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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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Nov 13, 2018 - 09:30am PT
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4 is when Tweet Boi is going to tense up and drop another depth charge salvo down the White House toilet...
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dirtbag
climber
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Nov 13, 2018 - 09:39am PT
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Roger stone and conspiracy nutter Jerome Corsi have said they expect to be indicted.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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Nov 13, 2018 - 09:50am PT
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Is there anyone associated with Trump that hasn't perjured themselves...? Distressing that the Republican Congress tried to sweep all this under the carpet...
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Nov 13, 2018 - 09:52am PT
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There's nothing like Black Panthers posing with guns to turn conservatives into gun control advocates, is there?
The Mulford Act was a 1967 California bill that repealed a law allowing public carrying of loaded firearms. Named after Republican assemblyman Don Mulford, the bill was crafted in response to members of the Black Panther Party who were conducting armed patrols of Oakland neighborhoods while they were conducting what would later be termed copwatching. They garnered national attention after the Black Panthers marched bearing arms upon the California State Capitol to protest the bill.
AB-1591 was authored by Don Mulford (R) from Oakland, John T. Knox (D) from Richmond, Walter J. Karabian (D) from Monterey Park, Alan Sieroty (D) from Los Angeles, and William M. Ketchum (R) from Bakersfield, it passed both Assembly (controlled by Democrats 42:38) and Senate (split 20:20) and was signed by Governor Ronald Reagan on July 28. The law banned the carrying of loaded weapons in public.
Both Republicans and Democrats in California supported increased gun control. Governor Ronald Reagan, who was coincidentally present on the capitol lawn when the protesters arrived, later commented that he saw "no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons" and that guns were a "ridiculous way to solve problems that have to be solved among people of good will." In a later press conference, Reagan added that the Mulford Act "would work no hardship on the honest citizen."
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WBraun
climber
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Nov 13, 2018 - 09:56am PT
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When there's dirt under the carpet they get the maid to vacuum there.
Haven't learned anything rotbrain when you went to skoowhol .... :-)
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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Nov 13, 2018 - 10:00am PT
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MIT didn't have carpet sweeping until after i graduated ...
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John Duffield
Mountain climber
New York
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Nov 13, 2018 - 10:12am PT
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All of it - indictments, Acosta, umbrellagate is theatre to distract people. Trumps legacy will be a conservative court for the next 40 or so years. McConnell held the Senate open late to get a lot of Judges confirmed I checked the schedule and the Senate Judiciary met today. I believe he has gotten a record number for two years. With more coming.
But CNN likes to sit in their studio with their panel and bash Trump all day. Getting out there and actually finding things out is hard work.
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Nov 13, 2018 - 10:24am PT
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"All of it - indictments, Acosta, umbrellagate is theatre to distract people."
I kinda doubt that Trump and his immediate advisors are specifically doing these things as an intended distraction strategy...I think he's just being himself, which results in this constant stream of shitshow.
The GOP as a whole however, knows a good distraction opportunity when they see one, esp. in their own camp. And they are using it for all it's worth to take action on things that will have generation-long impacts on America.
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John Duffield
Mountain climber
New York
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Nov 13, 2018 - 11:12am PT
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It's actually strange to me as an ny-er. I would have thought Trumps legacy would be the yugest gold plated aircraft carrier the world had ever seen or something similar. Not something as subtle as changing the nature of the court. That's McConnells genius. He'll be shepherding Justices through while the "news" outlets are freaking out about Trumps tweet du jour. Years from now, I think McConnell will be the template for upcoming Majority Leaders.
But as above posters have mentioned, the GOP goes with what they got. CNN is loaded with 10/10 narcissists, the perfect foil to the 11/10 Trump. Made for each other.
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Nov 13, 2018 - 11:18am PT
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even the hair on It's head is a distraction from what the It's dickhead self is doing. some sort of protective distraction, an anti-camouflage camouflage. but would you look at that headpelt?
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dhayan
climber
culver city, ca
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Nov 13, 2018 - 11:24am PT
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It’s better to not live or die for ideas.
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dirtbag
climber
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Nov 13, 2018 - 12:30pm PT
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I wish they were all distractions, but the problem is that what a president says, does, and how he comports himself is extremely important. Bashing CNN and a free press relentlessly, who in turn receive pipe bombs from emboldened nutcases: that stuff matters! Autocrats everywhere also take note. Calling white supremacists fine people: that matters too. Baselessly crying “fraud” about free elections in an attempt to disrupt and delegitimize them: matters. (Btw, think of the scary sh#t up he would stir up if loses in two years.)
The problem is that for the first time in history, we have to deal with a president who not only has immensely flawed policies, but who is also an immensely flawed person. We have to multitask our concern and outrage, but that’s probably asking too much from people.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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Nov 13, 2018 - 12:48pm PT
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These aren't distracions...This is who Trump really is... He's not a president or leader but a crime boss for the Trump family syndicate using the American government to bolster his bank accounts...Way to go Republican voters...Proud of your orange haired commy felon..?
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DanaB
climber
CO
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Nov 13, 2018 - 12:56pm PT
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I would have thought Trumps legacy would be the yugest gold plated aircraft carrier the world had ever seen
His legacy will the wall. And every 25 feet or so, there will be a plaque on it. With his portrait.
You think he hasn't imagined that?
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bobinc
Trad climber
Portland, Or
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Nov 13, 2018 - 01:14pm PT
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From y'day's electoral-vote.com; this will certainly be one of Trump's main 'successes' he will run on in 2020 (his 8 miles of 'wall'):
'Details are very scarce, but the AP and others are reporting that Texas firm SLSCo has been awarded a $145 million contract to build six miles of wall along the Mexican border. That will go along with 2 extra miles of fencing that has already been built in California, which means that the total for the Trump presidency will eventually reach 8 miles.
One point that is not clear is where the $145 million came from, and another that is not clear is where the authority to spend the money in that way came from. It is probable that the funds are being reallocated from other parts of the Department of Homeland Security budget. And it is likely that the authority is a liberal interpretation of already-existing Congressional approval for repairing and upgrading the current wall. The two miles in California was, in fact, regarded as a repair to the existing structure, and SLSCo will be fixing and heightening existing construction while adding the extra six miles.'
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Nov 13, 2018 - 01:14pm PT
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They broke ground on the first 6 miles of wall. Budgetted at 24 million. What are the odds of no addons?
Edit 145 mill, I stand corrected
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bobinc
Trad climber
Portland, Or
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Nov 13, 2018 - 01:15pm PT
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hmm- that must be $24 million per MILE
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10b4me
Social climber
Lida Junction
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Nov 13, 2018 - 01:24pm PT
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They broke ground on the first 6 miles of wall. Budgetted at 24 million. What are the odds of no addons?
I thought the total cost was $25 billion. They must be getting the money from elsewhere, as the new democratic house won't appropriate funds for it.
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bobinc
Trad climber
Portland, Or
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Nov 13, 2018 - 01:30pm PT
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The billions number is a (low) rough estimate for the physical structure; it doesn't include any allocation for buying any of the land...
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August West
Trad climber
Where the wind blows strange
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Nov 13, 2018 - 01:47pm PT
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I think President Trumps does a lot of rope-a-dope WWW drama crap as a distraction, tweets included. Yes very unPresidential and I think a lot of it is quite purposeful in that regard.
Some of it qualifies as that. But ignoring it isn’t always a great idea either.
Trump is trying to manipulate the vote count in Florida. If either of the Rs lose, he is going to try and convince his base that there was fraud.
This is how democracy dies of a thousand cuts.
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