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

[Adrian Tymes]

On Sun, Oct 11, 2026 at 10:19 AM spike jones via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> They had a good man there: Joe Manchin.  Joe would likely have won that election.
>
> But nominating Manchin would still come at a severe price: the party would reveal that its primaries are a meaningless exercise.  Many donors put a lot of money into those primaries.  By removing the guy who won and assigning (by some mysterious means other than the constituents’ vote) another candidate, they revealed that the party biggies are who really decides who gets the nomination.

Removing Biden and putting in Harris communicated much the same
message, turning off voters in the general election.

> We already knew that because of the leaked material that showed up on Julian Assange’s site in 2016: they cheated Bernie out of the nomination.

That doesn't even require Assange's leaked material.  It was obvious
to anyone watching the early 2016 primaries.  Sentiment was for
Sanders, until the Democrats overrode the early results by pledging
the superdelegates toward Clinton and leaned on the "Clinton's
winning, vote (and donate) for the winner" angle, which cut off
Sanders's remaining chance.

The Democrats would be well-served to eliminate the superdelegates
from their primaries, if they can get themselves to do so.