sharks …

North Korea fires 2 ballistic missiles capable of reaching Japan

The FTX disaster has set back crypto by ‘years’ 

Emails: Jeffery Epstein victim claimed to have copies of his blackmail videos

El Paso state of emergency …


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