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Shimrra Jamaane posted:He's already moved on to talking about Hannity running a piece on Hillarys EMAILS. The dude isn't launching anything. North Korea takes US presidents threatening horrible consequences and then either not following through or even worse having their aides walk them back as a sign of weakness, and Trump keeps insulting the head of the cult personally, so this kind of poo poo still has an impact in that it can make North Korea more likely to engage in risky behavior.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:He's already moved on to talking about Hannity running a piece on Hillarys EMAILS. The dude isn't launching anything. He spent a total of two minutes thinking about the nuke button, pressed send, and immediately forgot about it. Leaving the rest of the world to stew all night
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gret posted:button too big for him to fully press down? nuke button inexplicably continues to deliver diet coke president is crushed under several thousand ounces of soda skylined! fucked around with this message at 03:35 on Jan 3, 2018 |
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TheNewt posted:So yes it's horrible and would cause impeachment/destroy trumps reputation and kill hundreds of thousands of americans. But it wouldn't be the end of the world.
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dont even fink about it posted:Trump's tweets should make everyone rejoice; they're all bullshit, much like everything he says, that serve no practical effect but to worsen his polling. Twitter allows Trump to have an outlet for his crazyness that also hurts his polling. It's a win win really.
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There were reports about the North doing another missile launch. Well... https://twitter.com/nktpnd/status/948379495349800961
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:He's already moved on to talking about Hannity running a piece on Hillarys EMAILS. The dude isn't launching anything. If that isn't an indicator for cognitive decline, I don't know what is. He treats all of this like a game, as if it isn't reality with real lives on the line. He probably won't launch anything, but there are countries genuinely pissed because he does all of his communication through Twitter instead of meeting with them. Twitter honestly needs to be shut down, it is assisting in bringing us closer to a lethal outcome.
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TheNewt posted:Look even if North Korea had functional nukes and we attacked first the max they could probably have is like what. 3? A 1 megaton weapon would still gently caress poo poo up real bad. Here's a 1 MT on DC, the entire city and all of its suburbs are destroyed. Estimated casualties from the explosion alone are 500k.  Even a 150 kt weapon would be bad news for DC and destroy all of the parts people actually know about (in both maps my house is inside the air blast wave circle which means i would probably die without knowing what happened)  so yeah, the world wouldn't end but it would be real bad news and millions would die for essentially no reason.
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Hastings posted:If that isn't an indicator for cognitive decline, I don't know what is. He treats all of this like a game, as if it isn't reality with real lives on the line. He probably won't launch anything, but there are countries genuinely pissed because he does all of his communication through Twitter instead of meeting with them. I wouldn't say no to a limited nuclear strike on twitter's infrastructure.
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skylined! posted:yo y'all freaking out over this - this is like absolute proof trump is never going to nuke anyone. every single threat he has ever made has been empty as gently caress. Weak men lash out and abuse those they can to feel powerful rather than facing the reality that they are weak. He does that often.
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Currently taking bets on winners and losers at Trump's THE MOST DISHONEST & CORRUPT MEDIA AWARDS OF THE YEAR. CNN currently looking likely to sweep the awards this year. What do you guys think? It's a regular who's who event. edit: just set my VCR to record. Got blank tapes just for the event
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BRISTOL PALINS BABY posted:Currently taking bets on winners and losers at Trump's THE MOST DISHONEST & CORRUPT MEDIA AWARDS OF THE YEAR. CNN currently looking likely to sweep the awards this year. What do you guys think? It's a regular who's who event. Don't forget the failing New York Times that Trump secretly still wants approval from. Plus the Amazon Post, which has had a lot of bombshells about him. Oh and that one idiot at ABC who hosed up the Flynn story.
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Robot Hobo posted:Flying four airplanes into buildings is an attack that would do way less damage than a single nuke, but look where that led us. The idea of getting a nuclear weapon dropped on a major city is terrifying, but it'd be nothing compared to how much we'd hurt the world and ourselves in response. Woof. I pondered this for a bit and now I'm getting a little sweaty. I repeatedly come back to wondering whether bin Laden was attuned enough and/or bright enough to realize how thoroughly he had succeeded. When I talk to my students about it, the phrase I always use is "the most spectacularly successful criminal act in human history."
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Ague Proof posted:The real Doomsday Clock is the one Trump can't draw. Hello, mods?! Can we get a new title please? Thanks so much.
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cochise posted:Hello, mods?! Can we get a new title please? Thanks so much. I agree. Let's get this rolling.
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Regarding that whole “safest airtravel-year” thing. I’m actually flying to NYC I’m thursday. I hope 2018 don’t decide to catch up on lost deaths to gently caress with Trump. I’m all for loving with him, airplane-Gods, but you know, he has a plane of his own!
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mdemone posted:Woof. I pondered this for a bit and now I'm getting a little sweaty. Arguably the assassination of Franz Ferdinand was more successful, since unlike Al Qaeda's attacks which failed to topple Arab regimes, ,it actually did achieve its ultimate purpose of Yugoslavian independence.
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Hannity posted:Also, the President announcing that he will give out The Most Dishonest And Corrupt Media Awards. Sean Spicer and Michelle Malkin will join us. 
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Please god can we just start a new thread instead of a title change, this thread is almost inaccessible from awful app now
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skylined! posted:https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/948383431037280257 yeah, this seems pretty significant. im curious to see how congress responds. quote:We suggested investigators look into the bank records of Deutsche Bank and others that were funding Mr. Trump’s businesses. Congress appears uninterested in that tip: Reportedly, ours are the only bank records the House Intelligence Committee has subpoenaed.
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Sinteres posted:Arguably the assassination of Franz Ferdinand was more successful, since unlike Al Qaeda's attacks which failed to topple Arab regimes, ,it actually did achieve its ultimate purpose of Yugoslavian independence. Yeah, my emphasis on the word "spectacular" is somehow meant to carry equal weight with "successful". FF getting capped has always seemed to me (and maybe this is the droning buzz of history) that it was a spark that could as easily have been supplied by any number of other events. Maybe I'm flatly wrong about that. We have also not seen the end of the 9/11 domino fall, I fear.
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BigglesSWE posted:Regarding that whole “safest airtravel-year” thing. I’m actually flying to NYC I’m thursday. I hope 2018 don’t decide to catch up on lost deaths to gently caress with Trump. I’m all for loving with him, airplane-Gods, but you know, he has a plane of his own! 1. Air travel is insanely safe, the chance of being in an incident is infinitesimal. 2. If there is an incident, the majority of airline incidents are survivable and most passengers are still alive after the plane has stopped moving 3. Most people who die in airline incidents die from smoke inhalation/fire so make sure you actually know where the emergency exits are. People have lived because they listened while their companions did not, panicked and died.
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every morning i wake up and open palm slam a VHS into the slot. it's doctor strangelove and i know all the nuclear codes. i yee haw as i do a 360 frontflip into the button. not many people can say they've made it through the north korean air defense system, but i can
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Lemming posted:Draw the clock Donald I feel like I'm missing something. What's the clock thing? KickerOfMice fucked around with this message at 03:49 on Jan 3, 2018 |
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Eox posted:Please god can we just start a new thread instead of a title change, this thread is almost inaccessible from awful app now Agreed.
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mdemone posted:Agreed.  VVV I learned a thing!
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KickerOfMice posted:I feel like I'm missing something. Drawing an analog clock is a typical test to measure cognitive function.
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mdemone posted:I repeatedly come back to wondering whether bin Laden was attuned enough and/or bright enough to realize how thoroughly he had succeeded.
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QuoProQuid posted:yeah, this seems pretty significant. im curious to see how congress responds. I'm sitting at 99.5% confidence that Nunes's in on it.
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enraged_camel posted:If the US gets nuked by NK, you can bet your rear end Russia will use the opportunity to also nuke the US in an attempt to pile on and finish the job. And ensure that they're wiped out minutes later. How do you write this stupid poo poo with a straight face? Sinteres posted:North Korea takes US presidents threatening horrible consequences and then either not following through or even worse having their aides walk them back as a sign of weakness, and Trump keeps insulting the head of the cult personally, so this kind of poo poo still has an impact in that it can make North Korea more likely to engage in risky behavior. What risky behaviour can they actually engage in? Like, practically? You know, with their tiny, tiny loving pool of material resources.
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KickerOfMice posted:I feel like I'm missing something. What's the clock thing? https://www.verywell.com/the-clock-drawing-test-98619 
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Tim Whatley posted:https://twitter.com/W7VOA/status/948364284282724352 I'd say that I'm glad we have a foreign policy expert Sec State in that meeting tomorrow, but...unless the topic is how to negotiate oil extraction rights, lol nope.
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KickerOfMice posted:I feel like I'm missing something. What's the clock thing? Its a Hannibal (?) thing. A character who's experiencing memory blackouts is told to draw a clockface to prove he's capable and they draw a hosed up clock with all the hour-indicating numbers at the bottom. Basically, Trump is losing it.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Drawing an analog clock is a typical test to measure cognitive function. Here's another question since I'm feisty tonight: is the draw-a-clock test done in front of the doctor? That is, does the process by which the patient draws the clock matter, or only the final product? For example, I would draw the 12-3-6-9 first, to get the spacing correct -- would that be taken into account by a doctor?
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