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Thanks as usual for your incisive remarks:

“That is not acting or voting. That is pretending to act.

The other solutions you propose are cowardly acts of one unable or so ideological deluded they are unable to weigh the actual candidates merits and make a decision and then be an American and Vote.

There are only two candidates!”

All of this “I’m not voting for the guy who doesn’t walk on water and doesn’t make my wonderful conservative legs tingle!”, reminds me of what happened to a friend, who was called up as a Naval Reservist, during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October, 1962.

At night in October, 1962, he and a few others met their ship on a lonely pier in NC, and the ship headed towards Cuba with them, supplies and a load of ammo/guns.

Besides his critical MOS, he was/is an incredible marksman with shotguns, pistols, rifles and anything that shot a bullet. He had many jackets/trophies from breaking a 100 in skeet and trap. He could hit bulls eyes at 100 yards with a rifle and had killed running deer at 100-200+ yards with his scoped 30:06. He didn’t miss with his pistols.

His dad taught him how to shoot, and a Texas Ranger taught his dad how to shoot. Like his dad, his dominant eye was his left eye inspite of being right handed. The Ranger told his dad to shoot with both eyes open. His dad never missed and he didn’t either.

Growing up, he listened to uncles and older cousins who served in WWII or Korea, complaining about how so many of their fellow soldiers refused to shoot to kill the Germans, Italians and Japanese in deadly combat. He never heard this complaint from relatives and later friends, who served as Marines or Paratroopers.

The first morning on the ship at sea, the Warrant Officers in Charge of the boarding parties were holding firing practice.

The CWO’s asked him to join. In about 15 minutes, he hit every target with every weapon inspite of bouncing along at sea.

So they asked him to join the boarding parties. Later, the CWO’s told him, they had been told by peers who knew about the shooting abilities of my friend. They had prior knowledge that he was a great shot. That, he knew how to shoot and would shoot to kill, if he was told to.

He told the CWO’s fine, but he had one question to ask the other boarding party members in a one on one/face to face.

The CWO’s didn’t understand what he was doing, until they let him ask the question.

His question was: “Will you shoot to kill the Russians if we board their ship and they are trying to kill us?”

He looked each potential boarding party member eyes to eyes while asking that question and waiting silently for their answer.

Most said yes they would.

However. some members of the boarding parties hemmed and hawed until he said, “I will kill you if you don’t shoot to kill the Russians.”

Then, they admitted they couldn’t shoot and kill an enemy, which was a reason for joining the navy.

By this time the CO and XO were there. They and CWO’s removed the pretenders from the boarding parties. They were replaced by those, who said they would shoot and kill the Russians with no problem.

The new members joined the firing practices and became team members of the boarding parties.

They never had to board a Russian Ship, but they came close.

A few months later after the Cuban Missile crisis was over, my friend returned home. Years later, he told us about those who wouldn’t shoot to kill the enemies.

He said to never trust those in life, who talk a brave game, but will not be there when they are needed.

We shouldn’t waste our time with the non combatant voters in this war for survival.

We need to spend our time and energy in defeating the criminal Obozo. We shouldn’t waste our time with the loser pretenders in life. Let them post whatever bs they want and then ignore them.