[ExI] Whitewash

[Dylan Distasio]

+1.  I will also offer this bet to any takers.

On Fri, Jan 31, 2020, 6:23 PM Darin Sunley via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> I will bet anyone who wants to take it $100 USD that President Trump will
> obey the results of the elections of both 2020 and, if applicable, 2024.
>
> I have been hearing this ridiculous horse puckey my entire life - that
> [insert President here] will declare themselves Caesar and
> President-for-Life.
>
> It was implausible nonsense about Obama.
> It was implausible nonsense about Bush II.
> It was implausible nonsense about Clinton.
> It was implausible nonsense about Bush I.
> It was implausible nonsense about Reagan.
>
> It makes the otherwise reasonable, intelligent people who spout it, on
> bith sides of the aisle, sound like paranoid loons.
>
> There are many plausible failure modes of a complete breakdown of federal
> politics.
>
> Caesars are not one of them.
>
> I may have ti make this offer every election year - like your psychic
> research wager.
>
> Just stop this. It's silly.
>
> [Of the presidents in that list the most worrying was actually Bush I.
> Word-to-the-wise: don't elect former heads of the CIA to high office. They
> know where entirely too many bodies are buried, from direct involvement in
> the burial.
>
> Until we see a President normalizing wearing a high ranking service
> uniform and supplementing the Secret Service with mainline military units
> and/or private security forces, we're a long way from El Presidente.]
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2020, 3:45 PM John Clark via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> The grand whitewash has now been successfully completed. The US Senate,
>> the so called "greatest deliberative body in the world" has cowardly made
>> it clear that it doesn't want to know the truth and will do everything in
>> its power to prevent you or any of the American people from knowing it. And
>> so only one more step is needed for the march toward dictatorship to be
>> complete, staying in power after January 20 2021 regardless of the November
>> election results.
>>
>> John K Clark
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