<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 8, 2026 at 6:40 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u>
><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span> Illegal immigration is illegal. POTUS does not get to choose which laws to enforce and which to ignore.</u></blockquote>
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<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Well, that's the theory. However, we have ample evidence that the current POTUS doesn't think that this theory applies to him. And ample evidence that, so far, he is largely right. He seems, somehow, to have the ability to just ignore court orders that would restrain him from doing anything he likes, legal or not. The mechanisms that should be constraining his actions seem to mysteriously be inactive, or at least greatly weakened.</i></font><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Unfortunately you are correct, Donald is an archcriminal,<span class="gmail_default" style=""> but his greatest crime (so far) occurred on January 6, 2021; by comparison it makes Benedict Arnold look like a hero. </span> </b></font></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"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>I can't think of any reason for anyone being neutral on the most corrupt, disruptive and destructive US president that has ever existed to date</i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>I can't think of one either<span class="gmail_default" style="">.</span><span class="gmail_default" style=""> For the last 10 years I've asked, practically begged, people on this list and elsewhere to explain to me why they find him so mesmerizing, and to this day I've never been able to receive a coherent answer.</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><br></b></font></div><div><br></div><div><br></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"><br>
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