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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> John Clark <johnkclark@gmail.com> <br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, 14 June, 2026 12:36 PM<br><b>To:</b> spike@rainier66.com<br><b>Cc:</b> ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] robo-rescue<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>On Sun, Jun 14, 2026 at 8:58 AM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span class=m-1148869581557824301gmaildefault><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>></span></i></span><span class=m-1148869581557824301m7035577723793464510gmaildefault><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>And STILL it doesn’t occur to you that he is playing chess while you play checkers.</span></i></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span class=m-1148869581557824301gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>>…Spike, a</span></b></span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>re you actually trying to tell me <span class=m-1148869581557824301gmaildefault>that </span>you are impressed by the deep intellect of <span class=m-1148869581557824301gmaildefault>King Donald</span>?!<span class=m-1148869581557824301gmaildefault> </span></span></b><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span class=m-1148869581557824301gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> </span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span class=gmaildefault><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>> </span></i></span><span class=m-1148869581557824301gmaildefault><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>No John, I am astonished at you. You are failing to recognize an obvious cover story,</span></i></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>>…So<span class=gmaildefault> according to you,</span> our very stable genius of a</span></b><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span></b></span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>president<span class=gmaildefault> is a master of 3-D chess and is smart enough to be able to concoct a cover story good enough to fool the Chinese, but he is not smart enough to concoct a cover story…..<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>He wouldn’t need to concoct anything. The military does stuff like that.</span></b></span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span class=gmaildefault><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>> </span></i></span><span class=m-1148869581557824301gmaildefault><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>The battleship story is to fund whatever it is they are really doing.</span></i></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>>…Then the USNavy is guilty of perjury and embezzlement on a massive scale….<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>So sue them. Why do you suppose that has never happened? How do you suppose black programs are funded?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>>… Congress trusted them and gave them the money to do so….<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Congress doesn’t do that anymore.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>>…They didn't do it by lying to Congress and telling them they were building a battleship…<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Again we end up arguing over a definition. Can we create a set (in the mathematical sense) with clear boundaries, where everything inside that set is a “battleship” and everything outside that set is not? How?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>>…Unless he is a<span class=gmaildefault> political</span> enemy of <span class=gmaildefault>Trump,</span> <span class=gmaildefault>our</span> present justice department<span class=gmaildefault> is</span> never going to prosecute anybody<span class=gmaildefault> </span>for <span class=gmaildefault>fiscal</span> malfeasance….<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Read the sentence you just wrote John, then ponder it carefully. The implication is clear. Justice is influenced by political considerations. Thanks for that candid admission.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>>…<span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>18 minutes before Trump announced a pause on his idiotic tariffs, somebody placed a 2.1 million dollar bet on it, and half an hour later that bet was worth $30 million. Gee I wonder who that guy could've been….<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Follow the money John. Are you the only person aware of this? Do inform the NY Times. </span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>>…I</span></b></span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>n February<span class=gmaildefault> of this year</span> Donald Trump purchased $5 million in Dell stoc<span class=gmaildefault>k just before the </span>Department of Defense announced <span class=gmaildefault>a</span> $9.7 billion purchase agreement with Dell<span class=gmaildefault>, then on multiple occasions Trump publicly told his supporters to "</span><i>go out and buy a Dell computer</i><span class=gmaildefault>"…<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>So file a lawsuit. What is stopping you?<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>>…</span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>In the three months before the start of <span class=gmaildefault>his</span> Iran war Donald Trump’s financial trust on average made 50 trades a day with defense contractors like General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin and Palantir…<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>So sue. What is stopping you? </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>>…Donald Trump’s financial trust<span class=gmaildefault> bought </span>$6 million in Nvidia stock<span class=gmaildefault> just before he approved </span>advanced <span class=gmaildefault>their </span>chip sales to China…<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Sue John<span class=gmaildefault>. Sue away. That’s what courts are foe.</span></span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>>…A long time ago in a galaxy far far away I remember when it was considered a <span class=gmaildefault>great </span>scandal when President Obama wore a tan suit<span class=gmaildefault>!</span></span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>John K Clark<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Hmmm, don’t bother suing over that one. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Honestly, what is stopping you from suing, if you know of financial malfeasance on the other matters? Get on it, me lad! I won’t object, not for a minute. I’ll cheer you on. I have no current bets on the prediction markets, being distracted with life matters, so I have no personal stake in it one way or the other.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> </span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></body></html>