Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "MSNBC"
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@Sal-tripin I'll have to pop by the VA and tell them that you insist that they don't exist. I'm sure they'll be amused.
Still, there is a point. Adam missed the mark with Benedict Arnold, he betrayed his country after being wounded in battle when we invaded Canada. With no wounded veteran pensions available, he was looking at returning to his farm that he was now no longer able to work, then he and his family starving to death. So, he sold out. He at least had a reason, Trump's got no reason other than the fact that as a person, he's utterly broken inside.
And Franklin's script was to be backed with money received from the locals, mostly Quakers, who refused to donate the money to pay the troops, leaving him with worthless script. Give the complete history, not a cherry picked Ruskie version of it. It's ugly enough without half-story telling, such as how long it took after Arnold's betrayal before wounded warriors received any compensation to keep them alive after being wounded while fighting to protect their nation.
Or the fact that during the revolution and again in 1812, we invaded Canada, only to be politely escorted back to our border, had our weapons handed back and a pleasant goodby tendered...
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@epicelements5528 my youngest daughter has finally recovered from long COVID, contracted while she was working the COVID floor during the pandemic's first wave.
I contracted COVID, thankfully a mild case, as I was fully immunized against the virus. So, I ended up with some mitral valve damage only.
Our eldest is an RN and worked the COVID floor, she had to take a year off to recover emotionally, as she literally had patients cursing our out and denying the existence of COVID with their literal dying breath.
I also remember Trump blathering that that very physician that was a guest in this interview, had he been in power, would've been denied entry back into the US. He'd have literally exiled a US citizen because he became ill treating Ebola patients.
And Ebola isn't exactly easily transmitted, basic PPE is more than sufficient to prevent it from infecting someone. It spread to healthcare workers in the endemic regions because of a lack of PPE availability, once PPE was made available, worker infection rates plummeted.
And now, notifiable diseases will go unrecorded, because DOGEshit firings by someone who legally isn't permitted to hire or fire anyone, as he's a pseudo-cabinet level, unauthorized agency that Congress never voted to create or fund. And OPM isn't authorized to hire or fire anyone save with OPM, so their mass firings were also illegal, as a court has already decided.
And now, he's setting his sights on the VA and Social Security.
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It's far from the most important bridge in the nation. It is currently the most important port obstruction on the East Coast and regionally, it's the primary hazmat route to bypass the bay tunnels. I used that bridge frequently in the military, as our convoys with fuel and high explosives weren't permitted through the tunnels. Now, all hazmat traffic, to include RV's with propane cylinders have to make an over 30 mile detour around the west side of the city.
Now, if we lost the west side of the beltway, well we're talking about interrupting the I-95 corridor at Baltimore, effectively halting the majority of north-south trade for the East Coast.
Frankly, the blocking of the port is the bigger deal, rather than the highway route being detoured. That said, once recovery begins, rebuilding the bridge does need to become a priority and I'd personally recommend 24/7/365 efforts to rebuild it ASAP. Otherwise, why bother even having an interstate transportation system?
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