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

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> 



> It was valuable to world peace, in that it demonstrated that a surface navy is vulnerable to modern weapons.  This demonstration may have been what convinced Xi to avoid invasion of Taiwan.

 

>… it demonstrated that, thanks to Donald's idiotic Iranian war, American anti-missile missiles are now in serious short supply….

 

How do you know that?  Do you have access to top secret inventories?  Oh, you read about it on Meidas Touch?  We don’t know what the US military has, and they aren’t telling us.

 

 

 

  

>>… A few miles of pipe would suffice,

 

>…Depending on the specific model of Iranian drone used, they have a range of between 600 and 1550 miles….

 

I see, and you postulate that they will use these drones to attack Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Qatar, Syria, Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain, Israel, simultaneously.  Well, from the Iranian point of view, all of those guys are infidels, so I suppose it is possible, in the last few days of the existence of Iran.

 

 

> where the oil can be pumped into trucks and carried over land,

 

>…So under wartime conditions you're gonna build a new road….

 

No, build them now.

 

>… you can have a line of defenseless trucks….

 

Don’t worry John, the trucks are defenseful.  If Iran started attacking all its neighbors to the west simultaneously, Tehran would be reduced to ashes.  They centralized their command and control, right there, how convenient.

 

>…that is so long it is capable of carrying 20 million barrels of oil EACH DAY. A standard oil tanker truck carries about 190 barrels of oil, so you'd need 105,000 trucks. Imagine that, a straight line of 105,000 highly flammable tanker trucks. What a glorious sight that will be. And what a delicious target for a $20,000 drone!

 

Speaking of delicious targets, Iran provided us one, right up close to the Caspian Sea.

 

 

>…Nobody burns crude oil, they burn gasoline and diesel oil, and both are nearing their all-time high.  

 

https://www.macrotrends.net/2516/wti-crude-oil-prices-10-year-daily-chart

 

 

Ja I saw that, 90 bucks today.  A mere four years ago, it topped 120.  But we survived that somehow, did we not?  I look at it this way: expensive oil enables a lot of interesting projects, such as Keith’s notion, wind power, solar power, resurgence of nuclear and coal projects, such as that.

 

> Why does the government have a policy on vaccination?  There’s nothing in the constitution which allows that.

 

>…There's nothing in the Constitution that allows the use of cell phones either…..

 

Ja, the constitution isn’t about what we are allowed to do.  It is about what the federal government is allowed to do.  They can’t ban cell phones.

 

>…Or flat screen TVs….

 

They can’t ban flat screen TVs,

 

>…Or artificial intelligence.  Or even indoor plumbing….

 

The federal government may not ban artificial intelligence or even indoor plumbing.  So they don’t.  Because they cannot.  You make my point: the constitution protects us from Bernie Sanders and every other yahoo who imagines the federal government has powers it does not have.

 

 

>> …#1) King Donald controls USA's cryptocurrency policy…  John K Clark

> Indeed? 

 

>…Yes indeed….

 

I see, so you theorize that it is POTUS rather than congress who makes law?  Did you not view that link I sent?  POTUS can only enforce law that congress makes.  This was reinforced by the Chevron decision, also known as Loper Bright Enterprises vs Raimondo, 28 June 2024.

 

> A president makes law now? 

>…King Donald The First certainly thinks so….

 

He doesn’t think so.  You do.

 

>…and so does the Republican controlled Congress….

 

They why don’t they?  

 

>…and so does the Republican controlled Supreme Court….

 

It has again become the constitution controlled Supreme Court.  Those who wipe their ass on the constitution don’t like it.  But I like it enough to cover for those who don’t.  

> When was the constitution overthrown please? 

>…January 6, 2021

 

And yet, the anvil still wears out the hammers.  

 

 

> Presidents don’t make law

 

>…I know. But kings do.  

 

>…John K Clark

 

That’s why we don’t have kings here.  Opponents of the presidency wish to imagine that office has all manner of power it does not have, then criticize the holder of that office for having powers he does not have.  This is yet another example of the constitution protecting even those who do not believe in it.

 

spike

 

 

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