[ExI] China and solar power

[John Clark]

On Wed, Nov 5, 2025 at 3:39 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

 *> **The problem is corruption, not the ballroom.  So focus on catching
>>> the corruption, while cheering for the ballroom.*
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>> *>> …Do you consider that to be an adequate response? Would you have said
>> the same thing if it had been Joe Biden who decided to tear down the entire
>> east wing of the White House and build an ostentatious 300 million dollar
>> ballroom using secret money from donors unknown to everybody except for the
>> president?*
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> *> Can he prove Joe wasn’t putting in some of his own money? *
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*I don't understand that question. *


> * > I reject the premise of the question.*
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*I know, but I don't understand why. I've been trying to understand why
since 2016.  *

> *>Money can be followed.  So follow it.  Let’s see if we can catch some
> corruption that way.*
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*These days you don't need to be Sherlock Holmes to find corruption.
Finding corruption has become trivially easy, nearly every week He Who Must
Not Be Named not only publicly admits but brags about corruption that he
has committed that was far worse than the Watergate "scandal" or anything
else that Nixon had done, by today's standards the man was a saint. During
this administration the problem is doing something about scandal when You
Know Who can lead every Republican in the House and the Senate around by
the nose, and when he has iron control over the prosecutors in the justice
department, and when he has almost total control of the entire Judicial
Branch of government. Although after yesterday's Democratic victories in
the election his iron control might be getting slightly weaker, or maybe
that's just wishful thinking on my part.*

*John K Clark *
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