Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "Rebel HQ" channel.

  1. 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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  32. 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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