Tuesday, October 08, 2024

What an A$$hole

Gotta trot out the race card, even when it's as far from the truth as possible:

  • Mayor Brandon Johnson announced six proposed appointees to the Chicago Board of Education on Monday following uproar over last week’s announcement that the entire board was resigning.

    During a fiery news conference, Johnson rejected calls to pause the appointment process and shot back at criticism that he has been heavy-handed in his handling of Chicago Public Schools.

    He said his mission is to avoid major staffing and programming cuts in the city’s schools — and at one point likened his detractors to leaders of the Confederacy who said it was too expensive to end slavery.

Forty-one of fifty aldercreatures signed a letter objecting to the overt politicization of the School Board process and the almost certain political firestorm brewing just over the horizon.

What a one-trick pony this prick is.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Diversity? No one from the business community. No one from the financial community. No one from the high-tech community. No one from the legal community. Gee, where is the diversity?

10/08/2024 12:17:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Where do we tip residency violations for city employees?

10/08/2024 12:20:00 AM  
Blogger Retired-On-Duty said...

Race baiting low IQ BASTARD.

Just a BITCH for the communist teachers union.

10/08/2024 12:22:00 AM  
Blogger Do you see me? said...

He is a Dictator. He holds a press conference then tells the spineless new that they can’t interview anyone but him only him but he has them on the stage for show and they were told not to say a word and they didn’t. Then he starts with the fire and brimstone speech he starts foaming the mouth screaming at the press corp all of which should have got up and left in protest. The monkey is running the zoo,

10/08/2024 12:27:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It’s Trump’s fault that there are so many Nazis in the City standing in the way of his progressive agenda.

10/08/2024 12:50:00 AM  
Anonymous Frank Furillo said...

He will bankrupt the city but the CTU will get paid. This clown is staking everything on Kackling Kamala getting elected and bailing the city out. What's gonna happen when Trump wins and tells him to go pound sand?

10/08/2024 01:26:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This guy was in Vegas playing grab ass and is now flying to London to watch the Bears play on Sunday. At least the place smells a lot better when he's gone.

10/08/2024 01:42:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What a one-trick pony this prick is.

What was it that grandma Urethra Johnson would always say, oh yeah, "That boy he ain't right in the head..."

10/08/2024 03:03:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

He is a bullshit artist and con man. He shows the characteristics of the seven deadly sins: pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth.
When people who get into powerful positions and are unqualified this is what you get. We all know he is incompetent but he doesn’t. He is piloting the City into the ground. Unfortunately we are the passengers in this death spiral. Oh did I forget he is really arrogant!

10/08/2024 03:05:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Cone head is a hater and the racist. What an ignorant FOOL!

10/08/2024 03:30:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Proving once again that if nothing else, Brandon is simply there to serve as a poor example.

Not that there was any doubt.

10/08/2024 04:07:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

A super embarrassing CPS OIG investigation for Mayor CTU is due out any daty now and it involves the now former head of the Office of Student Protections /Sexual Allegations/Title IX Officer Unit Camie Pratt and her lying in several cases to help CPS Law win them.

Pratt resigned in September 2024 and took a consulting job outside CPS as a determination was being finalized against her and before CPS gave her a Do Not Hire designation (DNH)., a designation she helped CPS Law give to several other CPS employees.

In one case, a west side CPS teacher was accused by Pratt of several Title IX violations. The problem is Pratt produced no evidence and was admonished by the arbitrator. This helped the 18-year male White teacher to be cleared of 13 false allegations brought against them and manufactured by the Black female principal that had a vendetta vs. this and other White & Hispanic teachers at her school.

This principal repeatedly stated she wanted all Black teachers at her school and she'll always find another school to find another $140K salary that'll allow her to drink champagne and eat lobster. And this principal was under investigation by CPS Investigations herself for not reporting incidents involving students to CPS OPS , DCFS, and the others in the chain of command. The charges against the principal were substantiated by investigators and before a determination was made in her case. She too landed another job outside of CPS, she landed in another school district in the middle of the 2021-22 school year.

This same principal also had fake emails supposedly sent to the suspended teacher by a student traced back to her computer. If the teacher would have responded back to the emails, they would have been fired on the spot for violating the no contact with students terms of their suspension. The trace back to the principal's computer was brought up by the suspended teacher and their CTU attorney and the CPS 'railroading attorney Charles ' Chuck' Little claimed he knew nothing about the email. (Little left CPS 6 months after this case and us now working for the Cook County States Attorney's Office and Kim Foxx)

In the end, the scheming and racist Black principal left 11 days before her teacher was cleared on all 13 allegations and 12 days before charges against her were substantiated by CPS Investigations.

Next up: CPS Nepotism as the head of CPS Law Ruchi Verma is married to the head of CPS Talent Ben Felton. A ethics inquiry and complaint were made to Jennifer Chan in CPS Ethics and she found no nepotism. Who does Chan report to? If you guessed Ruchi Verma, you win a Bari's Italian sub.

10/08/2024 04:39:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If you don't believe there's lying, unethical behavior, and corruption going on in CPS Law to win cases, maybe this resignation email sent by now former CPS lawyer Maria Strohmeier (Senior Assistant General Counsel) will convince you.

Follow the 'X' (Twiiter) link to read the unbelievable email:

https://x.com/Bearstradamus_1/status/1837936293999006025?t=wzPmU2V3xs_AbhXaZ3vZSw&s=19

10/08/2024 05:01:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Pimp daddy from Cincinnati

10/08/2024 05:09:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I am not understanding. Why did the school board resign? Meaning, why would they give in? The mayor cannot force them to resign as I understand it.

10/08/2024 05:36:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Where is the ACLU when you need them? What happen to the separation of Church and State? And why was this presser turned into a Revival Prayer meeting? When this was suppose to be a CPS appointment presser? Guess Conehead is running scared? He had to repeat he was the Mayor several times….along with his Black Wife and black children speech! Racism at its best?

10/08/2024 05:38:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Who wants to Bet that a court will be involved with this A$$ hole Brandon Johnson and his forcing school board turn over before end of week?

10/08/2024 05:40:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anyone starting to see the similarities between mayors Brandon Johnson and Tiffany Henyard? They do not care about the city they were elected to manage? But they do care about the race card when they get caught doing something wrong! Cya Chicago I am off to London to watch the Bears game!

10/08/2024 05:47:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

When you ask a Democrat his or her position on any topic? You get a desertion of the politicians history or background? But you get no answer?

10/08/2024 05:52:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well we now see Brandon Johnson is just like Kamala Harris? They keep giving Platitudes and no answers? Politicians need to be answering the questions asked or they will never be elected? It’s not too long ago that the city council agreed to selling off parking meters and skyway. And that was such a good choice that they now use this fiasco as training subject matter in college economics and management courses?

10/08/2024 06:09:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anyone here in Chicago paying attention to Mayor Adams and his indictments in New York City? Brandon are you reading this? You should? Your staff is putting you in a place where your row boat is sinking……fast!

10/08/2024 06:12:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You can tell Johnson is out of his depth in this city? I met him years ago and he never pushed the needle as a very intelligent person? But now he sounds like he has been coached to be the great orator the city needs? It’s not working!

10/08/2024 06:16:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

He’s a socialist communist an absolute ruler Democrats do whatever they want to stay in power. It’s amazing what is happening to this country everywhere from the municipality level up to the federal level. totally ruining a lawful society. The evil Democrats are doing everything they can to destroy the United States of America and every place they are.

10/08/2024 06:33:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Dude mayor will just drive the taxpayer out of the city.

10/08/2024 06:34:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Lightfoot 2.0, always pulling the race card when he critiqued for doing a shitty job.

10/08/2024 06:47:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The return of Baby Doc.

10/08/2024 07:01:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Brandon is a out to facilitate the bankruptcy of the City of Chicago on behalf of a teacher's unions leadership that is making a political power play to fill its own dream of absolute power.
He is an incompetent fool bought and paid for by the teachers union it should be clear to every city of Chicago employee that this man is only loyal to his ego and the pursuit of power.
Every single job, union contract, benefit plan, and service offered by the city to its citizens and children is at risk from this maniacs power play to use the school board for a high risk loan that will bankrupt the cty.
His incompetence will hurt every citizen of every race living in this
city. Time to call out his BS by every one. This guy does not deserve anyones loyalty for what he is trying to do to the city.
His school board play has revealed his agenda and beholding to a labor union over the interests of the people.

10/08/2024 07:10:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Confused.......it’s never too expensive to provide travel to Liberia. Mayor Johnson needs the one way ticket that his ideology demands.

10/08/2024 07:25:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Its unfathomable how racist he is.
Pulling out the race card.
He’s desperate.

10/08/2024 07:25:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

He basically called the journalist asking questions a racist for daring to try to question the nominees. It was priceless, she thought she was one of the group.

10/08/2024 07:42:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Publish residency violations online, like SCC. The siG is like the Gestapo, protecting the powers that be.

10/08/2024 07:42:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The mayor is a complete embarrassment to the black culture!

10/08/2024 07:45:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Not sure what is worse, this clown or the people who swallow this left wing nonsense.

10/08/2024 07:47:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Brandon Johnson.
MORE RACIST than Dorothy Tillman.
DUMBER than Blago.
LESS MASCULINE than Groot.

10/08/2024 07:50:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Cps student's are pretty much a lost cause, please focus on drivers education.

10/08/2024 07:56:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Pedro Martinez for Mayor.

10/08/2024 07:56:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

hey,,,, he's a black man with a black wife and black kids,,,,, and lives in a black hood,,,,,,, voted into office by a lot of white people,,,, but you all be racist

10/08/2024 07:58:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

yea,,, you go spend big money to watch those poor oppressed millionaires that promoted black lives matter

10/08/2024 08:00:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

One of my kids works for CPS. The school she is at does not have a nurse or social worker. The school did get a brand new 100k kitchen though. And every teacher in that school is currently being shorted $$ on their paychecks. All the teachers also want OUT of not only CPS but out of the whole teaching career together.

10/08/2024 08:01:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It will be interesting to see if the "resigned" board members wind up with cushy jobs with the city/county as the reward for leaving,

10/08/2024 08:10:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OK, now let's see how much the city will be on. the hook for his jaunt to London to see the Bears play football. How many body guards do you think will accompany him ? 10, 20 ? Oh don't forget his $30,000 a year makeup artist and fashionable hair stylist. Might be interesting.

10/08/2024 08:11:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

41 signed the letter, Lets see if they have the guts to actually vote to block this nonsense. My money says no more than 30 will stand up to BJ

10/08/2024 08:12:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Why are there no Rev's ?

10/08/2024 08:15:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Do you mean like teachers ? Hum . . . . .

10/08/2024 08:15:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Like CFD boss Holt? She lives outside the city.
And they permit it.

10/08/2024 08:18:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

And today the TRIB warns is a possible Detroit like bankruptcy.

10/08/2024 08:32:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

When in doubt whip the race card out! Can any one see a RICO Rico indictment in the future for Conehead and the CTU? Not if Kackling Harris wins...

10/08/2024 08:42:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wouldn’t expect anything different from the usual nonsense that he spews

10/08/2024 09:00:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The race card always works so why not play it.

10/08/2024 09:01:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Im soooo glad Im out of here next year!!! Goodbye and Good riddance to what used to be a great city!

10/08/2024 09:03:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Fox32 says it's a CPS crisis. No, it's not, it's going according to plan....

10/08/2024 09:09:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Chicago needs a Maggie Thatcher. Briton ‘s Iron Lady decided she had to personally break the British Coal Miners Union that had brought down previous Torrie/Conservative governments.

The CTU Chicago ‘s Teacher Union and this as# hole BLM CTU lobbyist mayor we have are destroying our city.

J

10/08/2024 09:15:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Brandon Johnson has no business being in the mayor’s office. Johnson plays the race card because he has no idea as to the ways in which a city functions. Previous to his election, Johnson proved to be a deadbeat as he had outstanding bills owed to the city.
Replacing the school board is another desperate attempt to mollify his minders at CTU. Johnson is an empty suit with an empty head.

10/08/2024 09:20:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Call me a racist but I’d be pretty pissed if I was a black parent and my kid was being held back intellectually because 80-90 percent of CPSstudents couldn’t read or do math at grade level.

10/08/2024 09:30:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The full unhinged meltdown has got to be coming soon. It should be entertaining to see.

10/08/2024 09:32:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If you remember the old Brandmeier radio show, he used to run an audio clip all the time, "James has a mental problem."

10/08/2024 09:33:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I am the mayor, y'all! You do what I tell y'all to do!

10/08/2024 09:35:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Maybe I’m just an optimist but I see a federal indictment somewhere in the near future for this loser.

10/08/2024 09:38:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hopefully the Roger Park liberals will not support him in the next election

10/08/2024 09:39:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

lets trade bj for Tiffany

10/08/2024 09:42:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The ACLU days of fighting for freedom and constitutional rights are long gone. Now all that they are doing is paddling their off shore bank accounts.

10/08/2024 09:52:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"That boy he ain't right in the head..."

That's what Mr. Anderson said about Beavis to Butt-Head.

10/08/2024 10:05:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Honest question. What's worse? Brandon pulling the race card, when race has absolutely zero to do with the situation? Or Brandon's fans believing his nonsense and not having enough sense to see through the b.s.?

10/08/2024 10:11:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

He’s a BITCH for Stacey Davis Gates. Nothing more nothing less.

10/08/2024 10:11:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This clueless, incompetent, corrupt CTU puppet is a bigoted, racist fucking clown ! This want to be dictator is fucking up what’s left of Chicago ! You fucking Dumbocrats voted this sorry ass mother fucker into office, now reap what the fuck you’s morons have sown ! Chicago is circling the drain, and it won’t be very long now with this ignoramus running the city into the ground !

10/08/2024 11:15:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Gee, I wonder who pays for these political vacations?

10/08/2024 11:18:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Funny how black democrats are usual as the democrat higher ups they answer to but people will vote D or by skin complexion. I have no sympathy for these idiots who voted for BJ, I'm watching this place burn and enjoying it.

10/08/2024 11:28:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

And a I’m saying “ I told you so” to the of John Kass who stuck with this honest, education policy wonk Paul Vallas instead of a well known, well liked Chicago Sports celebrity like Mike Singletary , Doug Plank or best all Gary Fencik.

Imagine the pro Fencik for Mayor TV adverts feature Bears Gary Fencik in his 1980s prime laying out sone NFL oppononets to the music of Duran Duran ‘s “A View to a Kill” then having Gary Fencik in a suit explaining how he will take out Chicago’s cartel and gangster killers, reform our once again “ worst we’d in the Nation Chicago Public Schools” ( as pronounced by Reagan s Secretary of Education William Bennet to FA Harold Washington, Manford Byrn, Jessie Jack as# Jackson.

We need a mayor, DA, County Board Chairmen
, Police Chief that know how to hit. Nobody could hit like Fencik and Plank.

10/08/2024 11:34:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

BJ thinks that anyone who disagrees with him is a racist. Even if they are black.

10/08/2024 11:56:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

https://www.uhaul.com/

10/08/2024 12:08:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

CPS Investigation involving CPS Chief Title IX Officer
Camie Pratt and former Deputy Chief Title IX Officer Debra Spraggins.

An EOCO complaint was filed against Pratt on July 9, 2020, and the investigation wasn't completed until June 28, 2024, nearly 4 years later. During this time Pratt received 5 raises and was making $207K+ when she resigned and was given a DNH designation from CPS.

An OIG investigation revealed that in 2020, CPS Chief Title IX Officer Camie Pratt, former Deputy Chief Title IX Officer Debra Spraggins, and the CPS Office of Student Protections and Title IX conducted an off-the-books investigation of Lincoln Park High School teacher and girls’ varsity basketball coach Eric Lezcano. In January 2020, (via Pratt) made a complaint to the OIG’s Sexual Allegations Unit alleging that her head coach on the LPHS varsity girls’ basketball team, Larry Washington, sent her inappropriate text messages.

Pratt and Spraggins both “fail[ed] to fulfill their duties and responsibilities as described” in the reporting procedures section of CPS’ New Comprehensive Non-Discrimination, Harassment, and Retaliation Policy by secretly investigating Lezcano’s alleged retaliation against rather than reporting it to the OIG. See Board Report 19-0522-PO1, New Comprehensive Non-Discrimination, Harassment, and Retaliation Policy, §§(IV)(B), (V)(3) (eff. Sep. 3, 2019). Pratt and Spraggins also violated Board rules and CPS policy by making false statements to investigators during their OIG interviews. See 105 ILCS 5/34-13.1; Board Rule 4.4(m); Board Report 19-0522-PO1, New Comprehensive Non-Discrimination, Harassment, and Retaliation Policy, §(V)(4) (eff. Sep. 3, 2019) (“It is a violation of this Policy fo . . . [a]ny employee . . . to refuse to participate and/or provide truthful information in an investigation conducted by the . . . OIG.”). Pratt lied about recusing herself from OSP’s LPHS investigations, while Spraggins lied about how OSP’s secret Lezcano investigation was initiated and about her knowledge of
why Thuet and Brumfield were fired by CPS.

Full investigation is on this link under
https://www.muckrock.com/foi/chicago-169/personnel-records-title-ix-oig-173631/#files

20-001178_Pratt_and_Spraggins_SRI_FINAL

10/08/2024 12:08:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Does anyone have links to the best/worst videos of this event?

10/08/2024 12:50:00 PM  
Blogger stash the polski guy said...

LMAO listening to Curtis Sliwa roast his a$$ on WABC. Adams and his crew is going down.

10/08/2024 01:48:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Every time the mayor is presented with any kind of conflict he’s gonna use the race card so people next time you go to vote paying attention.

10/08/2024 02:48:00 PM  
Blogger Old Joe said...

He's the Kwame Kilpatrick of Chicago

10/08/2024 03:54:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

He makes Todd Stroeger look like a genius.

10/08/2024 04:03:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

People who pull out the race card are not intelligent. That’s why they use the race card because they have little knowledge of the issues they be talking about. They count on the people they call racist to fold. It works every time as most people will be devastated as they are afraid of being called a racist. Reverse it, call them a racist and keep it up and don’t back down.

10/08/2024 05:13:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Possible or inevitable? There's no other way out.

10/08/2024 05:35:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Not just Rogers Park. More like the whole north side.

10/08/2024 05:38:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If the State of Illinois declares them essential workers who can not go on strike, that would end a lot of their power and leverage. Don't hold your breath though.

10/08/2024 05:39:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If you are going to move out of this city and state, you had better do it while you can. Home prices are rising all over the country...and a house in Chicago is getting harder to sell due to the property tax rates...

10/08/2024 05:44:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Only the Light-Footed would want a BJ after getting Rhaaamed by a Trick-Dick!" Olde Chicago Proverb

10/08/2024 06:35:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The light's on, but ain't nobody home.

10/08/2024 07:38:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Chicagoans get what they voted for, communist dictatorship

10/08/2024 08:02:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

That’s Communism for ya.

10/08/2024 08:03:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Have you seen the shanty he “lives” in? Ugliest house on the block. It definitely smells on its own.

10/08/2024 08:12:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

My fave is, "that boy needs a check-up from the neck up!"

10/09/2024 12:27:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Pathetic that so many CPD officers are married to these parasites called teachers!

10/09/2024 04:26:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Don't bother reporting CPS teachers and other CPS employees as like the city's IG, especially as employees with connected sponsors never got investigated at all. CPS William Fletcher only went after malcontents and those employees CPS principals or higher-ups wanted gone and residency was one way to do it.. Amber Nesbitt is Fletcher's interim replacement and she did as told by Fletcher and now she does as her CPS handlers tell her to do.

Fletcher took 4 years to come to a determination after a complaint was filed in July 2020 against Camie Pratt (Chief Officer of Title IX.) for lying and doing an off the books investigation into the Girls Basketball Coach at Lincoln Park HS. A team her daughter played on, conflict of interest. So, don't expect Nesbitt to lead any residency investigations any time soon.

Pratt ($207K salary) was allowed to continue to work for 4 years after the CPS OIG started the investigation into her. This when other CPS employees with no juice would have been suspended on the spot.

10/09/2024 04:27:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What he really means is Caucasians need not apply. Were going the New Orleans Ray Nagin route of a chocolate city but that's not racist.

10/09/2024 06:40:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If I were Brandon, I'd worry about getting the Eric Adams treatment. So far, media treats him like a gold-plated affirmative-action rock star. But Chicago citizens, even those feckless folks who voted for him, see him now as the idiot he is. Meanwhile, Brandon seems entranced by his job-perks, likes flying around to tourist spots like the rockstar he thinks he is: LA, NYC, DC, Las Vegas, London, ten-fold bodyguards, baby-mamas, and entire circus parade of syncophants and staffers.

Let me gaze into the crystal ball: Brandon will be in Fed prison within 10 years.

10/09/2024 08:51:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If you are going to move out of this city and state, you had better do it while you can. Home prices are rising all over the country...and a house in Chicago is getting harder to sell due to the property tax rates...
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You're dumb - stop posting. I sold my house way over asking price in less than a week.

10/10/2024 06:53:00 AM  

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