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Jalumibnkrayal
Apr 16, 2008

Ramrod XTreme
It seems incredibly likely that Trump will declare the national emergency. It doesn't sound like it has any real downsides for him, and it avoids the massive downsides of compromising or letting this shutdown continue. I'm expecting it before the end of the month.

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Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
we prob could destroy china's nuclear armament while only losing a third of US population

Duscat
Jan 4, 2009
Fun Shoe
you'll have to excuse the sewer duck he was imprinted to a nuke at birth

Flavius Aetass
Mar 30, 2011

Addamere posted:

I am legit convinced that if ever the U.S. gets its nose bloodied in a meaningful way we're just going to say gently caress this and kill the world.

We are a nation of spite elementals. If we cannot be the big swinging dick of the planet then there doesn't get to be a planet.

remember when one of our buildings got blown up so we killed a million people in a country that didn't have anything to do with it

and literally tortured them in hell prison

Solarin
Nov 15, 2007


:hmmyes:

Addamere
Jan 3, 2010

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Jalumibnkrayal posted:

It seems incredibly likely that Trump will declare the national emergency. It doesn't sound like it has any real downsides for him, and it avoids the massive downsides of compromising or letting this shutdown continue. I'm expecting it before the end of the month.

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



Baloogan posted:

awesome


terminal targeting is a bitch, so likely will be nuke tipped or launched in a large salvo (20+), and if you are throwing a nuke around (or launching 20 ICBMs at once) its p much game over

wasn't China building scale replicas of our carriers to test on? I think even if it's 50/50 that's basically the end times for the world as if we lose our carrier dominance we'll just launch all the nukes

anyway, nuke or salvo is irrelevant because some tape memory system in a mountain in the Urals will trigger the doomsday switch as soon as it sees the launch

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe

dads friend steve posted:

aircraft carriers are outdated tech and will be owned by over-the-horizon missiles if it ever come sto that. we should probably build many more tho

the 1960 called they want their threat profile back

Shalebridge Cradle
Apr 23, 2008


Baloogan posted:

we prob could destroy china's nuclear armament while only losing a third of US population

wtf how is barry goldwater posting from beyond the grave

Ben Nerevarine
Apr 14, 2006

Baloogan posted:

we prob could destroy china's nuclear armament while only losing a third of US population

I don't think Russia would recognize the distinction

a few DRUNK BONERS
Mar 25, 2016

Reality Winter posted:

He's right about one thing, no one should have to use xhamster

I don't even watch pornography

Log082
Nov 8, 2008


Epic High Five posted:

wasn't China building scale replicas of our carriers to test on? I think even if it's 50/50 that's basically the end times for the world as if we lose our carrier dominance we'll just launch all the nukes

anyway, nuke or salvo is irrelevant because some tape memory system in a mountain in the Urals will trigger the doomsday switch as soon as it sees the launch

lol yeah deadhand is real and will kill us all if climate change doesn't

Flavius Aetass
Mar 30, 2011

Baloogan posted:

the 1960 called they want their threat profile back

we just haven't fought anyone with decent missiles and a targeting network yet

Solarin
Nov 15, 2007

Baloogan posted:

we prob could destroy china's nuclear armament while only losing a third of US population

middle third of the country. please

Addamere
Jan 3, 2010

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Flavius Aetass posted:

remember when one of our buildings got blown up so we killed a million people in a country that didn't have anything to do with it

I do remember that!

Now imagine if instead of us just suffering a symbolic sucker punch that ultimately amounted to nothing more than statistical noise we actually got punched in the dick we've been waving around for decades as proof of our invincibility.

Duscat
Jan 4, 2009
Fun Shoe
baloogan you literally cannot have a child with a nuke it doesn't even make any sense

Chokes McGee
Aug 7, 2008

This is Urotsuki.

Parity warning posted:

if made ik i promise to probate fools and losers and my monitor will always be on

Same but my monitor will be off

dads friend steve
Dec 24, 2004

a few DRUNK BONERS posted:

I don't even watch pornography

then how did u know what it was :thunk:

PostNouveau
Sep 3, 2011

VY till I die
Grimey Drawer
https://twitter.com/paprbckparadise/status/1080987085366996992


Ah, 2020, the year he has to eat his dick because he bet bitcoin would be $1 million by then.

I see his desperation plan is to become president and make dick eating illegal.

Duscat
Jan 4, 2009
Fun Shoe
watch any of those youtube videos where ducks follow around weird sad people

DryGoods
Apr 26, 2014

Dogs, on the other hand, can connect with that pathos.
china's not going to be attacking any carriers. might lose one in the persian gulf though but i'm not betting on it

dads friend steve
Dec 24, 2004

Baloogan posted:

the 1960 called they want their threat profile back

satellite tech is much better these days

Flavius Aetass
Mar 30, 2011

Addamere posted:

I do remember that!

Now imagine if instead of us just suffering a symbolic sucker punch that ultimately amounted to nothing more than statistical noise we actually got punched in the dick we've been waving around for decades as proof of our invincibility.

Boopa da Snoot

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



the entire POINT of our insanely expensive carrier and above water fleet is to secure markets for capital, if it can't do that anymore we need to fall back on what would then become massively limited air superiority, and after that the nukes

if we ever fight a country with anti-air we'll basically be BTFO in a week

Duscat
Jan 4, 2009
Fun Shoe
http://remix.kwed.org/files/RKOfiles/trv%20-%20Sanxion%20Loader%20(Acoustic).mp3

Addamere
Jan 3, 2010

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

dads friend steve posted:

aircraft carriers are outdated tech and will be owned by over-the-horizon missiles if it ever come sto that. we should probably build many more tho

CIWS is actually very good at blowing up missiles by the amazingly high-tech tactic of shooting so many bullets in so short a time as to effectively construct a solid wall for the missile to hit some distance away from the ship

Plinkey
Aug 4, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
calling bullshit on this one

Flavius Aetass
Mar 30, 2011

Duscat posted:

watch any of those youtube videos where ducks follow around weird sad people

buddy you're in one

Elephanthead
Sep 11, 2008


Toilet Rascal

PostNouveau posted:

https://twitter.com/paprbckparadise/status/1080987085366996992


Ah, 2020, the year he has to eat his dick because he bet bitcoin would be $1 million by then.

I see his desperation plan is to become president and make dick eating illegal.

The president doesn't write laws, unconstitutional! He would have to pardon his dick.

Bearjew
Apr 18, 2017




lmao

reignofevil
Nov 7, 2008
Dead hand switch is great because it already accepts that we lost hard if it gets used but instead of gracefully conceding we basically rigged ourselves up like The Predator.

Crazyweasel
Oct 29, 2006
lazy


Click to see the creator of Stranger Things' epic tweet against Trump that broke the internet!

DiscountDildos
Nov 8, 2017

RealityWarCriminal
Aug 10, 2016

:o:
Macafee is going to make trump eat his dick instead

Plinkey
Aug 4, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Epic High Five posted:

the entire POINT of our insanely expensive carrier and above water fleet is to secure markets for capital, if it can't do that anymore we need to fall back on what would then become massively limited air superiority, and after that the nukes

if we ever fight a country with anti-air we'll basically be BTFO in a week

lol, no

Thesaurus
Oct 3, 2004


Jalumibnkrayal posted:

It seems incredibly likely that Trump will declare the national emergency. It doesn't sound like it has any real downsides for him, and it avoids the massive downsides of compromising or letting this shutdown continue. I'm expecting it before the end of the month.

so you're saying I'll have to go back to work?


I'm not even clear if declaring an emergency means that the shutdown would end

limp dick calvin
Sep 1, 2006

Strepitoso. Vedete? Una meraviglia.

Log082 posted:

lol yeah deadhand is real and will kill us all if climate change doesn't

hell yeah. I should see if the buzzer has done anything interesting lately

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




Solarin posted:

holocaust centers

i thought he said, centaurs

Addamere
Jan 3, 2010

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Epic High Five posted:

the entire POINT of our insanely expensive carrier and above water fleet is to secure markets for capital, if it can't do that anymore we need to fall back on what would then become massively limited air superiority, and after that the nukes

if we ever fight a country with anti-air we'll basically be BTFO in a week

At any point in the last century we could have probably cut the bullshit, retooled the American economy for war, and had a re-run of World War 2.

But nowadays we've closed down and outsourced so much infrastructure and institutional knowledge, could we even do a war economy anymore?

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Flavius Aetass
Mar 30, 2011

Addamere posted:

CIWS is actually very good at blowing up missiles by the amazingly high-tech tactic of shooting so many bullets in so short a time as to effectively construct a solid wall for the missile to hit some distance away from the ship

yeah it's pretty much invincible against a single non-hypersonic missile

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