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For a second I thought he was getting ready to kick him in the nuts.  Sadly he wasn't.

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Aw, poor widdle nazi is triggered by a gay cartoon character. "‘This is a war for our culture’: Sebastian Gorka anguished by gay wedding on ‘Arthur’"

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Sebastian Gorka, the former Breitbart editor and White House aide, goes live every weekday from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Eastern time on the Salem Radio Network.

On Tuesday, he provided a new raison d’etre for “America First” — the title of his show and the slogan for President Trump’s approach to foreign policy, which was also used by isolationists and Nazi sympathizers before the Second World War.

The reason?

The 22nd season of “Arthur,” the animated children’s series about an anthropomorphic aardvark.

Gorka, who brandished the insignia of a historically Nazi-aligned Hungarian group called the Vitezi Rend at an inauguration ball in January 2017, flew into a rage because the season’s Monday premiere featured a gay wedding. Arthur’s third-grade teacher, Nigel Ratburn, exchanges vows with a local chocolatier, an aardvark named Patrick.

[Mr. Ratburn came out as gay and got married in the ‘Arthur’ season premiere]

“Yep. It’s a brand new world,” remarks Arthur’s friend Francine, subtly announcing the moral lesson of the episode, titled “Mr. Ratburn and the Special Someone.”

The show makes no explicit reference to the gender of the newlyweds, suggesting that their union is unremarkable. The approach won plaudits from LGBTQ advocacy organizations. GLAAD congratulated Mr. Ratburn on Twitter, adding a rainbow emoji.

But Gorka, who briefly served as a spokesman for Trump on national security matters before he left the White House in the summer of 2017, saw something insidious at work. The diversity showcased on “Arthur” fit a pattern of left-wing demagoguery he identified in everything from the revolutionary Reign of Terror in France to the administration of President Barack Obama.

The ideology on display — in Mr. Ratburn’s nuptials and the rest — was that, “Civil society doesn’t exist, friendship doesn’t exist, family doesn’t exist,” Gorka maintained. “Only permanent revolution.”

The “permanent revolution” pursued by “Arthur,” Gorka steamed, had to do with “family.”

He said his issue with “Arthur,” which airs on PBS Kids and debuted in 1996, was personal.

“My children used to watch ‘Arthur’ 15 years ago, about a rodent-like creature that lived and had fun in his cartoon world,” Gorka said. “The new season of ‘Arthur’ will have one of Arthur’s teachers at school, a male teacher, married to a fellow male rodent.”

To the right-wing commentator and rabble-rouser, who was a close ally of former White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon, the story line sharpened cultural divisions.

“Did you have any questions about there being a culture war, ladies and gentlemen?” he asked his listeners. “Did you have any doubt in your mind? This is a war for our culture, and that’s why we exist here, on ‘America First,’ on the Salem Radio Network.”

Gorka was born in Britain to Hungarian parents and became a naturalized American citizen in 2012. A biography at the Institute of World Politics, a Washington-based graduate school where he is a nonresident scholar, calls Gorka an “internationally recognized authority on issues of national security, irregular warfare, terrorism and democratization.”

Mainstream counterterrorism experts regard his views as extreme, in particular his judgment that Islam predisposes its adherents to violence. His elevation from the fringe of the foreign policy establishment to the White House was a signal of how Trump’s presidency had given new credence to anti-Muslim conspiracy theories. Democratic senators pressed for an investigation into the adviser, who eagerly defended the president’s nationalist agenda on cable television but was forced out in August 2017 under restructuring pursued by former White House chief of staff John F. Kelly.

Gorka remained a Fox News contributor through this year, when he decided not to renew his contract so that he could pursue his radio show, as well as a position with Sinclair Broadcast Group, as he told the Hollywood Reporter.

The far-right culture warrior has exchanged the world of the West Wing for the world of conservative talk radio. But in the “cartoon world” inhabited by Arthur, he doesn’t like the changes he’s seeing.

It’s not the first time that themes in the animated universe have drawn conservative ire. In 2005, PBS chose not to distribute an episode of “Postcards from Buster,” a spinoff following Arthur’s rabbit confidant, which included lesbian mothers. The decision came after Margaret Spellings, then-education secretary under President George W. Bush, raised “strong and very serious concerns” about the episode.

“Many parents would not want their young children exposed to the life-styles portrayed in this episode,” she wrote to PBS executives. “Congress’ and the Department’s purpose in funding this programming certainly was not to introduce this kind of subject matter to children, particularly through the powerful and intimate medium of television.”

Marc Brown, the creator of “Arthur,” took a different view.

In the episode in question, he said at the time, “we are validating children who are seldom validated.”

 

I seriously don't get these people. Why exactly am I supposed to completely lose my shit over two adults getting married? :confusion-shrug:

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The fleecing of the Branch Trumpvidians continues

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For only $45 you can establish a “point of contact” with God via a gold-plated coin engraved with President Trump and King Cyrus’ faces — according to the “Jim Bakker Show” at least.

The coin is being peddled by Lance Wallnau, who claims God told him people need it to pray for Trump.

“When I asked the Lord, ‘Why the coin?’ he said ‘Because when you take the coin, it’s a point of contact,’” Wallnau said in the recording. “So your faith is being released with a million other believers to pray protection and peace and wisdom and counsel over the president of the United States and over his family.”

If you're stupid enough to buy shit like that you deserve to lose every last penny you own.

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My oh my, Krissy certainly has an inflated sense of self-worth: "A Would-Be Trump Aide’s Demands: A Jet on Call, a Future Cabinet Post and More"

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Access to a government jet 24 hours a day. An office in the West Wing, plus guaranteed weekends off for family time. And an assurance of being made secretary of homeland security by November.

Those were among a list of 10 conditions that Kris Kobach, the former Kansas secretary of state, has given to the White House if he is to become the administration’s “immigration czar,” a job President Trump has been looking to create to coordinate immigration policy across government agencies. The list was described by three people familiar with it.

Mr. Kobach, who once served as an adviser to the hard-line immigration Sheriff Joe Arpaio and helped write an Arizona law requiring local officials to verify the citizenship of anyone they had “reasonable suspicion” to believe was an unauthorized immigrant, said he would need to be the main television spokesman for the Trump administration on immigration policy. And he said he wanted a guarantee that cabinet secretaries whose portfolios relate to immigration would defer to him, with the president mediating disputes if need be.

The list was submitted by Mr. Kobach in recent weeks as he discussed his interest in the job. Other conditions included having a staff of seven reporting to him, “walk in” privileges to the Oval Office, a security detail if deemed necessary and the title of assistant to the president.

He would need access to the jet, he said, for weekly visits to the border and travel back to Kansas on the weekends. The existence of the list has become known among officials in the Trump administration, some of whom were taken aback by what they regard as its presumptuousness.

Kris Kobach’s Conditions for Becoming Immigration Czar

Mr. Kobach submitted the following list of demands during discussions for an administration post.

1. Office in the West Wing.

2. Walk-in privileges with the president.

3. Assistant to the President rank - at highest pay level for WH senior staff.

4. Staff of 7 people (2 attorneys, 2 research analysts, 1 scheduler, 1 media person, 1 assistant).

5. POTUS sits down individually with Czar and the secretaries of Homeland Security, Defense, Justice, Ag, Interior, and Commerce, and tells each of the Secretaries to follow the directives of the Czar without delay, subject to appeal to the President in cases of disagreement.

6. 24/7 access to either a DHS or DOD jet. Czar must be on the border every week.

7. Ability to spend weekends in KS with family on way from border back to DC, unless POTUS needs Czar elsewhere.

8. Security detail if deemed necessary after security review.

9. Serve as the face of Trump immigration policy - the principal spokesman on television and in the media.

10. Promise that by November 1, 2019, the president will nominate Kris Kobach to be DHS Secretary, unless Kobach wishes to continue in Czar position.

A White House spokesman declined to comment on the list. Mr. Kobach did not respond to emails and text messages.

Mr. Trump has also been considering others for the role, and he is said to be leaning toward Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, the former Virginia attorney general.

Mr. Cucinelli has made his own requests related to the job, such as a security detail and transportation to work, according to one person briefed on the discussions. Mr. Cucinelli did not respond to a request for comment.

Mr. Kobach, a graduate of Harvard, Oxford and Yale Law School, served as Kansas’ secretary of state from 2011 until January. While in that job, he was picked by Mr. Trump to lead a voter fraud commission after the president insisted that the 2016 election was marred by millions of illegal votes.

The commission was disbanded in 2018, with one expert on election law, Richard L. Hasen, describing its chairman as “a leader nationally in making irresponsible claims that voter fraud is a major problem in this country.”

The same year, Mr. Kobach, a former chairman of the Kansas Republican Party, also ran for governor, losing to a Democrat, Laura Kelly. He lost a race for the House in 2004.

The list underscores the clout Mr. Kobach hopes to have in a job that would not require Senate confirmation, but could drive Mr. Trump’s immigration agenda. One of its main objectives was to minimize the influence of cabinet officials, who have at times been targets of Mr. Trump’s ire, or have jostled for his ear.

After Kirstjen Nielsen, the former homeland security secretary, resigned in April, Mr. Trump met with Mr. Kobach about the possibility of succeeding her. Mr. Kobach, according to people familiar with the meeting, brought with him a detailed plan to crack down on asylum seekers entering the country. He told Mr. Trump that the only way for him to complete the mission was to be able to fly down to the border at a moment’s notice.

At the time, Mr. Trump was convinced that Mr. Kobach would have a hard time winning Senate confirmation for the position, and the two discussed the possible creation of an immigration czar.

He has yet to make a decision. And Mr. Kobach is also considering running for the Kansas Senate seat being vacated by Pat Roberts, a Republican. National Republicans, concerned about his hard-line positions, are hoping to keep him from winning the party’s nomination if he does run.

As bad as Nielsen was, Kobach or Cucinelli would be absolutely horrific in the job.

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3 hours ago, fraurosena said:

Words fail.

 

These people don’t love Trump - they love racism and this is their attention whoring dog whistle which they think gives them plausible deniability.

not with me it doesn’t.  That might as well be a white hood as far as I’m concerned.

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Students for Trump founder could be going to prison for impersonating a lawyer

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On the eve of the last presidential election, NBC’s “Nightly News” broadcast featured two skinny college students in jackets and ties, discussing the future of American politics. They were co-founders of Students for Trump, a grassroots group that had tapped the social media power of Donald Trump’s populist movement — and of photos of bikini-clad women in MAGA hats — to become the real estate mogul’s standard-bearer on college campuses around the country.

“I see Donald Trump as reviving the Republican Party,” one of them, John Lambert, declared confidently.

Last month, Lambert, now 23, showed up in the news again. This time, he had been arrested in Tennessee on charges of wire fraud. According to the federal government, at the same time he was building a nationwide political network and serving as one of the most visible young faces of Trump’s populist movement, Lambert was also posing online as a high-powered New York lawyer, eventually making off with tens of thousands of dollars in fees he stole from unwitting clients seeking legal services.

Around the summer of 2017, Lambert allegedly landed a client who was having problems with a credit reporting agency. Over the next several months, the government says, the client drained their retirement savings account to pay Lambert fees totaling more than $10,000, only to have Lambert stop responding to the client’s emails. Another client allegedly paid Lambert $1,500 for help drafting a will. Lambert also allegedly bilked money from an accountant working on behalf of an IT company in Texas, from a skincare company and from a printing company. All told, the government says, the PayPal account used by Lambert in the scheme took in more than $50,000.

Yet another example of fuck face attracting the finest people.

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QUIZ: Should You Go To Bed or Start a Fight With Your Republican Aunt on Facebook?

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It’s 11:45, and you’re trying to wind down a little before going to bed. As you scroll through your feed, you notice your increasingly racist, Republican aunt has posted something that “the liberal media refuses to show you.” As usual, her post is both deeply inaccurate and profoundly racist. Should you remind yourself that you will never change her mind and get a solid eight hours of sleep, or pick a fight with your aunt and her random friend Susan until 4am?

Personally I'd wait until the AM and I've had some coffee before engaging in wars with fornicate wit Branch Trumpvidians.  Especially if they're family.

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No one ever said Branch Trumpvidians were particularly smart

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Attention: The Trump Baby blimp has been stabbed.

Yes, the supersized Trump balloon that's been following the president around during his visit London was attacked on Tuesday by knife-wielding Trump supporter. The highly-publicized floating orange babys was reportedly stabbed by far-right troll Amy Dalla Mura who calls herself "Based Amy." 

She captured the incident on camera herself, and she also managed to slice herself in the process.  After the stabbing, Mura can be heard yelling at anti-Trump protesters, "The president of the United States is the best president ever, shame on you!" As she strolls away, she brags to onlookers that, "I think Donald Trump's balloon is not very well." 

A moment later she can be seen holding up her own blood-covered hand, exclaiming, "I'm bleeding quite badly, though."

And they should be kept away from sharp objects.

As for the blimp, it was repaired and back at work.

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Another Branch Trumpvidian whose stupidity lead to real world consequences.

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A Texas school board voted that a teacher who tried to report undocumented students in her school district to Donald Trump through a series of public tweets — that she thought were private messages to the president — should be fired.

Clark,an English teacher at Carter-Riverside High School, tweeted that the school she worked at had been “taken over” by “illegal students from Mexico,” that Trump was elected “on the promise that a wall would be built to protect our borders” and tweeted multiple statements referencing "illegals."

The tweets started gaining attention on social media last week, and Clark's account was deleted May 29. She was placed on administrative leave after the school district became aware of the tweets.

According to district documents, Clark told an investigator she thought the tweets were direct messages to President Trump and didn't know they were public.

I hope she enjoys unemployment.  Of course she'll probably be working the GOP victim circuit full time now.

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8 hours ago, 47of74 said:

Another Branch Trumpvidian whose stupidity lead to real world consequences.

I hope she enjoys unemployment.  Of course she'll probably be working the GOP victim circuit full time now.

Betsy Devos will probably hire her as a deputy.

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The Winneshiek County GOP wanted to put up a bunch of MAGA flags on Flag Day.  The city council said nope.

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On a 4-3 vote, the Decorah City Council has rejected an application by the Winneshiek County Republican Party to be allowed to put up 33 "Make America Great Again" flags on Water Street on Flag Day, June 14th.

City Council members Dan Bellrichard, Andy Carlson, Steve Luse and Ross Hadley voted to deny the request, while Randy Schissel, Kirk Johnson and Johanna Bergan voted to allow the flags to be put up.

Decorah Mayor Lorraine Borowski led the argument against allowing the flags to be flown.  She pointed out that American flags will already be flown June 14th for Flag Day and questioned why a second flag would be appropriate.  City council member Andy Carlson said he was concerned about flying a flag which had a campaign slogan on it.

Of course there will probably be a bunch of whining from them now about how the fuck face flag isn't being allowed. 

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Good grief, could she be more of a sycophant?

 

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Fuck Face supporters are all butt hurt over the photo of the black women graduating from West Point

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A photo featuring dozens of black women who graduated from West Point this year has enraged a group of Trump supporters who say it’s part of a plot to eliminate white people.

In a thread over at /r/The_Donald, which is Reddit’s most popular forum for Trump supporters, one user posted the photo of the recent West Point graduates along with a title that read, “Diversity just means ‘less white people.'”

The women had been touted by both West Point and in media reports as part of the most diverse class in the military academy’s history, which further angered /r/The_Donald’s subscribers.

Other Trump supporters were quick to mock the women’s figures, as one claimed that “they look like they could barely run a block to a McDonalds” and another claimed that “the worst things in life are fat sassy black chicks in charge of white men in stressful situations.”

One fuck face supporter tried to stick up for the graduates but of course the other Branch Trumpvidians weren't having any of that.

Fuck them.  Fuck them all.  In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Now if you'll excuse me, there's a swear jar needing to be refilled.

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13 hours ago, 47of74 said:

The Winneshiek County GOP wanted to put up a bunch of MAGA flags on Flag Day.  The city council said nope.

BTs: "But it's FLAG day! These are flags!"

Flag day is about celebrating the adoption of the US flag back in 1777. It's not a day for putting up random flags of all kinds. I'm glad the city council said no - but if they hadn't, I'd hope many others would decide to fly their own flags that day, too, to point out their hypocrisy. As many flags as possible. LGBTQetc. rainbow (and orientation) flags, favorite sports teams, fandom-related flags, Hogwarts house flags, flags of other countries, state flags, city flags, etc. All the flags. Drown out the MAGA flags with as many others as possible. Not confederate ones, though, those are worse than the MAGA ones.

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Why are there so many creepy pervs in the repub party?

 

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9 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

Why are there so many creepy pervs in the repub party?

 

Birds of a feather... 

 

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Another BT fuck wit in trouble with the law

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A Utah man has been arrested on accusations he threatened to kill members of Congress during a three-year stretch with more than 2,000 phone calls to the U.S. Capitol and profanity-laden tirades about Democrats threatening the presidency of Donald Trump.

In one call last month, Scott Brian Haven dialed the office of an unnamed U.S. representative and purported to be standing right behind him and ready to “shoot him in the head” because “the Russians want him taken out because he is trying to remove a duly elected President,” according to charging documents unsealed Wednesday.

He was arrested Tuesday in his hometown of Kaysville, Utah, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of Salt Lake City. He is charged with interstate transmission of threats to injure. State online records indicate he has no criminal history in Utah.

At his initial hearing Wednesday, a magistrate judge ordered Haven to remain jailed pending the outcome of the case, calling him a danger to the community.

 

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Well, I called my mom today (what was I thinking???) and of course, politics had to come up... even though *I* don't bring them up.

Abortion: always wrong once a heartbeat is detected. I observed that my cousin had 2 strokes because of a hole in her heart and her doctors advised against pregnancy. She should get her tubes tied (my cousin is 32 with no kids and no health insurance, and she lives in MT) or just not have sex (not always an option we have...). Always wrong, full stop. And that somehow led to..
Federal Reserve: illegal, and will be going away soon. Something about how it's wrong for a country that prints its own money to charge its citizens interest? And after it's gone, people won't have to worry about how to feed their kids.
Muslims: they think it's okay to lie to non-Muslims, and they need to rise up and denounce all those who kill others. You don't see Christians killing people (I noted the conference some pastors are trying to organise in Florida to 'Make America Straight Again'... she says that's 'not all Christians, and real Christians know the truth') and of course, all generations after hers were raised on gory video games and movies and legal abortion, so they have no idea that life is precious. The 50something year old shooter in Vegas? Brainwashed.

And my personal favourite: people have commited treason, and there will be arrests soon. People are tired of high-ranking officials breaking the law and getting away with it; we're a nation of laws and no one is above the law. I didn't bother asking about Trump, because I have no doubt it would be spun in a bizarre way that would probably make my head explode.

I feel tired.

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I'm sure he's a supporter of the tangerine toddler:

 

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Fuck sticks of a feather, it seems

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Letters sent from prison by notorious mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger in the last months of his life reveal his thoughts on various subjects, including repeated praise for President Trump.

NBC News reported Saturday that Bulger wrote in letters to various recipients of his support for Trump and anger at the news media, which he argued would attack the president while helping Democrats.

"Trump is tough and fights back instead of bowing down to pressure — and caving in to press! U.S. agrees with him press attacking and his reaction increases his popularity — He has my vote so far,"  Bulger wrote last August, nearly two years after Trump's election, according to NBC.

Bulger also went after another target in his letters: special counsel Robert Mueller, whose nearly two-year investigation into the Trump campaign and Russian election interference concluded earlier this year.

 

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pretty sure this belongs in Deplorables, because, well, think about it.  Or it could be in News of the Weird: 

Santorum, Schlapp Shill For Catholic Crypto Coin Whose Founder Has Sketchy Past

Yeah, this isn't The Onion and I am not making this up.  Ex Senator Rick "Sans Scrotum" Santorum and Matt Schlapp (husband of the White House Communications Director Mercedes Schlapp) have joined up with Cathio CEO Matthew Marcolini, who has started up a crytpo currency based payment system for Catholics and others of theologically pure ilk,  because evil Pay Pal processes payments and donations to Planned Parenthood. 

Did I mention that Marcolini is Santorum's son-in-law?

The main problem is that they have partnered with someone whose financial machinations led to legal issues; i.e., "shady past."  Here ya go, from the article linked above: 

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According to documents reviewed by TPM [Talking Points Memo], the crypto project has another figurehead helping to fulfill the holy mission of eschewing businesses that support Planned Parenthood: Cameron Chell, a Canadian citizen who co-founded and serves on the board of Cathio.

TPM found that Chell spent much of the late 1990s and 2000s fending off accusations of financial misconduct in the U.S. and Canada, thanks largely to his associations with shady characters. He has been barred from at least one stock exchange and founded a company that was delisted from the Nasdaq after a staffer engaged in fraud.

 

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On 6/12/2019 at 8:07 PM, Howl said:

pretty sure this belongs in Deplorables, because, well, think about it.  Or it could be in News of the Weird: 

Santorum, Schlapp Shill For Catholic Crypto Coin Whose Founder Has Sketchy Past

Yeah, this isn't The Onion and I am not making this up.  Ex Senator Rick "Sans Scrotum" Santorum and Matt Schlapp (husband of the White House Communications Director Mercedes Schlapp) have joined up with Cathio CEO Matthew Marcolini, who has started up a crytpo currency based payment system for Catholics and others of theologically pure ilk,  because evil Pay Pal processes payments and donations to Planned Parenthood. 

Did I mention that Marcolini is Santorum's son-in-law?

The main problem is that they have partnered with someone whose financial machinations led to legal issues; i.e., "shady past."  Here ya go, from the article linked above: 

 

How did we not discuss this?

 

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“As soon as a cybercoin in the server rings another soul from purgatory springs”
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