<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, Mar 15, 2026 at 1:40 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><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg7684553654793199198"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_7684553654793199198WordSection1"><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><i style=""><font size="4" style="" face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Where I was going is to point out that broadcasting is not nearly as important as it once was. </font></i></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>If Broadcasting is <span class="gmail_default" style="">as</span> unimportant as you say<span class="gmail_default" style=""> then</span><span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>why is <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 trying so desperately to obtain total control over <span class="gmail_default" style="">it</span>?<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span> And as a libertarian<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>why the hell doesn't that bother you?<span class="gmail_default" style="">!</span><span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span></b></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 class="msg7684553654793199198"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_7684553654793199198WordSection1"><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>None of this has anything to do with POTUS or government.</font></i></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>If you really believe that then there's a bridge I'd like to sell you.<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span> </b></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 class="msg7684553654793199198"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_7684553654793199198WordSection1"><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><b> </b><span class="gmail_default" style="font-weight:bold;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span> <i>It’s nothing personal, just business. </i></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>I guess<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>POTUS has learned from the master because<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">t</span>hat's exactly<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>what the Godfather said just before he put bullets in the brains of Virgil<span class="gmail_default" style=""> "the Turk"</span> Sollozzo and police <span class="gmail_default" style="">C</span>aptain McCluskey while they were eating at a restaurant<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">.</span></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font size="4"><b style=""><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">John K Clark</font></span></b></font><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg7684553654793199198"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_7684553654793199198WordSection1"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><u></u> </span></b></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div>