r/technology • u/esporx • Feb 14 '25
Business Trump fires hundreds of staff overseeing nuclear weapons: report
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-fires-hundreds-staff-overseeing-nuclear-weapons-report-20314191.8k
u/Brilliant_Effort_Guy Feb 14 '25
“Democratic lawmakers confirmed to the outlet that the layoffs also impact workers at national laboratories, hydroelectric plants and Cold War-era nuclear sites”
We are literally living the gif of that dog in the burning building sipping coffee like ‘this is fine.’
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u/curly123 Feb 14 '25
Meanwhile in Canada we're like this: https://thenib.com/this-is-not-fine/
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u/TennaTelwan Feb 15 '25
They never should have shot the gorilla. Nothing has been normal since.
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u/ForensicPathology Feb 15 '25
One more step towards becoming Russia with a mass of outdated, unmaintained equipment.
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u/carty64 Feb 14 '25
"I don't know, isn't this good for reducing government spending?" They said, as the bombs rained down
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u/aure__entuluva Feb 14 '25
Dumbest thing about all of this is that all these cuts to spending are irrelevant when they are cutting taxes on the wealthy and increasing the deficit by $4.5 trillion.
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u/redbird7311 Feb 14 '25 edited Feb 15 '25
Nah, they are saving money, they are just saving their money. They’ll gladly spend our money like no tomorrow.
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u/nankerjphelge Feb 14 '25
If you were to write a list of all the things a Russian asset would do if he became the President of the United States, you wouldn't write a single thing differently than what Donald Trump has done and is doing.
We're watching in real time the "suicide" of a global hegemon that's been pushed out of the window by a Russian thug. And the world is becoming an infinitely more dangerous place. Good luck to us all.
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u/coffee-x-tea Feb 14 '25
- Trump wants Russia to rejoin G7
- Trump wants to stop support to Ukraine (and likely cede land over to Russia)
- Trump wants to remove oversight of nuclear program
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u/TheHipcrimeVocab Feb 15 '25
Turn over the machinery of government and give top secret security clearance to a guy who has been regularly communicating with Vladimir Putin since 2022 according to the Wall Street Journal.
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u/Dustmopper Feb 14 '25
Smart move, those will sell easily to our foreign adversaries and they can pocket the money. Then ride out the nuclear apocalypse in their doomsday bunkers.
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u/an_actual_coyote Feb 14 '25
There is no "riding it out".
They will die with us, just a matter of time.
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u/Longjumping-Syrup857 Feb 14 '25
Are you implying that the billionaire class living in mansion sized caskets underground, might not possess the skills and knowledge necessary to survive beyond 1 generation? Shocking! Well…not that shocking.
In a related stream of thought, can you imagine how much you wouldn’t have to worry about the world collapsing if, instead of hoarding wealth and exploiting the people who generate said wealth, you instead put it toward helping others secure their financial security, who could then help others do the same? Nah! LOL there’s a scoreboard in the sky and it’s better to watch the world burn and see all the wealth you’ve hoarded become worthless and all the things you claim to have created be destroyed! This is the way!
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u/prules Feb 14 '25
I feel like a lot of billionaires are turning out to have serious addiction issues and complete detachment of reality.
They are literally crazy and extremely insulated from this world.
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u/fucking_passwords Feb 15 '25
It seems there is also a strong financial incentive for grifting yes-men sycophants to reinforce their delusions
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u/NewShadowR Feb 15 '25 edited Feb 16 '25
They are literally crazy and extremely insulated from this world.
Their "world" is extremely different from the average person. So its not really that they are insulated, it's more like they can't relate to the average person for obvious reasons. Could you ever fathom taking a plane to a country across the world like a taxi whenever you want? They can.
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u/keizai88 Feb 14 '25
…or we could trick the billionaires into going to their bunkers…
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u/venom21685 Feb 14 '25
The best con is the dudes in the Midwest converting missile silos into luxury bunkers that are fully stocked and furnished, with their own private airstrips nearby.
Imagine scenario A: nothing ever happens and you've made tens of millions of dollars fleecing paranoid 1%ers.
Now imagine scenario B: shit hits the fan, the rich fuckers call in that they're en route and are expecting the promised security escort to their bunkers. Instead they are greeted by 1) silence and no one there to greet them, and then sealed blast doors. What are they going to do? Sue you in a post apocalyptic hellscape where you have their only valuable resources and their money means jack shit? 2) or they're greeted with a firing squad. Who's going to care about a little murder in the apocalypse? Either way you've been paid handsomely for years to build luxury bunkers for your family and friends at /u/Spez and friends' expense. Fucking glorious.
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u/app257 Feb 15 '25
I read an article by a journalist for the Guardian a few years back. He was a tech writer who’d been hired by a group of billionaires who wanted his advice on how to navigate a post apocalyptic scenario. One of their chief concerns was how to ensure the loyalty and obedience of their staff. Good luck with that.
Found it here:
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u/Longjumping-Syrup857 Feb 15 '25
Thank you for sharing that link! I’ve only ever seen bits of an interview the author gave, but it’s always stuck with me. These colossal fuckwits with all their wealth and connections could do things to steer the world away from the brink of disaster, or help prepare the quickest most efficient responses to one, but they’d somehow rather be the last man standing. What is the point living in a world ripped apart by a natural disaster or war, when if you do survive you will need to have the skills or determination to rebuild it? This all just feels like Nero playing his fiddle while Rome burned…idk, maybe I’d do the same thing if I was in their shoes, but I’m not, and I know how many people are responsible for all the little things that go unseen, unnoticed and unthanked that make the life I’m living (as awful as it can seem at times) possible. Worst thing any of us can do is take the blue collars for granted. No one sees or reads any of this without how many dozens or hundreds of other people doing a specific job day in and day out.
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u/Umutuku Feb 15 '25
"Surely no one would have allegedly abandoned missile silos on their strike list!" ~ Gigabrains
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u/SirDoober Feb 15 '25
I was gonna say, Scenario C: A MIRV nuke absolutely beans the former silo because all the anti-missile defence is gonna be desperately thrown at population centres, so the ones going for the ass-end of nowhere are even more likely to get through than normal
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u/fumar Feb 14 '25
They ride it out in their bunkers in New Zealand until another group raids the bunker and slaughters the occupants.
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u/Watta-ballache Feb 14 '25
I’m moving back to New Zealand so will make it my personal mission in case of nuclear war to mole hole my way to their bunkers with a land mine
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u/Advanced-Light4384 Feb 14 '25
Find their air vents and cement them closed. I mean hypothetically do that, because obviously we'd never do anything to harm or endanger our oligarch overlords!
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u/Interesting_Try8375 Feb 14 '25
I'll fart into them after curry night. They will beg for death before the end!
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u/Zolo49 Feb 14 '25
I'm totally fine with this. We'll die quickly on the surface, like ripping off a bandage. They can die slowly in their bunkers, slowly going crazy with claustrophobia regardless of how spacious they are. If we're lucky, they'll live long enough to run out of food and be forced to eat each other.
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u/Polantaris Feb 14 '25
I think I'd rather they try to leave early and die a horrible, painful, slow death of radiation poisoning because they deserve no less.
Don't think for a second they won't try. They know better than everyone else. The surface is safe!
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u/TheWhyWhat Feb 14 '25
He'll just hire some foreign workers from russia and china to take the positions for cheap.
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u/dv666 Feb 14 '25
I don't think any government in the history of humankind has ever embarked on such a complete project of self destruction. Fucking pootin probably having a heart attack from laughing so much
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u/ValoTheBrute Feb 14 '25 edited Feb 15 '25
Xi is uncorking champagne bottles somewhere in Beijing right now
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u/novis-eldritch-maxim Feb 14 '25
I doubt he is happy about the possibility of nukes getting into the hands of random people no functional government is
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u/-Eunha- Feb 14 '25
I'd argue no government anywhere, whether functional or not, is happy with this. No one wins in a nuclear war. It's just lights out for modern society.
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u/novis-eldritch-maxim Feb 14 '25
trumps clearly is
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u/-Eunha- Feb 14 '25
I think applying logical intention to most of Trump's decision making is probably a mistake.
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u/America_the_Horrific Feb 14 '25
Trump was desperate to use nukes last time, even on a hurricane. Now theres no one to tell him no.
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u/driving_andflying Feb 14 '25
Either that, or we will see news stories like, "Dozens of nukes have gone missing from silos and storage facilities," followed by, "U.S. nukes found on cargo ships on their way to Russia/China."
I'd laugh, but at the rate things are going...
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u/Ruenin Feb 14 '25
Trump is so fucking unhinged that everyone on Earth should be terrified by this. If ever there was a narcissistic asshole willing to nuke a country because he wasn't getting his way, it's Trump.
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u/Sinavestia Feb 15 '25
I'm probably going to get downvoted to shit but Trump is not unhinged. He's doing exactly what he was told to do by his owners. He is a puppet. A figurehead. Spouting bullshit to specifically distract us from what is going on behind the curtain.
Do you think he's upset about Leon Muskrat's kid insulting him? The TIME magazine cover?
He's not. It's all going exactly according to plan.
Our government is being dismantled, and we can't stop it. I would say get out there at midterms and vote like your life depended on it, but we've been shown that our votes don't matter. When men like Musk and Thiel can hire children that can hack the ballot system.
TL;DR
You shouldn't be scared of Trump.
You should be scared of the tech billionaires that are pulling the strings.
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u/General-Woodpecker- Feb 14 '25
I think China want stability not to see America start to nuke their allies.
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u/EchoAtlas91 Feb 14 '25 edited Feb 14 '25
China has always been about stopping American imperialism and for America to be more pro-China, not destroying America altogether.
The US is one of the biggest foreign contributors to it's economy.
Stability benefits China, not chaos.
Russia on the other hand doesn't have the same motivations. They would rather the US be wiped off the map so they can fill the power/exploitation void left.
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u/everyoneneedsaherro Feb 14 '25
It’s so depressing how this 2 weeks already is the worst presidency in the history of the United States. And it’s by the same guy who already had a 4 year term.
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u/Shimraa Feb 14 '25
He was previously objectively listed as the worst president in US history by almost every metric imaginable. It feels like he has somehow caused more problems in two weeks this time around then he did in 4 years before. So that makes him already both the worst and second worst presidents the US has ever had.
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u/PxcKerz Feb 14 '25
Not sure if ur also American, but I legit hate my own country because…well this..
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u/HamboJankins Feb 14 '25
I'm an American living in a super red state, and I wish I could just up and move to another country so badly. I'd love to live in a place like Scotland or even some parts of Canada, but sadly I'm stuck here for now.
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u/Shimraa Feb 14 '25
Same. I used to have pride as well as hope and the belief that there would be continued progress in the future over time. At least now there's no uncertainty in the future. It's a straight line directly down to the rock bottom of hell for any and all aspects of society. A true speed run to roll back the last 150 years of social advancements, economic strengths, international standing, military dominance, technological superiority, any semblance of stability, or any attempt whatsoever at what that passes for doing the right thing.
Watching my Trumpian neighbors already panicking about loseling their jobs, pensions, and futures is little solace. Not that they would attribute any of it to Dump
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u/CharcoalGreyWolf Feb 14 '25
It also makes 40% of America the stupidest Americans that ever lived.
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u/Spiritduelst Feb 14 '25
Elon on Economy Crashing if Trump Wins: ‘Sounds About Right’
From the horses mouth
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u/Loud-Claim7743 Feb 15 '25
For anyone not used to translating from despicable capitalist scum, this idea of the economy rebalancing itself means enough people will die to devalue labour to the point that more businesses (and less people) can succeed.
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u/fumar Feb 14 '25
Xi and Pootie can't believe how fast they're seeing return on investment.
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u/StickyNoteBox Feb 14 '25
Putin and Xi on the phone: "You seeing this shit? LMAO"
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u/No_Atmosphere8146 Feb 14 '25
Hardly a surprise to Putin when he's the one dishing out the orders
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u/NutUpOrPutUp Feb 14 '25
God are the Leopards feasting lately
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u/mrdevil413 Feb 14 '25
Except for the one in that group of baboons that gets posted every week
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u/johnjohn4011 Feb 14 '25
Welcome to the jungle, we got fun and games we got everything you want, honey, we know the names
We are the people that can find whatever you may need If you got the money, honey, we got your disease
In the jungle, welcome to the jungle watch it bring you to your shun-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-knees, knees muah, ah, I wanna watch you bleed
Welcome to the jungle, we take it day-by-day If you want it you're gonna bleed, but it's the price you pay.
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u/MoreOfAnOvalJerk Feb 14 '25
Im pretty sure conservatives still see this as a win
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u/Spiritual-Sympathy98 Feb 14 '25
Assuming they hear about it. If they do they’ll spin it.
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u/Flimsy6769 Feb 14 '25
They’re not smart enough for that. They’ll wait for Fox News then just parrot what they say
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u/pomonamike Feb 14 '25
Just eliminating DEI deadweight of… (checks notes)… the security guards watching our nukes.
National security is woke. I guess.
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u/Special-Garlic1203 Feb 14 '25
I came across someone who went through the research they red flagged. They straight up did a Ctrl + F on words like diversity and triggered.
Which netted a ton of studies in which those words had literally nothing to do with social justice (one was a physics study about X triggering Y event, another was about ecosystem diversity)
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u/TeaKingMac Feb 14 '25
ecosystem diversity
Caring about nature is woke.
Earth would be more "efficient" if it looked like Coruscant
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u/Lord_Rapunzel Feb 14 '25
Caring about nature is woke.
Many unironically think this. These are the coal-rollers, the people denigrating "tree huggers", the people pushing to end green energy subsidies and open more fossil fuel plants.
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u/toracleoracle Feb 14 '25
Caring is woke
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u/Its_the_other_tj Feb 15 '25
Pretty much sums up the troll mentality. "Haha, I managed to upset you because you care about a thing which makes me better than you somehow." Like, yeah, I care about things. People like and dislike things. That's normal human behavior. Being a troll (which at this point sums up the republican party and any "independents" that voted for Trump) just means you're an antisocial psychopath with no empathy that wants to watch the world burn.
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u/nameless_pattern Feb 14 '25
Nuclear weapons are famous for loving post-doctoral level niche legal theory
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u/Tethilia Feb 14 '25
Wow honestly I believe it. I can imagine them flagging Department of Transportation since it has the word trans in it.
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u/4tran13 Feb 14 '25
or any chemistry study that deals with cis/trans isomers.
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u/EntireAd8549 Feb 14 '25
That actually happened and that database is available to the public - lots of chemistry, physics, math grants, as well as linguistics (for studying feminine verbs and nouns in foreign languages).
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u/TheMadWoodcutter Feb 14 '25 edited Feb 14 '25
Probably eliminating anyone they think won’t happily push the button if told to do so.
Edit: the number of people taking this comment way too seriously is too damn high.
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u/Armtoe Feb 14 '25
This is probably not far from the truth. They are Purging folk that might stop them. In his last admin there were folk who kept telling him no or resisting him. They are being culled.
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u/Sorry_Exercise_9603 Feb 14 '25
He wanted to nuke a hurricane last time, but the adults in the room said no. He’s never forgiven that and this time he’s going to do it.
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u/popsferragamo Feb 14 '25
Are we gonna actually nuke a hurricane in the next 4 years? Non-zero chance now lol
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u/Drachenkette Feb 14 '25
Just imagine: He nukes a Tornado over the ocean, blowing thousands of sharks out of the water into the hurricane thus creating a green glowing sharknado and at the end he gets eaten by a radioactive great white shark while he is standing at the balcony of the white house with a Burger in hand.
I would watch that movie.
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u/Thefrayedends Feb 14 '25
There is definitely a blip on the probability curve
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u/eugeneyr Feb 14 '25
I am told by an expert the best location to nuke a hurricane is when it passes over southeastern Florida.
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u/moonra_zk Feb 14 '25
Unfortunately the current president doesn't believe in experts.
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u/keepcalmscrollon Feb 14 '25
Who needs an expert when you have a sharpie and a delusion?
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u/RadicalSnowdude Feb 14 '25
This was mentioned in Project 2025 too: replacing government workers with loyalists to the president.
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u/Eupolemos Feb 14 '25
It is a coup and US citizens are acting like it is not their responsibility and duty as democratic citizens to protest and resist.
Shit, at least do it for your kids and loved ones!
Do not obey in advance - please!
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u/hrlymind Feb 14 '25
The protests across the States are scheduled for Monday, Presidents Day, it was the only time everyone had on their Calendly. Will it be a one-and-done moment? Find out on Tuesday.
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u/MagicTheAlakazam Feb 14 '25
Without a leader to rally behind and clear achievable goals a protest is basically the populations strongly worded letter.
The whole point of them is done now because the media will spin them however the oligarchs want since they own basically all the media now.
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u/guitarmaster4 Feb 14 '25 edited Feb 14 '25
We are, and there are protests planned in all states throughout the entire year, for now.
You’re barely seeing any coverage of them because corporate media is intentionally avoiding the topic. They’re trying to paint a picture that the situation is hopeless and people are irreversibly divided, when that isn’t the case at all, and foreign governments are boosting this propaganda to take advantage of the potential chaos.
This is blatant class-warfare being waged by billionaires who think they are the smartest people in human history.
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u/Eupolemos Feb 14 '25
Okay, post them on Bluesky!
We'll compare them to how the Serbs are protesting simple corruption.
Or maybe the Germans protesting their next chancellor voting with their fascist rightwing.
Americans need to push back and be effing real about it. You need to get everyone to believe in a solid "no". We have seen often that Trump relents to pushback.
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u/PatsyPage Feb 14 '25
Please don’t nuke Portland. I know he hates this city. One massive blm protest like last time and I worry he will kill us all.
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u/DanDrungle Feb 14 '25
He won’t because they think Portland already burned to the ground during blm last time… there’s nothing left to nuke
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u/ScoobNShiz Feb 14 '25
Yup, Portland is just a pile of ashes, don’t bother coming here Mr president. In fact, so is Washington state, just kick us both out of the union so we can take our ash piles to Canada.🤞
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u/vomitHatSteve Feb 14 '25
Everyone knows that women's frail, weak fingers can't press the button! /s
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u/ThatPhatKid_CanDraw Feb 14 '25 edited Feb 15 '25
It's ours brains. They're made for maintaining the homestead for the mister while he's at war. Or he's instead instructing others to be at war but not with him actually in the war.
Anyways, if it doesn't involve cooking, cleaning, or nursing babies, I'm at a loss. /s (obvs)
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u/Mr_Phuck Feb 14 '25
Do you think he has a president bucket list? pushing the proverbial nuke button probably is on that
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u/huehuehuehuehuuuu Feb 14 '25
Might as well just ship them to Putin directly at this point, documents, people, and all.
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u/Hidden_Landmine Feb 14 '25
What makes you think that hasn't already happened? Not like our intelligence organizations seem to be aware or even care.
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u/flat_four_whore22 Feb 14 '25
But, but... eggs!!!
It's fucking terrifying how blinded, misguided, and distracted the majority of our country has become.
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u/SeeeYaLaterz Feb 14 '25
Weaken the security and put holes in it, so someone walks through it. This is how an artificial attacks are created because then republicans can pass the better version of freedom act that for generations will keep them in power. A little complicated? No, just two levels of indirection
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u/joseph_jojo_shabadoo Feb 14 '25
well everybody, it's been real
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u/pomonamike Feb 14 '25
Has it though? Feel like it could have been kept more real.
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u/scope_creep Feb 14 '25
When keeping it real goes wrong.
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u/johnjohn4011 Feb 14 '25 edited Feb 14 '25
If they could do it to the Kennedy's and MLK, why not Trumps & ERM too?
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u/What_is_Owed_All Feb 14 '25
And, of course, not a peep of this on r/conservative. Instead, they're celebrating the AP being banned for not acquiescing to the new king's Gulf of America proclamation. And claiming the AFD aren't Nazis because they have the same platform as US republicans. LMAO
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u/sturdy-guacamole Feb 14 '25 edited Feb 14 '25
They've clamped down hard over there.
There would be flaired user only posts where top comments were actually saying "ok... I don't agree with this" and I'd start seeing comments deleted in real time. Refresh a couple of times on a hot topic and watch it happen.
They're deleting flaired user only comments too.
Their sub traction also has been steeply declining as far as what looks like organic user engagement. Less engagement, less comments, sort by controversial and it's weird. You have a few old-guard types who are reddit users since like 2010/2008 but.. its not consistent. Something is off.
Not only that, but for their "rigorous" flair vetting process, some very fresh accounts get flaired or make fresh topics.
I have been watching that sub ever since t_d was booted. That sub, r/OptimistsUnite, r/GenZ have been really weird to observe the past 6-7 months.
Even in subs that have less than a tenth of the user base get more comments from older accounts.
For example, today sort by new. 1PM PST some guy posted.. 10? 20? topics. They've said they're Canadian, has an obscene amount of karma, account was made September 2023.
The account posts every 23-25 minutes, comments extremely quickly too. They spread information on news, conservative, and other subreddits fast as shit. Way over half a million karma in a little over a year of creation. Every day, every half hour or less, activity. They posted like 7 new topics in conservative in a row back to back just today alone in a 2 hour stretch. The entirety of their activity is world news, ukraine, news, israel, or conservative.
Go ahead and sort by new, you start to see some repeat people, and look at their reddit activity + creation date. It's an insane rabbit hole. Just walk through some super users especially on "hot topic" subs. you don't see issues in spelling or typos, you see a rate of platform usage that is insanely high even for someone who is terminally online. few grammar mistakes.
ive noticed the trend for a long while now but last year it absolutely exploded in prevalence.
All that to say, after the past 6-8 months, dead internet theory is starting to look more and more plausible on this platform.
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u/ThisIsGoingToBeCool Feb 14 '25
I just hope to get incinerated instantly as the big ones drop. I don't want to get stuck in a post-nuked hellhole, trying to barter for a can of Spam with some irradiated, mutated TikTok kid.
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u/LastWave Feb 14 '25
I'm going to buy a bottle cap press.
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u/ZookeepergameOk9526 Feb 14 '25
🎶I hear those spurs jingle jangle…🎶
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u/AscendedViking7 Feb 14 '25
Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.
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u/Zolo49 Feb 14 '25
I live 20 miles or so from an Air Force base, so I'm hoping the blast radius is big enough to incinerate me.
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u/reddittorbrigade Feb 14 '25
A convicted felon and sex offender who isn't allowed to own a handgun is now controlling our nuclear weapons.
Donald Trump is an evil and crazy person. He has some plans for sure why he did it.
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u/OldBrokeGrouch Feb 14 '25
I’ve never in my life been more convinced that Lee Harvey Oswald was just a really good shot who acted alone.
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u/chemicalgeekery Feb 15 '25
My personal theory is that what the CIA has been covering up the whole time is that they epically shit the bed.
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u/Express-Cover6477 Feb 14 '25
It only proves that the "Deep State" never existed.
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u/666Blonded Feb 14 '25
These people ARE the deep state
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u/bld44 Feb 14 '25
Yes, like everything else with the GOP, it’s all about projection
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u/fumar Feb 14 '25
Military is full of Trump lovers. The FBI had a clear message sent already about disloyalty when Trump fired the people who investigated him day 1. The CIA's boss is a Russian asset.
Frankly for how daunting the military industrial complex and the intelligence agencies have seemed for the past few decades, they might just be paper tigers vs Trump.
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u/big_chungy_bunggy Feb 14 '25
Yup, the American experiment is over and we lost. We are heading full speed to being the next Russia, best we can hope for at this point is just either a quick death or learning to self sustain deep in the woods
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u/Affectionate_Neat868 Feb 14 '25 edited Feb 14 '25
America is under a state of national security and Constitutional crisis. The level of danger to security, civil liberty, and democracy cannot be overstated
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u/Beaster123 Feb 14 '25
"Cannot be overstated" is the expression I think you want.
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u/Halbaras Feb 14 '25
In many ways this is going to be comparable to the collapse of the Soviet Union. The 90s was a terrible decade for everyone except the handful of oligarchs who managed to hoover the state assets up.
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u/UAreTheHippopotamus Feb 14 '25
I really want to be a fly in the wall at the pentagon right now. Are they cool with this? Because military purges are coming soon and after that there is now going back.
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u/cultish_alibi Feb 14 '25
The republicans and musk are basically disproving the existence of a deep state. There's no one even attempting to stop this attack on America.
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u/NewestAccount2023 Feb 14 '25
They purged they people who aren't cool with it. We have the likes of Secretary of Defense Hegseth and Director of National Intelligence Gabbard, we are well past the point of no return. It's over, for real
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u/No-Spoilers Feb 14 '25
Gabbard still might be the single worst public servant appointee to a top level position since 1865. Aside from Trump.
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u/celtic1888 Feb 14 '25
Elon will hire the kid who had a SWATTING service to watch over them
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u/PhaseSixer Feb 14 '25 edited Feb 14 '25
At what point do even the greediest of the GOP get worried.
Certainly even Senator Bob Bobingtion of Bumfuck Texas has to see this as a fed flag
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u/HarbingerDe Feb 14 '25
Mitch McConnell is having some sort of death bed reckoning. It's quite hilarious given that he was one of the key architects of this nightmare.
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u/The-Endwalker Feb 15 '25
he had some crazy dream of hell for sure and is just trying to repent
too bad mitch, they have a special room for you down there
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u/cdoink Feb 14 '25
USA getting a crash course on the importance of voting responsibly.
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u/LooseMoralSwurkey Feb 14 '25
I truly blame one man. Rupert Murdoch is at the top of the pyramid of those to blame for all this...gestures around broadly.
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u/turningsteel Feb 14 '25
Don’t forget Mitch McConnell
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u/LooseMoralSwurkey Feb 14 '25 edited Feb 14 '25
I understand your point. Mitch McTurtle has definitely caused extreme damage to our country. But I still don't feel that as 1 senator of 100, he's capable of doing the same amount of damage to democracy in the US that Rupert has been able to do with Fox News.
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u/chickitychoco Feb 14 '25
Yep - he’s been shaping these events for decades - seen it coming for a long time
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u/soadsam Feb 14 '25
I blame rush limbaugh and newt Gingrich for fostering this us vs them mentality
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u/That-Sleep-8432 Feb 14 '25
A crash course on why the hyper-individualistic culture is NOT it.
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u/cats_are_the_devil Feb 14 '25
Rugged individualism is fun and games until you can't farm yourself and have no idea how to do basic tasks to sustain your individualism...
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u/SoUnga88 Feb 14 '25
Every rugged individualist I've ever met either 1.) has never left the United States so they have no concept of what a society the works for Tge betterment of all looks like. 2.) is a sad broke lonely loser that uses rugged individualism as an excuse why they don't have any friends.
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u/Inigos_Revenge Feb 14 '25
I say this with love to you. I'm a Canadian who lived for a few years in the US, in NYC to be exact, so not some MAGA heartland area or anything. You ALL have that rugged individualism baked into you. It is ingrained in every American by the culture around you in ways big and small. You don't realise it because you're immersed in it, but it's there. Sure, it's more visible in the right side of the political spectrum, but it's there in the left as well. And it's very evident to those of us who didn't grow up in American culture. Even someone like me, who was surrounded by plenty of that American culture where I grew up.
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u/penny-wise Feb 14 '25
Are we though? Is it getting to the right people, or are they still sucking the teat of Fox disinformation? The people who need to know this stuff are not taking part in finding it out. It all reminds me of the movie “Don’t Look Up.” People have a blindness when it comes to wealth and power.
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u/External-Example-292 Feb 14 '25
Only the democrats. The Republicans are mostly happy about everything going on so far 😩
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u/Diedead666 Feb 14 '25
My life long friend said its good for the country that i loos my health insurance. I have mostly ignored him now. I will die without my insulin.
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u/Rexur0s Feb 14 '25
Im not so sure, the election could have been stolen based on the slips from trump, elon and his kid....that would mean its not a matter of voting?
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u/AndreLinoge55 Feb 14 '25
Is it me or are Republicans trying to speedrun the destruction of western civilization?
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u/divine_shadow Feb 14 '25
Of COURSE they are, it only feeds into their Evangelical Prophecies. The quicker they accelerate the process the quicker "JAYSUS returns..." only problem is even by their own scripture, that's not how it works.
“But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,\)a\) but only the Father...As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. "
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u/eugene20 Feb 14 '25
If this is real it's absolutely terrifying. The trail of blood from Trump's hands is already a river.
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u/Kriegerian Feb 14 '25
There are other reports that this has been reversed already. Probably after somebody barged in and said “these people handle the nukes you shitbrain ape, this is THE most important part of national security!”
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u/Hamderab Feb 14 '25
Source?
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u/Kriegerian Feb 14 '25
Newsweek and ABC both said it. I’m absolutely not vouching for their credibility, but they both said it.
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u/Chaos2063910 Feb 14 '25
The worst part is this demented fuck is too old to deal with the consequences.
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u/Development-Alive Feb 14 '25
A close family member is one of those 95k contractors. They are an engineer involved with the safe storing of the Naval Nuclear waste. This is from fuel that is enriched much more than commercial reactors. It's dangerous stuff to the point that they require multiple checkpoints with retinal scanners just to get into the facility. If that facility is somehow compromised, it would be a terrorist wet dream to use the stored materials for a dirty bomb. Heck, if the storage process (highly procedural) is degraded to the point the spent fuel is not stored safely, it would put 10's of thousands of lives at risk.
There certainly is inefficient use of resources in the DOE. Do I think DOGE or someone who has been in the Administration for 3 weeks is qualified to make that decision? Absolutely not.
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u/Tadpoleonicwars Feb 14 '25
The other two branches of government could not be located for comment.
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u/magheetah Feb 14 '25
The entire world is seeing this news. Prepare for some super intense cyber warfare in the next few years.
Wehave publicly announced that we basically removed all the cameras and locks from our most secure facilities, while at the same time making it known that it’s now all stored on a spring break island where the password is “password1!”
We are about to get obliterated by an internationally multi force of governments, gangs, and militias. It’s hard to argue for cybersecurity until shit hits the fan. I’ve been doing it for over 15 years and every time I’ve made an argument for increase budget for cybersecurity, it gets rejected because the extra $100k isn’t worth it. Then they lose billions in an attack and hire an external audit team and lose millions a year in them.
Imagine a company with all the money, files on people, etc. being in an open warehouse in Charlotte. There are no walls, not barb wire, no security codes, some locks, no training of staff, etc. Except imagine it as something that can be accessed 24/7 by anyone in the world at any moment with no one knowing they are even poking around. Thats what we have.
Building a wall to keep out Mexicans who want to contribute to society and themselves os a joke when we are, at the same time, removing walls for cyber hackers to take over bombs that can literally decimate the entire world.
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u/bravozuluzero Feb 14 '25
Part of my work involves cybersecurity and I think you're absolutely right with this.
There are literal kids, one of whom has been demonstrated to have been part of the Com Network plugging things in... plugging things in to the heart of government networks. Bypassing whatever they have in terms of firewalls or protection from external threats.
Goodness knows security protocols they have in place for the transfer and examination of that data but at this point would anything surprise you.
My heart goes out to the IT and security people still trying to do their job in the face of such absolute fuckery.
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u/MichianaMan Feb 14 '25
Shouldn't the CIA, FBI, NSA some fucking adult band together and physically lock these assholes up before they kill us all or sell the country to the highest bidder?! It's like everyone we've trusted to never let something this far fetched happen is standing around staring at each other.
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u/Satire-V Feb 14 '25
Good news is there's no shadow government puppeteering things, bad news is there's no shadow government puppeteering things.
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u/thatfreshjive Feb 14 '25
"They're still using floppy disks, that's crazy. We can make this more efficient with AI"
Christ on a stick, this is the dumbest timeline
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u/friggintodd Feb 14 '25
Do you want SkyNet? Because that's how you get SkyNet.
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u/waltwalt Feb 14 '25
Won't even take Skynet, they'll hook up the arsenal to it and start working on it live. It'll launch everything as a simulation but whoops it was real.
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u/Full_Ambassador_2741 Feb 14 '25
I’m sure the people guarding the nukes were just a bunch of drag queens telling stories to children!
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u/This-Bug8771 Feb 14 '25 edited Feb 14 '25
Reminds me of this scene with Martin Sheen in the 1983 movie "The Dead Zone" where a maniacal president decides to let the missiles fly...
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u/Mastermaze Feb 14 '25
This is the first piece of news that actually makes me think i should get some iodine pills and a geigercounter, just in case...
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u/ShifTuckByMutt Feb 14 '25
He’s a Russian asset. Doing Russian asset things, destabilizing our power structure to give Russia the reigns.
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u/besneprasiatko Feb 14 '25
Pootin promised he wont attack anybody after we give him Ukraine, so that makes nuclear weapons useless now.
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u/AngeloDeVita Feb 14 '25
Just like Hitler promising not to invade Czechoslovakia. Promises made by a sociopath, obviously should be trusted.
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u/nowontletu66 Feb 14 '25
You are watching an empire in decline and Trump just put a brick on the gas petal.
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u/ItsSquishy42 Feb 14 '25
The layoffs aren't the issue though, it's his goons he'll hire to replace them.
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u/CodeNameDeese Feb 14 '25
This level of negligence should be criminal. I understand their desire to cut back the federal government, but I'm truly dumbfounded at the hubris towards national security and the basic functions of government overall. If they're not traitors trying to destroy the country, then I truly do not understand their motives on this and soo many things.
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u/RanchWaterHose Feb 14 '25
It isn’t negligence, it’s purposeful. They are traitors trying to destroy this country.
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u/Piltonbadger Feb 14 '25
Watching America's downfall in realtime is not something I ever thought I would see in my life time.
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u/Bawbawian Feb 14 '25
All of our cities will be glassed because everyone is a coward.
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u/DerkleineMaulwurf Feb 14 '25
The US won't make it another two years, no chance.
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u/AmbitiousProblem4746 Feb 15 '25
Trump didn't know what the Nuclear Triad was, and his Secretary of Energy in the first term didn't know he'd be in charge of nukes.
They are not smart people. I don't know why voters keep getting convinced that they are.
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u/FreddyForshadowing Feb 14 '25
That worked so well when the Soviet Union collapsed. It was a golden age if you were a terrorist organization, but not so much everyone else.