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Dismissing what people think about you is a great way of showing that you're here to discuss seriously!

Dismissing it is taking great care to respond to what the poster said? I guess...

Is there any political issue you want to discuss?
 
so in between the time you posted the pic and now, you proposed (and she said yes?) congrats!

btw i don’t believe you have a fiancé so post a pic so we can believe you.

Lol thanks man. I proposed in February. Still getting used to saying fiance. The ring is in the jewelry thread if you want to see it. Not because I need to prove anything, but it is an exciting time.
 
Who knew that pushing MAGA hats while being "president" as a side hustle was acceptable. We learn something new every day...:rolleyes
 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...ory.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.4b97ffeea80b
Judge warns Roger Stone of ‘costs and consequences’ for his new book release amid gag order
Attorneys for Roger Stone withheld or misrepresented plans for his new book criticizing special counsel Robert S. Mueller III in violation of a gag order in his case, a federal judge found Tuesday, warning that any “costs or consequences” that result are solely his responsibility.

The new order by U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson of Washington, D.C. does not spell out consequences but appears to bode ill for the longtime friend of President Trump and Republican operative, who asked the court for leeway late Friday regarding the “imminent release” of a new version of his book about Trump’s 2016 campaign, retitled “The Myth of Russian Collusion.”

As part of her order, the judge also said she was left with an impression Stone may have been using her docket to gin up publicity for his book.

Stone attacks Mueller as “crooked” and accuses “Deep State liberals” of seeking to silence him in the book’s new introduction, despite a Feb. 21 gag order. But Stone’s attorneys argued that “not a single word of the book was created” after that date, and that it did not occur them to tell the judge about it before the order since the book already had been online for sale for two days.

Jackson dismissed that reasoning, saying it is undisputed that the order barred all public statements by Stone about the investigation.
“It does not matter when the defendant may have first formulated the opinions expressed, or when he first put them into words: he may no longer share his views on these particular subjects with the world,” Jackson said.

She also said she was left with a sense that the court filing talking about a soon-to-be released book may have been a public relations move.

In the filing, Stone’s lawyers wrote that they were flagging the upcoming book out of an “abundance of caution” given the gag order. But Jackson wrote Tuesday that since the book already was out before the filing was made, it “gives rise to the impression” that the March 1 motion “was intended to serve as a means to generate additional publicity for the book.”

Jackson ordered Stone’s defense to explain by next Monday how he will come in to compliance. She did not state a demand that he pull the book from shelves nationwide.

However, the judge wrote that Stone’s attorneys may have waived any right to complain about his free speech rights because they proposed themselves that the gag order on their client bar “improper” speech by Stone impugning the integrity of the court, Mueller or his prosecution.

Stone, 66, is accused of lying to Congress and obstructing justice to cover up his efforts to gather information concerning hacked Democratic Party emails during the 2016 presidential campaign. He has pleaded not guilty.
 
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