<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:large"><span class="gmail_default">Spike, you didn't answer me. Do you think </span></span><span style="font-size:large;background-color:transparent">McEntee<span class="gmail_default"> is somebody the Republicans should be proud of? Would you be proud of </span></span><span style="font-size:large;background-color:transparent">John McEntee<span class="gmail_default"> if he was a registered member of the Libertarian Party? </span></span></font></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:large;background-color:transparent"><span class="gmail_default"><br></span></span></font></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:large;background-color:transparent"><span class="gmail_default">John K Clark</span></span></font></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:large;background-color:transparent"><span class="gmail_default"><br></span></span></font></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:large;background-color:transparent"><span class="gmail_default"><br></span></span></font></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:large;background-color:transparent"><span class="gmail_default"><br></span></span></font></b></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 29, 2026 at 2:59 PM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<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-5927920750511307030"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-5927920750511307030WordSection1"><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> <u></u></span></p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> John Clark <<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 29 October, 2026 11:24 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a><br><b>Cc:</b> ExI chat list <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Piker<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">On Thu, Oct 29, 2026 at 9:44 AM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">></span></b><span class="m_-5927920750511307030gmaildefault"><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">…This <span class="m_-5927920750511307030m631992107525665174gmaildefault">Piker </span>jackass was certainly crude<span class="m_-5927920750511307030m631992107525665174gmaildefault"> but he was never a part of a Democratic administration….</span></span></b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_-5927920750511307030gmaildefault"><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">></span></i></span><span class="m_-5927920750511307030m631992107525665174gmaildefault"><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">He has three million social media followers John. </span></i></span><u></u><u></u></p></div></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">>…Apparently you are one of those <span class="m_-5927920750511307030gmaildefault">3 million </span>social media followers<span class="m_-5927920750511307030gmaildefault"> because I only learned about him from you.<u></u><u></u></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_-5927920750511307030gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_-5927920750511307030gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">I learned of him from references on TwitterX.<u></u><u></u></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=photos+of+hasan+piker+with+el+sayed&atb=v135-1&t=chromentp&ia=images&iax=images" target="_blank">https://duckduckgo.com/?q=photos+of+hasan+piker+with+el+sayed&atb=v135-1&t=chromentp&ia=images&iax=images</a><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=photos+of+hasan+piker+with+aoc&iar=images&atb=v135-1&t=chromentp" target="_blank">https://duckduckgo.com/?q=photos+of+hasan+piker+with+aoc&iar=images&atb=v135-1&t=chromentp</a><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_-5927920750511307030gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_-5927920750511307030gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Ja I know, TwitterX should not be allowed to exist.  But if it didn’t, I wouldn’t know of Hasan Piker at all.  Then I would be more likely to lose bets.  Tragic!</span></b></span><u></u><u></u></p><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_-5927920750511307030gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">> </span></b></span><span class="m_-5927920750511307030m631992107525665174gmaildefault"><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">Its why the Democrat party is losing elections it should have won: Piker is splitting the party</span></i></span><u></u><u></u></p></div></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">>…The Democratic Party has no need to apologize for Hasan Piker because he was never in Biden's or Obama's administration….<u></u><u></u></span></b></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"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">You might need to remind the Piker followers who those two guys are.  Many of them are too young to know and don’t bother studying history.<u></u><u></u></span></b></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"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">>…In fact Hasan Piker is <u>not even a registered Democrat</u>!   John K Clark</span></b><u></u><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"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">OK, I wasn’t aware of that.  I would guess most of his 3 million internet followers are registered democrat, which explains why that party loses to an unpopular mainstream opponent.  Piker is an open out of the closet socialist.  That famous Piker rant about the constitution was a response to someone saying socialism is not constitutional.<u></u><u></u></span></b></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"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">As far as I know, the DSA doesn’t have registration as a separate party.  Yet.<u></u><u></u></span></b></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"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">spike<u></u><u></u></span></b></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"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cal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