[ExI] Now He's Mr. I Lowered Drug Prices By 2000 Percent

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> 
Sent: Friday, 23 January, 2026 9:42 AM
To: spike at rainier66.com
Cc: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Subject: Re: [ExI] Now He's Mr. I Lowered Drug Prices By 2000 Percent

 

 

 

On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 12:32 PM <spike at rainier66.com <mailto:spike at rainier66.com> > wrote:

 

 


 

> The cognitive decline of POTUS has become so intense that it's time to invoke the 25th amendment and JD Vance needs to become the president, I like him a lot better, and I hate HATE HATE JD Vance. 

 

 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hcv0NhpfBLY> Now He's Mr. I Lowered Drug Prices By 2000 Percent
 

 

> John one of the rules you have over on your own list is don’t be boring.

 

 

>…Spike, did you actually listen to the demented hallucinogenic speech that POTUS gave in Switzerland yesterday? Do you feel that the most powerful man in the world, a man who has access to the nuclear launch codes, showing clear signs of senility, is boring?! I find it terrifying. 

 

John K Clark

 

 

No, that same guy has had those codes for over five years and has demonstrated he has no intentions of launching a nuclear war.  He never had any intentions of going to war over Greenland either.  In accordance with transactional negotiations, he was coaxing Europe to recognize the failure of the philosophy “Speak softly and carry a big stick” if they are depending on the USA to be the big stick.  Without the US nukes, they have only speak softly.  

 

Solution: Europe, beef up your military.  Keeping Putin back on his own side is Europe’s job, not the USA, particularly considering the US federal government is staring down bankruptcy from the end of the barrel with the hole in it.

 

John it might help if you understand transactional negotiations and business philosophy, as described by Tony Schwartz in The Art of the Deal.  If you really just get too terrified by seeing the name on the cover, just keep reminding yourself that guy didn’t write AotD, Tony Schwartz did.  It was used as a textbook in corporate negotiations training in a lotta places, and still is, because it works.

 

In transactional business philosophy, the goal is not to win every round but to create a mutual benefit for both parties or all parties in a negotiation, in order to facilitate further deals in the future.  So it is sacrifice some profit on this deal in order to enable more deals, which benefits everyone in the long run.  The transactional analysts wins in multi-round negotiations-enable prisoner’s dilemma.  It is the fruition of the stunning insight by John Forbes Nash known as Nash Equilibrium.  Once you read Art of the Deal by Schwartz, you will get what POTUS is doing, but not until then.  A lotta the bluster will make sense.

 

On a fun side note, once you get transactional negotiations, you will understand why our medical insurance system is the way it is, and why it will fail in the immediately foreseeable future, regardless of what we do.  Deetz available on request.

 

Thanks for the good word on JD Vance, or rather the less LESS LESS bad word.

 

spike

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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