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[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

B61? why not 4B61?

[–] ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip 61 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

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...)

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 2 points 15 minutes ago

Trump and his cult have plowed millions into “47” merch that would suddenly become worthless to them.

No, His followers have plowed millions into it and Trump received those millions.

So while funny, you just have Trump get millions more for his "48" merch.

[–] verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 hours ago

It's already been theorized in this thread. We're in a crisis, we need the freshest shitposts! We go to the mattresses!

[–] nuke@sh.itjust.works 30 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Who says we want less danger? We're already in the

...

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago

Oh, burn. Guess they'd have to go send something to the printers. What will th Dems think of next.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 45 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I'd like to see him ship everything that would have gone to Israel to Ukraine instead

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 9 points 6 hours ago

O sorry about the shipping mix up Love it

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

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 possibility~~ ~~non-zero~~ not-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.

[–] verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Could you make a crudely animated version of your saga and get back to me? We have construction paper and a grubby assortment of scented markers. Have fun!

[–] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Man, the marines already at the crayons, you know the infantry will just huff away all the scented markers. Then we will need to propose a new budget for things like pencils, and that means running the bidding process to design the pencils, produce the raw materials, make the pencils, ship them...

New, rule, makers are for non-infantry only.

[–] nuke@sh.itjust.works 21 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Yall too serious

And making me read and shit. At least add some pictures yall know I'm fucking dumb

[–] Silic0n_Alph4@lemmy.world 11 points 7 hours ago

Let’s zoom in on that footnote:

a dumb joke about how using a cross instead of an asterisk for a footnote marker makes me think of Neon Genesis Evangelion

Orange president, orange humanity.

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 80 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

"Look now, things fall off of trucks all the time"

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 3 points 47 minutes ago

There are already 6 declassified incidents where American nukes were lost. Who knows how common this really is.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/us-military-missing-six-nuclear-weapons-180032

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 125 points 14 hours ago (8 children)

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.

[–] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 37 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

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

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[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 45 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

We all know he doesn't have enough spine to do that.

[–] nuke@sh.itjust.works 40 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 21 points 12 hours ago

Username checks out.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 36 points 14 hours ago

I just think they're neat.

[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I thought that said Putin Synthesizer. Lke what a Geiger–Müller counter?

[–] horse_tranquilizers@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Bleep bleep bleep

I would unironically fully support this course of action

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