<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;background-color:transparent">On Sat, Sep 5, 2026 at 12:11 PM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Do you know you don’t know?</i></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>No<span class="gmail_default" style=""> I do not</span>, and neither do you, and neither<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>did King Donald <span class="gmail_default" style="">T</span>he <span class="gmail_default" style="">F</span>irst<span class="gmail_default" style="">, if he had, if he knew what he knows now, he would've never started this Idiotic War. But His Royal Majesty is a slow learner so he had to find out the hard way.  </span> </b></font></div><div><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="msg2442038394363114413"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_2442038394363114413WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_2442038394363114413gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>will you continue assuming Grok knows everything?</font></i></span></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>I will continue to assume that <span class="gmail_default" style="">G</span>rok<span class="gmail_default" style=""> knows more than I do, and knows more than you do, and knows one hell of a lot more than King Donald The First does. </span> </b></font></div><div><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="msg2442038394363114413"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_2442038394363114413WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_2442038394363114413gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Patriot missiles aren’t everything.</font></i><b style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </b></span></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><b><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif">They are if an enemy<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>ballistic missile is heading your way.<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span> </font></b></div><div> </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="msg2442038394363114413"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_2442038394363114413WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_2442038394363114413gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Many of them are outdated</font></i></span></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Because we've used up most of the newer ones<span class="gmail_default" style=""></span> in this stupid war,<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>the older outdated <span class="gmail_default" style="">P</span>atriot <span class="gmail_default" style="">M</span>issiles are precisely<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>the ones that we still have in our stockpile<span class="gmail_default" style="">; the percentage of those that are still fully operational is uncertain. I doubt if anybody inside or outside the military could give you a percentage they trust. </span> </b></font></div><div><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="msg2442038394363114413"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_2442038394363114413WordSection1"><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_2442038394363114413gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span></span><span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="4">…if China decides to invade Taiwan during the next 7 year<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">s we will be royally screwed. </span></font></span></b></span></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_2442038394363114413gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>So, why didn’t China invade?  </i></span></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>So why did <span class="gmail_default" style="">K</span>ing Donald stop <span class="gmail_default" style="">his</span> intense bombardment of Iran?<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>Because the idiot was running out of things that went boom<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">.</span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></b></font></div><span style="background-color:transparent"> </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="msg2442038394363114413"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_2442038394363114413WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p><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>…They <span class="m_2442038394363114413gmaildefault">could </span>rely on the <span class="m_2442038394363114413gmaildefault">S</span>trait of Hormuz<span class="m_2442038394363114413gmaildefault"> </span>before the start of the <span class="m_2442038394363114413gmaildefault">I</span>diots <span class="m_2442038394363114413gmaildefault">W</span>ar<span class="m_2442038394363114413gmaildefault">, but not after….<u></u><u></u></span></span></b></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_2442038394363114413gmaildefault"><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_2442038394363114413gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>The oil exporting countries were using the Strait of Hormuz, but they could never rely on the Strait of Hormuz. </i></span></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>It is a proven fact that the oil exporting countries <span class="gmail_default" style=""><u>DID</u></span> rely on the strait of Hormuz for 3/4 of a century<span class="gmail_default" style=""></span>,<span class="gmail_default" style=""> and they only ran into a serious problem with it 6 months ago </span><span class="gmail_default" style="background-color:transparent">when king Donald decided to fix it. </span><span style="background-color:transparent">Even Gr<span class="gmail_default" style="">ok </span>knows that if something isn't broken <span class="gmail_default" style="">then </span>don't fix it, but of course <span class="gmail_default" style="">G</span>rok is much smarter than <span class="gmail_default" style="">K</span>ing Donald<span class="gmail_default" style="">, and so was GPT-2.</span></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span style="background-color:transparent"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span style="background-color:transparent"><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clatk</span></span></b></font></div><div><span style="background-color:transparent"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color:transparent"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></span></div></div></div>