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If you think our seagulls are bad, you haven't seen what's going on in Australia

Be careful out there during seagull breeding season.

WE ARE IN the midst of a terrifying time of the year.

When people fear leaving their homes, risk their lives even taking a quick trip to the shop, and are kept awake at night by evil cackling – seagull breeding season.

Last year a Fianna Fáil senator said the seabirds are “losing the run of themselves”, squawking loud at night and ‘attacking young children and dispossessing them of their lollipops’.

Ned O’Sullivan’s call for a cull was prompted by concerned members of the public calling into Liveline to share their horror stories.

But we have it easy compared to what’s going on down under.

Images have emerged of seagulls on Manly Beach in Sydney, Australia, being brazen enough to land on someone’s face to steal a chip from their mouth.

One man, Ben Spiller, risked scratches to his face to capture the spectacle.

He did it all in the name of “a pretty funny Snapchat”, the Manly Daily reports.

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The paper has also captured footage of the seagulls diving in slow-motion to pluck the chips from his mouth.

A local mayor insisted security sources have informed her that the seagulls are coming from Bondi beach,”because the fish and chips in Bondi are not as good as the ones at Manly Beach”.

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:01 PM

    Whats with the Journal and Trump, they really ho out of their way to prove he’s wrong at every stage.

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:06 PM

    @Shawn O’Ceallaghan: Trump keeps saying false things on Twitter. The media highlights his falsities. If Trump refrained from his false statements on Twitter, the media would have noting to criticise Trump for.

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:08 PM

    @Micheal OLainn: They’d find something I’m sure. Or even just make something up, as they have done with other people.

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:10 PM

    @Liam flag: Trump is doing their job for them. His tweets are risible and provocative.

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:11 PM

    @Micheal OLainn: I’m not a trump fan but sometimes he says things that need to be said. Antifa are scùm and they get a free ride.

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:14 PM

    @Shawn O’Ceallaghan: Trump is a ratings and clicks machine. People are fascinated with The Donald and ultimately he’s good for the journal’s bottom line €€€.

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:15 PM

    @Liam flag: Antifa are sound.

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:19 PM

    @Shawn O’Ceallaghan: but he is wrong on mosts things so they have an obligation to report it

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:20 PM

    @Ron North: Ah yeah. Lovely militant communists. Great bunch o’ lads.

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:35 PM

    @Liam flag: Antifa voluntarily provide a valuable public service and are to be commended for it.

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:48 PM

    @Ron North: Destroying private property is a valuable public service?

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:52 PM

    @Liam flag: Destroying private property?
    What nonsense are you talking about now crazy boy?

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:54 PM

    @Ron North: Destroying a Muslim immigrants car?? http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jan/24/anti-trump-protesters-set-muslim-businessmans-limo/ Not to mention smashing in store fronts and burning many private cars. Need I go on?

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:59 PM

    @Peedur Dante: I never made any such suggestion. This is exactly why I don’t talk to you. You set up “debates” on false assumptions and strawman everything. It’s a stupid little trick and makes you incredible dishonest. Goodluck

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    Aug 18th 2017, 12:02 AM

    @Liam flag: That’s an article about anti Trump supporters not Antifa. The symbol on the car is an anarchist symbol not Antifa.
    Do you think Trump is a fascist? That can be the only explanation.

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    Aug 18th 2017, 12:24 AM

    @Ron North: If that can be the only explanation, then why are you asking the question? You’re as bad as peedur. Disingenuous timewasters. Goodluck to you too. #g20antifascùm

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    Aug 18th 2017, 12:54 AM

    @Peedur Dante: *rides off into sunset*

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    Aug 18th 2017, 1:31 AM

    @Liam flag: Did God tell you that?

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    Aug 18th 2017, 3:46 AM

    @Ron North: My son witnessed Antifa at Berkeley, splitting heads open with bike chains and hammer while wearing black hoods. People standing in line to hear Milo Yiannopoulos speak, doing nothing to provoke any kind of attack. If you don’t think like them they will use violence against you. True example of fascists. They may not have killed anyone yet, but hey, give them time, they’re still new at this. If preferential treatment is given to this group just because the other group happened to be worse than them, then I fear for all of us. Someday you may decide to go see a movie that they don’t agree with…what are you going to say then when they come to smash your head in while your waiting in line?

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    Aug 18th 2017, 6:13 AM

    @Micheal OLainn: Why is the White House people ( handlers ) allowing this clown use twitter account beggars belief actually

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    Aug 18th 2017, 8:25 AM

    @Shawn O’Ceallaghan: he’s a lying pig and the media, any media, are there to factcheck him instead of publishing his lies on merit and some crackpot becoming influenced and taking action.

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    Aug 18th 2017, 10:12 AM

    @Ron North: “Antifa” should be changed to “Profa”.

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    Aug 18th 2017, 11:19 AM

    @Liam flag: vandalism vs holocaust, yeah, good comparison.

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    Aug 18th 2017, 4:23 PM

    @Shawn O’Ceallaghan: because he IS wrong. At EVERY stage.

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:01 PM

    Do you lot ever stop with the Anti-Trump agenda?

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:04 PM

    @John Molloy: The more Trump is scrutinized the more he is seen as what he is really like a bllody loud mouthed unrealistisc idot.

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:06 PM

    @Ossi Fritsche: They’re using this tragedy and others, to score points and push agendas. Despicable.

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:10 PM

    @John Molloy: Trump seems compulsively committed to making more and more divisive treats.

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    Aug 18th 2017, 12:02 AM

    @Liam flag: Like Trump does as always even using a murder victims day of mourning to vent his repugnant views.

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    Aug 18th 2017, 12:52 AM

    @John Molloy: Go hang out on Sheitbart or Infowars if you want Trump fluffer news.

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    Aug 18th 2017, 9:43 AM

    @John Molloy: stop crying like the little Nazi creep!

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:13 PM

    I’m predicting that be the end of next week the liberal press will be firmly laying the blame for this Barcelona attack at Donald Trump’s door.

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:16 PM

    @Emmet Dillane: What a load of absolute horse manure. Of all your dozens of dumb posts over the last few weeks, this is the dumbest.

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:24 PM

    @Emmet Dillane: you are now away in the land of Trump, the land of make believe.

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:48 PM

    @Emmet Dillane:
    Your talking verbal diarrhoea as usual
    Keep it up if it amuses you
    But it doesn’t come across as intelligent thought
    Thanks for you input or lack of it

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    Aug 18th 2017, 12:14 AM

    @George Harvey: Why would make that prediction? It has absolutely no basis in fact. But then again that’s probably why you like Trump. You find his disregard of the truth relatable.

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    Aug 18th 2017, 12:16 AM

    @Brinster: CNN has already linked the Barcelona attack to Charlottesville – they suggested it was a copycat. Search for Wolf Blitzer on Facebook or Twitter and see for yourself.

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    Aug 18th 2017, 12:18 AM

    @Brinster: They already have. They made a direct link between the attack in Barcelona and the events in Charlottesville. Do a search for Wolf Blitzer on Twitter or FB and see for yourself.

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    Aug 18th 2017, 12:28 AM

    @George Harvey: I’m simply wondering what gives you that opinion. I’m honestly intrigued. When has the media ever blamed a terrorist attack on Trump? And I’m not having a go I’m, genuinely curious.

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    Aug 18th 2017, 12:44 AM

    @Coner Willis:
    “Keith Olbermann: Trump ‘Responsible For Domestic Terrorism’ [VIDEO]”

    http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/14/keith-olbermann-trump-responsible-for-domestic-terrorism-video/

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    Aug 18th 2017, 12:46 AM

    @Coner Willis:
    “Blaming Trump for the Next Big Terrorist Attack”

    https://newrepublic.com/article/140432/blaming-trump-next-big-terrorist-attack

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    Aug 18th 2017, 12:57 AM

    @Chris M.: That was domestic terrorism. It happened in his own country. He was president when it happened. Obviously when a terrorist attack takes place, the president will be blamed. It is a completely different situation to the one happening in Barcelona.

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    Aug 18th 2017, 1:00 AM

    @Chris M.: There is a big difference between blaming someone for a terrorist attack, and suggesting that their terrible foreign policy might result in one in the future. The article also refers to domestic terror incidents. Once again, that is a completely different matter, as it is reasonable to blame a president for what goes on in his own country.

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    Aug 18th 2017, 9:44 AM

    @Emmet Dillane: are you saying what he tweeted is true? Evidence?

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:04 PM

    Trump is not losing it; he has already lost it.

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:16 PM

    @Micheal OLainn: or he never had it in the first place

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:22 PM

    @Jane: Yes, more accurate.

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:02 PM

    I feel like going underground until this trump thing is all over

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:27 PM

    @Trev heff:
    The Trump thingy has asked questions that the quesseys don’t want asked and tasked.

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:54 PM

    @Christy Nolan: your spouting the same rhetoric.

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:03 PM

    Instead of saying “apocryphal” just say “fake”

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:04 PM

    @Donal Proctor: it’s the word of the day.

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:05 PM

    @Donal Proctor: mine is contagious… Want to hear am example of its usage???

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:07 PM

    @Brown Boots: no thanks. Is it a catchy word?

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:07 PM

    @Brown Boots: I had to Google it

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:36 PM

    @Donal Proctor: It does have more meaning to it than just false, but at the same time there really isn’t any need for it.

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:47 PM

    @Brown Boots: is this about the fellah that was supposed to fix your roof in a few hours but it took the contagious?

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    Aug 18th 2017, 2:27 AM

    @Donal Proctor:  “When I make a statement, I like to be correct. I want the facts”…Donald J Trump… The day before he slanders the memory of General Pershing and advocates war crimes…

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:45 PM

    Alternatively we can organize a concert, all hold hands and hope that our children won’t be next.

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:51 PM

    @Emmet Dillane: better intelligence, better resourced, better channels of communication, better surveillance and better analysis using sophisticated algorithms on sufficient data. More counter intelligence operatives and more infiltration. There are no short cuts or easy answers.

    Concerts are good for morale boosting and encouraging cohesion but no one suggests these as the counterterrorist approach.

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    Aug 18th 2017, 12:41 AM

    @George Harvey: no one is suggesting that except perhaps you.

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    Aug 18th 2017, 12:53 AM

    @Peedur Dante: excellent synopsis of effective and real counter terrorism measures and effecicient suppression measures instead of empty hate rhetoric indulged in by Trump adorers.

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:15 PM

    Bullets dipped in pig’s blood. That’ll learn ‘em. Drones and bombs don’t, but magic bullets is a stroke of genius……

    And if that doesn’t, we can paint 1.4 billion dolls brown and stick pins in them…..

    He is genuinely, worryingly demented.

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:33 PM

    @Brinster: off his rocker in a homicidal state of mind.

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    Aug 18th 2017, 1:24 AM

    @Brinster: It’s a dog whistle to his base… I don’t know why they’re obsessed with pigs and Islam though ..sure, pork is considered haram but eating it is not hell worthy or even a sin if it’s forced on you.

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    Aug 18th 2017, 2:48 AM

    @Brinster: magic bullets sounds insane alright, but how do you punish someone who wants to die in order to be rewarded in an afterlife? That’s insane.
    The only thing that would actually deter and punish these people is taking away their perceived afterlife. So why not bury these monsters with dead pigs?

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    Aug 18th 2017, 9:27 AM

    @Paraic Cooney: it’s a highly effective way to ratchet up hate and to alienate and radicalise other Muslims.

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    Aug 18th 2017, 5:10 PM

    @ Michael. Soooo, you think that desecration of the corpses of terrorists, who “ain’t no Muslim bruv” will be enough to trigger peaceful Muslims into radicalisation. Seems like you have a poor opinion of peaceful Muslims then Michael? Why stop with pigs blood, why not bury them with used tampons? These brave jihadis are apparently terrified of menstruation.

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:05 PM

    Mass executions for terrorists… sounds good to me

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:08 PM

    @Ger Murphy: except that it will provoke a massive conflict between Muslims and Nin Muslims. Mass executions have a very poor record of effectiveness, not to mention that it loses the moral battle.

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:10 PM

    @Micheal OLainn: seems to me like they already have conflicting issues with non Muslims

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:12 PM

    @Ger Murphy: it’s a very limited conflict at the moment. It would be silly to escalate it to a massive and widespread conflict in which ordinary people are killed.

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:17 PM

    @Micheal OLainn: ORDINARY PEOPLE are already being killed because of these Islamic nut jobs.

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:20 PM

    @Micheal OLainn: innocent people are being killed all the time due to Islamic extremism. What do you suggest? Just to sit back and let the attacks continue and hopefully one day they might just stop

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:23 PM

    @Dave Murray: In vast numbers in a massive and widespread conflict, the losers being even more human beings.

    Live in peace or die in conflict.

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:26 PM

    @Ger Murphy: minimise, control and contain the conflict by more sophisticated intelligence techniques, reducing the terririst incidents and petering out the potential for mass and widespread conflict.

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:35 PM

    @Micheal OLainn: that sounds pretty impossible given the randomness and the nature of most terror attacks. In Europe at least. Looks alot like mass immigration is playing a role. Not to say I’m against multiculturalism. The eastern Europeans have integrated very well along with the south Americans and many Africans but certain culters just don’t integrate very well from what I’ve seen.

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:39 PM

    @Micheal OLainn: That sounds pretty impossible given the randomness and nature of most terror in attacks. In Europe at least. It looks alot like mass immigration is playing a role. Not to say I’m against multiculturalism. The eastern Europeans have integrated very well along with the south americans and many Africans but certain cultures don’t integrate very well from. What I’ve seen…

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:55 PM

    @Ger Murphy: you would be surprised even astonished by the newer predictive models being enabled by massive computing power and sophisticated algorithms, not infallible but hugely helpful. Technology will be a powerful ally and is involving very quickly.

    Randomness is never absolute in the case of human behaviour patterns.

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    Aug 18th 2017, 12:12 AM

    @Micheal OLainn: At the rate of immigration into some European countries I think it would be very hard to keep up with who’s coming in and serveiling people not to mention the cost. Who would foot the bill aswell. The taxpayer? Who knows what it could bring… a civil war maybe. I don’t think technology would be able to do much for something of this magnitude

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    Aug 18th 2017, 12:38 AM

    @Ger Murphy: clearly you are unaware of the current technology and the level of surveillance. That is understandable.

    Recent refugees/migrants are not the security risk. It is alienated persons excluded from mainstream society becoming radicalised not just in Mosques but on the Internet. The internet means that they can be monitored.

    Resource are an issue but technology can and does the heavy lifting.

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    Aug 18th 2017, 12:48 AM

    @Micheal OLainn: Current technology in Ireland… My arse…. Such a high level of serveillance would cost millions

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    Aug 18th 2017, 12:54 AM

    @Micheal OLainn: Where was this technology for the Barcelona attack earlier? Or the westminster attack? London bridge, Manchester, Paris, Stockholm, Berlin, Nice, Brussels?

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    Aug 18th 2017, 12:57 AM

    @Ger Murphy: Europe, notvIreland. We can piggy back on the intelligence as a non priority target.

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    Aug 18th 2017, 1:09 AM

    @Micheal OLainn: So basically we can do f*ck all…

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    Aug 18th 2017, 8:12 AM

    @Ger Murphy: Yeah but whose a terrorist? Some would say that dropping bombs on a country without any justification is a form of terrorism. What Trump was alluding to in his mad way was the appalling massacres perpetrated by the Americans in the Philippines against the Moro people. Trump just cited the wrong commandeer. They called the women and children butchered as terrorists/combatants. Just shows you nothing absolutely nothing has been learned in hundreds of years of brutal conflict.

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:20 PM

    Politifact is fake news. Just because it hasn’t been proven yet doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. Most definitely not “debunked” that’s for sure.

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:37 PM

    @Chris M.: is that really your Twitter account or is it falsely linked to you. It’s as off the wall and as weird as Trump’s craziness.

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:44 PM

    @Peedur Dante: LOL

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    Aug 18th 2017, 12:40 AM

    @Peedur Dante: Break the Conditioning! ;) ;)

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    Aug 18th 2017, 1:37 AM

    @Chris M.:
    Awww bless…
    Chris doesn’t think he’s being conditioned by following infowars….

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:33 PM

    Trump is news why wouldn’t the journal report what he says and does

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:35 PM

    @Paul O Riordan: because it embarrasses his ardent supporters.

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:44 PM

    @Micheal OLainn: I think you’re right

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    Aug 18th 2017, 12:42 AM

    It would be hilarious if Twitter banned US president and Trump accounts :D

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    Aug 18th 2017, 12:46 AM

    @Joe Dobias: an interesting thought. No matter what Trump advocates Twitter would not ban him.

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:04 PM

    He’s a flute of the highest order. A psychopath i

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:27 PM

    People online more outraged about a Trump tweet than a terrorist attack.
    The world is f#$#*$

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:29 PM

    @Beachmaster: more worried that Trump’s craziness may precipitate more severe and extensive conflict with much greater loss of life on all sides.

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    Aug 18th 2017, 3:26 AM

    @Beachmaster: Who did you poll re the outrage, little boy?

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    Aug 18th 2017, 12:47 AM

    The lunatic Trump has a lot of lunatic supporters.

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    Aug 18th 2017, 12:48 AM

    You don’t have to be made to support Trump; you just need to be as made as hell and be consumed by hate.

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    Aug 17th 2017, 11:05 PM

    My god Trump really believes his own Arse.

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    Aug 18th 2017, 9:13 PM

    @Ossi Fritsche: He just fired it!

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    Aug 18th 2017, 2:34 AM

    Apocryphal, the fancy word for bullsh*t.

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    Aug 18th 2017, 5:23 AM

    We should dip all bullets in pigs blood.

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    Aug 18th 2017, 7:39 AM

    What a ‘Richard’

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    Aug 18th 2017, 9:12 PM

    Sure why not, his supporters are too dumb and lazy to fact check it!

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    Aug 18th 2017, 1:52 PM

    Trump should study U.S. history concerning the U.S. occupation of the Philippines. The “Terrorists ” he tweets about would have been freedom fighters who fought to rid their country from a foreign invader who replaced the the Spanish occupier. A war started by the U.S. over an “incident ” in Cuba, .

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    Aug 18th 2017, 1:12 AM

    @Barry Wills: Spend your millions on learning.

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    Aug 18th 2017, 1:04 AM

    Is statue again Donald,the tweeting POTUS?

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    Aug 18th 2017, 7:09 AM

    Well it’s certainly worth trying anyway!!

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