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USC Morning Buzz: This Plan Won’t Make Lincoln Riley Happy

Did you see what Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark said about the College Football Playoff’s expansion to 16 teams?

“I’m doubling down today on 5-11,” Yormark said Tuesday. “I’m confident we’ll get to the right place. I’m confident we’ll get to 5-11.”

That will not make Lincoln Riley happy.

The 5-11 model means the five highest-ranked conference champions would get automatic bids and the remaining 11 spots would be at-large bids based on the rankings.

If this happens, Riley will probably march into Jen Cohen’s office and demand she end the Notre Dame series.

Riley doesn’t want to be one of the best 11 teams in the nation who did not win a conference title. He wants to be the sixth-best team in the Big Ten and try to get into the play-in game just to get one of the four automatic bids.

  • Oklahoma athletic director Joe Castiglione, the current longest-tenured athletic director in major college sports, will step down once his successor is hired. The Sooners won 26 national titles since he became athletic director in 1998.

That reminded me that USC won 31 national titles during Jess Hill’s tenure as athletic director (1957-72).

97 thoughts on “USC Morning Buzz: This Plan Won’t Make Lincoln Riley Happy”

  1. Oh well, it just got tougher to get into the football Tournament, and apparently Scott does not believe Wiley is up to the task and which seems to be the opinion of Wolf’s posters

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    1. KAM: Why would that be the opinion of “Wolf’s Posters”?

      DON: Must have something to do with going 7-6 last season including a loss at home to our rival ND and losing 22 players to the Portal.

      KAM: How can “Wolf’s Poster” be so negative? The 9 layer bean dip was #1 at the pregame tail gate parties last season.

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      1. Personally, I prefer removing the beans and replacing with chorizo cooked with onions, garlic, and peppers.

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      2. Cacique makes a soyrizo that is every bit as good as the real thing, but a LOT less greasy. You should give it a try!

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      4. I have never found a soy product to be anything close to a legitimate substitute for a meat product, but I will be on the lookout for the “Soyrizo”.

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      6. I would replace because ultimately, the “X layer dip” can only have so many layers. But I hear what you are saying and like the ambition!

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      7. You didn’t understand. The chorizo is cooked into the beans. You can also do it with potatoes, as you may do with eggs. So it would still be the same number of layers.

        Also forgot to mention something I didn’t discover until visiting Cha Cha Cha that used to be on Melrose. (Where Brian took Mia on their first date in “The Fast and the Furious.) Chorizo & pasta, with the chorizo replacing the sauce. It’s REALLY good! I’m sure they added other little things to really knock it out of the park. Sure miss that place. They also had a great jerk chicken, either as an entree or in a salad.

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      9. I hear you about hesitating with soy and you’re probably right with other soyrizos. But with Cacique or Carmelita making it, you can’t go wrong!

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  2. –But some Trojans seem to be optimistic about 2025 SC football which harkens back to 2023 and 2024 Seasons, something like ‘Spring Baseball’ when everybody thinks they are going to win

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    1. KAM: Why are you Democrats such antisemites?

      DC-Area Schoolkids Taught to Harass Jews and Admire Hitler. Children at a prestigious DC-area private school are being taught to harass Jews and admire Hitler. And if our moral, ethical, and intellectual betters on the left stay true to form, they’ll turn a blind eye to it.

      Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon: The prestigious Nysmith School in Northern Virginia received a civil rights complaint Tuesday for allegedly expelling three Jewish students who faced anti-Semitic harassment and whom the school’s headmaster told to “toughen up” after they reported the conduct.

      The Nysmith School, known as one of the top 10 institutions in the country for students between kindergarten and eighth grade, allegedly expelled Brian Vazquez and Ashok Roy’s three Jewish children in March, after the parents complained about its “unwillingness to respond to anti-Semitic harassment of their 11-year-old daughter…”

      DON: The school “allowed anti-Semitism to take root in her class” over the course of several months, including with a social studies project that saw students promote Adolf Hitler as a “strong historical leader.”

      That project “was shared with the entire school community” and contributed to “a pattern of persistent and severe anti-Semitic harassment,” the complaint alleges.

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      2. KAM: What percentage of Democrats adore Hamas?A Gallop Poll found support had reached a tipping point: For the first time in Gallup’s 20-plus-year trendline, more Democrats sympathized with Hamas than Israelis, driven in large part by the younger elements of the party’s membership.

        DON: You Democrats support Judenrein.

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      3. How is this post related to Inside USC? Stop engaging in attention seeking behavior. It is not all about you Cowardly Gabby

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  4. –And a shout-out to Gabby1 for not using Michael Guarino’s name anymore, but you may continue to use So Cal’s name

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    1. KAM: You mean all of 3 days ago?

      Michael Guarino

      July 6, 2025 at 3:18 am

      if and when I need any s h i t out of you, I will squeeze head ……GOT IT

      now go f u c k yourself

      DON: More proof that Cowardly Gabby is impersonating the old poster Sparrow Calypso who left here months ago. She did the same thing, impersonating steveg49 to mislead terminal cancer patient Cal 75. She is evil.

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      2. KAM: Wait you said it was “eccentric” last week.

        DON: The great moral judge of the blog can’t condemn such disgusting antics against someone he pretended to be friendly with. You never make a peep when the impersonator makes vile comments about MG’s wife. What a Profile In Courage your are, Cowardly Sparrow Gabby.

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      3. So Cal was right: Sybil has SO many perversions that he/she needs to disassociate from them by attributing them to others. The list is too long to go into.

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      4. How is this post related to the topic – usc baseball and football. Stop engaging in attention seeking behavior. It is not all about you Cowardly Gabby

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    1. KAM: And with your obscene posts, vile antisemitic and racist Board Pest Board Cancer Cowardly Gabby aka Sparrow Calypso aka TebowObama aka Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka The Guy who posts as Buddhakarma & So Cal’s Wife & Michael Guarino & Trojan RJJ & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse and TrojanFan 1-3 & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young and KATHY and Foreskin Thoughts and SCOTTLOVESTHEROOOOOTTÞ and Manureman and eric  and Smacky  like this gem:

      Gabby

      July 7, 20205 at 6:44pm

      Ohio St just caved in your crotch!……. your football IQ needs some work

      LAUGHING/MY/ASS/OFF

      PS…..steele said you’re a dumb/ass

      PSS….middle/finger/up

      DON: Weird how all the Board Democrats support such disgusting posts.

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      1. Around here at Wolf’s he is known as ‘Push-Button’ Gabby2. He pushes a button and out vomits the same ol’ same ol’ stuff

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      2. How is this post related to Inside USC? Stop engaging in attention seeking behavior. It is not all about you Cowardly Gabby

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      3. Where is the USC information? Asking for 20 others that you ran off

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  6. Amazing how ‘THE-4’ misinterpreted what is going on here, but I do not condone all the things said by Gabby1, however Gabby1 and I do have in common that ‘THE4’ don’t like either one of us

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    1. KAM: Sure you do, vile antisemitic and racist Board Pest Board Cancer Cowardly Gabby aka Sparrow Calypso aka TebowObama aka Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka The Guy who posts as Buddhakarma & So Cal’s Wife & Michael Guarino & Trojan RJJ & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse and TrojanFan 1-3 & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young and KATHY and Foreskin Thoughts and SCOTTLOVESTHEROOOOOTTÞ and Manureman and eric  and Smacky . You only attack those who actually stand up to your bullying.

      DON: You aren’t fooling anyone.

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      3. What a cowardly keyboard warrior…having to express support for her sick & childish posts under someone else’s name.

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      4. KAM: Cowardly Sparrow Gabby is The Voice of a New Generation of Impersonators: The Deepfake Era Just Got Real: Someone’s Pretending to Be Marco Rubio. A scammer contacted “foreign ministers, a U.S. governor, and a member of Congress by sending them voice and text messages that mimic Rubio’s voice and writing style using artificial intelligence-powered software, according to a senior U.S. official and a State Department cable.” The cable, which was dated July 3, was sent from Rubio’s office to State Department employees. 

        The scammer also used the now-controversial encrypted message app Signal to send messages under the name “Marco.Rubio@state.gov.” As the Post points out, that is not the Secretary’s real email address. In addition to Rubio, this person also reportedly impersonated other State Department employees. 

        DON: Maybe the scammer is Cowardly Sparrow Gabby!

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      5. How is this post related to Inside USC? Stop engaging in attention seeking behavior. It is not all about you Cowardly Gabby

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  7. KAM: It’s been six months since wildfires devastated Pacific Palisades, Altadena and other parts of Southern California, and a prominent local figure has called out political leaders for what he sees as a lack of action.

    USC Chairman of the Board of Trustees Rick Caruso took to social media on Monday to lambast local government officials for “endless red tape” causing what he calls a lack of progress in rebuilding after the fires. Caruso challenged Democrat Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass for that position in 2022.

    “Thousands of homes were destroyed, and yet fewer than 100 building permits have been issued after six months,” he wrote alongside a video promoting his nonprofit Steadfast LA. “Does anyone believe this is rapid rebuilding?”

    DON: Caruso does cite some progress — power lines will be rebuilt underground, for instance — though he also criticizes officials for a focus on “lofty rhetoric” instead of answers for fire victims and tangible action on the ground. Why doesn’t Governor Mimbo stop wasting money on The Train To Nowhere and use it to put all the pwoer lines in California high fire risk areas underground?

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  8. It is true that ‘THE4’ could in reality be more like 6 or 7 guys, but they are all changeable parts

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    1. KAM: It is true you are one poster , vile antisemitic and racist Board Pest Board Cancer Cowardly Gabby aka Sparrow Calypso aka TebowObama aka Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka The Guy who posts as Buddhakarma & So Cal’s Wife & Michael Guarino & Trojan RJJ & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse and TrojanFan 1-3 & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young and KATHY and Foreskin Thoughts and SCOTTLOVESTHEROOOOOTTÞ and Manureman and eric  and Smacky.

      DON: Now the question is, why you have wasted 2 decades of your life impersonating, threatening and doxxing other posters and spamming this site with obscene animal videos?

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      2. KAM: Years ago?

        DON: Try again,  vile antisemitic and racist Board Pest Board Cancer Cowardly Gabby aka Sparrow Calypso aka TebowObama aka Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka The Guy who posts as Buddhakarma & So Cal’s Wife & Michael Guarino & Trojan RJJ & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse and TrojanFan 1-3 & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young and KATHY and Foreskin Thoughts and SCOTTLOVESTHEROOOOOTTÞ and Manureman and eric  and Smacky.

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    2. Yeah, just ignore the other 6 or 7 you drove off with your sick videos. A shame you don’t get the help you so desperately need.

      I’m still praying for you.

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      1. Using a sacred phrase sarcastically such as your “I’m still praying for you” salute, is possibly a sin against God

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      2. KAM: Lying about your posting obscene videos “years ago is a sin.

        Gabby

        February 22, 2024 at 5:24 pm

        back to the name calling and you have a limited football IQ…..

        I am getting all the s%$t videos ready……

        PS…..when can we meet up….. let’s see if I can stick my fist in your big mouth

        DON: Cowardly Sparrow Gabby is caught lying once again! Amazing how Cowardly Sparrow Gabby can lie and post this evil garbage and then judge others…

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      3. No sacrilege on So Cal’s part —everyone here knows how to decode his message: “By saying I’m praying for you I mean ‘I’m not praying for you.'”

        #”Ever”

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  9. KAM: As Democrat Karen Bass fights ICE from deporting criminals…

    Only 1% of the victims of the Palisades fires have been issued permits to rebuild.

    CA Dems didn’t have water to put out the fires and now won’t give victims permits.

    But she’s fighting ICE.

    DON: She’s a Castro loving Mainstream Moderate Democrat Communist.

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    1. Dem priorities can best be understood as a product of a deep and rich hatred for the principles upon which this country was founded. It’s obvious from the supernaturally dumb remarks of Sybil and RA that some people have an instinctive, not intellectual, inability to favor a working system. It would take way more time than any of us have to school them —-

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  10. KAM: Pro-Palestinian Mainstream Moderate Democrats vandalized the homes of at least four Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents members Friday, accusing them of “genocide.”

    At two of the homes, the vandals spray-painted messages reading “Regents are complicit in genocide” and “UW blood on your hands” on the driveways, Madison police Sgt. Matthew Baker said, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.

    Baker also said the protesters splattered artificial blood on some of the properties and posted letters with a set of demands on the doors.

    Further, they used air horns and left them on the properties. A neighbor to one of the regents was awoken at 3:40 a.m. by an air horn.

    DON: Democrats are a menace to society.

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  11. –But cherry-picking extreme incidents does not prove ‘the whole.’ One is criminally safer among the undocumented than with the documented like you

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    1. KAM: The whole leadership of your Dumbocrat Party is calling for violence and your members are acting out their instructions since The One We’ve Been Waiting For told you brainless cultists to “Get in their faces” in 2008.

      DON: Two Democrat assassination attempts on me in 4 months is cherry picking to a cherry pit brain like you.

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  12. Gabby2 walked into a defamation lawsuit by saying that I am “anti-semitic” because I have identified my true identity although writing under a pseudonym, and that accusation is not true.

    However, an element of defamation is publication, and since no one reads this stuff, I have no case

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    1. Vile antisemitic and racist Board Pest Board Cancer Cowardly Gabby aka Sparrow Calypso aka TebowObama aka Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka The Guy who posts as Buddhakarma & So Cal’s Wife & Michael Guarino & Trojan RJJ & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse and TrojanFan 1-3 & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young and KATHY and Foreskin Thoughts and SCOTTLOVESTHEROOOOOTTÞ and Manureman and eric  and Smacky walked into a lawsuit by her 2 decades of threats of violence against posters and making lewd comments about MG’s and Plow’s wives while writing under a pseudonym, and that accusation is true.

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      2. I may have a defamation claim against Cowardly Gabby. But even if I won, how do you collect on the judgment. You can put a judgment lien on a cardboard box.

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      3. “The marshals are taking my box! The one I drew windows and a door on!! What have I done?! What have I done?!!”

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    2. Lawsuit? Identification is missing on this blog. I have very little idea who I’m addressing these days. I hope [but I haven’t 100% confidence] that I’m never being rude to a friend named Lawyer John.

      I say we all use our real names. It might lead to some real lawsuits [especially against one, particular poster].

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      1. Hilarious that SHE, of all people, would cry lawsuit. The cowardly keyboard warrior who has slandered others far more than anyone on this board. Truly retarded.

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      2. Sybil: “Your Honor —If it please the court — I suggest we ignore all that I’ve said and done for the last 20 years and concentrate on the imagined grievances which I hereby allege others have caused me….how does that sound? Can we proceed on that basis?”

        Court: “Bailiff!”

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      3. She’ll start singing another Dr. Demento favorite:

        “They´re coming to take me away,
        Haha, they´re coming to take me away,
        Ho ho, hee hee, ha ha,
        To the funny farm
        Where life is beautiful all the time
        And I´ll be happy to see
        Those nice young men
        In their clean white coats
        And they´re coming to take me AWAY,
        HA HAAAA”

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      4. Sparrow is Lawyer John Michael. Do you really think Cowardly Gabby is going to use the term “eccentric” or accuse others of being a misogynist. They didn’t teach vocabulary where CG went to school. It was more practical stuff. How to make a box – fold side A into side C and side B into side D. Next week – How to pack using bubble wrap.

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      6. I was REALLY hoping it WASN’T Lawyer John defending Justice Jackson — the entire rest of the court is embarrassed by her presence.

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      7. It wasn’t Lawyer John. There are a couple of obvious tells, but I don’t want to point them out or she’ll attempt to avoid them.

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  13. Does “5-11” mean the “Power 5” conferences? If so, that would include the Pac-12. But the Pac-12 is a shell of itself, I don’t see how the winner of the Pac-12 can be part of the formula.

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  14. I’m not a Gabby, ’67,’ but the original idea was to have the champions from the Top-4 Conferences plus the highest ranking from the lesser 5-Conferences

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  15. The BIG and the SEC generate the most TV revenue by far. They have all the leverage. Just demand that they receive 4 automatic bids from each conference and be done with it. The other conferences will eventually fall in line.

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      1. Give it about 5 years MG. It is going to happen. Each conference will expand to 24 teams or 48 total. All the teams outside the 48 will start to disappear. Hopefully, the BIG adds Stanford, Cal, the two Arizona schools and either Utah or Colorado and ND. If this occurs, you could have regional play for the minor sports thereby eliminating most of the travel concerns.

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  16. KAM: Recently, during the Global Black Economic Forum (GBEF) at the 2025 Essence Festival, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson made headlines with her remarks about her judicial philosophy. She emphasized that her opinions are influenced by her personal feelings rather than strictly adhering to legal precedents.

    Her approach, which she described as sharing her feelings on issues, raises questions about the balance between legal objectivity and personal experience in judicial roles.

    This event and her statements have contributed to ongoing debates about the influence of DEI initiatives in the appointment of judges and the implications for the legal system.

    DON: Senile Joe picked an airhead.

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    1. This is exactly what I was saying to Ra yesterday. Brown is obligated to follow the Constitution and statutory laws but she will not do it. She thinks Judges should be permitted to act outside their scope of authority, a very dangerous proposition.

      And why is she speaking at the Black Economic Forum. Are white people invited to the conference? Are they permitted to attend? Should we have a White Economic Forum and invite Supreme Court Justices to speak at it. Not a good look.

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      1. Jackson was asked point blank by Cruz whether she would follow the Constitution or her [unique] Conscience—she said “the Constitution.”

        #SheLied…

        #…And…

        #…SheViolatesHerOathOfOfficeWithEveryWackoDissent

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  17. KAM: Senile Joe Biden’s White House and personal doctor Kevin O’ Connor is pleading the 5th and will not testify.

    DON: Gee why would a personal physician have to plead the 5th?

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    1. ….. they don’t NEED his testimony to prosecute him for falsifying medical reports & updates on the President’s condition….

      #Indict….

      #StartDiscoveryOf…

      #…Emails&Texts

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      2. So, what does Biden have to do with tariffs and trump’s insecurity regarding what to do about them? I know you like to blame Biden for EVERYTHING like a tyipcial magat dumb/ass.

        Did you get the memo? Biden left the room, move on!

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  18. KAM: Hide your kids and wallet! The Clintons are coming…

    DON: To Texas! Lock up your daughters, lock up your wives, run for your lives ..the Clintons are coming!!

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    1. ….If you lost your family & home & all hope for the future who would you least like to see…?

      #Answer:Hillary,Bill,ChelseaOrAnyRepOfTheClintonFondation

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      1. Can someone tell TACO that tariffs screw the consumer. The guy can’t grasp the concept. I see why he loves the uneducated. Two peas in a pod

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      3. KAM: Your Taco reference expired when Trump annihilated Iran’s nuclear program you dolt.

        DON: Cowardly Sparrow Gabby can’t keep up.

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      4. Hey dumb/ass… TACO is an acronym related to trump’s tax on the consumer, aka tariffs

        Get up to speed

        DAAAAAAMMMMM/CROTCH/KICK!!!!!!!!!!

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      5. KAM: Vile antisemitic and racist Board Pest Board Cancer Cowardly Gabby aka Sparrow Calypso aka TebowObama aka Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka The Guy who posts as Buddhakarma & So Cal’s Wife & Michael Guarino & Trojan RJJ & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse and TrojanFan 1-3 & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young and KATHY and Foreskin Thoughts and SCOTTLOVESTHEROOOOOTTÞ and Manureman and eric  and Smacky lies as usual.


        GPT-4o mini

        The phrase “Trump always chickens out” in relation to Iran likely refers to perceptions of Donald Trump’s approach to foreign policy, particularly regarding Iran. Critics have argued that Trump, despite his tough rhetoric and promises to take a hard stance against Iran, often backed down from direct military confrontation or significant actions that could escalate tensions

        .DON: … until the Iran attack.

        Don’t you feel stupid being caught in yet another lie, Cowardly Sparrow Gabby?

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      7. The term TACO — Trump Always Chickens Out — was coined by Financial Times commentator Robert Armstrong to describe what he says is the president’s pattern of announcing heavy tariffs on countries causing economic shock, panic, and stock market hits and then later reversing course with pauses or reductions that create a market rebound.

        DAAAAAMMM……YOU JUST GOT YOUR CROTCH CAVED IN.

        WHY THE CONSTANT LYING?

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