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2 hours ago, Jan van Eck said:

Yes.   The current Governor of Vermont, Phil Scott.  He is x successful businessmxn, plus x grext governor. 

Jan 

I'm intelligent , therefore I would have to vote for you.  However I don't live in Vermont.

If you plan on running for President let me know.

I forget.  Are you U.S. citizen ?

 

Edited July 1, 2020 by BLA

[ronwagn + 6,290]

22 hours ago, BLA said:

Biden says he can hardly wait to test his cognitive decline against the President.

I can't wait to see it.

 

Biden needed a teleprompter to give a very short opening remarks at a press conference.Next Biden's puppet masters will be sending the answers to questions to Biden via teleprompter.

Biden was given a list of pre selected reporters to call on.

The reporters gave Biden softball questions. 

It definitely  looked like Biden had the questions beforehand. Every time the question was asked Biden looked down at his notes for the answer.  

Will Biden be given the debate questions ahead of time by CNN as they did with Clinton. 

DNC WAKE UP ! WE CANT GET AWAY WITH THIS THE WHOLE CAMPAIGN.  GET A REPLACEMENT NOW.  PLEASE.

Is it too late for the DNC to replace Biden. Isn't it customary for Presidential candidates to release their bill of health before election. We should get to see the test results then. 

Will it be another 3 months before Biden's next press conference ?

Help ! Write to the DNC.  Little time to waste.

Not a problem. Technology will help Biden get through to the election.

See https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/security/a28691128/deepfake-technology/

Here is a Mini-Mental Status Exam. I used to give these as needed. 

https://www.pdffiller.com/jsfiller-desk15/?et=l2f&projectId=486642712#90f991cb03a7fad44c82dd9b50770ff6

A good honest journalist could give one of these. Good luck finding one though.

Biden would need a Deep Fake, or a lot of practice sessions beforehand. 

 

Edited July 1, 2020 by ronwagn
added reference

[Jan van Eck + 7,558]

2 hours ago, BLA said:

I forget.  Are you U.S. citizen ?

Nope!   🧐     BUT....I went to Yale with George Bush, so does that count?  😁

[Should be good for a mulligan]

[BLA + 1,666]

6 minutes ago, Jan van Eck said:

Nope!   🧐     BUT....I went to Yale with George Bush, so does that count?  😁

[Should be good for a mulligan]

Did George smoke weed ?

 

[Jan van Eck + 7,558]

48 minutes ago, BLA said:

Did George smoke weed ?

 

I dunno what to do with you, BLA.  You don't like the Mexicans because they pick cucumbers. You don't like the Canadians because they vote for Doug Ford.  You don't like Joe Biden because he comes across as senile.  You don't like Trump because he imports Eastern European women for his marriages.  You don't like me because you think I am a snotty elitist.  You don't like George because ... he was a Yalie?  

So: what's so wrong about being a Yalie?  Five US Presidents have been Yalies.  Oh, I know:   They beat Harvard in the Yale-Harvard Game! 

[Gerry Maddoux + 3,627]

But George W is the only president to get degrees from both Harvard and Yale, right?

So who cares if he smoked weed or not?

😀

[Eyes Wide Open + 3,554]

1 hour ago, Jan van Eck said:

Nope!   🧐     BUT....I went to Yale with George Bush, so does that count?  😁

[Should be good for a mulligan]

Foot wedge perhaps mulligan not a chance..

[Gerry Maddoux + 3,627]

BTW, could somebody direct me to a good oil and gas forum?

I thought Oilprice.com would be one, but I was sick for a while, then came back and it had pretty much gone medical and political on me.

Also, I'm publishing a book. Is this the right place to publicize it?

It's both medical and political. Has a little conspiracy theory in it. Just a touch of oil and gas. A sprinkling of sex.  

Thanks for your help. I guess I did more damage to my head than they thought. 

[Jan van Eck + 7,558]

54 minutes ago, Gerry Maddoux said:

A sprinkling of sex.  

`This is America.  As long as you put sex in there, it will do just fine.  

[BLA + 1,666]

9 hours ago, Jan van Eck said:

I dunno what to do with you, BLA.  You don't like the Mexicans because they pick cucumbers. You don't like the Canadians because they vote for Doug Ford.  You don't like Joe Biden because he comes across as senile.  You don't like Trump because he imports Eastern European women for his marriages.  You don't like me because you think I am a snotty elitist.  You don't like George because ... he was a Yalie?  

So: what's so wrong about being a Yalie?  Five US Presidents have been Yalies.  Oh, I know:   They beat Harvard in the Yale-Harvard Game! 

Jan

You seem to becoming paranoid.  Why all the hate talk.  Why make up these things/people about me that I have never mentioned before.  Others have noticed it.  Recently you have gone off on wild tirades targeting Goldman Sachs, Obama and many others.  Totally out of character.  It's like someone else took over your mind.  You OK ?

I like Mexicans.  Don't like open borders. What happens when things turn bad around the world.  The U.S. will have every Venezuelan, Honduran, Panamanian, Guatemalan and Mexican (and Elite Canadians) coming into the U.S.  We can't save the whole world.  They'll swamp the lifeboat.  Controlled legal immigration along with economic development and trade with Central and South America is the answer.

I like Canadians.  My cousin is married to one. She lives in Montreal. Been to beautiful Quebec, Nova Scotia and Canadian Rockies. P.S.  .  .   Who the hell is Doug Ford ? 

I like Joe Biden.  I feel sorry for him because he is senile.  Voting a person whom definitely is failing with the onset of demential scares the shit out of me.  It should scare all Americans.  Oh, that's right you're not a U.S. citizen.

Trump marries Eastern European women.  Good for him. Where do you get off making such an idiotic accusation toward me out of nowhere. ? The First Lady is beautiful, very intelligent and a great mother.  

Why do you say I don't like you ? Please show me where I indicated such.  The part where you say I think you are a  a "snotty elitist" might have a shade of truth to it.  But everyone has their faults.  Me included.

I like George Bush.  I've never uttered his name on this forum.

I have nothing against Yale.  While I was in college I was invited by a friend at Yale to the Harvard v. Yale game.  The best time.  I was drunk for 48 hours , had a Frank Peppe  White Clam Pizza and got laid.  All in one weekend. What's not to like about Yale.  

Oh, I see .  .  you must think my "elite" designation is derived from your constantly reminding us you went to Yale.  No, not at all. Yale is a great school.  You should be proud of your attendance. 

Your past post stating most people are too stupid to vote.  Just a bunch of rubes.  That's sounding a little elitist.  Sounding like Hillary. 

Your posts have been deteriorating in quality.  More rants, more misspelled words (I shouldn't talk) , not the thoughtful ,knowledgeable, measured quality of the past. 

I want the old Eck back.  

 

Edited July 2, 2020 by BLA

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16 minutes ago, BLA said:

I like Canadians.  My cousin is married to one. She lives in Montreal. Been to beautiful Quebec, Nova Scotia and Canadian Rockies. P.S.  .  .   Who the hell is Doug Ford ? 

Here is Doug Ford:

He is the current Premier of Ontario, lives in Toronto, and has been Premier since June 2018.   Do try to keep up!

His brother Rob Ford was the former Mayor of Toronto, and got tangled up in doing dope in the Mayor's office.  The two Ford Brothers became a political powerhouse, also a bit of an embarrassment, depends on whom you talk with.  The brother has since died.  

As for your other comments, sorry I know more about the bad behaviour of Goldman Sachs than you do.  In any event, just because you are paranoid does not mean they are not out to get you.  Because they are.  Think about it. 

[BLA + 1,666]

5 hours ago, Jan van Eck said:

Here is Doug Ford:

He is the current Premier of Ontario, lives in Toronto, and has been Premier since June 2018.   Do try to keep up!

His brother Rob Ford was the former Mayor of Toronto, and got tangled up in doing dope in the Mayor's office. 

Now I remember the Ford Brothers.  I've read about Rob.  Unbelievable. 

Sorry for not following Canadian politics.  Never thought the need.  Never cared.  

If you were screwed by Goldman check with your Alumni Association. Goldman is loaded with Yali's. Maybe they can help you. 

 

 

Edited July 2, 2020 by BLA

[Eyes Wide Open + 3,554]

Gentlemen we all are dealing with a new phenomenon, personally i like to call it the "COVID MALAISE". 

At the same time it is my opinion the fundamentals of the US constitution are being threatened along with world stability.

As of right now there seems to be no clear direction how this will come to a end. 

I ask you to merely look at the title of this thread..each of us has a perception of what it means. 

My perception...what is this country doing where are the critical thinkers on both sides. How could one party get into such a position.

Take the time to read the definition of MALAISE then ask answer yourself honestly could that be me? I believe Occam's Razor plays a role here.

Biden the leader of the free world?

Edited July 2, 2020 by Eyes Wide Open

[Patriot Zeno 0]

VP Joe Bribe'm I mean Biden is being tested all the time in life circumstances that show for all to see that he is diminished and senile beyond a doubt but even more scary, not morally fit for public service or trustworthy!  Folks, need to get real especially in the natural resources related industries; the democ-RATS are dedicated to the Green New Deal and pushing folks out of cars into caves with a socialist, welfare system!  

See what happened in the Capitol Hill Attack Zone or CHAZ of Seattle, WA as that is what major cities will look like with Pres. Joe Biden who won't know anything is wrong because he simply won't know or care to know!  Meanwhile, VP Joe Bribe'm/Biden is dedicated to helping his family in public service like son, Hunter who helped him launder  $13-30 million dollars out of Ukraine and other relatives he got do nothing jobs for during the Obama Administration for huge sums!

[Jan van Eck + 7,558]

3 hours ago, Eyes Wide Open said:

At the same time it is my opinion the fundamentals of the US constitution are being threatened along with world stability

I would agree with that observation.   The thematic principle of the US Constitution is that the Federal and State Governments are governments of limited jurisdiction.  All "powers"  [to be read as authorities] not specifically enumerated are to be reserved to the People.  And the People have certain rights and privileges that cannot be abridged.  Now, where one right is the right to peaceably assemble, who is some govt. bureaucrat or politician to tell the People that they cannot?  Yet, that is exactly what you have with Covid19 Orders. 

To illustrate, the Governor of Michigan issued an Order that residents can go out on the water in a boat  [Michigan is a State with literally a thousand lakes, plus several of the Great Lakes on its borders], but the boat cannot have a motor; you can go out in a kayak or a canoe, not not in your fishing boat with an outboard.  Now, who is 48-year-old Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, Democratic Party  (no surprise), Governor since 2019, to issue Orders like that to "the People"?   

What Whitmer is doing is usurping the US Constitution, substituting a feudal-lord medieval form of servitude in its place, with her as the Lord and the rest of the society as her serfs.  

Now, I grant you that this is with the best of intentions (at least, for the greater part). But not quite.  Her husband, Dr. Marc Mallory, turns out to be an avid boatsman.   Dr. Mallory is a dentist, and turns out to have been the Governor's personal dentist, where they met, she in the chair, he with the tools.  She went to the U of Michigan Law School  (and a little light on the classes on Constitutional Law, apparently); he to the U of Michigan School of Dentistry.  And what he does is go put his motorboat in first, "jumping the queue," because after all he is married to the Governor herself.   https://www.earnthenecklace.com/marc-mallory-wiki/

So here you have this crass display of droit du roi, where there are two classes of society, the "rulers," and everybody else  (call them the Peons, or perhaps more accurately, the PeedOns).  That Constitution thingy about rights reserved to the People, that gets peed-on as well, and the insolent new aristocracy takes over - well, because it can. 

Intellectually speaking, this is no different than what Mr. Putin is doing in Moscow, convincing everyone that because he is now the President, the 2-term Constitutional limit should be abolished as far as it applies to him, and he should get four terms, because he is The Boss.  And it looks like it is going that way.  And the rest of society?  Well, they are the PeedOns. 

So yes, the "malaise" you reference is there, big time, and the upshot of that is that the public gets ordered around like so many serfs.  Who is "the Government" to Order that people have to stay six feet apart?  That some restaurant owner cannot be open?  That you have to walk around with a mask on?  That you cannot have a motor on your boat?   That you must sit at home?  Who are these people that have developed this mind-set?   And who are you, Mr. and Mrs. Public,  Mr. and Mrs. Proud American, that you submit to this? 

[Dan Warnick + 6,100]

Well, in the season of tell-all memoirs, it is deafening that this little tidbit did not generate more headlines:

Barack Obama’s half-brother rips ‘cold and ruthless’ ex-president

I've added it to this thread because of the quote all the way at the end of the article, but the rest of the story is quite enlightening as well.

A “cold and ruthless” President Obama abandoned his Kenyan family in their greatest hours of need, according to a new tell-all by estranged half brother Malik Obama.

“He got rich and became a snob,” Malik, 62, told The Post via Skype from his home in the Kenyan village of Nyang’oma Kogelo. “What I saw was he was the kind of person that wants people to worship him. He needs to be worshiped and I don’t do that. I am his older brother so I don’t do that.”

The book, “Big Bad Brother From Kenya,” a self-published memoir which Malik Obama spent 22 years writing, hit Amazon with little fanfare on July 11. In its 435 pages, Malik covers the long and gradual falling out between him and the former President, which culminated in Malik publicly endorsing Donald Trump for president in 2016.

Both Malik and Barack Obama share the same father, Barack Hussein Obama Sr., a Kenyan economist who died in a car accident in 1982. Malik first met his half brother in 1985 when Barack was a 24-year-old Chicago community organizer, and they enjoyed warm relations for more than a decade. Malik spent years working in the United States, where he has dual citizenship, and frequently traveled between the US and his homeland. Malik was the best man at Barack Obama’s wedding in 1992. When Barack became president, Malik was a regular visitor to the Oval Office. 

Today Malik works full time at a foundation named after their father. He hangs on to a trove of old photos showing him and a carefree Barack spending time together in Kenya. Many are included in the book. 

The first fissures appeared shortly after Barack was elected to the White House, and Malik told him of his plans to set up the foundation.

“We had a big fight on the phone because he was not in support and insisted I shut down the website and not continue with the foundation. He had his reasons but I was not having any of it,” Malik writes, describing a stormy call shortly before the 2009 inauguration. “We talked late into the night that night. He threatened to ‘cut me off’ if I continued with the idea.”

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Malik Obama in 2012

The president, in retrospect, might have been right to be skeptical. In 2011, the foundation ran into trouble for failing to register as a tax-exempt, federally recognized nonprofit — and falsely claiming that it had. While the foundation still technically exists, it’s raised less than $50,000 each year since 2011, according to tax filings.

In the same call, President Obama also informed his brother that his aunt, Hawa Auma Hussein, the only surviving full-sibling of their father, wouldn’t be making the guest list for the inauguration. While Obama was in the White House, Aunt Hawa lived in near-poverty working as a charcoal seller, in a collapsing house, according to local Kenyan media. 

When Barack Obama visited Kenya in July 2015, brother Malik made a personal appeal on behalf of Hawa during a family dinner.

“It was awkward as I tried to convey Auntie Hawa’s wishes to her nephew. She wanted him to look out for her, build her a house, etc. I told him he owed it to her, to the family for him to do anything, something,” Malik writes. “Barack said that he was broke.”

Another aunt, Zeituni Onyango, fared no better, squatting illegally in Boston public housing before being granted asylum in 2010. When she died penniless in 2014, Malik Obama made a reluctant appeal to his brother for help burying her.

“We needed to pay for the bills and the cost of her transportation back to Kenya,” Malik writes of an Oval Office meeting on April 16. “[Barack] asked me how much and I told him roughly $20,000. This was too much he said.”

The president ultimately gave $5,000 to the effort but it took another month before the Obama family could raise the rest of the funds.

“She really had been good to him,” Malik Obama writes. “I don’t understand how somebody who claimed to be a relative or a brother can behave the way that he’s behaving, be so cold and ruthless, and just turn his back on the people he said were his family.”

The older brother also took a swipe at Barack Obama’s memoir, “Dreams From My Father,” which he says “wasn’t accurate” and filled with “embellishments.” The book cited claims of their grandfather being detained and beaten in 1949 by British colonial troops as likely false — an assessment other scholars have also come to.  

Malik Obama made national headlines after announcing he was supporting Trump over Hillary Clinton. He became one of the billionaire’s most ardent defenders on social media, earning a hit piece in BuzzFeed and an invitation to the third presidential debate, where he palled around with Kellyanne Conway.

Malik’s faith in Trump remains unwavering.

“[I’m] 110% still with Trump,” he said. “He’s not fake. He tells us the way he sees it. He’s bold and fearless and he’s tough.”

He also mocked the Democratic nominee Joe Biden as too old and feeble to win.

“I don’t think he’s going to make it. His teeth are falling off,” Obama laughed. “He looks like he’s going to drop dead.”

[Yoshiro Kamamura + 274]

BLA + other trumpist trolls - you must try harder. 

[Eyes Wide Open + 3,554]

Biden on the move and betraying what a small minded racist he truly is...and why he stays in the basement..

 

Edited August 6, 2020 by Eyes Wide Open

[Dan Warnick + 6,100]

53 minutes ago, Eyes Wide Open said:

Biden on the move and betraying what a small minded racist he truly is...and why he stays in the basement..

 

I hate to laugh about a senior citizen, and shame on his family for allowing him to flame out in front of the whole world.

[Eyes Wide Open + 3,554]

Just now, Dan Warnick said:

I hate to laugh about a senior citizen, and shame on his family for allowing him to flame out in front of the whole world.

It's all good actually part of life one just needs to accept such things and move on. 

I am in my early 60's,two yrs ago I suffered a minor stroke and had some adjustments to make.

With that being said stepping into the PRESIDENTAL limelight and most importantly responsibility? It is gloves off age,sex,color etc etc. 

[Dan Warnick + 6,100]

2 minutes ago, Eyes Wide Open said:

It's all good actually part of life one just needs to accept such things and move on. 

I am in my early 60's,two yrs ago I suffered a minor stroke and had some adjustments to make.

With that being said stepping into the PRESIDENTAL limelight and most importantly responsibility? It is gloves off age,sex,color etc etc. 

Yes, and I get it that Joe may well be the one saying "hey, I'll make this decision, thank you very much" so he's only getting what is to be expected.  Still, normally, I would only have empathy for him and his family if I knew them and knew he was going through "the decline", as it were, and it is then a family responsibility to make sure he's not being unduly used, etc.

[Eyes Wide Open + 3,554]

5 minutes ago, Dan Warnick said:

Yes, and I get it that Joe may well be the one saying "hey, I'll make this decision, thank you very much" so he's only getting what is to be expected.  Still, normally, I would only have empathy for him and his family if I knew them and knew he was going through "the decline", as it were, and it is then a family responsibility to make sure he's not being unduly used, etc.

We are from the same opinion, actually I once liked the guy, his sons loss is not something no man/father should experience. Tragic very tragic.

Yet he exposed his family to the world and its ways. The very first sign of cognitive dysfunction, then bull up and be dismissive only to be a frontman for something that has yet to be identified?

Gloves off, he has lost his way.

[Yoshiro Kamamura + 274]

Meanwhile, watch how Trump struggles to pronounce "origins", and "oranges" out every time.

 

[Ward Smith + 6,615]

5 minutes ago, Yoshiro Kamamura said:

Meanwhile, watch how Trump struggles to pronounce "origins", and "oranges" out every time.

 

Queue to the 18 second mark, he does just fine. Poor Yoshi, scrambling thru thousands of hours of Trump video to find a single mistake while we only have to watch the latest Biden video to find 10 mistakes. 100 mistakes if the video is longer than 2 minutes. 

[Eyes Wide Open + 3,554]

40 minutes ago, Yoshiro Kamamura said:

Meanwhile, watch how Trump struggles to pronounce "origins", and "oranges" out every time.

 

It is called correcting a NY accent, i would think your time is better spent bribeing some politician or finding some loose intellectual property just laying around...Not much time left..Tik Tok Tik Tok...ohh now where did that come from?