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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Keith Henson <hkeithhenson@gmail.com> <br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Trump suggests letting Iran ‘take out’ Los Angeles and San Diego<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault>"</span> <span class=m-1617285560297789013gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>is there any point in blaming the Libertarians, who are less than 1%? </span></b></span><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>"</span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault>>…Actually, yes. In trying to attract them, the Republicans picked up the worst of Libertarian memes. So we had things like Musk's crew firing the DoE people who maintain the nuclear stockpile, and the Forest Service firefighters, plus a large fraction of the public health people, and research scientists. China will displace the US as the place where advances happen.</span> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>Keith<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>The alternative to cutting the federal budget is the federal budget will cut us. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>The fed will get to the point where it cannot borrow money. Then not just the DoE and the Forest Service but the Department of Everything must go. The Federal government will be only administering Social Security, Medicare and paying debt. Nothing else.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Now of course this doesn’t figure in what AI will do. AI might kill everybody. If it does, I won’t worry about it anymore. Ever. But if it doesn’t…. the USA faces grave danger.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>