tRUMP's theme song-

Young man, there's no need to feel down
I said, young man, pick yourself off the ground
I said, young man, 'cause your in a new town
There's no need to be unhappy

Young man, there's a place you can go
I said, young man, when you're short on your dough
You can stay there, and I'm sure you will find
Many ways to have a good time.

It's fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A.
It's fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A.
They have everything
For young men to enjoy.
You can hang out with all the boys.
It's fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A.
It's fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A.
You can get yourself clean
You can have a good meal
You can do whatever you feel.

Young man, Are you listening to me
I said, young man, what do you want to be
I said, young man, you can make real your dreams,
but you've got to know this one thing.

No man, does it all by himself
I said, young man, put your pride on the shelf
And just go there, to the Y.M.C.A.
I'm sure they can help you today

It's fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A.
It's fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A.
They have everything
For young men to enjoy.
You can hang out with all the boys.
It's fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A.
It's fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A.
You can get yourself clean
You can have a good meal
You can do whatever you feel.

Young Man, I was once in your shoes,
I said, I was down and out with the blues
I felt, no man cared if I were alive
I felt the whole world was so jive

That's when someone came up to me and said
Young man take a walk up the street
There's a place there called the Y.M.C.A.
They can start you back on your way.

It's fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A.
It's fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A.
They have everything
For young men to enjoy.
You can hang out with all the boys.

Y.M.C.A.It's fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A.
It's fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A.
Young man, Young man, there's no need to feel down
Young man, Young man, pick yourself off the ground
Y.M.C.A.
just go to the Y.M.C.A.
Young Man, Young Man, I was once in your shoes,
Young Man, Young Man, I was out with the blues
Y.M.C.A.
Y.M.C.A.
Y.M.C.A.
Y.M.C.A.

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anonymous 8 hours ago

Vance's plan to take the presdency from the old don is foolproof and is under the guidance of the secret church and Putin so it cannot fail.

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ex c i 8 hours ago

No they're not. They're scumbags just like Nixon, Regan, and both Bushes. Would be nice if both went to prison for a very long time in orange jumpsuits.

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anonymous 7 hours ago

At least they aren’t pedophiles like Joe burden, fuck you hypocrite.

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anonymous 7 hours ago

Excuse you

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US priests 'molested over 1,000 children', report says
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More than 300 "predator" priests in Pennsylvania are accused of abusing over 1,000 children across seven decades, a grand jury said Tuesday in a devastating report that decried a systematic cover-up by the Catholic Church.

Issued on: 15/08/2018 - 01:49
Modified: 15/08/2018 - 07:32


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Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP (file photo) | Priests attend a mass with Pope Francis at the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 26, 2015.
It is thought to be the single most comprehensive report to date into abuse in the US church, since The Boston Globe first exposed pedophile priests in Massachusetts in 2002.

But while Tuesday's report led to charges against two priests, one of whom has pleaded guilty, the majority of those responsible are dead and the vast majority of crimes happened too long ago to prosecute, officials said.

The two-year investigation by a grand jury into all but two Pennsylvania dioceses turned up dozens of witnesses and half a million pages of church records containing "credible allegations against over three hundred predator priests."

More than 1,000 child victims were identifiable, but the "real number" was "in the thousands," the grand jury estimated, given those children whose records were lost or who were afraid to ever come forward.

Victims were often traumatized for life, driven to drugs, alcohol and suicide, the grand jury said. The only recourse was to recommend changes to the law and expose what had happened to make sure such widespread abuse was never repeated.

One cleric raped a seven-year-old girl in hospital after she had her tonsils out, the report said. Another child drank juice, only to wake up the next morning bleeding from his rectum and unable to remember what had happened.

'Abuse, deny, cover up'

A priest forced a nine-year-old boy to give him oral sex, then rinsed out his mouth with holy water to "purify him." Another priest abused five sisters from the same family, including one from the age of 18 months to 12 years.

When the youngest victim of the family told her parents in 1992, a police search of the priest's home found panties, plastic containers of pubic hairs, vials of urine and sexually suggestive photographs of young girls.

The church ignored credible allegations against him for years, and the priest died awaiting trial, Pennsylvania's Attorney General Josh Shapiro said.

"The pattern was abuse, deny and cover up," Shapiro said. "As a direct consequence of the systematic cover-up by senior church officials almost every instance of child sexual abuse we found is too old to be prosecuted."

So far only two new priests are being charged with crimes that fall within the statute of limitations. One, accused of ejaculating in the mouth of a seven-year-old, pleaded guilty earlier this month, prosecutors said.

The other allegedly assaulted two boys, one of them for eight years starting from the age of eight. His alleged crimes continued until 2010.

The grand jury called for changes in the law that would scrap the statute of limitations for child sex abuse, give victims more time to file civil lawsuits and tighten legislation compelling people to report abuse they find out about.

"Despite some institutional reform, individual leaders of the church have largely escaped public accountability," the report said.

'Hid it all'

"Priests were raping little boys and girls, and the men of God who were responsible for them not only did nothing; they hid it all. For decades."

Church elders were instead promoted and predator priests allowed to remain in ministries for 10, 20 even 40 years after leaders learned of their crimes as the list of victims got longer and longer, Shapiro said.

Between 5,700 and 10,000 Catholic priests have been accused of sexual abuse in the United States, but only a few hundred have been tried, convicted, and sentenced for their crimes, according to the watchdog Bishop Accountability.

Since the abuse crisis became public in the 2000s, the US church has spent more than $3 billion in settlements, according to Bishop Accountability.

The group has documented settlements for 5,679 alleged victims of Catholic clergy -- only a third of 15,235 allegations that bishops say they have received through 2009. One estimate suggests up there were 100,000 US victims.

The Boston Globe won a Pulitzer Prize in 2003 for work by its investigative team exposing sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. That story was turned into Oscar-winning Hollywood movie, "Spotlight," starring Michael Keaton.

Faced with a growing number of cases worldwide and repeated criticism over the Church's response, Pope Francis in 2013 brought in new legislation covering child sex abuse and pornography and sentences of up to 12 years for priests.

The church in Chile has most recently been rocked by accusations of a wide-scale cover-up of child abuse during the 1980s and 1990s.

(AFP)

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anonymous 7 hours ago

Like who??

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anonymous 7 hours ago

Hopefully, those military guns will be aimed at YOU when Trump makes good on his promise to use the military against US citizens.

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anonymous 7 hours ago

The OP is the type who would cheer on Hitler, even after seeing the inside of a death camp.

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anonymous 7 hours ago

You’re the type of retard to cheer on trannies raping children just cause they’re lgbt+.

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Brainwashing For Dummies - The Christian Edition
21 Feb 2013
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Brainwashing people into Christianity is a very simple task. All you need to do is follow a few simple steps and move on to the next step at the right time. It is very vital that you begin brainwashing your target recruit at a very young age. If you wait too long and your target recruit has grown past the age of reason, you will need solid tangible evidence, which does not exist. Please note that the standard Christian brainwashing method does not have a 100% success rate. There are a few here and there where it failed and the target remained or returned to being atheist like at birth.

To ensure a good success rate, it is best to start brainwashing a person at around 2 years of age, or whatever age the child is at where it is showing signs of understanding when being spoken to. Small children believe and take as fact everything their parents tell them and this will prove VERY useful when brainwashing a child. It is very important that you make it sound appealing to the child. You should do it in the same way as you do with Santa or the tooth fairy. Small children find being loved VERY appealing, so teaching them that Jesus loves them is mandatory. You will need to keep at it until you notice the child getting a warm and fuzzy feeling whenever hearing the name Jesus. Children's songs written about Jesus and sang in groups is also a useful tool for creating warm and fuzzy feelings in small children and it is highly recommended that you use it. You should teach them about heaven and about how being a good little boy/girl would get him/her there. Again, it is important that you teach all these things as FACT, and keeping in mind that small children believe every last word you say, all should be smooth sailing.

Around the age of seven or eight, things may start to get a tiny bit complicated, because at this age their brain-development has reached the stage where they start processing information by themselves. Some people call this the age of reason. It is VITAL that you send them to the professional brain-washers BEFORE they reach this age. I'm talking about Sunday school. The best time to send them to Sunday school would be around the time they start pre-school, and for best results they should be sent to a Christian-run pre-school, so to keep the rate of brainwashing constant. The aim is to bring the brainwashing to the next level to install a certain defense mechanism into the mind before it develops what is Christianity's (and all other religions) worst enemy - intellect.

The defense mechanism I speak of is Satan and hell. When a child develops intellect, warm and fuzzy feelings loses its effectiveness. Around this age, they will naturally figure out on their own that there is no Santa and no tooth fairy, so in order to prevent them from figuring out that there is no Jesus, you should start using fear as a tool before that happens. This is where Satan and hell becomes a VERY effective and VERY USEFUL tool.

For now you don't really need to worry much about Satan. For the next three years or so you should concentrate on hell and what happens when you're bad. The idea is to keep with the warm fuzzy feelings stuff, but at the same time imprinting the concept of hell into their young minds.

Around the age of thirteen, your recruit should be at the stage where he/she can analyze and interpret information and should have the ability to reason. This is where things start to get difficult. With all the brainwashing you did so far, the child should by now be a very devout Christian, but due to the ability of reason, you will now have to haul out the biggest weapon in your arsenal - Satan. What you should do now is teach your recruit about Satan and his mission to break his faith. This is a simple, but time consuming task.

To try and make this description short, Satan is an intellectual filter. It lets through all logical and reasonable information to be deliberated, but blocks off all information that contradicts what the person has been brainwashed into believing. In order for it to work, a lot of work has to go into this. Satan must be taught to be the source of all evil, the ruler of hell and the master of lies. Satan must be taught to be the most evil and sadistic being that has ever existed and is never to be messed with. It must be taught that Satan can attack you, can screw with your life and is cause of everything bad that happens. This is the most vital step in the whole brainwashing process. Once you notice your recruit is uncomfortable saying Satan's name or even writing it, then you know you have succeeded. This will not happen overnight.

Once your recruit fears Satan, the next step is to actually start using Satan as a tool to continue your brainwashing quest. Satan will be the main ingredient in keeping your recruit brainwashed, so pay attention. As I said earlier, Satan is an intellectual filter. Throughout high school, your recruit is going to encounter new information and new experiences all the time. A lot of it will contradict what you have been imprinting into the young one's mind. This is where Satan comes into play. All you need to do is to tell your subject that everything he/she encounters that contradicts what you've been brainwashing him/her into believing is Satan testing his/her faith in order to win his/her soul to hell. Contradictions = Satan's work = hell. It is a very simple and very effective formula and it works. Your recruit will encounter people who knows better and may attempt to free his/her mind, but a simple and effective defense against those people is to simply train your recruit into believing they are Satanists trying to drag Christians to hell with them. If you can keep this up until your child reaches the age of eighteen, then the brainwashing will be completed and you should have yourself a fresh intellectual slave which will remain firm in faith well into old age.

Chances are that you will not be able to do this on your own, so it is very important that you send them to Sunday school and church, and it is important that they get their education from a Christian primary and high school.

Good luck.

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anonymous 7 hours ago

"At least they aren’t pedophiles like Joe burden, fuck you hypocrite."


Sounds like projection, lol. Op is both a hyprocrite and a pedophile. Go lick Trumps crusty butthole, assfucker.

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trumpssuxballslickinPutin 6 hours ago

All you fucklicans can go live inside your mothers' cunt.

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anonymous 6 hours ago

It's a known fact that Trump got sexually aroused while oogling his own underage daughter. Whether he actually acted on his impulses, we don't know, but all the same this makes Trump a huge creeepazoid.

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anonymous 30 minutes ago