<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 10:09 AM <</span><a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">spike@rainier66.com</a><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> <i></i></span><i>The constitution is what gives a POTUS any authority at all. </i></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">A tank is pretty authoritative too and POTUS is The Commander in Chief.<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></font></div></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>A POTUS can’t get someone arrested, but they could have someone killed. It wouldn’t be legal of course. </i></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">Do you think the current POTUS would hesitate to do something for one nanosecond because he thought it was illegal or immoral? I don't. The only thing that would hold him back would be fear it wouldn't work, and given the fact that he's not very bright it indeed might not work; but with his huge ego he probably imagines himself to be a more skillful criminal than he really is and even an unsuccessful coup would be a very bad day. </font></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="m_95668741164212023gmail-m_1661259914491578320WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><i style=""> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>If you want something to worry about, consider this. The US government has become completely dependent on a communist government loaning it money just to make normal expenses. China’s government has the authority to order its people to desist lending money to the US at any time.</i></span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">And if they did that China's economy would go into a depression even deeper than our own because they are dependent on world trade even more than the US is. Incidentally just yesterday it was announced that the USA's trade imbalance hit a all time high record level last year despite of, or rather because of, Trump's policies. The $1.5 trillion tax cut for the super crazy ulta rich had to be paid for and that was done by borrowing, and that increased interest rates, and that strengthened the dollar, and that made it easier for the US to buy stuff from China and harder for China to buy stuff from the USA. Also Trump's high tariffs slowed China's economy weakening their demand for foreign goods. </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/06/us/politics/us-trade-deficit.html">America’s Trade Deficit Hits Record $891 Billion</a><br></div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="m_95668741164212023gmail-m_1661259914491578320WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><i style=""><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Your worrying about a dictator rising during peacetime is distracting you from the real danger the world really is facing. China is planning to take ownership of a huge swath of the Pacific. </i></span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">That is worry #942 on my list.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">John K Clark</font></div><div><br></div><br>
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