<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;background-color:transparent">On Mon, Jun 15, 2026 at 1:15 PM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" 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"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span style="background-color:transparent">> >…the US was probably able to get one of Maduro's most trusted henchmen, or henchwomen, to betray him in return for power</span><span style="background-color:transparent"> </span></b></font></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> </blockquote><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>> A henchhuman would explain how they knew where to look, but not how they disabled the guards.</i></font></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4" style="" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b style="">The</b></font></span><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b> hench<span class="gmail_default" style="">h</span><span class="gmail_default" style="">u</span>man<span class="gmail_default" style=""> gave </span>the guards<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span><span class="gmail_default" style="">a few dollars and ordered them to take the night off, as I mentioned before </span>Maduro<span class="gmail_default" style=""> was not popular with the army so they probably didn't need much persuasion, very few if any would be willing to die for </span>Maduro<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">,</span><span class="gmail_default" style=""> and I don't blame them. </span><br></b></font><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="msg-4480719053134376596"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-4480719053134376596WordSection1"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span class="m_-4480719053134376596gmaildefault" style=""><span style="font-size:13.5pt">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>…</span></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt">The only evidence that the <span class="m_-4480719053134376596gmaildefault">"</span>discombobulator<span class="m_-4480719053134376596gmaildefault">" exists comes from the lips of the most frequent liar on the face of the Earth. John K Clark</span></span><span class="m_-4480719053134376596gmaildefault" style=""><u></u><u></u></span></font></b></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_-4480719053134376596gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><b style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><u></u> </font></b><b style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><u></u></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_-4480719053134376596gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><font face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>But you are certain the big beautiful battleship exists?  </i></font></span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">No. </span>I am certain that big beautiful battleship does <span class="gmail_default" style="">NOT</span> exist and will <span class="gmail_default" style="">NEVER</span> exist,<span class="gmail_default" style=""> but because of that phantasm I am also certain that tens of billions of dollars of government funds that exist now will soon cease to exist </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></div></div>