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

[John Clark]

On Fri, Oct 9, 2026 at 4:02 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:


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> *> I considered that, were I to become President on the Democraticticket,
> one of my actions would be to urge the Democratic party toblacklist those
> who:* in 2016, directed that Clinton should be given extra
> delegates("superdelegates") in opposition to early primary results, *


*I agree that superdelegates were a very bad idea, but I'm not quite sure
what you mean by "blacklist".  *


> *> * in 2024, promoted the idea that Biden should step aside after
> thevoters had selected him, not Harris or anyone else, as the
> Democrats' nominee.*


*After Biden's disastrous debate performance there was no other option
because there was zero possibility he could win in the general election,
but LONG before that leading Democrats should've strongly urged Biden NOT
to try for a second term, and if he refused to take their advice they
should've encouraged other Democrats to challenge him for the nomination. *

*John K Clark*




On Fri, Oct 9, 2026 at 1:34 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
> > Ja of course.  Where I am going with this is that when one party
> sufficiently dominates a government, then all of the offices are held by
> members of that party.  Then the elections become meaningless because the
> voters have no way of knowing the veracity of the outcome.  For decades,
> the USSR pretended to have elections, but for some mysterious reason, the
> communist candidate won every time with well over 90% of the vote.
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> Lest you think your implication - and yes, you are making one -
> slides: it is observably the case that California, with a basically
> all-Democrat (and thus, one-party) government, has far more reliable
> and verifiable elections than the USSR did.
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> > I am watching the current democrat party struggle to explain its loss in
> 2024, amused at its flat refusal to admit or even mention what is
> completely obvious to neutral outside observers: their party is fighting
> itself.  Adrian you are astute enough to state the obvious.
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> This was only one of the causes.  There is no one single cause of what
> happened in late 2024.  But, yes, that was among the causes.
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> I considered that, were I to become President on the Democratic
> ticket, one of my actions would be to urge the Democratic party to
> blacklist those who:
> * in 2016, directed that Clinton should be given extra delegates
> ("superdelegates") in opposition to early primary results, or
> * in 2024, promoted the idea that Biden should step aside after the
> voters had selected him, not Harris or anyone else, as the Democrats'
> nominee.
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