Closing Thought–03Feb20

Clinton–Please STFU!

This harpy cannot let the fact go that she was beaten in 2016….she keeps speaking out and showing just what type of self-centered turd she really is.

She still cannot get over the fact that Bernie damn near bested her in the primaries and she now wants to crap on his chances while she can…..

Hillary Clinton is not done talking about Bernie Sanders. The 2016 Democratic presidential nominee said in a podcast interview that aired Friday that Sanders didn’t try to unify the party after losing the primary to her four years ago and that he and his supporters contributed to her loss to Donald Trump in the general election, the AP reports. Asked by Emily Tisch Sussman of the podcast “Your Primary Playlist” what Sanders could do this time to unite the party against Trump, Clinton replied, “Well, he can do it, for one.” She added, “That’s not our experience from 2016.” She contrasted the conversations she had with Barack Obama in 2008 about unifying the party after he became the nominee with the conversations she had with Sanders in 2016 after it became clear she would come out on top. They were “like night and day,” she said.

Although there was “no question” about her nomination, she said, Sanders’ “campaign and his principal supporters were just very difficult and really constantly not just attacking me but my supporters.” At the Democratic National Convention, she said, Sanders’ supporters were “booing Michelle Obama, John Lewis. It was very distressing and such a contrast between what we did to unite in ’08.” She added, “All the way up until the end, a lot of people highly identified with (Sanders’) campaign, were urging people to vote third party, urging people not to vote—it had an impact.” Her comments come just before Monday’s first-in-the-nation caucuses in Iowa; at a rally in the state Friday, one of Sanders’ highest profile supporters, Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib, led the crowd in booing Clinton.

She keeps inserting herself in the middle of something that she should just STFU and go play with the grand kids……or help Bubba spend all those ill gotten funds through the Foundation.

She was a loser in 2016 and she is a loser in 2020.

All her attempts to screw up Bernie’s campaign….she has been thrown a curve….

Democratic presidential candidates promised voters in Iowa on Saturday they would unify the party to take on President Trump even as they kept up their criticism of each other and navigated the lingering divides from the 2016 campaign, the AP reports. “I’m confident Americans, Republican voters, Democratic voters and independent voters want us to come together,” former Vice President Joe Biden said in North Liberty. “I’m going to do whatever it takes to make progress in the areas that matter most.” In Cedar Rapids, Mass., Sen. Elizabeth Warren updated her stump speech to include a more explicit call for unity. “We’re down to the final strokes here,” she said. “But we understand that, we will and we must come together as a party to beat Donald Trump and I’ve got a plan for that.”

And Bernie Sanders insisted he would back the ultimate Democratic nominee even if it’s not him. “Let me say this so there’s no misunderstanding,” the Vermont senator said in Indianola. “If we do not win, we will support the winner and I know that every other candidate will do the same.”

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Clinton Needs To STFU!

In 2016 Clinton lost the presidency to Trump and she has been butt hurt ever since…..she keeps inserting herself into just about every political situation, in person or through words….

Clinton has decided that she can influence the population to vote for more of her cronies on Wall Street…..

She just cannot STFU…..

If you were wondering why the hashtag #NobodyLikesHim was trending on Twitter on Tuesday, it’s because the Hollywood Reporter dropped a big election-tied bomb. In a chat to promote the upcoming Hulu documentary Hillary, Hillary Clinton was asked to confirm that she said the following in the film about Bernie Sanders: “Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done. He was a career politician. It’s all just baloney and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it.” Asked if she still felt that way, Clinton replied, “Yes,” noting what she says is a toxic, misogynistic culture among his supporters that Sanders won’t address. She also wouldn’t pledge to endorse or campaign for him if he’s the Democratic nominee: “I’m not going to go there yet.” As for whether she’d ever jump back into the ring herself, Clinton said, “I have had so many people [urge me to]. Every day.”

But while “I’m grateful for people’s confidence … I did think it was right for me to step back. I’ll do anything I can to defeat the current incumbent.” Meanwhile, Sanders had an apology for Joe Biden on Monday after one of Sanders’ surrogates, law professor Zephyr Teachout, published a Guardian op-ed accusing Biden of having a “corruption problem” and being a “weak candidate.” Teachout claimed Biden “has perfected the art of taking big contributions, then representing his corporate donors at the cost of middle- and working-class Americans.” “It is absolutely not my view that Joe is corrupt in any way,” Sanders tells CBS News. “I’m sorry that that op-ed appeared.” Biden’s response: “Thanks for acknowledging this, Bernie. These kinds of attacks have no place in this primary. Let’s all keep our focus on making Donald Trump a one-term president.” More of the Clinton interview here.

She is a back stabbing political hack that could win an election that was hers and hers alone because she was a terrible candidate that thought the American voter owed her and would kiss her butt because of the popularity of her husband.

Clinton needs to STFU and spend her declining years playing with the grand kids…..and leave politics to the young.

I Read, I Wrote, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Run Hillary Run!

Closing Thought–13Nov19

What a horror scenario!

The impeachment hearing in the House got fired up today and as predicted the circus is in town….

But there is another story that has been under reported…..that of a statement by failed 2016 presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton…….

First it was the media whore Bloomberg wanting to decide who we vote for……then Patrick may be willing to jump for the same reason……and now we have the biggest con job……

She, Hillary, has made news on many levels from making accusations to making promises to out right lying…..

Her newest attempt to stay in the news headlines is a statement about her “peeps”….

With the deadline to register for the New Hampshire primary just a few days away, Hillary Clinton still isn’t ruling out a 2020 White House run. “I, as I say, never, never, never say never,” she told the BBC Tuesday when asked if she was considering a last-minute bid for the Democratic nomination. “I will certainly tell you, I’m under enormous pressure from many, many, many people to think about it.” She added, however, “that as of this moment, sitting here in this studio talking to you, that is absolutely not in my plans.”

Clinton was in London to promote The Book of Gutsy Women, which she co-wrote with daughter Chelsea, Politico reports. “I think all the time about what kind of president I would have been and what I would have done differently and what I think it would have meant to our country and the world,” she told the BBC. “I think about it all the time. Being able to do that, and look, whoever wins next time is going to have a big task trying to fix everything that’s been broken.” A Fox News poll released earlier this month showed Clinton leading President Trump 43 points to 41, although most polls before her 2016 election loss showed her with a bigger lead.

Is that the same many many people that talk to our dear president…..or maybe it is the many many people that politicians claim want this thing of that…..or maybe she is just lying…..(my bet is on the later)……

Please people she lost before do not give her a chance to do it again…..she needs to STFU….and go away.

I Read, I Wrote, You Know

“Lego Ergo Scribo”

The Resentment Machine

I am sure that most of my readers have heard of the “way back machine”….well I read an article about the “Resentment Machine”…..let me explain…….

The 2016 election is over and Donald Trump won and that means that Hillary Clinton lost, right?

Then why does the president keep reliving the election could it be that even he is surprised that he won?

But for this post it is the Clinton resentment that I want to write about…..she continues to insert herself where she needs not be with the hope that someone will demand her to run again……

So far all she is doing is sniping at the candidates that she feels are not in line with her control of the DNC……..make NO mistake she is in control for the leader of the DNC Perez is deep in her pocket……

And yet she still wants to relive her loss…..is that a smart thing to do?

Only a sadomasochist would consider it a genuine prospect. A failed presidential candidate, the louse in the locks of the Democratic Party, keen to make yet another vain tilt at the White House. But in the rogues’ gallery of the defective and disturbed, Hillary Clinton can count herself as pre-eminent, a historical creature who should be preserved as a warning for the party faithful. But she refuses to lie (and lie) quietly, and has given ventriloquised clues via her husband that she might be readying for a return to competition.

The way Clinton disturbs the news bubble is through complaint heavy with spite. She gazes at the mirror in self-loathing, and claims to spot the faults of others. (The loathing is understandable to some degree: it was Clinton and her circle who decided, disastrously, to elevate Donald Trump as electable material ahead of rival Bernie Sanders.) The story she bores her audience with lacks variation: The 2016 loss to Trump could never be put down to her, veteran political figure, establishment doyen. No, that would be inaccurate for a person with the credentials for office.

A person in such a state is bound to see any contender as dangerous. Heap upon them; dismiss them as lacking that scoundrel factor of patriotism. Hide behind some rich, over egged notion of fact checked veracity, while casting grave accusations of foreign control and veiled treason.

The Hillary Clinton Resentment Machine

Then Clinton advised the DENC to pick someone who can win the Electoral College…really? She could not do that then why take her advice?

Hillary Clinton on Monday urged Democrats to choose a nominee who can win the Electoral College in 2020.

“We have to hope that whoever ends up nominated can win the Electoral College,” she said at a discussion of her book, “The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience,” in Denver.

“I think several of our candidates could win the popular vote but as I know … that’s not enough,” added the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/468956-hillary-clinton-urges-democrats-to-pick-a-candidate-who-can-win-the

Someone tell the Clinton machine that still exists that she LOST her bid not once but twice…time to STFU and go make bread.

Closing Thought–25Oct19

Seriously? Why?

Please someone tell the Dems to stop thinking the unthinkable.

We hear all the whining about the crop of Dem candidates for 2020 and somewhere some moron that gets paid way too much for their thoughts, is pushing the unthinkable of another Clinton candidacy….

Hillary Clinton is not running in 2020. Right? She’s said so herself. And yet the influential Drudge Report on Tuesday has a lead headline trumpeting, “Dem Halloween: Hillary Leaves Door Open.” The headline links to the American Mirror, which has a story about what Clinton didn’t say at a recent forum in Portland. When discussing the Democratic field, she said: “All that matters is that we win. I hate to be so, you know, simplistic about it. We have to nominate … the best …,” which is when an audience member shouted, “You!” Clinton did not shut down the idea. She smiled and laughed and said, “Oh, my. Well, thank you.” (Watch video of her answer here.)

That report, however, is not the only story generating some Clinton buzz. In the New York Times, Jonathan Martin reports that Clinton (as well as Michael Bloomberg) has told people privately in the last few weeks that she would consider running if she thought she could win and if there were an obvious opening. Translation: If Joe Biden dropped out or floundered in the polls. Sources tell Martin that she shares concerns about Biden as well as whether Elizabeth Warren is too liberal. All in all, though, Martin thinks the chances of her running are “remote.”

WTF?

Are we to believe that this person cannot get over being beat by Trump? Do we have to go through all this embarrassing crap to soothe her butt hurt ego?

If she makes a comeback like this then I will be gone from ever considering a Dem ever again for my vote…..and another thing…..if they continue this stupidity will the Democratic Party survive the 2020 election?

It is no secret to the observant that since the 2016 election, the Democratic Party has been in a state of near-collapse, the victim of its own hubris, having lost their moral compass with unsubstantiated Russisgate allegations; those accusations continue as a futile exercise of domestic regime change.

Today’s Dems are less than a bona fide opposition party offering zero policy solutions, unrecognizable from past glories and not the same political party many of us signed up for many years ago. Instead, the American public is witnessing a frenzied, unscrupulous strategy.

Will the Democratic Party Exist after 2020 Election

Dems are considering destroying their party forever.

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“Lego Ergo Scribo”

Does Anyone Remember Benghazi?

All the news of the back and forth of the newest Congressional Hearing…..Does anyone recall the Benghazi Hearings?

I know it is a lifetime ago in news years but it was a big deal….I remember the partisanship that flowed from that hearing…the vile accusations and of course the hypocrisy……

News has come out that some of the so-called evidence was doctored (I have only one source)……

Below is a reminder of just insidious leading Republicans became in their pursuit of doing everything possible to derail presumed Democratic Presidential Nominee Hillary Clinton’s chances of winning the 2016 election.

Take for instance the bombshell revelation that the Central Intelligence Agency reached out to Democrats serving on the Select Committee on Benghazi on Saturday, October 17, 2015 to confirm that Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) had altered documents provided to the committee by Hillary Clinton.

CIA Confirms: Trey Gowdy Altered Documents To Frame Hillary Clinton

The article is well sourced….and I will be checking for other sources of this information.

I was always against these hearings because they were a “witch hunt” (a popular term these days)….I was opposed because I thought they were asking the wrong questions….they should have asked why the ambassador went to a dangerous area for a meeting with such a small security force?

That was the question that needed an answer….but instead a game was played at the expense of the ambassador’s family.

That was pathetic, sad and extremely tacky.

I appears the the GOP was guilty of the very same things they accuse the Dems of doing…..maybe they should stop pointing fingers and do their job with integrity…I know a lot to ask be at least try.

I Read, I Wrote, You Know

“Lego Ergo Scribo”

Tulsi Vs Hillary

A dream cage match……

Over the weekend the national story was the accusation by a Dem nominee against a Dem candidate as a Russian agent…..is this what the Dem Party has become?

My regulars have learned that I support the antiwar candidate for the Dem nomination, Tulsi Gabbard the representative from Hawaii…I will admit that she is not the most popular candidate but then she does not kiss the ass of the establishment to get her way.

It seems that Hillary Clinton has done something to take the heat off the Bidens in the news…..she has accused Tulsi of being a Russian asset…..yeah she is still butt hurt from her lose in 2016…..

At this week’s Democratic debate, Tulsi Gabbard called out “despicable” reports in the media suggesting that she’s a favorite of the Russians. Now it appears that Hillary Clinton is joining the Gabbard critics. In an appearance on the David Plouffe podcast Campaign HQ, Clinton suggested that the Kremlin does indeed like Gabbard, reports Axios. “I’m not making any predictions, but I think they’ve got their eye on somebody who is currently in the Democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third-party candidate,” said Clinton. “She’s the favorite of the Russians. They have a bunch of sites and bots and other ways of supporting her so far.” Note that Clinton did not actually name Gabbard, but Axios is not the only site to make an educated guess that she’s talking about the Hawaii congresswoman—the Washington Post and the Daily Beast make the link, too.

So what’s with the Gabbard-Russia allegations? As Axios notes, one factor is that Gabbard has defended Russian ally Bashar al-Assad of Syria, and she maintains (in sync with her isolationist foreign policy views) that the US has no business in a “regime change war” to oust him. A recent New York Times article noted that some fringe-right websites also have embraced Gabbard because they see her as the Democratic version of President Trump, though she chafes against their support. In the podcast, Clinton also labeled the Green Party’s Jill Stein a “Russian asset—I mean, totally.” She said the Russians will back Gabbard if Stein doesn’t run again because Moscow wants to divide Democrats in key states with a “vigorous third-party challenge.” As for Trump: “I don’t know what Putin has on him—whether it’s both personal and financial. I assume it is.”

Clinton is still butt hurt after Tulsi quit the DNC and backed Bernie in 2016 and still cannot let the fact go that she was a terrible candidate that had NO chance…..and now she is trying to help Biden and the other corporate candidates as best she can….it is a petty person that back stabs to get revenge for a perceived slight in 2016.

Gabbard accused Clinton of being the one, along with her “proxies and powerful allies in the corporate media and war machine,” behind efforts to slam Gabbard’s reputation, “afraid of the threat I pose.” Then, a challenge: “It’s now clear that this primary is between you and me. Don’t cowardly hide behind your proxies. Join the race directly.” The tweets spurred instant reaction online, ranging from defense of Gabbard to mockery of her posts. Even a couple of her fellow Dems jumped into the fray, with Cory Booker posting a humorous reaction GIF and Andrew Yang going to bat for her. Clinton is taking heat over the flap, too: During a Fox News appearance Friday, ex-George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove said she should “put up or shut up” and offer evidence on her accusations on Gabbard

Let her step up and debate Tulsi face to face instead of doing what Dems seem to always do….a cowardly attack by back stabbing.

If she has something to say then say it so Tulsi’s face ..or STFU!

The Jill Stein, Green Party candidate, was also attacked and she has come out swinging as well….

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday made the baseless claim that Dr. Jill Stein, the Green Party’s 2016 nominee for president, was a Russian agent—an allegation that was met with derision from Stein and an invitation to debate.

“In light of the latest slanderous allegations from Hillary Clinton, I challenge her to a debate,” tweeted Stein.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/10/18/jill-stein-challenges-hillary-clinton-debate-after-russian-asset-smear

Tulsi has very little media coverage and this should give her a bit more…that is until Trump does something else stupid…….watch the media they will be negative to Tulsi and not call out Clinton for this cowardly attack…..CNN was the exception.

Closing Thought For A Saturday

In the last two years we have heard many sides of the defeat of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election…..some pretty accurate and then there are the mindless ramblings of those out of the know.

But on this Saturday I would like to give my readers another look at the loss by Clinton…..this to the tune of Gordon Lighfoot’s “Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”…….

https://youtu.be/SDNYYMK29AU

And then just a little humor on this Saturday……

https://youtu.be/z3bYb7qtkbo

And finally one last parody……

https://youtu.be/bQgLVrPE6tU

Hope all readers got a couple of chuckles……

That wraps my posting day up….enjoy your day and your weekend……

Closing Thought–14Nov18

I read an op-ed a couple of days ago and I had to give it time to sink in….someone thinks that Hillary is poised to run again for president………

A longtime adviser to Hillary Clinton has made a prediction in the Wall Street Journal that will be very good news to some Democratic voters and very bad news to others: Hillary Clinton is running again. So writes Mark Penn, a pollster and adviser to the Clintons from 1995 to 2008, in an op-ed co-authored with Andrew Stein, president of the New York City Council. Their premise is that Clinton will return to the Hillary Clinton of old, “the universal-health-care-promoting progressive firebrand of 1994.” Think of it as “Hillary Clinton 4.0.” In earlier iterations, version 2.0 lost to Barack Obama as a centrist and version 3.0 lost to Donald Trump after blowing it with white, middle-class voters. The new version of Clinton, however, has learned from all these mistakes.

“Clinton has a 75% approval rating among Democrats, an unfinished mission to be the first female president, and a personal grievance against Mr. Trump, whose supporters pilloried her with chants of ‘Lock her up!,'” the authors write. “This must be avenged.” She’s also had two years to assess her defeat to Trump and what she did wrong. What about the new generation of Democrats? They proved they’re not ready for prime time with the Brett Kavanaugh hearings. Meanwhile, Mike Bloomberg will support her rather than run against her, they write, and Joe Biden wouldn’t stand a chance. Clinton might not announce early, perhaps not until after Iowa, “but rest assured that, one way or another, Hillary 4.0 is on the way.” Click to read the full op-ed.

Seriously?

Why?

Please stop! Let the country move passed the Clintons….

She will be a point of contention and will invoke the ire of that guy that sits in the White house as I type….the Dems need new blood…the Clintons are old hat and should go the way to the do-do.

The same for Pelosi….she will be a focal point of attacks and the Dem agenda will be pushed to the background…..again the Dems need new blood in the House leadership if they truly want to make a difference….looking to the past will give them nothing but heartache…Clintons and Pelosi are the past please Dems move on to the present and look to the future.

Let’s Talk 2016

We are mere few days away from the 2018 Mid-Terms and the president still talks about the election we had in 2016…..I believe that most everyone knows that we have a president named Trump and yet he cannot stop talking about the 2016 election….on and on……

You know the election of 2016 and we have a president, like him or not, I want to move on and talk about the world we have today….but we cannot…..it seems the winner of the electoral college cannot move past the election….every rally and campaign stop he makes he constantly relives the election of 2016…..so I thought ‘why not’ it is something interesting because NOTHING happening in the Trump White House is all that interesting.

The biggest confusion is the “Obama Voter” that switched and voted for the old angry white guy….(what were they thinking?)…….

One of the most puzzling elements of the 2016 election, at least for a lot of Americans, was the millions of voters who switched from voting for Barack Obama in 2012 to Donald Trump in 2016. Somewhere between 6.7 million and 9.2 million Americans switched this way; given that the 2016 election was decided by 40,000 votes, it’s fair to say that Obama-Trump switchers were one of the key reasons that Hillary Clinton lost.

The existence of those voters has served as evidence that the most plausible explanation for what happened in 2016 — that Trump’s campaign tapped into the racism of white Americans to win pivotal states — is wrong. “How could white Americans who voted for a black president in the past be racist,” or so the thinking goes.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/10/16/17980820/trump-obama-2016-race-racism-class-economy-2018-midterm

As long as we are talking about the 2016 election and since the president cannot open his mouth without saying something stupid about Hillary Clinton I might as well include her in this post…….

IMO she was a terrible candidate and the final tally in the Electoral College proves my point…..yes I know “she won the popular vote”….and where did that get her?

She can go back to the circuit of getting paid “appearance money” and step out of the light for awhile…..(she just cannot step away)…..

“No, I’m not going to run again.” So declared Hillary Clinton this week in an interview with BBC Radio. Clinton, however, said she planned to remain in the public eye criticizing President Trump, reports CNBC. One thing that seems clear: Given her re-emergence on the national stage, lots of people think she will, in fact, run for president in 2020—and lots of Democrats are conflicted about that. Details and developments:

Pro-Hillary: A Politico piece headlined “How Do You Solve a Problem Like Hillary?” talks to some of those conflicted Democrats. But it also quotes from Clinton adviser Philippe Reines, who argues that no other Democrat even comes close to her base of support. “Chalking the loss up to her being a failed candidate is an oversimplification,” he says. “She is smarter than most, tougher than most, she could raise money easier than most, and it was an absolute fight to the death.” He thinks it’s unlikely, but possible, that she will run. The chances are “not zero.”

Anti-Hillary: A good example of the “please, no” camp is a piece by Liz Mair in the Daily Beast, who likens Clinton to a zombie who won’t stay down. “Hillary remains caught up in the delusion that the only reason she lost in 2016 was because of Russian interference,” writes Mair. “She does not seem to have fully processed the fact that she lost the Electoral College, the only vote that counts.”

Another: Michelle Cottle, a member of the New York Times editorial board, wrote an op-ed arguing that Clinton is doing her party more harm than good ahead of the midterms with all her public appearances. Instead of generating support among Democrats and independents, she’s merely energizing the Republican base, Cottle writes.

Bannon’s view: “She’s a lion in winter,” Steve Bannon tells Politico. “Not only is she running, she should run. In the Democratic Party, the question is can anybody throw a punch or take a punch, and one thing we know about Hillary Clinton is she can take a punch.” Trump, for his part, says he hopes she runs.

Lewinsky controversy: Last weekend, Clinton told CBS that her husband’s affair with a 22-year-old Monica Lewinsky didn’t constitute an abuse of power because Lewinsky was an adult, reports USA Today. Clinton continues to take flak for this, including from Tarana Burke, who’s credited with starting the #MeToo movement. “It’s absolutely an abuse of power,” Burke tells the Root. “Two people made a choice and one of those people was the most powerful man in the world.” And former Obama adviser David Axelrod wrote: “Just guessing this isn’t the story Democratic candidates were looking for in the homestretch of the midterms.”

A tour: Clinton will further raise her public profile with a series of appearances starting next month with Bill Clinton to talk about the 2016 loss and other issues, reports Business Insider. “An Evening With the Clintons” will visit 13 cities, with tickets ranging from $60 to $745.

Low numbers: A Gallup poll in September put Clinton’s favorability rating at a record low 36%. That’s down 7 points from the eve of the election. The partisan split: 77% favorable rating among Democrats, 30% among independents, and 4% among Republicans.

Clinton also drew attention for asserting that “civility” will return to the US only when Democrats reassume power.

Please…..she lost the 2016 election…time for her to go away….Dems do not need her any longer….they need to find a voice and a message….she did not have one in 2016 and right now the Dems are still looking for their voice. Right now not even the Party knows who the leader of the Dems is…..so is there a leader?

This is fun!

The Mid-terms will tell the tale…..the Dems may have a chance to redeem themselves with the voter…..will they?

In Saner Thought

"It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error"..Thomas Paine

Tag: Hillary Clinton

Closing Thought–03Feb20

Clinton Needs To STFU!

Run Hillary Run!

The Resentment Machine

Closing Thought–25Oct19

Does Anyone Remember Benghazi?

Tulsi Vs Hillary

Beto O’Rourke defend Tulsi Gabbard when asked about Hillary Clinton’s claim that Russia is “grooming” the Hawaii congresswoman to be a third-party spoiler candidate.

Closing Thought For A Saturday

Closing Thought–14Nov18

Let’s Talk 2016