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FIH, my opinion on Hill’s fitness for POTUS has nothing to do with “’til death do us part” or even whether Bill and Hill had an agreement to have an open marriage from day one. I don’t even care about that. It’s based upon all the public humiliation over decades that she CHOSE to repeatedly suffer at the hands of Bill and the adverse effect it had on her in every way, shape and form. [/quote]

Well now. You’ve supported Trump because, in your words above, you can’t support someone who let themselves be humiliated repeatedly. again, your words, I don’t agree with the humiliated label.

If that is so, then how on earth can you support someone who does the humiliating? See SK’s quote below.

Trump admits he is hitting on a woman he knows to be married, while his own wife his pregnant! And fingering women, while is wife is pregnant, because he knows he can get away with it! Come on BG, you either have to quit supporting Trump right now or have yourself labeled as the biggest hypocrite ever.

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The fact that he still has support from anyone is astounding. This happened just a few months after he married wife #3. His wife was pregnant.
“I’ve gotta use some tic tacs, just in case I start kissing her,” Trump says.“You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait.”
“And when you’re a star they let you do it,” Trump says. “You can do anything.”
“Whatever you want,” says another voice, apparently Bush’s.
“Grab them by the pussy,” Trump says. “You can do anything”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-recorded-having-extremely-lewd-conversation-about-women-in-2005/2016/10/07/3b9ce776-8cb4-11e6-bf8a-3d26847eeed4_story.html?postshare=2491475870527101&tid=ss_tw

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Wow….she looks so…Russian…with implants.

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And before anyone suggests that it’s fake, it didn’t happen, it was taken out of context. It wasn’t. It’s on tape. He’s already apologized for it. Said it was just “locker room talk”. I have three brothers. I can’t count the thousands of hours I spent in locker rooms. I never heard anyone talk like that…[/quote]

Well, I have heard locker room talk like that…back in high school. Not since then. And now that I think about it, Trump does act a lot like a high schooler, doesn’t he?

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[quote=Hobie][quote=flu]Speaking of racist jokes… You guys remember the prank that happened in the Bay Area news channel KTVU Channel 2, when the Asiana flight crashed?

If you missed it….

Ok, I have to admit, I laughed….[/quote]

I would so like it if more people pranked our media. Not so much as to show their bias, but to show the lack of smarts to vet stories and rush to be the first to scoop the rest.[/quote]

People prank the media all the time, and I love it!

Look at 8:54 on this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlaTWl4Zkuc

(1:30 on that video is good too)

And then there is the new trend to say this whenever there is a live mic (0:00 in vids, nsfw):

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I love the place. Used to eat at the RB location regularly. Haven’t been for awhile though. Not through lack of desire, just a change in my location and situation. Now I eat at my desk most days.

Next time I’m near one I think I’ll stop in. Would hate to see them disappear completely. It’s a great place.

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Back on topic, I still have yet to see a Clinton or Trump bumper sticker or yard sign.

And we’re a month out now!

I think that speaks volumes.

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Look everyone, jobs/immigration really isn’t a dire situation. If people weren’t able to find work, housing costs wouldn’t be rising and people would be fleeing high cost areas. For well over 100 years now, the rules have been the same: adapt or perish.

Think about the industrial revolution where the types of jobs available and where they were at changed drastically. It caused severe turmoil for decades. I can point to era after era where similar things have occurred.

If I follow the trajectory of my childhood friends, I see that those who got a college degree and could handle the corporate world live in major cities and are able to afford to buy a house and live comfortably. Those who got a college degree but couldn’t take the daily 9 to 5 became self-employed or free-lancers…they live in the burbs or even a little farther out where they could afford to buy a house and commute in when they have to. Those that didn’t get a degree live in low-cost rural areas, typically close to job centers that support those low-cost areas such as factories and agriculture, and bought homes in these low-cost areas. I bet this framework continues, with or without immigration. And with or without technology changing the workplace.

They key is the same as it has always been. Adapt or perish.

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[quote=zk][quote=FlyerInHi]ZK, I think people who even consider voting for Trump are hopeless.
We are listing the reasons not to vote for Trump here for fun, but I don’t think those people can be educated. I believe nativist xenophobia is mainly what is driving the support for Trump, the other stuff doesn’t matter.

Don’t you think politics this year will cause a rift between friends and family? Thankfully I don’t have family voting for Trump. But I have totally lost respect for some friends. I don’t care to have friends who are Trump supporters. They say they want to tell it like it is, but they are so thin-skinned and get upset so easily.. So stupid… don’t even understand the basic of tax writeoffs giving the filer a savings of deduction times the tax rate.[/quote]

I must admit I’m struggling not to lose respect for some friends who are trump voters. I knew they were voting for Bush, and I thought, well, we’ll agree to disagree. I’ve thought Bush was an idiot since before 2000, but I could, with some effort, see things from their perspective. But it’s very hard for me to see trump from their perspective and not think that it’s a willfully ignorant perspective.

Sure, they’ve been manipulated for decades by fox et al. But even despite that, surely they can see that trump is a disaster waiting to happen. Right? How could they not see that?

Maybe they can see now that they’ve been bamboozled all these years. Maybe because trump is sooo bad, but the right wing noise machine is still painting him as good, maybe the contrast between reality and right-wing “news” is finally so massive that even they at last can see it. But they don’t want to admit it to themselves, so now they’re just sliding down the rapids toward disaster without even putting up a fight. “We’re not giving up now!” I don’t know. Just a theory. I really don’t understand it.
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I guess I gave up on a large part of the public being able to do logical reasoning in an acceptable manner when I realized over half the population believed there is an all-knowing being in the sky who controls everything. If they’ll believe that, they’ll believe anything. Believing what Trump says is small potatoes compared to the Bible.

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I always figured the polls would get closer.

It looks like it has happened for several reasons:
– people typically grumble then end up falling in line with their traditional party of preference
– people have had time to get used to the idea of Trump carrying the GOP torch
– press needs to portray the elections as close so folks will get out and vote instead of thinking it doesn’t matter anyway
– Johnson siphoning off Bernie supporters

It will be interesting to see how Trump changes his stance in Debate 2.0.

He’s walking a fine line. If he attacks Hillary too much, he’ll come off as being disrespectful of women yet again. Maybe that’s why he’s turned his attack to Bill today…but I’m not convinced that will work either as women may look at it as holding things her husband did against her. Kind of a no-win situation for Trump I would think. But what do I know.

He missed a golden opportunity to negate the racist, anti-woman image he has…all he needed to do was nominate a woman or minority as VP. I’ll never understand why he didn’t do that. It would have taken that bullet away from the Dems.

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[quote=flu][quote=svelte][quote=scaredyclassic]howard stern for president[/quote]

Pretty much what we get if Trump is elected, isn’t it?[/quote]

Uh, no way…. Not even close. Howard Stern is actually very well educated and informed. He’s not an idiot at all.[/quote]

Wow. Whenever I have heard Stern talk (which granted isn’t often because I change the channel again shortly thereafter) the first thing I think is “what an idiot”.

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[quote=scaredyclassic]howard stern for president[/quote]

Pretty much what we get if Trump is elected, isn’t it?

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[quote=CA renter][quote=svelte]Sullivan Solar drilled through the tiles on my neighbor’s home. That is why I didn’t go with them.[/quote]

Good info. Our neighbors had a new tile roof installed, and Sullivan installed the brackets under the tiles during the roofing process.

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SunRun. While the installers and purchase was great, I’ve been extremely frustrated in that their customer support phone number has been continually busy for over a year now, each time I’ve tried to call (not often granted, but I have needed to call). It doesn’t even put me on hold or in a queue, it just gives me the busy signal!

So I’m forced to communicate via email.

For that reason alone, I can’t give them five stars.

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Yeah, I’ve been watching this story evolve over time. It is pretty interesting because the numbers are astounding. Sinking 16 inches in a decade, and it could double that in the future!

I have tried to imagine a way the building could be lifted again and supported all the way down to bedrock, but anything I think of risks making things worse while the repair is done and will be astronomically expensive.

This will continue to be very interesting to watch, though the story will take years if not decades to unfold.

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Duff Brewery.

If you go this month, you can get a Duff Adequate served by Duffman for half price – it’s the back-to-school special! If you go in the evening, you may even run into the Seven Duffs: Sleazy, Queasy, Surly, Edgy, Tipsy, Dizzy, and Remorseful.

Can’t get enough of that wonderful Duff.

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Very nice posts, bg. To the point and thoughtful.

Since I’ve been a critic in the past, I feel it is only right to offer praise also. Thank you.

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