[ExI] Trump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His Presidency

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of John Clark via extropy-chat
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Subject: [ExI] Trump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His Presidency

 

On Sat, Oct 3, 2026 at 1:21 PM <spike at rainier66.com <mailto:spike at rainier66.com> > wrote:

 

> Regarding defending Trump, I am neutral on him.

 

>… you were outraged that Hunter Biden got a $500,000 a year job from a Ukrainian company, but you had no problem whatsoever with the Royal Family of Qatar giving a $400 million 747 jet to Donald. And you were horrified by the lack of security of Hillary Clinton's email server and yet hundreds of top-secret documents stored in cardboard boxes in a public bathroom at Trump's Mar-a-Lago palace was just fine. That doesn't sound very neutral to me…

 

 

 

I am not neutral on Hunter, Qatar or H. Clinton.  Hunter was a conduit for corruption, Qatar had a jet which they couldn’t use (so if they wish to give it to us, well OK), Clinton leaked top secret documents by (somehow) giving them to her assistant, who gave them to her husband who gave them to the NY police.

 

 

>… Having criticized Donald I now await your vigorous defense patiently explaining to me why none of this should be of the slightest concern and that the man is as pure as the driven snow, not like that evil Hillary Clinton….

 

The evil Hillary Clinton broke laws that would send any other civilian to prison.

 

>… or the monsterist Joe Biden.

 

John K Clark

 

Joe Biden isn’t monsterist.  I don’t recall having posted that.  I don’t understand the process by which he was nominated then didn’t run.  I heard after the fact that he did poorly in a debate, well OK, so why is that such a problem?  How did we get this other candidate, the former AI czar?  I was abroad when all that happened, but I never did hear a good explanation of how that all took place.  If a candidate withdraws, who gets to choose the new one?  

 

John, I will agree I was not neutral on Harris.  She is a flaming idiot.  Everything she did demonstrated this.  I am astonished she is still running fourth in the betting for the nomination in 28.  

Joe dropped out (by some still-mysterious process) and his mysteriously appointed replacement was the worst candidate in my lifetime.  Sheesh see the video:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHjXf0y-VRw

 

Do explain please how Harris would be better.

 

spike

 

 

 

   

 

 

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