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

[Adrian Tymes]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2026 at 8:57 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> On 12/10/2026 21:51, spike wrote:
> >     > Regarding your scenario, if Vance is nominated he is quite unlikely to
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> >     > choose the current POTUS as a running mate, and if he did, he is unlikely to win, and if he won anyway, unlikely to resign.
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> >     The scenario explicitly specifies that Vance (or whoever) is nominated on the condition that he will choose Trump as his vice-president, and that he will pledge to step down.
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> > Vance seems likely to betray that pledge once in office, were this to happen.
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> Fine. You are concentrating on the wrong thing.
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> In place of Vance, or anyone else, put 'someone who will carry through on his pledge to appoint Trump as vice-president, then stand aside'. I'm sure someone could be found who would do this.

Indeed.  The GOP has plenty of candidates who'd follow through on
this.  Were this to happen, Vance has been showing enough backbone
that he'd be kicked to the curb by the party (or at least Trump's
faction of the party), much like Mike Pence has been.