Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "The Damage Report"
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The literal argument is, "Hitler was popular, so the UK should've surrendered and worked with him to exterminate all of the Jews". Yeah, no. History has prove that wrong on multiple levels, one of which resulted in Mr Popular chomping a cyanide capsule and shooting himself before the cyanide could do its good work.
And Musk did just leave our nuclear enduring stockpile unstaffed and unguarded and can't find the people he unconstitutionally, illegally fired, from his unconstitutional, unfunded, illegal non-agency that's stolen public records and misused them in dozens of felonious ways.
I mean, if the devil becomes popular, we go to war against God? Popular isn't right, it's popular error, that's why we have a representational democracy and not a total democracy.
Meanwhile, I'm looking at some fascinating strategies from the Offal Office. Mobilizing the military for immigration enforcement and potential unrest, while simultarneously sending Musk and his Merry Band of Misfits to the DoD with the Trump stated goal of cutting the DoD budget by 50%. Dunno how that'll be accomplished when one's cut that budget by half.
But then, we're talking Trump, who thinks that magnets stop working if they get wet. Which is a shocking thing, given my military issue compass is fluid filled and works quite well.
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Nope, he left the kid a horrifying 10 feet behind him. Who knows what evil might've befallen him had he gotten 11 feet behind? Why, some evil pizza parlor basementless building basement dweller might've recycled his eyelashes into a fountain of youth drug or something!
Yeah, it's a nothingburger.
I loathe the SOB, as a human, he's subhuman. His only true talents are as a mediocre businessman, excellent showman and excels at hiring great managers and company CEO's. Whenever he runs a company himself, he destroys it by micromanaging it and turning it into a fiefdom, rather than allowing the competent staff to run it.
But, the kid lagging behind during a public appearance, it's not as if the pod born body snatchers are gonna grab the kid, the stairs ain't gonna gobble him up and the Biden Under the Bed ain't gonna snatch him up and replace him with a changeling.
As for the Oval Office thing, that's Musk showing everyone that he's the boss. Nobody brings a small child to a major meeting with one's boss, it's inappropriate, distracting and disrespectful to that boss.
But then, most of us haven't had the good fortune of inheriting an emerald mine with which to jump start one's "genius in business, self made man" career. And he and Trump did make their money the old fashioned way - they inherited it.
I inherited a pocket watch and bills, the watch getting stolen during a move. For some odd reason, nobody bothered to steal the bills.
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Trump basically had offered his defense, the defense of Charles I, "the King can do no wrong".
Charles I was convicted of treason against the UK and beheaded. It was not good to be the king that day, but it effectively did end the English Civil War.
The Founders of this nation remembered those events, as a result the chief executive had defined powers and limitations, checks and balances on each of the three branches of government imposed, a bill of rights that included the right to confront witnesses against oneself and at the time, a precisely and narrowly defined definition within the Constitution, of the only crime listed within the Constitution, of what treason was and how it my be prosecuted.
In many ways, Trump seeks to upend both the results of the English Civil War and our own Constitution entirely. But, as worrisome is how many people wish to upend our own Constitution in their zeal to prosecute Trump at all costs, even at the cost of our own Constitution by redefining treason to mere sedition.
Treason being defined in the US as the levying war against the United States or giving aid and comfort to an enemy. We have no enemies, as Congress has not declared war since WWII and nobody has yet organized and made war against their own nation in the US, with only individuals joining a foreign enemy against us during the GWOT, when we remained without an enemy due to a lack of a declaration of war.
Such people forgetting the first rule of parenting, one does not discard the baby with the bathwater.
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There is one thing Elon invented, himself. He inherited an emerald mine, leveraged that modest income from the partially played out mine by buying into what became Paypal. Bought the rest of his companies too.
He is good at one thing only, beyond promoting himself, he is good at the rare skill in hiring good managers for his companies, rather than bullshitters, so a fair number succeed.
Well, other than Hyperloop, Boring, Neuralink (it's success? Literally producing tech that was introduced in the 1970's, as I remember seeing the mind moved around computer mouse back in the mid-70's on a Saturday morning cartoon break). We'll not even go into the collapse to penny stock that followed his wonderfully skillful leadership of Twitter.
The only reason he came to the US was to literally dodge the South African draft. Entertainingly, something he's freely and publicly admitted to.
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Wow, you already screwed up in your opening statement!
"Trump's going to screw up in 1000 ways", no, more like 100000 ways. ;)
I am confused as to why you're covering last week's news though.
I've been calling this either "Biden in the Basement" or "The Biden Under the Bed", as apparently, there's a Biden haunting the god-king's White House and sabotaging him at night and his almighty cannot locate him, despite his infinite impotence, I mean omniscience and omnipotence, no I was right the first time.
Amazingly, you could see inflation coming, I could see inflation coming, Helen Keller could see inflation coming.
And egg prices are predicted to continue to rise, likely by at least 20%, per the USDA, as bird flu continues to ravage "farms".
Using quotes, as we're talking mega warehouses full of battery cages with around 6 million laying hens, one gets sick, they all get sick and bird flu is 90 - 100% fatal in them currently. Canada doesn't get these problems, as their "farms" only hold around 28k birds per farm and are more geographically scattered, so are a bit more infection impact resistant.
Yeah, education is shocking, of all people to be shortsighted on the matter, educators.
Pasteurized eggs are just rinsed with a high temperature water bath briefly, so that the egg doesn't cook. Downside is, the membrane that protects the egg is degraded, upside is less chance of salmonella that farmers reject vaccinating their hens against. Dunno, I get the cheapest store brand or whatever's on special eggs at the store and a dozen lasts me around a month or so unless I go on a baking binge. But, one thing I can't blame on Trump is both the egg laying factory "farms" or avian influenza. Not reporting on it now, not reporting on COVID spread, trying to hide a measles epidemic I can blame on him. Oh, bird flu was also detected in milk from cows in Nevada and Arizona. Less of an impact with them, it's not highly lethal in bovines yet and pasteurization destroys the virus and yeah, you can't give me raw milk unless the cow's right next to the glass and it just came from Betsy and good luck then - I don't tolerate anything above 2% and prefer 1% fat milk, higher gives me indigestion. And parasites and pathogens, I've enough fun with Crohn's, no need to try to make me shit myself more often, thank you. Matter of fact, get my final induction dose of biologic treatment for the Crohn's this week, unless I get DOGEfucked.
I'm mystified as to why the State Department always rejects my job applications... ;)
OK, total number of applications for State = 0.
But, to be serious, Trump has, ahem, reliably informed us that the steel and aluminum tariffs will help farmers. The rationale behind that was apparently accordion hands.
That man's a super gen- no, can't finish that one with a straight face. He's about as brilliant as a 10 foot tall stack of anvils.
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That's the problem. He isn't a complete douche, he's an incomplete douche.
At least a complete douche is useful.
And a complete douche doesn't try to sell the world on "The US government doesn't use SQL", when it's the world's largest Oracle customer - a SQL database, plus PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL... Or fire critical workers, like epidemiologists during epidemics, cancer researchers mid-approval for a non-small lung cancer vaccine trial, weathermen that predict major storms, nuclear weapons security personnel, air traffic controllers, etc to save mythical money that is being spent even more rapidly in their absence because critical work isn't getting done now.
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@Sarcasticron trying and failing to appear human.
Which is odd, given the only sapient and sentient life on the planet at human level are humans. After all, if you were a space alien, would you be stupid enough to land on this planet full of insane critters called humans? ;)
But yeah, keeping up and well, keeping wrangled. Never had to resort to shoulder carry, but I spent enough time with our kids, as in most of my time at home, playing with them and keeping them wrangled. I was also the preferred babysitter for the grandkids until I had to relocate far away due to my job.
And also was the only one that could keep the colicky infants happy. Now, they're tweens, nothing keeps 'em happy. ;)
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Benedict Arnold was a war hero, who was injured in the line of duty and had no pension in which to support his family and farm, despite being disabled in war. So, he turned traitor to provide for his family.
And oddly, after that decorated and respected war hero turned to support his family, the Continental Congress founded the precursor of the VA.
So, any traitor lacking such a reason is far, far, far worse of a traitor.
But, we do not have a Constitutional provision for exiling people, as exile was abused by England for centuries.
Still, if you object to rural people, don't support them. Stop buying food from farms, that'll show them, when their produce and meats go to waste or go unpurchased.
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So, you produced that lettuce on your burger? You produced that IKEA chair you sit upon?
You are a consumer and producer, each to the product you consume, eat or produce.
And thereby, you have the actual golden rule, you have the gold, they want that gold, so you make the rules.
But, you also should remember the platinum rule, treat others as you desire to be treated.
Yeah, still working on balancing the two of those myself. And I'm a perfect 10 - alas, on the Richter scale.
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Well, he's line of succession and also authenticates the POTUS identity for nuclear launch orders. That requires secure communications and hence, a SCIF inside of his home.
And yet another reason I'd never want that job. Secure facilities are a pain in the gonads, inspections, audits, logging, high security safes, logging of visitors, hell, logging when you leave and return from taking a shit - literally, one has to secure down and then reopen the facility just to take a leak or dump.
Needless to say, I've logged a hell of a lot of hours inside of secure facilities. Put one of those inside of my home, I'm moving out.
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