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Post by weltschmerz on Dec 3, 2015 13:07:04 GMT -5
Canada housing is pricier than here. Not sure about housing costs in Panama. Costa Rico might work for you though. Lots of American retirees there. It depends on where in Canada. You can't look at Manhattan and deduce that American housing is expensive. In Vancouver, yes. It's expensive. Montreal, not so much.
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Post by AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP on Dec 3, 2015 14:25:03 GMT -5
Trump has said and done some idiotic thing, but this one is just plain silly. I understand his frustration- he's the ONLY reason anyone is watching this boring shit, and they're not giving him due credit for it. So, donate some money to charity as a penance. Just suck it up, put on your big boy pants and then-- if you don't want to participate, don't. I do think it'd be interesting if he offered instead a one hour interview on a competing network during the debate during which he would watch and comment on the debate...
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Dec 3, 2015 15:19:16 GMT -5
Trump has said and done some idiotic thing, but this one is just plain silly. I understand his frustration- he's the ONLY reason anyone is watching this boring shit, and they're not giving him due credit for it. So, donate some money to charity as a penance. Just suck it up, put on your big boy pants and then-- if you don't want to participate, don't. I do think it'd be interesting if he offered instead a one hour interview on a competing network during the debate during which he would watch and comment on the debate... You jest, but that's probably what he's going to do.
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Post by AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP on Dec 3, 2015 15:25:07 GMT -5
Trump has said and done some idiotic thing, but this one is just plain silly. I understand his frustration- he's the ONLY reason anyone is watching this boring shit, and they're not giving him due credit for it. So, donate some money to charity as a penance. Just suck it up, put on your big boy pants and then-- if you don't want to participate, don't. I do think it'd be interesting if he offered instead a one hour interview on a competing network during the debate during which he would watch and comment on the debate... You jest, but that's probably what he's going to do. People think he has brass balls, and by comparison to other politicians, he does. But he's also a one-man-band kind of entrepreneur and a control freak (as most entrepreneurs- especially at his level- are to some degree). There's NO WAY Trump is going to leave the room and let those other assholes talk about him. Not gonna happen. If it does, I'll be astonished.
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Post by AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP on Dec 3, 2015 15:27:03 GMT -5
And make no mistake about it- Trump is a force of personality. He's a true "Winning Through Intimidation" (or To Be, Or Not To Be Intimidated by Robert Ringer) kind of guy. Candidates won't touch him if he's in the room- they're scared of him. It's not the same being blasted in some tweet somewhere as being dressed down in person where your body language reveals how you're taking it, and where you might make a mistake in responding.
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Post by djAdvocate on Dec 3, 2015 15:45:08 GMT -5
You jest, but that's probably what he's going to do. People think he has brass balls, and by comparison to other politicians, he does. But he's also a one-man-band kind of entrepreneur and a control freak (as most entrepreneurs- especially at his level- are to some degree). There's NO WAY Trump is going to leave the room and let those other assholes talk about him. Not gonna happen. If it does, I'll be astonished. this is why i was suggesting they should just cancel the debate.
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Post by Value Buy on Dec 3, 2015 18:32:13 GMT -5
So CNN is refusing to help our injured veterans I would hope Trump sits it out, and better yet, do two hours on Fox with Hannity at the same time.
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Post by AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP on Dec 3, 2015 19:23:21 GMT -5
People think he has brass balls, and by comparison to other politicians, he does. But he's also a one-man-band kind of entrepreneur and a control freak (as most entrepreneurs- especially at his level- are to some degree). There's NO WAY Trump is going to leave the room and let those other assholes talk about him. Not gonna happen. If it does, I'll be astonished. this is why i was suggesting they should just cancel the debate. It's funny, I just heard Trump on Hannity and he said almost exactly what I said. He basically said (paraphrasing) that he'd like to bow out, but if he does someone will say it's because he's chicken.
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Post by ken a.k.a OMK on Dec 3, 2015 19:53:37 GMT -5
Trumps ego won't let him bow out. They called his bluff. He'll make them look bad for not supporting the vets. He will spin how the vets love him, as everyone else loves him. Such a narcissist.
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Post by dondub on Dec 3, 2015 19:54:02 GMT -5
He's more turkey than chicken.
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Post by Value Buy on Dec 3, 2015 19:55:19 GMT -5
He's more turkey than chicken. Wrong. HAM.
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Post by djAdvocate on Dec 3, 2015 20:33:58 GMT -5
this is why i was suggesting they should just cancel the debate. It's funny, I just heard Trump on Hannity and he said almost exactly what I said. He basically said (paraphrasing) that he'd like to bow out, but if he does someone will say it's because he's chicken. who said he was chicken?
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Post by djAdvocate on Dec 3, 2015 20:34:46 GMT -5
So CNN is refusing to help our injured veterans I would hope Trump sits it out, and better yet, do two hours on Fox with Hannity at the same time. yeah, i am sure it will just kill their ratings.
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Post by dondub on Dec 3, 2015 20:44:40 GMT -5
I believe petulance could be considered a trait of NPD type.
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Post by marvholly on Dec 4, 2015 6:14:50 GMT -5
I think marvholly is a city type person. Try Quebec or Toronto. Seems we can not agree on very much anymore. Can we agree Costa Rico is reasonably priced, as long as you are not directly on the coast? I do live in suburban Chicago. Bought my house back in 1976. IF I do Canada it will probably be outside Toronto. Weather is much the same & about an 8 hr drive to come see the grands.
Would not likely do Ecuador - No spanish. Panama & Costa Rica are very into English speakers (my bad).
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Post by AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP on Dec 4, 2015 8:51:07 GMT -5
www.politico.com/story/2015/12/poll-gop-donald-trump-216423Trump Opens Up YUGE Lead Over GOP field in CNN/ORC National Poll
I don't want to think about it anymore than anyone else, but I think it's safe to say now that all the talk about Trump "fading" or "imploding" can be categorized somewhere on the dial between wishful thinking and delusional. "Waiting" for some "event" is not a strategy. I think NOW is the time for the single digit candidates to get out.
It's time, in particular, for conservatives to stop thinking that supporting Carly Fiorina or Ben Carson will show those waskowly wiberals in the media how not racist and sexist you are, need to quit that shit and get behind the (THE) conservative in the race: Ted Cruz.
Conservatives and ONLY conservatives can beat Trump. The delusional mainstream Republicans who think there are multiple candidates need to get up to speed on the splitter strategy, and if they want Bush- fine. Vote for him. But, please, join us over here in reality and stop pretending Rubio isn't Bush. By getting behind the real conservative outsider in the race: Ted Cruz. If you're a conservative and you're not supporting Cruz, you can get ready for Trump to be the nominee.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Dec 4, 2015 8:58:23 GMT -5
What's up with "yuge" on politico?
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Post by AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP on Dec 4, 2015 10:06:15 GMT -5
I believe petulance could be considered a trait of NPD type. This is the Trump thread. Start your own Obama thread.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Dec 4, 2015 10:14:38 GMT -5
Isn't pointing something like this out an A-class microaggression, though?
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Post by Value Buy on Dec 4, 2015 11:44:32 GMT -5
I believe petulance could be considered a trait of NPD type. This is the Trump thread. Start your own Obama thread. Wouldn't that be a lonely thread if it only was about the great things he has done.
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Post by Value Buy on Dec 4, 2015 11:45:55 GMT -5
Isn't pointing something like this out an A-class microaggression, though? That is up to you to decide whether it was micro. You pointed it out!
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Post by Value Buy on Dec 4, 2015 11:47:26 GMT -5
Has Virgil turned to the darkside, or just taken to the woodshed by the powers to be here? He has been sort of negative to Paul lately. Looks like he had some fence mending to do with someone
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Post by djAdvocate on Dec 4, 2015 12:06:20 GMT -5
yeah, i am taking him seriously, now.
but i would like to see a confirming poll before i coronate him.
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Post by AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP on Dec 4, 2015 13:28:03 GMT -5
yeah, i am taking him seriously, now. but i would like to see a confirming poll before i coronate him. The only polls that count are the caucuses and elections that lie ahead. I think Trump's weakness is boots on the ground. I'm on the #CruzCrew in Florida and we're like bees down here. We are targeting a handful of precincts within a handful of counties that hold 75% of the GOP (closed primary state) primary voters, knocking on doors, getting signs and bumper stickers out-- I've personally registered more than 20 additional volunteers with the campaign. We're everywhere.
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Post by djAdvocate on Dec 4, 2015 13:34:47 GMT -5
yeah, i am taking him seriously, now. but i would like to see a confirming poll before i coronate him. The only polls that count are the caucuses and elections that lie ahead. I think Trump's weakness is boots on the ground. I'm on the #CruzCrew in Florida and we're like bees down here. We are targeting a handful of precincts within a handful of counties that hold 75% of the GOP (closed primary state) primary voters, knocking on doors, getting signs and bumper stickers out-- I've personally registered more than 20 additional volunteers with the campaign. We're everywhere. i think Trump is pretty much ignoring that aspect of the campaign. we will see whether that works for him in about 60 days.
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Post by AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP on Dec 4, 2015 13:45:39 GMT -5
The only polls that count are the caucuses and elections that lie ahead. I think Trump's weakness is boots on the ground. I'm on the #CruzCrew in Florida and we're like bees down here. We are targeting a handful of precincts within a handful of counties that hold 75% of the GOP (closed primary state) primary voters, knocking on doors, getting signs and bumper stickers out-- I've personally registered more than 20 additional volunteers with the campaign. We're everywhere. i think Trump is pretty much ignoring that aspect of the campaign. we will see whether that works for him in about 60 days. I have never seen a campaign won with an air war alone. People are fickle. If you don't have people on the ground, in their face, and reinforcing the message with bumper stickers, signs, and all the rest of that crap we hate (but it works) then I don't see how you win. I'm old fashioned, I'd never miss an opportunity to say: I need your vote. If you want this, I'm counting on you. Talk to your friends and neighbors. I'd be very, very persistent as a candidate-- but that's because I'm a marketer, and I know that you sell until the deal is sealed.
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Post by AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP on Dec 4, 2015 13:47:32 GMT -5
We just had our first state-wide conference call this week. Several organizers- and mind you, I'm in Florida where the average age of a politically active person is 106- stated that in their lifetimes they have NEVER seen an organization like Ted Cruz's campaign-- and he hasn't spent a nickel here. We're buying our own signs and stuff.
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Post by djAdvocate on Dec 4, 2015 14:37:35 GMT -5
i think Trump is pretty much ignoring that aspect of the campaign. we will see whether that works for him in about 60 days. I have never seen a campaign won with an air war alone. People are fickle. If you don't have people on the ground, in their face, and reinforcing the message with bumper stickers, signs, and all the rest of that crap we hate (but it works) then I don't see how you win. I'm old fashioned, I'd never miss an opportunity to say: I need your vote. If you want this, I'm counting on you. Talk to your friends and neighbors. I'd be very, very persistent as a candidate-- but that's because I'm a marketer, and I know that you sell until the deal is sealed. i am inclined to agree, Paul. but the reason i didn't say so right away is that everything about this campaign has surprised me, so far.
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