Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "Rebel HQ"
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Biden was stuck with the withdrawal plans negotiated by Trump's maladministration. So, it's on his hands for the entire debacle.
Some equipment was left, routers, switches, some crypto devices, all configurations erased, crypto zapped, rendering that equipment useless to the Taliban. Would've cost more to pull it and send it to the US than it was worth by a factor of three.
Actual military equipment was thermited. So, if it's proof against molten steel boiling its way through, I've yet to find that kind of equipment - despite over 28 years of military service.
But then, serial business failure Trump, who turned $20 billion into $300 million and serial bankrupted more businesses than Carter has little liver pills knows better. Spend $10 million to take up $3 million in old network equipment and slagged vehicles and worn out, melted weapons.
As for the GOP, always claiming our military is weak, pitiful, useless, cut the VA budget from 1982 to the second year of the war, only stopping when the public became outraged that men and women were redeploying home to receive no VA care because they tanked the VA budget. Yeah, they only care for the photos, then they screw the veterans and never, ever offered a reach around.
And their maniac faction threatens to take up arms and expects that repeatedly beaten down military to join them? No, deliver white phosphorus to them, merrily smoking and burning, the only way we'd join them is if we bayonet charged their remnants once they did take up arms.
But, what would I know? Only served for over 28 years and contracted with them daily, they know more than I do, based upon their vast experience acquired on their Twinkie encrusted sofas.
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The ironic part is, the father was Lot, "the only good man of Sodom and Gomorrah". The issue, Moab, who settled in what's now Jordan.
The bible teaches field sanitation and moral stories. Rather than learn the origin and reason, they simply lock into tradition and the word of the law, rather than the spirit it was intended. Then, enjoy the buffet line, picking and choosing what they like, ignoring what they don't like.
One test for such people, ask them why they're allowed to eat pork, when Jesus would've refused. If they don't quote Acts 10:15, they're ignoring Leviticus out of convenience and tradition, rather than by justification. Hence, damn themselves by their own willful ignorance of the laws of their faith, per their own faith.
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I note zero citations in support of the claim of liberals attacking children (I'm assuming children are being discussed and not baby goats). And by indoctrination, schools should stop teaching reading, arithmetic, civics, history, the Constitution and science?
Guess medicine, engineering, electronics, networking, computers and all vehicular repair will end fairly soon then.
I'm really starting to agree with the ancient Athenians. They refused to allow the idios to vote, which would leave the majority of the MAGA crowd out, as they are idios, uneducated being the meaning of the word.
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If there's a civil war reenactment, a confederate flag is appropriate, the same in a museum exhibit on the civil war. Over a state capitol, then there's a need to send the US Army in and explain matters to them - again.
Over one's house or one's vehicle, treated as an insurrectionist. That's cultural as well, ask any German.
Removal from a reenactment, you've changed it into something else and just ban reenactments and education on the war entirely, as you wish to destroy the lessons imparted by the entire hot mess and hence, we'll repeat those harsh lessons until we learn and remember properly.
Personally, I want to replace and again fly my Serapis flag, one authorized to be flown by my old historic unit and at one point, the only US flag recognized in Europe, despite it being incorrect.
Something that I find rather humorous, that our language is so deficient that a letter explaining what our flag looks like could be interpreted so utterly wrong. A humor that recognizes how easily miscommunication can have either humorous effects or as easily, tragic effects.
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Well, we do!
Out of many, one hot mess. ;)
What's been forgotten, again, is consensus, not total agreement, compromise, not obstruction until one gets one's way like a three year old having a tantrum.
We did have similar in the past - all the way down to platforms, the Native American Party, aka the Know Nothing Party, who so obstructed and hijacked things in the Whig party that it disbanded and a new Republican Party was formed to get around their antics.
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@unknown5150variable considering that is pure fiction, I'll disregard the remainder.
What was said, quite late in his teachings was to for two followers to buy swords, so that he could be counted as amongst criminals to fulfill scripture. Not "hey, go shove a sword up the ass of anyone who won't follow me".
"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send [or bring] peace, but a sword."
Followed immediately by, "And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me".
Kinda hard to be swinging a sword about while lugging a crucifix around.
As for Genocide, that's repeatedly in the Old Testament. Indeed, there's a whole part about killing everyone and everything in a city-state during a battle being ordered by no less than the Almighty. Decidedly odd, given he was already notorious for being alsmitey.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bible_and_violence
Now, excuse me while I go smite some bread dough for dinner...
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The GOP follows only one religion, a very dark one indeed, for it is simply money and power. In a Christian view, they'd be the Sadducees of today, ruling class and wealthy. Sadducees believed that there was no resurrection of the dead, no afterlife, no spirit realm, no angels. Most Sadducees were priests of the Temple.
Pharisees believed in the resurrection of the dead and the afterlife. They believed like all Jews that God created the world, chose Israel as his chosen people, and rewarded and punished them according to his law. They also felt that the Law of Moses contained ambiguities which they strove to fix by developing rules and regulations for every possible human action in order to adhere to the will of God as outlined in the Torah.
Yet oddly, Jesus had Pharisees as followers, who he recognized as following a righteous path.
Given the political environment at that time, Pharisees tended to be more for the people than Saducees, who were for the wealthy establishment and there was tremendous amounts of unrest due to their political differences. The Romans wisely stayed out of things, save when tax money was interfered with by unrest. The problem is, playing politics with one's faith is to prostitute that faith, gradually at first, increasingly over time.
There are quite a few stories within Judaeo-Christian scriptures where politics overruled lessons considered law and the results were always disastrous. Stories where the lessons were followed, the results were wonderful. Whether they were literal events or tales of wisdom is up to the reader to consider as an intellectual exercise, the lessons remain the same of attempting to impart some modest wisdom upon the learner that desires that wisdom.
The foolish simple consider it verbatim law, no reason required for that law, it just is, as surely as an altar gets its gilding.
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There's only one problem in accusing anyone of being a lemming.
The entire myth of lemmings running off of cliffs was a Disney invention and to support that invention, the film crew drove a colony of captured lemmings off of a cliff while filming it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Wilderness_(film)#Controversy
Lemmings are strong swimmers, so the migratory species can swim quite well, but don't leap off of tall cliffs to do so.
As someone who has personally met Trump at a Chamber of Commerce function long before unreality TV existed, what you see is precisely what you get. A narcissist from hell, all subjects of discussion must be him and his greatness and successes, even the bankruptcies of his casinos he billed as successes. So successful that he was prohibited from owning casinos in NJ.
The only thing you get with Trump is an incompetent version of Hitler.
In closing, I'll rarely vote against my own self-interest and that of my family. When I have, it was for the good of my nation, our laws and Constitution. I'd never vote out of spite, as that's in no good interest and simply potentially destructive.
I'll never, ever, ever vote for a fascist SOB that wanted to emulate both Hitler and Stalin! I didn't serve for 28 years in the US Army to ever support such a thing!
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Well, I do have to agree, Critical Race Theory does not belong in primary or secondary schools, any more than advanced brain surgery techniques does.
Since both curriculum subjects are at equally advanced levels of postgraduate degree courses. Just as PHYS 531: Galactic Astrophysics from Drexel University shouldn't be part of primary or secondary school courses, as it too is part of a PhD program.
Pity, it'd be pretty cool if we could get kids graduating with a PhD... ;)
When Trump says "I hear people saying" or "people tell me", he's literally talking about what the voices inside his head are saying to achieve a gain for him, regardless of the cost to others or an entire nation. I learned that quickly enough when I met him around 2000 at a Chamber of Commerce function where he was a speaker. The following year experienced a 90+% attrition, as no business owner forgave the Chamber for that debacle.
But, if he wins or loses the election, he'll still do the same thing. Play golf - poorly. To the point of not only incessantly cheating, but even cheating a child when playing against the small child and his father.
https://golf.com/lifestyle/celebrities/how-why-president-trump-cheats-golf-playing-tiger-woods/
Frankly, he's as welcome in my home as an elephant fart in a church during the sermon.
Thankfully, I don't have to worry about him entering my home - I live in a castle doctrine state.
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I have fun with the "The King James Bible is the literal word of God". I ask, "as spoken?". When routinely answered, "absolutely!", I exclaim, "No wonder there was so much trouble back then! Why, Middle English hadn't been invented yet and most of the folks Jesus spoke to only spoke Aramaic and early Hebrew!".
Eyes typically cross, then the excuses flow like the waters of a raging flood.
The bible, thrice mis-transliterated, from transliterated sources. As a hint, there is no Hebrew word for either unicorn or dragon. Oddly, they're in the bible.
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There are 55 earthquakes per day on earth, that's over 20000 per year, God's sure sending a hell of a lot of messages! Not Morse code, must be moron code if MTG is deciphering them.
Wait! My computer decrypted the messages! "MTG is my edition of 'dumb blonde jokes', sorry for the Dad jokes". And that, of course is a lie. There's no Godly earthquake code, eclipses were scheduled by the earth, sun, moon and giant planets right after the moon formed in orbit and MTG was, will and shall always remain an idiot, welcome to the short version of some fundamental laws of the universe.
Damn, dumber than a bag of hammers. But, at least she's as sharp as a bag of wet mice.
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Whatever are you talking about? Mass deportation worked - at getting crops to rot in the fields unpicked. Meat shortages, as the slaughterhouses were raided and shut down with not enough employees, the animals euthanized and disposed of as they couldn't feed them.
And Trump is a godly god-emperor wannabe, worshiping himself. I'm amazed he didn't issue a decree when he was in office requiring church steeples to have a giant Trump sign made of gold installed.
And he's as godly, in a Christian way as well, nothing, living the antithesis of everything Christ spoke of. Indeed, he actually made public comments that the Almighty was a sap for allowing his kid to be killed and went on about how he'd never have allowed that.
I met him at a Chamber of Commerce do back around 2000, where he was a guest of honor. All subjects of conversation had to be about him, he was flush bragging about his several year old "success" in filing for bankruptcy for his casinos, which in a room full of business owners, generated Guinness level numbers of eyerolls, total boor of the party. The following year, there was a 95% attrition for that event. At least then, when he spoke, the sentences were cogent. Not what we see at his campaign rallies today, where word salad is served up about his incessantly losing court cases. A hint for Donnie, "Don't do the crime if you can't do the time".
Still, he is a champion shot, never before has anyone scored so high in the NRA foot shooting competition!
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Oh, if you want to see a mirror of this level of stupid, look up the Nativist movement in the 1800's, the Native American Party, which invaded the Whig party, imploding it and all of the Whigs left to form a new party called the Republican Party.
Yeah, I'm serious. Abraham Lincoln was originally a Whig, quit the party when it turned into a very, very similar circus of stupidity and sedition to join the Republican Party, the remnants of the nativists formed a core that spurred the civil war. Now, they're an even tinier minority.
But, as loud and threatening as their predecessors.
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