It is always the last smart people that are the most confident in their opinions.
hmm unfortunately for this plan everything nuclear is a bit more difficult for the President to do willy nilly.
less dangerous but more funny would be for him to resign and let Harris be the 47th President. you know Trump and his cult have plowed millions into “47” merch that would suddenly become worthless to them.
(there are a lot of things that he can do that SCOTUS has preemptively granted him immunity for, though…)
Who says we want less danger? We’re already in the
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Oh, burn. Guess they’d have to go send something to the printers. What will th Dems think of next.
I’d like to see him ship everything that would have gone to Israel to Ukraine instead
O sorry about the shipping mix up Love it
The thing is, where Putin has oligarchs that would dump him in a hot second if he dropped a bomb, Trump is absolutely eager to blow shit up and doesn’t care / can’t process the consequences of dropping the first nuclear bomb in hostility† and breaking the black ice.
In Trump’s first term no-one in the Department of Energy or the Department of Defense brass were MAGA loyalists, even though many considered themselves Republican, conservative and endorsed US military interventionism and adventurism. So when they were told (for instance) to nuke the snot out of North Korea to give them what for, Mattis was there to say no. None of the later secretaries of defense under Trump (Shanahan, Esper, Spencer, and Miller) would have authorized a nuclear strike either. And if one of them did, the generals under them were likely to resign than carry out such an order.
Enter Project 2025’s Schedule F plan, which is going to retire all the old brass US loyalists that are sworn to defend the Constitution of the United States (and mean it) and replace them with Trump loyalists, who, when asked to launch a nuclear strike against somewhere in the other side of the world will say Yes Sir! (or By Your Command ) or ( With Pleasure ) whatever the going evil-empire affirmative salute is.
So it is a
likely possibilitynon-zeronot-insignificant possibility President Donald J. Trump will order a nuclear strike during his second term, and it will be carried out by the department of defense. He still really wants to express his fire and fury and show the world his dick is absolutely the biggest.I thought about this during Trump’s first term (and pondering the possibility of Hope, Montana getting nuked – three times! – at the end of Far Cry 5 ), imagining that unlike Greg Stillson in The Dead Zone bullying his principals to launch a first strike, Mattis would be there, steak-knife in hand to save the world from a rogue president. He actually did, just without the confrontation or the need of a steak-knife. But it means the Heritage Foundation is forewarned this time.
† Yes, technically two atomic bombs have been dropped in hostility, but after Castle Bravo / Bikini Atoll we quietly shifted from the atomic age to the nuclear age. It’s a significant difference. Hiroshima had about a 15KT yield (12-18KT estimated) while Bikini Atoll had a 15MT yield (that’s 1000x Hiroshima). US Peacekeeper missles carry ten MIRV 0.5MT warheads and bombs dropped from airplanes are 2.1MT. So yeah, we’ve had atomic war, but not nuclear war.
Yall too serious
And making me read and shit. At least add some pictures yall know I’m fucking dumb
Let’s zoom in on that footnote:
Orange president, orange humanity.
“Look now, things fall off of trucks all the time”
We all know he doesn’t have enough spine to do that.
Fuck it I’ll do it
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I saw another funny post saying he should abdicate now so that Kamala Harris is President 47 and Trump has to scrap a bunch of Merchandise.
And it would be soooooo funny to watch everyone who bought one to have the wrong fucking number on their shirts and still wear them out and about
He doesn’t even have the spine to do this.
Yeah, realistically he’ll just do what Obama did and act like a good teacher giving Trump the details needed to do whatever needs to be done in emergencies. Trump, of course, will soak it all up like a metal bar: not at all.
He at least needs to throw in some stuff to send Dumpie on a wild goose chase, like referencing aliens in basement BS-13 or alluding to a vault filled with rare cheeto flavors
He ain’t gonna get rich doing what needs to be done Merica! Fuck yeah. Only losers have emergencies.
^^ This would be golden
True baller move
This could happen without meaning to. Just takes a medical procedure that puts biden under and temporarily you have 47th president kamala until he wakes back up… assuming they go through the whole transfer of power procedure for it.
Never know if he’s been putting off a procedure for a condition until after the election. Very plausible though for someone over 80.
She was acting president during his colonoscopy, that didn’t technically make her the 47th.
Correct. If we counted every president medical procedure as a new president we would be well in to the 100s by now. Just off the top of my head Reagan and both Bushes had various procedures that briefly granted VPs presidential power, Kamala was far from the first here, even if she was the first black woman to hold it.
… Andnow I’m vaguely curious if anyone has ever gone back and tallied up this objectively useless number of people who at one point were acting president. 😂
Hit me up when you have that data.
Does he even need to send them anything? Doesn’t he just have to say a few words to give Ukraine permission to build their own? Although I guess if they lose US support, they wouldn’t need permission anymore.
Doesn’t he just have to say a few words to give Ukraine permission to build their own?
He already did, it’s right there in the Bible:
Genesis 6:9
“And Bidens said, ‘Let there be light’. Then he slapped on his Aviators, took a sweet slide over the hood, and hopped in his 1967 Stingray and drove off into the sunset.”
I thought that said Putin Synthesizer. Lke what a Geiger–Müller counter?
Bleep bleep bleep
I would unironically fully support this course of action
I just think they’re neat.
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Do It.
Doitdoitdoitdoitdoit.
Nuke the bridge to start off.
🎶 KERCH BRIDGE ON FIRE
YOUR DEFENSE IS TERRIFIED 🎶
🎶 KERCH BRIDGE ON FIRE
YOUR DEFENSE IS TERRIFIED 🎶
Fuck whoever thought it was a good idea to use Ukraine to “slowly grind down” russia. Fuck them forever for treating the Ukrainian people like they were disposable
The hell are you on? It’s russia that invaded UKRAINIAN TERRITORY and it’s literally self-defense. God forbid you fight back against a murderer wanting to kill you, amirite?
So, you are saying… fuck Putin? With a rusty pole, you are saying?
Fuck lemmy.ml
So instead everyone should just surrender to Putin to avoid violence?
He’s the most courageous online communist revolutionary
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Y’all need to joke about something else
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Lol, then we get Johnson. It’s turtles all the way down.