<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 Tue, Oct 13, 2026 at 3:56 PM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:</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="msg8324302570692915548"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_8324302570692915548WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p></div></div></div></blockquote><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><i><br></i></font><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg8324302570692915548"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_8324302570692915548WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_8324302570692915548gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Rather than attacking an opponent, one can promote one’s own candidate.  I notice you don’t do that. </i></span></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>I didn't do that because I strongly believe that preventing a bad president is far <span class="gmail_default" style="">FAR </span>more important than promoting a good one because there is a limit to how much good anybody can do as president, but there is no bottom to bad.  I never claimed Biden or Harris would be great presidents, I only claimed they would not be apocalyptically bad like your buddy<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">.</span></b></font><br><b style="background-color:transparent"><span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="4"> </font></span></b><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg8324302570692915548"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_8324302570692915548WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_8324302570692915548gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>I will grant we had a very weak candidate this cycle.  So I wrote in Angela McArdle rather than vote for Chase Oliver.</font></i></span></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>So you decided to vote for one non-entity rather than another non-entity<span class="gmail_default" style=""> and the effective result of that was you did not vote in the</span> <span class="gmail_default" style="">2024 election. </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="msg8324302570692915548"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_8324302570692915548WordSection1"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="m_8324302570692915548gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> ><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>…And you support Donald….</span></b></span></blockquote></div></div></div></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><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg8324302570692915548"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_8324302570692915548WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_8324302570692915548gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>On the contrary.  I support my own party’s candidate,</font></i></span></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4" style=""><b style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">And yet 100% of the time when somebody criticizes some new idiotic thing that Donald has done you immediately jump to his defense. If that isn't "support" then what is?  </font></b></font></div><div><br></div><span style="background-color:transparent"> </span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg8324302570692915548"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_8324302570692915548WordSection1"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">>…And I will remind you that you need to play fair.<span class="m_8324302570692915548gmaildefault"> I said somebody had the right to do anything they wanted with their body "<u>EXCEPT</u> </span>turn it into a lethal virus manufacturing factory</span></b><span class="m_8324302570692915548gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">"…..</span></b></span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> John K Clark<u></u><u></u></span></b></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_8324302570692915548gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> </span></b></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg8324302570692915548"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_8324302570692915548WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_8324302570692915548gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>No one intentionally turns her body into a lethal virus factory.</i></span></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>I don't give a damn if ignorant idiotic behavior is intentional or not<span class="gmail_default" style="">, especially when it involves life or death. I don't want to get in a metal tube 40,000 feet in the air that's moving at 600 miles an hour sitting 2 feet away from a 200 pound lethal virus factory.   </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="msg8324302570692915548"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_8324302570692915548WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_8324302570692915548gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:14pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif"> <span class="gmail_default" style="">></span>By that reasoning, you might suggest that everyone should be obligated to accept the mRNA vaccine. </font></i></span></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>If <span class="gmail_default" style="">you're</span> talking about a lethal highly contagious virus that had already killed millions<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>then yes <span class="gmail_default" style=""><u>ABSOLUTELY</u></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"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><b style="">John K Clark</b></span><br></font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>