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Craig Fry
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So Cal.
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Jun 16, 2016 - 09:33am PT
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GOP Operative sites the obvious, endorsing Trump will be seen as a Toxic stain on your permanent record
Rick Wilson
✔ @TheRickWilson
10/ Your resumes will always read "Worked for a batshit crazy crypto-fascist who destroyed the GOP"
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Jun 16, 2016 - 09:49am PT
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zBrown, Trump isn't going to reveal his (imaginary) secret ISIS plan to Obama, or to anyone else.
He is a cut-throat businessman, and the number one rule is: play it close to the vest, never let anyone know what you are thinking, hide the secret formula in a vault, and use the hidden knowledge to your advantage.
Even in a court of law, under penalty of perjury, Trump doesn't divulge all the relevant facts. He doles out a few inane details, just enough to keep him out of jail for contempt. He also rides the perjury line very close to the edge. One time, under oath during a lawsuit deposition, he stated that his financial net worth varies according to his mood.
Trump won't divulge his secret ISIS obliteration fantasy any more than he will divulge his IRS tax forms.
Believe me. Let me tell you. I promise.
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apogee
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Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Jun 16, 2016 - 09:57am PT
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I really hope he doesn't get the boot at the GOP convention...in order for this vast mess to achieve its full effect, Trump needs to be the GOP's candidate, all the way to the ballot box.
At which time, he'll get his ass completely and utterly destroyed. It would be in the best interest of the Country, the GOP, and whether he knows it or not, The Donald.
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Jun 16, 2016 - 10:26am PT
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Trump's outsized, lunatic rhetoric resonates with his sub-IQ followers. They listen to the Donald and then they act on the demented blatherings that come out of his big orange mouth. They (erroneously) think that if the World's Number One D#@&%e behaves in a certain way, then they should follow his leadership by example, and behave the same way.
Here's the latest:
Trump famously told an attorney who wanted to pump breast milk, "You're disgusting!"
Yesterday, some idiot used those exact words to harass and distress a woman breastfeeding her baby at a Target store in Connecticut. She filmed the incident, and it has gone viral. Target employees had to come the aid and rescue of the distraught and sobbing woman being verbally attacked by the Trump-clone dullard.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/06/16/new-mom-verbally-attacked-breastfeeding-public-target-connecticut/85972164/
Trump's lack of a social filter is a contagious social disease that is afflicting America.
There is a veritable epidemic of mental illness in America today, and Trump's bizarre outbursts and his self-professed superior leadership skills greatly exacerbate the situation.
Trump grants permission to his disturbed followers to abandon social decorum and self-restraint, and to take action according to their formerly suppressed anti-social urges.
Way to go, Mister Leader.
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10b4me
Mountain climber
Retired
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Jun 16, 2016 - 11:02am PT
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At which time, he'll get his ass completely and utterly destroyed.
yeah, but I don't see trump conceding. He'll complain that the election was rigged by "crooked Hillary".
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Jun 16, 2016 - 11:04am PT
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English MP murdered over Brexit - exactly the sort of violence donald implicitly and explicitly foments and incites.
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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Jun 16, 2016 - 11:20am PT
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yeah, but I don't see trump conceding. He'll complain that the election was rigged by "crooked Hillary".
They could settle it in front of a Republican dominated Supreme Court.
Oh, wait.
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apogee
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Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Jun 16, 2016 - 12:52pm PT
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"exactly the sort of violence donald implicitly and explicitly foments and incites."
The GOP musta genuinely thought they could redirect the rabid whacknuts who are following Trump in the same way they thought they could harness the Tea Party. Hmmm.
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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Jun 16, 2016 - 01:16pm PT
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The Trump supporters say they aren't stupid or racists
Why should we believe them?
They don't act smart or do smart things like smart people
They believe lies and anti-science propaganda
They support stupid things that are proven to not work
They support loud mouth obnoxious mouth breathers that lie and spew hate without question
and when asked why, they are apologetic for his behavior, "he's not that bad"
half of the population has less than 100 point IQ,
most of these low IQ folks support Trump and not Hillary
It all follows a likely conclusion
They are not that smart.
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sandstone conglomerate
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sharon conglomerate central
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Jun 16, 2016 - 01:35pm PT
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The drumpfster who was offended by that woman breast feeding her child needs a chair across the head. Maybe that would jump start his brain. He needs to lay off the Target cuisine as well, based on that gut slumping over the waist of his pants. Haha, November's slaughter of drumpf will be a moment of high hilarity, especially when he's contesting Clinton's landslide victory.
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dirtbag
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Jun 16, 2016 - 02:05pm PT
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"I think the effects will go beyond this election."
I seriously doubt it, at least I doubt there will be any real, deep changes in the GOP as a result of the Trump debacle.
Apogee, I meant with respect to the electorate. Many people will likely never vote for that party again. For example, 20 years after prop 187 republicans are still in the wilderness in California after alienating Hispanics.
It will probably take more than one election for a serious change to happen in the party. The problem is that there aren't enough nativist or traditional conservatives to be able to win elections separately. Of course, the other problem is that they seem thoroughly sick of each other.
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nature
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Boulder, CO
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Jun 16, 2016 - 02:23pm PT
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Craig - if one is not smart enough they have no ability to realize they are not smart nor determine they are a racist. But you already know this...
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dirtbag
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Jun 16, 2016 - 02:25pm PT
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Lee Atwater, 1981
Trump doesn't do abstract.
Are you trying to tell us that (gasp!) republicans have been race baiting the electorate for decades?
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Jun 16, 2016 - 02:33pm PT
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House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have both called out to Trump to tone down the blustery blathering, gather some facts, and speak to the public like a rational, controlled human being.
Trump's campaign spokesman's response:
I wish they would just shut the hell up
Trump's own statement sounds like something heard in Wavy Gravy's 1969 Woodstock hospital tent for people riding out bad LSD trips:
“Our leaders have to get a lot tougher, and be quiet. Just please be quiet,” Trump said. “Don’t talk. Please, be quiet. Just be quiet, to the leaders, because they have to get tougher, they have to get sharper, they have to get smarter, and we have to have our Republicans either stick together or let me just do it by myself.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/paul-ryan-says-americans-lose-000000033.html
Let me just do it by myself - - - Donald Trump, 6-16-16
When he was a child, Trump's father told Donald, "You are a King" (c.f. Trump wikipedia article, etc.).
Apparently, this bit of playful parental praise lodged securely in Trump's brain. Over the years, the statement has worn a deeper and deeper groove into the cortex, and it has now taken on a life of its own.
Trump's plan is for Congress (and the Judiciary) to step aside and grant him Caesar-like absolute powers over the United States.
And, now I'm gonna say it again:
I predict Trump will have an epiphany that his delusional grab for power is absurd and ludicrous, and he will stomp off in a huff, claiming that he is a victim of a world that is conspiring against him.
He will reimburse himself for his personal campaign loans from contributions, and then he will drop out of the presidential race right before the convention.
When he finally dies, I hope his family has his brain examined for CTE. He certainly shows the symptoms, and he has the aggressive athletic history to account for them. A post-mortem autopsy is the only way to properly diagnose CTE. Odd, bizarre behavior and unreasonable outbursts are indicative, but not definitive, in a pre-mortem diagnosis of CTE.
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apogee
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Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Jun 16, 2016 - 02:55pm PT
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"House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have both called out to Trump to tone down the blustery blathering, gather some facts, and speak to the public like a rational, controlled human being."
Uh, yeah....good luck with that.
Tom, your Trump exit strategy theory is sounding a lot more plausible.
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dirtbag
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Jun 16, 2016 - 03:12pm PT
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Jun 16, 2016 - 03:12pm PT
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As I understand it, Trump can reimburse his personal campaign loans from general campaign funds (i.e. other people's contributions) up until the national convention (beginnging? end?). After that, the loans are considered contributions, and he would have to share any leftover campaign money pro rata among all donors, and not just take the lion's share off the top for himself.
But Trump is a serious money addict.
The loan issue is a primary, fundamental motive for Trump to make the go-or-no-go decision right before the convention. If he realizes he has no chance to win, the businessman in him will say, "What's the point? Quit while ahead. Get the money. Go to Mar-a-Lago."
Because Trump remains obstinate and intractable, he's at odds with the rest of the Republican Party. He's expecting a small army of other politicians to modify their positions to accommodate his singular, twisted vision for America. Those other Party members are gaining in solidarity; they are not acquiescing to Trump's bluster.
Trump has placed himself into the following predicament: either continue senseless and destructive conflicts with other members of his political party, or admit that he is wrong.
ZZZZZZT!
Sorry, not gonna happen.
When Trump's fifth-grade son, Baron, explains to him how the U.S. government works, with three branches, a separation of powers, the President is not a king, etc., etc., Trump will rapidly blink 6 times, then rapidly blink 6 more times, then rapidly blink 6 more times, and then bellow at the top of his lungs, "THAT'S FOR LOSERS!" and then stomp off towards the Trump Tower lobby to make the conjugate announcement to the one that he made, in that same place, last year.
Melania will be crying, but she'll get over it.
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dirtbag
climber
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Jun 16, 2016 - 03:14pm PT
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This is your man, pud, pyro, and guyman, mocking a disabled reporter.
Real tough guy, huh?
Yeah, this takes balls...
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Norton
Social climber
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Jun 16, 2016 - 03:18pm PT
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Richard Armitage, the deputy secretary of state under George W. Bush, says he will vote for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump, in one of the most dramatic signs yet that Republican national security elites are rejecting their party’s presumptive nominee.
Armitage, a retired Navy officer who also served as an assistant secretary of defense under Ronald Reagan, is thought by Clinton aides to be the highest-ranking former GOP national security official to openly support Clinton over Trump.
If Donald Trump is the nominee, I would vote for Hillary Clinton,” Armitage told POLITICO in a brief interview. “He doesn't appear to be a Republican, he doesn't appear to want to learn about issues. So, I’m going to vote for Mrs. Clinton.”
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/richard-armitage-endorses-clinton-224431
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Jun 16, 2016 - 03:45pm PT
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I found the Cheeto Jesus thing that GCF mentioned a few posts back.
I am amused by people misusing Twitter to communicate lengthy, elaborate diatribes to the public.
Twitter was supposed to limit people to 140 characters; later pictures could be uploaded to Twitter.
Now, instead of using a more appropriate venue, like an online forum, or a personal blog, or a letter to the editor, people will post a dozen, two dozen, or even more twitter bursts in machine-gun succession.
They're calling the Cheeto Jesus series of twitter postings an EPIC TWEETSTORM.
Wilson has continued to launch fiery (and profanity-laced) tirades against the presumptive GOP nominee and the party poobahs backing him. On Wednesday night, he unleashed an epic tweetstorm, denouncing Republican National Committee staffers for working to get Trump elected. "You own this," he warned. "You're covered in his stench." In the course of his Twitter rant, Wilson coined a new nickname for Trump, "Cheeto Jesus," which fast became a meme.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/rick-wilson-epic-never-trump-tweetstorm
Where is Franz Kafka, now that we need him to make sense of all this?
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