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fear
Ice climber
hartford, ct
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Jun 29, 2016 - 08:16am PT
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The future of the US empire is likely some Balkanized arrangement. This rotten center cannot hold and eventually the cracks will be realized as chasms.
Historically however such separations are rather bloody and unpleasant to say the least.
But Texas splitting off anytime soon? I doubt it as their urban centers are still firmly hooked on the federal welfare teat.
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blahblah
Gym climber
Boulder
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Jun 29, 2016 - 02:31pm PT
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So the markets are nicely recovering (DJIA is about what it was 2 weeks ago; I'm slightly ahead in the money I put into the markets after the big sell off).
All the Brexit doom and gloom stuff just standard news cycle drama, and not much long term impact, at least from the US perspective?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jun 29, 2016 - 02:40pm PT
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It's doom and gloom if yer a Brussels elitist and yer slowly realizing that
the world is realizing that not only are you quite irrelevant you might
actually be a drag on society.
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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Jun 29, 2016 - 02:52pm PT
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^ +1
feralfae
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Larry Nelson
Social climber
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Jun 29, 2016 - 06:18pm PT
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Soros is cashing in on some of his "short Britain" positions, so the leftist "grass roots" here should be flush with cash.
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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Jun 29, 2016 - 11:59pm PT
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Why don't the Brits rebuild their fleet and come over here and take back New York City and Boston?
We won't sell them the spruce and pine timber for the masts that came out of New England forests, and those black powder muzzle loaders aren't state of the art any more..
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Jan
Mountain climber
Colorado & Nepal
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Jun 30, 2016 - 10:13am PT
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The dominos begin to fall. Boris Johnson who was the most visible symbol of Brexit, whom Cameron passed the mess to after the Leave side won, has now backed out of being prime minister. He broke it, has no plan for what to do next and then cut and ran. The current political chaos in Britain does not give confidence that they will be any better managing their own affairs outside of the EU than they were in. So much for the all boys boarding school buddies theory of government. Articulate yes, arrogant yes, competent, no.
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dirtbag
climber
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Jun 30, 2016 - 10:14am PT
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The leaders advocating for leave remind me of the dog that finally catches the car.
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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Jun 30, 2016 - 10:31am PT
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We have seen the future and it is us.
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John Duffield
Mountain climber
New York
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Jun 30, 2016 - 10:43am PT
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All the Brexit doom and gloom stuff just standard news cycle drama, and not much long term impact, at least from the US perspective? Sure looks like it. The Brit stock market was at a ten month high last I saw. That said, the people that wanted to shove their problems onto the backs of the other EU countries are in trouble. Bank stocks in Portugal and Italy are on their way to the Greek level.
But if you really want to see the endphase of a Socialist Paradise, you could check out the situation much closer to home, in Venezuala. Where they need armed guards to deliver food.
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Curt
climber
Gold Canyon, AZ
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Jun 30, 2016 - 10:48am PT
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The dominos begin to fall. Boris Johnson who was the most visible symbol of Brexit, whom Cameron passed the mess to after the Leave side won, has now backed out of being prime minister. He broke it, has no plan for what to do next and then cut and ran. The current political chaos in Britain does not give confidence that they will be any better managing their own affairs outside of the EU than they were in. So much for the all boys boarding school buddies theory of government. Articulate yes, arrogant yes, competent, no.
"Cut and ran" might not be entirely fair--Boris Johnson was stabbed in the back by Michael Gove. I do think it's only fair that one of the Leave proponents be the next PM, though. It needs to be one of these idiots that puts the metaphorical gun in the UK's mouth and actually pulls the Article 50 trigger.
Curt
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jun 30, 2016 - 12:32pm PT
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Jan, Boris pulled 'is 'at from the PM ring when they told
'im 'e would 'ave to comb 'is 'air.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jun 30, 2016 - 03:59pm PT
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if any of them caught a car, they wouldn't have a clue what to do with it.
Nigel would, he would send it back to Deutschland if'n it were deutsch.
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monolith
climber
state of being
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Jun 30, 2016 - 04:15pm PT
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jun 30, 2016 - 09:23pm PT
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Monolith, "raised in Stalin gulag" is an illiterate's oxymoron. And the Right Honorable MEP is,
in fact, correct, the fine Lithuanian gentleman notwithstanding.
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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Jun 30, 2016 - 10:03pm PT
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Seemed a nice time to insert a quote from a woman:
"The problem with socialism is
that you eventually run out of
other people's money."
Margaret Thatcher
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Shetville , North of Los Angeles
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Dingus...My sincerest apologies for doubting you... I won't let it happen again...
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