[ExI] My prediction

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> 



 

>> …We can import Ozempic, but unlike every other country in the world the US can't negotiate with the Danish company Nordisk on pricing…

 

I had to look that one up, never having purchased Ozempic.  It was most educational however, for many sources suggest that Ozempic is a very dangerous medication, never mind the cost for now.  The Albanians are more likely to treat the condition by eating less.  They save two different ways.

 

 

 

> John, reminder: congress makes law.  POTUS does not. 

 

>…You need to remind the current POTUS about that, not me. The man seems to have forgotten….

 

He will be reminded if he tries to make a law.  POTUS has not the authority to do that.  If he did, he would.

 

 

 

 

>> … the Electoral College system is imbecilic, in fact I don't think it's an effective rebuttal against ANYTHING. 

 

> So elect representatives whose platform is to eliminate the EC.  You will need 38 states to go along with it.

 

>…Yes 38 states is exactly what would be needed, and the very nature of the Electoral College itself guarantees that the smallest 38 States will NEVER agree to that even if the vast majority of the American people would like to get rid of it. Thanks to the US Constitution, the idiotic Electoral College system is effectively impossible to modify. 

 

 John K Clark

 

Most of us do not consider the EC idiotic John.  The EC dilutes and distributes political power.  The interior states do not wish to be ruled by the densely populated coastal states.  You and I live in coastal states.  I sure don’t want California ruling the USA, oh mercy.  I don’t even want Florida doing that, although I think Florida would do a better job. 

 

In our times, many of the traditional political struggles have become irrelevant.  It is now all about a race to AI, and the limiting factor might be power.  Now it is a race to AI driven by power availability.  China is ahead of everybody.  Europe has hobbled itself with a single-minded drive to renewable power in a part of the globe poorly suited to it.  Africa and South America have hobbled themselves with corrupt governments discouraging private investment.  Whoever gets AI first owns the planet.  

 

spike

 

 

  

 

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