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Jorroh
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Jun 21, 2018 - 06:56pm PT
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"I think Obama was highly sensitive to the appearance of using the gov't to attack his opponents, and how that would be seen"
I think you're right, but we're a nation of laws. They should have been enforced.
I think the appearance of going soft on Wall Street was by far the worse option, because it re-inforced an already widespread impression that laws don't apply to the rich and politically connected.
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
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Jun 21, 2018 - 07:11pm PT
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Interesting turn in topics,As if something is coming.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jun 21, 2018 - 07:43pm PT
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"OK I've had enough, what else can you show me"?
Charles Krauthammer, a former psychiatrist and self-described Great Society Democrat who metamorphosed into one of the nation’s most cogent conservative voices as a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and television commentator, died on Thursday. He was 68.
While Mr. Krauthammer continually extolled Ronald Reagan (he ranked him No. 2 among 20th-century presidents, behind Franklin D. Roosevelt) and belittled Barack Obama’s record, he could criticize his fellow neoconservatives and Republicans just as fiercely as he skewered liberal Democrats.
Aligning himself with most conservatives, Mr. Krauthammer was gung-ho about going to war with Iraq in 2003, arguing for replacing Saddam Hussein with a democratic government, and he expressed few compunctions about torturing suspected terrorists.
But he also took a more liberal line in favoring the continued legalization of abortion, looser restrictions on stem cell research, abolition of the death penalty and, as an avowed Zionist, a two-state solution to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.
If you're going to Pittsburgh, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.
-Jesse James
A 17-year-old boy in East Pittsburgh is dead after being shot three times in the back by an officer who had been sworn into the police department just hours earlier.
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Norton
climber
The Wastelands
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Jun 21, 2018 - 08:04pm PT
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so "Xcon" relies on the Black Agenda Report, a radio "opinion" program for his "proofs" for his own personal opinion that President Obama was a "panty waste the way he sold out the people who elected him"
not good enough, too vague, disappointing
seriously, in a panic to support your own "opinion" a half second google search?
gonna graduate high school next year?
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Norton
climber
The Wastelands
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Jun 21, 2018 - 08:05pm PT
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only an idiot would not realize a 21 foot ladder defeats a 20 foot wall
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climbski2
Mountain climber
The Ocean
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Jun 21, 2018 - 09:22pm PT
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Below propaganda... might just be semi true
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 21, 2018 - 11:50pm PT
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There is a net efflux of illegal immigrants across the Mexican border. In other words, more Mexican rapists are leaving the country, than MS-13 toddlers-in-training are coming in.
The first chapter of Trump's playbook is:
Disinformation and Deceit: people are stupid, so exploit their stupidity.
This is not your grandparents' Warren Commission investigation.
In other words, Robert Mueller is intent, competent, thorough and tenacious in his pursuit of the evidence that will reveal what did, or did not, occur.
Robert Mueller is a great American hero, who is not allowing all the noise to distract him. His work is of the utmost importance to the security of the United States. He is investigating a hostile foreign power that sought to pervert the course of our electoral system.
Anyone who disparages his work, especially before the results are known, is at best stupid, and possibly a traitorous co-conspirator.
This Russian investigation THING is not going away. Yelling at a hurricane will not prevent its onslaught.
Like a pregnant woman at 8.7 months, the Mueller investigation's gestation period has almost run its course.
Forget the OctaMom, who gave birth to eight children.
Robert Mueller looks to be the IcosaMan, giving birth to twenty indictments.
Like the birth pangs of a woman in labor, the difficult and painful events leading up to the denouement will come faster and faster.
Live Through This
 Courtney Love
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 22, 2018 - 02:20am PT
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The people who voted for Trump should have to answer for what they have done.
For me, fascinated by the ancient Roman Empire, I can envision Stephen Miller in a child-sized cage, being drawn past 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, to be heckled and egg-pelted by the Peoples of the United States of America.
But, that is not the American way.
The American way is that different policies can exist. When policies are shown to be against the public interest, those policies cease to to be valid.
But, the people who championed those invalid policies are allowed to exist.
That is the American way.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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Jun 22, 2018 - 06:54am PT
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So exhausted from winning...
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Contractor
Boulder climber
CA
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Jun 22, 2018 - 07:11am PT
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ground chuck- it's maddeningly obvious that there exists a 25% swath right down the center of our country, in humanity really, that are prewired to be objects of manipulation by fear, agression and ultimately retribution.
What lies beneath a very few of our friends, neighbors and family who, on the surface are friendly and caring people is intellectuall incuriousness, fundamental distrust and a yearning to be empowered by association with an authority figure. In high functioning societies they lie in wait, often industrious and happy. Inevitably, as in all societies, when discord and fear rise from any multitude of circumstance, they becomes susceptible.
The mere existence of this minority personality type proves that, in times of extreme instability within small family units or larger societies, this set of emotional responses has served a useful purpose in our survival as a species.
Throughout history this 25% have readily followed great leaders and helped to fundamentally changed the world- this is the exception however. More often than not, they have aided and abetted cultish despots and murderers. And throughout history when the carnage, havoc and annihilation is in full swing they put on their blinders and continue to attack any dissent. This is their purpose and they will not deviate. Rest assured in the aftermath of total failure they will blame the weak, the intellectuals and the peoples of questionable breeding.
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fear
Ice climber
hartford, ct
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Jun 22, 2018 - 08:18am PT
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...it's maddeningly obvious that there exists a 25% swath....
blah blah blah....
Stop listening to MSM. It's rotting your brain.
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10b4me
Social climber
Lida Junction
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Jun 22, 2018 - 08:21am PT
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ground chuck- it's maddeningly obvious that there exists a 25% swath right down the center of our country, in humanity really, that are prewired to be objects of manipulation by fear, agression and ultimately retribution.
this is what I don't understand.
why are Americans(white primarily) so damned paranoid?
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Contractor
Boulder climber
CA
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Jun 22, 2018 - 08:30am PT
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Stop listening to MSM. It's rotting your brain.
The classic response that assumes we all disseminate our information through cable news.
Do you evade historical context or simply don't understand it?
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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Jun 22, 2018 - 10:23am PT
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Winning is so much fun...
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Tom Patterson
Trad climber
Seattle
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Jun 22, 2018 - 10:28am PT
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The first chapter of Trump's playbook is:
Disinformation and Deceit: people are stupid, so exploit their stupidity.
I was thinking of how he projects his own nefariousness on to other people, and how the corollary to the above statment might be:
"I'm stupid, therefore people are stupid."
Just spitballin' here...
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Jun 22, 2018 - 11:06am PT
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Gene, TFPU! That was funny, in a strange sort of way. Sad!
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jun 22, 2018 - 11:23am PT
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The nonprofit, Southwest Key Programs Inc., is to be paid more than $458 million in fiscal 2018, according to the data — the most among the organizations, government agencies and companies that run a detention and care system for immigrant children on behalf of the Department of Health and Human Services. Southwest Key has about a dozen facilities in Texas, including a site at a former WalMart Inc. store in Brownsville that has drawn attention from members of Congress and national news organizations. […]
Southwest Key rapidly increased the compensation of its CEO, Juan Sanchez, from about $269,000 in 2010 to more than $786,000 in 2015, the most recent year for which its tax returns are available through the website Guidestar.org. His compensation nearly doubled to $1.5 million in 2016, according to tax records for an Austin charter school he founded.
President Donald Trump told Congress in a letter on Friday that North Korea’s “provocative, destabilizing, and repressive actions...continue to constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat” to the United States. The letter, which notes the country’s “pursuit of nuclear and missile programs,” comes just over a week after Trump boasted on Twitter that there “is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea.” “Everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office,” he said. Trump told Congress in the letter that he plans to extend the national emergency with respect to North Korea and the restrictions it imposes—which were put in place under George W. Bush in 2008 and amended multiple times since—for at least one additional year.
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