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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Apr 26, 2018 - 05:52pm PT
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That should be national headline news, and a springboard for a conversation about our democracy, the polarization of two dominant parties, and the way it hurts most people who support either of the dominant parties in our country.
Instead, we have reached a level of societal beat-down that a strong majority of us don't expect or strive for more.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Apr 26, 2018 - 06:13pm PT
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The last one was lost becasue progressives adopted the fringe-right's Hillary narrative as their own and then turned their noses up at her in significant enough numbers to lose. And as icing on the cake, their ceaseless droning managed to turn off young people and minorities from voting at all.
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 26, 2018 - 06:19pm PT
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If trump was a democrat, impeachment proceedings would have flown through the house sixteen months ago
Fixed it for you.
Kanye West, who regularly deviates from reality, Tweeted this a few days ago:
Bill Cosby Innocent!!!!!!!!!!!
Kanye also Tweeted that he and Trump have "Dragon Energy", which is an upgrade from Charlie Sheen's Vatican Assassin Warlock Tiger Blood.
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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
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Apr 26, 2018 - 06:28pm PT
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X has a really good point. I still think they f ucked up by screwing Bernie. Hillary was a (obviously) terrible candidate.
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Contractor
Boulder climber
CA
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Apr 26, 2018 - 06:37pm PT
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I believe Kanye is releasing an album in the near future which explains all the outrageousness.
The thing he and Trump have in common is that they share the rare talent of attracting the admiration of legions of human manatees.
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Apr 26, 2018 - 06:49pm PT
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There's a theory that Harvard basically gave Obama honors he didn't deserve on merit (remind anyone of a certain Nobel?), and neither Harvard or Obama wanted Obama's actual grades released because that would expose the affair. Not saying I believe this, just that it's out there.
blabby - You obviously know nothing about how law schools operate. editor of the harvard law review is about 100 times a greater honor than any good grades. If appointing him editor was a scam to elevate an unknown black man / Manchurian candidate then the grades would have been fixed too. Law school grades mean absolutely nothing in the real world.
Meanwhile Trump went through Wharton? Doubtful he completed the class work, his grasp of economics is mind numbing.
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Apr 26, 2018 - 06:49pm PT
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if by dragon energy you mean babydick, then, yeah, sure.
HealyJ, why are the hardest HRC supporters I know, including women of your generation, re-registering as Independents?
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Apr 26, 2018 - 06:57pm PT
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HealyJ, why are the hardest HRC supporters I know, including women of your generation, re-registering as Independents?
Because they want to ensure a gop majority in the house in November and re-elect trump in 2020.
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monolith
climber
state of being
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Apr 26, 2018 - 07:02pm PT
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And there it is. Elect our garbage insider candidate or you'll get their garbage candidate.
And let's ignore 45% of our base and pick Timmy Kaine as VP.
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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
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Apr 26, 2018 - 07:18pm PT
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But, but Bernie couldn't have been elected!
Apparently Hillary couldn't either.
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john hansen
climber
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Apr 26, 2018 - 07:49pm PT
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Fox and friends interview,,, or rant.
How many diet cokes did he have this morning?
This guy is a raving lunatic. Repeating the same 20 talking points ,and stock lines.
I think even the anchors were stunned and embarrassed ...
I dare you to watch the whole thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lu_Hgw60Ns
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 26, 2018 - 07:54pm PT
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This headline is from today, but it could have been from any time in the past 30 years:
Entering Trump's orbit often ends with a crash landing
Trump is definitely getting close to a full-scale neurological meltdown. Voluntarily disclosing incriminating information about oneself is normally something that is done in a lawyer's office, or in a confessional, and not on the telephone with Fox and Friends during a live television broadcast.
As the pressure builds, and Trump's battle with reality becomes more and more untenable, his frontal lobes, which control complex thought and voluntary behavior, will begin to shut down as a defense mechanism. The conflicts within his own mind will be recognized as a threat to survival, and the brain will compensate by shutting down dysfunctioning cerebral regions. Partial loss of cerebellar function, which controls balance and coordination, may result in the president falling over. The brain stem will ultimately seize primary neurological control of the organism, to maintain homeostasis.
EDITED - to amend style, not content.
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Norton
climber
The Wastelands
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Apr 26, 2018 - 08:00pm PT
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*George W Bush was admitted to Yale in 1964 under an affirmative-action policy for children of alumni — what colleges call a “legacy” system. “Legacy” policies — preferential treatment of children of alumni
*Bush never released his high-school grades from Andover — an elite New England prep school that his father had also attended — or his SAT scores. But when The New Yorker got hold of Bush’s Yale records, it discovered that he scored a 566 on the verbal SAT and a 640 on the math SAT — 180 points below the median score for his Yale classmates
Clearly, this proves that white people like George W Bush can only get into good colleges with the aid of Affirmative Action Programs
but George was a Credit to His Race, he did graduate in spite of low racial genetic intelligence.
The original poster causing this "affirmative action" nonsense talk is a racist who still can't handle an only half white man being President, hence his constant Obama Derangement
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Norton
climber
The Wastelands
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Apr 26, 2018 - 08:02pm PT
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there is no logical basis for an assertion that the editor of the Harvard Law review was given any preference whatsoever or an assumption that his grades must be worse than Kerry's, unless you are simply a racist.
suck on that one, blah
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Apr 26, 2018 - 08:05pm PT
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Say what you will about Dubya's brain-genes, he's got a smokin' hot sister, in a Jeffrey Tambor kinda way.
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Apr 26, 2018 - 08:39pm PT
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Blahblah! I can only sigh for your continued attempts to demean Obama on this thread.
Do you have any idea how sick & racist all your carefully-worded protests look to anyone, but another racist.
Schist duede! I live in Idaho & I'm a Republican & your posts still stink of hate for Obama, but also your own racism, however you try to slyly mention that you are just quoting other (racist) sources.
From Blahblah: There's a theory that Harvard basically gave Obama honors he didn't deserve on merit (remind anyone of a certain Nobel?), and neither Harvard or Obama wanted Obama's actual grades released because that would expose the affair. **Not saying I believe this, just that it's out there.
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If Obama really had top notch grades, it does seem likely he would have released them, especially since other presidential candidates have done so. (By the same token, I do think Trump's tax returns would expose all sorts of unsavory things.)
As Jon Beck mentions:
blabby - You obviously know nothing about how law schools operate. editor of the harvard law review is about 100 times a greater honor than any good grades. If appointing him editor was a scam to elevate an unknown black man / Manchurian candidate then the grades would have been fixed too. Law school grades mean absolutely nothing in the real world.
Meanwhile Trump went through Wharton? Doubtful he completed the class work, his grasp of economics is mind numbing.
And Blahblah whines about Obama some more:
The theory is Harvard gave Obama the honors without regard to his grades.
Harvard was heavily invested in politicizing having the first black (half black really, but who's counting) editor of their law review. That's clear from contemporaneous records.
About the only real "facts" we have is that Obama refused to release his transcripts, notwithstanding that they were the subject of legitimate public interest and there was clear recent precedent to release college transcripts for presidential candidates.
I don't know how they do it in your country, but I can tell you that in the US, people who graduate from law schools generally provide transcripts to potential employers.
Isn't a presidential candidate looking for a job from the American people?
**I would say it's almost certain that Obama's actual grades were worse than what he calculated people would assume they were. That's why he didn't release them.
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Winemaker
Sport climber
Yakima, WA
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Apr 26, 2018 - 10:08pm PT
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About the only real "facts" we have is that Obama refused to release his transcripts, notwithstanding that they were the subject of legitimate public interest Where is Trump's transcript? Turn about's fair play.......
And where are Trump's taxes? They would seem to be 'the subject of legitimate public interest'. Even more than grades.
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 26, 2018 - 11:34pm PT
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I have a vewy gweat fweind in Wosemite named Biggus Tickus. He is a vewy gweat quack quimer.
How did everyone else miss that QUACK = CRACK? I certainly did, until just now.
The great thing about a discussion / comedy roundtable is that ideas get thrown around, and everybody gets the opportunity to feed off of something that's new to them.
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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Apr 27, 2018 - 12:06am PT
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About the only real "facts" we have is that Obama refused to release his transcripts, notwithstanding that they were the subject of legitimate public interest
Trump can’t even get right what school he went to, much less claim grades from it.
He keeps saying he graduated from Wharton business school when he did not.
That’s a grad school - probably the best business school in the World.
His degree is a BA in economics, not business, from the much less prestigious Wharton school of the university of Pennsylvania after two years at Fordham.
He also claimed to graduate first in his class, which he also did not. He didn’t even make the deans list, which is published each year by the university newspaper.
See for yourself.
https://dparchives.library.upenn.edu/cgi-bin/pennsylvania?a=d&d=tdp19681025-01.2.27
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nah000
climber
now/here
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Apr 27, 2018 - 12:11am PT
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ok. so, i willingly took the hansen challenge. and watched the whole fox and friends “interview”... or more correctly “deranged old man rant”.
i went in expecting to be bored by the same ole, same ole...
but, damn.
that shIt was next level.
when one can watch, in explicit and horrifyingly slow motion, the last bit of remaining soul, that had been inside of the made up doofusi behind the camera, slowly and excruciatingly leave their bodies...
well, you have to know this whole show is headed to an even stranger collective place than it has already been.
that’s because in the end this has never been, nor is it currently, about trump.
it’s about the collision course the u.s. has been on, for decades now, with the collective lies it tells itself and which grow unsustainable when sedentary manifest destiny runs out of the easily exploitable and instead faces off, as every empire before it has inevitably faced off, with a/the final frontier of futilely attempting to domesticate the nomadic [and to be clear that doesn’t refer to the arabic]..
and so instead of facing that truth, here we are once again proving the depth of one of the many truths expressed by mencken:
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
[and anybody who thinks the immediately preceding statement applies to republicans more than democrats - or democrats more than republicans for that matter - has the long term attention span of a gnat.]
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