Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "The Lincoln Project" channel.

  1. The very thing that a black hole says at the event horizon. :)
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  2.  @shoesoffbootson5317  it's OK to autograph a flag, but not to burn it. Which the flag code states is precisely how one disposes of a flag that's torn, tattered or unservicable.
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  3.  @ElizabethEwins-mj9zu  heh, there, I've an advantage. I have no sense of smell. Downside, tossing a bad fish fillet into the trash late one night, forgetting to take out the trash and a neighbor popping by the following afternoon to borrow a cup of sugar and floor cleaner (obviously, two different cups) and asking what the stench was... Made a sonic boom getting that bag out! Bigger downside, getting food poisoning quite easily, as I can't smell if the food served is off.
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  4. For those who forgot, the inverted bible being held up for the photo op was after he sent in the goon squad to clear everyone out of the Saint John's church - including the presiding minister of that church, who was not allowed to return to his own church for hours afterward. You know, invaded a church, usurped the property owner, all for a photo op to show off a bible that wasn't his and being held up upside down.
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  5.  @brahmburgers  yep, given scorched earth was a Stalin thing. Well, scorched earth and pogroms.
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  6.  @thudor1  gotta see whose hands are softer, the softer hands applying the mink oil to their own butt and Daddy's leather.
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  7. And God made me, for he wasn't quite done joking around when he made monotremes. I'll just get my coat...
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  8.  @sleepy-girl  well, for a slightly less grim approach, there is always Randy Rainbow. I've always wished that he'd lampoon me, but alas, he doesn't go for low hanging fruit, only the rotten stuff on the ground. I'll just grab my hat...
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  9.  @gaiagreen2690  cosplay army meets US Army, cosplay will have brown pants instantly. Real soldiers, with lawful orders and deadly intent have that effect on wannabes.
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  10.  @sierranevada1265  under Jackson, the SCOTUS didn't either. He ignored a ruling in favor of the Cherokee to remain on their land, saying, "If they feel that strongly about it, let them come here and try to enforce their ruling!". Thankfully, future administrations embraced the rule of law - well, until 45.
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  11. And Mueller's deadliest catch. The SpendIt tossed it back.
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  12. Remember, these guys used to be the ones running mud slinging and dirty tricks ads against Democrats. Trump turned them against the GOP as it stands in an effort to save their own party. Which is fine, given we also allied with the Soviets in WWII for much the same reason, to remove a common danger. Because, we miss our old cold war, when it wasn't personal, just a professional exercise in real politics. Might get dirty at times, but nobody was trying to get anyone killed.
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  13.  @rhondajones4007  why? Are you looking for a replacement?
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  14.  @himhim6135  I do miss the beer and food, especially the fresh sausages and well, Bavarian food in general. Amazed I didn't end up on weight control!
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  15. The laugh is, the immigrant crime shit goes back to the 1840's and the Nativist movement, which joined with other zanies to first coin most of the codswallop still parroted today against other immigrant and minority groups. Their efforts literally triggered religious warfare between attacking Protestants against (mostly) Irish Roman Catholics in Philadelphia, where the Protestant Nativists stole a cannon from the port defenses and opened fire on Catholic churches, a school and a convent/hospital. Militia was called in to restore order and the Nativists murdered some of the militiamen. The militia general then ringed the area with artillery and strongly suggested they return the stolen artillery piece and go home or go away in small pieces. The crowd finally dispersed and soldiers patrolled Philadelphia city streets with fixed bayonets. Later, these same wonderful specimens from the bottom drawer of humanity hijacked the conservative party, much as they have today, destroying the Whig party, which literally came with the nation (the Democratic Party essentially remaining today, modestly changing names as every surviving party has to meet the times) from within. The sane departed the Whig party en masse, forming a new Republican Party - their first candidate for president, some Abraham Lincoln guy. The Whig party basically imploded as the Civil War raged, ceasing to exist and fading into obscurity. But, their stupid ideas rage on today. The same arguments against any progress, given a cheap retread, but otherwise parroted verbatim the arguments from the 1840's, be it against immigration, freedom of religion for anyone not Protestant, white supremacy, desegregation, LGBTQ+, hell, even Mickey frigging Mouse. Women as property, oh they got that malady in spades. Hell, yesterday, had one brain trust from that group of zanies tell me he just loaded his AR15. I replied that I know where the ATACMS is, how to use the system and where precisely in the ASP the ordinance for it is stored. One battery will take away all life for one square kilometer, which is over 1/3 of a square mile for the measurement challenged, for anything larger than a virus. That threat terminated swiftly, don't threaten a combat veteran, the only thing stupider is to actually try to follow through on that threat and that's just another Darwin Award. Threaten a war, no problem, I'm very, very good at war, I terrorized terrorists for a living and they're not around, I'm still here and I'm far from alone. And we network - a lot. And the military is on our side, as we're on our nation and Constitution's side. While I'm here, "Entitlements are evil and commie!" is bullshit, entitlements are rights guaranteed within the Articles of the Constitution itself, not even amendments, which some try to claim are subordinate to the Constitution and are not. So, when complaining against entitlements, they're complaining that they hate fundamental Constitutional rights. In my own opinion, campaign against rights, you lose claim to your own rights in further arguments.
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  16.  Joe Costantino  I read your transmission broken, distorted and gibberish. Please say again in real English, over.
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  17.  @WM0915  in other words, sane is voting for the demented and insane is voting for a former prosecutor, attorney and oh, fuck you for your service Sergeant Major, you're a sucker and a loser. Foxtrot Uniform, Alpha Hotel.
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  18.  @jim2498  no, people see that because they have both operational eyes and more than two brain cells competing for third place.
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  19. And Altzheimer's runs in families. Just sayin'.
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  20. Well, most of their top PR/advertisement people are the same ones running similar ads against Democrats in saner times. I look at it this way, we allied with the Soviets against Hitler, as there was a bigger evil to fry.
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  21. Oh, what a terrible and tragic price that we're paying for holding Amateur Night at the White House.
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  22.  @CruisesAndCasinos-Cruising  well, Russia needed to mix things up. Defenstraion was getting old, after all of those doctors went out of their ICU windows.
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  23. Can't manage that now. Ballots haven't been mailed yet, to be "lost in the system". Laughably, my polling place is literally across the street from our home. And it's a given that I'm voting, as I've voted inside a war zone and never missed an election.
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  24.  @flyoverstateresident2890  the Declaration did actually issue a declaration "all men are created equal", not anything about equity and the fourteenth amendment makes no mention of equity, but equality of treatment. Why do you try to change what the Constitution and Declaration both say? The words were chosen with care for a reason, one you seek to undermine by falsely altering the verbiage.
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  25.  @FixNewsPlease  and I'd lead the charge for mistrial and impeachment of the judge. There has been no treason. Sedition, yes, treason no. Our Constitution clearly and plainly states that treason shall consist solely of taking up arms against the country or giving aid and comfort to the enemy. As we're not at war, we're fresh out of enemies and both are too pusillanimous to ever pick up a gun against their government. Hence, he'd have convicted them without the two required eyewitnesses testifying in open court (another Constitutional requirement), for a crime that they never committed. That's both mistrial and denial of rights under color of law. And treason doesn't have a mandatory death sentence, the punishment is set by Congress by law, per the Constitution and is the only crime for which writ of attainder and corruption of blood may be ordered. The latter last exercised against Robert E. Lee against his plantation, which remains US property today and was only paid for by Congress after seizure after his death. You might have heard of the place, Arlington National Cemetery. Oh, for the trivia hounds, the actual penalty is under 18 U.S.C § 2381, states that a person guilty of treason against the United States “shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.” Seditious conspiracy is 18 U.S.C §2385. Advocating overthrow of Government. Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction. And we've multiple seditious conspiracy convictions, with sentences being served and more cases pending just for Jan 6 currently, just add a couple of more onto the pile-on. The mental image of both in solitary inside of a supermax is quite appealing. They don't allow cameras to be present on visiting day.
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  26. She's an embarrassment to inbreeding.
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  27. They can tell me to shut up until the cows come home, I invite them to just pop on by and try to shut me up. They'll be wondering why the ceiling is in front of them and they're awakening to a harangue by a poor defenseless old guy with a cane. Something that's happened in the past with a "tough" in his 20's, who also thought he could shut me up and make me do what he wanted. Instead of his expectations, he punched my cane, then got nutted and crowned, to find the ceiling before him and his friends laughing at him. Since I kind of liked the kid, I didn't give him the South Philly stomp while he was down. People mistake me for being a nice guy, usually I am and try to be nice, but there's another side to me, the side that served for over 28 years in the US Army. And I'm decidedly not in the shit business, so I don't take shit and don't give a shit. And I definitely don't appease. I'm also firmly of the belief that we do have a right to express our political views in the polls, by ballot, not bullet. Bullets belong on the range or in the field when hunting. Not fairgrounds, not goddamned golf courses.
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  28.  @phoneman91  yeah, amazing the cost of ignoring a pandemic that killed a million people. Gotta be the next guy's fault, who took office after the worst of the pandemic finally ended - a year later.
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  29.  @vapedbicep7816  should the governor put on a cape and used superpowers to intervene? Governors govern, police enforce the law.
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  30.  @corner2officetv  right after we nuke Trump's masters, Russia. Hopefully using cobalt-60 salted devices.
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  31. BTW, noticed on Saturday, Trump wants to empty state coffers with his imPOTUS fiat tax to tax states for his mythical UC. Wouldn't that effectively defend the police, fire and EMS?
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  32.  @wvvwwvwvv  yep, total GOD KING, GOD KING, GOD KING GOD, Jesus was defective, so GOD KING GOD. PUTIN is GOD of all sub-gods. Jerk off to your god-king and enjoy cobalt-60 god.
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  33.  @ElizabethEwins-mj9zu  sounds great and since voting and running for office are rights, that testing for candidates will fit right well alongside of poll tests. Maybe we'll even start to tax those rights and we can have poll taxes and office taxes, only those who can afford those taxes get rights. Not bad, your idea sets the roots to restore Jim Crow, want to bring back slavery and women as property again too?
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  34. Love most of your messages, you missed the target here though. You could've done far better. Stealing religious lands, like Trump stole a cathedral, build upon that and the upside down Bible (we all know where the ribbon starts and trails), etc.
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  35. He was, alas, the best part of Donald stayed inside of the condom.
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  36. Yes, Your Honor, it is true. This man has no dick. Happily stolen line from the original Ghostbusters movie.
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  37. I've got only one major problem with immigrants coming here. Storing all of the new recipes. Always can use a change of pace in my meals. :D
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  38. What makes them say there are dwindling crowd sizes? That he can now call out each attendee on a first name basis?
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  39.  @donsryche1 it's repeatedly been aired on the news, well, other than Faux news and the Ruskie established networks.
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  40. I can, as it's still happening. He pulls a howler, the press scramble to cover the shiny, giving him free advertisements, while charging his opponents, we get a Trump win of flashlights up the ass and drinking disinfectants, as well as take worm medicine that doesn't work on a virus and advice that guaranteed spread. Frankly, I doubt this nation will survive another Trump rezidency.
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  41.  @heppo6  even money, a term in gambling for equal chance. EUCOM is US EUropean COMmand.
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  42. Well, he briefly spoke in court, but the contempt fines finally convinced him to STFU there. And eventually, toned down his outside statements as well, since those started to get expensive as well. Suffice it to say, he's no longer financially liquid at all, couldn't even throw his own bond for his last fruitless appeal.
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  43.  @gheenoe51  yep, he totally capture the Prick Bastardly metric.
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  44.  @ramonriveraalamena1180  not quite. They were conservative from inception, from those who fled the Nativist hijacking of the Whig party, which destroyed it utterly. After the Civil War, the Democratic party had two parts, the southern part that went with Jim Crow to retain a part of slavery and the Northern party of today. Nixon did shift the GOP away from straight conservatism to a more radical, anti-civil rights and farther right stance via his "Southern Strategy" (I'll not even go into the sedition behind his first successful Presidential campaign via sabotaging peace negotiations with Vietnam, but yeah, it was a felony and the tapes remain in the archives). What more would you like to know about history? I got to witness and participate in quite too much of it, to be honest.
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  45. It's interesting that he warned about the destruction of WII. Odd that he warned about joining WWII. Camera, handful of crap in a napkin, magical wish-bringing. But, he defeated your god, he showed up, hand wave. Not an issue most of the time. Usually. But then, I've got grndchildren, not whoring them out to you and your all grabbing band.
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  46. Farmers knew under Trump's maladministration, when their crops rotted in their fields because migrants disappeared. Because under Trump, it nearly became, Make America Starve Again.
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  47. Well, I used the trifecta to Trump on Twitter, if that's any help. ;) I also find it quite interesting, how his children look nothing like him at all... Maybe that's why he's so hostile to the USPS.
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  48.  @FloridaCapt  I said that then, then got properly mortified repeatedly. Given my blunt candor and somewhat brash behavior at times, that speaks volumes. He's the least suited for the office in the land. I'm only a distant second place.
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  49. Trump, the huckster.
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  50.  @shadyscruples7161  enjoy starvation and poverty. Eggs have gone up again by 40% since he took office and they're not coming down. All of US wheat comes from Canada, so when the tariffs start, expect bread to go up by 50%. The gas prices? Going up by half as well, since our oil won't work in our refineries, we refine Canadian oil for our own use and expert all of our oil.
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