<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 Sat, May 9, 2020 at 10:45 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> 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"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_8243269961967195266WordSection1"><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">> </span><i></i></span><i>It feels like you are trying to leverage a crisis into an opportunity.</i></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4">I know it's not politically correct to say but I think if somebody can profit from a tragedy, or turn a crisis into a opportunity, or turn a lemon into lemonade, or in general find a way to extract a little good from something very bad then that would be nothing to be ashamed of, in fact I'd say it would be a very Extropian thing to do, at least in Max's original meaning of the word.</font><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="gmail-m_8243269961967195266WordSection1"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>…to be reminded of the grim reality that an American dies of this virus about every 49 seconds, but with all Trump's grandiose talk…</span></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>The Federal government doesn’t have the final say on that. </i><br></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">If sure doesn't as long as Trump is running the show, although you can be certain that whenever something good happens Trump will claim 100% of the credit, and when something bad happens he will claim that's not his department and blame governors or mayors or China or above all blame <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Barack Obama. The sign on Trump's desk says "The Buck Stops Anywhere But Here".</span></font></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="gmail-m_8243269961967195266WordSection1"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span> </span><i>I don’t see you posting curses on Xi Jinping. Why is that?</i></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Because my Chinese paymasters wouldn't like it obviously.</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="gmail-m_8243269961967195266WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">>…of opening up and getting back to normal it might be relevant to remember that people are suffering and dying right now, and Trump's idea would make it much worse…</span></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Trump doesn’t make the call on that. <br></i></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Trump very strongly disagrees:</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3QXrQDTDYo">When somebody is president of the United States, the authority is total</a></font></span></div><div><br><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_8243269961967195266WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><u></u></span></p><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>May you escape all illness John.</i></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">And you too Spike.</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></div>
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