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healyje

Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
Aug 15, 2017 - 07:03am PT
Hopefully Bannon and Miller with Gorka as collateral damage.
zBrown

Ice climber
Aug 15, 2017 - 08:20am PT
I just read that Trump has 36 million twitter followers. Now some have to be newspeople and/or opponents, but that's an awful lot of dumbing down right there.

monolith

climber
state of being
Aug 15, 2017 - 08:23am PT
Quite a few of them are bots. Both virtual and human.

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guyman

Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
Aug 15, 2017 - 08:44am PT
I remain puzzled by the celebration of the Confederacy---made up of traitors to the United States. Putting up statutes to their leaders?


Ken..... you are puzzled? Have you no sense of history? George Washington was a traitor to his nation- England. You sound about as understanding as the Taliban.

History is just that... HISTORY: what once was.

So just what should President Trump do to satisfy you folks?


And To Vlad.... I hate this sh#t too. (TM and the rest of the Sierra is looking really fine right now, water and snow everywhere and the Owens Valley is starting to look green again.)

Vlad Pricker

Mountain climber
The cliffs of insanitty
Aug 15, 2017 - 09:08am PT
So just what should President Trump do to satisfy you folks?

Resign. That would be a good start. And just shut his mouth and quit, especially his tweets.
zBrown

Ice climber
Aug 15, 2017 - 09:26am PT
How many BOTZ?

Because Donald Trump is the president of the United States and the most famous person on the planet, one wouldn't think he would need to employ a bot to boost his Twitter following. It appears, however, he might have done just that. As screenwriter John Niven pointed out Tuesday morning, Trump's Twitter account saw an unusual spike in followers over the weekend, many of which appear to have been created artificially.

Trump currently has 31 million followers and, sure enough, if you browse through them you will find an unusual number of tweet-less, picture-less accounts that joined the service in May 2017. If you're still curious, you can enter Trump's handle, @realDonaldTrump, into Twitter Audit, a service that assesses the authenticity of one's followers, and find that only 51 percent of Trump's are real.
skcreidc

Social climber
SD, CA
Aug 15, 2017 - 09:29am PT
^^^^^^What? 16 million followers is not good enough for him? Can you make money employing BOT's? Why TF would you want 14 million BOT's.
healyje

Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
Aug 15, 2017 - 09:29am PT
So just what should President Trump do to satisfy you folks?

Well, offhand a ritual seppuku of atonement before he totally destroys everything good America once stood for comes to mind.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Aug 15, 2017 - 09:29am PT
A friendly headsup:

Ronaldo is the most famous person on the planet (based on jersey sales).
c wilmot

climber
Aug 15, 2017 - 09:38am PT
And increasingly, hysterical people like me do not like confederate traitors etched into our public stones. We feel acting like the taliban and destroying these symbols actually serves to help perpetrate racial divides over generations.
guyman

Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
Aug 15, 2017 - 09:38am PT
Resign. That would be a good start. And just shut his mouth and quit, especially his tweets.

Not going to happen, my friend..... try a different answer.

And to those who are all bent out of shape about the KKK having a rally...or a march.... It is their right to do so. That right has been upheld over and over by the Supreme Court. Remember Skokie, Il. ?????

We all have rights to free speech... you must take the good with the bad.


EDIT to add:

DMT.... respectfully disagree, History is important, ever been to Paris France? Lots of monuments to ass hole murderers... good conversation starters for educated people who are not afraid to look at history and its naked truth.




dirtbag

climber
Aug 15, 2017 - 09:47am PT
And increasingly, hysterical people like me do not like confederate traitors etched into our public stones. We feel acting like the taliban and destroying these symbols actually serves to help perpetrate racial divides over generations.


That's not what he said. Lame.

Jorroh

climber
Aug 15, 2017 - 09:52am PT
Ken M said..."There is a narrative that runs that the Nazis arose because it was an inherent trait of the germanic peoples."

I think that is a very minority viewpoint. The basic post-war viewpoint (eg. Shirer) was that the German people were led by the nose towards WW2/Fascism/Holocaust by the Nazi leaders through a combination of propoganda, intimidation, coercion etc.

In the 80's a more nuanced ( and much more credible) narrative arose that the German leaders were a product of that particular time and place, and that their viewpoints and beliefs were shared by quite a significant portion (around 30% depending on what we are talking about in particular) of the German population. This being the culmination of the prior century of history but not really an "inherent trait".
guyman

Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
Aug 15, 2017 - 10:16am PT
Good answer, dude. I just see inanimate objects-- from our history- as non- threatening to today's people.

You do have a point about the Flag over a state house... totally wrong.

It's to bad we no longer teach history in our schools.... the youngsters I know do not know jack sh#t about anything that went down 50 years ago yet alone 150 years ago.



And we the people can participate in and even lead that change. And we are.

Yes, we are, leading the charge-- but in what direction?
healyje

Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
Aug 15, 2017 - 10:18am PT
...as non- threatening to today's people.

Well, that's about as [deliberately] naive as can be.
Norton

Social climber
Aug 15, 2017 - 10:39am PT
So just what should President Trump do to satisfy you folks?

guyman, since you still after seven months of evidence do not seem to get it yet...

I suppose in your mind right now Trump has been doing just fine as President, right?
and certainly tens of millions more who like you voted for him feel the same say...

right now you are in a group of people still supporting Trump who are around 35% of the population
the other 65% of Americans are horrified, embarrassed, and insulted with him as President

America has elected a Reality TV Star with zero "qualifications" to be President.
He clearly still after 8 months does not understand how the Federal government works.
You voted for a racist, a man who was sued not once but twice by the Federal government for refusing to rent his properties to black Americans. You had not problem also voting for a liar, a liar of biblical proportions, who lies all day every day. You voted for a man that mental health experts have diagnosed as severely narcissistic, delusional, grandiose. You voted to put in the White House a man who has insulted leaders of world governments and weakened our alliances with the view of the United States now at the lowest level in decades

You voted for a man who stands for nothing but ensuring that other people see how rich he is, who gold plates his toilets, a man who declared business bankruptcy four times, and received four deferments from serving during the Vietnam war, including for a foot ouchy.
You voted for a man who wants to not only make abortion illegal again but also to criminalize both women and their doctors, who wants to take healthcare away from 25 million Americans. Yes guyman, he won with the votes of the "uneducated", lots of them.
Ken M

Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
Aug 15, 2017 - 10:44am PT
Tech company fights federal order for IP addresses of visitors to anti-Trump site

The Justice Department request covers more than 1.3 million IP addresses and includes emails between the site’s organizers and people interested in attending Inauguration Day protests, deleted messages and files, as well as subscriber information and unpublished photos and blog posts stored in the site’s database.
Ken M

Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
Aug 15, 2017 - 10:45am PT
Guyman: Ken..... you are puzzled? Have you no sense of history? George Washington was a traitor to his nation- England. You sound about as understanding as the Taliban.

How many statues of Washington were erected in England? How many stand today?
guyman

Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
Aug 15, 2017 - 10:47am PT
Norton.... I think you are full of IT.

You still take as fact the "polls" ....


Just you wait for the next election, we will see.


EDIT:
How many statues of Washington were erected in England? How many stand today?

None I reckon, and what the heck does that have to do with anything? Respectfully.

Ken M

Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
Aug 15, 2017 - 10:47am PT
Trump retweets — then deletes — image of train running over CNN reporter

The president was in the midst of a tweetstorm when he sent the image, posted by a supporter who added “Nothing can stop the #TrumpTrain!!" He also appeared to accidentally retweet another post from a man calling him a "fascist."

And who says he wouldn't welcome violence? Who says that he wouldn't order violence if it was within his power?
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