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Mean 'Ole Melania Blamed For Removing Dying Tree

Posted by $ allosaur 6 years, 3 months ago to News
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Here's another "fake news" expose! Who cares if the United States National Arboretum urgently recommends the removal of the one and only dying so-called "200-year-old" Jackson Magnolia for safety reasons. Me dino's calculator says a tree planted by Andrew Jackson during 1835 would be 182 years old, but a 200-year-old icon hypes way better.
Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!
Whoa, me says! Just wait one gawl-durn-rootin'-tootin' minute here, y'all!
President Andrew Jackson? The Tennessee plantation slave-owning Cherokee Trail of Tears Jackson whacks 'um that 'un?
Heck, the left already wants to pull down all the Andrew Jackson statues! Why not some stupid tree Jackson is also famous for?
Wouldn't that help erase the history of that loathsome cur? Ya know, the one who maybe saved the USA by winning the Battle of New Orleans against all odds.
Bet if that tree fell on some elite better libtard fancy pants, it would be all Melania's fault for not doing anything about removing it.
No, no, no! The heck with just the First Lady. It would all be Dump Trump's stupid fault! Yeah!
SOURCE URL: https://www.newsmax.com/us/melania-trump-fake-news-newsweek-white-house/2017/12/26/id/833830/?ns_mail_uid=32479762&ns_mail_job=1770934_12272017&s=al&dkt_nbr=010502kvgfbf

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  • Posted by $ nickursis 6 years, 3 months ago
    Yep, a dead, morose tree that is held up with wood and wires, is going to be removed because the wires are pulling out of what little unrotten wood is left. Sort of reminds me of what needs to happen to Congress and the Federal government: remove the wires and cut down the dead wood. Send the dead trees home....
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  • Posted by Dobrien 6 years, 3 months ago
    The removal of deadwood must trigger Ergophobia .

    Certainly that Magnolia , it had a life span of 80-120 years. In full bloom it covered up a bit of swamp gas with its fragment spring blossoms.

    The Ergophobia:
    Possibly it is from the trauma from hearing about the felling of a cherry tree , so callous an act
    That the greedy capitalist founder didn't even try to hide the fact!

    Re : the statue topplers it makes me think of Waters World or Jay Leno .
    They would go out to interview people on the street. These revealed the ignorance of the avg. person. about current events , issues , names of leaders. When it comes to history , most could not differentiate between the revolutionary war and the civil war let alone the participants.
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  • Posted by Snoogoo 6 years, 3 months ago
    Well the tree is still there, just the dead parts were removed.. It was an aggressive trimming.

    Surprisingly, NPR did a nice piece on this and reported on the facts. They also revealed that saplings of the tree have been given as symbolic gifts to friendly nations and there are saplings ready to replace this tree when it does finally go. So it will live on.
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    • Posted by $ allosaur 6 years, 3 months ago
      No fair! Melania is supposed to kill it! How is this information supposed to make everyone hate Trump?
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      • Posted by $ Suzanne43 6 years, 3 months ago
        Don't worry. This information will be buried by most of the Fake News Press. If saplings aren't given to Syria and Iran, Melania will be branded as anti Muslim.
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        • Posted by $ allosaur 6 years, 3 months ago
          Youse hear dat, Melania? Cough up dose terror state saplings or Mack da Hack gets contracted so he pulls da Islamophobic Race Card n' puts it in da news!
          Da Donnie gonna play hell Tweetin' ya out dat one, sister! Bwahaha! Yeah! Yeah! Da Donnie gonna play hell!
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  • Posted by $ rainman0720 6 years, 3 months ago
    Good summary, dino. You pretty much summed up everything. I'm waiting for the lamestream media to blame Trump for global warming, rainy days, and the common cold. Hell, if he cured cancer they'd be all over him for not curing some other disease...like liberalism.
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  • Posted by NealS 6 years, 3 months ago
    I'm actually glad they (MSM) are keeping up the fake news, even some on the left are getting tired of it, and tired of taking blame. As long as they continue along this same path we'll be able to "Make America Great Again". Almost everyone by now knows that this story was tainted, but they don't even care as long as some believe in the nonsense. It's now a total fear of the MSM being exposed and for the governing class it's fear of losing their cushy jobs.

    The same goes for Trump's approval ratings, as long as they remain low, we know he is getting things accomplished.
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    • Posted by $ allosaur 6 years, 3 months ago
      Those pathetic panties in a wad clueless little lost lib liars just can't stand that The Evil Hag had her entitled throne usurped.
      Like you, me dino also hopes those defaming dunderheads will keep up with their conniving crap..
      Not only does it backfire to leave them looking ridiculously inept, they give me dino material to post here in The Gulch.
      Must say this 'un was received well.
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  • Posted by DrZarkov99 6 years, 3 months ago
    A side issue, but Jackson's victory in the battle of New Orleans meant little but the worthless slaughter of British troops, who didn't know that a treaty ending the conflict had already been signed. The UK had decided that the conflict with Napoleon was more important to the survival of the empire, and had conceded an end to the practices that started the war with the U.S. before the battle began. It would be interesting to speculate if a British victory in that battle would have meant a UK hold on the seaport, or a supportable demand by the U.S. for its return, given hostilities had officially ended.
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    • Posted by $ allosaur 6 years, 3 months ago
      Thanks for updating me on that battle's history.
      I can't help but wonder about the big WHAT IF if that invading army had won the battle and seized control of the Mississippi.
      Me dino DOES KNOW Napoleon was a big time handful for reading all of Bernard Cornwell's Richard Sharpe historical fiction novels several years ago~
      https://www.librarything.com/series/S...
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  • Posted by GaryL 6 years, 3 months ago
    If the tree falls just blame it on Bush or at least Racism which works every time. Trump could find the cure for cancer and still get hammered by the left stream media so I pay zero attention to any of this crap.
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    • Posted by $ allosaur 6 years, 3 months ago
      LOL! Yeah, Andrew Jackson had slaves.
      So if that tree should fall on a black person--look out! Here comes Black Lives Matter!
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      • Posted by GaryL 6 years, 3 months ago
        YUP! Next thing coming down the line will be exhuming their bodies and replanting them in some paupers field. My next invention will most certainly be marketed toward the libs, A History Eraser.
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        • Posted by $ allosaur 6 years, 3 months ago
          Libs would love a History Eraser . The US Constitution would likely be their first target, probaly o be replaced by some kinda~ahem!~manifesto.
          As for where exumed remains would all be dumped, it would likely be a mass grave unmarked for "Field Of Infamy" topped off by concrete and placed under armed guard,
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  • Posted by $ Abaco 6 years, 3 months ago
    Yeah - what a terrible example of fake news. What in the hell is wrong with these people? The problem?...I think this kind of garbage news actually works, actually sways people.
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    • Posted by $ allosaur 6 years, 3 months ago
      I keep seeing repeated allegations about how unhappy Melania is, making much over her frowning in a photo or pulling her hand away from The Donald while getting off a plane.
      Heck, maybe our beautiful First Lady is just human, and married people have their spats.
      At least she's not a fake. Hear that, Evil Hag?
      How about you, Woo-Woo-Woo-Warren?
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      • Posted by $ Abaco 6 years, 3 months ago
        "woo woo woo Warren"...LOL. You are correct. I'm am pretty sure that my marriage is the only one in the world that runs this smoothly. You know the media, though. If there's nothing there, they'll say she's unhappy. If she moves out of the White House, the reporters will soil themselves in glee. Wanna know about a dysfunctional marriage?...Bill and Hillary...
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  • Posted by Herb7734 6 years, 3 months ago
    I have a healthy Live Oak tree next my drive way. It is about to lift the driveway up and crack it to bits. It is 25 years old. How do I know? I planted the fool thing as a sapling.It is going to wreck my driveway. Ithas got to go. Man, it is big for a mere 25 year old. It is the basketball player of oaks. 30 feet tall with branches and roots everywhere.It may not be 200 years old and its branches are solid and not likely to fall off.It is bad enough that it'll cost a couple thou to take down, plus the cost of a new driveway. At least I can save the drive way.. Don't five any eco-freak garbage about saving it. In order to save it, I'd need to put in a new driveway and move my attached garage. Not gonna happen.My property, my taxes, my tree.If Old Andy Jackson used the 2nd floor toilet, does that mean if it springs a bad leak, we can't replace it? OK, then, you go ahead and use it. I'll use the other one downstairs.
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    • Posted by $ allosaur 6 years, 3 months ago
      Herb, you should be ashamed of yourself. It does not matter if you planted that tree. It's a part of the environment now.
      Your driveway, your house, your property, all your paid taxes and even you are not.
      I once read about someone being buried beside such a tree.
      It was discovered that a root invaded the coffin and absorbed the body~even assuming the body's shape for five or six feet or so.
      So there ya go.
      Now you know where you stand absorbed for a politically correct outcome.
      We are but parasites placed by ancient space aliens upon the face of the planet and deserve to be consumed by Mother Nature.
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  • Posted by $ Stormi 6 years, 3 months ago
    And these Libs are why we have huge fires in California. The trees dies and are left to become fuel for wildfires. A city tree cannot be left it it might fall on someone. As someone who has had 50 trees cut down in the past few years to keep them from infecting other trees here in Ohio, sometimes they just have to go. We replant, we have well over 100 left, of various varieties, that is what you do. The problem is these l=Libs are ignorant about nature and science in general. Cows are bad, methane, trees, even dead ones are good, why - CONTROL. I grew up a few miles from Lincold Co., N.M. wheer the forest of Smokey the Bear was located - it was meticulously cleaned. Of course Fonda lhas a house in Santa Fe, so she is likely promoting dangerous forest be left untouched. Idiots abound.
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