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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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Dec 14, 2018 - 06:36am PT
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Great news...Exciting...More examples of the winning we can't get enough of...
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Dec 14, 2018 - 06:37am PT
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Promoting private investment? Sounds like the bankers will make out, and the end result will be no change.
Yeah, I'm too cynical.
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Dec 14, 2018 - 06:42am PT
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I think Ben Carson is kinda tied up sitting for another portrait with the son of man.
maybe they can get president's wunderkind boy-in-law to head this thing up while transitioning to chief of staff and celebrating the joys of in-law cuckoldry.....did he go to Hillsdale?
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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Dec 14, 2018 - 06:48am PT
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I was thinking these would be Russian Mafia investment zones kinda like a payback to Uncle Putin for helping win the 2016 election...?
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Dec 14, 2018 - 06:56am PT
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I thought this was to be a special divestment zone where It's moscow piss fetish operators can make good on threat to punish GM, apple, others with "not being treated well"
divestments may go directly to the I Am Not A Crook But Hand Me Your Wallet SuperPAC
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MarkWestman
Trad climber
Talkeetna, Alaska
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Dec 14, 2018 - 07:04am PT
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I suspect this “investment” will consist of wealthy interests stomping out local small businesses, buying up property and driving up rents (see Seattle) to impossibly high levels, and a resultant further proliferation of homeless encampments.
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EdwardT
Trad climber
Retired
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Dec 14, 2018 - 07:10am PT
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A federal judge on Wednesday ordered both former national security adviser Michael Flynn and the special counsel to turn over additional investigative records describing his January 2017 interview with FBI agents — a conversation in which Flynn later admitted he lied.
In an order filed Wednesday evening, U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan demanded to see the formal FBI records and all other relevant documents detailing Flynn’s interview with the agents in 2017 and agreed to review them under seal.
A hint of what's down the rabbit hole?
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Dec 14, 2018 - 07:15am PT
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wait, so the lying liar lied....? it's almost like there is a big fat lying liar at the center of it all, one that attract other trash and their attendant truth allergies.
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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Dec 14, 2018 - 07:25am PT
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I rarely revel in the misfortune of others...but do I see a candle of flickering hope on a distant horizon? If I live to see the day, unlike the passing of Hitler for which I was not present, I would not mourn the not my president’s passing.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Dec 14, 2018 - 07:36am PT
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The murderous pig in the White House is directly responsible for murder & genocide
The very fact that another pig would add a full page of not worth reading pile of words in an attempt to make any claim, or try to show why anymore support could be shown to the treasonous ,(by his own actions & words)GENITIL GRABBER & Thief Speaks to the damage done to the fabric of democracy
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10b4me
Social climber
Lida Junction
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Dec 14, 2018 - 07:49am PT
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Trump, the most honest president in history
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
if only. . . . . .
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Dec 14, 2018 - 08:08am PT
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Lets say we shine some light on the truth
The worst representatives and any uneducated sob that can support this administration
If you were so gullible that you threw away your vote or worse and support the russian stooge*(*look that word up)
If you won't call a pig by his racist criminal names & that you won't admit to have been con'd - As It has already been born out
in the multiple violations, his guilt of violating the Emoluments Clause, and total disregard for the oath he took
You are simply wrong
A liar and thief is what he is and if that is what you want as a head of state;
-Get out of my country-
go live in any of the soon to be Puttin`itinyaStanz,
you are a disgrace to the United States & deserve what you get, but the rest of us do not, and are going to pay heavily for years from what these azzes are doing.
It seems crystal, to anyone who wants to look, that the treason, now corrupting the entire G O P, stems from the Putin`it'inya funded NRA*
Just speaking:
Truth to stupid
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Dec 14, 2018 - 08:13am PT
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"ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested more than 127,000 aliens with criminal convictions or charges, responsible for
More than 5,000 with sexual assault offenses."
They missed one.
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Dec 14, 2018 - 08:16am PT
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Jody! I saw that bullshist list of Trump's deeds yesterday, when a friend posted it as a joke on FB. It was supposedly authored by his sycopant Kellyann Con-Way, the woman who gave the English language the new phrase, ALTERNATE TRUTH - as short for another Trump-lie.
Most Honest president in history ???? Oh pleaaaaaase. what horseschist.
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Dec 14, 2018 - 08:32am PT
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Jody, I'll give you that there are numerous policies and directions that this administration has taken that have wide support of conservatives- take away all Trump's chaos and sordid personality, and he's been something of a fairly typical Republican as POTUS. The GOP accepts him and drives their agenda behind his wall of chaos, letting him take the brunt of well-deserved criticism, as a foil to their actions.
As a leader, though...as a person...there is a large number of Republicans who would greatly prefer a different man in the WH. It's fair to appreciate some of the actions that have occurred under Trump's administration, but any good Christian (or human) who stands behind this man as a leader only exposes their own deep hypocrisy and delusion.
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Dec 14, 2018 - 09:15am PT
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Escape From the Trump Cult
Millions of Americans are blindly devoted to their Dear Leader. What will it take for them to snap out of it?
By ALEXANDER HURST
https://newrepublic.com/article/152638/escape-trump-cult
On December 20, 1954, some 62 years before Donald Trump would be sworn in as president of the United States, Dorothy Martin and dozens of her followers crowded into her home in Chicago to await the apocalypse. The group believed that Martin, a housewife, had received a message from a planet named Clarion that the world would end in a great flood beginning at midnight, and that they, the faithful, would be rescued by an alien spacecraft.
Unbeknownst to the other “Seekers,” three of their group—Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter—were not there to be saved, but to observe. Anthropologists from elite institutions, they had infiltrated the pseudo-cult to study Festinger’s recently elaborated theory of “cognitive dissonance.” The theory predicted that when people with strongly held beliefs were presented with contrary evidence, rather than change their minds they would seek comfort and “cognitive consonance” by convincing others to support their erroneous views.
Festinger’s prediction was right. When neither the apocalypse nor the UFO arrived, the group began proselytizing about how God had rewarded the Earth with salvation because of their vigil. His subsequent book, When Prophecy Fails, became a standard sociology reference for examining cognitive dissonance, religious prophecy, and cult-like behavior. What the three researchers probably never predicted, though, was that over half a century later Festinger’s theory would be applicable to roughly 25 percent of the population of the United States and one of its two major political parties. Nor could they have foreseen that the country’s salvation might well depend on its ability to deprogram the Trump cult’s acolytes—an effort that would require a level of sympathetic engagement on the part of nonbelievers that they have yet to display.
Personality cults are a hallmark of populist-autocratic politics. The names of the various leaders are practically synonymous with their movements: Le Pen, Farage, Duterte, Orbán, Erdogan, Chávez, Bolsonaro, Putin. Or if we were to dip farther back into history: Castro, Franco, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin. Like religious cult leaders, demagogues understand the importance of setting up an in-group/out-group dynamic as a means of establishing their followers’ identity as members of a besieged collective.
Trump, like the populist authoritarians before and around him, has also understood (or, at least, instinctually grasped) how indispensable his own individual persona is to his ultimate goal of grasping and maintaining power. Amidst his string of business failures, Trump’s singular talent has been that of any con man: the incredible ability to cultivate a public image. Of course, Trump did not build his cult of followers—his in-group—ex nihilo; in many ways, the stage was set for his entrance. America had already split into two political identities by the time he announced his campaign for president in 2015, not just in terms of the information we consume, but down to the brands we prefer and the stores we frequent. And so with particularly American bombast and a reality TV star’s penchant for manipulating the media, Trump tore pages from the us-against-them playbook of the European far right and presented them to a segment of the American public already primed to receive it with religious fervor.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 14, 2018 - 09:24am PT
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Apogee, plus one, buddy.
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John M
climber
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Dec 14, 2018 - 09:24am PT
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4.2 percent growth in the second quarter of 2018.
For the first time in more than a decade, growth is projected to exceed 3 percent over the calendar year.
the problem is that this kind of growth leads to boom and bust cycles. The last time we overheated the economy, and really every time that we overheated the economy, we had either a recession or a depression directly after. Bush jr oversaw the last overheating and gave us what was nearly another depression.
the people who benefit the most from a boom and bust type economy are the wealthiest who can afford to buy up busted companies during the down time and then wait for an up time to sell them or grow them.
If that is your cup of tea, then hoorah for you.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 14, 2018 - 09:29am PT
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Growth per se does not cause ‘cycles’.
Forrest Gump knows what causes cycles.
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John M
climber
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Dec 14, 2018 - 09:34am PT
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Yes.. there is such a thing as sustained growth. Its when growth is out of balance that it become a problem.
the difficulty is in determining what is sustainable.
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