[ExI] I hate to say it but, I agree with Trump

[John Clark]

On Thu, Sep 3, 2026 at 1:12 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:



> *>>…Everybody has known for many decades that the Strait of Hormuz is a
>> potential choke point for the world's economy…*
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> *>So why did we allow the danger to continue? *
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*Because although it was obvious to anybody who looked at a map, to get rid
of that choke point we'd have to alter the physical geography of the entire
Middle East, and to do that we'd need access to Harry Potter's magic wand
which unfortunately we did not have. *


> *>>… but it turned out that attack was not as bad as Iran expected it to
>> be…*
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> *> Ja, it only sunk their navy. *
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*A navy that was useless and ridiculous and never could've played a part in
a modern war.  *


>  *> It isn’t that hard to create tunnels in which oil pipes can be placed
> safely out of reach of air attack.*
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*It isn't hard to build a 750 mile long pipeline that is 100 feet
underground?!  Who is going to pay for that? Oh wait I know, Mexico, just
like they paid for the wall that King Donald said he would build when he
was campaigning for his first term.  *


> *>I do invite you to look thru my comments in the ExI archives, and note
> that I do not comment on government policy. *
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*When a Democrat is president, government policy over immigration needs to
change.  When a Democrat is president, government policy over vaccination
needs to change. When a Democrat is president, government policy over
deficit spending needs to change. When a Democrat is president, government
policy over ...*


> *> I do however comment early and often on government corruption,*
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*Only when a Democrat is president. I remember the huge fuss you raised
when Hunter Biden got a job at a hedge fund, and yes he probably wouldn't
have gotten that job if his last name wasn't "Biden", but that level of
corruption is trivial kids stuff compared with the gargantuan ASTRONOMICAL
amount of corruption of the Trump administration. *

*Just today I was reading about how King Donald has put a 100% tariff on
drones made in China while his son, Crown Prince Donald Junior, has a
substantial financial interest in domestic drone makers. In any other
administration this alone would be a huge scandal but this sort of thing is
now so common people just yawn about it. And in this new normal that we are
living through it is indeed a small scandal. Here are my examples of the
top 8 corruption scandals of the Trump administration: *

*#8) Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick arranged the federal investment of
$1.6 billion into a US rare earth firm that he had a financial interest in.*

*#7) King Donald made more than 21,000 individual stock trades in 2025,
generating over $2 billion in income.*

*#6) By running DOGE King Donald gave Elon Musk, the richest man in the
world, enormous power that deeply influenced the contracts Musk's companies
made with the government. *

*#5) King Donalds posts on his truth social platform can and have very
rapidly moved the market, Donald said that for $100,000 a month he would
give anybody early access to those posts. *

*#4) King Donald pardoned Changpeng Zhao the founder of Binance, after Zhao
had pleaded guilty to money-laundering,  and Donald's crypto operation
World Liberty Financial, has a commercial relationship with Binance.*

*#3) King Donald has 23 Trump-branded projects being developed in foreign
countries while he is still president, and he needs the approval from 23
foreign countries in order to build what he wants to build.  Do I really
need to say more? *

*#2) The Qatar Royal Family gave king Donald a Boeing 747-8 worth $400
million that he is free to use until the day he dies. If that isn't
corruption what is? *

*#1) King Donald controls USA's cryptocurrency policy, and Donald has
a crypto business, it's called "World Liberty Financial" and Donald has
made at least $2.3 billion from that crypto business, but other investors
in World Liberty Financial have lost $2.3 billion. *

*  John K Clark*



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