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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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He thinks that the way to combat terrorists is to kill their families....even a guy named Adolph was more careful with his words.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Is Trump buying ISIS oil to light the kerosene lamps in Ben Carson's hotels?
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dirtbag
climber
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Jan 17, 2016 - 12:14pm PT
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Utter bullsh#t. He doesn't say that. Did you listen?
He said that a cell was reported celebrating, and that reports of these cells were "unconfirmed." He kept stressing "unconfirmed."
"A cell." Not thousands.
Trump is lying. He is playing with your fears of other people so people like you will support him. It's what fascists do.
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John M
climber
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Jan 17, 2016 - 12:48pm PT
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yeah but there were 1000s of them. 1000s of them. No video, but 1000s.
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John Duffield
Mountain climber
New York
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Jan 17, 2016 - 01:16pm PT
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Should be said, on 9/11, cell phones weren't as prevalent as now, and the news cameras had much more compelling places to be than some dancing Muslims in New Jersey.
That said, I think he's crazy to go with it. But a lot of things are crazy and working out for him.
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Norton
Social climber
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Jan 17, 2016 - 01:24pm PT
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they can't get to 270, period
there will not be a Republican President in our lifetime, providing the Dems don't do something really really stupid, like invade Iraq or something
and as California goes, so goes the Nation, eventually
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John Duffield
Mountain climber
New York
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Jan 17, 2016 - 01:42pm PT
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Gee, looks like Trump really shot himself in the foot. Hard to see how any Republican could survive.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/looks-hell-donald-trump-unloads-180445354.html
This really dopey guy ... this dopey guy, Glenn Beck, he looks like hell. No, he's like a dope. And I've watched him cry on television all the time. He's doing very badly. His thing is falling apart. His company is falling apart," Trump said at a campaign event in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
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dirtbag
climber
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Jan 17, 2016 - 01:50pm PT
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No, Andrew Jackson got his hands dirty.
Trump--100% candy ass.
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Contractor
Boulder climber
CA
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Jan 17, 2016 - 06:45pm PT
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The classic, angry, white man stereotype-
I'm a white, high school drop out, blue collar, TRUE native son with revolutionary roots.
Digging ditches, demolition, cleaning job sites, along side Mexicans and "disadvantaged" white guys like myself- that was my start.
I took architectural plans home at night and learned how to read them, I asked the subcontractors questions, I worked late days and weekends, I bought books related to construction and studied on my own time (pre Internet).
I quickly moved up the ladder and while I continued to work hard and self educate, many of my white counterparts partied or were just plain fuking lazy. I'll take this time to thank the people along the way, that reinforced proper ethics and taught how to work hard.
The next step was to invest in tools, a good work truck, a home and to live within my means. Meanwhile; many of my white co-worker's investment strategy was fantasy football and shitty car loans. Instead of tools they bought dirt bikes, boats, RV's and OZ's of the chronic.
The doors continued to swing open because I wanted it and I was white. Meanwhile I watched many of my white co-workers backslide in life and become bitter at their own hand.
The irony is, that many those doors don't swing open for the minority co-workers I've had, yet they continue to work hard and bust down barriers. White workers that are "just getting along" know the playing field is becoming level and they're afraid.
Those doors are slowly opening and the plight of the under-educated white man that feels America owes him something will worsen. His base insticts will turn him to propaganda put out by the very people that have engineered his demise. He is the low hanging fruit that is ripe for a predatory, hollow, carpet bagger like Trump.
Dangerous times....
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rick sumner
Trad climber
reno, nevada/ wasilla alaska
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Jan 17, 2016 - 07:03pm PT
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His face will be chiseled in next to Lincoln on the newly named Mount Trumpmore.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jan 17, 2016 - 07:07pm PT
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A world divided: Elites descend on Swiss Alps amid rising inequality
The Oxfam report suggests that global inequality has reached levels not seen in over a century.
Last year, the organisation has calculated, 62 individuals had the same wealth as 3.5 billion people, or the bottom half of humanity. The wealth of those 62 people has risen 44 percent, or more than half a trillion dollars, over the past five years, while the wealth of the bottom half has fallen by over a trillion.
"Far from trickling down, income and wealth are instead being sucked upwards at an alarming rate," the report says.
It points to a "global spider's web" of tax havens that ensures wealth stays out of reach of ordinary citizens and governments, citing a recent estimate that $7.6 trillion of individual wealth - more than the combined economies of Germany and the UK - is currently held offshore.
http://www.reuters.com/article/davos-meeting-divisions-idUSL8N151092
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Escopeta
Trad climber
Idaho
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Jan 17, 2016 - 07:46pm PT
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The Oxfam report suggests that global inequality has reached levels not seen in over a century
By all means, we should vote harder. I bet if we can get more government control and even more restrictions of the free market and free peoples we might see inequality reach levels never seen in all of history!
Come on people. Vote Harder!
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 17, 2016 - 07:49pm PT
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you havnt learned that supposed"free markets" (making me puke stupid con-man term) are what led to the last huge income inequality of the robber baron years.
Stop drinking the neo-con coolaid. The republicans used to know what conservatism was.. they don't have a clue anymore.
It's gotten to the point that the second I see the term "free market" in a conversation I usually just go the other way since it's never a conversation about facts or real things.
Yes Trump is an evil piece of sh#t.
A sad commentary on how far the Grand old party has fallen. It's sad because we need Both parties to be competent. We need good people in both parties dedicated to different philosophies of governance with different ideas but mostly committed to the good of the nation. We don't have that anymore.
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10b4me
Mountain climber
Retired
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Jan 17, 2016 - 07:58pm PT
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The classic, angry, white man stereotype-
I'm a white, high school drop out, blue collar, TRUE native son with revolutionary roots.
Digging ditches, demolition, cleaning job sites, along side Mexicans and "disadvantaged" white guys like myself- that was my start.
I took architectural plans home at night and learned how to read them, I asked the subcontractors questions, I worked late days and weekends, I bought books related to construction and studied on my own time (pre Internet).
I quickly moved up the ladder and while I continued to work hard and self educate, many of my white counterparts partied or were just plain fuking lazy. I'll take this time to thank the people along the way, that reinforced proper ethics and taught how to work hard.
The next step was to invest in tools, a good work truck, a home and to live within my means. Meanwhile; many of my white co-worker's investment strategy was fantasy football and shitty car loans. Instead of tools they bought dirt bikes, boats, RV's and OZ's of the chronic.
The doors continued to swing open because I wanted it and I was white. Meanwhile I watched many of my white co-workers backslide in life and become bitter at their own hand.
The irony is, that many those doors don't swing open for the minority co-workers I've had, yet they continue to work hard and bust down barriers. White workers that are "just getting along" know the playing field is becoming level and they're afraid.
Those doors are slowly opening and the plight of the under-educated white man that feels America owes him something will worsen. His base insticts will turn him to propaganda put out by the very people that have engineered his demise. He is the low hanging fruit that is ripe for a predatory, hollow, carpet bagger like Trump.
Dangerous times....
Well said
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Stewart
Trad climber
Courtenay, B.C.
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Jan 17, 2016 - 10:03pm PT
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^
+ 1
climb ski 2: What an appropriate title, although shite may object to the comparison.
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JoanaBanana
Boulder climber
Sydney
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Jan 18, 2016 - 01:37am PT
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I sort of concur with the sentiment on here, although im not a US citizen so I don't know if it's my place to have a view on the matter. But one thing is for sure, and that's that the world may not be a safer place with him in charge with regards to world politics. This is the view that many non Americans have. All to their own I guess.
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Escopeta
Trad climber
Idaho
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Jan 18, 2016 - 05:26am PT
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A sad commentary on how far the Grand old party has fallen. It's sad because we need Both parties to be competent. We need good people in both parties dedicated to different philosophies of governance with different ideas but mostly committed to the good of the nation. We don't have that anymore.
That's hilarious. So you are still under the misconception that there is a lick of difference between the Rep and Dem?
Republicans are like the Remington 870. Still living off a reputation they earned several decades ago while the modern version is just like its Russian counterparts. Complete crap.
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John Duffield
Mountain climber
New York
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Jan 18, 2016 - 05:58am PT
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People that think Trumps only support comes from angry white guys, are in for a nasty surprise.
The good news is, Bernie is improving as the campaign grinds on.
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