[ExI] Piker

[John Clark]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2026 at 11:09 AM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

*>>> **If McEntee had been a Libertarian, I still wouldn’t know who it is.
>> How many internet followers does he have?  I am not one of them.  I will
>> offer that Libertarians have personalities like that.  That’s why our
>> conventions never go anywhere.*
>
> *>> …If, as you say, behavior similar to that of John McEntee is common
>> among members of the Libertarian Party….*
>
>
>
> *> That isn’t what I said.  Read again please.*
>

*I did, and I see no need to modify what I said.  *


> *>>… then why on earth would you want to be associated with such a bunch
>> of sadistic creeps?*
>
>
>
> *> It isn’t a bunch.  It is a few.  They effectively prevent the party
> from unifying however, as Hasan Piker is doing now for the Democrat party. *
>

*As I said before, Hasan Piker has never been part of a Democratic
administration and he is NOT even a Democrat. *


> >* Every Democrat candidate will be asked if they will offer an
> unambiguous full-throated condemnation, a complete repudiation of Hasan
> Piker. Some will offer that.  John will you?*


*An unambiguous full-throated condemnation, yes. A complete repudiation,
no; I couldn't even do that for Hitler because I agree with Hitler on some
things, for example, we both believed that Berlin was the capital of
Germany and the **Bavarian Alps would be a pretty place to build a house. *



> *> The Libertarian party has no mainstream or center that I can find.  It
> needs to split five ways.*
>

*If what you say is true then just as I suspected, the Libertarian Party is
doomed to eternal irrelevance. *


> *>>… **Abdul El-Sayed … Medicare for **a*
>> *ll….*
>
>
>
> *> Medicare for all is Medicare for none.  The working people cannot
> afford to pay for us.  It struggles to pay for the elderly.*
>

*Why is it that the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway
as well as nearly every other nation in Europe CAN afford to pay for
something very much like Medicare for all even though they are not as rich
as the US?  And why can I say the same thing about Japan, Taiwan and South
Korea? They all have something like Medicare for all. AND THEY ALL LIVE
LONGER THAN AMERICANS!*


>> *>> …and a wealth tax on billionaires, but like it or not there is a 100%
>> chance that we will see both those things in less than three years…. John K
>> Clark*
>
>
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> *> John this is your chance to make money, bigtime. If you believe the
> billionaire tax will pass at the national level in less than three years,*
>

*I didn't predict that the billionaire tax will "pass" at the national
level, I made no prediction about how it would come about, I just predicted
that one way or another in three years or less we would have a stiff
billionaire tax and an even stiffer trillionaire tax, or we would be dead. *

*> you might reasonably believe the notion will sell in the far left state
> of California, where the voters embrace every proposed tax.*
>

*If I lived in California I'd vote against it because at the state level a
billionaire tax is ridiculous, it can only work at the national level. *

*> it has nearly zero chance of selling at the national level, particularly
> considering it requires a constitutional amendment, as did the income tax*
> *. *
>

*I don't think that's true but for the sake of argument let's hypothesize
that it is.  I suppose a trillionaire who inherited his money could get
around the tax if he converted all his wealth into dollar bills and put
them in a HUGE money bin like Scrooge McDuck so that he earned zero
interest on it and thus had no income, but I wonder how many trillionaires
would go to such an extreme just to avoid paying a tax. *

*John K Clark*
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