# Hi, Jack! (ckalli1998)

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [March 11, 2017, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-jack-ckalli1998/781922 "2017-03-11T07:08:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2017, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-jack-ckalli1998/781922/2 "2017-03-11T07:11:21Z")

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Here’s the post where\* Jack \*actually shows something other than mindless cheerleading of the Trump administration and the American right wing:

> [@The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/2136):
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> Well, I’m saddened you don’t. There used to be a point where we had civility and you could get along with your political opponents despite your ideological disagreements?
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> I get along with a lot of liberals, for example.
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> I’ll also readily admit that liberals are right about some things. I’m a staunch supporter of affirmative action; as a black man, I know how racial discrimination still holds some black people back, and that affirmative action is necessary to help hardworking, qualified blacks benefit in our society and move up the economic ladder.
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> I’m also a staunch opponent of neoconservatism, a radical extremely hawkish view that basically says that the U.S. should military invade every country on Earth no matter how miniscule a threat it may or may not pose, and impose their way of life on them, that the U.S. has a job to be the world’s policeman and remake the world in America’s image. I also opposed the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and I’m against the sale of public, federally-owned lands.

OK, there’s hope for you yet.

That said–

You appear to be a college boy, and you think you’re clever. You are going to spend the next two years getting the cocksureness trained out of you, if you’re lucky. If you’re unlucky, you’ll skate through school and turn into another overgrown adolescent with a degree, like Ted Cruz.

I have _socks_ older than you, in more than one sense. (Not on this board, though. Don’t do that.) I get where you’re coming from. You \*will \*end up disillusioned with the GOP, if you keep learning and are willing to swallow your juvenile pride and certainty. The alternative to disillusionment is to close your mind, and turn into something like Dick Cheney, or a more well-spoken version of **Clothahump**. That’d be a small tragedy.

But right now, you’re a joke. The good news is, you’ll live.

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