<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 8:32 PM, </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"> <br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_6134551423265932104WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><u></u></p><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">></div>>…Trump also swore to be loyal to the Constitution, but a oath means nothing to a man like Trump…John K Clark</span></blockquote><div><p class="gmail-m_6134551423265932104gmail-p2"><i></i></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><i>></i></div><i>Sure, but an oath to the constitution means a lot to the people who command the military. </i><p></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4">That's probably true for the average military person but the average is not what's important, only a small subset picked by Trump are important. By 2020 all the top military leaders will have been appointed by Donald Trump, now look at the sort of people Trump already picked for his cabinet and tell me you are confident the generals of 2020 will be of high moral fibre. </font><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_6134551423265932104WordSection1"><div><div><p class="gmail-m_6134551423265932104gmail-p2"><i></i></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><i>></i></div><i>You can be sure, if there was a way to declare oneself president for life, it would have been tried by now.</i><p></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote>
<font size="4">As I said Trump is unique, we've had some bad people become presadent before but never anybody as evil or as stupid as Donald, vice-president Aaron Burr was probably the closest but fortunately he never became president and although evil unlike Trump Burr was not stupid. Usually its good that a evil person is stupid but not if you're presadent of the USA with your finger on the nuclear button. Trump is so stupid he doesn't know he's stupid so even if he doesn't have the brains to become dictator he probably thinks he does, and even a unsuccessful attempt will be a nightmare and the worst internal crises since the Civil War.</font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br>
<div><font size="4">I'm nostalgic for the good old days of 2016 when we were young and innocent and the worst horror we could conceive of was Hillary Clinton's E-mail server!<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span></font><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_6134551423265932104WordSection1"><div><div><p class="gmail-m_6134551423265932104gmail-p2"><u></u><u></u></p><p class="gmail-m_6134551423265932104gmail-p2"></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">><i> </i></div><i>Regarding the Electoral College, it helps make state governments relevant. The way our republic is designed, states are to do the heavy lifting in government. </i><p></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">That doesn't explain why the burden a California voter must lift is 70 times as heavy as a Wyoming voter; I wouldn't mind if the Wyoming voter was 70 times wiser but that can be proven false by just 2 words, "Iraq" and "Trump". </font></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"><br></font></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_6134551423265932104WordSection1"><div><div><p class="gmail-m_6134551423265932104gmail-p2"><i><u></u><u></u></i></p><p class="gmail-m_6134551423265932104gmail-p2"><i></i></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><i>></i></div><i>This is also particularly relevant in this age of American history, for it is easily foreseeable that the American federal government will soon be in default on many of its obligations. With Social Security obligations in particular, that day is probably within 20 years.</i><p></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">Predictions about what economic conditions will be like in 20 years have almost always proven to be wrong and today with its fast changes in technology its even more difficult to make predictions. Nevertheless I will now make a prediction, the acceleration of the wealth gap between rich people and poor people in western democracies will NOT continue for another 20 years; I'm not sure what will stop it but one way or another it will stop, and some of those ways are uglier than others. <br></font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_6134551423265932104WordSection1"><div><div><p class="gmail-m_6134551423265932104gmail-p2"><i><u></u><u></u></i></p><p class="gmail-m_6134551423265932104gmail-p2"><i></i></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><i>></i></div><i>The constitution is a marvelous device.</i></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div> </div><div><font size="4">It wasn't bad for the 18th century but it had flaws in addition to slavery and the boneheaded Electoral College. It's dumb they didn't let woman vote, its dumb they redundantly said the people should have religious freedom when, they had already said they had freedom of speech and assembly and so got religious freedom automatically, its dumb that all states regardless of size get 2 Senators and it's dumb that until the 17th amendment the people couldn't even vote for their Senator. The Tea Party wants to repeal the 17th amendment as does Trump apologists Ted Cruz and Mike Huckabee. Rick Perry wants to repeal it too, he's Trump's energy secretary and replaced Steven Chu, the Nobel Prize winning physicists who was energy secretary under Obama. Do you see what I meant about the quality of people Trump picks for his cabinet and for his generals? </font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">John K Clark</div> </font></div>
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