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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
Was the plot of War Games actually. And why the Russian retaliation system is fully automated.
Oh really when?
A wandering user
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Where's the source that that it's actually the code? And did you listened that only these specific soldiers have the football away from him?
A wandering user
You're implying that even in the darkest times, the US would not even dare to end the Human race? What's the twist of it?
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
The President is required by law to have the football within access at all times. If it's really being withheld from Trump then we have a military coup on our hands.
edited 9th Feb '17 11:53:04 PM by LeGarcon
Oh really when?
A wandering user
And even so, not even Officials would risk launching a nuclear missile against something trivial.
United Earth
"the Russian retaliation system is fully automated."
The Doomsday Device?!
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
A procrastination in of itself
Legally they have to, they'd be disobeying a direct order if they refused to give Trump the codes/football and would face Court Martial for it. Now one hopes that they'd do it anyway, but soidlers are generally trained to obey orders.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
However, cabinet members need to countersign an order for a first strike. They are not under any obligation of doing so. A retaliatory strike, I am less certain: My impression was that a lot of people (not just POTUS) can start one.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Oh, bother.
<looks at the current Cabinet>
...That is not exactly reassuring.
Disgusted, but not surprised
So, Trump seems to be intent on taking the muslim ban all the way to the supreme court....
Given how how big his ego is, and how we have heard reports that every thing is whieghing in on him already.
Think if they vote to overturn it there is any chance of him just..... storming out of the presidency like a toddler taking its toys and leaving?
In the meantime, Republicans at town halls have been flabbergasted to witness the amount of turnout and citizen opposition that they're witnessing.
Did they.... really expect any thing else when a lot of them win by gerrymandering and rules abuse and then go directly against the wishes of what the majority would like. ._.;
Brenner's Wolves Fight Again
The Republicans are a bunch of Trump-lites (or Trump-plus) anyway.
Where there's life, there's hope.
use political terms to describe, not insult
So, the entire "Gen Z is more conservative" thing comes from a (very) shitty quiz by a British advertising company with a lot of methodological problems. And then the Daily Mail and other far-right tabloids ran with it.
Well, they got away with it for decades. It's just that Trump is a failure of democracy on such a colossal scale that it caused the generally apathetic citizens to mobilise. I just hope that they can keep it up.
I'm pretty nervous about what the Supreme Court will say about the Muslim Ban. Seems like it will be a breaking point one way or the other.
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
The Democrats had better not ruin this chance at reaching out to these angry Republican constituents.
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
Brenner's Wolves Fight Again
The angry Republican constituents would ruin it first befor the Dems have the chance to.
Where there's life, there's hope.
Oh, bother.
And the Democratic Party can't compromise too much on certain issues — they absolutely must not do anything that gives the toxic "eh, both parties are the same so why bother?" mentality any more merit.
They have to prove to Americans that their vision is different and that it is better. For everyone.
edited 10th Feb '17 4:31:06 AM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprised
Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
If SCOTUS votes along party lines before confirming the Trump candidate, it'll be 4-4 and whatever the ninth circuit says. Thing is Kennedy and Roberts may switch and vote against the ban. Kennedy is a wild card, and Roberts cares alot about his personal reputation, the power of the court, and making "bold historical pronouncements." note Thomas somehow combines an anti-federal power with an all power to the President philosophy. Alito, I recall one opinion from him ever. I can't tell...
Also, about Town Halls: House GOP leaders want more security at town halls amid Obamacare protests
"There a growing ugliness out there," California Rep. Tom Mc Clintock, whose meeting over the weekend in northern California drew large crowds and more police were called to the scene. "We were warned by both the Capitol police and the local police that there was local agitation..."
Virginia GOP Rep. Dave Brat blamed professional advocates from outside his district for interfering with his office's work. "My constituents are trying to get in on Social Security and all kinds of other issues and they can't get in because when you get 30,000 hits by paid activists, from (George) Soros and indivisible and resistance, etc. I can sort it out. So it's a real issue," he said...
[North Carolina Republican Rep. Mark Walker] told CNN that 90% of those attending recent events in his district opposed policies being advanced by the GOP Congress, but he plans to continue scheduling meetings, but with additional security plans in place.
Brenner's Wolves Fight Again
Oh yeah, Wikipedia banned Townhall as a source.
Where there's life, there's hope.
Oh, bother.
"Paid protestors!" SMH
And of course they bring up Soros as a bogeyman again.
It really doesn't occur to them that maybe, just maybe, people are genuinely pissed off and scared over losing health insurance?
Roberts being an idiot...is that in reference to his "post-racial" bullshit? Which he used to justify killing the Voting Rights Act, which almost certainly helped Trump win the WH?
edited 10th Feb '17 4:47:44 AM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprised
Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
Exactly that. But he said the wtf line in a different case from Shelby County. Twas "The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race!"
What he probably expected: (Applause!) Me (and everyone else in the classroom). WTF?
The Atlantic sums up the decisionnote and Roberts's nonsense well.
“Simply because the school districts may seek a worthy goal does not mean they are free to discriminate on the basis of race to achieve it,” Roberts wrote, in part of the opinion written only for four justices.
The policy of encouraging greater racial mixing, he suggested, was the moral equivalent of Southern school segregation, which forbade it entirely: “Before Brown, schoolchildren were told where they could and could not go to school based on the color of their skin. The school districts in these cases have not carried the heavy burden of demonstrating that we should allow this once again—even for very different reasons.”
edited 10th Feb '17 5:05:15 AM by CenturyEye
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Foreign Troper
Ha, well the travel ban is still overrulled. But it seems Herr Trump is ready to take it to the next stage
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/829836231802515457
God have mercy on America.
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