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I wish this was an inflated title but no, he really said this.

America, you need to get rid of this asshole ASAP.

Source: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115460423936412555

Thanks @notarobot@lemmy.zip

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[–] IndridCold@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

Someone distract Gramps with shiny ballroom pictures again.

[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This dumbass couldn’t tell you what nuclear testing was if you explained it to him like he was 5

[–] pigup@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

"I don't give a fuck, something racist, several n words. It's gonna help me stay in power and that's all I care about and the only thing that matters." - child rapist president dump

[–] greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why? They work... We checked.

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 11 points 1 day ago

Orange Don wants to make sure he can launch them the next time someone calls him names, without anyone being able to stop him

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

This is horrifying. Like, mind-bogglingly bad.

It's also a blatant lie. Other countries are not testing nuclear weapons, they're running simulations. We didn't do that in the 60s because it wasn't possible, but the US (and presumably China/Russia) literally have giant supercomputers for this purpose now.

...And we would know if they were doing real testing because it would show up on seismographs.


But who cares about truth? Or sanity? No, all my relatives (even scientifically minded ones) won't even bat an eye, lest some Democrat steal their retirement, ugh.

[–] nekbardrun@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Good time to remind that, in all History, only one country used nuclear bombs in a war.

Twice!

For "Research Purposes" (TM)

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Trumplethinskin is too stupid to understand any of that . He desperately wants to to be the one to trigger a spectacular overreaction and turn another country into glass.

#smallcarrotproblems

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 day ago

show up on seismographs

and any surface tests would show up on sattelites

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

Are they trying to figure out what the expiration date is on nuclear warheads? The fuq are they still needing to test for?

Let's just blow up our arsenal for the heck of it boyz, it will make for a good twitter post!

[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

We call this an eye for an eye approach and it will continue until the whole world is blind...

[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Even if it wasn't for the other million reasons, this guy's grammar alone should disqualify him from having the nuclear codes.

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[–] rayyy@piefed.social 33 points 2 days ago

Just shows he is desperately trying to create many more distractions from the Epstein files to see what works.

[–] paperazzi@lemmy.world 69 points 2 days ago (2 children)

He's been itching to nuke something since his first term. Hurricanes, he suggested at one point. And Americans voted him into office twice. Fucking morons.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Some Americans voted for him 3 times!

Seriously, imagine how fucking dumb you would have to be to fill out three separate ballots over nearly a decade voting for a failed reality TV star.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 23 hours ago

Some Americans voted for him 3 times!

so far...

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[–] CptOblivius@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Choose one...global warming or nuclear winter. I think that is our futures only options.

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 7 points 1 day ago

There's always the mass-extinction asteroid option to look forward to.

[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Dumbass probably watched a movie and was like duuuuh that looks cool lolz...

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 points 1 day ago

He's going to look at one directly, just like he did with the eclipse.

[–] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

We don’t need an another hero.

[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 85 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

And he's doing this while the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is furloughed... 🧐

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[–] MourningDove@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

“Was department”

ROFL! He’s like a little child in a cardboard fort, pretending the furniture is a threat.

Someone needs to put him in a home where he can pretend to be whatever he wants.

That guy is an absolute fud! He sees some other moron do it, and thinks he has to do it too so he looks "alpha"... Talk about your beta bitches, jesus christ.

[–] ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

don't indulge his bullshit attempt to rename the DOD

[–] notarobot@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

You have to. He didn't start weapons testing for defense he's going to go into war and take the offensive

[–] RattlerSix@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago (2 children)

One can never be sure what President Brain Worms is talking about but I'm pretty sure Obama started a ten year plan to modernize our nuclear forces early in his presidency.

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[–] DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 2 days ago (7 children)

A giant waste of money. 800 nukes is plenty for pretty much anything and launching 100 would probably mean the end of life as we know it on planet earth. If you wanted to blow a bunch of money on the military there are better ways to do it.

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[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 2 days ago

Ah, the "I had no choice!" argument for scaling up world tension. Yeah, we've never heard that one before. Hitler also "had no choice" but to invade Sudetenland, Austria and Poland.

The "we had no choice" argument is always used to take the victim role as an excuse to justify anything you like. Whether it is joining wars because they sank your illegal weapons shipment hidden in an ocean liner, invading a country because you made it look like they sank your ship, invade a country because a few terrorists attacked your country, invade a country because you claim there might be weapons of mass destruction, send troops and chemical weapons to a dictatorial regime because the freedom fighters threaten your overseas naval base, invade a country for denazification, commit ethnic cleansing, genocide and other horrible war crimes because some terrorist extremists attacked your country after years and years of oppression and apartheid, etc etc etc. There are so many examples in history where this tactic has been used. The entire cold war thrived on this bullshit argument "look at them, I have no choice".

"I'm going to do something bad, so I find a way to justify it."

  • every dictator, agressor, war criminal in history.
[–] Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world 41 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Can someone just tell him no one else has nuclear fusion power stations yet but (china|EU|Russia) are close and how much money it would make.

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It would make money at a country level, but does it fill his personal wallets like the oil industry?

So it's worthless for him

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[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 45 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Is he unstable enough for the 25th amendment yet? Asking for a friend.

[–] isaaclw@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago

He's been unstable enough for that, for 9 years

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[–] mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago

ffs we're still in 2025 man.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The real crazy people who would cause a nuclear wae are israel and the usa leaders not Iran

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[–] kingofras@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago (7 children)
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[–] DBT@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Testing for what exactly? Do we not know enough about them already?

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 23 hours ago

Cognition. He needs to show he's smarter than a warhead.

[–] Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk 4 points 1 day ago

Primative chest pounding. He has to prove his chest makes a bigger sound. Or his nuke is bigger than their dick.

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[–] flying_gel@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Are any other countries actually actively testing nuclear weapons?
(I don't think North Korea counts/is.)

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not really. We know they work.

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