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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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Feb 22, 2019 - 10:27am PT
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Samantha Fish tells it like it is...problem with party politics...You'll Never Change...
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American Dream
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Blood on a street
Tonight a new day
Lost count of how many died
At least I'm doing it my way
You're the liberated
You are the free
Free to cry and die, disenfranchise, blessed as a country
I-I'm living American dream
I-I'm living American dream well
I-I'm living American dream
I-I'm living American dream well
Hand on a Bible
Foot on your neck
Living half-past half-mast
And semi automatic
Help ain't coming
So I prayed for you
It ain't much but it's the least I can do, well, 'cause I
I-I'm living American dream well
I-I'm living American dreams
I-I'm living American dream
I-I'm living…
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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Feb 22, 2019 - 10:34am PT
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Interesting lady. Can't quite see her through the partisan media fog.
Werner is right, you are being told what to believe by people who do not have your best interest in mind.
Anyone who gets attacked really hard must have some decent truth or they would be ignored. Some special interests are freaked out.
Was the Amazon deal good for NYC or or a screw job? I am too lazy to find out by researching the deal myself. The truth shall not be found in the news media.
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John Duffield
Mountain climber
New York
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Feb 22, 2019 - 01:10pm PT
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Was the Amazon deal good for NYC or or a screw job? I am too lazy to find out by researching the deal myself. T
Like any other fork in the road, you can't take both at the same time. So we will never know for sure.
But it's the perception that matters. The (D) Governor and Mayor here had pursued Amazon for some time, meetings presentations etc.
The (D) establishment, looks at the NY14 seat as theirs. AOC occupies it at their pleasure. She's not a pleasure now, she's a loose cannon on deck, rolling around smashing everything in her path. Pop up demonstrations at random, even one in Speaker Pelosis office the day of her swearing in. Like Sanders, she isn't a actually a (D). There are already people in the (D) establishment that want her recalled or limited to one term.
I'm not in her district but in the adjacent one.
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
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Feb 22, 2019 - 02:55pm PT
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Amazon will pay zero in taxes this year ,all the while putting your local shops and businesses out of business. Then you would like us the people of NY to subsidize that.
Yeah ,cool.
Bring on the gentrification,we can hardly House the middle income folk of the City and the rest of the state.
This kind of cronyism has to stop somewhere.
And as far as all your pie in the sky theories,tell that all to your kids and remind them only Republicans get everything they want in this country.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Feb 22, 2019 - 04:58pm PT
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Amazon will pay zero in taxes this year ,all the while putting your local shops and businesses out of business.
Whether or not New York, or any city or state, should offer financial incentives to businesses is a completely separate issue from Amazon's growth at the expense of other businesses.
Before simply saying Amazon/Bad, My Local Store/Good, it's worth asking why the people who once shopped at your local store are now shopping at Amazon. No one held a gun to your neighbor's head and said "either shop at Amazon instead of Joe's Hardware or I'll shoot you." Your neighbor made that choice freely.
Whether New York (or any city) should give financial breaks to Amazon (or any other business) is a separate, and not simple, question.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Feb 22, 2019 - 05:07pm PT
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Wyo,I love that song, thanks for sharing that version.
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WBraun
climber
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Feb 22, 2019 - 05:12pm PT
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The woman said "Many times I can’t afford meat.
You don't need meat period.
Biggest waste of money period and is completely unhealthy ....
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
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Feb 22, 2019 - 05:15pm PT
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How about this Ghost , I and many over here make the same money as we did in the eighties.
And it is all our super experienced faults.
Edit;I did not conflate issues they are practically the same. It is their game plan.
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Feb 22, 2019 - 05:16pm PT
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I dunno....duck l'orange is delicious....as long as it's a young duck...
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Feb 22, 2019 - 05:22pm PT
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DMT, thank you for posting that, and being the human that you are.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Feb 22, 2019 - 05:25pm PT
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Seriously made my f*#king day.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Feb 22, 2019 - 05:40pm PT
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Craig, that video was so faking cool, this is the fourth time I’ve told you this. Sac Town’s finest man. You made my night, and my nights have been pretty shitty lately. My happy dogs rolling around at my feet makes me feel so good, man. Thank you so much.
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sween345
climber
back east
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Feb 22, 2019 - 06:57pm PT
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Ms. Ocasio had nothing to do with the mechanics of the Amazon deal.
She was a cheerleader for the masses before it failed and will be the recipient of some flak after for it falling apart.
She may have supplied some brownshirts at the Dec.12 City Council meeting where the Amazon reps were shouted down. That was the Councils way of telling Amazon they had to get their vig. Dandy Andy and Big Bird DeBlasio had tried an end around to cut out their Lieutenants (the State Senate and City Council) legislatively, and therefor financially. Those two couldn't stand in the same room without the temperature rising 30 degrees, so you know the Retirement Fund was getting padded big time. Nothing happens in New York without ALL the racketeers getting paid. Amazon walked away because they weren't going into their pocket after making a deal with the Dons.
The 3B wasn't extraordinary really in NY bond dealings. It's one way the real racketeers (the elected ones) make the quiet money. They also garner a tidy sum through patronage,covert friends and family accounts, and insider deals on ancillary gains. (real estate and smaller trickle down businesses)
What's another 1/2 a billion,eh?
https://www.bondbuyer.com/news/nyc-council-finance-panel-approves-500m-hudson-yards-bond-issue
It all starts to look like Monopoly money.
Affordable housing is just another way for them to win hearts and minds while they line their pockets.
https://www.budget.ny.gov/agencyGuide/pacb/022019/Agenda-022019.pdf
Why would anything with Rockefellers name on it need 310 large padding from the city? Especially a foundation with some Greek shipping magnets(sic) name on it,too.
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sempervirens
climber
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Feb 23, 2019 - 11:07am PT
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Article from Forbes.com about those who funded the billboard. Job Creators Network, Job Creators Alliance, Job Creators Network Foundation, International Franchise Association are all involved and, according to the article they have many characters and funders in common. That includes the Mercer Family who funded trump's campaign and founded Cambridge Analytica. So are these groups and its players altruistically fighting for a free market?, jobs for the middle class?, democratic values? This is why I think trump supporters are being played.
From the article:
But the group spends most of its resources identifying and recruiting entrepreneurs and executives to serve as spokespeople for free markets, and then sends them out into the media landscape, either in advertisements or, preferably, op-eds and TV appearances. "These are real job creators who are advocating on behalf of free enterprise in the media, and they bring great credibility as real job creators," says Ortiz.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robbmandelbaum/2017/08/17/meet-job-creators-network-defenders-of-the-free-market/#6b91a6d677f2
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Feb 23, 2019 - 08:20pm PT
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First it’s pie-in-the-sky
We don't have money for schools, or libraries, or fire stations. That's all pie in the sky bullsh#t. We need to be realistic.
But we got $8 billion dollars to build one destroyer that fires $800,000 shells, and billions to build fighter jets that can't fly at night or in the rain. We can spend $2 million dollars for each goatherd we kill in some god forsaken desert, that we got.
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
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Feb 24, 2019 - 07:37am PT
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They have Socialism right where they want it ,right now.
“Socialism for the Rich,Rugged individualism for the poor”.
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Dave
Mountain climber
the ANTI-fresno
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Feb 24, 2019 - 07:48am PT
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" You don't need meat period."
Thank you for telling me what I need. I really appreciate it... You and Bernie will get along great.
I like meat. I also like to keep as much of the money as I earn as I can...
So, I shop at amazon on occasion.
And I buy meat. Because I like it.
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10b4me
Social climber
Lida Junction
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Feb 24, 2019 - 07:58am PT
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But we got $8 billion dollars to build one destroyer that fires $800,000 shells, and billions to build fighter jets that can't fly at night or in the rain. We can spend $2 million dollars for each goatherd we kill in some god forsaken desert, that we got cut the military budget by seventy-five percent
Yep, Gary. The corporations wash those little brains to believe there is no money for anything but the wars and tax relieve for the wealthy. It's ridiculous that people think Bernie or Alexandria are socialists/extreme liberals. In most European countries they would be viewed as centrists.
because the us has historically been a conservative nation.
Amazon will pay zero in taxes this year ,all the while putting your local shops and businesses out of business
I don't know how much Walmart pays in taxes, but I find it ironic that it is allowed to put mom and pop shops out of business, and no one seems to complain.
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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Feb 24, 2019 - 04:30pm PT
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There was a lengthy article from the AP in the local paper today that outlined the probable results of the inquiry, based on court actions and filings. Looks to me that the investigation may fall short of implicating Trump, but rather deals with all his minions and The Russkies. House Democratic committees are chomping at the bit to take over.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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Feb 24, 2019 - 06:37pm PT
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Yeah . Trumps minions did all that sh#t behind his back without trump knowing about it . He’s going to be really upset when he finds out what they were up to .
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