Up yours.........where did I ever say desert anything? I asked a simple question that you orange echobots refuse to answer. Nothing more, nothing less.
Me desert? FU.....I have stood as a principled conservative from the begining.
Hear, hear! As a mere 26 YO lad (maybe a bit more than a lad, I was nearing the end of my 4th year in Germany as an Air Defense Artillery officer...lol), I stood up for Ronald Reagan during the last few months of the election, engaging my German neighbors who were convinced that Reagan would start WWIII, and they were pleading with me to vote for Carter.
I engaged my neighbors in friendly conversation, pulling together my knowledge of world/US/military history to prove why Reagan was the better choice, and I did it for them in near-fluent German. I didn't belittle or demean them, I knew most of them came of age during WWII. I simply laid out the case, and told them that he'd also been a good governor for the state of California for 8 years.
Shortly after Inauguration Day, I was invited to sit at the
stammtisch at that
gasthaus, a table reserved for family and close friends of the family. It's an honor I cherish to this day, rarely accorded to an American. O/T, I think I'd be a great ambassador to Germany.
Fast forward 36 years, and I would likely have dined away from the discussions, professing "Ich kann nicht Deutsche sprechen!"

Catfish my brother, I'll be standing with you, on that you can be assured of.