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Does anyone else feel like their worst fears are being realized, that this guy is going to end life on Earth?

First he says this:
"North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. He has been very threatening beyond a normal state and as I said they will be met with fire and fury and frankly power the likes of which this world has never seen before."

Who talks like this? Does he think he's in a movie? Does he realize he's saying the same thing over and over? Why does he use the "likes of which" phrase in just about every sentence on every topic?

Then he tweets this: (and BTW, why in god's name are we paying attention to tweets? This is not a 12-year old girl; stop reporting on tweets)
Trump touts US nuclear arsenal amid standoff with North Korea - CNNPolitics
"My first order as President was to renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal. It is now far stronger and more powerful than ever before," "Hopefully we will never have to use this power, but there will never be a time that we are not the most powerful nation in the world!"

Trump was apparently referring to a review of US nuclear weapons that began earlier this year, which he directed Defense Secretary James Mattis to undertake in a presidential memorandum signed during a January visit to the Pentagon. Such reviews of the US nuclear posture are required by Congress and typically occur every eight years. It is unclear to what extent, if any, the US nuclear arsenal has been modernized since Trump took office. Such efforts would require billions of dollars allocated by Congress. Efforts to update the US nuclear arsenal are heavily governed by existing treaties with other nuclear states.

And here's the details of what he's referring to:
Pentagon begins review of nuclear weapons policy - CNNPolitics
Secretary of Defense James Mattis announced Monday (April 17) that the Department of Defense has begun its Nuclear Posture Review, a process President Donald Trump directed Mattis to undertake in a presidential memorandum signed during his January visit to the Pentagon. A final report will be presented to Trump "by the end of the year," chief Pentagon spokesperson Dana White said in a statement.

Does is bother anyone that he's totally bullshitting the entire world about a bogus nuclear buildup? And that he thinks we're all stupid enough to believe that any of this would have already happened 6 months into his term?
 
The most frightening thing he has done is this tweet:



He's getting his news from "Fox & friends" instead of our intelligence agencies.
 
The rub of it is that everyone knows that you just don't walk into a Beds, Ballistics, and Bombs to pick up a few more of the latest trends in nukes for the season. The Koreans know this better than anybody. They have been working on getting nukes for years.


"We're all going to die....."
 
While I was more in favor of campaign Trump's somewhat isolationist and definitely nationalist leanings, I'm not opposed to finally trying to get China on board and starting to consider ending the DPRK. And I do like the tough talk. Enough of that fatso's threats against us, lets see how he likes some "fire and fury".
 
You do understand what fire and fury means when you are fighting someone with nuclear weapons or whose big brother has them?


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Maybe he could reach Japan or Guam. And that's a big maybe. He claims he can hit USA mainland but that is a claim similar to how his father played golf and shot all holes in one.

Why go to war without using all your war machines? Is it that we still cling onto the MAD idea? That is as out of date as the 1960's nukes it was describing.
 
JHDK said:
Why go to war without using all your war machines? Is it that we still cling onto the MAD idea? That is as out of date as the 1960's nukes it was describing.
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The internationally accepted definition of "war" is a battle of combatants. Obliterating millions of non-combatant civilians is genocide. Do you see the difference?
 
If a bomb is dropped, the US economy goes right into the shitter.
We will be labeled as being the bad guys, nobody will ship us products, food, or oil. Nobody will buy our exports.

This is a massively bigger deal than putting up with an insecure little boy pretending that he's important to the world.
 
HecticArt said:
If a bomb is dropped, the US economy goes right into the shitter.
We will be labeled as being the bad guys, nobody will ship us products, food, or oil. Nobody will buy our exports.

This is a massively bigger deal than putting up with an insecure little boy pretending that he's important to the world.
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Especially if we indiscriminately murder thousands or millions of civilians, and poison the atmosphere for a billion people. That won't go over well.

Even if we're viewed as having provoked an NK nuke launch, which we intercept, spraying nuclear material all over the planet, that's not good. Or we can take out the NK leadership with a precision cruise missile strike, throwing that country into turmoil, and possibly initiating WWIII.

I'd love to hear how Koop thinks this is all going to be just fine.
 
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Two interesting articles from aol.

Trump sees approval rating bump after week of North Korea escalation

After 2016 I think it's fair to have a healthy skepticism of all political polls until at least we see how they do in predicting the '18 midterms.

Next up:

Barack Obama to return to political stage this fall with 'delicate dance'

I found one line in this article kinda funny.

Obama won't be a Democratic poster face...

Haha! See what they did there? Can't blame them really. "Poster face" is not a term. Now "poster boy" is a term but it wouldn't be the best of ideas to go around calling any black man a boy and especially not a POTUS. I just thought it was a cute re-wording.
 
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Everybody wants to be a rabble rouser. Stay home, watch some GoT. Maybe go vote if ya feel like it when an election rolls around. It will be a much less stressful life.
 
JHDK said:
Everybody wants to be a rabble rouser. Stay home, watch some GoT. Maybe go vote if ya feel like it when an election rolls around. It will be a much less stressful life.
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Inorite? We have this perfect system that rewards straight white men. Everyone should stop trying to screw that up and just watch more TV.
 
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