<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 Fri, Oct 9, 2026 at 9:25 PM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</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:13.5pt"><font face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>you fail to recognize that the Democrat vote didn’t all go for the Democrat candidate.</i></font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>That makes no sense,</b></font><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4" style="" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b style=""> by definition the Democratic vote are the people that voted for the Democratic candidate, and the Republic vote are the people that voted for the Republic candidate. </b></font></span></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></b></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:13.5pt"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>is there any point in blaming the Libertarians, who are less than 1%? </i></font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4" style="" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b style=""><u>YES!</u> If members of the Libertarian Party had voted for the Democratic candidate then the most anti-libertarian man in American history would never have become president, but they did not do so; and I can only think of two reasons why they did not do so. </b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>1) They were too stupid to figure that out. </b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4" style="" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b style="">2) They were being hypocritical when they claimed to value true libertarian (small l) ideas like free trade and a free press. </b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4" style="" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b style=""><br></b></font></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>I don't know if Hillary Clinton would've been a good president, she might very well have been a lousy president, but she wouldn't have been an apocalyptically dreadful president. She wouldn't have imposed astronomically huge tariffs on everybody (except Russia) including countries that have been our loyal allies for centuries, she wouldn't have sued newspapers, book publishers, TV networks and individuals for saying things about her that she didn't like. She wouldn't have accepted a half a billion dollar bribe from the royal family of Qatar.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>And she wouldn't have staged a coup d'etat!</b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark</span><br></b></font><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></b></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="msg2194465298535028986"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_2194465298535028986WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> </span><span style="background-color:transparent"> </span></p></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div>