[ExI] Inflation and the 2024 election

[Keith Henson]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2026 at 2:16 PM John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 16, 2026 at 5:05 PM Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com>
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> *> As a cult, Trump MAGA is not the most extreme. I think the Rajneesh
>> followers were even more over the top.*
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> *Yeah but nobody ever gave Rajneesh the keys to a missile carrying nuclear
> submarine like they did for the MAGA leader.*
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I am fairly sure that orders to launch would not be obeyed unless the US
was under attack



> *Both political parties always had a lunatic fringe, but this is the first
> time that the lunatic fringe gained control not just of the Presidency but
> also the House and the Senate and the Supreme Court. *
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The SC does not back up Trump in all cases. Still, they do it enough to be
worrying.

Keith

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>> On Fri, Oct 16, 2026 at 1:18 PM John Clark via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>>> On Fri, Oct 16, 2026 at 3:18 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
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>>> *> why does your party lose to an unpopular candidat**e?*
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>>> *Why do cult preachers who predict an exact date for the end of the
>>> world fail to lose any popularity with their slavish acolytes even after
>>> that date recedes into the past  and their prediction clearly failed
>>> because the world still continues? Nobody knows.  I do have strong evidence
>>> that millions of people continue to find Donald J Trump to be charming and
>>> charismatic even after he has told literally TENS OF THOUSANDS of lies. For
>>> some reason his apparent charm and charisma never worked a damn with me, I
>>> find him to be** so stupid and pompous he would be comical if he hadn't
>>> introduced so much new misery to the world which already had quite enough.
>>> I freely admit I can't explain how doomsday cult leaders or the current
>>> leader of the Republican Party could possibly exist, but somehow both can. *
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>>> *I also know that during the height of the Covid pandemic the difference
>>> between a doomsday cult and the modern Republican Party started to get very
>>> blurry.  *
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>>> *John K Clark*
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