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‘Everybody’s Dead’: Seven Bodies Found at Oklahoma Sex Offender’s Home

Posted on | May 2, 2023 | 1 Comment

Jesse L. McFadden

In 2003, when he was 19 years old, Jesse McFadden of Oklahoma was convicted of first-degree rape and sentenced to 20 years in prison. In 2017, while still in prison, “he was accused of sexting an underage girl,” but despite this, was released from prison in 2020. He was scheduled to go to trial Monday “on charges of soliciting sexual conduct [or] communication with a minor by use of technology and a child pornography complaint.” Meanwhile, he had married a woman named Holly, and moved to a property near Henryetta, in Okmulgee County, about 50 miles south of Tulsa, with Holly and her three children, who included a teenage daughter named Tiffany. Over the weekend, two of Tiffany’s friends, Ivy Webster, 14, and Brittany Brewer, 16, who had been spending the night at the home were reported missing. Monday, the bodies of both missing girls — as well as Jesse McFadden, Holly, Tiffany and two others — were found on the Henryetta property:

Authorities believe the search for two missing Henryetta teens may have come to an end as seven bodies have been found Monday afternoon.
Okmulgee County Sheriff Eddy Rice, in a phone interview with Tulsa World, confirmed the bodies were discovered on property where Jesse McFadden resided.
“Everybody’s dead,” the sheriff said before having to quickly return to the scene of the investigation.

Yes, everybody’s dead — because that son of a bitch got out of prison.



 

 

Category: Crime, Oklahoma

In The Mailbox: 05.01.23

Posted on | May 2, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.01.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links in April! It was very much appreciated!
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OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Don’t Bring a Hammer To A Gunfight
EBL: MAGA I don’t give a Trump, also, Black Widow Evelyn Dick
Twitchy: Former Congressman Wonders – Can You Keep A Weiner Down? Better Dead Than Trans, and Mehdi Hasan’s Accidentally Hilarious Meltdown Over His Blue Check
Louder With Crowder: Alarming video shows transgender high school student beating the crap out of a girl. Or, the dude might have been trans?, Two bros with wicked mullets troll vegan protestors by munching KFC in front of them, and Little man punished for wearing a “there are only two genders” shirt goes off on his school board
Vox Popoli: With Tongues of Neoclowns, Be Very Afraid, Gell-Man Amnesia in Action, Neoclowns in Retreat, and Pfizer Knew Pregnancy Risks
Stoic Observations: The Relationship Commitment Elevator

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Stuck in Khartoum, also, Murphy’s Financial Law
American Greatness: Gender Clinic Trained Elementary School Teachers on How to ‘Transition’ Little Kids, Hunter Biden’s Lawyers ‘Testing the Limits’ of Witness Intimidation By Contacting Potential Whistleblowers, and The Crazy Contours of the Crazier 2024 Election
American Power: Elon Musk on Real Time with Bill Maher, Newsmax Ratings Climb After Tucker Carlson’s Exit at Fox, and Uncool Blue Checks
American Thinker: Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace, Biden Will Be Running on His Record This Time, and Why Tucker Carlson was Doomed
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Castro dictatorship calls on Cubans to attend May Day events on foot, bicycle, or on horses, Surprise! Biden Treasury Dept. approves car, truck, bus, and tractor exports to Cuba, Reports from Cuba: Starting in May, Cubans older than 13 won’t get chicken through the ration book, Cuban dictatorship courting Latin American tourists to fill empty hotel rooms, and Reports from Cuba: Rats and sewer water in the heart of the Cuban capital
BattleSwarm: Fire In The Night, also, Fire Breaks Out In Russia’s Only MLRS Factory
Behind The Black: Musk press conference on Starship/Superheavy launch, Radar antenna on Europe’s JUICE probe to Jupiter stuck, Viasat drops launch contract with Ariane-6, Exploring just one small corner of Valles Marineris, Mars’ Grand Canyon, and Environmentalists sue FAA, demanding it shut down Boca Chica and Starship
Cafe Hayek: “Common-Good Capitalism” Is Really “Person X’s-Good Statism”
CDR Salamander: Command Posts – Hunter Or Hunted?, also, Humility & Hard Questions Win Wars
Chicago Boyz: Worthwhile Reading, also, A Visit To Wendover Field
Da Tech Guy: The military OPHOLDs are here!, Fast Under the Fedora Thoughts, and If You Want to Know Why the BudLight stuff Needs to be Pushed Till they Squeal, This is it
Don Surber: RFK Jr. Is A Trojan Horse, 
First Street Journal: It was never about tolerance; it was always about forced acceptance, also, Killadelphia – Another three bite the dust!
Gates Of Vienna: Think Bosnia, Not Gettysburg, Culture-Enriching Machetes on a School Bus, How Bad is Your Batch? and An Open Word to Markus Söder
The Geller Report: Here is How The Government Rigged The Election and Shielded Joe Biden From The ‘Laptop From Hell’, Preparing for New Onslaught, Biden Regime CUTTING NEW PATHS For Migrants To Enter USA, and “It’s a Bloodbath”: FOX Ratings Collapse, Loses Half It’s Audience, MSNBC Wins Demo Each Hour From 4-10 PM
Hogewash: A Foreground Star and a Background Galaxy, Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Sizing Up a Black Hole, and Helene
Hollywood In Toto: ‘Egypt’s Jon Stewart’ Calls Cancel Culture a ‘Myth’, Reporters Rage as Free Speech Heroes Bill Maher, Elon Musk Meet, and Why Hudson Hawk Is the Bruce Williest Bruce Willis Movie
Legal Insurrection: Norfolk VA School Board Eyeing Planned Parenthood’s Sex-Ed Program, “He shows his genitals in the locker room”, Penn State Encourages Students to “Celebrate Their Identities Separately With ‘Affinity Graduations’”, Only U.S. Factory Making Key Explosive for Artillery Rounds and Tomahawk Missiles Still Offline After It Blew Up in 2021, Conservative Reforms at New College in Florida Are Sending the Left Into a Panic, and AFT’s Randi Weingarten Shut Down on Twitter, CNN After Falsely Claiming She Fought to Reopen Schools
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday – just for you, Jubilate Deo, and A New Month
Outkick: Big 12 Headed South Of The Border To Mexico For Basketball, Football Games, Will Levis’ Sister Seems Ready For A Revenge Tour After NFL Draft Disaster, Biological Male Cyclist Does The Unthinkable, Somehow Smokes Biological Females To Win Tour Event, Overall Title, Chargers Coach Brandon Staley Thinks TCU Is On The Same Level As Alabama And Georgia, Pirates Dugout Goes Nuts After Drew Maggi’s First Big League Hit, and Robert Kennedy Jr. Says Biological Males Should Not Be Playing Women’s Sports
Power Line: Party of the Rich, Subramanian’s silence, Eat Meat!, and This Year’s Default Drama
Protein Wisdom Reborn: A Language Primer,
Shark Tank: Broward Schools Vote To Recognize National Day of Prayer
Shot In The Dark: Open Letter To State Rep. Vang, Communicating With The MN DFL Part VI, and Making That Problem Go Away
STUMP: Podcast: Danger! Fire, Hurricanes, Drowning, and More
The Political Hat: Victims of Communism Day, 2023
This Ain’t Hell: The Air Force’s Newest Bomber… the A-10?, Army Aviation Safety Stand Down, Artificial Intelligence Propaganda, Bar Backtracks After Losing Business, Better Late Than Never in Sudan, and Captain Royce Williams recounts his heroics over Korea
Transterrestrial Musings: On Race And Crime, Saul Alinsky Smiles, and News You Can Use
Victory Girls: Can America Still Be Saved?, Texas Mass Murder Presents Inconvenient Truths, and Biden’s Army Of Influencers Begets Cringetocking
Volokh Conspiracy: Victims of Communism Day—2023, “Petitioner’s Second Amendment Rights Are Not Dependent on Her Spouse’s Acquisition…”, and The New York Times Uncovered The Worst-Kept Secret In Academia
Watts Up With That: Joe Biden Wants Every US Military Vehicle To Be Climate Friendly, “No Bricks, No Glass, No Cement” – What Net Zero 2050 Demands According to Government-Funded Report, XR Founder Moans About His Carrots, and L A Times Electric Bill Increase Editorial Conceals California’s Incompetent Energy & Climate Policies that Hugely Drive-Up Costs
Weasel Zippers: Report: Biden Is Only Functional Six Hours A Day, Five Days A Week, Planned Parenthood Kills 375K Babies While Raking In Record Public Funding In FY2022, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas Has No Idea Why Border Patrol Union Calls Him “National Disgrace”, Bernie Sanders Says No Dem Will Challenge Biden Because “Fear Of The Growth Of Right-Wing Extremism”, and Texas Man Who Murdered Neighbors Execution-Style Is Illegal Immigrant Who Was Deported 5 Times
The Federalist: I Wish Modern Architecture Would Stop Assaulting My Eyes, Minnesota Democrat Signs Bill Banning Free Speech For Therapists Of People Struggling With Sexual Distress, Republicans Proved They Aren’t Holding Anyone ‘Hostage’ On Raising The Debt Limit, and Exhausted Republican Voters Should Be More Skeptical Of RFK Jr.
Mark Steyn: If It’s Not Scottish: Bill Forsyth and Local Hero, Tal Bachman: Memento Mori, and Home on the Range

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Illegal Aliens Murdering Illegal Aliens

Posted on | May 1, 2023 | 1 Comment

The mainstream media spent days telling Americans that a TEXAS MAN had murdered five of his neighbors, and some of us were like, really? Because the name Francisco isn’t like, say, Bubba. And while I usually try to avoid jumping to conclusions in the immediate aftermath of such incidents, my hunch was that maybe Francisco wasn’t in the country legally. Likewise, the names of the victims didn’t exactly seem very Texan.

So it turns out that, not only is Francisco Oropesa an illegal immigrant from Mexico who had previously been deported five times, but that the five people he killed were illegal immigrants from Honduras. We are not only importing murderers, we’re also importing murder victims. I’m sure this was what Emma Lazarus must have had in mind.



 

 

Category: Crime, Immigration, Texas

Another Soros-Funded Disaster

Posted on | May 1, 2023 | 1 Comment

When we talk about crime-riddled cities, Chicago, New York and Philadelphia get a lot more attention than St. Louis, but on a per-capita basis, crime is much worse in St. Louis, which regularly leads New Orleans and Baltimore as the most violent major city in America. Alas, so many people have fled St. Louis in recent decades that it almost doesn’t qualify as a “major” city now, with fewer than 300,000 residents. (Henderson, Nevada, Greensboro, North Carolina, and Irvine, California, are all bigger than St. Louis now.) Things have been going downhill in St. Louis for a long time, so it would be wrong to say that the 2016 election of Kim Gardner as Circuit Attorney for the city has caused the decline; rather, the scandal-ridden tenure of Gardner is symptomatic of the social decay in a city that has long since passed the point of no return. Only in a desolate urban nightmare could someone with such little aptitude for office have gotten elected, and it is impossible to pity the residents of St. Louis, as they have gotten exactly what they deserve for electing a prosecutor who ran on an anti-law-enforcement platform.

Kim Gardner has never bothered to hide her hatred of police. In many cases, she has refused to prosecute criminals, and she has driven out nearly all the experienced prosecutors in her office:

St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner’s Office has dismissed more than 9,000 cases, frequently as they were about to go to trial according to Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s latest filing.
Judges have been “forced” to dismiss more than 2,700 cases because of the prosecution’s failure to provide defendants with discovery and speedy trials, according to the filing.
The few assistant attorneys who remain must endure a “toxic environment” that has driven dedicated attorneys — burdened with unbearable caseloads — to exhaustion and medical emergencies, Bailey said in the filing.
All are among new allegations Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed [March 21] against Gardner in a 121-page amended petition as part of a rare legal maneuver to remove her from office.
Bailey began the quo warranto process as it’s known in February, and has since reviewed more than 30,000 documents and data from the St. Louis City Circuit Court and St. Louis Comptroller’s Office, according to a press release from the Attorney General’s Office.

What prompted the state Attorney General to take action against Gardner was a horrific incident in February involving 21-year-old Daniel Riley.

Riley had been charged in an August 2020 armed robbery but was released on bond and then, despite repeatedly violating the terms of his release, was still on the streets in February 2023 when he was speeding in an Audi SUV, failed to yield at an intersection and caused a crash that led to a teenage volleyball player from Tennessee — who was in St. Louis for a tournament, and just happened to be on the sidewalk at the time of the crash — having both of her legs amputated.

While it is perhaps predictable that Missouri’s Republican attorney general would be trying to force Gardner out of office, even Democrats in St. Louis have now started turning against her. A local defense attorney, David Mueller, has announced himself as a Democratic primary challenger to Gardner, and other local Democrats are also expected to toss their hats into the ring. And last week, St. Louis Circuit Court Judge Michael Noble denounced Gardner’s office as a “rudderless ship of chaos” in a hearing on whether she should be held in contempt of court. “It appears that Ms. Gardner has complete indifference and a conscious disregard for the judicial process,” he said.

Gardner’s campaign received about $116,000 from political action committees backed by billionaire George Soros. We are told that identifying Soros as a funder of liberal DAs is promoting anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, but the question is, do Jews actually support this dangerous “progressive” lunacy? If not, then it is incumbent on Jews to denounce Soros — and indeed, many have done so loudly — and to stop this baseless smear of Soros’ critics. How is it a “conspiracy theory” to point out how Soros is spending his money to affect elections? And if the Anti-Defamation League really wants to discourage anti-Semitism, why aren’t they criticizing Soros, rather than defending him? Because I think every decent citizen — Jew or Gentile, black or white, Republican or Democrats — should consider Soros indefensible, given the results he has obtained in St. Louis and other cities where his money has helped elect “progressive” prosecutors like Kim Gardner, who remains unapologetic:

Gardner shrugged off the ongoing court battle to remove her from office as “a witch hunt” designed to discourage young reformers from going to law school or pursuing a career in the criminal justice arena.
“I’m not leaving. I’m not resigning. I’m not doing nothing,” she said to rousing cheers. “You gonna have to remove me.” . . .
Gardner walked out of the Central Baptist Church Saturday morning after delivering a defiant 13-minute speech to about 60 loyal supporters who awarded her with a t-shirt and heralded her as “the Mother of Justice.” . . .
“I’ve been criminalized every day because of my black skin, because I’m Black,” she said. “I’ve never had a fair shake.”

Playing the race card? Really? Despicable to the end . . .



 

 

Category: Crime, Missouri

Rule 5 Sunday: Paige Spiranac

Posted on | May 1, 2023 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I’m a little fuzzy on what all these influencers in social media are influencing; sometimes it just seems like a (mostly) wholesome grift allowing pretty girls to show off their bodies while keeping (most of) their clothes on and showing off Stuff and Things gifted to them by people wanting them to promote said Things and Stuff. One of the more successful influencers who’s come to my attention through Outkick and similar outlets is Paige Spiranac, who apparently didn’t make it in the LPGA but is wildly successful promoting Golf Things. Here we have Ms. Spiranac apparently promoting golf balls.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

This woman has balls.

NINETY MILES FROM TYRANNY: Hot Pick of the Hot Pick of the Late Night. The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #2062, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. 

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule 5 Great Divorce Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon. 

EBL: MAGA – I Don’t Give A Trump, Hadley Gamble, Helen Mirren, Emma Thompson, Keira Knightley & Rosamund Pike, “Yum Yum” Swalwell, Pablo Picasso & His Women, Maine Stein Song, “Filipino Baby”, The Diplomat, and Rosamunde Polka.

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Anna Alimani, Still Talking Tucker, Fish Pic Friday – The Reel Rocky, Thursday Tanlines, Kiki Lookalike Dies From Plastic Surgery, The Wednesday Wetness, RIP: Henry Belafonte, Chesapeake Bay Not a Disaster, Is Merrick Garland Obstructing the Hunter Investigation?, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Palm Sunday, Emrat Quits Hollywood and Dem Threatens Taibbi with Jail, Bud Light Exec Out

STICKS STORIES & SCOTCH: USS Ranger

FLAPPR: T.I.T.S. For April 28

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Biden Administration Hiring 360 Armed IRS Agents Ready to Use ‘Deadly Force’

Posted on | April 30, 2023 | Comments Off on Biden Administration Hiring 360 Armed IRS Agents Ready to Use ‘Deadly Force’

Get paid by the government to kill tax cheaters:

The Internal Revenue Service is hiring special agents who shouldn’t be afraid of using “deadly force.”
Criminal Investigation, the law enforcement branch of the IRS, is looking for agents across the US who can combine “accounting skills with law enforcement skills to investigate financial crimes,” according to a job posting on its website.

(Crime-fighting accountants! How exciting is that?)

“Special Agents are duly sworn law enforcement officers who are trained to ‘follow the money.'”
These agents investigate financial crimes, money laundering, tax-related identity theft, and terrorist financing efforts. They are the only IRS workers who are permitted to carry and use firearms.
Required to work a minimum of 50 hours a week, always on call even during vacations and weekends, these agents will need to be fit so they can “effectively respond to life-threatening situations,” per the listing.

(No fatties.)

They will conduct arrests, search warrants, and “other dangerous assignments.” But most importantly, they must be legally allowed to carry a gun.
The agents must be prepared to protect themselves or others “from physical attacks at any time and without warning and use firearms in life-threatening situations” and shouldn’t be afraid to “use force up to and including the use of deadly force.”

(Libertarians need not apply.)

According to a posting on the website for government jobs, the IRS is seeking agents in all 50 states. The posting lists 360 vacancies.
The roles will pay between $52,921 and $94,228 annually, according to the USAJobs listing.
Applicants must be US citizens, aged between 21 and 37.

So, next time you hear some lazy kid complaining there are no “good jobs” available, here’s your answer: The IRS is hiring.



 

 

Category: Taxes

FMJRA 2.0: La Vie Secrete – Exercises Spirituelles

Posted on | April 30, 2023 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: La Vie Secrete – Exercises Spirituelles

— compiled by Wombat-socho

This business with Stephen Crowder vexes me greatly. I would like to give him the benefit of the doubt, but it seems pretty obvious to me that while he seems to have taken Colossians 3:18 to heart, he’s completely forgotten the following verse. I’m not sure I can in good conscience keep linking to Louder with Crowder, but I shall leave that up to the Commentariat. Please post your opinions in the comments.
In other, more cheerful news, the 1971 cards are out for Dynasty Baseball and the expansion draft in Pete’s league is done; I need to lay off the Civicrack and submit my keeper list for this season to Pete, especially since I promised to do it by Thursday. Once again, you’ll get to suffer with me through the season, though hopefully I’ll have more solid pitching and hitting than I had last year.
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No Man Has Ever ‘Won’ an Argument With His Wife (Change My Mind)

Posted on | April 29, 2023 | Comments Off on No Man Has Ever ‘Won’ an Argument With His Wife (Change My Mind)

Now, I heard a cryin’ man
Is half a man, with no sense of pride.
But if I have to cry to keep you,
I don’t mind weepin’, if it’ll keep you by my side.

Ain’t too proud to beg, sweet darlin’.
Please don’t leave me girl (don’t you go).
Ain’t too proud to plead, baby, baby.
Please don’t leave me girl (don’t you go).

Everything you need to know about love, you can learn from old R&B tunes, unless you’d prefer to learn it from old country-and-western songs. What the Temptations were laying down in 1966 has stood the test of time because it’s the absolute truth — however proud a man might be, love will force him to beg for mercy, because that’s how women are.

Rollo Tomassi has expounded on women’s inherent solipsism — it is no use trying to convince a woman to view any conflict or dispute from an objective or logical perspective. If she feels she has been wronged or insulted, no amount of rational argument will convince her otherwise.

Of course, men can be self-centered, emotional and stubborn, but when it comes to male/female relationships, it is the woman’s solipsistic certainty of her own rectitude — her feelings are never wrong — that so often proves the great stumbling block to happiness. No matter how irrational her anger may be, you’re not going to help the situation by telling her she’s wrong to be angry. Indeed, the two words you should never tell her in such a moment are “calm down.” Oh, that will set her off!

If she feels hurt, it doesn’t matter how many reasons you offer for why she shouldn’t feel that way. Her feelings are beyond criticism.

These meditations on the dynamics of male/female relationships are not just random or coincidental. Some readers will be aware of the situation — one which has “gone viral,” as the kids say — that has prompted me to share whatever little wisdom on this subject I can claim to have obtained after 34 years of marriage. Tim Pool is among the several YouTubers who’ve weighed in on the controversy, involving a Ring surveillance video of an unfortunate domestic situation. Tim says it looks to him as if the guy in the video has been “set up,” and that may be true. Dragging people’s dirty laundry into the public eye — leaking a video to Yashar Ali, really? — is the kind of scorched-earth tactic that connotes an irreconcilable breach and, as Tim says, it’s probably wrong to judge somebody on the basis of one (out-of-context) video clip.

“If Americans can be divorced for ‘incompatibility of temper’ I cannot conceive why they are not all divorced. I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.”
— G.K. Chesterton

Perhaps not as memorable as a Motown lyric, Chesterton’s observation is nevertheless true. Men and women are different; trying to reconcile and accommodate these differences is the great challenge of marriage.

The goal of marriage is cooperation. When husband and wife begin trying to prove each other wrong, then it becomes a competition, and marital happiness becomes impossible. If love means anything — if it denotes more than mere affectionate sentiment — then it must include the willingness to lose an argument, rather than to make your beloved unhappy by a bullheaded determination to prove yourself right.

God knows that stubbornness and arrogance are among my faults. As I’ve often remarked, there are two kinds of people in the world — people who agree with me, and people who are wrong. When I was younger, I actually enjoyed arguing for the sake of argument, until it became apparent to me that I was wasting my time trying to convince wrong people of their error. If someone respected my judgment, they wouldn’t be disagreeing with me, would they? So the argument itself is evidence that they consider me unworthy of respect, and why should I indulge them as they seek to prove that I don’t deserve respect?

Perhaps (suggesting this only as a hypothetical possibility) I have been wrong about something occasionally, but if so, I’ve long since forgotten those occasions, and thus my arrogant conviction of my 100% correctness, which certainty forbids me ever to argue with anyone who disagrees with me. Don’t bother arguing with an old man who, even when he was very young, believed he already knew everything, and through the years has not become less convinced of his know-it-all wisdom.

Self-awareness requires me to confront the fact that no one could ever admire me as much as I admire myself, and to realize that this arrogance can be annoying to others. So I’ve learned to be silent, to bite my tongue when I’m tempted to correct people for being wrong. They don’t want to listen to my advice, and are therefore free to go to hell in the time and manner of their own choosing. It’s not my responsibility.

You have to pursue a type of Zen acceptance about your inability to tell other people how to live their lives, or otherwise the sense of tragedy will overwhelm you. Like, why did the Patriots miss out on the opportunity to draft tight end Tucker Kraft? He went to the Packers, alas, and instead Bill Belichick picked a linebacker from Sacramento State — an error, I’m sure, but Bill Belichick didn’t ask for my advice on the NFL draft, and there’s no point arguing about it now. Selah.

So it is with the video of the domestic trouble involving the famous YouTube personality. There are liberals trying to claim that this incident proves that “tradcon” (traditional conservative) ideas about marriage are wrong, and I’m like, “What? Are you kidding me? Because I consider myself both traditional and conservative and sure as hell would never talk to my wife like that.” But people don’t ask my advice, see?

Y’all need to listen to some old Motown records and chill out. That may not sound like “tradcon” advice, but it sure is better than getting divorced over an argument about your dog. Change my mind.



 

 

Category: Celebrities, Marriage
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