EXCLUSIVE: Reaganfan Q&A (I will respond to any question asked)

[Reaganfan]

As we approach the 10 year anniversary of my joining this forum, I have noticed that many often say I never respond to threads or questions posed to me. Therefore, I am opening up a thread for questions regarding myself, my politics, my likes and dislikes, ect. Many older posters may have questions as well as many new posters I do not recognize and would like to know. Therefore, I am opening this thread up to questions. I will respond to each of them.

[Reaganfan]

What's your current career path? Do you still live at home?

The Air Force really messed me up. I won't lie.

Basically, I decided to join the U.S. Air Force in 2006. I graduated High School with a charter High School diploma. Because the U.S. Air Force recognizes a charter H.S. diploma the same as they do a G.E.D, it required me to score extra high on the ASVAB test. So instead of the 35%, I needed a 65%. So I took the test in September 2008, and received a 59%. Now that's above and beyond the 35% required, but it was still six points short. So I waited six weeks (which turned into two months), studied extremely hard, and took it again in November 2008. I received a 63%, just two points shy of the 65% required. My Sergeant tried to see if they could waive the two points, but they couldn't. So I spent two more months studying intensely. I took the test a third time in January 2009, and I got another 59%.

So my options were to either wait six months and take the test a fourth time in June 2009, or enroll in three months of a college excepted by the U.S. Air Force and enlist and swear in immediately but not head for Basic Training until I passed and completed all 15 college credits. I enrolled in a local college in February 2009, passed my Air Force physical, enlisted into the Air Force, then completely my five college classes within three months. In June 2009, I got the news that I would have a Command Post job in the U.S. Air Force and would ship to training in November.

So Air Force BMT is 8 and a half weeks long. They count zero week so technically 9 weeks long. At the end of training (literally the last days of training) I passed out (later found due to dehydration or exhaustion) during a PT run. They put me on medical hold and discovered my small, benign heart defect, a PFO. It didn't require surgery or medication, but it prevented me from staying in the U.S. Air Force. I could try waivers but I was told the likelihood was slim. After all, they still get rid of people with flat feet! I always thought that was a joke...I had no idea it was real!

March 2010, I ended up home. I got a job as a waiter at a diner and I'm still living at home saving money. So after years and years of constant testing and school and college and teachers and exams and physical training and mental training...all of that...for a picture of me in a uniform.

Since then my confidence level has gone down significantly. I was at Target a week or so ago and two hot girls walked by. They didn't see me, of course...but an Army guy in uniform walked by. They both looked and said, "Mmm Military guys are hot". My heart sank. Literally. I felt the goose-bump chill that you get just before you cry. That's gone forever for me.

Knowing that I'll never be as happy or as confident as I once was crushed me. So I just kinda pass time, day by day. I used to envision a career in the Military, running for office, a beautiful wife and a log cabin style home with a shotgun above the fireplace and a ton of kids. Retirement at 42 with a pension and IRA savings...all of that is useless.

Vice President Biden, of all people. He gave a speech in May 2012...and he said EXACTLY...EXACTLY, what I feel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwZ6UfXm410  -- go to 3:32 and watch.

Can you see yourself making (or are you planning to make) a comeback in Atlasia?

Doubtful. I have lost track of the game so much that any attempt at a comeback would be squashed out unless Atlasia was going through a period of reminiscing.

[Reaganfan]

What is your level of education?
Where did you get your fervent love for the United States of America?

I am a High School graduate with 15 college credits under my belt, thus far.

As far as my love for America, I don't know. I will tell you though that it's genuine. I could have been born anytime any place, and I had the privilege of being born in the United States of America in the 1980s. We, despite our occasional flaws, are still the greatest hope for mankind to have a free society. I think liberals tend to see us all as born perfect and that society chains us down. I see it as though America is as President George W. Bush once said, "a story of a flawed and fallible people, united across the generations by grand and enduring ideals."

Do you actually believe what you post, or is a good portion of it skilled trolling?

I believe it but of course I add in comic effect.

Who do you think will win and who do you support for the GOP nomination in 2016?

My personal support would tend towards Governor Christie or Governor Huckabee. As for who would win, I'd be inclined to say Chris Christie but nobody knows for sure.

Who does your whole family support in 2016 if the race is Clinton vs. Christie or Clinton vs. Bush ?

And if the family has a clear choice, does it mean OH will vote so as well ?

Funny enough I've often told my mother she represents the electorate quite well. She's voted for the winner in four of the last four elections. She likes Chris Christie and Jeb Bush, but she always disliked the Clintons going as far back as when Governor Clinton defeated President Bush in 1992.

I know most of my family would vote for Christie, Bush might be harder to persuade but even the liberals in my family are so angry at Obama, I have a feeling that even another Romney candidacy would win their votes this time around.

[Reaganfan]

Why do you dislike black people?

I could care less about race. It's not the color of ones skin, but the content of their character. I agree with Dr. Martin Luther King.

[Reaganfan]

Have you ever sought treatment by a psychiatrist?

No, why would I?

[Reaganfan]

Have you ever sought treatment by a psychiatrist?

No, why would I?

I was at Target a week or so ago and two hot girls walked by. They didn't see me, of course...but an Army guy in uniform walked by. They both looked and said, "Mmm Military guys are hot". My heart sank. Literally. I felt the goose-bump chill that you get just before you cry. That's gone forever for me.

Yeah but I know what my problem is why see a professional?

[Reaganfan]

Do you irony?

Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?

I'm sorry I don't understand these questions.

[Reaganfan]

What skills do you have to make yourself employable at a decent job and why in the hell aren't you living anywhere but podunk OH trying to grab the American Dream?

It's not that easy to just pick up and go. As of right now, I don't know but I have a HS Diploma and some college credits under my belt already.

Why don't you reply in other threads you've created?

Sometimes I forget, or I just have no enthusiasm left to argue with flawed opinions.

What is your favorite kind of fish to angle?

Largemouth Bass

Who would in a fight between Batman, Superman, and Ron Paul?

Probably Superman.

[Reaganfan]

Who do you think will win the UEFA Champions League Final in 2014?

No clue. I don't follow sports thus I don't participate. I think that if you lack knowledge about something, you shouldn't pollute the process by participating.

Q: Who was more of a REAL American, Ronald Reagan or John Wayne?

Both were equally patriotic. I think of the big three (Reagan, Wayne and Eastwood) all were mythical representations of what is perceived as "American". Of course, Reagan ended up being the most powerful man in the world, helping bring down the mockery called "communism" and make America a successful nation again. Remember, even those who loathe the 80s but love the 90s, without Reagan's 80s prosperity, there is no prosperous 90s.

Do you believe Naso, that you yourself, are a representative of pure 100% American-ness or only 86%? What about liberals and flag-burning hippies; are they only how much america? 56% America or 37% America or even less?

And what is the empirical metric you use for this measurement?

EDIT: Also, forgot:

Do you ever cry while fishing, only to realize your tears' insignificance amid all the water?

I love America. I love the Constitution. I don't want to change a thing as far as how we were founded. Remember, the Constitution is NOT an evolving document in any way, shape or form.

No I don't cry while fishing.

I find that you have a very unique and entertaining writing style, Reaganfan. Additionally, you can relate a story extremely well. Have you ever thought of writing political or military novels?

I guess so. I've thought about lots of things. I had some really good stories going in the past but nobody seemed interested.

Previous Stories:
Cordell for President (2008) - https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=87803.0
Vendetta-elect (2008) - https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=89285.45
Brooks and Weinbach: Time Travel (2011) - https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=141373.0
Pandora (2012) - https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=151928.0

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=159361.msg3425818#msg3425818

[Reaganfan]

What is your real motivation behind making this thread?

To have a chance to get everything about Reaganfan out in the open. Many questions are often asked to me but they get buried in the ashheap of thread history.

[Reaganfan]

Why don't you own a digital camera?

I do.

[Reaganfan]

Then why don't you use it to take photographs?

I do.

[Reaganfan]

How has Naso's answer to my question not made it into several signatures and the Irony Mine?

Why is that ironic? Are you implying I have no knowledge of history or politics?

[Reaganfan]

What would a universe in which you were a die-hard communist look like (as in, what would it take for that to happen without actually changing what communism is)?

IDK Nazi domination where the Red Army was your only friend?