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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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OMG - Do you people have any reading comprehension and analytical skills whatsoever?????
Happie, you might want to check yer reading skills. We were talking about
people losing their homes and bankruptcy. And if you people didn't love to
pull phrases from a whole argument, while excoriating others for their
reading comprehension, you might have understood that I was excoriating
people for having messed up priorities, in addition to just being plain
stoopid for buying houses they couldn't afford, not understanding what an
ARM was, and being too poor a credit risk to be able to get mortgage
insurance. Oh, I almost forgot to hoist them on their ultimate petard of
thinking those crazy prices would get even crazier and that they'd be RICH!
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
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Mar 10, 2016 - 05:31am PT
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Jim posted Donald is exploiting a hurt that doesn't exist. There is no decadent monarchy up for grabs in a constitutional democracy. The comparison between Hitler and Trump is a f*#king laugh.
I find the comparisons between Hitler and Trump to be hyperbolic (because of the genocide, remove the genocide and it becomes much less objectionable) but to completely dismiss the idea that Trump is appealing to a populist sense of outrage is absurd. The wealth gap between the "decadent monarchy" and the average German voter is probably just as big as that of America's elite and the average Trump voter. Add on to that the perceived loss of privilege that is the backlash to "political correctness" and you have yourself the bedrock of real populism. Trump's message is clear: you are being ripped off, it is someone else's fault, I will make sure you have someone to blame, I will fix everything through an authoritarian leadership style and the world will bend their knee to American power. The comparisons to the rise of populist dictators is striking. Trump is exactly why the Founding Fathers created both the Senate and the Electoral College.
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Mar 10, 2016 - 06:11am PT
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As a middle class TAX person will be nice to see some political clown get to work vs taking vacations unlike OBUMA.. Trump will probably work everday he's in office..
Doubt you will see him take a day off.
Im thinking about heading over to see the first lady Nancy if i do then ill take pics.
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
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Mar 10, 2016 - 06:14am PT
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pyro posted As a middle class TAX person will be nice to see some political clown get to work vs taking vacations unlike OBUMA.. Trump will probably work everday he's in office..
Do you only consume propaganda?
http://www.factcheck.org/2014/08/presidential-vacations/
When we emailed Knoller on Aug. 26, Obama was up to 140 days by his count. Bush’s total for his two terms in office is 533 days, which includes 490 at the ranch and the rest at Kennebunkport. For comparison’s sake, President Bill Clinton’s total is 174 days, and Reagan hit 390 (349 at his ranch and 41 in Palm Springs), according to Knoller.
Adding in Camp David visits would bring Obama’s total to date to 223 (that’s 83 days at Camp David) and Bush’s total for his entire time in office to 1,024 (491 days at the presidential retreat). Note that Obama still has more than two years in office to narrow the gap.
Deciding how to count these “vacation” days can create some confusion. CNN recently listed a count of 879 days for Bush and 150 for Obama, numbers that came from a Washington Post “Outlook” piece on “Five myths on presidential vacations.” (Myth No. 1: “Presidents get vacations.”) The 879 figure, it turns out, is from March 3, 2008, at which point Bush had spent that many days at the ranch and Camp David (but it doesn’t include days in Kennebunkport). The numbers are in a 2008 Washington Post piece and attributed to Knoller.
If readers want to make an apples-to-apples comparison, the best solution is to use Knoller’s figures as of August 8, cited above: Bush, 407; Obama, 125. But the numbers say more about how many days the presidents spent away from the White House than they do about how much time the presidents spent not working.
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Mar 10, 2016 - 06:17am PT
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Hddj u make no sense..
Get to WORK
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
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Mar 10, 2016 - 06:18am PT
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Facts are hard. Numbers are hard. Sorry that it's not in facebook image macro form.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Shetville , North of Los Angeles
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Mar 10, 2016 - 06:28am PT
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Hitler slept in on D-day and lost WW ll...
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dirtbag
climber
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Mar 10, 2016 - 06:29am PT
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I always thought criticisms about presidential vacations were silly. I never begrudge any president his days off. It's an extremely demanding job, with long hours and incredible amounts of stress. Even their vacations aren't ever work free vacations as we think of them. They should rest up as needed, and replenish their minds, bodies and spirits for all the grueling tasks they face.
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
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Mar 10, 2016 - 06:33am PT
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No President ever has a "day off."
Except maybe Bush on Day 1 of Katrina. He was definitely sleeping that day.
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dirtbag
climber
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Mar 10, 2016 - 06:35am PT
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Nope, no weekends, either.
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Gary
Social climber
Where in the hell is Major Kong?
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Mar 10, 2016 - 06:47am PT
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Its the whole scene man. If you guys aren't bothered by a crowd of Trump-lathered racist bullies roughing up a woman then you're f*#king stupid.
Any of you Trump apologists want to jump on this?
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John Duffield
Mountain climber
New York
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Mar 10, 2016 - 06:49am PT
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With gas at $1.75 here and February overseas military deaths at zero, it is unreasonable. By all measures, our Presidents approval should be 80% overall, at least.
That said, my Muslim acquaintances, say that if his Father is Muslim, Muslim he must be. NTTTAWWT. Don't take my word for it, ask the Muslims you know, if this is so.
I watched a compendium this am, of violence with demonstrators and attendees at Trump rallies. I think the RNC, will be even wilder than Chicago 1968 or NYC 2004.
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Mar 10, 2016 - 06:50am PT
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Gary yestarday was BURRITO WEDNESDAY..
celebrating the building of TRUMPS 55ft WALL..
raider nation is saif to start a war with America
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
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Mar 10, 2016 - 06:52am PT
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Gary yestarday was BURRITO WEDNESDAY..
celebrating the building of TRUMPS 55ft WALL..
raider nation is saif to start a war with America
ok
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Mar 10, 2016 - 07:01am PT
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Still try'n to figure out who raider nation is HDDJ?
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Mar 10, 2016 - 07:23am PT
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ANYBODY SEEN A NUMBER INDICATING HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE ACTUALLY VOTED FOR TRUMP SO FAR?
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
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Mar 10, 2016 - 07:27am PT
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Republican turnout so far is 17% of eligible voters so if you figure out how many eligible Republican voters there are in the states that have voted then do then math.
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Mar 10, 2016 - 07:33am PT
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I like Hillary's line from last night's debate:
You don’t make America great by getting rid of everything that made America great.
People who think they are being "patriotic" by supporting Trump are actually just the opposite.
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
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Mar 10, 2016 - 07:41am PT
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There is a place for it but it's just so overused by the right that it's basically meaningless. Patriotism is selflessness in pursuit of the best interests of the country. Selflessness is not really the current conservative message.
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