<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 11:04 AM, Dan TheBookMan </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:danust2012@gmail.com" target="_blank">danust2012@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><span class="gmail-"><div style="font-size:large;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">​<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​>> ​</div>Doesn't it bother you that the most powerful man in the world is an idiot?​</blockquote><span style="font-size:large"> <br></span></div></span><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​> ​</div>Doesn't it bother that there should be a most powerful person in the world?</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">​</font><font size="4">Certainly not!  People have power. There are a finite number of people in the world. Therefore I logically conclude one of them must be the most powerful or is in a tie for being the most powerful. And I think it would be rather nice if that most powerful person wasn't a anti-intellectual scientific nincompoop who is unable to tell the truth.</font></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​> ​</div>I believe Dave is against the US elite projecting force</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​<font size="4">Fine, but I can find little evidence that </font></div><font size="4">the US elite<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​'s desire </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">to ​</div>project <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​its ​</div>force<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ is going away, and even less evidence that Donald Trump wants it to. ​</div></font></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​> ​</div>Aircraft carriers in particular are really just big floating offensive weapons used to keep imperial subjects in line.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​</div><font size="4">Maybe so, but if you want to keep<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ ​</div>imperial subjects in line big floating offensive weapons <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">seems​</div> to be the way to do it.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ </div></font></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></font></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> John K Clark​</div></font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div></div></div></div>