[ExI] Piker

Sat Oct 31 13:22:49 UTC 2026

From: John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> 
Sent: Saturday, 31 October, 2026 3:31 AM
To: spike at rainier66.com
Subject: Re: [ExI] Piker

    On Fri, Oct 30, 2026 at 7:20 PM <spike at rainier66.com <mailto:spike at rainier66.com> > wrote:

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

>The democrat candidate last time thought so too.

>…So you're bragging about the fact that thanks to the Libertarian Party we now have the most anti-libertarian president in American history?

The Libertarian party didn’t do that.  A good portion of the Democrat party voted for him, because they didn’t vote for Harris, couldn’t easily explain how she became their candidate and didn’t trust her to fight socialism.

>>…Why is it that the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway as well as nearly every other nation in Europe….

>Those countries are socialist.  The USA is not. 

>…If that's the key to the problem, if that's the reason that those countries have populations that are healthier and live longer than Americans do, then perhaps it's time for you to reconsider your total opposition to the thing that you call "socialism"….

John you should join the Democrat Socialists of America.  

>…That is pure unadulterated nonsense!  The ratio of Gross Government Debt to National GDP for Japan is about twice that of the USA, and yet they can afford universal healthcare for ALL their citizens…

The US government is so deeply in debt, it cannot operate without borrowing.  There is no damn way it can take on a bunch of additional expenses.  It cannot continue even to pay Social Security at the level it is now.

>… I predicted that in three years or less the USA would have something like Medicare for all….

Medicare for all is Medicare for none.

>….and a tax on billionaires and trillionaires…..

Plenty of countries around the globe will cheerfully take our billionaires and our trillionaire.  Money is mobile.

>…unless AI kills us all first. I did NOT predict it would happen because the House and Senate passed legislation that the president then signed (although it might happen that way) I just predicted that one way or another it would happen.  John K Clark

OK so you predict a communist revolution.

I will make note of it.

spike

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