[ExI] My prediction

[Darin Sunley]

Ok, short words then.

The Trump Admin is made of smart people. You can disagree with them, but
they are not dumb, or crazy. Writing them off as dumb or crazy is dumb and
crazy.

On Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 1:23 PM John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 2:59 PM Darin Sunley <dsunley at gmail.com> wrote:
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> *> Also, you didn't actually address my substantive point. Don't think I
>> didn't notice that.*
>>
>
> *I guess your substantive point was so substantive that my IQ was not
> great enough to grasp it. Please spell it out.  *
>
>
> *John K Clark*
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>> On Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 12:40 PM John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 2:01 PM Darin Sunley via extropy-chat <
>>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> *> Trump has probably above average IQ ( a clinical moron can't run a
>>>> real estate company for decades, even poorly)*
>>>>
>>>
>>> *Calling him a clinical moron (and not just a moron) would probably be
>>> going too far because that term has a precise definition, clinical morons
>>> have an IQ between 50 and 70, and I would estimate that the IQ of the most
>>> powerful man in the world is about 80, maybe 85 when he was young and on a
>>> good day. *
>>>
>>> *And you CAN run a real estate company, poorly, for many decades if you
>>> inherit enough money from your daddy. And Trump has. If he had just used
>>> that money to buy treasury bills then on January 20 2017, when he first
>>> became president, he would've been considerably richer than he was. But of
>>> course today he's probably 10 or 20 times richer than he was then, I will
>>> leave it to your imagination to figure out how we manage to do that but I
>>> will give you a hint, it had nothing to do with skill. *
>>>
>>> *> modulo recent probable mild age-related declines.*
>>>
>>>
>>> *The only way to reconcile POTUS having an "above average IQ" with his
>>> Greenland obsession, his pride at being able to tell the difference between
>>> a giraffe and a hippopotamus on a cognitive test, and
>>> "I Lowered Drug Prices By 1600 Percent" is that the poor man has developed
>>> an advanced case of Alzheimer's disease. *
>>>
>>> *John K Clark*
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>>>>>
>>>>> *Huh? There is already a deal! If a US company wants to invest in some
>>>>> project in Greenland they are perfectly free to do so, and both Denmark and
>>>>> Greenland would be delighted if they did. And if the US military wants to
>>>>> establish more military bases in Greenland they are perfectly free to do
>>>>> that too with no objection from NATO ally Denmark. There is absolutely no
>>>>> need for the US to rule Greenland! The people of Denmark don't want that
>>>>> and neither do the people who live in Greenland. *
>>>>>
>>>>> *> it would be a great place to set up data centers. *
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> *Iceland might be a good place to set up data centers because
>>>>> electricity is cheap thanks to geothermal power that is available there,
>>>>> that's why several bitcoin mining factories are already there. But
>>>>> Greenland would be a lousy place for a data center because unlike Iceland
>>>>> it has no geothermal energy so electricity is very expensive in Greenland,
>>>>> and there are very few high-capacity optical communication lines to that
>>>>> country. But if some company wants to build a data center in Greenland
>>>>> anyway there's nothing stopping them, they can start building one today.
>>>>> However nobody is doing so because they aren't crazy.  I can't say the same
>>>>> thing about the current President of the United States.*
>>>>>
>>>>> *Spike, if Joe Biden had won the 2024 election and his Alzheimer's
>>>>> disease had gotten much MUCH worse and he started threatening military
>>>>> force unless loyal NATO ally Denmark gave Greenland to the US, would you
>>>>> still be defending such a bazaar ultimatum with vigor? I have my doubts. *
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> *>  **I don’t know if that whole thing is an intentional
>>>>>> distraction, like the Alcatraz business.  What I heard but don’t know if it
>>>>>> is true: a suggestion to reopen Alcatraz as a prison was an intentional
>>>>>> distraction used to test AI: protest groups sent mail to the White House,
>>>>>> responses were generated by AI, printed and mailed, with little or no human
>>>>>> oversight or intervention.  There was never any real intention of reopening
>>>>>> Alcatraz as a prison.  Sounds plausible I suppose. *
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> *Good heavens! With all your years of experience with finding excuses
>>>>> for Mr. I Lowered Drug Prices by 1600 Percent, I would've thought you could
>>>>> do better than that. Convoluted explanations using dubious logic is not
>>>>> necessary, I postulate that the reason the man seems to be stupid is quite
>>>>> simple, he really is stupid.*
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> *John K Clark*
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