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Winemaker
Sport climber
Yakima, WA
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Jun 18, 2016 - 07:40pm PT
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Klimmer, do you have any critical thinking skills at all? Sorry, rhetorical question.
Edited to add: Again, sorry, I'm assuming you know what 'rhetorical' means. Bad assumption.
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sandstone conglomerate
climber
sharon conglomerate central
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Jun 18, 2016 - 07:43pm PT
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Drumpf is sinking fast..6% behind in the polls and the dude can't stop sticking his foot in his mouth, lol. When you pull the pin on a grenade, you're supposed to throw it at the enemy, not stick it up your own ass..
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August West
Trad climber
Where the wind blows strange
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Jun 18, 2016 - 07:51pm PT
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. However, if we do have to go to war with a nation for just reasons, then yes, we should have the right to spoils of war, "booty" as it is known as.
Rape and pillage. Hmmmm. Maybe there's more to being in the army than I thought.
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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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Jun 18, 2016 - 08:39pm PT
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As the article says that I linked to, Donald Trump had private conversations with the news anchor Cuomo, back in 2003 that he had serious doubts about the war with Iraq. So private thoughts and discussions don't count? It has to be in a media source to verify how someone feels about a war? Or it didn't happen?
No, it doesn't really count. If a person of influence is not willing to come out publicly and express their opinion, particularly if it runs against the "powers that be", then one is basically a coward.
A perfect case in point: Richard Armitage, the defense expert who served in the Bush and Reagan admins, who PUBLICLY came out this week, and said that he would vote for Clinton, if Trump is the nominee.
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Jun 18, 2016 - 09:22pm PT
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next morph...
DimBo...
Sorry, that one has already been taken by Dimbo Kashinagin.
Trump is now trying to blackmail the Republican Party into supporting him. He said that if they don't fall into line and support him, he will stop raising campaign funds for the RNC.
Then, Trump said that it would be helpful if the Republican Party helped him.
He said that there are "insurgent delegates" that are plotting to somehow get rid of him at the convention, and install a different candidate.
But, in the very next breath, Trump said that there are no insurgent delegates plotting to get rid of him and install their own candidate. He said that that was a false story, made up by the media and the press.
Got Adderall?
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dirtbag
climber
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Jun 19, 2016 - 07:28am PT
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Trump's in trouble. Forget polling (which is bad for him right now)--this is killing him too:
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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Jun 19, 2016 - 07:31am PT
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The cowardly thing to do was lie about what you said about the Iraqi invasion, like Trump did.
Hillary admitted that her vote to give Bush the ability to intercede in Iraq AFTER THEY find the WMDs was the worst vote she ever made.
The vote wasn't for the certain invasion of Iraq, it had qualifications that needed to be met, and if they weren't, then Bush could take all options off the table and do whatever he thought necessary.
No one thought at the time that Bush would Pull the inspectors as they were finding nothing and invade anyway on his fabricated intel.
The cowardly thing to do is never admit that you are wrong and just double down on the lies and deceit.
Hillary has admitted her mistakes and apologized when wrong,
a sign of a honest Leader
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dirtbag
climber
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Jun 19, 2016 - 08:00am PT
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^^^this.
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10b4me
Mountain climber
Retired
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Jun 19, 2016 - 08:21am PT
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Winemaker, it doesn't do any good to question either Klimmer, or Jody. They refuse to answer anything, because their answer is not going to be based on fact, just hyperbole.
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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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Jun 19, 2016 - 12:28pm PT
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The interesting thing that happened when Kansas cut taxes and California hiked them
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/06/17/one-state-raised-taxes-the-other-cut-them-guess-which-one-is-in-recession/
In 2012, voters in California approved a measure to raise taxes on millionaires, bringing their top state income tax rate to 13.3 percent, the highest in the nation. Conservative economists predicted calamity, or at least a big slowdown in growth. Also that year, the governor of Kansas signed a series of changes to the state's tax code, including reducing income and sales tax rates. Conservative economists predicted a boom.
Neither of those predictions came true. Not right away -- California grew just fine in the year the tax hikes took effect -- and especially not in the medium term, as new economic data showed this week.
Now, correlation does not, as they say, equal causation, and two examples are but a small sample. But the divergent experiences of California and Kansas run counter to a popular view, particularly among conservative economists, that tax cuts tend to supercharge growth and tax increases chill it.
California's economy grew by 4.1 percent in 2015, according to new numbers from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, tying it with Oregon for the fastest state growth of the year. That was up from 3.1 percent growth for the Golden State in 2014, which was near the top of the national pack.
The Kansas economy, on the other hand, grew 0.2 percent in 2015. That's down from 1.2 percent in 2014, and below neighboring states such as Nebraska (2.1 percent) and Missouri (1.2 percent). Kansas ended the year with two consecutive quarters of negative growth -- a shrinking economy. By a common definition of the term, the state entered 2016 in recession.
Growing: California’s economy grew 5.7% in 2015, and the Golden State is now the sixth largest economy in the world. (Sacramento Bee).
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Jun 19, 2016 - 01:25pm PT
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Trump is the Energizer Cheeto Jesus.
He keeps ranting, and ranting, and ranting, and ranting, and ranting, and ranting, and ranting . . . . . . .
Today, on CBS' Face The Nation, he repeated his call for America to profile Muslim citizens, because "that would be using common sense".
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-muslim-profiling-000000496.html
Next up:
Trump will find out that some inner city African American youths illegally carry firearms. Trump will use his vaunted common sense to call for them to be profiled, too.
Later:
Trump will learn that many Asian Americans have relatives and friends living in countries such as Japan, Korea, and (God Forbid!) China. Trump will find out (during a CIA intel briefing) that some of these Asian Americans are communicating with their overseas relatives and friends using an unusual coding system that Trump can't understand (思想改造).
Common sense (Trumpian sense, anyway) will tell him that those Asian Americans are stealing America's secrets and selling them to China, so that China can steal America's jobs.
Common sense will tell you that Trump will want to profile Asian Americans, too.
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Norton
Social climber
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Jun 19, 2016 - 01:31pm PT
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Common sense says that HIllary beats Donald by over 10 million popular and over 140 Electoral Votes in Landslide
the Dems take back the US Senate and pick up maybe 10 House seats
Repubs continue to control the House and so zero legislation gets passed benefiting the middle class
Trump get the Repub nomination again in 2020, same thing happens over again
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crankster
Trad climber
No. Tahoe
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Jun 19, 2016 - 02:33pm PT
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Amen, Locker.
And Norton, yes, your margins look about right.
What a freak show the GOP convention will be.
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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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Jun 19, 2016 - 02:38pm PT
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Make America Great Again
America IS great, right now.
But that is unacceptable to you. You want to change things, just for changes sake. You will settle for ANYTHING. Including a huge diminution of America.
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JC Marin
Trad climber
CA
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Jun 19, 2016 - 03:24pm PT
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Let's make orangutans great again..am I right or am I right???
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overwatch
climber
Arizona
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Jun 19, 2016 - 03:30pm PT
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People want change for the better. People are tired of the same old institutional regime and corruption. Elect Hillary Clinton and we have the same Obama policies, and there goes our country down the toilet.
We want change for the better.
Make America Great Again
Vote for Donald Trump.
How many times have you made this exact or very similar post? We get it, Klammer
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10b4me
Mountain climber
Retired
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Jun 19, 2016 - 03:51pm PT
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If this country is so terrible, klimmer, why don't you leave?
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Winemaker
Sport climber
Yakima, WA
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Jun 19, 2016 - 04:12pm PT
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Klimmer, make America Greater by learning to spell, for god's sake. It's 'weep' not 'weap'. You are an idiot and should be thankful for unions or else you wouldn't have a job. You're really drinkin' that Kool-Aid.
Edit: Yeah, I know Klimmer is a troll, either consciously of unconsciously, and he's sucked me in too, but I still have to say the 'Massive Ark on The Moon' is a classic. Klimmer, have you given up on that one?
I'm amazed by the amount of time Klimmer must have spent 'researching' topics on youtube; when do you sleep bro? Still, keep it up and let us know what you do when Trump loses; it's god's test of you Klimmer. You will be graded on a curve.
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