<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 Wed, Nov 5, 2025 at 3:39 PM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg7542019636696151086"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_7542019636696151086WordSection1"><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:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span><span class="m_7542019636696151086gmaildefault"><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">> </span></i></span><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">The problem is corruption, not the ballroom.  So focus on catching the corruption, while cheering for the ballroom.</span></i></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg7542019636696151086"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_7542019636696151086WordSection1"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>…Do you consider that to be an adequate response?<span class="m_7542019636696151086gmaildefault"> Would you have said the same thing if it had been Joe Biden who decided to tear down the entire east wing of the White House and build an ostentatious 300 million dollar ballroom using secret money from donors unknown to everybody except for the president?<u></u><u></u></span></span></b></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_7542019636696151086gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_7542019636696151086gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Can he prove Joe wasn’t putting in some of his own money? <br></font></i></span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>I don't understand that question.<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span></b></font></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"><div class="msg7542019636696151086"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_7542019636696151086WordSection1"><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_7542019636696151086gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif"> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>I reject the premise of the question.</font></i></span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>I <span class="gmail_default" style="">know, but I </span>don't understand why. I've been trying to understand why since 2016.<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span><span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span></b></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 class="msg7542019636696151086"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_7542019636696151086WordSection1"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>Money can be followed.  So follow it.  Let’s see if we can catch some corruption that way.</font></i></span></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>These days you don't need to be Sherlock Holmes to find corruption. Finding corruption has become trivially easy, nearly every week He Who Must Not Be Named not only publicly admits but brags about corruption that he has committed that was far worse than the Watergate "scandal"<span class="gmail_default" style=""> or anything else that Nixon had done</span>, by today's standards<span class="gmail_default" style=""> the man was a saint</span>. During this administration the problem is doing something about scandal when You Know Who can lead every Republican in the House <span class="gmail_default" style="">and</span> the Senate around by the nose, and when he has iron control over the prosecutors in the justice department, and <span class="gmail_default" style="">when </span>he has almost total control of the entire Judicial Branch of government. Although after yesterday's Democratic victories in the election his iron control might be getting slightly weaker, or maybe that's just wishful thinking on my part.</b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><br></b></font><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark</span> </b></font></div><div><br></div></div></div>