Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "The Ring of Fire"
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If Trump threatened to nuke, I'd call his bluff.
First, there's no way in hell he could get through page one of CONPLAN 8044, no pictures or bullet points. Additionally, his choice of SecDef would be wearing a lampshade and way too drunk to authenticate off of his code card inside his biscuit and verify that Trump was actually Trump. So, lacking both, no nukes would be able to be used, no matter how much he rails.
I started my military career in nukes, trust me, I know the authorization chain and procedures quite well. There's no magical button, it's literally a written and telephonically delivered authenticated order, using a specific format from the CONPLAN. Incorrect format being an invalid order and disregarded. No two man rule for verification or launch orders, orders are disregarded. Disregarded orders being duly logged for record of the unlawful attempts.
But, Trump ignoring campaign promises is a given, he did so last time he was in office.
Besides, he'd need permission to actually fulfill any promises he's made from President Musk, who is unlikely to authorize his VP to do anything he didn't originate an order for, having duly paid for the office he now holds and owns.
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The only problem with "vote counting computers" is, they're not networked with external access possible, so someone would have to have physical access to each vote counting location's computers, which is 67 counties, so 67 locations.
So, Elon must've been really busy, breaking into those counting offices, hacking into the computers, all unnoticed by the workers counting those votes.
Still, a claim was made, now must be investigated to see if Musk bribed a shit ton of people.
And if proven that he did, allow him to go uncharged and Trump to remain in office, because no one may dethrone a king.
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"If these are the best lawyers..."
Well, nearly every other attorney that's defended the god-king wannabe has ended up disbarred, in prison or both.
So, the field is wide open, want the job? Yeah, didn't think so, I've had a few rare attorneys that weren't exactly the sharpest tool in the box, indeed I wondered that they both acquired a law degree and passed the bar, but even they wouldn't touch anything Trump with a stick the width of the planet Jupiter.
But this one, it reminds me of a scene from Braveheart. William Wallace and his army facing the Royal army, the Irish prince beside him saying, "The almighty wanted me to tell you, he can get me out of this mess, but he's pretty sure you're fucked".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWgsdexkv18
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Worse, apparently, DOGEfuck decided to purge their records, so that personal contact data wasn't available for the employees to be easily recalled.
Allegedly, the majority have been called back to work, although no confirmation was available that said workers had received their "recall notice".
So, even money, to be able to claim that they successfully recalled the fired employees, they re-enabled their accounts and now everyone has a text message, e-mail and voicemail on their government phone's mailboxes that are inside of a box in the IT department that also has no employees.
I don't now why, but for some reason, my mind's eye sees some wayward plutonium cores rolling around, with polonium trigger spheres rolling nearby and someone's cat batting them around a Texan apartment...
After all, the plutonium core is only the size of a grapefruit, the polonium trigger the size of a golf ball. and both as hollow as Emperor Musk's head.
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A leader visiting isn't a violation. Otherwise, we'd have private citizens in danger of arrest for someone knocking on their door.
Discussion of policy and political things, that's a violation. "Very nice, it'll be fine" ain't a violation. That isn't policy, official position or well, anything similar to anyone that is sane.
Meanwhile, we've had Logan Act violations by Nixon and Reagan, all well recorded and ignored. Gaetz violated the Mann Act, it was ignored, apparently only Black men get charged with that one routinely and well, Epstein's female recruiter...
Unless and until that PM shows up and he and Trump discuss policies and politics, there isn't going to be a violation and historically, we ignored outright sabotage of peace negotiations and hostage release negotiations, so Trump's fairly safe. This is as huge a nothingburger as Trump's souper seekrit medical records on his boo-boo he got outside of Pittsburgh.
Besides, the courts have effectively anointed him a god-king. And remember, Caesar was a felon once he crossed the Rubicon, he still became emperor and a friend had to make him see the point of the Senate's objections.
Leaving the Republic dead and an Emperor to turn to ashes over time.
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The bitch of it is, every actual politician says the same shit and well, doesn't go to such super extremes, but...
I remember the first year of our GWOT, when the GOP lead the charge to cut the VA budget, for at least the 30th consecutive time - when men were coming home missing limbs. It took a leak to the press about veterans returning home to not be treated due to budget cuts at the VA to force a restoration of funds.
Which were subsequently promised to remain intact, but diverted to private mega-practices that were clueless to veterans specialized needs, but made the requisite campaign contributions.
Trump took a lesson from such prostitution and made it his own via extremes, due to his sociopathic nature.
I instinctively dial in on personality flaws and traits myself, helped me a lot when figuring out who was a threat or a potential friend when abroad in the military. One difference is, I have rules I abide by, Trump only has one rule, what he can gain from. He can't comprehend self-sacrifice for the benefit of the whole. So, he fools followers. I win their trust and reward it with my own trust and build relationships. He wouldn't understand a normal relationship even when it's repeatedly bit him in the ass.
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@babu357 the military takes lawful orders, it doesn't self-mobilize and engage without lawful orders.
And we weren't sworn to the people, we were sworn to obey lawful orders and protect the nation, Constitution and laws. The Constitution's preamble defining the nation as We The People of the United States. Nothing in the oath about a god-king wannabe or anything political and there are laws against military getting in any way at all involved in politics or policing.
We also count on the folks at home keeping things reasonably stable and well, as close as possible to what we deployed to defend when we redeploy home. These antics are beyond disconcerting to those serving far from home.
I know that well enough, I trained a hell of a lot of those who are now senior leaders.
OT by a bit, went shopping at the local small supermarkets, around a 2 mile walk from home. Extra large eggs were at one market for $9.00, left them sit, large were $8.00, let that sleeping dog lie too. Ironically, the week before they were a buck less, but got a 10.39 pound ham for $6.11, which is now part frozen, part bagged in the fridge and the bone happily in the freezer door awaiting my pleasure of what soup to make out of it. Lamb was around the usual price. Pork was around average. Eggs are up due to bird flu wiping out entire flocks of hens. End of Jan, a report from Nevada reported bird flu in milk at dairy farms, then all flu and COVID reporting ceased from the government, per god-king's orders.
Of course that'd happen, he was seven kinds of bent out of shape how the reports made his numbers look bad during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Maybe I'll some green eggs and ham, like used to be made for me by Sam I Am. ;)
Since my pantry is restocked again.
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Fraud exists everywhere, what matters is, when is it a paperclip in value vs a top shelf weapons system that doesn't work level fraud.
When routine site underperformance is present vs business as usual corporate intentional underperformance.
And a computer records search won't get results for amateurs to detect, it takes a forensic accountant to suggest where to send investigators.
Frankly, I suspect, due to certain specific behaviors and tendencies, Musk to resent US interference in apartheid, with some likely familial Nazi sympathies and he's now leveraged his inherited emerald mine and invested well enough to seek retribution and restoration.
But, that's my amateur hour armchair psychoanalysis of him. Trump knows what queening stool to stay under to gain influence, power and well, money. And is clueless in actual power and influence beyond very short range goals, but money and such short range influence was what he was literally raised on valuing.
Of the two, I only personally met Trump back around 2000. He remains the only human alive that I actively loathe. The few others were terrorists and are extinct.
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You need your eyes checked then.
Treason is the only crime listed in the US Constitution and is extremely narrowly and precisely defined.
Article III, Section 3, Clause 1:
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
By definition, we have no enemies, as Congress has not declared war upon anyone since WWII.
That means levying war and that requires, by law, the taking up of and utilizing arms against officers of the United States Government.
So, it's not treason, it's pretty much never treason.
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Tech genius Musk, who famously announced that the US government doesn't use SQL databases, still ignores a report thanking the US Treasury Department for their assistance in tracing a bug used in a compromise at Treasury of a PostrgreSQL server, which I guess isn't SQL because Emperor Musk says SQL isn't being used at all in government.
And given the sheer number of Oracle databases I monitored compliance with for the government, Oracle isn't SQL either. Nor is MySQL or MSSQL.
And his geniuses, the bestest in the universe, straight out of kindergarten are the super douper bestest, using out of the box configurations and passwords, no port filtering or shuttering of unused services and ignoring best business practices, totally the bestestestest. At getting pwned.
I swear, it's like watching Wile E. Coyote opening up the latest package from Acme, ya know what's gonna happen next just ain't gonna go so well for the Coyote.
Oh, the "not using SQL" was Musk's excuse for using WordPress, rather than oh, software that the US government has master site licenses for and hence, is bought and paid for.
And the first thing one does when setting up a server is to disable services that aren't used, change default passwords, block ports that are not to be used externally. That's literally the first steps when loading the server - before it's put online to the production network, let alone the big bad open internet.
Yep, the Coyote falling off the cliff again, wearing dynamite and a missile's heading toward his impact point - loaded with a nuke stolen because nobody was there to secure it.
I've set up servers from bare metal up, put up sites, databases and well, a whale of a lot more, administered them, verified baseline configuration compliance, patch level compliance, etc.
When I was done, I had the things reviewed by someone not in my chain of command. I got to review their work in return. Anything amiss got corrected. Then, I scanned the damned things with vulnerability scanners and when we used one of the nastier vulnerability scanner that could deliver some hostile payloads, those were the servers that we ran those specific tests upon. Some of those very servers lived on our DMZ and hence, were internet facing and provided services to external users.
Not a one was compromised.
Clint Eastwood famously addressed an empty chair at a convention, perhaps he should go to the White House and address that empty head.
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@Rhiannon-b6k show me where, before two witnesses that will willingly testify in open court that he took up arms and made war against the United States government.
Treason is the only crime that is described in the Constitution, it is narrowly and precisely described, far more narrowly than basically any other nation, due to abuses of that very charge in the past.
We lack an enemy, so he cannot give aid and comfort to such, as Congress has not declared war since WWII and we're not at war.
Article III, Section 3, Clause 1:
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
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It's fascinating how he can fiat legislate and in this case, amend the Communications Act of 1934. I guess he's gotten control of the Obama time machine!
Nope, even Congress can't strip a station of its license. The FCC regulates broadcast licenses under the Communications Act of 1934, as amended and pissing off the President does not preclude licensing or result in licensing revocation.
But then, Trump says all kinds of shit that he can't do. Like oh, lowering prices of certain products, such as more recently, the price of eggs. Oddly, the price of eggs appears to be increasing since he took office.
Rarely, he'll try something he's not allowed to do that he spoke about, most of the time, what he said just evaporates and nothing is attempted. When he does try, well, the courts smack his pee-pee and send him on his way, his order prohibited by the courts.
I'd recommend a hammer for the smack, but alas, I don't think that they make hammers that small, the smallest I've found is a jeweler's hammer.
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Now, now. If they had opened things up, they'd have had to share the wealth that they instead took back home with them.
So, it's just more of the same, promises, come to visit, no reach around and you're left with their bar tab.
Still, given Trump supporters budgets, especially after having allowed him to fleece them for their highly limited fixed income, you know that they stayed in bargain accommodations, thereby benefiting the bedbug population. They'll travel to the next rally, to spread that wealth only, as their financial "wealth" was already donated to their god-king-emperor wannabe, who promised to run on his own wealth and he did - straight to the bank to deposit their donations.
PT Barnum's competitor once said, "There's a sucker born every minute", Trumpites prove that idea in spades. Repeatedly, as they camp follow their god-king-emperor wannabe, the beast wounded by the sword, but did not die.
But, at least Trump does entertain, like with his recent interview with the National Association of Black Journalists, where he incessantly shot his own feet off and did everything shy of dropping the N bomb.
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