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Then again, maybe we’re not that close, as one of my bigger concerns about a Cruz presidency is the prospect of super-conservative supreme court appointments. I’d be ecstatic with moderates if he were president, but I don’t think we’d get anything close to that.
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Yeah, that’s terrifying as well. We need more moderates in our government. This extremism really has to stop, on both sides.

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I smell a Trump/Cruz ticket or Cruz/Trump ticket. Then we’re really screwed.[/quote]

Yikes.

Great quote from Louis C.K.:

“If you are a true conservative. Don’t vote for Trump. He is not one of you. He is one of him.”

And Cruz: Too obstructionist even for the “party of no.” Ouch.

Hillary is too much in Wall Street’s pocket, and she’s too focus-group driven, and her vision for the country seems somewhat fuzzy. Her honesty takes more hits than it should, in my opinion. She doesn’t seem any less honest than your average politician. Which is to say, pretty dishonest. And the right-wing attacks on her regarding the Benghazi situation are nonsense. She’s tough, brilliant, and has tons of stamina. Would she be a great president? Probably not. A good one? I’d say there’s a good chance of that. A disaster? Probably not.

Trump would be a disaster, it seems to me.

And Cruz would be a huge step backward. I predict that by as soon as 2020, and 2024 at the latest, profoundly conservative politicians like Cruz will be dinosaurs. Especially if Cruz wins in 2016 and the younger Americans get energized by their disgust for him and what he stands for.[/quote]

I never thought I’d agree with you ever on politics. But I agree with you.

My concern at this point isn’t so much about the white house next term. My concern is the GOP loses not only the white house, but the Senate too. I don’t like our government when one party dominates, and it concerns me more that with Hillary at the helm, and with the justice appointments (I’d settle for moderates), we need some sort of checks and balances in Congress.

That said, I think the GOP party as it stands is finished. It really needs to abandon some of the far right side lunatics and start taking a more moderate stance on social issues. Some of the far right side thinking is just, frankly, obsolete in the 21st century. As Lincoln once said, a house divided against itself cannot stand.

I think a Trump/Cruz or a Cruz/Trump ticket is coming though. Trump + anyone else would alienate all the Cruz voters. And a Cruz+ anyone else would alienate all the trump voters. Cruz+Trump or Trump+Cruz, people would probably get behind. And trump and cruz is smart enough to realize this. The Democrats might really have a big problem at hand if this happens.

Contrast this with a Hillary/Bernie ticket. Bernie has some good ideas for the well being of people, BUT all his thinking is way to extreme for a leader of the U.S. It’s best he serves in an advisory role, where some of his radical thinking can trickle through our system and get adopted piece-wise.

A Hillary/Bernie ticket would destroy the Democrat’s chances, so that isn’t going to happen. Hillary better pick someone else, preferably a no-name person. Which then begs the question… I wonder who Hillary’s running mate will be?

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[quote=zk]I was wondering how Cruz, a senator, was considered an outsider, so I googled it. It looks like, if he’s an outsider at all, he’s an outsider mainly because nobody in the establishment likes him.

Outsider. Pariah. Whatever.

Interesting article in Slate, with the headline:

“Harvard-Educated Lawyer Who’s Worked for Every Branch of Government Runs for President as Outsider”

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/12/11/ted_cruz_outsider_establishment_hating_candidate_has_great_establishment.html

CBS news ran this article, with the hard-hitting headline:

“Ted Cruz, Washington outsider and proud”

The first two paragraphs:

Presidential hopeful Ted Cruz is glad he isn’t a part of the nation’s political elite.

“You may have heard I’m not exactly the most popular person with congressional leadership,” the cheerful Texas senator said Friday to a group of conservative business leaders.

The third paragraph explains why (he claims) he’s not well-liked. Turns out he’s an obstructionist douchebag:

Cruz, the first major Republican to officially declare his candidacy for the White House, said that because of his role in the 2013 government shutdown over Obamacare he wasn’t well-liked among the party’s heads. And as a result, campaign donations dried up.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ted-cruz-washington-outsider-and-proud/

It appears the republicans now have two gigantic assholes from which to choose. One who’s basically a fascist, and one who wants to take his ball and go home when he doesn’t like the way the game is going. At least Trump would almost certainly lose in November. Cruz apparently has a real shot at winning the general election:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_cruz_vs_clinton-4034.html

We live in very scary times.[/quote]

I smell a Trump/Cruz ticket or Cruz/Trump ticket. Then we’re really screwed.

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[quote=svelte]TRUMP. Make America hate again.[/quote]

TRUMP, flipping flopping to make America great again…

http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-h1b-visas-gop-debate-immigration-2016-3

“‘I’m changing’: Donald Trump casually announces policy flip-flop at debate”

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Lol. For a good laugh…

“My party has gone batshit crazy…”
-Lindsey Graham

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw78la_u4e8

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Gold up another $15 today

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Well, that didn’t take long to escalate quickly. Spot is up $25 today alone. Something spooked people…

http://www.kitco.com/kitco-gold-index.html?sitetype=fullsite

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[quote=ltsdd]btw., I think trump is great…for the democrat nominee.[/quote]

I never thought I would ever vote for Hillary. But as a moderate Republican, I really see no choice if Trump is the GOP nominee. Not that I particularly like Cruz anymore. At this point, the GOP brand is so badly damaged at the national level, it doesn’t really matter anymore IMHO.

You simply can’t run a platform on hate.

Oh well, I’ll still vote for all the moderate republicans in CA state assembly and senate. No party should have a supermajority.

I think I am in good company with Meg Whitman

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[quote=ltsdd]How do you know for sure what you’re buying is legit? The latest great invention coming out of china is “fake” gold (a mixture of gold and other alloy) that’s practically undetectable without melting it down first.[/quote]

So I am only buying from a reputable dealer (apmex) and I am only buying newly minted 2016 coins/bullion that dealers get directly from the mint authorities.

It is unlikely a large reputable dealer will intentionally try to sell a fake. It would crush their reputation. So the possibility of a fake would be if you bought a coin that was not new that somehow slipped through the dealers inspection when it was bought or sold.
So I will avoid second hand coins (or those designated as “random year” coins/bullion.)

And I’ll make a trip to a local dealer to do a check every so often

As a fallback, there is eBay protection and PayPal protection, and my AMEX protection.

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Damn, should have bought more…..

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I remember in san diego, there use to be Trump University that partnered with the author of Rich Dad Poor Dad and offered a “real estate” seminar. I always wondered who went to those things.

I think people have a really hard time to understand that short of inheriting money, for most people, making more money isn’t simply “easy”. Or if was “easy”, it would have been as “easy” to have lost money.

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Well, gold is up since yesterday when I bought at $1270. I guess people don’t like the idea of Trump possibly being president. 🙂

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Yes. Get rich quick. There as many people that do… As well as many people that are perma-pessimists. Plenty of them on this board for example.

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[quote=spdrun]Seinfeld set in Sandy Eggo. Haha.[/quote]

Lol.

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