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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Jun 22, 2016 - 12:55pm PT
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Bloomberg news says that Trump's 40 Wall Street office tower is a veritable den of thieves, schemers, frauds, rogues and exiled despots.
http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2016-trump-40-wall-street/
Trump can't control what his tenants do at 40 Wall Street, but "no U.S. address has been home to more of the unregistered brokerages that investors complain about, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s current public alert list".
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Jun 22, 2016 - 01:49pm PT
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Klimmer = John Miller = John Baron = Donald Trump
I now understand why everyone wants to bash Klimmer, instead of bashing Trump.
Klimmer IS Trump
Since this is now the Ready for Klimmer?" thread, here's the story:
The slavery lawsuit against Klimmer says that his modeling agency would target young, naive girls in foreign lands, bring them to New York City, and then exploit them with unpaid work, wage theft, and crowded, squalid living conditions. While sexual harassment and sexual assault of the attractive young women can be assumed to have been part of their horrific existence, those allegations are not included in the present lawsuit.
Klimmer Model Management would hire the young, often underage, models in order to obtain special work visas for them under the H1-B Visa program. The H1-B program was intended to facilitate the immigration of skilled technologists and engineers who were in short supply in America.
Instead, Klimmer's agency abused the program, and falsified documents to make it appear that the models they were bringing to New York City would be high-earning, full-time employees actively contributing to the national economy. As shown in the present lawsuit against Klimmer, the Jamaican model's H1-B application states that she would be working "full time" and earning $75,000 per year.
Investigators discovered that instead of earning good salaries and living in reasonable conditions, Klimmer's modeling agency failed to pay the models properly, and housed the young girls, up to eight per bedroom, in crowded, downscale apartments in seedy neighborhoods.
The models had no control over when, or if, they would work. When they did work, Klimmer's agency took 80%, or more, of the models' earnings as payment for food, rent, clothing, makeup, travel, management fees, etc. Often, the models never received even their small portion of what they had earned during a fashion show or photo shoot.
Klimmer's daughter, Ivanka, was a successful, highly-paid fashion model when she was a teenager. Klimmer has cited her as an example of how anyone can succeed if they work hard enough.
Ivanka Klimmer's extraordinary experience, as a rich and privileged young woman playing Supermodel at Daddy Klimmer's modeling agency, has been cited by Klimmer's attorneys as proof that the enslaved Jamaican model is "Just some loser trying to cash in".
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crankster
Trad climber
No. Tahoe
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Jun 22, 2016 - 02:17pm PT
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By NICK GASS 06/22/16 01:31 PM EDT
Donald Trump and Sarah Palin will kick off a major conservative convention together on July 1 in Denver, organizers of the Western Conservative Summit announced Wednesday.
The former Alaska governor and 2008 vice-presidential candidate will speak, as will Trump on the first day of the summit, which bills itself as the "largest gathering of conservatives outside of Washington, DC." Organizers told The Denver Post that Palin's speech will be a half hour and Trump is slated to speak for an hour, though the order has not been determined.
Talk about 90 minutes of hell. Or hilarity.
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dirtbag
climber
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Jun 22, 2016 - 02:27pm PT
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Yall are klimmer's bitches. Face it.
No!!!
;-)
We weren't rokjox's or the chief's bitches, either.
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Jun 22, 2016 - 02:28pm PT
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^^^^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^
Record the Denver speeches, and then edit the whole mess down to about five minutes of the craziest, stupidest things ever said in public.
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dirtbag
climber
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Jun 22, 2016 - 03:09pm PT
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True dat, yo.
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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Jun 22, 2016 - 03:18pm PT
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It's the Klimmer show because Klimmer seems like a real nice guy,
and he responds to questions and debates, unlike most right wingers.
We all want to save the poor little fella, slap him in the face and yell "snap out of it dude"
But he is a stubborn little bitch, no logic or reasoning seems to have an effect on him.
And now that he is bottom feeding with these conspiracy low life's, we feel the need to step up our efforts
these lies and liars are pure evil, not something a Christian should be working on promoting
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jun 22, 2016 - 03:31pm PT
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Pride
Envy
Wrath
Gluttony
Lust
Sloth
Greed
Note that neither pedophilia nor pederasty made the 7 ignominious wonders of the world
Interesting too that Trump exhibits all of the big 7 and could possibly be guilty of the two other P's.
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Jun 22, 2016 - 03:40pm PT
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^^^^^^
I'm not so sure Trump is guilty of SLOTH.
He is like the Ritalin Bunny, roaring around from one place and project to the next, subsisting on four hours of sleep each night (or, so he claims).
He certainly seems to have a lot of physical energy and pep when it comes to mocking disabled people.
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dirtbag
climber
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Jun 22, 2016 - 03:50pm PT
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What about "Being a big-time dick"?
Isn't that frowned upon?
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Shetville , North of Los Angeles
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Jun 22, 2016 - 04:13pm PT
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Trump wants to outlaw unions and make every state a right to work state and do away with prevailing wage jobs...He wants to make America great again...?
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Norton
Social climber
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Jun 22, 2016 - 04:14pm PT
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The Social Security Board of Trustees has just released its annual report to Congress. It shows that Social Security has a large and growing surplus, and its future cost is fully affordable. Indeed, a greatly expanded Social Security is fully affordable.
According to the new report, Social Security is 100 percent funded for the next eighteen years. It is 95 percent funded for the next 25 years. It is 87 percent funded for the next fifty years. And 84 percent funded for the next three-quarters of a century.
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dirtbag
climber
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Jun 22, 2016 - 04:20pm PT
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He wants to make America great again...?
It was great for fat cats like him.
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madbolter1
Big Wall climber
Denver, CO
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Jun 22, 2016 - 04:40pm PT
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Yall are klimmer's bitches. Face it.
Noooo
I can't
I won't
I fart in your general direction.
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madbolter1
Big Wall climber
Denver, CO
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Jun 22, 2016 - 04:49pm PT
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BTW, the Bible isn't so clear on a lot of sexual issues. It is interesting indeed that man/man homosexuality is singled out for special condemnation, when, for example, adultery is pretty wide-open spaces and very paternalistic in focus.
Of course, in a woman-as-chattel society, it makes sense that a man lusting after his neighbor's wife (property) would be criminal, while a single woman lusting after her neighbor's husband would not be worthy of mention.
This sort of thing is why I have NO use for the religious right attempting to cram their "take" on Scriptural mores down everybody's throats as LAW.
So, for Klimmer and others like him: This sort of thing is why we enjoy (and should fight to maintain) a STRONG separation between church and state, between "scriptural morals" and laws, and keep the church from EVER being able to wield the power/force of the state again.
However, 85% of American citizens self-identify as Christian, and if the left pushes society too far to the left, you can count on a reaction. And that reaction just might push society back toward a full-blown right-wing fascism. Trump is less scary than Cruz in this regard. But he's scary in his own right.
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madbolter1
Big Wall climber
Denver, CO
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Jun 22, 2016 - 04:50pm PT
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Yer farts smell like elderberries...
Dang it!
I drink mint smoothies for that.
Have to try something else.
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Jun 22, 2016 - 05:08pm PT
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if the left pushes society too far to the left, you can count on a reaction
The left pulls society too far to the left, and the right pulls society too far to the right.
Like two little kids fighting over a piece taffy, the middle gets stretched thinner and thinner and thinner until the middle breaks.
And then, there is no more middle.
There is just a left piece, and a right piece, and they no longer have any connection to each other.
You stoopid American cranktoon leotards each too much candy . . . . . . .
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Norton
Social climber
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Jun 22, 2016 - 05:36pm PT
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Parents who hand their teen aged children over to the art school graduates populating the "fashion" industry are guilty of child abandonment.
as are those who do not realize their daughter is majoring in 13th century French Literature.....
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10b4me
Mountain climber
Retired
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Jun 22, 2016 - 06:08pm PT
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[According to a report from Michael Hicks, Ball State professor, 9 out 10 manufacturing jobs have been lost to mechanization, not trade policies. "No matter how you measure it, 2015 was the record year for manufacturing production in the USA. Right now manufacturing in Indiana and the USA is at record levels. There's no ambiguity on this... To be sure, our trade deficits have cost us manufacturing jobs. The high-end estimates are that today we have 1.5 million fewer manufacturing jobs across the nation because of foreign trade. All the other 6 million or so lost manufacturing jobs are due to mechanization, better technology and better production practices. Today's typical factory workers make twice as much 'stuff' in an hour as they did in 1977. For every manufacturing job lost to trade, nearly 9 have been lost to machines. But trade also creates jobs. We have 7 million more transportation and logistics jobs alone, likely attributable to trade since the 1970s." — Will Huntsberry, NPR
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