'Gram the Grownup #4 Alexander Mercouris

[Roshan]

Choose FOUR answers. Don't discuss him until the votes are revealed just before midnight on Saturday, March 19, NYC time, or look up anything else about him until we agree to it after that.

[Roshan]

Amy, Anthony. e-ssam. Jonathan. -Sarah-. Vincent

[Roshan]

Here's a shorter one. Alexander speaks with his (real life) business partner at "The Duran". Watch it, and if you want to change your vote/s, you can do so on the thread until midnight Monday going into Tuesday NYC time. So you have two days. Don't discuss with anyone or look at any further materials on him until that time.

Thanks.

[Anthony]

I apologize--I fell asleep very early due to not feeling well, woke up intermittently to try to watch the video, fell asleep again, and didn't vote on the poll on time.

NiTe, so/sp 5w6 529

[Roshan]

Okay, so check out Anthony's answer but then don't look at anything else on the thread but the two videos (or any other materials) until midnight Monday going into Tuesday NY time. You may be changing your vote/s and it's very easy to be influenced by someone else's changes. Actually, it would probably be best if you just went directly into youtube to view the videos because I'd really like to have as unadulterated opinions as possible. I'm not voting yet because the OP is the first video I ever saw of him but I didn't have anywhere near a complete typing until after that. I should say at this point that Alexander Mercouris used to practice law, though.

Amy e-ssam Jonathan -Sarah- Vincent

[Roshan]

By special request, the deadline to retype Alexander Mercouris has been extended to tomorrow (Tuesday) at 7 pm NYC time. People love him so much they don't want to let him go.

Amy Anthony e-ssam Jonathan -Sarah- Vincent

[Jonathan]

I feel like his 'charmingly British' style of expression plays a role in the type, bc I can't get past it! The manner of his sing-song rhythm almost makes me want to see him with one of those video skin apps, where he presents with an animated tweed cap and tobacco pipe tracking his every movement.

He has what seems like a vast intellect than isn't personally influenced by events, but I can assume that even he falls back into a familiar drumbeat; this is what's expected, this is how it will go, his assumption being that Rushier will probably do this in X time and that will be that. When you're long-game is so confident, this is how you act.

I don't see him as open or particularly receptive, except when deciding when to speak, the tone is foregone, but that is in a way the British class, the well-timed self-humility of knowing... when to... tail off.

He's almost like a story teller. The creative well-spring of ideas over and over until they curtail. He's like the 'political' David Attenborough, just with a little more edge and speed. A right gentleman he is, raised on spy novels and just enough OCD to make it a habit.

I was one of 5w6'ers, but I'm willing to trade an sx instinct for an intp function.... 9w1, so/sp. intp or there abouts.
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[Vincent]

Hmmmfff
I have the feeling i might have to eat my hat soon on this one but... the second video confirms a lot of what i saw and suspected from the first one. It might very well be confirmation bias but if anything i see more reasons to type him on the 6 side of the 6/5 line and more reasons to think he is FiSe.
Sovic i'm going to keep those votes.

I feel even less confident about the rest of the typing, but the alternatives i can think of doesn't Vincent "click" and my brain is pretty fried now, so i'm going to keep those too.

[-Sarah-]

I gave Alexander the initial typing of 5w6 1w9 2w1 so/SP. Or maybe a 3w4 fix. I was almost tempted to give him SP/sx, and honestly I should've given him that typing to begin with. I mean so/sp with 1w9 and 2w1? That's a massive E1 influence on top of the fixes. The reason I hesitated with sp/sx because of the 5 core.

After watching the second video, he's such a gamma introvert: he's either Ne polr or very Ne ignoring. He's a total negationist, which Vincent attributes to E6 and I think 6w5 deep in 5 is his core type. However 612 even with sp/sx doesn't seem quite right, and I don't see 9 or 8 fix either.

In the first video, you can see his office or living room, and there's something very disjointed about the room. As organized and neat as the room is (which points to high sp and 1 fix), it visually doesn't flow. That wallpaper is atrocious. It's interesting that you can't really distinguish what type of room it is: is it an office? Is it a living room? Part of a larger room? I have no idea what it is. It reminds me of a very mild version of this. I think this points to image fix last, social last, and possibly low sensing.

So my full typing of him is NiTe 6w5 1w9 3w4 SP/sx.

[Amy]

I agree with the 5/6 line, and am changing my vote to 6w5 (I considered it before as an option, but my initial vote was 1w9). My impression was that he was on the Te-Fi axis with both decent Si and Se. I voted TeSi because I didn't see Fi first (and was leaning on him being an extravert) but this, 'but at the end of the day you know what else can one do. Either one fights and one has to fight this through the courts or one gives up. Sometimes you can won in the courts even in this type of desperate situation....' I'm now reconsidering if he's Se tool with Si demonstrative instead, all the facts in his back pocket, but what more can one do (Ne PoLR?) then 'push through'?
Something along the lines of 'Here's what we the people should do to defend ourselves because there are winners and there are losers (and there are those we can trust and those we can't).'

Current typing is FiSe(?) 6w5 1w9 3w2 so/sp