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

[Adrian Tymes]

On Sun, Oct 11, 2026 at 4:22 PM John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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,
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> There is no way that could legally be done.

Sure it can.  The Democratic Party mostly sets its own rules.

The affected candidates can file on general election, or other party,
ballots.  Just not Democratic.

>>> >> 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.
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> 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.

Regardless of what you think of the debate, I was watching the polling.

I'm not sure how many voting Americans watched, or cared about during
the debate's airing (before people made news of it), the debate.

>> > 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
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> 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 Joe Biden had withdrawn his name

The decision for Biden to withdraw his name after being nominated was
part of the decision that voters objected to.