<div dir="ltr"><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 Tue, Sep 8, 2026 at 3:12 PM <</span><a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent">spike@rainier66.com</a><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent">> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> </span></p></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>…King Donald has a track record of starting<span> a new war (as if we hadn't already had enough of them) that costs a couple of billion dollars a day and has no end in sight nor any goal in sight….<u></u><u></u></span></span></b></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>There was a goal: ending the 47 year conflict with Iran</i></span></span></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>And achieving that goal has been spectacularly unsuccessful! Apparently Donald was very surprised by that, apparently he thought bombing someone will make them love you<span class="gmail_default" style="">, but surprisingly it turned out that wasn't true</span>. Who knew? But he did achieve one goal, he wanted regime change <span class="gmail_default" style="">and</span> he got regime change, unfortunately the new ayatollah is much younger, much angrier, and much more radical than the old ayatollah<span class="gmail_default" style="">. </span></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><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>and stopping them from refining U235,</i></span></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>The<span class="gmail_default"> Iran</span> nuclear deal had stopped Iran from refining U235<span class="gmail_default">, but then Donald unilaterally pulled out of the deal in 2018 and everything went to shit after that. </span><span class="gmail_default"> </span> </b></font></div><b style="background-color:transparent"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></b><br><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><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Only 29 more months John.</font></i><b style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </b></span></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><font size="4"><b>Or maybe less because there are<span class="gmail_default"> things that I like about Donald: </span></b></font><font style="background-color:transparent"><font size="4"><b>He's old<span class="gmail_default">,</span> he's fat<span class="gmail_default">,</span><span class="gmail_default"> </span>he<span class="gmail_default"> </span>hates exercise</b></font><span class="gmail_default"><font size="4"><b>, and he loves junk food. If he wanted to take skydiving lessons I'd gladly pay for them out of my own pocket.  </b></font> </span></font><span style="background-color:transparent"> </span></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"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>The video is classic trolling</i></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default">Trolling</span> nations that have been the USA's<span class="gmail_default"> loyal allies for decades if not centuries is simply not a good idea. I'd like to know something, do you really believe stuff like the following increases our nation's wealth, prestige or security? I think it does nothing but make us look contemptibly weak and colossally stupid to a nation that used to be our best friend on the planet. </span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default"><br></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default"><a href="https://ca.news.yahoo.com/pentagon-defends-hegseths-controversial-post-152132697.html" target="_blank">Pentagon defends Hegseth's controversial post about Canadian cadet program</a><br></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><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>But as for renaming New Mexico, the fed can’t do that. </font></i></span></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Your knee-jerk<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>defense of Donald is fundamentally always <span class="gmail_default" style="">the</span> same<span class="gmail_default">;</span><span class="gmail_default"> yes what he proposes is both evil and stupid,</span> but there is a piece of paper that says <span class="gmail_default">he</span> can't do stuff like that<span class="gmail_default">, and if that piece of paper says he can't do stuff like that then he can't do stuff like that, so there's absolutely positively no reason to worry that an evil imbecile is the president of the most powerful nation in the world. </span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default"><br></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default"> John K Clark</span></b></font></div><div><br></div></div></div>
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