[ExI] you'll never see this again

[William Flynn Wallace]

We'll just have to be satisfied that those people you mention are small
minorities.  Me?  I would be happy with a do-nothing know-nothing
president.  Color, gender, age, orientation all irrelevant.  bill w

On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 1:15 PM SR Ballard via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Depends how far right we’re defining the far right as. Monarchists and
> Dominionists of course aren’t every going to be satisfied by any political
> party. Or fascists. Or incels who think every man should be assured a wife
> by the US government.
>
> SR Ballard
>
> On Jul 3, 2020, at 12:24 PM, Dylan Distasio via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> Most of the far right are disgusted with the Republican party.
>
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2020, 1:18 PM SR Ballard via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> I strenuously disagree that only the far right are the only members left
>> in the Republican party. They’re just the loudest and they are growing, but
>> they’re not the whole party. Surely even you know some “not Trump, not
>> Pence” Republicans?
>>
>> That’s like saying the only Democrats are Bernie diehards.
>>
>> SR Ballard
>>
>> On Jul 3, 2020, at 11:55 AM, John Clark via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 10:45 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> *>  I didn’t jump to anyone’s defense.  Pointing out that POTUS has no
>>> jurisdiction in this case isn’t defending POTUS.*
>>>
>>
>> You're excusing POTUS's dereliction of duty. The virus has outsmarted
>> Trump at every turn, he even gave the virus a silly nickname (kung flu)
>> because that strategy worked so well against his political opponents, but
>> to his surprise this time it didn't work, the virus remained unflustered.
>> So Trump is out of ideas, he's in way over his head so he just throws up
>> his hands and says there's nothing I can do so I don't want to talk or hear
>> about it ever again, and then he goes out and plays golf or does what he's
>> really good at, turning on Fox News and watching sycophants fawn over him.
>>
>>
>>> > *The rioters and BLM demonstrators are generally not wearing masks
>>> already.*
>>>
>>
>> It's true that not all of them wore masks and they should have, but the
>> percentage was much higher than at the Trump rallies, and at least the BLM
>> people were outdoors.
>>
>>
>>> *> The guy in the video can’t do much of anything, because he isn’t a
>>> governor, only a POTUS.  POTUS doesn’t have the authority a governor has in
>>> this case*
>>
>>
>> And for similar reasons Franklin Roosevelt said in a famous speech:
>>
>> "*Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 -- a date which will live in infamy --
>> the Territory of Hawaii was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and
>> air forces of the Empire of Japan. I'm sure I speak for all Americans when
>> I say I wish the Hawaiians the very best of luck in the difficult struggle
>> they have before them**.*"
>>
>>
>>> > *(Bill of Rights, Amendments 9 and 10.)*
>>>
>>
>> If what you say is true and the constitution renders the federal
>> government powerless to protect its citizens from a global virus epidemic
>> as every other advanced technological country in the world has managed
>> to do then that is an admission that the constitution of the United States
>> is a complete failure and is nothing but a worthless scrap of paper. But I
>> don't really think the constitution is worthless, I think the current POTUS
>> is worthless. Protecting its citizens is the entire point of having a
>> federal government, but Trump is more interested in protecting statues of
>> long dead American traitors.
>>
>> >* the pandemic is not a left-right issue,*
>>>
>>
>> As long as Trump thinks wearing a virus protection mask is a political sign
>> of personal dissatisfaction with him and as long as extreme right wing
>> Republicans (the only type of Republican there is anymore) think that "*member's
>> of the Church of Secular Science bow to the Gods of Data by wearing a mask
>> as their symbol, demonstrating that they are the elite; smarter, more
>> rational, and morally superior to everyone else*" then like it or not
>> the virus epidemic has very much become a left-right issue. And respect for
>> the truth has also become a left-right issue.
>>
>> John K Clark
>>
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