[ExI] My prediction

[John Clark]

On Tue, Jan 6, 2026 at 5:12 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

*>>**… If it wasn't for the electoral college Al Gore would have been
>> president and we would not have had the Iraq war….*
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>  >  *John recall your prediction in 2016 about the risk of nuclear war.*
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*I certainly understand why you don't want to talk about the Iraq war, and
I recall what I said in 2016 very well, I said I didn't expect a nuclear
war but if He Who Must Not Be Named became president the probability of it
happening would be larger (but still less than 50%) than if Hillary Clinton
became president. As for today, I still don't think there will be a nuclear
war but the probability of it happening would have been less if Kamala
Harris or even Joe Biden was president because Mr. I Reduced Drug Prices By
1600 Percent has shown more signs of senility than Biden ever has. *

*> Can we define the term “man” please? *


*Oh so you wanna play the define game, that's usually a sign that somebody
is losing an argument because if they had a better retort they would use
it, but OK I will do as you ask just as soon as you define "define", and
then define "define define" and then ...   *

*>> …Black people are a minority, so should a black person get 10 votes in
>> presidential elections but a white person only get one?*
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> *> All they need to do is move to Alaska or Wyoming.*
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*And if** the Electoral College was eliminated and somebody in Wyoming was
unhappy that they were living in a state that had little political
influence then all they would need to do is move to California. *


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>> *>> Wyoming should have less power than California because almost nobody
>> lives in Wyoming…*
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>  *> That’s right, it does.  Wyoming gets 3 EC votes, California gets 54.*


*California has 18 times as many electoral votes as Wyoming, but California
has 67.3 times as many people as Wyoming. And both states get exactly the
same number of senators. I have asked the following question before but I
have never gotten a straight answer:*


*If Wyoming was as liberal as Massachusetts and California was as
conservative as Mississippi, would you still be defending the electoral
college and the way the number of senators are assigned to each state with
such vigor? *


*> I am surprised you are tripping over it John, being an S-alpha2.  By
> that reasoning, there are no more POTUS elections in the future, or if so,
> they are irrelevant, since AI will be really running everything.*


*Yeah you're right. The entire issue might not be very important anymore,
even though it once was. If AI doesn't advance as fast as I think it will
then You Know Who's popularity will not drop like a rock **and so the only
presidential election we will have in 2028 is this sort of "election" that
they have in North Korea.  If AI does advance as fast as I think it will
then He Who Must Not Be Named popularity will be in the toilet and so he
won't be able to cancel the November 2028 election as he would like, but **it
might not make a whole lot of difference who wins it because human beings
will no longer be running the show.*


* John K Clark*
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