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

[John Clark]

On Sun, Oct 11, 2026 at 10:02 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:



> * > I agree that superdelegates were a very bad idea, but I'm not quite
>> sure what you mean by "blacklist".*
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> * > Stop allowing them to register as Democratic candidates.  They can
> no longer appear on Democratic primary ballots,*


*There is no way that could legally be done.  *

*> nor will they receive any further party endorsements. *


 *That could have been legally done, but by not being neutral they'd be
doing the very thing that you were complaining about that the powers that
be did in 2016. *

*And by the way, if Bernie Sanders had won the nomination I think he
would've lost  the electoral college vote (the popular vote doesn't matter)
by an even bigger margin than Hillary Clinton did; it would've certainly
put me in a quandary, I don't know who I would've voted for.  *

* >> After Biden's disastrous debate performance there was no other option
>> because there was zero possibility he could win in the general election,*
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> * > That is not the impression I got at the time. *


*What planet were you on?? Did you actually watch that debate? It was the
most unpleasant 90 minutes of TV I had ever seen in my life, it was sad,
embarrassing and horrifying.   *

* > 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 *
>

*I'm sure that's true, just handing Kamala Harris the nomination without
her having to fight for it left a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths,
but there was no alternative. Joe Biden had withdrawn his name and there
was far too little time to run another series of primary elections, the
Democrats had to nominate somebody. As vice president Harris seemed to be
the logical choice at the time, maybe not so much today but everybody has
20-20 hindsight. *

*The Democrats I aim most of my anger at are not those that advocated
superdelegates, although it was a bad idea, the ones I'm angry at are those
that kept quiet about the fact that Joe Biden was no longer playing at the
top of his game and didn't very strongly discourage him from trying to run
for a second term.*

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


* ABSOLUTELY! *


*John K Clark *
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