<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Re: Delaying elections<br><br><div dir="ltr">Is there actually a reason he can’t delay the elections, due to public health concerns?</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Many states are pushing back primaries.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">November will be flu season Redux. Mail in ballots only?</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I’m not saying we should delay them. But what are the options here, if people are locked down again?</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">SR Ballard</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Mar 18, 2020, at 1:12 PM, spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Clark via extropy-chat<br><br><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="gmaildefault"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">> </span></i></span><i>POTUS does not have any authority on the date of the November election. </i><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3C4043">To paraphrase </span></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3C4043">Mao Zedong<span class="gmaildefault">, authority comes from the barrel of a gun. And before you ask the answer is no, I am not a fan of </span>Mao Zedong</span><span class="gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">…</span></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> John K Clark<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">And that my international friends is why the USA has a second amendment. The system was set up so that US citizens can protect ourselves from our own government if necessary, and may it never be so. The system has that as a feature, not a bug.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">John to promote your own political opinions to the status of fact is perhaps the pinnacle of arrogance.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">As I wrote those words, the obvious question occurred to me: how can we know that setting one’s own political opinion to fact is the real pinnacle of arrogance? To know that for sure, we need some kind of arrogance contest or competition. If I secretly believe I am arroganter than thou, we need to play an arrogance match, mano a mano, and show everyone who is the real world champion of arrogance.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">John I will confess you are a formidable opponent in that field. Acknowledging you as a formidable opponent reduces my own arrogance, which gives you an advantage, making you still more formidable, but of course you may be thinking the same of me, handing back the advantage. So it isn’t clear. Until we hold the world arrogantness playoff, we can’t know for sure.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>extropy-chat mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a></span><br><span><a href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>