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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five Futures Where the US Ended Not With a Bang But a
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Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2025 07:23:52 -0700
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On 6/23/2025 11:14 PM, Titus G wrote:
> On 24/06/25 13:19, Cryptoengineer wrote:
>> On 6/23/2025 11:21 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
>>> On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 01:45:20 -0700, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 30 May 2025 10:41:39 -0700, Bobbie Sellers
>>>> <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> The USA "conservative" is different than what it was five years ago.
>>>>>> --scott
>>>>>
>>>>>      Only some of them are now fascists but they are sycophantic
>>>>> toward the
>>>>> current president and afraid of the MAGA horde.  Some Republicans were
>>>>> alway authoritaians
>>>>> to start with but now have taken their mask off. Some have a long
>>>>> history of idiocy.
>>>>
>>>> I am looking forward to the US 2028 election even if Vance is the GOP
>>>> candidate. (Which at this point I'd guess is a 50-50 proposition but
>>>> by no means a certainty)
>>>
>>> Hmmmm ... Vance/MTG vs Newsom/Buttigieg.
>>>
>>> Now /that/ would be a contest worth watching!
>>
>> At least they're all under 60.
>>
> 
> A part from Vance, I do not know those names.
> Is 60 an IQ measurement?
> 
MTG is Majorie Taylor Green, a congresscritter who is constantly 
complaining that The Orange One isn't doing enough of what he does. 
Gavin Newsom is the Governor of California.  Buttigieg, I know the name 
but can't remember what office he's held at the moment.

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I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky 
dirty old man.