<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 Wed, Oct 7, 2026 at 11:59 AM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div class="msg2881533835202988114"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_2881533835202988114WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> </span></p></div></div></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="msg2881533835202988114"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_2881533835202988114WordSection1"><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>…So after 10 years of listening to tens of thousands of his lies and watching hundreds of his idiotic decisions<span class="m_2881533835202988114gmaildefault"> </span>you are basically telling us that<span class="m_2881533835202988114gmaildefault"> we should ignore all the evidence we are able to obtain….<u></u><u></u></span></span></b></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_2881533835202988114gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Without access to the same information POTUS has, how can you be sure the decision was idiotic?</i></span></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>If that is your criteria then you'd have no reason to <span class="gmail_default" style="">ever </span>criticize any president about <u>anything</u>,<span class="gmail_default" style=""> but the thing is, I've been on this list a long time and I remember you had absolutely no difficulty whatsoever criticizing POTUS when he happened to be a Democrat. Strange behavior coming from somebody who claims to be neutral. </span></b></font></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="msg2881533835202988114"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_2881533835202988114WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_2881533835202988114gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <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"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">>…I know you <u>LOVE</u> security clearances but one is not a ticket to omniscience….<br></span></b></blockquote><b style="background-color:transparent"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></b><br><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Nor am I claiming that.  But disdain for a politician, coupled with a lack of security clearance is a ticket arrogant ignorance.</font></i></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>So I guess I would be correct in concluding that you<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>were being arrogant and ignorant<span class="gmail_default" style=""> when you criticized President Biden for not cracking down on illegal immigration and being excessively woke. How can you be sure he didn't have some  superduper top secret reason for doing both?</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 class="msg2881533835202988114"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_2881533835202988114WordSection1"><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>…just look at the Vietnam war<span class="m_2881533835202988114gmaildefault">, or the Iraq war</span>. You don't need a security clearance to read what the on the ground JCPOA nuclear inspectors had to say<span class="m_2881533835202988114gmaildefault">, and they said Iran was not cheating….<br><u></u><u></u></span></span></b></blockquote><b style="background-color:transparent"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></b><br><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_2881533835202988114gmaildefault"><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 unclassified reports perhaps.  But what if the brass found out something to the contrary?  </i></span></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color:transparent"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:13.5pt"></span><font size="4" style="" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b style="">If the </b></font></span><font size="4" style="" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>JCPOA</b></font></span><span style="background-color:transparent"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b> <span class="gmail_default" style="">inspectors had found a gross violation of the Iran nuclear deal, what possible reason would Donald have for telling them to keep their mouth shut about it? And FOR 8 YEARS?!</span></b></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:transparent"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></b></font></span></div><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"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Have you noticed how AIs are being treated as arbiters of truth?</i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>I have noticed that people become annoyed at AI<span class="gmail_default" style=""> when the facts that they mention  don't jive with their political ideology. And I have also noticed that GPT-2 would have been a far FAR better arbiter of the truth than Donald J Trump. </span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></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><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg2881533835202988114"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_2881533835202988114WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><u></u> <br></span></b></p></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div>