<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 Thu, Oct 8, 2026 at 7:29 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><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:18.6667px"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>In my own chosen party we are experts in that problem, for our factions are even more numerous than either of the mainstream parties and are even less compatible with each other. </font></i></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4"><b>And the faction of the <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">L</span>ibertarian <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">P</span>arty<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> that ultimately gained control was instrumental in ensuring that just about the most ANTI-libertarian person imaginable became president. I remember when I first joined this list free trade and a free press were two of its foundational pillars, ah... those were the good old days. B</span><span class="gmail_default" style="background-color:transparent;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">ut now we have a president throwing around astronomically huge tariffs like confetti, suing numerous newspapers, book publishers, TV networks and several individuals for saying unflattering things about himself. The current president even sued his own government for $10 billion! </span></b></font></div><div><font size="4"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="background-color:transparent;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="background-color:transparent;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">But hey, there are compensations, it must be admitted that the same man also gave us the Gulf of America and Lake America. So there's that.</span></b></font></div><div><font size="4"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="background-color:transparent;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="background-color:transparent"><b style="">John K Clark</b></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><b><span style="background-color:transparent"><br></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4"><b><span style="background-color:transparent"> </span></b></font></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><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="msg463252453549001581"><br>
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