[ExI] Trump suggests letting Iran ‘take out’ Los Angeles and San Diego

[Ben Zaiboc]

On Thursday, 8 October 2026 at 19:54, spike at rainier66.com <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

>> From: Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [ExI] Trump suggests letting Iran ‘take out’ Los Angeles and San Diego
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>>>…" why they find him so mesmerizing, and to this day I've never been able to receive a coherent answer."
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>>>…The reason is rooted in evolutionary psychology and the genetic selection of humans over at least 100,000 years…human groups… when they think they are facing a bleak future, this turns on psychological mechanisms that, among other things, increase the circulation of xenophobic memes…
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>> So true. However… In 2016, 2020 and 2024, the USA was at peace and the economy was prosperous. In all three election years, the incumbent party was turned out.
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>> If the current POTUS mesmerized anyone, we can’t explain 2020, because the guy who won that contest clearly didn’t mesmerize anyone. If we call on bleak future wartime memes, we can’t explain 2024.
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>> The electoral college notion doesn’t explain the 2024 result because the winner in that won the plurality vote by a comfortable margin. Even if we had ranked choice voting, he still would have won.
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>> I am a dedicated third party observer, and I still have not heard a coherent plausible explanation of the 2024 result. Anyone? Anyone? Buuuuellerrrrrr….
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>> spike

Ok, nobody else seems willing to mention the obvious explanation,so I will: Cheating.

How seriously you take that as an explanation is up to you. Just ask yourself if it really seems utterly outrageous, in light of subsequent events.

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Ben

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