<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">On Fri, Jun 5, 2026 at 8:46 AM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"> </span><br><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-1430254491407475379"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-1430254491407475379WordSection1"><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"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="m_-1430254491407475379gmaildefault"><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span></span></i></span><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">You have the notion that the way major weapon systems come into being is POTUS orders naval engineers to design them.  That isn’t how that process works at all.  POTUS has very little to do with what gets built. </span></i></blockquote></blockquote><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Nope. POTUS certainly shouldn't be the one who decides what type of ships get built, especially if the decision is based on how pretty they look, but in this case that's exactly what happened!... <span class="m_-1430254491407475379gmaildefault">John K Clark</span> </span></b></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><u></u> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>I see, and you offer as sources a guy you claim you don’t believe and AI based on those claims. </font></i></span></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>So your defense of the president is that I shouldn't pay attention to the monumentally stupid things that <span class="gmail_default" style="">he</span> says because he always lies?!  It's amazing, your knee jerk reaction is always exactly the same, to hell with the evidence I still love the man.  </b></font><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>POTUS doesn’t design ships</span> </font></i></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>There's a difference between <span class="gmail_default" style="">"</span>doesn't<span class="gmail_default" style="">"</span> and <span class="gmail_default" style="">"</span>shouldn't<span class="gmail_default" style="">"</span>.<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span> And I vividly recall <span class="gmail_default" style="">y</span>ou also said right wing militias<span class="gmail_default" style=""> were patriots and would protect our institutions and would never do anything treasonous, like attacking the capital at the very time when the entire House and Senate were meeting to decide who the next president would be.</span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style=""> John K Clark </span></b></font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>