[ExI] Inflation and the 2024 election

[John Clark]

On Sat, Oct 17, 2026 at 3:10 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> * > A modern nuclear missile submarine stays 1000 feet underwater for
>> months at a time, so the captain of the submarine is completely cut off
>> from what's going on in the outside world except for a ultra low frequency
>> ultra low bandwidth military radio receiver that can only receive about 2
>> words a minute, so the only way he would know that the US was under attack
>> was if his Commander and Chief told him it was under attack. And then his
>> orders would be clear, launch all missiles.*
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> * > The comms wouldn't go directly from POTUS to sub.  The chain of orders
> would likely be intercepted and halted before they could be sent to the sub
> if the US was not actually under attack.*


*Once a launch of an ICBM in Asia from an enemy nation has been detected
and its trajectory definitively determined to be a city in the USA the
President of the United States will almost certainly be dead in 20
minutes.  Yes the Secret Service will try to evacuate POTUS from Washington
to a "secure location", but you can't get very far in 20 minutes, **less
than that if the missile came from an enemy submarine just off the coast,** and
the enemy probably has a pretty good idea where that **"secure location" is
likely to be.  So unfortunately there simply isn't time for everybody in
the chain of command to second guess the president's decision to launch.
And that's why it's not a good idea to vote for an ignorant amoral imbecile
to be in the White House. *

*John K Clark*
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