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Escopeta
Trad climber
Idaho
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I'm not so sure about this concept of a candidate who is totally "independent", instead of the product of a party.
Here, have some more SOMA and take a nap. Good Grief.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Blindly I post...
Not that it matters
But here I'll share. ..
This made me laugh out loud,
(but our joint chiefs of staff must be skeerd , both nominees doom us to a nightmare war. . )
crankster, Trad climber
No. Tahoe ( lucky politards'tard )
Jul 31, 2016 - 06:01pm PT
Bob,
Things remain about the same. Very little support for Trump, more for Hillary (surprising for a forum with 99% male membership). A lot of support for "none of the above" and a few who can't tolerate political discussions on a climbing forum. They seem to have a high tolerance for threads about songs, the Mind, religion, dogs, flames and just about anything that doesn't involve the fate of the planet.
So relatively speaking, was that a compliment or a request for censure?
Hey I leave your fool threads alone, and with respect, I am only an interloper when the dust has settled down, but I know a clown V's A Hitler
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I do not think we could have found worse representatives than Hillery & Donald.
That someone wants to try to equate 1932 Germany to this moment is a far stretch.
Now if you go to the state of affairs just after WWII,
when a small Russia became the worlds disaster,
then you might find some equivalence. The new threat is the old one
Re emergence of a totalitarian Eastern Blok....
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EdwardT
Trad climber
Retired
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the republican party is running out of angry white people to vote for them along with African Americans and Hispanics.
And yet, the Republicans have 54 Senate seats and 247 House seats.
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S.Leeper
Social climber
somewhere that doesnt have anything over 90'
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Hillary Clinton is in the lead and heading for the Whitehouse...
Dear God, let's hope so.
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Norton
Social climber
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Hi Jody, Ted Cruz may be extremely, repulsively conservative to a lot of people
but I agree with you, he showed some real principle refusing to endorse Trump
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mtnyoung
Trad climber
Twain Harte, California
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Ted Cruz is the most principled person in politics. He went way up in the respect department after sticking it to the fraud.
I'm not sure it was all that impressive Jody. Cruz tried to make it "clear" afterward that he'd done it because the nitwit had insulted his family.
I would have been impressed and said so (even though I can't stand him) if he'd done what he did while making it absolutely clear that he'd done it on principle.
Still, comparing Cruz' handling of Trump to how say, Paul Ryan did things....
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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that's Melania not Ivanka in the funny heels ^^^
winner & runner up for the spineless bastard of the week award...
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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"Is that Ivanka?"
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jstan
climber
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One thing that this process tends to do, is weed out the truly crazy and sociopathic players. It guarantees that a person has experience working in the political world, with the skillset needed to succeed. There is a lot of time to test a person's patriotism, beliefs of religion in gov't, concepts of intrusiveness of gov't.
Trump is an excellent example of what occurs outside of that. No serious person would think that you could take someone with no business experience, and make them CEO of General Motors. But a lot of people trust him to "do something" and they don't care what it is.
Barely a week into the general election we have new evidence Trump will attack anyone based only upon what is going on in his head. And that he is unable to accept criticism. Since these are serious limitations for a president, we can assume there will be many more such incidents. A question.
What happens when Trump withdraws his candidacy? Pence becomes the candidate by default?
When the election has subtracted even more from the estimated value of his "trademark", his net worth will take losses. Things will start to get really serious.
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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ohnson/Weld 2016, possibly endorsed by Weld_It
most definitely endorsed by ms55401
And endorsed by me in at least two threads that were locked. Put a climber in the White House!
John
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Crooked Hillary Clinton received a dreaded 'four-Pinocchio' rating from the Washington Post – the worst score possible for truthfulness – after claiming on Sunday that the FBI defended her honesty in the classified email scandal that has plagued her presidential campaign for more than 16 months.
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Curt
climber
Gold Canyon, AZ
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Crooked Hillary Clinton received a dreaded 'four-Pinocchio' rating from the Washington Post – the worst score possible for truthfulness – after claiming on Sunday that the FBI defended her honesty in the classified email scandal that has plagued her presidential campaign for more than 16 months.
And exactly where would you put Trump, by comparison of honesty?
Curt
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Trump is unencumbered by a knowledge of facts. He's also had a successful filterectomy.
His personal battle with the Khan family is simply one more overwhelming piece of evidence of his disqualification from the office, but the press is playing right along. As long as they focus on Chump's ungentlemanly behavior rather than his complete lack of policy, he has a chance of hanging on to voters unwilling to support Clinton. If, instead, the press concentrated on his lack of policy - or its rejection of conservative principles - much of his support would melt and either sit the election out, or vote for Johnson.
John
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EdwardT
Trad climber
Retired
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"Barack Obama remains solidly on track to be the only president in all of U.S. history to never have a single year when the economy grew by at least 3 percent."
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slabbo
Trad climber
colo south
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Obama should be chantin " 4 more years"
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zBrown
Ice climber
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The "Bush" legacy. Direct your eyes to 2008 & 2009
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Curt
climber
Gold Canyon, AZ
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Barack Obama remains solidly on track to be the only president in all of U.S. history to never have a single year when the economy grew by at least 3 percent.
Even more interesting that 9 out of the 10 very worst years in your chart were under Republican presidents.
Curt
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zBrown
Ice climber
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For the second part of the show, please demonstrate how it is that a President determiens the growth of real GDP?
Hint: You might start with imaginary GDP.
Show your work.
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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I had lost track of the efforts to ban Russia's Olympic team for their chemical cheating.
Here's tonight's update on Trump's buddies.
Russia had hoped to send 387 competitors to Rio and more than 100 have so far been banned from going.
Russian teams affected by Rio bans
Among those excluded are 67 out of 68 from the athletics team; long-jumper Darya Klishina will compete as a neutral.
Some international federations have banned Russians from competing altogether, some have issued a partial ban, while others have cleared all Russians to take part. Others still are yet to decide.
Russia's President, Vladimir Putin, said there was a "deliberate campaign targeting" Russian athletes.
He said medals won in Rio would be devalued by the absence of Russian competitors, telling the Russian team "the other sportsmen understand that the quality of their medals will be different".
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