You go back in time and kidnap a Founding Father...and poof!

[Solus]

He would already know "Power Corrupts..." That is why they built the Constitution the way they did, to check human nature.

I would talk physics if was Franklin or Jefferson, they would love the brain stretching ideas in relativity.

That would answer why it happened.....but not why we let it  happen....

[fightingquaker13]

Definitely Jefferson. We'd light up a phatty, he did grow hemp and knew of its, umm, other uses, and then we'd have a talk. Step one the Smithsonian, and a visit to the Corps of Discovery exhibits, then to the gun shop. He did say we needed a revolution every generation right? TJ with an AK (which he'd prefer to an AR due its simplicity of manufacture, though I will admit he'd probably be a 1911 guy), how cool would that be?
FQ

[tombogan03884]

Definitely Jefferson. We'd light up a phatty, he did grow hemp and knew of its, umm, other uses, and then we'd have a talk. Step one the Smithsonian, and a visit to the Corps of Discovery exhibits, then to the gun shop. He did say we needed a revolution every generation right? TJ with an AK (which he'd prefer to an AR due its simplicity of manufacture, though I will admit he'd probably be a 1911 guy), how cool would that be?
FQ

Figures you'd pick Jefferson, a liberal theorist with no practical experience who's foreign policy advice led to the naval war with France, War with the Barbary Pirates, and left us nearly defenseless in the war of 1812, the first war we lost.

[fightingquaker13]

Uhhh, he was also the guy who bought us a continent for pocket change, and made the US Navy and Marine Corps into a serious expeditionary force. Yep, an academic poseur.

[tombogan03884]

Uhhh, he was also the guy who bought us a continent for pocket change, and made the US Navy and Marine Corps into a serious expeditionary force. Yep, an academic poseur.

BS, Thomas Jefferson fought Naval appropriations tooth and nail, his defense spending built forts and a bunch of useless under manned single gun row galleys.
The original 6 Frigates were approved and funded by Adams, in spite of the incompetent academic poseur.

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[fightingquaker13]

To the shores of Tripoli.....Just sayin'.
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[tombogan03884]

To the shores of Tripoli.....Just sayin'.
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Only after bribery and appeasement failed miserably.
A lesson liberals still have not learned.
And just to illustrate Jefferson's concept of a "serious expeditionary force" Lt O'Bannon had 5 Marines under his command.

[fightingquaker13]

Only after bribery and appeasement failed miserably.
A lesson liberals still have not learned.
And just to illustrate Jefferson's concept of a "serious expeditionary force" Lt O'Bannon had 5 Marines under his command.

One riot, one Ranger. And he got the job done didn't he?

[tombogan03884]

One riot, one Ranger. And he got the job done didn't he?

Yeah, but that was because they were MARINES.
US Marines have never lost a beach they landed on.