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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Topic Author's Reply - May 30, 2018 - 02:12pm PT
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America is about to enter the querencia phase of its existence.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/30/business/volcker-rule-banks-federal-reserve.html
The 2008 financial crisis was such a great success in shifting wealth upward, the Trump administration is firing up the big banks, so that they can do it all over again.
The banking regulations put in place to prevent another 2008 event are being rolled back. This necessarily indicates that the banks will, again, behave as corporate psychopaths. They will callously fixate on enriching executives and shareholders, oblivious to any injury to society.
Deregulation is equivalent to lawlessness, so it is not surprising that a president who has no regard for the law would want to deregulate banks, to the peril of the nation.
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People aren't falling for the trickle-down economic scam, any more than they are falling for the trumped-up Spygate scam.
The trickle-down scam is being forced upon the nation. The trickle-down rhetoric is repeated as part of a demented ritual, wherein those in power falsely and deceptively assure the people that they will benefit from pro-corporation policies.
The people aren't falling for the scam. They are powerless to stop it.
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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May 30, 2018 - 02:22pm PT
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It is amazing that people are still falling for the “trickle down” economics scam.
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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May 30, 2018 - 02:50pm PT
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NY Times Columnist Thomas Friedman calls Code Red - DO NOT VOTE FOR REPUBLICANS
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/5/30/1768182/-NY-Times-Columnist-Thomas-Friedman-calls-Code-Red-DO-NOT-VOTE-FOR-REPUBLICANS
I don’t write this easily. On many non-social, non-environmental issues, I’m not a card-carrying Democrat. I favor free trade, fiscal discipline, pro-business regulations, a democracy-expanding foreign policy, and I have an aversion to identity politics.
...what we’ve learned since 2016 is that the worst Democrat on the ballot for the House or Senate is preferable to the best Republican, because the best Republicans have consistently refused to take a moral stand against Trump’s undermining of our law enforcement and intelligence agencies, the State Department, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Civil Service, the basic norms of our public life and the integrity of our elections.
[The Democrats] job is to get hold of at least one lever of power — the House or the Senate — in order to oust the most corrupt Republican lawmakers who lead key committees, to properly oversee the most reckless cabinet secretaries, like Scott Pruitt, and to protect the F.B.I., the Justice Department and Robert Mueller from Trump’s intimidation.
Again, this is Code Red: American democracy is truly threatened today — by the man sitting in the Oval Office and the lawmakers giving him a free pass.
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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May 30, 2018 - 03:09pm PT
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Tom,
I don’t agree. After tRump and the GOP threw the 99% under the bus with his tax cuts, his supporters still think he is a genius. They are all in.
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dirtbag
climber
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May 30, 2018 - 03:24pm PT
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Friedman is 100% right.
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Topic Author's Reply - May 30, 2018 - 03:31pm PT
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StahlBro,
Do Trump's supporters think he's a genius, or are they just blindly supporting him because he's not Hillary?
They run from a snake, and fall off a cliff.
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Happiegrrrl2
Trad climber
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May 30, 2018 - 04:34pm PT
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DT actually Tweeted that HE never got a phone call from ABC executives with an apology when someone said TERRIBLE things about HIM on their broadcast.
It's almost asking too much to believe he really is THAT obtuse.
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Norton
climber
The Wastelands
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May 30, 2018 - 05:38pm PT
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America has put a fourth grader in the White House
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Norton
climber
The Wastelands
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May 30, 2018 - 05:40pm PT
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WBraun
climber
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May 30, 2018 - 06:01pm PT
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I can't wait for more st00pid Trump tweets so the politards will flip out again and go insane ......heh heh heh
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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May 30, 2018 - 06:13pm PT
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Tom,
I agree with that. Also, I think there is embarrassment factor. It is hard to admit that you made such bad mistake.
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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May 30, 2018 - 10:01pm PT
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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May 30, 2018 - 10:10pm PT
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New book coming out about the Mueller investigation, it is called the Russian Hoax, you can find it in the Fiction, Fantasy section of your book store. Written by a Fox News fluffer, a real class act
this is him in action
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Topic Author's Reply - May 30, 2018 - 10:50pm PT
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Trump pulled a "Spygate" fantasy out of thin air. There is no evidence that his trumped-up lies have any basis in reality. Republicans, such as Trey Gowdy, have joined Democrats in assuring the public that there is no basis, in fact, regarding Trump's false statements about an FBI spy infiltrating his 2016 election campaign.
https://newrepublic.com/minutes/148595/trey-gowdy-rejects-trumps-spygate-theory
http://time.com/5295321/trey-gowdy-fbi-spy-campaign/
The FBI pulled a shredder machine containing documents out of Michael Cohen's office. There is no doubt that the contents of the shredder exist, and that the FBI is now working to restore the damaged documents. "Shreddergate" is based on facts, physical evidence, and what will soon be coherent evidence used by prosecutors in a court of law to obtain convictions.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/prosecutors-michael-cohen-case-piecing-together-shredded-documents-raid-n878646
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal-prosecutors-poised-to-get-more-than-1-million-files-seized-from-michael-cohens-phones/2018/05/29/ff407104-63b1-11e8-99d2-0d678ec08c2f_story.html?noredirect=on
Oh, ye, of little faith, it is cognition that has led you astray.
-Trumpinthians 6:96
It is faith, and a lack of cognition, that has brought you before this court of law.
 Judgements 1:2:3
For a Trump statement, it means an excuse conjoined with a false accusation.
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Melania hasn't been heard from, or seen in public, for three weeks . . .
. . . it took that long for Team Trump to hack into her Twitter account, and post a fake Tweet.
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Topic Author's Reply - May 30, 2018 - 11:21pm PT
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
A late night tryst might comprise a cheeseburger, Trump, Hannity (on the phone), and Rosy.
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Happiegrrrl2
Trad climber
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May 31, 2018 - 05:57am PT
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If you want a good source of info, you should subscribe to Sirius Radio
and then listen to channel 127, Progressive Radio
John Schindler is live on that right about now, according to his Twitter.
Alert: He's not a Lefty, Libtard or Socialist. He's actually Republican.
And in very staunch opposition to the Trump Trainwreck. You see, it's not just a Libtard thing; it's an Ability to Think Critically. I feel bad for people who want to trust their party(most of us do) and then have something like what is happening right now. It's defies belief, really, and considering that when Obama was in the WH, the baloney about birthplace was "news," I CAN understand how this whole Trump-Russia thing sounds just preposterous.
It sounds preposterous, because it is preposterous. Unfortunately, it's real.
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EdwardT
Trad climber
Retired
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May 31, 2018 - 06:15am PT
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John Schindler is live on that right about now, according to his Twitter.
Alert: He's not a Lefty, Libtard or Socialist. He's actually Republican.
About your guy, John Schindler:
http://blackbag.gawker.com/the-crazy-emails-that-took-down-nsa-spook-john-schindle-1610203101
Remember John Schindler, the conservative talking head, retired NSA spook, and Naval War College professor who briefly went incognito after screenshots of (what appear to be) his penis leaked onto the Internet? While he has since reappeared on Twitter—where he first drew attention for defending domestic spying and criticizing Edward Snowden—he has refused to comment on the mysterious emails, sent to the Naval War College by an unnamed blogger, that prompted the school to place him on leave, and his penis under official investigation.
The emails sent to NWC, which Gawker obtained under a Freedom of Information Act request, refer to Schindler’s habit of calling himself a “spy”; detail his correspondence with an unnamed woman (who apparently received his penis photo); and, in a lengthy missive, accuse Schindler of staging “cyber warfare” against his online enemies, using “thuggish tactics” to silence NSA critics, and violating various federal laws.
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Happiegrrrl2
Trad climber
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May 31, 2018 - 06:32am PT
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EdwardT - Yes, the penis picture happened. He has written about it on occasion in his blog and twitter feed. It's not some dark secret your source worked to uncover.
Yes, he sometimes writes things that I find distasteful. He sometimes posts to detracting comments, what I consider bullying things. He would probably fit in here at Supertopo, if he climbed.
Maybe that's the Republican in him!(Sorry, best I can do on a joke right now).
I don't like that he pulls the low-level "communications" of bullying. I don't like it when people here do it either.
But his credentials are real, and he's been shown to be accurate.
But feel free to dismiss him whole cloth, if those things are too much to stomach.
Of course....that begs the question as to why the "Schindler Flaws" disqualify him as a source of reference while Donald Trump is acceptable as a leader of the country. Care to explain such a contradiction?
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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May 31, 2018 - 06:59am PT
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Of course....that begs the question as to why the "Schindler Flaws" disqualify him as a source of reference while Donald Trump is acceptable as a leader of the country. Care to explain such a contradiction?
Don't hold your breath waiting for a reply!
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EdwardT
Trad climber
Retired
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May 31, 2018 - 07:13am PT
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Of course....that begs the question as to why the "Schindler Flaws" disqualify him as a source of reference while Donald Trump is acceptable as a leader of the country. Care to explain such a contradiction?
Ask someone who thinks Trump is an acceptable leader.
And for you, Gary:
“Twentieth century communism, fascism, and movement that tried to create a new man ends up committing atrocities, ends up committing mass murder. If there are any historians here, but as far as I understand it most left wing revolutions have ended in mass murder because you have this utopia, people don’t go along because you got human nature incorrectly, they don’t go along, but you know you’re right because you have reason on your side, so you use force, and you use more force, and you use more force, and you end up like Cuba, or North Korea, or the other communist revolutions. It doesn’t work.”
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