<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 Sun, Jan 11, 2026 at 4:23 PM <</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></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><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"><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>…We can import Ozempic, but unlike every other country in the world the US can't negotiate with the Danish company Nordisk on pricing….</span></b></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><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>So buy it from a third party importer.</font></i></span></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>That is a wonderful idea.<span class="gmail_default" style=""> It's a pity that US law makes it illegal.</span></b></font><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></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 lang="EN-US"><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>John, reminder: congress makes law.  POTUS does not. </font></i></span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>You need to remind the current POTUS about that, not me.<span class="gmail_default" style=""> The man seems to have forgotten. </span></b></font></div><div><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"><div lang="EN-US"><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:16pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>…</span></b><span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">the Electoral College system<span> is imbecilic</span>, in fact I don't think it's an effective rebuttal against <span><u>ANYTHING.</u> <u></u><u></u></span></span></b></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><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>So elect representatives whose platform is to eliminate the EC.  You will need 38 states to go along with it.<br></font></i></span></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Yes <span class="gmail_default" style="">38 states is</span> exactly<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>what would be needed<span class="gmail_default" style="">,</span><span class="gmail_default" style=""> and the very nature of the Electoral College itself guarantees that the smallest 38 States will NEVER agree to that even if the vast majority of the American people would like to get rid of it. Thanks to the US Constitution, the idiotic Electoral College system is effectively impossible to modify. </span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></b></font></div><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>
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