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

[Adrian Tymes]

On Sun, Oct 11, 2026 at 7:19 AM John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2026 at 4:02 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>> > 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,
>
> I agree that superdelegates were a very bad idea, but I'm not quite sure what you mean by "blacklist".

Stop allowing them to register as Democratic candidates.  They can no
longer appear on Democratic primary ballots, nor will they receive any
further party endorsements.  They must run as some other party or
independent, if they run again.

More importantly, their campaigns stop receiving Democratic party funding.

In most cases, this ends their political careers.

>> > * 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.
>
> After Biden's disastrous debate performance there was no other option because there was zero possibility he could win in the general election,

That is not the impression I got at the time.  More importantly,
polling after the election suggests that enough people (in the states
where this would change electoral votes) either switched to Trump or
didn't vote - because of the specific issue - that, if this specific
action had not been taken, Biden would probably have won 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.

That's fair.  I recall that a few did, but perhaps the challenge
should have been done more seriously.

Regardless, the problem was in switching after he had been elected the
party nominee.  Specifically, it was ignoring the will of the voters
after that will had been expressed.