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You can stop now.
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I don’t. The disagreement between the two of you has no bearing my question. If you like, I’ll cut that whole thing out of the reply to you, and post it as a general reply to the thread.
I don’t know. I think the answer to that question is one we’ll only really learn when the election comes around, and we can see how it’s conducted. I think Trump’s acting like he thinks we are, but I also think he’s always thought that: that he has always believed, like so many Americans have for decades, that the President is a singular authority whose word is law.
I don’t know what ‘clout’ I’m supposed to be chasing by posing a question that’s been worrying me lately, but ok?
I try to clear out my ignore list and start everyone fresh at the beginning of the year. Actually, I do it a few times during the year, too. I don’t believe anything is accomplished by deciding that just because someone annoyed the hell out of me once, they never have anything to say worth listening to.
But that’s me. You feel free to do you, like posting 4 separate ‘I’m waiting impatiently’ posts in 4 minutes. It’s not like composing a response takes any time or thought. 
I wanted to, because I’m curious about @arrendis suddenly becoming Lucien Bonaparte regarding this.
However , I don’t want to catch a ban, so fini.
This conversation wasn’t about you, until you did.
Thank the host on your way out.
Feel free to have your private conversations in private. If you have them in public, expect other people to say things that are only tangentially inspired by what’s been said.
It wasn’t a private conversation.
You putting yourself in it is still rather wild.
That’s far as I’ll go with this, because it’s clear that you believe that a revolution is both glamorous and necessary.
I however disagree.
Ty for freeing me from your shit list (sarcasm).
No functioning brain cell, eh Dick?
He’s enshrined on the “Do Not Award” list, that’s it.
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FWIW, my understanding is that “Tailgunner Joe**” McCarthy used the same “Democrat” slur during his era in the Fifties.
**for anyone who doesn’t already know (as I didn’t until several years ago), he wasn’t ACTUALLY a tailgunner (as in a bomber), but a law-trained intelligence(!?) officer who collected post-mission assessments from the actual bomber crews.
But on breaks, he’d go through boxes of ammunition just shooting the guns at nothing/everything and got (derogatorily) nicknamed “Tailgunner” by those who actually flew the missions.
Having thought about it since learning this, I can imagine I’d be plenty goddamn pissed if some REMF@@ wore out MY barrel and/or caused me to run out of ammo on a mission! 
@@ Rear echelon motherfucker
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Why am I not surprised?
I’ve talked to veterans of war who weren’t ever in combat but sat at a desk back in the States and, say, ordered supplies for the troops in combat. They spoke of feeling a kind of shame that others were risking their lives and they weren’t, even though they knew their jobs were vital. One of them, drafted during Vietnam, spent the rest of his working life helping vets with mental health problems. When I met him, he was running a halfway house in town for veterans transitioning from mental hospitals to life back in the world. Quite the contrast to “Tailgunner Joe.” An amazing story I’d never heard but, again, why am I not surprised?
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