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Blumancru

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11. I remember Traficant

Reply to riversedge (Reply #2)

Fri Jun 19, 2026, 09:47 PM

2 hrs ago

EVERYONE bribed Traficant. I wonder why this guy was the one to get in trouble for it?

Traficant, btw, had the worst toupee I ever saw, even worse than Ernest Angley’s topiary coconut husk.

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