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CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

DoktorLoken posted:

I'm going to watch Trinity and Beyond this weekend. Haven't watched it in probably a year. Probably my favorite documentary ever.

Have you watched The Rainbow Bombs? Also narrated by Shatner, covers more of the ICBM, high altitude tests, and ABM development:

https://youtu.be/udxsA2F5Kd8

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bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/04/trump-i-may-sabotage-obamacare-until-democrats-repeal-it.html

Trump is going Art Of The Deal all over Obamacare.

quote:

“I don’t want people to get hurt,” Mr. Trump said. “What I think should happen—and will happen—is the Democrats will start calling me and negotiating.”

More details in the article, but his negotiation tactic is "Give me what I want to make healthcare shittier, or I make healthcare shittier in a very loud, very public way with my name all over it and claim you guys did it by not making a deal"

...which will sadly work with some people but I'd like to think that a pretty solid majority can see through that line of bullshit.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

bird food bathtub posted:

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/04/trump-i-may-sabotage-obamacare-until-democrats-repeal-it.html

Trump is going Art Of The Deal all over Obamacare.


More details in the article, but his negotiation tactic is "Give me what I want to make healthcare shittier, or I make healthcare shittier in a very loud, very public way with my name all over it and claim you guys did it by not making a deal"

...which will sadly work with some people but I'd like to think that a pretty solid majority can see through that line of bullshit.

Well considering his negotiating tactics with contractors who worked for him were along the same lines, I'm not suprised. He largely threatened/took legal hostages.

Duzzy Funlop
Jan 13, 2010

Hi there, would you like to try some spicy products?

Is this "Hang on, Americans believe me when I tweet, but the entire world can read my tweets, THE ENTIRE WORLD BELIEVES ME!"?

UP THE BUM NO BABY
Sep 1, 2011

by Hand Knit

Duzzy Funlop posted:

Is this "Hang on, Americans believe me when I tweet, but the entire world can read my tweets, THE ENTIRE WORLD BELIEVES ME!"?



No, he's communicating to his handlers that he received their latest instructions and is willing to obey them

SwampDonkey
Oct 13, 2006

by Smythe

(and can't post for 4 years!)

Airplane man had a concussion, broken nose, and lost two front teeth.

Kawasaki Nun
Jul 16, 2001

by Reene

SwampDonkey posted:

Airplane man had a concussion, broken nose, and lost two front teeth.

Its so sad when the entitled make an entire plane of passengers feel unsafe by ignoring the lawful orders of federal employees!

Hot Karl Marx
Mar 16, 2009

Politburo regulations about social distancing require to downgrade your Karlmarxing to cold, and sorry about the dnc primaries, please enjoy!
https://twitter.com/GMA/status/852492316346425344

Nice

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Dubya told NPR that he didn't remember saying "that was some weird poo poo" about the inauguration.

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/852552879248461825

He totally said it.

M_Gargantua
Oct 16, 2006

STOMP'N ON INTO THE POWERLINES

Exciting Lemon

:same:

And here it was suddenly 80 for a day now it's back to the mid 50s and I want to be warm again.

Chichevache
Feb 17, 2010

One of the funniest posters in GIP.

Just not intentionally.

facialimpediment posted:

Dubya told NPR that he didn't remember saying "that was some weird poo poo" about the inauguration.

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/852552879248461825

He totally said it.

Speaking as someone who literally had a visit from the Secret Service during the W Presidency: it is amazing how much Trump has made me like GWB by comparison.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

Chichevache posted:

Speaking as someone who literally had a visit from the Secret Service during the W Presidency: it is amazing how much Trump has made me like GWB by comparison.

Its both creepy and sad that GWB and Dick 'Vader' Cheney are going "What the gently caress is wrong with this guy?"

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
We just MOABed ISIS in Afghanistan.

https://twitter.com/DavidWright_CNN/status/852558316945498112

First ever deployment in combat.

https://twitter.com/DavidWright_CNN/status/852559181974560769

https://twitter.com/DavidWright_CNN/status/852560705832267776

Piell
Sep 3, 2006

Grey Worm's Ken doll-like groin throbbed with the anticipatory pleasure that only a slightly warm and moist piece of lemoncake could offer


Young Orc
Spicer press conference scheduled to being in 20 minutes

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

Chichevache posted:

Speaking as someone who literally had a visit from the Secret Service during the W Presidency: it is amazing how much Trump has made me like GWB by comparison.

Where you the goon that got Lowtax a visit by the Secret Service too?

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006
Probation
Can't post for 5 days!

So turning rubble into finer rubble?

Duzzy Funlop
Jan 13, 2010

Hi there, would you like to try some spicy products?

Administration idiocy aside, dropping that thing on ISIS kinda owns a whole lot.

Chichevache
Feb 17, 2010

One of the funniest posters in GIP.

Just not intentionally.

KildarX posted:

Where you the goon that got Lowtax a visit by the Secret Service too?

No, I was in 7th/8th grade.

Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

bone shaking.
soul baking.

KildarX posted:

Where you the goon that got Lowtax a visit by the Secret Service too?

That was four people in LF who made a thread where they planned out a way to assassinate the president at the time. It was gassed and the people involved were all perma-banned with the reason "Congratulations! The Secret Service has issued a subpoena to Something Awful LLC regarding your post! You are one of the forum's most stupid individuals ever!"

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3365121&pagenumber=1&perpage=40#post384455188

Blind Rasputin
Nov 25, 2002

Farewell, good Hunter. May you find your worth in the waking world.

Where's the HD drone footage.

bloops
Dec 31, 2010

Thanks Ape Pussy!

Go on

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

AreWeDrunkYet posted:

So turning rubble into finer rubble?

OEF: Turning Rubble Into Finer Rubble

MA-Horus
Dec 3, 2006

I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

AreWeDrunkYet posted:

So turning rubble into finer rubble?

Pretty sure the Afghanis will be resisting until rubble gets turned into finer rubble, which will get turned into sand, which will get turned into glass.

Fuckers have been resisting any sort of foreign rule when the Romans were still stealing their neighbors daughters and wives. They even make a joke about it in The Expanse, which takes place several hundred years from now. Engaging in Afghanistan isn't like sticking your dick in a beehive, it's like sticking your dick in the Demon core.

Mike-o
Dec 25, 2004

Now I'm in your room
And I'm in your bed


Grimey Drawer
They can't resist if we nuke the entire country.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Ahahahahah United this is NOT going to happen.

https://twitter.com/RamCNN/status/852565970296156160

The refunds for passengers will come with a "can't sue us" provision. They're so hosed.

bloops
Dec 31, 2010

Thanks Ape Pussy!

facialimpediment posted:

Ahahahahah United this is NOT going to happen.

https://twitter.com/RamCNN/status/852565970296156160

The refunds for passengers will come with a "can't sue us" provision. They're so hosed.

Whoever takes that is worse than Kramer at lawsuits.

Slim Pickens
Jan 12, 2007

Grimey Drawer

AreWeDrunkYet posted:

So turning rubble into finer rubble?

Apparently they dropped it on a cave complex, so they really really really wanted to pop some lungs.

https://www.apnews.com/339a792016c14f2d87e7f5b9fa8f3b2d/Pentagon:-US-dropped-largest-non-nuclear-bomb-in-Afghanistan

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Where's my 4k ultra slow mo multiple angle footage drat it

ded
Oct 27, 2005

Kooler than Jesus
I just hope they don't start dropping that thing in Syria.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


ded posted:

I just hope they don't start dropping that thing in Syria.
Hey now, we're not so innocent, we have a lot of killers.

Piell
Sep 3, 2006

Grey Worm's Ken doll-like groin throbbed with the anticipatory pleasure that only a slightly warm and moist piece of lemoncake could offer


Young Orc
Spicer is on now

Bolow
Feb 27, 2007

ded posted:

I just hope they don't start dropping that thing in Syria.

Don't worry Russia has something of their own to use

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_of_All_Bombs

Arc Light
Sep 26, 2013



I'll be legit mad if the ISR feed doesn't end up on YouTube, or at least on SIPR.

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost

Arc Light posted:

I'll be legit mad if the ISR feed doesn't end up on YouTube, or at least on SIPR.

Arc Light, what is your legitimate need to see this footage?

Morale :clint:

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Blind Rasputin posted:

Where's the HD drone footage.

CNN posted it on their Facebook page. No really that's where I saw it.

M_Gargantua
Oct 16, 2006

STOMP'N ON INTO THE POWERLINES

Exciting Lemon
Our watch team got to see something really cool live, the rest of us, knowing what it was and what was happening were told that they'd pop the recording really quick at meal time so we could all enjoy. Then they chickened out because while the live feeds were all good they had already tagged the recording as SCI.

We were all really sad.

bloops
Dec 31, 2010

Thanks Ape Pussy!
The whorish step daughter of all bombs

Edgar
Sep 9, 2005

Oh my heck!
Oh heavens!
Oh my lord!
OH Sweet meats!
Wedge Regret
So how destructive is this bomb? I have hard time visualizing it.

Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

bone shaking.
soul baking.

Edgar posted:

So how destructive is this bomb? I have hard time visualizing it.

It has an effective blast radius about the same as the two small nukes we dropped on Japan. (approx 1 mile)

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Laranzu
Jan 18, 2002

Edgar posted:

So how destructive is this bomb? I have hard time visualizing it.

Imagine the pressure wave of a nuke, but not nuclear

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