<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 Sat, Oct 10, 2026 at 12:03 PM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div class="msg-7400739229533981510"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-7400739229533981510WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> </span></p></div></div></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><b style="background-color:transparent"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>></span>They were too stupid to figure that out….</span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-7400739229533981510"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-7400739229533981510WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>THAT’s IT!  You hit it John.  Everyone other than you is just too stupid.  Such insight.</i></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Thank you.<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>In early<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>2016<span class="gmail_default" style=""> I said that any libertarian (small l) person that voted for the Libertarian (big L) party candidate was either stupid, or hypocritical about the strength of their libertarian (small l) convictions, or both; because if they did that then we would end up with the most anti-libertarian president in American history. </span></b><b style="background-color:transparent"><span class="gmail_default" style="">I am very proud of having said that because events have proven I was 100% correct. </span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">I also predicted that if Donald won the 2016 presidential election then, regardless of the results of the 2020 election, he would not leave office gracefully as every other President had done in the nation's history, instead early 2021 would be a nightmarish Constitutional shit show. And I was right about that too.  </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="msg-7400739229533981510"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-7400739229533981510WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">>…</span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">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 presiden<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">t</span></span></b><u></u></p><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"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>How do you know? </font></i></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Because in over 200 years<span class="gmail_default" style=""> we've never had a president or a presidential candidate that would place astronomically enormous tariffs on friendly nations, sue newspapers and book publishers for tens of billions of dollars for saying things about him that he didn't like, or stage a </span><span style="background-color:transparent">coup d'etat<span class="gmail_default" style=""> when he lost an election. But all that changed when King Donald I made his royal entrance to the political landscape. </span></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span style="background-color:transparent"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span style="background-color:transparent"><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark</span></span></b></font></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"><div class="msg-7400739229533981510"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-7400739229533981510WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> </p></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div>