[ExI] Free Trade

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> 
Sent: Friday, 17 October, 2025 1:35 PM
To: spike at rainier66.com
Cc: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Subject: Re: [ExI] Free Trade

 

On Fri, Oct 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM <spike at rainier66.com <mailto:spike at rainier66.com> > wrote:

 

> Tell my senators what you told us, urge them to vote open-now, then negotiate

 

>…I assume you're joking because if the Republicans won't negotiate now, and they won't, then they certainly won't negotiate if the Democrats give in and the government reopens.  After all, they had plenty of time to negotiate with the Democrats before the shutdown happened, but they refused to have anything to do with them, I guess because the Democrats are the party of hate, evil, AND SATAN. 

 

John K Clark

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well Joh, I am not a religious type, so I stop well short of the SATAN business, staying with natural causes.

 

>From Jan 2021 to Jan 2023, the current stay-closed party held all three seats of power.  One would think they would have taken that golden opportunity to negotiate from a position of strength the problems you point out.  I don’t recall that happening.  

 

We can scarcely expect them to negotiate now, from a position of weakness.  Do explain please your indicating that this makes them evil and the rest of the religion stuff in your concluding sentence.

 

spike  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From: John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com <mailto:johnkclark at gmail.com> > 
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>>… So you are telling us the Affordable Care Act is a failure John? 

 

>…I'm telling you the Affordable Care Act would have been one hell of a lot better if the Republicans hadn't crippled it…

 

Easy solution: vote to reopen government, negotiate to fix it.  Simple.  They can’t fix it while shut down.

 

>>… Easy solution John: do something now.  Write to your senator, pressure the stay-closed party to vote with those evil open-nowers.  They only need five of them.  Open now, let the Affordable Care Act do its magic as they told us it would do when it was passed.

 

>…I have no idea what you mean by that.  John K Clark

 

OK clarification: contact your senators (OK not YOUR senators John, for both of them are voting to reopen now (but you could contact both of my senators (who both voted to stay closed (forever if necessary.))))  Tell my senators what you told us, urge them to vote open-now, then negotiate with the open-nowers to fix the crippledness of the Affordable Care Act.

 

spike 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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