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Craig Fry
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So Cal.
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Jan 19, 2016 - 07:56pm PT
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Who are Trump’s supporters in America? Authoritarians.
By Kathleen Parker Opinion writer January 19 at 7:52 PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/authoritarians-agree-trump-for-president/2016/01/19/407f58ec-bef0-11e5-bcda-62a36b394160_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-d%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
So you say you want a daddy for your president?
Okay, so maybe you didn’t say it, but on a subliminal level, you may have felt it, especially if you’re a Republican primary voter leaning toward Donald Trump.
Such is the finding of a recent national poll unveiled in the current issue of Politico Magazine. The survey’s author, political consultant Matthew MacWilliams, found that Trump supporters tend to be primarily “authoritarians.”
This shouldn’t come as a surprise, since “authority” sums up the content of both Trump’s persona and his campaign. How many times have you heard him say, “Believe me,” usually following some sweeping promise that has virtually no basis in reality?
But Big Daddy’s the boss. What he says goes. Case closed.
more at link
Looks like there may be more conservative brains exploding over Trump than liberals
David Brooks is losing it: Trump’s success and ideas not connected to “Planet Earth” have broken the right-wing pundit’s brain
Times columnist urges the "silent majority" of moderate GOPers to take on the Donald. Problem: it doesn't exist http://www.salon.com/2016/01/19/david_brooks_is_losing_it_trumps_success_and_ideas_not_connected_to_planet_earth_has_broken_the_right_wing_pundits_brain/
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Trad climber
Will know soon
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Jan 19, 2016 - 08:24pm PT
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And no, I am not ready for Donald. I'd seriously vote for A. Honnald before Trump.
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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Jan 19, 2016 - 09:14pm PT
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OK now I'm really convinced that Trump is NOT a serious candidate. How could anyone who is a serious candidate for the GOP nomination want Sarah Palin's endorsement?
If you listened to Palin's speech, I'm surprised Trump could endure it without his head exploding.
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rick sumner
Trad climber
reno, nevada/ wasilla alaska
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Jan 19, 2016 - 09:41pm PT
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What's the difference Warbler? You don't have to wonder what the Russians are up to in AK, the Russian emigres are crawling all over the place. Not defending Palin, but what she actually said was that you can see Russia from Alaska. This is true from the islands and portions off the Seward peninsula.
That aside, it takes a severely delusional group of people to seriously think this country could afford, or ever accept, the volume of freebies Bernie is babbling about.
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rick sumner
Trad climber
reno, nevada/ wasilla alaska
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Jan 19, 2016 - 10:26pm PT
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Healthcare has been so fuked up that now we have little choice but to go to a national single payer system. In the world we live in we either pay for a strong defense or suffer far more costly consequences. Who is going to drive the trucks, work the factory floors, build the homes, put out the fires etc etc if everybody is wiling away their time in free college? Who is going to pay for paternal leave, wage guarantees and all his other loon programs? You know it ain't going to be the mega wealthy-no they'll just pack up their assets and off shore. No amigo, it would be you and me and all the meager assets we have spent a lifetime in creative and hard work to now enjoy.
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Fossil climber
Trad climber
Atlin, B. C.
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Jan 19, 2016 - 11:01pm PT
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The citizen support for Trump - and OMG - Sara Palin - causes me to seriously consider renouncing US citizenship and sending back the Resolution from the House of Representatives congratulating the FA of The Nose.
I am hopeful that sanity will prevail, but it is terribly disheartening that such a large proportion of our population is so reactionary and. so intellectually impaired. I don't want to be identified with them.
Yes, I'm a dual citizen, and sometimes I don't know which one to be more embarrassed by.
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
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Jan 20, 2016 - 05:28am PT
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Rick posted Healthcare has been so fuked up that now we have little choice but to go to a national single payer system.
You are mistaken. The things that messed up healthcare was not doing this to begin with.
Warbler posted More like SHE isn't ready for the world outside of Alaska
She's made millions of dollars and is worshiped as a cultural icon by millions of people. Her endorsement makes national headlines. I'm not sure how one can argue she "wasn't ready" for her current role.
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Larry Nelson
Social climber
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Jan 20, 2016 - 06:42am PT
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Palin endorses Trump? What next, the Kardashians?
I thought Tom Wolfe's "Bonfire of the Vanities" was kind of a warning.
Turns out it was a template.
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Gary
Social climber
Where in the hell is Major Kong?
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Jan 20, 2016 - 07:04am PT
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Who is going to drive the trucks, work the factory floors, build the homes, put out the fires etc etc if everybody is wiling away their time in free college? Who is going to pay for paternal leave, wage guarantees and all his other loon programs?
Wait just a dog gone second. You rightwingers have been claiming for years that laborers are justly underpaid because they didn't have the gumption to go to college and become CEOs. Now you say they can't go to college because someone has to do the work? Make up your mind!
Who is going to pay for paternal leave, wage guarantees and all his other loon programs?
Who's paying for half trillion dollar fighter jets that can't fly when it rains?
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nature
climber
Boulder, CO
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Jan 20, 2016 - 07:20am PT
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Nothing more to add.
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10b4me
Mountain climber
Retired
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Jan 20, 2016 - 07:29am PT
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. The world wasn't ready for her
Don't you mean that she wasn't ready for the world?
Btw, she just put her place in Arizona up for sale. Hmmm.
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fear
Ice climber
hartford, ct
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Jan 20, 2016 - 07:33am PT
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Universal health care and free basic college would be investments that would pay back in the form of better health, better education and the following increased productivity.
Better those kinds of freebies paid for with tax revenue, than the freebies for the "defense", insurance and financial industries we have now.
Now what do you think would happen to the puppet-in-chief if he or she really threatened the MIC's bottomless pool of stolen/printed dollars?
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
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Jan 20, 2016 - 07:40am PT
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Palin is a professional victim, incoherent speaker and blight on our cultural landscape but that doesn't mean she should be attacked for her son's actions.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 20, 2016 - 07:42am PT
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Why not? She knowingly transmitted Affluenza to him.
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
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Jan 20, 2016 - 08:08am PT
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Because it just contributes to the overall nastiness and keeps politics focused on character assassination at all costs. Track is a grown ass man making his own terrible decisions. We all have shitty relatives and it doesn't necessarily mean anything about us. Palin is awful on her own merits and we don't need to drag her kids into it unless it actually proves something like is Palin justified Track's behavior or used political influence to get the charges dropped.
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10b4me
Mountain climber
Retired
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Jan 20, 2016 - 08:09am PT
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Palin is a professional victim, incoherent speaker and blight on our cultural landscape but that doesn't mean she should be attacked for her son's actions.
Sure it does. It means she is not respected by him. She is ineffectual as a parent, and dog forbid she got a job in the cabinet.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jan 20, 2016 - 08:22am PT
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U.S. defense spending compared (2013)
If it is doubled, will everybody be twice as safe?
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dirtbag
climber
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Jan 20, 2016 - 08:24am PT
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Well, defense industry employees would be doubly safe.
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crankster
Trad climber
No. Tahoe
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Jan 20, 2016 - 08:33am PT
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I understand your point, HDDJ. Every parent knows you only have so much control over your kids actions. But it is interesting that her kids are somewhat of a train wreck while the 2 people she attacks the most, President Obama and Hillary Clinton, obviously have greater parenting skills.
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