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

[Keith Henson]

" * is there any point in blaming the Libertarians, who are less than 1%?
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Actually, yes. In trying to attract them, the Republicans picked up the
worst of Libertarian memes. So we had things like Musk's crew firing the
DoE people who maintain the nuclear stockpile, and the Forest Service
firefighters, plus a large fraction of the public health people, and
research scientists. China will displace the US as the place where advances
happen.

Keith


On Fri, Oct 9, 2026 at 6:26 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> On Fri, Oct 9, 2026 at 7:53 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
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> *> **Would you like to restate your comment please John?*
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> *>…No thanks, I'm good**.*
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> *>…ME**: In the 2016 presidential election, if the libertarian vote had
> gone for the Democratic candidate, would Donald Trump still have won the
> electoral college?  John K Clark*
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> *In all that, you fail to recognize that the Democrat vote didn’t all go
> for the Democrat candidate.  A large percentage of the republican vote went
> against the republican candidate.  I doubt it was a third, but it was
> likely about a quarter.  We may never know, but the Orange Man Bad faction
> was huge and vocal in the republican party.  Since the two mainstream
> parties are about the same size, many voters must have crossed party lines
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> *When we are talking about a quarter of the mainstream voting cross-party,
> is there any point in blaming the Libertarians, who are less than 1%?  *
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