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  • Putting Phil Gramm in charge of anything financial is like putting Dracula in charge of the Blood Bank.

  • Gramm should be hung, drawn and quartered.

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  • Phil Gramm will burn in hell when he dies a very painful death.

  • McCain gave this dude the pink slip during the 2008 Prez Campaign after he made that "We've sort of become a nation of whiners" sham of a comment. Even Ron Paul distanced himself from this assclown who happens to be from the same state as Dr. Paul. In fact Dr. Paul distanced himself from Gramm eons ago. 

  • @GOPkicksbutt

    Dude, you GOTTA be a troll. I mean, there's just NO way you can actually believe that!

    And if you do, drive over to your nearest community college and sign up to take Economics 101. I think you'll be surprised to learn how the economy ACTUALLY works -- the policies you just advocated would actually send the American economy into it's death spiral.

  • Thanks to liberal policy the world economy is crashing. We must do two things to stop the meltdown NOW!!! Firstly, we need to raise all payroll taxes 10% for one year. We also need to stop (right now) wasteful handout programs like medicare, social security, unemployment,, etc. and lower the minimum wage to $2/hr so we can compete with China for jobs. I will work with boehner,Paul Ryan and my other republican colleagues and take immediate action on these proposals. God bless the GOP!

  • Seriously.. Troy Davis is put to death.. for a crime he likely did not commit. Yet, Phil Gramm is responsible for the DECIMATION of MILLIONS OF LIVES and what happened to him? Nothing, he was compensated THROUGH THE ROOF. It is my opinion that whomever would take the initiative and EXECUTE Phil Gramm should be viewed as a true American hero and patriot.

  • Hey Cenk, where is your story on SOLYNDRA?

    Cenk?

  • Deregulation, for lack of a better word, is stupid.

  • That's what I heard in this clip:

    "Whine whine whine whine whine whine whine whine whine."

    Grow up Cenk!

  • "We're the only nation in the world where all of our poor people are fat." - Phil Gramm // Yeah DUMBFUCK, because HEALTHY FOOD is 2-3x the cost of corporate junk food, one dollar pizzas, dollar burgers, and 2 for 1 burritos or corndogs. Pesticide Apple = 25 to 40 cents cents. Organic Apple = 1.50 to 2.00 // Ground Beef 25% Fat, 3.50 to 4.00 a pound. Organic Ground Beef 15% Fat, 6.00 to 7.50 a pound. // And these dumbfucks sit there and blame the poor for being fat.

  • I always said there are more sociopaths/psychopaths in business and politics then in jail. Many get their highs off other things then killing ppl..

  • @morganbath are you smoking drugs? I dont know any third world country that will pay you disability for being having deppresion..... and your rhetoric is nothing but a reply hunt... go troll elsewhere

  • People need to quit saying "Cenk for President!"

    Makes you look completely retarded.

  • @marharth lol i think most ppl know cenk can't be elected pres because of his immigrant status. but what is wrong with wishing for it. Your rebuke makes you look like an asshole

  • Thanks to liberal policy the world economy is crashing. We must do two things to stop the meltdown NOW!!! Firstly, we need to raise all payroll taxes 10% for one year. We also need to stop (right now) wasteful handout programs like medicare, social security, unemployment,, etc. and lower the minimum wage to $2/hr so we can compete with China for jobs. I will work with Boehner, Ryan and my other republican colleagues and take immediate action on these proposals. God bless the GOP!

  • @unclelight Troll or bought.

  • @unclelight So if America gets rid of social security etc, the world economy will be ok? Thats a good deal for the rest of the world then. Americans lose their social safety net but the rest of the world gets to keep theirs at the same time their economies get better. Good deal for us, but does not sound like a good deal for Americans. America is already close to being a third world country in many respects, would Americans really be willing to suffer more just to help the world economy?

  • Phil Gramm alos co-authored 'The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act' that repealed Glass-Steagal, which is just as important to the economic crash as TCFMA.

  • The existence of creatures like Phil Graham and Dick Cheney was one of the main things that undermined by belief in the traditional religions.

  • If only Obama would watch this video.

  • I can't understand this level of greed... Why do these people need enough money to buy a talking toilet with a built in vibrator? i mean, if the whole "my dick is bigger than your dick game" destroys the fucking planet doesn't that make the winner the biggest loser known to man? Ah, what am I talking about? Gramm probably still thinks the future is full of 'Transformers' and that vikings are all descendants of 'He-Man' or some shit...

  • I thought he was Dead!! To Bad!!

  • RON PAUL PLZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • This Gramm guy destroyed the Glass-Steagal act of 1933 which was a response to the great depression. In 1999 the Gramm-Leach-Bliley act (all criminal Republicans elected by RETARDS) allowed banks insurers and brokers to once again form into one corporate monster where gambling on the stock market with ordinary peoples money is all fun and games except when Wall Street crashes. Phil Gramm should have been hanged long ago for the damage he has caused. Youtube comments don't count for shit I know.

  • republicans understand that the future of the us economy is that of a feudal system. they do not have to worry about sounding like they care for anybody but the super wealthy because these feudal lords are ultimately going to decide who is in power to continue the policies that keep the serfdom in its place and enable the lords' ability to capture more and more of the wealth and resources of the country

  • @Stevie68000 No, Stevie. You are the Jews.

    And then Stevie was a Jew.

    What kind of grown-ass man calls himself "Stevie," anyway?

  • These evil fucks live forever.

  • I am ashamed to confess this bu tthis douche fuck stick Phil Gramm ate at my family's dinner table and enjoyed my mother's cooking.

    Fuck Phil Gramm.

  • The Gramm, Leach , Bliley Act......... destroyed Glass Steagall.....and in turn let the banks run rampant, and split up into smaller outfits which made it harder to track their fraud.

    The Law that Gramm wrote in 1999 should have been vetoed, and that is why Republicans also blame Clinton, because he did'nt veto that Bill.

    The Gramm Leach Bliley Act is screwed up, and I recommend reading it, and then reading the Glass Steagall Act to see what Republicans wanted for their banker friends.

  • Guess Phil Graham never met Chris Christie...talk about a FAT CAT!

  • Jim DeMint Who? Phil Gramm Started the Recession.

  • Fuck Phil Gramm, and the rest of his republican friends.

  • Resume? What resume. This is politics.

  • Let them keep beating up on paper money. Soon the people wont want it anymore and karma is a bitch.

  • I love reading the reich wingers comments on TYT trying to defend these handouts to the rich aka traitors.

  • lol idiot rightwing Americans are going to be using Chinese chopsticks before they know it...

  • Take it easy, Cenk. Watch your blood pressure, now.

  • Politicians are just becoming even more greedy. Shame.

  • Phil Gramm is a piece of shit.A very rich stinkin piece of shit.

  • For all you libertarians and republicans who still are screaming for deregulation and hands off! I will make one point that is obvious! in europe everbody is saying they collasped because they where socialist, well they abandoned socialist principal and followed the deregulation of the states into finacial ruin! The only country in the world that kept is regulations was Canada and the only country in the world not affected by the melt down was Canada! explain that one!

  • I love the title for this video.

  • people don't realize that the housing bubble was just the start! when the CREDIT CARD BUBBLE hits and it is approximately 20 times larger than the housing bubble and believe me the credit card bubble will bursts!, ITS OVER!! penny stocks anyone?Its time to NATIONALISE the banks and multinational conglomerates and break them into smaller unit so no company or bank is TOO BIG TO FAIL!! our grandfather put in ANTI-TRUST LAWS for a reason, lets use them before its too LATE!!

  • Seriously, folks. Vote Democrat. They're the lesser of two evils.

    Republicans don't care about the poor. They say stuff and do an about face. They're (racist) scum. And I bet'cha they're (inadvertanly) responsible for all these sweatshops and slave labor in China et al.

  • @Hectotane both parties are responsible for jobs going overseas. Obama's policies are nearly identical to Bush's. Clinton with signing NAFTA 1993 and Glass-Steagal in 1999. Obama wants to sign another free trade bill with South Korea. Globalization has been an issue for over 30 years and now it is beginning to bite us in the ass. It's too late now and labor has no impact on either party at this point.

  • Did you know out of the estimated 2,5 trillion dollars in circulation divided amongst the population of the united states (estimated 3.6 million) If all wealth was to be distributed evenly we all would have 850,000,000 (rounded up of course). There would be no more sorrow, no more homeless, no more hunger, no more jealousy, and no more envy.

  • You wanna know why we're so fuckin fat? Cuz all these greedy, rich bastards own everything, we don't have money and the cheap food is owned by people who want to cut costs so much that the product is almost always nothing but sugar, sodium, carbs and fat. Excuse me now, I gonna go eat a top ramen now. lol

  • Poor people are fat because of a mass production of cash crops. You now see corn and soy beans (things like high fructose corn syrup and hydrogenated oils) in about 90% of the products on our grocery store shelves. It's cheaper and more convenient to eat unhealthy foods.

  • Could someone put a cock in Phil's mouth?

  • The problem lies within the monetary system itself.

  • The derivatives market did not crash the economy Cenk.

    I suppose the downfall in the market since August is the result of derivatives as well? I really wish Cenk would take just one economics course. Just one. Fuck.

  • @RoGDeantoir you dont wanna move here man, cause unless you were born into money you will lose whatever money u have quicker than you can say WTF then be stuck in a miserable hole youll most likely never be able to climb out of. America will burn, and the majority of its ppl have been turned so blind and braindead theyre more than comfortable to let it burn right down around them. In fact, I would move to Ireland in a heartbeat if it were possible for me

  • Unfortunately Americans only fight when shit has hit the fan and scattered, everywhere. When stuff gets better, it'll be after we've been to the edge of the abyss. Hopefully, they don't create another Baby Boomer generation.

  • @pokeyugi13 best comment i've seen in a very long time - thank you for being someone who is fucking awesome

  • @pokeyugi13 we should fight but we're a bunch of pussies - only the baby boomers protested, and they had little cause, maybe the vietnam war...but in general, they were clueless - they were just high and wastes of lifes with nothing to do but be hedonistic and wasteful - i hate rock music now it's fucking bullshit...the 60s suck

  • Republicans HATE the middle class & I don't know why middle class people vote Republican, however I have a theory. I would like to see a poll asking people if they consider themselves to be in the middle class.

    I think Republicans that make less than 100K do not think of themselves as those in the middle class. I think they psychologically remove themselves from that stigma b/c they don't want to believe that they are fighting against their own interests by voting GOP, knowing GOP hate the MC

  • TYT: NEW SHOW:

    "Proving People Wrong in 5 Minutes. With Google!"

    Do it.

  • @RoGDeantoir Well, I don't know anything about Mcdonalds vs. celery sticks within Europe. But I can tell you that you get more calories for your money when it comes to buying "unhealthy food".

  • @RoGDeantoir

    Try Canada, their government is actually answerable to the will of the people, they have sensible regulations on industry banks and food, they also have universal healthcare and a better education system and last but not least their economy is a hell of a lot stronger than america's right now.

  • In my country, Mexico, we have a lot of obessity, and we are not rich at ALL. Obesity has little to do with poorness.

  • Some fast food joints in the US also accept food stamps which helps keep people on state assistance fed albeit on shitty chemically altered fatty food and drinks sweetened with high fructose corn syrup (which causes diabetes)or aspartame (which turns to embalming fluid in your liver).

    Never mind the fact that nearly all of the big fast food joints in the US get their burger patties from one company that actually uses deadly chemicals like ammonia to "preserve" their "food products"

  • Here's where we keep the armies,

    Here's where we write the names,

    Here's where the money got us,

    Here's our famous hall of shame,

    Here's where we beat the children,

    Here's where we cheat the poor,

    And here's where we pay the whores.

  • @RoGDeantoir

    In the states you can get a McDonalds cheese burger fries and coke for around $5 after tax.

  • forget phil gramm...jim demint started the recession

  • Unhealthy food is allot cheaper. Being fat does not necessarily suggest that someone is "rich". But perhaps it was like that in his heyday... 1400's I believe..

  • Fathead Gramm.

  • This Gramm dude is absolutely mental; the reason the poor people are fat is because they can't AFFORD to buy healthy and nutritious food, they wouldn't be as fat as they are had market fundamentalists and neoliberals not been tearing apart the social fabric of this nation since the 70's and abolishing programs which sought to alleviate the strife of the poor and working-class and bring them good food.

  • Of course for him it's "all made up" because he never has to leave his huge gated compound and enter the "real world." When you live, literally, in a castle on a cloud, every day is bright and sunny.

  • Bernanke? I think you mean GREENSPAN!

  • Alright, so we all disagree with this. Now what? What do we do? Sure, protest, boycott, ok. Where do we start? Who is going to start it? How do we start it? I believe that almost everyone that watches TyT Agrees that we need to stand up and do something, the question is when? If you know ANY site/blog that is willing to set up a protest, by all means post it here because Im lost.

  • PHil Gram = Mental. Eat that SOB.

  • can anyone tell me Mr Gramm's address *ahem*

  • Phil Gramm is an ass, and that's all that needs to be said of him...

    Peace.

  • enough of this divisive shit that's killing America! Yapping bastard, Dems=perfect knowledge, never make any mistakes, never are to be blamed; republicans=always wrong about everything, always to blame

    anyone buying into Cenk's mindless smear tactics is stupid

  • @genie0390 Who the fuck said that Democrats never make any mistakes? Sure, they have decent policies... but they simply suck at enforcing them. By all means, PLEASE, blame Obama for not living up to his promises!

  • @genie0390 troll elsewhere

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  • The 'poor' are fat because they can only afford cheap crap like mcdonalds.

  • poor people are fat because they buy the food that is marketed to them...cheap, unhealthy garbage.

    Have you been to a poor neighborhood? your not gonna find a whole foods or publix

  • @KillerWhaleSFl

    Right on - We used to call them ghetto safeways - LA or DC same dark narrow aisled poorly stocked over priced crap... and usually the only store in walking distance...

  • @KillerWhaleSFl

    There are two types of poor people diets. The "cheap means more quantity" or folks like me who'll spend the extra to buy better food in less quantity and unsurprisingly, not get fat. BTW, inexpensive Asian and Mexican centered grocery stores often have produce for far less than even Wal-mart does. Also, a bike and/or scooter in lieu of a car frees up a lot of cash per month for groceries, and helps to burn off any fat you get.

  • @Di0genesus now you pissed me off!! in am not fat and i have been poor in the past after getting injured in the service of my country i was given initally 147 dollars a month! wow! i had to sue my own government and won! now i get a wopping 1600 a month for a family! who has a fucking car in the first place when you are really poor!! thats the problem they are held hostage in the inner city with poor products that are over priced!, many of the really poor are families and it cost too much!

  • @487shawn

    I've averaged 850.00/month for the last 4 years for myself and a disabled spouse who gets nothing from the government (fucked over by Bethesda Naval). We have two bikes- and the scooter and longboard for taking on the bus. As for being held hostage...I don't agree. There aren't enough police to enforce a police state. The important point is knowing when to leave and where to hide when the time comes. That's something you can't do if your name is locked down on taxable property.

  • @Di0genesus no what i mean by held hostage is that the investment in a community are alway directed toward the wealthy, barriers of transportation when you are poor are real, and in inner cities they keep closing supermarkets and moving them to the suburbs leaving a monopoly on the inner city stores to charge whatever and not carry fresh produce as its expensive to bring into a inner city! our cities are not designed for people!

  • @487shawn

    Stuff like the Central Markets are overpriced to begin with. I live in minority neighborhoods and the grocery stores aren't leaving their core demographic. All institutions, public and private, practice elitism. I had to buy my neighbor groceries because she went to a food bank where they had fresh produce and meat...and all they gave her was a brownie mix and bread crumbs. When she had 60k/yr job she gave to food banks. What we need is a total downfall to equalize things.

  • @Di0genesus even in canada many food banks can only give 10 out of 30 days of food for a family, yep lets all listen to ron paul and maybe american's can get 10 out of 30 stiches they require! not that the charities are not trying they are! but this is the place for the society as a whole not small charities!

  • @487shawn

    10 to 30 days may be great, but not even giving out a single day is just ridiculous, especially when cronies put stacks pork chops in their trunks while others are being given bread crumbs. Don't you even understand what I said? Charities are run by cronies, just like the banks.

  • @Di0genesus i did understand but like all human endevors there is coruption! and i have worked with charities that have given all they have to help the poor and i have seen what your refering to and i hope that that person putting food meant for the poor gets the karma they deserve, for me cut my arms off, if i took food meant for a hungry child!! that why charities should not be dealing with underfunding of the poor period i agree, it sould be equaly shared by the society thru proper programs!

  • @Di0genesus - What you say holds true ... provided you either own a house or get other help from the government. We are lucky. We own a house. It will be paid for in December. That will free up lots of money for our very limited income. But most people find they can't make the down payment (we were lucky in that we got a settlement just as the housing market busted), so home ownership is out of the question. Without help, rent consumes far too much money!

  • @LeksServices

    No, you don't understand. You will never own the house or the dirt it's on. You'll always have property taxes and imminent domain awaits if someone richer than you wants your property. Plus insurance you'll never get back means you're still renting, and chances are you can't grow your own food on your property without being fined...so you're really no better off than the rest of us.

  • @Di0genesus well yes, ultimately it is a personal decision what you put inside you body. My point is healthy food is far less accessible to the poor.

    I do a lot of work in poor areas around Miami, there is nothing but cornor stores and fast food, you have to drive literally miles to find something that isn't fried or loaded with corn syrup.

  • @KillerWhaleSFl

    Most poor people don't even have a lot of money to eat, so they wouldn't be fat from that. Some people are just genetically large. Phil Graham is just a despicable son of a bitch.

  • @KillerWhaleSFl that, plus the unnecessary drugs they pumped me with because i didn't like school made me fat, thank god i'm losing it all finally.

  • @KillerWhaleSFl Yep. 100% TRUTH. Thank you. Pesticide Apple = 25 to 40 cents cents. Organic Apple = 1.50 to 2.00 // Ground Beef 25% Fat, 3.50 to 4.00 a pound. Organic Ground Beef 15% Fat, 6.00 to 7.50 a pound. // And these dumbfucks sit there and blame the poor for being fat.

  • *Cough*Revolution*Cough*

  • We need another revolution

  • My mistake. Warren/Cenk 2012.

    Love the passion and anger Cenk.

  • Cenk for President!

  • @friedstuffable I don't know about Phil Graham but I get my Yacht washed in the Bahamas, it only costs me 30 cents.

  • 110% GOP elitist

  • How do we unplug from the corrupt system and create communities where their influence is irrevelant.

  • @friedstuffable LOL SO TRUE. I FEEL BAD FOR THE YACHT WASHER LOL

  • Paul Ryan is such a moron, you wonder why he's not a contender for the Republican presidential nomination.

  • what does an old piece of shit like phil gramm need millions of dollars for?

  • @Thrashvel A flashy casket, hopefully...

  • @friedstuffable lol best comment ever

  • America needs more then 2 major parties. In Canada we have 4 major parties.

  • @jordler As far as i understood the electoral system it favors two parties...

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  • The US is such a mess...

    All it needs now is some ambitious brigarde general taking some populist measures like imprisoning roughly 300 ppl like this idiot, Hank Palson, Angelo Mozillo, maybe some billionaires and the hollow shell that once was the US will collapse.

    I mean everybody knows this is a dictatorship by the rich anyhow.

  • BTW you´ve build a private terror machine equalling in structure and demeanor the SS so where´s the fuss.

    A fascist military dictatorship combining army, secret service and prisons all in private hands, falling in line with ALEC law making...

  • The American people: Can't we get some lube first?

    Phil Gramm: More whining. "I want some lube". Anything else I can do for you fatty, or how about you just shut up and take bitches.

    Phil Gramm the worst rapist of the American people to date..

  • "Republican Congressman Paul Ryan Broken"

    Typo? Or typo (wink, wink)?

  • umad Cenk?

  • The economy is already destroyed, the US is just living on borrowed time literally.

  • @Akashic8Lamb It´s just a question of HOW long it can sustain this state. The totally out of control self serving cleptocracy becomes too obvious.

    Everything usefull is demonized as "socialist underming" or worse "commie infiltration"...

  • "Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from this Earth." TROLOLOL

  • when is TYT gonna post a vid relavent to world politics that we can all comment on instead of US-only policy that no-one outside of the US knows about?

  • @BNPpatriot Its because they are in the US, which means their target audience is American. Also there isnt as much problems in the rest of the world as in the US.

  • @BNPpatriot Its because they are in the US, which means their target audience is American. Also there isnt as much problems in the rest of the world as in the US.

  • @BNPpatriot You mean like the video about how the majority of Israelis support a Palestinian Nation solution?

  • "We've become a nation of whiners?"

    I totally agree.

    "oh... class warfare!"

    "Can't tax the "job creators" they need the money to create jobs!"

    "We can't demand the bank CEO's give up their bonuses in exchange for a bailout! How would the financial industry retain talent?"

    "bullshit, bullshit, bullshit, blah blah blah!"

  • Actually the UK is pretty obese in lower classes. Especially Scotland in a class of which I'm part of.

    Also I'm typing this whilst eating chips & cheese. The reason people with less money are obese? People with more money offer them healthy food at low prices because it's even cheaper to produce. They only care about money not your health. Phil Gramm would do an amazing job as CEO of KFC or McDonalds.

  • Poor people are fat because bad food is inexpensive!!!

    Burgers at McDonalds: As low as $1.39

    Salad at McDonalds: Fuckin $8 or someshit. And that shit isn't even healthy because they give you the most disgusting, fattest salad dressing you've ever seen.

  • its so funny how you hate the rich, but I bet if you were to win the lottery, you would instantly all become greedy money loving bastards. You all want what the rich have, weather you admit it or not its a fact.

  • @jwdesign336 yes

  • @jwdesign336 Feds need more money from people who actually got off their ass to be successful so they can buy $16 muffins LOL EFFICIENCY.

  • @jwdesign336 someone in my town recently won 50 mil and gave 40 of it away to charities and community programs =p 10 mil is way more than enough for yourself.

  • @jwdesign336 What has the weather to do with anything? Nevertheless, it is entirely possible that we don't all have the same motivations in life. The fact that some people will and do compromise their morals for the sake of monetary gain does not by any means imply that we all would. Having said that, playing the lottery isn't a very good way to achieve your dreams if you do hope to get rich.

  • @jwdesign336

    Nope, most of it I would give to charity actually.

    Faggot owned like the dumb nigger it is.

  • @jwdesign336 what's really funny is that sort of thought, yet the poor are constantly viewed as spending too much money and living out of their means. which is it? are they greedy or are they spend hungry?

  • Like the Mayan Aztec and Inca civilizations in the western world the great and all mighty empire America the USA; ours may not last. With all our checks and balances in government we still let so much corruption put our potential lasting prosperity in grave peril. But we all know that the corruption is all basically about money and greed. We all know it's lobbyists, special interests, the revolving door between government and the [private sector]-which also includes fundamentalist interests.

  • Phil Gramm has never been right about anything, except how to deliver kickbacks to his rich elite buddies by manipulating legislation. He's a stooge.

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  • Americans are mental. Americans don't exist, they're all imaginary,

    like unicorns and recessions.

  • The french word for "shower"........that's what Phil Gramm is

  • @peacewavenow douche?

  • Welcome to the united corporations of America.

  • All of the poor people in America are fat. All of them.

    }:-[] Infuriating Ignorance

    Phil Gramm makes me want to bash his freaking head into the rim of a toilet bowl.

  • Cenk talks about crapping on people a lot in this video

  • PHIL GRAM BELONGS IN A MENTAL INSTITUTION WITH A STRAIGHT JACKET ON, HE"S A DAMN SOCIOPATH.

  • "deregulations"

  • @487shawn, Exactly!!!

    Thank you. This is exactly what I said. In the end, greed and regulations are what got us into this mess and yet nobody seems to be doing a damn thing about out.

  • This is something that George Carlin had been saying for a long time.

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  • I think the Republican Party is going through a mental recession.

  • @SSJ3Ulcer No like a large part of the USA they are BAT SHIT INSANE!

  • @SSJ3Ulcer why? they're friggin' geniuses who have tricked an entire nation

  • @SSJ3Ulcer they've been in a mental recession the time those people are born.

  • We've become a nation of whiners?

    Your monkey asses are just as guilty, you moron. I hear whining, juvenile Republican talking points every day.

    Phil Gramm = POS

  • Graham belongs in a Can of Spaghetti O's served up to the republican luncheon next week.

  • 10 006 videos...

    Well God damn