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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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Jul 19, 2016 - 02:59pm PT
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JE
Burn!
That was from my post
The Rude Pundit
2 pages back
what? you didn't read it
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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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Jul 19, 2016 - 03:02pm PT
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Craig does occasionally have some first-rate links!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jul 19, 2016 - 03:06pm PT
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Ya gotta admit that Boris Johnson's description of Hillary as a "sadistic nurse"
is pretty demeaning to nurses.
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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Jul 19, 2016 - 03:09pm PT
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For John
The Rude Pundit
**Your Disagreement with Ruth Bader Ginsburg Is Duly Noted;Now Go f*#k Yourselves**
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/
Supreme Court Justice and noted kicker of asses Ruth Bader Ginsburg was asked point blank in an interview with the AP about the possibility of Donald Trump being elected president. "I don't want to think about that possibility, but if it should be, then everything is up for grabs," she responded. Holy f*#king shitballs, you'd've thought she said that she wants to shank Trump in an alley and laugh while he bleeds. Instead, she was referring quite clearly to the Supreme Court since the interview was about, well, sh#t, the Supreme Court.
In fact, when she was being interviewed a couple of days later by the New York Times, she clarified what a Trump victory could mean: "For the country, it could be four years. For the court, it could be — I don’t even want to contemplate that." She added that her now-deceased husband once said something that might be apropos: "Now it’s time for us to move to New Zealand."
And that was it. The universe collapsed into itself because a Supreme Court justice had an opinion about the future of the Supreme Court and, therefore, the country. Right Blogsylvania and Nutso Twitterati went ballistic, and, of course, Herr Trump had to tweet some goddamn thing. Then, God love her, Ginsburg was asked again about Trump on CNN on Monday, and she showed that she has run clean out of f*#ks to give when it comes to that walking, talking monkey dick of a man. She said, "He is a faker...He has no consistency about him. He says whatever comes into his head at the moment. He really has an ego." And she wondered where the f*#k his tax returns are before wiggling her pinkie and saying, "His dick must be sooo tiny." (Not really, but that would have been awesome.)
Major news organizations have been scolding Ginsburg, apparently forgetting that Antonin Scalia routinely raked President Obama and his administration over the coals in very personal terms in his rantingly mad opinions and in oral arguments. This is not to mention Samuel "Rollin' Eyes" Alito mouthing, "Not true" during the 2010 State of the Union address. The Times nags, "Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg needs to drop the political punditry and the name-calling." The Washington Post piled on, "Justice Ginsburg’s off-the-cuff remarks about the campaign fall into that limited category of candor that we can’t admire, because it’s inconsistent with her function in our democratic system." Fox "news" has a piece that helpfully informs us that you need to impeach a justice to remove her.
That's great, gang. Now go f*#k yourselves. Why do you think Ginsburg chose to enter this fray? She could have very easily demurred on the questions, slapped away the bait and swam on.
Maybe, just maybe it's because someone who is now on her third president while in the Supreme Court, who kept her opinions to the issues at the bench during the reign of George W. Bush, who was pals with the vile conservative Antonin Scalia, knows when something is so f*#king evil and awful that you are doing harm by being silent. Maybe, just maybe she doesn't want the Court to be filled with boobs and buffoons and Alitos and Thomases, all there to do the bidding of their Trumpish overlord. Maybe she sees her role as a guardian of democracy and doesn't want to see it undermined, that an extraordinary election calls for an extraordinary response. Or perhaps the Court is as much a political entity as any other, as Republicans are demonstrating quite clearly in not even allowing a hearing and a vote on the nomination of Merrick Garland because of some bullshit new rule they pulled out of their asses.
So Ginsburg is being open and honest as a goddamned warning to the nation: This is a dangerous path. Here there be monstrous decisions that will devour your children. Turn back while you still have the chance, America.
Frankly, it's heroic of her in this age of nonstop ragegasms in social and other media to insist that we have some f*#kin' standards as a nation. Ginsburg is the knight and our stupidity is the dragon. Slay away.
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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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Jul 19, 2016 - 03:27pm PT
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WA Post:
First, there was the intrigue of Trump’s 11th-hour waffling over one of the most important decisions that any presidential candidate has to make.
Then came the formal vice-presidential unveiling itself, at a bizarre event dominated by Trump’s stream-of-consciousness ramblings about Clinton, his Republican primary battles and a host of issues that seemed to have little to do with Pence, who stood offstage.
Even the atmospherics were off, with dim lighting and the strange choice of the Rolling Stones’ “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” as the music to which Trump entered the event.
I can't believe they would have done that. Unreal!
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Jul 19, 2016 - 03:33pm PT
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Fear is something born in childhood, based on the circumstances of how we are raised, the values we absorb from our parents, who by definition become our perfect examples of what it means to love, to relate to other humans... if that model is messed up it takes a lot of unlearning to get over it. People don't usually change in these fundamental elements of their identity unless they are very smart and courageous have some major event or access to information that motivates them to reflect and change. Even then it is difficult.
People who are afraid of losing power, jobs, security, familiar ways of life... these people need reassurance, not someone to tell them how stupid they are. Expressing outrage and belittling these people is just going to make them more entrenched in their fear-based position.
It makes them more vulnerable to manipulators like Trump who create an illusion of safety and familiar status quo and power, built by unifying a community around blaming targeted groups, e.g. immigrants, minorities, women, atheists, ....
So die-hard Democrats should consider the role they have in shaping the environment where the unthinkable President Trump is possible.
(edit, I added:)We live in an age where Truth matters less than how a candidate makes people feel in the short term.
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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Jul 19, 2016 - 03:34pm PT
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Don't forget Guyman
I'm worried that if Trump wins, they will have to shut down Stoney Point due to lack of city funds after the Porn Industry craters.
That's what the City is known for, the "Porn Capital of the World"
What will all those Stoney Repubs do w/o their local sand box to play in?
Making Porn illegal is on the Top of the GOP Platform,
it's listed before the Wall
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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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Jul 19, 2016 - 03:37pm PT
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People who are afraid of losing power, jobs, security, familiar ways of life... these people need reassurance, not someone to tell them how stupid they are. Expressing outrage and belittling these people is just going to make them more entrenched in their fear-based position.
It makes them more vulnerable to manipulators like Trump who create an illusion of safety and familiar status quo and power, built by unifying a community around blaming targeted groups, e.g. immigrants, minorities, women, atheists, ....
So die-hard Democrats should consider the role they have in shaping the environment where the unthinkable President Trump is possible.
This is so true, and one of the major reasons that the Repubs remain competitive at so many levels, when they should not. They understand the messaging, the democrats do not.
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Gary
Social climber
Where in the hell is Major Kong?
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Jul 19, 2016 - 03:46pm PT
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Check it out! The neocons are already planning a coup if Trump wins!
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-kirchick-trump-coup-20160719-snap-story.html
From the Foreign Policy Initiative:
Americans viewing the recent failed coup attempt in Turkey as some exotic foreign news story -- the latest, violent yet hardly unusual political development to occur in a region constantly beset by turmoil -- should pause to consider that the prospect of similar instability would not be unfathomable in this country if Donald Trump were to win the presidency.
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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Jul 19, 2016 - 03:54pm PT
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They will plan a coup if Hillary wins as well
Nothing will make them happy, except maybe Satan in the flesh
that is, as long as he isn't Ted Cruz
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Norton
Social climber
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Jul 19, 2016 - 04:05pm PT
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So die-hard Democrats should consider the role they have in shaping the environment where the unthinkable President Trump is possible.
ok, I have to admit that I have no idea what the above means, someone help me
how in the world did "die-hard Democrats" enable or somehow have anything to do with the REPUBLICAN BASE voting for Trump in the Primaries?
how did Democrats, and not a long list of Republican policies and statements give rise to the Tea Party and now Donald Trump?
gee and I this time I thought it was Republicans who created and fostered the atmosphere that allowed an ignorant, racist, prick like Trump to become their nominee
so, so help me out, how did Democrats enable the coming of Trump?
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F
climber
away from the ground
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Jul 19, 2016 - 04:23pm PT
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Escopeta
Trad climber
Idaho
Jul 19, 2016 - 12:36pm PT
Hey F,
Pigeon hunt tomorrow. You in?
Sorry, sugar tits, I can't make it.
I'm going to climb some sweet granite splitters in the sunshine with my beautiful woman.
Remember when you used to go climbing?
You know, before you became a one man internet army defending us from the scourge of hypothetical tyranny that is sure to befall civilization any second now?
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EdwardT
Trad climber
Retired
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Jul 19, 2016 - 04:24pm PT
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I have to admit that I have no idea what the above means
What a surprise.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Jul 19, 2016 - 04:41pm PT
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Jul 19, 2016 - 04:52pm PT
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I think Bob and most other Dems are really in a bad place. Look at Bob's last post!
ReallY? Melania is going for a tranny vote of something? The LGBT thing?
I don't think so.
Political correctness is the 'eye of the beholder'. When you alter the way you have to view things. it alters all. You lose you're mind. Reality becomes unreal. Bizarre political correctness becomes the norm and reality is suspended. Most people ARE NOT politically correct. Even here in Calif.
But they've been beaten down pretty hard by Gavin, Jerry, Kamala, and the cabal of ultra-leftists killing Calif.
The libs have lost it. But I think it will get much worse. The desperation phase has not been seen yet.
It will be embarrassing. To themselves.
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TradEddie
Trad climber
Philadelphia, PA
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Jul 19, 2016 - 05:12pm PT
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Remember that Iraqi propaganda minister who denied Baghdad was being attacked even though we could hear gunfire in the background?
The doubled-down stupidity of the GOP denials flying in the face of the blatant fact that those lines were copied from someone else's speech reminds me of that guy.
I wasn't particularly concerned about the "plagiarism", it was amusing that she copied lines about integrity from someone else but it's not as if she was writing a PhD thesis or claiming credit for someone else's work, I wouldn't expect anyone to write such a speech without help. The complete and utter disconnect from reality of GOP operatives and supporters is by far the most troubling aspect of this.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Jul 19, 2016 - 05:19pm PT
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Mitch McConeell is speaking.
I'm going to go puke real fast, I'll be back....
Trump-haters can go f*#k off. That includes McConnell. But not Ryan. Paul is not that stupid, but prolly just knows where the bread is buttered in the future.
Trump, and conservatives like me, not Republicans, have taken names and we will remember where everybody stood on this side of the aisle.
Not in an aggressive way. But you have lost credibility. Either unite behind Trump, or become a Democrat. You are damaging the country with your "pure conscience".
You think you're the only one with conservative values and morals??? I choose somebody who selects a conservative team to guide him.
Cruz lost, man! It' over. If the stupid conscientious Cruz people would help Trump, they may get half of their platform. Is that good enough?
No. The cruz people are the ones killing the Repub party. Them and all the old hacks. The Roves, Bushes, and the rest...
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Jul 19, 2016 - 05:31pm PT
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I wasn't particularly concerned about the "plagiarism", it was amusing that she copied lines about integrity from someone else but it's not as if she was writing a PhD thesis or claiming credit for someone else's work, I wouldn't expect anyone to write such a speech without help. The complete and utter disconnect from reality of GOP operatives and supporters is by far the most troubling aspect of this.
Yep, yep, yep!!! The speech writers should be fired!!! I can guarantee you Melania didn't write that, but was told that "this is good for you and the whole immigrant thing".
She's a solid gal, I can tell. She got f*#ked by speechwriters. I can also tell you that DJ prolly didn't go easy on those guys, "the way we used to handle this thing".
So stupid a mistake. They didn't run that speech through a plager-check APP or something? Or it was a mole. Still sucks. Bad vetting. Yer fired!
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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Jul 19, 2016 - 05:34pm PT
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The Republican Party is the dead rat on the kitchen floor.
The only question is who will pick it up by the tail and throw it in the trash.
Bonus points if you can figure out the last time that line was used.
No cheating.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Jul 19, 2016 - 05:37pm PT
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I don't care, Lorenzo. What do base you analysis on, Melanias's speech? It's funny you don't say that about Hillary and the Dems after her verbal indightment by the FBI.
What signified the death of the Republican party, IYO? Don't play games, be clear.
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