<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 22, 2026 at 10:14 AM 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"><font size="4"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Ulysses Grant was legally elected twice.</i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>And that <span class="gmail_default" style="">is</span> yet another way that <span style="background-color:transparent">the current POTUS</span><span style="background-color:transparent"> is different from</span><span class="gmail_default" style="background-color:transparent"> Ulysses S Grant,</span><span style="background-color:transparent"> if <span class="gmail_default" style="">you b</span>elieve<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>Donald (admittedly a very foolish thing to do) he was legally elected <u style="">THREE</u> times. </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"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4"><i>
></i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>..You could as well ask how did Mussolini get into power.... Ben</font></blockquote>
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<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>By coup d'état.  He only did it once. </i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">And </span>Donald has only tried to sta<span class="gmail_default" style="">ge</span> a<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span><i style="background-color:transparent">coup d'état<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span></i><span style="background-color:transparent">once<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">.</span><span class="gmail_default" style=""> So Far.</span> </span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span style="background-color:transparent"><br></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span style="background-color:transparent"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">John K Clark </span><br></span></b></font></div><div><br></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"><br>
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