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Re: GOP senator says he 'regularly' considers leaving Republican Party
« Reply #675 on: September 15, 2018, 08:27:01 pm »
There's apparently more to that on an Android. Apparently it is "Wi-Fi Scanning" that needs to be turned off. That is how the stores know you're visiting and where you go in the store.

I am very sorry to tell you this, but the stores do not care.  You're just not that important.
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Re: GOP senator says he 'regularly' considers leaving Republican Party
« Reply #676 on: September 15, 2018, 08:31:46 pm »
I guess okay. I find it disturbing that I get unsolicited text messages asking for feedback everywhere I go... Go to the grocery store, get a text message asking about your visit... I've attempted to turn that off. I'm not sure I have yet or if I did what the additional consequences are.

You got an Iphone?

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Re: GOP senator says he 'regularly' considers leaving Republican Party
« Reply #677 on: September 15, 2018, 08:33:46 pm »
I gave you that one.  888high58888
Thanx for that.  For a minute I almost thought I made a good point.

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Re: GOP senator says he 'regularly' considers leaving Republican Party
« Reply #678 on: September 15, 2018, 08:34:53 pm »
In two weeks you won't be able to imagine leaving home without it.

I can sure as heck imagine it - For all the reasons it took me so long to get one, which, as it turns out, were all true. I HATE the bloody thing. But now I can't rub it off. Too many of my clients got the number now, and I have to be at the other end.

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Re: GOP senator says he 'regularly' considers leaving Republican Party
« Reply #679 on: September 15, 2018, 08:50:19 pm »
I can sure as heck imagine it - For all the reasons it took me so long to get one, which, as it turns out, were all true. I HATE the bloody thing. But now I can't rub it off. Too many of my clients got the number now, and I have to be at the other end.

You'll live.
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Re: GOP senator says he 'regularly' considers leaving Republican Party
« Reply #680 on: September 15, 2018, 08:50:29 pm »
I am very sorry to tell you this, but the stores do not care.  You're just not that important.

I don't know what you're trying to say, but in fact it is the stores sending me unsolicited messages asking to rate my experience there.

So it is self evident "they care" or they wouldn't be doing it.

The only thing I'm trying to do is block their unsolicited messages. Yet you want to tell me how "you're just not that important" as some sort of ding on me for attempting to block their messages... Why are you so nasty all the time?
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Re: GOP senator says he 'regularly' considers leaving Republican Party
« Reply #681 on: September 15, 2018, 08:57:01 pm »
You'll live.

No, that isn't living. In fact, its a poor imitation. Since I have been 'connected', I get a butt-load of texts, but my kids have not actually been to my house a single time since... Nor have I been to my mother's but a handful of times. It serves as a poor excuse for personal interaction.

I absolutely hate the damnable thing.

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« Reply #682 on: September 15, 2018, 08:57:40 pm »
I don't know what your trying to say, but in fact it is the stores sending me unsolicited messages asking to rate my experience there.

So it is self evident "they care" or they wouldn't be doing it.

The only thing I'm trying to do is block their unsolicited messages. Yet you want to tell me how "you're just not that important" as some sort of ding on me for attempting to block their messages... Why are you so nasty all the time?
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Re: GOP senator says he 'regularly' considers leaving Republican Party
« Reply #683 on: September 15, 2018, 09:03:51 pm »
No, that isn't living. In fact, its a poor imitation. Since I have been 'connected', I get a butt-load of texts, but my kids have not actually been to my house a single time since... Nor have I been to my mother's but a handful of times. It serves as a poor excuse for personal interaction.

I absolutely hate the damnable thing.

I use to only work at home so a mobile phone wasn't really needed. Now I spend part of my time at my business's office and I need it for that. I'm also really bad at time and forgetting future appointments. This greatly helps with that issue. So that's why I finally got a "smart" one.

Otherwise I really hate the tethered feeling and all my movements being tracked and recorded to target me for marketing purposes.

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Re: GOP senator says he 'regularly' considers leaving Republican Party
« Reply #684 on: September 15, 2018, 09:15:59 pm »
I don't know what you're trying to say, but in fact it is the stores sending me unsolicited messages asking to rate my experience there.

So it is self evident "they care" or they wouldn't be doing it.

The only thing I'm trying to do is block their unsolicited messages. Yet you want to tell me how "you're just not that important" as some sort of ding on me for attempting to block their messages... Why are you so nasty all the time?

I've had an iPhone for years and I have gone into stores for years.  I have NEVER had an unsolicited message from any establishment I've gone into.  Never.

AS to why I'm so nasty all the time ... I'm not sure.  I don't mean to be and I'm sorry. 
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Re: GOP senator says he 'regularly' considers leaving Republican Party
« Reply #685 on: September 15, 2018, 09:17:12 pm »
I use to only work at home so a mobile phone wasn't really needed. Now I spend part of my time at my business's office and I need it for that. I'm also really bad at time and forgetting future appointments. This greatly helps with that issue. So that's why I finally got a "smart" one.

Otherwise I really hate the tethered feeling and all my movements being tracked and recorded to target me for marketing purposes.

Yeah I get it... Me too. I am so very 'plugged in' at my home office that getting away from it any way I could was my solitude. Now, there is nowhere I can go locally where that infernal connectedness cannot follow me... Thus no solitude at all.

And like you, I am governed by my PIM... And I am horrid with time once I get free of it. Since I pushed my calendar onto google, to get the seamless sync between devices, and in doing so, broke tasking (I am a ToDo list kind of guy, more than appts.), the Google Assistant reminders have become a poor substitute.

It is a very undesirable alliance.

But I can tell you this - If I have to put up with unsolicited texts from Tumpy the Clown, the damn thing's going in the river, I guarantee.

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Re: GOP senator says he 'regularly' considers leaving Republican Party
« Reply #686 on: September 15, 2018, 09:19:38 pm »
I've had an iPhone for years and I have gone into stores for years.  I have NEVER had an unsolicited message from any establishment I've gone into.  Never.

AS to why I'm so nasty all the time ... I'm not sure.  I don't mean to be and I'm sorry.

Thank you for that. I accept.

Either you or someone else wisely configured your phone not to do that. I know both Android and Apple phones normally do receive unsolicited messages from stores when you visit (or even get close to) them. It is pretty disturbing when it happens to you.

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Re: GOP senator says he 'regularly' considers leaving Republican Party
« Reply #687 on: September 15, 2018, 09:21:31 pm »
But I can tell you this - If I have to put up with unsolicited texts from Tumpy the Clown, the damn thing's going in the river, I guarantee.

LOL!

I'll have to cross that bridge if I get there...

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« Reply #688 on: September 15, 2018, 09:27:36 pm »
LOL!

I'll have to cross that bridge if I get there...

You don't have to cross the bridge... you can pitch it from the bank... Jussayin... ;)

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Re: GOP senator says he 'regularly' considers leaving Republican Party
« Reply #689 on: September 15, 2018, 09:52:07 pm »
   Beto sent me an unsolicited txt last night asking if I would vote for him, I replied that I'm illegal and was under the impression that Beto was the only Legal vote I could make, they responded this morning that they would make a note of that.
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Re: GOP senator says he 'regularly' considers leaving Republican Party
« Reply #690 on: September 15, 2018, 10:05:07 pm »
   Beto sent me an unsolicited txt last night asking if I would vote for him, I replied that I'm illegal and was under the impression that Beto was the only Legal vote I could make, they responded this morning that they would make a note of that.

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Re: GOP senator says he 'regularly' considers leaving Republican Party
« Reply #691 on: September 15, 2018, 10:11:55 pm »
(Back to a more serious note on this thread.)

ATTENTION ALL TRUMP BASHERS

I would urge all of my Trump-bashing friends on TBR to come up to speed as to what President Trump is doing behind the scenes.  This is very, very important info.  It may cause a lot of Trump bashers to re-think everything concerning their animosity toward Trump. 

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I want to start off this post by saying that relatively few Americans (fewer than 40%) seem to have figured out where Trump really stands concerning the mess of the Deep State Swamp.  Trump bashers who insinuate that he is just another part of the Swamp rank among the most confused of all, in my sober opinion. 

(I will cheerfully admit that on the day of Trump’s inauguration, January 20, 2017, I felt the same way.  I was as angry as my friend INVAR was, even if I was slightly less blunt than INVAR was/is with my own flamethrowing.  :whistle:       Over the past year, however, I have gotten completely unconfused.  I hope some of my friends on TBR can have the same epiphany I have had—which is the reason for this post, of course.)   

An even smaller percentage of Americans (probably fewer than 5%) have gotten even a meaningful glimmer of the Trump administration’s plans for destroying the Deep State.  You will hear a lot about the Deep State on Fox News but essentially nothing about Trump’s detailed plans regarding the Deep State.

(Trump himself uses certain unorthodox communications channels [for example, the entity known as  “Qanon” or simply “Q”, a mysterious online entity that is strangely but obviously posting in close coordination with Trump himself] to leak out certain features of his Plan;  however, the leaks are carefully, even cryptically worded—ostensibly for reasons of national security or occasionally even designed as deliberate misdirection to cause confusion and/or panic on the part of the Deep State’s bad actors.  The Q project, then, is essentially a military-style PsyOps project.

In other words, Q’s posts are intended to reassure thoughtful but understandably impatient conservatives that Trump does have a plan for destroying the Deep State;  at the same time, Q’s posts are not designed to provide a completely clear road map, a map known to only ten souls in the entire Trump administration anyway.  [As a matter of fact, the figure of ten souls is the figure revealed by Q himself, who said that all but three of the ten are members of the U.S. MILITARY.]) 

Shockingly few voters are aware of the Executive Orders, much less their contents, promulgated and published by President Trump in late December of 2017 (Declaration of a State of National Emergency concerning Human Rights Abuses or Corruption) and in the first quarter of 2018 (concerning protocols in the Code of Military Justice for handling lawful prosecutions of civilians).  I don’t recall these EOs being even mentioned on Fox News, much less expounded for the public.  For one reason or another, these obviously newsworthy Orders are taboo subjects, despite being published on the White House website.

Nota bene:  The above Executive Orders are not the infamous stuff known as “Secret EOs.”

As a related matter of the public’s uncanny ignorance concerning a now-looming wave of prosecutions, very few voters are even aware of the 50,000 sealed court orders—including sealed indictments—established in our federal court system by Jeff Sessions’s DOJ.  (Yeah, Mr. Magoo has been very, very busy, despite all of the political theater surrounding him about his supposed worthlessness.)  These sealed court orders, formed and sealed at a rate well over 50 times higher than ever before in American history, are listed (without explanatory details, of course) on the federal court system’s website, pacer.gov.  The number is still growing at a rate of about 5,000 per month as of the last time I checked.  As a matter of federal law, the orders/indictments are secret, but their existence in stunningly ominous numbers are by no means secret.  Literally scores of conservative websites have talked about the sealed court orders—and you can bet that the Deep State bad actors are aware of the stuff on pacer.gov—but most conservatives are not very good web researchers, it seems.

For now, that is okay with Trump.  He could talk openly about his Executive Orders concerning our State of National Emergency and about the looming wave of federal/military prosecutions against the Deep State, but that wouldn’t fit his tempo and dynamics at this time.  For now, our POTUS is happy with the smaller army of hardcore zealots recruited by Qanon.  (For that matter, Trump has recently started pushing Q out into the mainstream’s attention.  Hilariously, that has triggered a furious onslaught of MSM attacks against Q as a LARP, as a complete fraud.  Heck, it is axiomatic in war that if you catch a lot of flak, it’s because you are right over the target.  [Well, not always so, but usually so.])

This brings me to my biggest shocker:  Trump quite evidently was recruited to run for the White House by the U.S. military all the way back in 2015.  Almost no one is aware of this military connection, but Trump’s longtime friend, Dr. Jerome Corsi--a splendid investigative journalist, a man with a strong background in intelligence, by the way, and also the author of numerous bestsellers such as Unfit for Command and The Obama Nation--says his own very highly-placed sources in our military leaked this important fact to him.  As the story goes, high-ranking military officers sat down with Trump and painstakingly pieced together riveting evidence that Hillary Clinton was being tasked by a Globalist Cabal to waltz into the White House and utterly destroy the Republic—a matter of horrible death and destruction and enslavement of all survivors in full-blown Socialist tyranny (not just the “soft tyranny” that Obama had been ushering in).

Supposedly, the military officers’ meeting with Trump shocked the living daylights out of him, with his ideology hardening in Constitutional patriotism against his former social/political “friends” overnight.  I believe the sobering meeting with the military leaders largely explains why Trump campaigned so vehemently against the Global Socialists in general and Hillary Clinton in particular.  I believe it also explains why his White House staff is dominated by an unprecedented number of military officers.  (If you don’t believe me, look at some of the White House group photo ops.  The military guys and gals take up most of the slots in the staff.  This has never happened before.  Remember also that Q has said only ten folks are privy to THE PLAN--and seven of them are military.) 

In short, I am pleased to know that Trump's very real and deadly serious War against the Deep State, a war against all enemies foreign and domestic, is being waged by bona fide warriors—by guys and gals who happen to be experts in war.  And I submit that their warfare expertise largely explains why no one notices what is really happening and what will happen to America’s domestic enemies if President Trump survives 2018.)

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To cap off this post, I urge you to read a transcript of a pretty incredible speech by Trump way back in October of 2016—a speech that shows what you need to know about him right now:

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/09/14/knowing-what-we-know-now-we-must-remind-ourselves/#more-154057

It’s the only political speech that I regard as even better, even more important than Reagan’s speech nominating Barry Goldwater in 1964.

If you doubt that Trump is serious about draining the Swamp, you'd better stop scoffing at what he says in the speech he made two years ago.  He has been a very busy POTUS, especially in dealing with the hassles of all-out attacks against him by America's enemies posing as America's saviors.

Anyway, whatever you think about Trump’s overall spiritual state, you can’t tell me that Trump is not a serious patriot, that he's deliberately avoiding what needs to be done.  You can’t keep insisting that he’s just a New York crook, that he’s just part of the Swamp.  If Trump even survives 2018, he is going to see to it that a lot of people get prosecuted and hanged---because that’s what it will take to drain the Swamp.

So, yeah, I’m the NeverTrumper who sat out the 2016 election.  But I was glad to learn in November of 2016 that God had already put his Own plan in place to keep us out of Hillary’s plans.  And I think God made a strangely good choice even though I think Ted Cruz was a better man overall.   I’m persuaded that God would laugh and agree with me about that.  Heck, I probably won’t vote for Trump next time if I don’t have to do so.

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Re: GOP senator says he 'regularly' considers leaving Republican Party
« Reply #692 on: September 15, 2018, 10:18:35 pm »
Shit.  *****rollingeyes*****

@roamer_1

Here is a suggestion. Turn the damn thing off except for when you want to make a call. That's what I do with my android phone unless I am home. You won't really miss any calls you wanted because they will be in the calls missed box when you turn it back on.
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Re: GOP senator says he 'regularly' considers leaving Republican Party
« Reply #693 on: September 15, 2018, 10:20:44 pm »
(Back to a more serious note on this thread.)

ATTENTION ALL TRUMP BASHERS

I would urge all of my Trump-bashing friends on TBR to come up to speed as to what President Trump is doing behind the scenes.  This is very, very important info.  It may cause a lot of Trump bashers to re-think everything concerning their animosity toward Trump. 

A liar is a liar. End_of_story.

As to all the other 'before it is news' innuendo, conspiracy, and rumor - I will pay attention when there is actual evidence on the ground. Most of it, @the_doc is bullshit. Waggin tongues with nothing to back it up.

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Re: GOP senator says he 'regularly' considers leaving Republican Party
« Reply #694 on: September 15, 2018, 10:25:14 pm »
A liar is a liar. End_of_story.

As to all the other 'before it is news' innuendo, conspiracy, and rumor - I will pay attention when there is actual evidence on the ground. Most of it, @the_doc is bullshit. Waggin tongues with nothing to back it up.

You are just too profane to take seriously.  Go back to your Torah.

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Re: GOP senator says he 'regularly' considers leaving Republican Party
« Reply #695 on: September 15, 2018, 10:25:24 pm »
@roamer_1

Here is a suggestion. Turn the damn thing off except for when you want to make a call. That's what I do with my android phone unless I am home. You won't really miss any calls you wanted because they will be in the calls missed box when you turn it back on.

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I can't. When I got it, I made the mistake of letting out the number to my clients. I should have call-fwd'd my business line instead... In any event, txt, and even email is a last gasp emergency method of reaching me, and since I have the damn thing, unless I am out of range, there is no reasonable excuse. If someone's system is down, they will not be forgiving otherwise.

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Re: GOP senator says he 'regularly' considers leaving Republican Party
« Reply #696 on: September 15, 2018, 10:26:34 pm »
You are just too profane to take seriously.  Go back to your Torah.

BWAHAHAHAHA!

And btw, it isn't MY Torah.

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Re: GOP senator says he 'regularly' considers leaving Republican Party
« Reply #697 on: September 15, 2018, 10:29:31 pm »
You are just too profane to take seriously.  Go back to your Torah.

On second thought, @the_doc How is it that my profanity makes you wrap yourself in 'holier than thou' when the orange clown you follow swears like a muleskinner?


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Re: GOP senator says he 'regularly' considers leaving Republican Party
« Reply #698 on: September 15, 2018, 10:31:44 pm »
   Beto sent me an unsolicited txt last night asking if I would vote for him, I replied that I'm illegal and was under the impression that Beto was the only Legal vote I could make, they responded this morning that they would make a note of that.

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Re: GOP senator says he 'regularly' considers leaving Republican Party
« Reply #699 on: September 15, 2018, 10:34:53 pm »
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I can't. When I got it, I made the mistake of letting out the number to my clients.


You can't return their calls when you turn it back on?

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I should have call-fwd'd my business line instead..
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If you have a business line,why not just get a new phone number for your phone,and then give the biz number to the clients?

AFATG,WTH didn't you just have a cell phone for business clients and one for family and friends to start with? I have a $59.95 android LG that I use ONLY for ebay,PP, and other web deals. If I am not selling something,I leave it turned off. It is also the number I give to people I don't know who insist on having my phone number. I try to remember to turn it on once a month or so to see if I have any calls from numbers I recognize,but usually forget to check it. IIRC,it costs me around 20 bucks a month to keep it "hot",but sometimes I forget and go two or three months with it turned off and no time on the card. When I turn it back on I just buy more minutes then,and still have the same phone number.

The cell phone I carry every day is a $79.99 LG android that has my main number on it,and the only people who get that are my doctors,friends,and others that I might want to hear from occasionally. Sometimes I can go for a whole week and not hear it ring.

Beats the hell out of having somebody I barely know calling me at midnight here just to chat. I have a hard time sleeping,and am NOT amused at being awakened by a BS phone call.

 
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In any event, txt, and even email is a last gasp emergency method of reaching me, and since I have the damn thing, unless I am out of range, there is no reasonable excuse. If someone's system is down, they will not be forgiving otherwise.

I guess if you are on call of some sort,you have no choice,but if it were me I would still have a separate business phone. EVERYBODY needs a day off each week,even people self-employed.
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