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

[Keith Henson]

On Thu, Oct 8, 2026 at 11:54 AM <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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The US was not uniformly prosperous. There were large parts that were
relatively worse off then they had been previously.

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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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Sure we can. if you look at the parts of the country that voted MAGA, they
were relatively depressed.

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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There is a lot of noise in such things as elections. EP gives ;you the
general drift of social movements without an exact correlation to elections.

Keith



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