<div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 5, 2026, 11:00 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="m_-7379282228948415562WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_-7379282228948415562gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">I can assure you, congress is not going to fund weapon systems which are ineffective or obsolete.</span></b></span></p></div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto">Given how often they have before, even without the influence of Trump (looking at the span of time between when Congress had its first session and when Trump first took office), what do you base that assurance on?</div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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