F for Fake: “You will never have such a nice person being the fake President for the next fifty fake years. So you wake up and make agreements with me, or you never will for your fake life.”

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2022-05-05 17:49:12 UTC
Modified: 2022-05-05 17:49:12 UTC

FFS, EPO!

Jorge Campinos

Summary: The EPO's "F" President António Campinos would have made his fake socialist father very proud

Fake 'studies':

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