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#288626: Aug 26th 2019 at 7:00:54 AM

[up]You think this administration cares about science?

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#288627: Aug 26th 2019 at 7:02:26 AM

It’s not even passive ignorance or not caring about science. It’s been established time and time again they are actively fighting against science.

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
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#288628: Aug 26th 2019 at 7:05:59 AM

Yeah, the climate change denier president sure as hell isn't going to listen to any scientist.

Nope, he's just going to nuke our bad weather away!

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#288629: Aug 26th 2019 at 7:09:34 AM

@PhysicalStamina No one’s suggesting to nuke our naders!

...yet.

...oh god.

Edited by Bur on Aug 26th 2019 at 9:10:41 AM

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#288630: Aug 26th 2019 at 7:11:34 AM

Does he even understand what a nuclear explosion does?! You'd think even he would realize that it's a bad idea to have a poisonous cloud of dust spread all over the soil of the country that he's president of. What if it ends up being carried by the wind to where he is and he breathes it in?

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
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#288631: Aug 26th 2019 at 7:12:26 AM

[up]He's not suggesting nuking them on American soil.

He's suggesting nuking them while they're still in the middle of the ocean.

[up][up]Yes, we currently have a President where this is not actually impossible. I've long since come to terms with this current paradigm.

Edited by M84 on Aug 26th 2019 at 10:14:20 PM

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#288632: Aug 26th 2019 at 7:12:50 AM

Using a nuclear bomb... on a hurricane... in an attempt to destroy it... may be one of the most monumentally stupid things I've ever heard in my entire life.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
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#288633: Aug 26th 2019 at 7:13:58 AM

[up]I'm sure Trump will find a way to top this by next week. And that might be too generous.

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#288634: Aug 26th 2019 at 7:16:35 AM

I really wish the 25th Amendment option could be invoked here. That would require people with spines.

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#288635: Aug 26th 2019 at 7:19:30 AM

[up][up]Don't tempt that bull. Pretty please.

I fear how low an enabled, malignant, deranged and escalating narcissist can go. >_<

[up]Should've been done a year ago. At least. <_<

Edited by Euodiachloris on Aug 26th 2019 at 3:30:24 PM

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#288636: Aug 26th 2019 at 7:19:33 AM

[up][up]Or people who don't benefit from having someone like this as President.

Edited by M84 on Aug 26th 2019 at 10:20:41 PM

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#288637: Aug 26th 2019 at 7:23:27 AM

Sharknado didn't invent this. Yoko Tsuno at least, had done it years before... And wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't the first either.

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#288638: Aug 26th 2019 at 7:25:41 AM

Not just bombs. He's suggesting nuking hurricanes.

Which is all kinds of fucked up.

This isn't the most WTF thing Trump has ever said, but it's probably in the top ten.

...I can't even tell if this is just standard Cruel But Stupid President Trump, or if it's another bout of belligerent nonsense from Chosen One Trump.

I think he might have gone senile in office. But I'm not sure, because he was already very stupid and impulsive before. I honestly cannot tell the difference between our President devolving into a raving madman and our President just behaving normally.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Aug 26th 2019 at 8:27:30 AM

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
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#288639: Aug 26th 2019 at 7:28:52 AM

He'd probably be less dangerous if he was just raving and going senile.

Trump is just a cruel, willfully ignorant, and vicious human being.

Edited by M84 on Aug 26th 2019 at 10:29:41 PM

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#288640: Aug 26th 2019 at 7:34:16 AM

The problem is that senility would logically make preexisting cruelty, malice, etc. even worse, by negatively impacting what little restraint or sensibilities he used to have.

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#288641: Aug 26th 2019 at 7:35:38 AM

He most likely just wants an excuse to use the nukes.

After all, he has been quoted to say "What's the point of having nukes if we don't use them?"

He's just itching to score a touchdown with the nuclear football that have been kept out from his reach...so far.

Edited by TitanJump on Aug 26th 2019 at 4:38:03 PM

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#288643: Aug 26th 2019 at 7:38:13 AM

Its a distraction as far as I'm concerned (like his tweets),he says something stupid and people will talk about it for weeks,weeks!I would'nt look too deeply into it beyond "Trump is considering stand up as a profession after this presidency"

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
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#288644: Aug 26th 2019 at 7:39:07 AM

[up]That's giving him too much credit, even if it is distracting. He's not saying stupid stuff to distract people from his evil. He's just someone who sees no need to filter anything he says or practice discretion. He's your Racist Grandma, except as President. Heck, I bet that's why a lot of older people voted for him in the first place.

Edited by M84 on Aug 26th 2019 at 10:40:50 PM

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NoName999 Since: May, 2011
#288645: Aug 26th 2019 at 7:53:57 AM

It's been almost three years of President Trump now.

When are people going to learn that he's not saying dumb/offensive shit as a distraction?

He's dumb and offensive. And it's possible to talk about both that and whatever catastrophe he pulled this time.

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#288646: Aug 26th 2019 at 7:55:14 AM

Nukes wouldn’t destroy a hurricane.

The resulting energy would actually fuel it more depending on where you drop it due to the immense heat that would rise up from the ocean.

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
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#288647: Aug 26th 2019 at 7:56:41 AM

[up][up]He's not even particularly stupid. It's worse — his ignorance is entirely willful.

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Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#288648: Aug 26th 2019 at 7:58:38 AM

Suppose now would be a good time to mention that Trump skipped the climate crisis meeting at the G7.

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Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#288650: Aug 26th 2019 at 8:03:02 AM

It has absolutely nothing to do with having to sit there while being told how real things are getting.

Nope.


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