I am not smart enough to figure out who is what gimmick here. I do know that I like and appreciate funk51's majority of thoughts posted here.
I don't care for the digs on President Trump but I do my best to ignore and laugh at it. Kinda like AbrahamG, another lad I think well of. I can agree to disagree with those who(m?) I find agreeable. We have more in common and in Funk I find a brother of the history of Iron, if you will.
My youngest brother is far more liberal than the rest of us, but still we love one another and he recalls his "big retard of a brother" saving him from a whuppin' or two when we were growing up. He knows when he's pushed me to the edge and that when I fall over that edge, I will get back up.
A lot of the more liberal leaning (there's what...3 or 4 here and maybe 30 of their gimmicks?

) behave the way they do because this is their Gaytrix and there are no real consequences for our churlishness, nor should there be. Conservatives can overlook a lot of stupid because we understand that even if no one else holds us to a moral standard, we will. We are the Watchmen of ourselves.
But I know the only finger I'd lift to save Straw is the middle one of either hand. Funk I'd gladly pull out of any hole in the ground, even if he'd dug it himself. My youngest brother is conservative with his own money (wants to keep more!) and he despises criminals regardless of pigmentation and that is about it for "political commonalities" between us.
Funk and I aren't related but maybe, just maybe like every dog on this planet that possesses wolf DNA, we share what it means to be civilized.
Prime is a person that I think wants to be liked and so like so many of childish mind, goes with the flow of the societal zeitgeist, i.e., liberal bullshit. He will find that when the shit hits his personal fan, those he admonished for their Conservatism will abandon him to harvest his field of screams.
I am not making any sense now... I've tried to correct my spelling, etc. If all you present here is a total socialist, death to whitey and to hell with President Trump attitude then that is what you shall be judge on. Straw does this. Prime throws in some ridiculous perve shit with that attitude. But Funk is different. He's like my youngest (living) brother. To me, that brother isn't lost he just took a wrong turn. To the left

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I have to get him to make two more lefts and then he will be back on the right path. Sorry for the ramblin', my brothers.