<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 Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 2:01 PM Darin Sunley 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><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><i><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Trump has probably above average IQ ( a clinical moron can't run a real estate company for decades, even poorly)</font></i></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Calling <span class="gmail_default" style="">him a</span> <u>clinical moron</u><span class="gmail_default" style=""><u></u> (and not just a moron) </span>would probably be going to<span class="gmail_default" style="">o</span> far<span class="gmail_default" style=""> because that term has a precise definition, clinical morons have an IQ between 50 and 70, and I would estimate that the IQ of the most powerful man in the world is about 80, maybe 85 when he was young and on a good day. </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="">And</span><span class="gmail_default" style=""> y</span>ou <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><u>CAN</u></span> run a real estate company<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">,</span> <u>poorly<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">,</span></u> for many decades<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>if you inherit enough money from your daddy<span class="gmail_default" style="">. And Trump has. If he had just used that money to buy treasury bills then on January 20 2017, when he first became president, he would've been considerably richer than he was. But of course today he's probably 10 or 20 times richer than he was then, I will leave it to your imagination to figure out how we manage to do that but I will give you a hint, it had nothing to do with skill. </span></b></font></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></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" face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>modulo recent probable mild age-related declines.</i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>The only way to reconcile <span class="gmail_default" style="">POTUS having an </span><span class="gmail_default" style="">"</span>above average IQ<span class="gmail_default" style="">" with his Greenland obsession, his pride at being able to tell the difference between a giraffe and a hippopotamus on a cognitive test, and "</span><span class="gmail_default" style="">I</span> <span class="gmail_default" style="">L</span>ower<span class="gmail_default" style="">ed</span> <span class="gmail_default" style="">D</span>rug <span class="gmail_default" style="">P</span>rices <span class="gmail_default" style="">B</span>y 1600<span class="gmail_default" style=""> Percent" is that the poor man has developed an advanced case of Alzheimer's disease. </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><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><br></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"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div><br></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Huh? There is already a deal! If a US company wants to invest in some project in Greenland they are perfectly free to do so, and both Denmark and Greenland would be delighted if they did. And if the US military wants to establish more military bases in Greenland they are perfectly free to do that too with no objection from NATO ally Denmark. There is absolutely no need for the US to rule Greenland! The people of Denmark don't want that and neither do the people who live in Greenland. </b></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><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><div lang="EN-US"><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><i><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>it would be a great place to set up data centers. </font></i></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Iceland might be a good place to set up data centers because<span class="gmail_default"> electricity is cheap thanks to geothermal power that is available there, that's why several bitcoin mining factories are already there. But Greenland would be a lousy place for a data center because unlike Iceland it has no geothermal energy so electricity is very expensive in Greenland, and there are very few high-capacity optical communication lines to that country. But if some company wants to build a data center in Greenland anyway there's nothing stopping them, they can start building one today. However nobody is doing so because they aren't crazy. I can't say the same thing about the current President of the United States.</span></b></font></div><div><br></div><div><b style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large">Spike, if Joe Biden had won the 2024 election and his Alzheimer's disease had gotten much <u>MUCH</u> worse and he started threatening military force unless loyal NATO ally Denmark gave Greenland to the US, would you still be defending such a bazaar ultimatum with vigor? I have my doubts. </b></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><div lang="EN-US"><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><b style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span> </b><i><font face="georgia, serif">I don’t know if that whole thing is an intentional distraction, like the Alcatraz business. What I heard but don’t know if it is true: a suggestion to reopen Alcatraz as a prison was an intentional distraction used to test AI: protest groups sent mail to the White House, responses were generated by AI, printed and mailed, with little or no human oversight or intervention. There was never any real intention of reopening Alcatraz as a prison. Sounds plausible I suppose. </font></i></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Good heavens! With all your years of experience with finding excuses for Mr. I Lowered Drug Prices by 1600 Percent<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">,</span> I would've thought you could do better than that. Convoluted explanations using dubious logic is not necessary, I postulate that the reason the man seems to<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> be</span> stupid is quite simple, he really is stupid.</b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default">John K Clark</span><br></b></font><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></blockquote></div>
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