[ExI] Trump, in an Escalation, Calls for Republicans to ‘Nationalize’ Elections

[John Clark]

On Tue, Feb 3, 2026 at 1:53 PM Darin Sunley via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

*> **The more recent cheers of hundreds of thousands to Kirk being shot in
> the neck do not fill me with confidence*
>

*I did not hear hundreds of thousands of cheers over the murder of Charlie
Kirk, in fact I didn't hear any. I did hear people saying, quite correctly
in my opinion, that the postmortem canonization of a white supremacist like
him was inappropriate. And the murderer of Kirk was a 22 year old lunatic
not an official government agent; on the other hand the 2 murders that
recently occurred in Minneapolis were carried out by masked government
thugs who were sent to that city because of an order given by He Who Must
Not Be Named.*


> *> Convincing me that the Democrats were largely factually correct will
> not convince me that they were not also totalitarian moralistic
> authoritarians who believe that being factually correct makes them morally
> entitled to rule with an iron fist*
>

*If you wish to live in a society then you cannot have total freedom, you
need to make compromises. You may want to turn a rickety wooden building
that is in the middle of a densely packed residential area into a fireworks
factory, but society will prevent you from doing that, and the same thing
would be true if you wanted to convert that building into a lethal virus
breeding and distribution center. And when you're in the middle of an
extreme emergency like the Covid pandemic that killed 1.3 million
Americans, decisions need to be made, not with an iron fist, but they need
to be quick, decisive and intelligent. All the decisions made by the
president at the time, not just those involving Covid, were quick and
decisive but unfortunately almost none of them were intelligent. *

*And nobody is a bigger fan of an iron fist than You Know Who, that's why
his very good friends include dictators like Vladimir Putin (Russia),
Viktor Orban (Hungary), Recep Erdoğan (Turkey), Rodrigo Duterte
(Philippines), and Nayib Bukele (El Salvador) who described himself as "the
coolest dictator in the world". *

*But all that is trivial compared with the deep (homo erotic?) romance that
has developed between He Who Must Not Be Named and the most brutal living
dictator on this planet Kim Jong Un who rules North Korea, not with an iron
fist but with a fist made of depleted uranium.*


*He wrote me beautiful letters and we fell in love
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV6mVmAVQU4>*

* > Quit arguing COVID - I genuinely don't care*


*Fortunately there are still people around that did and still do care, and
that's the only reason why the American death toll from Covid wasn't
many times higher than 1.3 million.   *


*John K Clark*

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