<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 Fri, Jan 9, 2026 at 10:59 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i><font size="4" face="georgia, serif">
><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span> spike<span class="gmail_default" style="">:</span><span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>"That office is far more limited than Americans imagine"</font></i></blockquote>
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<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Then Americans must imagine the office of POTUS to be omnipotent,</font></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>On July 1, 2024 in a 6 to 3 decision the US Supreme Court ruled that PO<u>TUS is omnipotent</u>, or at least this particular<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>POTUS is, I have a very strong <span class="gmail_default" style="">hunch</span> that their decision would be quite different if the POTUS in question had been a Democrat. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, one of the 3 dissenters (none of whom were appointed to the<span class="gmail_default" style="">ir</span> high office by a <span class="gmail_default" style="">R</span>epublican POTUS) said this about the majority's decision: </b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:rgb(20,22,24);font-size:18px;letter-spacing:-0.18px">"<i>This new official-acts immunity now 'lies about like a loaded weapon' for any President that wishes to place his own interests, his own political survival, or his own financial gain, above the interests of the Nation<span class="gmail_default" style="">. Even <u>if the president ordered </u></span></i></span><span style="color:rgb(20,22,24);font-size:18px;letter-spacing:-0.18px"><u style=""><i>the Navy's Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival</i></u><span class="gmail_default" style=""><u style=""><i> he would still be immune from prosecution</i></u>". </span></span></b></font></div><div><br></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"><font size="4"><i>
<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>I never imagined he would be able to effectively wage war on another country without any acknowledgment that he was in fact committing acts of war</i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>You should listen to some of the things Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller says, he doesn't even bother to pretend that he's one of the good guys<span class="gmail_default" style="">, to him if we wants something and we have the power to steal it then we should just steal it and to hell with how many people get hurt in the process. And he's not alone, l</span>iberals have been accused, often with justification, of engaging in virtue signaling and that's bad, but <span class="gmail_default" style="">it's </span>not as bad as vice signaling where conservatives compete among themselves to be the one that is the most cruel. The following video is from an anal sphincter by the name of John McEntee who <span class="gmail_default" style="">i</span>n <span class="gmail_default" style="">H</span>e <span class="gmail_default" style="">W</span>ho <span class="gmail_default" style="">M</span>ust <span class="gmail_default" style="">N</span>ot <span class="gmail_default" style="">B</span>e <span class="gmail_default" style="">N</span>amed first administration<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>held the position of "director of the White House Office of Presidential Personnel"<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">,</span> here he explains <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">"</span><i>I like to keep<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>fake Hollywood money in <span class="gmail_default" style="">my</span> car to give to homeless people. Then when they go to use it, they get arrested, so I’m actually like helping clean up the community</i>”<span class="gmail_default" style="">.</span></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><span style="font-size:large"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><span style="font-size:large"><a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@daterightstuff/video/7365946036235324718?lang=en"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Vice signaling </b></font></a><br></span></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i>
<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>I never imagined he would be able to threaten another NATO member with forcibly annexing territory that belongs to them without being immediately slapped down by his own people</i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b>I don't understand it either<span class="gmail_default" style="">!</span><span class="gmail_default" style=""> Some people tell me it's because the man has charisma so we can get away with murder, but to me he's about as charismatic as an intestinal worm. </span> </b></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark </span><br></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"><br>
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