Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "Thom Hartmann Program" channel.

I remember the massacre well, watching it on television after it happened. As a direct result, National Guard troops receive training each year on crowd control and won't bring their weapons to such details.
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@kalikalimai1 ah, but would it be effective? Is Trump an animal, mineral or vegetable? Do Trumps feel pain like higher animals do?
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In a fair part for one reason, $$$. Ads cost money and the wealthiest are supporting their god-emperor.
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Same here, but in Harrisburg, PA. I'd have happily shared my combat load of MK318 mod 1 rounds.
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@jimcarr1354 oh? What's coming? The tooth fairy?
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The military are trained to first question, then disregard unlawful orders. And the speaker is wrong, Kent State was a panic reaction by armed National Guard troops who had zero training in crowd control. That's long been rectified and the NG won't show up with their weapons, they'll arrive with face shield on the helmet and mattock handles at most. And it's actually worse what Trump wanted to do. He wanted to turn the entire nation into Baltimore during the civil war, when Lincoln declared martial law and imprisoned citizens without charge indefinitely in Army prisons. Lincoln tried it in Illinois as well, but the SCOTUS handed him his ass, declaring no martial law while the courts can still hold session.
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@rogerforsman5064 military in general, no, not their bailiwick. But, the National Guard does, had it each and every year when I was in the 56th Brigade Combat Team. We were warfighters on the Army side, but crowd control and riot response was training given annually. Even when we were converting, first to M113's, later to Strykers.
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@USA-GreedyMenOfNoIntegrity this veteran and military retiree included.
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Well, I'm not as passive and well, I'm entirely a lapsed pacifist. So, if they tried coming for me, they're well advised to bring a thimble to be buried in. I'll retain the confiscated equipment.
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@elainestruve4324 why would one fear those showing cowardice? Do you think that they'll suddenly gain courage and paint a yellow strip down our backs to match their own?
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@Ronrelethford just note when the unions do, if they do and go for it.
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@jojolouis missed the original comment, but if ineffective, the individual will likely join predecessors at the Ukrainian front, to get mowed down by the Ukraine forces.
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Oh no, I overshare about the lethal qualities of my mighty flatus. And my infamous resistance to CNS depressants that has complicated surgical procedures. Or worse, my reactions to adrenaline... And well, they're welcome to my relating my Bristol scale measurement of my stool quality. And if they want my BP and pulse, well being a chronic pain patient and pain causes that aforementioned adrenaline release, they'll conclude that I'm either the Incredible Hulk or Phenomenal Bulk. I'm the latter, puny Hulk only smashes, I crush.
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@juliettebobcat704 weapons can point in any direction. And unlawful orders are first to be questioned, then disregarded.
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@elizabethh-j2gfurmom one cannot read that which was never written. The biggest is against lust in general, which was repeated in Old and New Testaments. Onam, the most frequently mis-cited was over his premature withdrawal from his deceased brother's wife, as it was his duty to sire a child in his dead brother's stead and he'd refused to do so. Cherrypicking verses and ignoring the full lesson is a sin in and of itself. Omitting half of the chapter, as severe as omitting a line when one changes the intended message, as you've then placed yourself above your God and that's the path that Satan took.
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Well, Hitler learned from the GOP in the US, eugenics, media control via propaganda, repression of rights, along with the named groups, you forgot the other victims of Aktion T4, the physically disabled, mentally ill and infirm elders that couldn't work, all under the excuse of "sapping the war effort's resources". While acknowledging in writing before the war that he needed a war to justify his eugenics efforts. One plan Hitler didn't get to begin, suppression of Christianity in favor of worshiping Woden. Even his inner circle realized that was one step too far. One advantage we have over Germany or Hungary, our second amendment protects the entirety of our now defunct Constitution.
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@fikretahadzistevic9961 true, but military aren't politicians or lawyers.
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@fikretahadzistevic9961 the military does not act without orders. An example, everyone knew that WWII was coming with both Japan and Germany, the military didn't attack first, but waited for Congress to declare war. Acting against the Commander in Chief is mutiny, sedition and treason and all are mandatory capital offenses for service members, but not mandatory for civilians, who can get fines and prison instead.
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@beno0351 that is beyond impressive, to literal powers of a god level! Given that throughout all branches of service, there are over 900 generals. Even Superman couldn't manage that with his super speed and super reading skills. Notable though, every female senior officer in command of a major command or base he and his staff have encountered was fired under his suppress women and dark skinned people, I mean anti-DEI agenda. I remember back when it was illegal to fire someone just for being dark skinned or a woman. But, that was back when we had a Constitution and laws, now we've only got a tyrant king, who rules by decree.
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@DuchessofMar7987 as I am registered as a Democrat, I'm curious as to what a Demonrat is, other than a moronic, childish schoolyard comment one would expect from a first grade student. I'll also remind you, Nixon, a Republican was POTUS for the Kent State Massacre and as POTUS, was ultimately responsible for having an untrained National Guard.
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@bryanhuseboe539 no, he called out dead again for the holiday weekend... ;) Last time he did that was for May 5th. Oh well, we needed the OT to cover his shift. :P
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My wife and I have two grown children, well, she died three years ago, but... Out of 16 pregnancies, one being an ectopic pregnancy. We wanted just one more child, but that was not to be. Had I returned, as I did after she had the ectopic aborted with much drama due to the nearest hospital (a military requirement at the time) having religious rules that required my consent (that's still a mystery to me and I'm intimately familiar with the bible) and I was utterly incommunicado due to our military mission and found her locked up, I'd have turned my military training and skills against that facility and extracted her and my team would've joined me. There would have been no quarter given and the building would've been leveled after.
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You missed a lot on the Nazi eugenics program, 375000 forcibly sterilized began the program. Then, "Those unworthy of life", which was the elderly incapable of work, disabled, disfigured, mentally ill, social misfits and mentally disadvantaged were first denied food and water, then when that was too slow, the hard acid phenol was injected, causing massive muscle contractions, then nervous system collapse. When that was too slow, they moved to carbon monoxide trucks to gas patients in care facilities at the curbside. Over a quarter million were murdered in Aktion T4. Then, he moved to the death camps. And in paranoid moments, I consider the mysterious cybertruck federal contract... Easy to evade those though, cybertrucks are pure pavement princesses. Go into any kind of rough road and terrain, it'll get stuck like Chuck. As for deporting citizens, one isn't deporting them, they're exiling them. Already by Constitution unconstitutional, without due process, again neutralizing habeas corpus, the body of law, hence utterly lawless and literally placing the Constitution in abeyance. And to reinforce fear, now arresting judges and threatening all levels of public officials for "obstructing government officials". And an EO authorizing the tyrant god-king to command local police forces. Two words come to mind, well two sets of two words. Batshit crazy. Civil war. Looks like one condition being present, the other seems to be what he desires. I suspect, based upon comments when the film first was released, that Trump watched part of the film Civil War, but obviously missed how it ended.
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@votebluegirl a big enough protest, he'll just proclaim it a violent insurrection and declare martial law. Nationwide general strike. If even 5% of the workforce just stays home for a week, the impact financially on corporate America would be disabling and Congressional backlines lit ablaze by enraged corporate benefactors. What's he gonna do, send the army door to door to drive people to work, while they've got no clue where they work? We don't have enough agents and service members to handle just one major city's worth of home striking workers.
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@YOUR-WORD-IS-YOUR-BOND so did everyone else on every other continent, gonna deport everyone to Africa?
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The Communist Manifesto was written in 1847, published in 1848. Although, I was entertained by one MAGAt that proclaimed that George Washington was a communist, or in his words, "a commie". Impressive, given the manifesto was published 49 years after Washington died, he must've been using Obama's time machine.
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@tyarymynydd the danger of cherry picking from the story. Masturbation wasn't the offense, but withdrawal during coitus with his deceased brother's wife, denying her a child of the family line, which was required under religious law. Note how the message got mangled by cherry picking from scripture, omitting sections to change the message. All, to control people, rather than teach the faith in a faithful manner. I'm infamous for going toe to toe with such abusive preachers and even ministers, I always prove my point and they then try to proclaim that lying for Jesus is good. Nope, the Lord of the Lies isn't God, it's Satan.
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@grindcoreninja6527 that's OK, my stash is on encrypted drives that use crypto that the NSA approves of and can't easily crack. And I keep a Downloads folder called "Dick Picks", got Nixon, Cheney, Van Dyke and a few others faces in that one. Hey, go through my hard drive, you'll get a few life lessons on minding one's own business. Pathology reports, autopsy reports, all manner of medical imagery, most of which will decidedly put one off one's meals for a protracted period. Plus assorted physics documents, which glaze the eyes of any reviewer. Oddly, an Egyptian Islamic scholar said it best. "When you see your neighbor do something that is wrong, if he rejects your correction advice, walk away and say, 'God knows better than I what you are doing' and go in peace". Why can't Christians take such sage advice? Forcing compliance upon others is not faithfulness, it is the rejection of the Almighty's gift of free will and hence, itself a sin for more severe than the one one is attempting to prevent. On to lighter matters. Just moved apartments recently, along the way, some items were lost, including the charger for my drill. Now, I can neither drill, nor screw. Gotta get me a new charger pronto! Need to hang a few things, like my cane holder and a fruit basket.
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@articrafthandmade6284 so, shop, but don't shop. Got ya. Won't be anyway, it's moving day.
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Since he considers unarmed, ununiformed men, women and children combatants, that then makes them valid military targets, because it's the American way to flamethrower babies. Nope, ununiformed, unarmed together makes them noncombatants. Therefore, any order to harm them is an unlawful order to any officer of the US government and obeying any order to harm them makes them guilty of crimes against humanity and war criminals in an undeclared war. Going after birthright citizenship, just a shredding of the Constitution and thereby also removing the authority of any and every court and government in the land, as their authority originates from the wellspring of the Constitution itself.
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@IrriGRAYHowToChannel one problem. Part of an entire amendment that was ratified says, born here, born citizen. Or are we now shredding the Constitution too? In which case, I can't tell you from a Trumpite.
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Well, Nixon gave both a run for their money. Buchanan also was pretty much the worst rated POTUS - until Trump dethroned him.
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@barbaram6303 El Salvador is now safe, so was Nazi Germany, unless one was accused, then one was just dead. And lemme check, well until Trump, we'd defeated the fascists.
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Surrounded by yes men, he'll soon be bankrupt and the business history.
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