Trump Commands War Department to Test Nuclear Weapons
I wish this was an inflated title but no, he really said this.
America, you need to get rid of this asshole ASAP.
Source: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115460423936412555
Thanks @notarobot@lemmy.zip
And he's doing this while the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is furloughed... 🧐
He's been itching to nuke something since his first term. Hurricanes, he suggested at one point. And Americans voted him into office twice. Fucking morons.
Some Americans voted for him 3 times!
Seriously, imagine how fucking dumb you would have to be to fill out three separate ballots over nearly a decade voting for a failed reality TV star.
Now imagine those who want to not have to vote anymore and let him run forever
Some Americans voted for him 3 times!
so far...
usa is cooked as usual
Is he unstable enough for the 25th amendment yet? Asking for a friend.
He's been unstable enough for that, for 9 years
He's currently in his stable genius arc so we're out of luck.
Can someone just tell him no one else has nuclear fusion power stations yet but (china|EU|Russia) are close and how much money it would make.
It would make money at a country level, but does it fill his personal wallets like the oil industry?
So it's worthless for him
Yup. He doesn't care about this country.
It only matters if it makes money for him. Someone wealthy and interested in cracking nuclear fusion would need to be giving him a payout.
Build it in mar a Lago and pay some rent
Ah, the "I had no choice!" argument for scaling up world tension. Yeah, we've never heard that one before. Hitler also "had no choice" but to invade Sudetenland, Austria and Poland.
The "we had no choice" argument is always used to take the victim role as an excuse to justify anything you like. Whether it is joining wars because they sank your illegal weapons shipment hidden in an ocean liner, invading a country because you made it look like they sank your ship, invade a country because a few terrorists attacked your country, invade a country because you claim there might be weapons of mass destruction, send troops and chemical weapons to a dictatorial regime because the freedom fighters threaten your overseas naval base, invade a country for denazification, commit ethnic cleansing, genocide and other horrible war crimes because some terrorist extremists attacked your country after years and years of oppression and apartheid, etc etc etc. There are so many examples in history where this tactic has been used. The entire cold war thrived on this bullshit argument "look at them, I have no choice".
"I'm going to do something bad, so I find a way to justify it."
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This comes up every time they post this stupid image.
There's way better Epstein memes
It's wrong to say alleged, and aged fits better for this wrinkly orange
Fuck censorship.
Post a better meme
One can never be sure what President Brain Worms is talking about but I'm pretty sure Obama started a ten year plan to modernize our nuclear forces early in his presidency.
No doubt but it would not include a detonation test. I think 1000 tests was enough.
@RattlerSix@lemmy.world @MuskyMelon@lemmy.world I might have to add President Brain Worms to my list of "pet" names for the orange man.
Just shows he is desperately trying to create many more distractions from the Epstein files to see what works.
This is horrifying. Like, mind-bogglingly bad.
It's also a blatant lie. Other countries are not testing nuclear weapons, they're running simulations. We didn't do that in the 60s because it wasn't possible, but the US (and presumably China/Russia) literally have giant supercomputers for this purpose now.
...And we would know if they were doing real testing because it would show up on seismographs.
But who cares about truth? Or sanity? No, all my relatives (even scientifically minded ones) won't even bat an eye, lest some Democrat steal their retirement, ugh.
Trumplethinskin is too stupid to understand any of that . He desperately wants to to be the one to trigger a spectacular overreaction and turn another country into glass.
#smallcarrotproblems
show up on seismographs
and any surface tests would show up on sattelites
Good time to remind that, in all History, only one country used nuclear bombs in a war.
Twice!
For "Research Purposes" (TM)
And who, exactly, is going to get paid to do that? Last I saw 75% of them were furloughed at the moment.
Don't worry, there will be a company popping up tied to some Republicunts who'll do the testing for "cheap".
doG help us all:
the US Department of Energy (DOE) launched an application for interested parties to apply for access to a maximum of 19 metric tonnes — a little under 42,000 pounds — of weapons-grade plutonium, which has long been a key resource undergirding the US nuclear arsenal.
One of the companies anticipated to receive shipments of the fissile isotope from the DOE is Oklo, a “nuclear startup” backed — and formerly chaired — by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
He really is hellbent on literally destroying America for money.
However
As the FT reports, we won’t know for certain until December 31
So I hope this makes the rounds and steps are taken against it soon.
I'm NGL If my job put in the position to be the one testing nukes it would be very tempting to do so even without pay just on a 'oonga boonga big boom' basis. Unfortunately I'm educated enough to know how awful that is for the environment, also not a nuclear test engineer or whatever the job title even is.
President of peace.
Express Lane to heaven.
ffs we're still in 2025 man.
Why? They work... We checked.
Orange Don wants to make sure he can launch them the next time someone calls him names, without anyone being able to stop him
Unless I'm mistaken Russia has way more nukes than the US still.
Your probably not and Trump is definitely an idiot.
pointless counting. all they need each is a dozen.
Yes but in what condition? AFAIK most of them are from Cold War times and the Kremlin deliberately suppresses any information on the state they're in.
So, America can destroy earth 100-fold, but Russia can destroy it 110-fold - at least until one of them backfires.
Even if it wasn't for the other million reasons, this guy's grammar alone should disqualify him from having the nuclear codes.
Secured safely in the bathroom of his golf course.
A giant waste of money. 800 nukes is plenty for pretty much anything and launching 100 would probably mean the end of life as we know it on planet earth. If you wanted to blow a bunch of money on the military there are better ways to do it.
100 would probably mean the end of life as we know it on planet earth
It would alter the course of human history for sure, but it wouldn't actually end human civilization. Just being annoyingly pedantic after growing up in the cold war and learning about such cheerful topics as fallout patterns and blast wave radius and how to fashion air purifiers from an early age.
True, but don't tell them that, it's better if they waste money on useless nuclears than genocide technology.
If you wanted to blow a bunch of money on the military there are better ways to do it.
Ohh we got you fam.
Do you mean 100 all at once? Because we’ve been averaging 26.5 per year for the last 80 years
Hmm I don't think so. If it is true those are over the ocean or something. I mean an attack with 100 missiles would destroy nearly any country. Russia is especially vulnerable because they only have a couple of cities with any population in them. Modern nukes are 50-75x the yield of the ones they dropped on Japan. There are all kinds of externalities. They can poison the ground water for generations. They can kill any life feeding in the area. They can cause fallout which is like a radioactive dust cloud covering everything. It isn't good.
Testing for what exactly? Do we not know enough about them already?
Gotta keep them hurricanes scared.
Primative chest pounding. He has to prove his chest makes a bigger sound. Or his nuke is bigger than their dick.
Cognition. He needs to show he's smarter than a warhead.
I can't believe no one posted the source. Not even op
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115460423936412555
Sorry. Will try to do better next time.
All good. Remember that this kind of apocalyptic events should not spread as heresay to avoid things getting twisted, cofused, people claiming its fake. Etc
Wow I've never been to truth social before. I had a pop up add for a necklace with sand Jesus walked on, pillows and towels and a trump elf on a shelf.
The real crazy people who would cause a nuclear wae are israel and the usa leaders not Iran
lol imagine simping for the irgc
I am not simping. Iran isn't seeking nukes by american admission. I never justified Iran human right abuses.
Choose one...global warming or nuclear winter. I think that is our futures only options.
There's always the mass-extinction asteroid option to look forward to.
Dumbass probably watched a movie and was like duuuuh that looks cool lolz...
He's going to look at one directly, just like he did with the eclipse.
We don’t need an another hero.
Someone distract Gramps with shiny ballroom pictures again.
I can literally hear Trump saying it.
Are they trying to figure out what the expiration date is on nuclear warheads? The fuq are they still needing to test for?
Let's just blow up our arsenal for the heck of it boyz, it will make for a good twitter post!
don't indulge his bullshit attempt to rename the DOD
You have to. He didn't start weapons testing for defense he's going to go into war and take the offensive
Are any other countries actually actively testing nuclear weapons?
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(I don't think North Korea counts/is.)
Not really. We know they work.
It's very expensive too. It takes a LOT of time and resources to make spicy rocks even more spicy. It's a huge waste of money to test a system we perfected decades ago when you can simulate detonations for almost nothing.
As if nuking Russia would help. They have the Dead-Hand system. No one wins here.
If it’s anything like the rest of their military equipment, I’m not too worried about it.
Given the dead-hand policy, that's easily the most dangerous mindset I've read on Lemmy.
It should make you more worried, lest faulty equipment leads to another incident like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident
And we don't have someone like Stanislav Petrov literally risking his neck to save civilization.
I used to listen to a podcast from Latvia that reported on the war in Ukraine, I can't remember the name of the show, sorry. The guy seemed to be very knowledgeable about Russia and one thing he stressed was while the Russian military was corrupt and inept, the troops involved with nukes were still highly educated and hand picked and trained by people from within the corps.
So you want to play nuclear poker ? Hey can anyone send this guy to Ukraine.
That guy is an absolute fud! He sees some other moron do it, and thinks he has to do it too so he looks "alpha"... Talk about your beta removed, jesus christ.
This dumbass couldn’t tell you what nuclear testing was if you explained it to him like he was 5
"I don't give a fuck, something racist, several n words. It's gonna help me stay in power and that's all I care about and the only thing that matters." - child rapist president dump
Seeing how he likes to demolish parts of the White House perhaps the first test could be on the West Wing, with him being in the Oval Office?
Why does he capitalize random words?
He’s old and his last bout of formative education predates most of our parents’ lives.
We have the technology, the time is now to blow up the moon, children are our future.
Unfortunately, we do not in fact have the technology necessary to blow up the Moon.
i cannot stop laughing at this i dont know why
We call this an eye for an eye approach and it will continue until the whole world is blind...
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