<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, Sep 14, 2026 at 5:27 PM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div class="msg9126802072324334816"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_9126802072324334816WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></div></div></div><span style="background-color:transparent"> </span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg9126802072324334816"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_9126802072324334816WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="m_9126802072324334816gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>> </span>The</span></b></span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> US <span class="m_9126802072324334816gmaildefault">C</span>onstitution says only Congress<span class="m_9126802072324334816gmaildefault"> can declare war, but the president on his own initiative put this country at war<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">. </span></span></span></b><b style="background-color:transparent;font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large"><span class="gmail_default" style="background-color:transparent">The</span><span style="background-color:transparent"> US <span class="gmail_default">C</span>onstitution says only Congress<span class="gmail_default"> can inflict tariffs, but the US president on his own initiative has inflicted ruinously destructive tariffs on us and done so for reasons that are patently absurd. </span></span></b></blockquote></div></div></div></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"><div class="msg9126802072324334816"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_9126802072324334816WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_9126802072324334816gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Ja.  But it doesn’t say he can regulate AI.</font></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" style="">C</span>onstitution doesn't say the president can regulate AI in China either<span class="gmail_default" style=""> but he's doing that anyway, he refuses to let Nvidia and ASML sell their most advanced stuff to China. I'm not saying that's a bad idea, quite the opposite, but I am saying it's unconstitutional. </span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><font style="background-color:transparent"><br></font></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><font style="background-color:transparent">It's not because I think Donald is a<span class="gmail_default"> </span></font><span style="background-color:transparent">"High IQ President" and that's all you need to control AI<span class="gmail_default">,</span> but<span class="gmail_default"> </span></span><span style="background-color:transparent">I actually agree with <span class="gmail_default" style="">his</span> AI policy<span class="gmail_default" style="">. I'm accustomed to being 180° out of phase with the opinions of the American public, but this is something new for Donald, take a look at the chart below. AI is killing Donald's popularity, even among 24% of the MAGA faithful, who think Donald is the second coming or at least a demigod, dislike his AI policy. Just another reason why I love AI!</span></span></b></font></div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_mu2zkfw20" alt="0F8C947F-978F-4F39-8266-2A4124EBAA08.png" width="472" height="238" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4" style="" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b style="">John K Clark</b></font></div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style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