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dirtbag
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Feb 22, 2016 - 09:27am PT
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What policy proposals do you trump supporters favor?
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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Feb 22, 2016 - 09:33am PT
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Chicks for Free!!
A free Wall to keep those brown people out
The Military going from house to house looking for brown people to deport
Keeping the Muslims out
Not having religious tests! Trump is a Good Christian
There will be so much winning, that we will get tired of it.
Once all the brown people are gone, we will have plenty of jobs.
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dirtbag
climber
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Feb 22, 2016 - 09:35am PT
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Trump also thinks his daughter is hot.
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trailridge127
Trad climber
Loveland, CO
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Feb 22, 2016 - 02:57pm PT
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Ivanka is hot!
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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Feb 23, 2016 - 09:00am PT
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Looks a little like Cartman's butt
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Feb 23, 2016 - 12:04pm PT
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I still insist Trump is a dirty trick of the Democrats. According to polls, half of Republicans hate him. He has no chance of winning the Presidency, and his nomination would almost certainly guaranty a Senate with a majority of Democrats. I wouldn't be surprised if he dropped out a week before the election and told everyone to vote for Hillary because the Republicans were dumb enough to vote for him.
The polls also show his greatest support among Republicans is among their youngest voters, and the greatest support for Bernie is among the Democrats' youngest voters, causing one Op-Ed column to read "The Young And The Clueless."
To me, the current results show that the Democrats care more about winning and governing, while the Republicans care more about whining. And here I thought mine was the party of maturity.
Canada looks better and better, if they'd be willing to let in a convicted criminal like me.
John
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Gary
Social climber
Where in the hell is Major Kong?
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Feb 23, 2016 - 12:06pm PT
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And here I thought mine was the party of maturity.
John, that ended some time ago!
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trailridge127
Trad climber
Loveland, CO
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Feb 23, 2016 - 12:08pm PT
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That's what democrats said about Ronald Reagan. No way he could win... With
Trump as President we will finally get the change that Obama has been promising for too long.
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trailridge127
Trad climber
Loveland, CO
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Feb 23, 2016 - 12:09pm PT
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Well a different kind of change, but certainly change
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dirtbag
climber
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Feb 23, 2016 - 12:13pm PT
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John, I hear what you are saying about Trump being a dem plant. I still think his campaign is some kind of elaborate piece of performance art.
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dirtbag
climber
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Feb 23, 2016 - 12:40pm PT
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Trump will make America great again. It will be beautiful and amazing. You'll see!
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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Feb 23, 2016 - 01:10pm PT
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Here's your Party Now John
The Republican Party is now America’s largest hate group
Led by Donald Trump, the GOP has abandoned its traditional dog whistles in favor of a more overt approach to racism
http://www.salon.com/2015/11/27/the_republican_party_is_now_americas_largest_hate_group/
The Southern Poverty Law Center did warn that certain GOP officials have exposed these extreme opinions of these hate groups to a wider audience:
The demonization of Muslims, Latinos, immigrants and others became commonplace in 2015. Presidential candidate Donald Trump made headlines with a call for a temporary ban on Muslim immigration and his description of Mexican immigrants as rapists and drug dealers. He even cited a bogus “poll” by the Center for Security Policy that falsely claimed that a quarter of American Muslims support violent jihadists such as the members of the Islamic State.
The Center for Security Policy is one of two anti-Muslim groups listed as hate groups for the first time in this year’s report. The other is ACT! for America.
While the Southern Poverty Law Center didn't call the GOP a hate group, they did say that some of the extreme views of hate groups have been reiterated by certain members of the Republican Party and that extremism is on the rise, creating an atmosphere of polarization that may be unmatched since the late 1960s.
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crankster
Trad climber
No. Tahoe
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Feb 23, 2016 - 09:06pm PT
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Looks like the White Nationalist Party has their fuhrer, um, nominee.
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mynameismud
climber
backseat
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Feb 23, 2016 - 09:17pm PT
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Yep, Trump is a secret Obama's agent. Good disguise, though!
Moose
for whatever reason this made me laugh kind of hard.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Feb 23, 2016 - 09:23pm PT
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Well now!
I'm voting for "The Donald" in Idaho's March 8th. Republican primary for one-reason only. He's the only Republican candidate that didn't pander to the Republican Bundy-nuts that want to grab OUR Federal lands.
LAS VEGAS, NV — Ahead of Tuesday night’s Republican caucuses, Sen. Ted Cruz is attempting to win over Nevada voters by channeling the state’s recently indicted rogue rancher and Oregon occupation instigator Cliven Bundy.
“Eighty percent of the state of Nevada is owned by the federal government. That is going to end,” he told hundreds of supporters in Henderson on Sunday night, standing in front of a banner depicting a mountain range with bold red letters reading, ‘RETURN OUR LAND.’
“The land of Nevada needs to be owned by the state of Nevada,” Cruz told the crowd, “or even better, the people of Nevada.”
On Monday, when he delivered the same speech to a crowd of wealthy retirees in the posh suburb of Summerlin, Las Vegas resident Vinny Spotleson stood up and challenged him, saying that most Nevadans, including a majority of Republicans, want public land to stay public. “Trump is the only candidate to come out against privatizing public land, and he’s expected to win here,” he noted. “And even though Cruz has distanced himself from Cliven Bundy, he continues to have the same political objectives as Cliven Bundy, to take all the land away from the public and put it in private hands. When they talk about ‘opening up’ federal land, they’re not talking about everyone being able to enjoy the outdoors. It’s because they want to sell it off to oil drilling and fracking and mining. Just look at what happened in Cruz’s own state of Texas, where so much land has been auctioned off and they’re drilling all over. We don’t want to see that here.”
Spotleson, who used to work for the Sierra Club and is currently running for the Nevada State Assembly, said he fears Cruz’s proposal would threaten everything he values about his home state.
Spotleson is a Democrat, but Nevada Republicans also told ThinkProgress they take issue with Cruz’s call for land privatization, and are “embarrassed” by the association with the Bundys’ cause.
The federal government doesn’t own the property, they manage it for the rest of us.
Las Vegas resident Ralph Morales, who owns a cattle ranch in Alamo, Nevada, said he was frustrated with Cruz for “not telling the truth.”
“The reality is that the federal government doesn’t own the property, they manage it for the rest of us, because we ask them to. It’s called the Bureau of Land Management,” he stressed. “Believe it or not, they’re doing us a favor. We’re talking about a lot of vast lands. I’m not going to buy it. I sure as hell don’t want to. So it just sits there, and what do we do with it? Do we give it to the states? No. We already have a big enough budget as it is. We don’t have enough money to take care of a lot of open land.”
Peering out from under the wide brim of a black cowboy hat, Morales said he appreciates that under current law, any time the federal government wants to sell off a piece of land, “they actually have to ask the American people and Congress.” While he agrees with the Bundys’ call for cattle ranchers to have more grazing rights on federal land, he says the family that participated in two armed standoffs with the federal government “were wrong in what they did.”
Morales plans to caucus on Tuesday night for Trump, who has said he wants to “keep the lands great,” adding, “I don’t think it’s something that should be sold.” Cruz has gone after Trump in TV ads and on Twitter in the lead-up to the caucuses, saying, “Donald Trump wants to keep big government in charge. That’s ridiculous.”
Cruz has also aligned himself with Nevada Assembly member Michele Fiore, a major supporter of the Bundys’ armed occupations who has introduced a bill to allow Nevada to seize federal lands. Though Cruz has denounced the Bundys’ past racist remarks and called for them to “stand down” in Oregon, Fiore remains a key member of his campaign’s Nevada leadership team.
But even die-hard Cruz supporters, like Henderson resident Lisa, who declined to give her last name, said they were less than enthusiastic about his connection with the Bundys.
“It’s been a little bit embarrassing when people back East have asked me if I agree with those people, because I’m not so sure I do,” she said. Describing herself as “a little bit neutral” on the federal land issue, Lisa told ThinkProgress, “I was surprised when I moved here that 80 percent of the land in Nevada is owned by the federal government, but there may be good reasons for that.”
One of those reasons, critics argue, is that privatizing Nevada’s vast public lands would deal a severe blow to the state’s economy. Outdoor recreation in Nevada, which relies almost exclusively on access to national public lands, contributes an estimated $14.9 billion in consumer spending every year and supports 148,000 jobs in the state.
Hunters and fishers worry too that plans to seize federal land would lock them out of the habitats they can currently access. “These game-rich areas that currently belong to all of us will be developed or sold to large corporations, degrading critical habitat and locking out millions of sportsmen,” the magazine Field and Stream cautioned last year. “I can’t help but think that if Theodore Roosevelt could see the current scam being peddled to American sportsmen he’d be fighting mad.”
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/02/23/3752319/cruz-bundys-nevada/
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crankster
Trad climber
No. Tahoe
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Feb 23, 2016 - 09:29pm PT
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Cosmic, in between sips of champagne could you write a few sentences about EXACTLY how Mexico is going to pay for that big wall?
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Feb 23, 2016 - 09:30pm PT
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I still insist Trump is a dirty trick of the Democrats.
Trump is the unavoidable darwinian result of a campaign of hate, fear and bigotry which has been the mainstay of gop politics for a half a century. They finally whipped their base to the fringe right with hysteria and, after eating all their own 'moderates', the monster has turned on them and eaten the gop establishment whole. Now they trying to pick which of the three stooges of their own making makes them wretch the least while eyeing the prospect of a troll stealing their primary out from under them.
They deserve every single minute of it. Hopefully they'll have Karl Rove cover the convention fight and November election at Fox, it was so satisfying last time...
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