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July 31, 2020 01:29 AM Forum: Politics

The Trump Wallace Redux

Posted By James Brown

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Why would I WANT to have anything to do with these leftist fools here?  Why would I WANT to have any dialogue with you?

So let me get this straight.  You tell me off, then YOU unilaterally decide YOU are willing to lower yourself to condescend to me in offering your Olive branch of "friendship", and if I don't glom onto it and say "Thank GOD he wants to be my friend", you are taken aback and you cannot understand my dismissal of you?

Really?  Your ego is that large that you don't get it?

I just don't care.  What don't you get about that. 

I'm not interested in being friends with people who would spit in my face if they had the chance. 

And this isn't me "playing victim".  It is simply an explanation of what I think of your extended hand of friendship.

I'm just not interested Dude.
A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a stream and the
scorpion asks the frog to carry him across on its back. The
frog asks, "How do I know you won't sting me?" The scorpion
says, "Because if I do, I will die too."

The frog is satisfied, and they set out, but in midstream,
the scorpion stings the frog. The frog feels the onset of
paralysis and starts to sink, knowing they both will drown.
the frog has just enough time to ask, "Why? Now we both must die."

Replies the scorpion: "Sadly, it is my nature..."

July 31, 2020 03:02 AM Forum: Politics

The Trump Wallace Redux

Posted By James Brown

Originally Posted by Russ Carroll


Not all heroes wear capes. No wonder you are very proud of your son!

Russ
Thanks!

July 31, 2020 10:08 PM Forum: Politics

Trump calls for election to be delayed.

Posted By James Brown

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer
Given the follow up post he made I agree on this one.....he was definitely baiting them and even as evidenced here they took it, hook, line and sinker LOL

Though I am not sure in this case it was wise.....the media is going to have a field day with it......
Greg;  I don't think he was baiting, I think he was sending out a trial balloon.  In any case there are some things the president should not "bait," especially on twitter.   How about these:

"Send a battalion of tanks into downtown Portland until people can peaceably shop???"

"Drop a few nukes on Beijing until the Chinese start exercising basic economic fairness???"

"Close the stock markets until the pandemic is over???"

"Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???"

"Cancel the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???"

Can you imagine the chaos?  This was one of the most idiotic and offensive tweets DJT has ever sent, and I hope we agree that is saying a lot!

Jim

July 31, 2020 10:08 PM Forum: Politics

Trump calls for election to be delayed.

Posted By James Brown

Originally Posted by Russ Carroll


So is the Wall Street Journal editorial board:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/delay-the-election-11596150821?mod=opinion_lead_pos2


"This is not to suggest that the November election will be “rigged,” as Mr. Trump asserts. If he believes that, he should reconsider his participation and let someone run who isn’t looking for an excuse to blame for defeat."
From the WSJ to God's ears.  Please.

Jim

July 31, 2020 10:14 PM Forum: Politics

Trump calls for election to be delayed.

Posted By James Brown

Originally Posted by Maurice Clark
After previously refusing to commit to accepting the result of the election if he loses, now trump is calling for the election to be delayed.  He stated on twitter "Delay the election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???".

So he is saying that it will be unsafe for people to vote in person in November, presumably because of the virus, but things are safe enough for schools to reopen now?

I wonder if he is really more concerned about losing the election and is trying to find excuses not to accept the result? Hopefully someone will inform him that he does not have the power to delay the election.

On the other hand, it could just be an attempt to deflect attention away from the truly dismal second-quarter economic numbers just released.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53597975
For several cycles Colorado has been entirely mail-in (or "drop off" voting if you wait too long to use the mail.)   Seems to work great.  I personally love it, especially since we usually have many ballot initiatives, so it takes a while to wade through.  Much easier to do at the kitchen table.  We have no more fraud than any in-person voting state.  At least not to my knowledge.  

Here is one critical point for the nation's mental health.  In CO your ballot must be received by close of business on election day.  No excuses for residents.  I think soldiers stationed overseas get extra time.  This is important.  To the extent any state implements a plan where the ballot must be "postmarked" by COB on election day, it is easy to envision weeks of uncertainty following the election.

Jim

July 31, 2020 10:22 PM Forum: Politics

Trump calls for election to be delayed.

Posted By James Brown

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer
thats the one thing about Trump that irks me.....well the main thing. He feeds the opposition ammunition far to much.....admittedly its mostly stuff that they twist into something else or use out of context so its not all on him but damn.....How hard is it to think "how will they twist this like a pretzel before I hit send?" lol

In this case it WAS a question not a statement.....which of course as the title of this topic shows the opposition twisted and ran with LOL
Hi Greg:

If you don't mind a hypothetical, would you still vote for Trump if he actually tried to delay the election?  I would not even consider such a vote.

Jim

July 31, 2020 10:37 PM Forum: Politics

Some information about Moderna etc.

Posted By James Brown

Originally Posted by Steven Moore
As many of you heard Moderna is in stage 3 of their vaccine testing. If all goes well it'll become federal law to get the vaccine. Here's something many of you don't know, guess who the first CEO of Moderna was? A Cornell graduate by the name of Anthony Fauci, who was a roommate with none other than Bill Gates. Are you paying attention? It was at Cornell that Bill Gates designed the RFID (Radio-frequency identification) and patened it under US2006257852. Are you awake yet? Now let's really go down the rabbit hole. Moderna was a pharmaceutical company that started in Germany under the name IG Farben. IG Farben is infamous for it's mass production of Zyklon-B, the primary gas used to kill millions during the Holocaust. After Germany fell, IG Farben was dissolved and its assets sold off by a Nazi turned American by the name of, you guessed it, George Soros. Soros rebranded the company as Moderna. And who was the primary stockholder of Moderna until his death? Jeffrey Epstein. His role in Moderna is where he made his fortune and established his connections. Let that sink in.

Wake up people! You are being conditioned and controlled. Please copy and paste this, I did!
Chat Conversation End



One of my friends sent this to me.
Goodness Steve, I hope that by reposting this drivel you are not indicating that you buy into this mother of all conspiracy theories.  

But thanks for posting something with a patent reference!  This is my day job.  For those who care, US2006/0257852 is something we call a "published application."  It was dropped during prosecution and is now abandoned.  It never became a patent and never will.  

The patent application was filed by a slew of researchers working for GlaxoSmithKline, not Bill Gates.  It relates to a SARS treatment, not RFID.  It was probably dropped because the treatment was ineffective and therefore unimportant, or maybe it was not a novel and non-obviousness enough breakthrough to be patentable over known treatments.

I am guessing that the rest of this conspiracy theory is totally accurate though!

Jim

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20060257852A1/en?oq=US2006257852

July 31, 2020 10:40 PM Forum: Politics

Some information about Moderna etc.

Posted By James Brown

Originally Posted by James Lacey


The doctor who started the conspiracy-theory that vaccines cause autism was prosecuted for falsifying his data, lost his license to practice forever, and if I'm not mistaken, is still in jail. Yet people still don't vaccinate their kids for fear of them getting autism. It's always amazing how some of these things get traction and just never die.
But the Playboy Playmate who popularized the anti-vax autism "theory" is still cashing in.

Jim

July 31, 2020 10:42 PM Forum: Politics

Some information about Moderna etc.

Posted By James Brown

Originally Posted by Brian McFarland

LOL - that's it, thanks. I should put that on my watch list.
Hi Brian:

Tropic Thunder is totally not politically correct, totally offensive by recent standards, and I think one of the funniest movies of all time.  Definitely watch it.

Jim

August 1, 2020 03:05 AM Forum: Politics

Trump calls for election to be delayed.

Posted By James Brown

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer


That would be a hard no.....but then no amount of bullshit will convince me he would try such a thing or any president for that matter.
I agree that Trump now, in the glare of conservative outrage, probably has no intention (and certainly has no Constitutional apparatus) for following through.  Still the dumbest tweet of all time.  This is the sort of thing that could turn into a "basket of deplorables" moment. 

Jim