hahahaah someone clearly used the words ‘israel iron dome’ in his presence, and this is the result.
what a fucking idiot.
Doesn’t dementia affect a person’s ability to recognize metaphor?
So dose Ameridome temperature IQ.
what does that mean ?
I think it’s supposed to read “So does Ameridome temperature IQ”
Which is a riff on room-temperature IQ (something in the 60-70s, 100 IQ being the supposed average).
I see thanks
Maybe it’s some kind of metaphor?
If you watch the surrounding context, he is absolutely talking about a missile intercept program. He referred to “MIT graduates” going “bing bong boom” to make an incoming missile “completely gone.”
So all the comments acting as if he wants a physical giant dome are attacking a strawman while the actual fact he’s taking about missile defense like a five year old is lampoon-worthy enough.
He doesn’t understand it enough to explain it and that is why the “poorly educated” love him.
Maybe he just watched Biodome with Pauly Shore?
Buuuuhhdy!
Or the Simpson movie. With his favorite fiction inspirational character, Spider Pig.
No one ever thought he was elected to read lol
Trump criticized sending “billions of dollars out of the countries so they can build a dome, but we don’t have a dome ourselves.”
“We’re going to have the greatest dome ever,” he continued.
It astounds me that anyone is willing to vote for someone this stupid. It’s not an act. He is legitimately stupid. That’s been on full display this past fucking decade.
I’m gonna guess that what he’s attempting to refer to here is the Iron Dome system of Israeli fame.
We already have anti-ballistic missile systems:
- the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense system is exactly what it sounds like
- Aegis, Patriot, and THAAD are all short-range, terminal phase anti-ballistic-capable systems.
Also, to be clear, it would be a very bad idea for the US to pursue an expansion of the GMD system to be “impermeable” to a peer state, because not only would it be cripplingly expensive (even in the context of US military budgets), but it would also diminish the disincentive of doing a nuclear first strike (which would obviously lead directly to an intercontinental nuclear war), and you can guess who would want to do something like that.
Joke’s on you, in the time it took you to write out this informed rebuttal he’s already moved on to wet magnets.
Slop 'em up
Not just stupid - he’s legitimately demented and an obvious sociopath. The fact that he literally smells like shit and ketchup is just that soupçon of chef’s kiss that makes him the pinnacle of the republiQan party.
Well done republiQans. No wonder you’re so goddamned proud.
I’m certain this is like his “invisible jets” stuff he is always spewing about, where someone demonstrated our military being able to protect the US from outside missile attacks by showing him a picture with a “dome” over the US to illustrate how it would be all covered or something. And since he isn’t all there these days he thinks of it as a literal “dome”, just like the jets are actually invisible (not just to radar).
Edit - ha even dumber! I see someone mentioned the Iron Dome over Israel as probably what he is trying to convey in his word salad.
/nottheonion ?
As impenetrable as the dome protecting trump and republicans from reality.
We’ll say it yet again: This isn’t an act, folks. He really is this stupid.
He can’t build it with magnets either as it would stop working after rain
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-ridiculed-bizarre-magnet-remarks-iowa-rally-1858420
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…sooo how’s that wall going?
Seems like that’d be the first step in building a dome, but the best we could do was a couple of stretches of fence. I’m sure it’ll be fine - Trump is a man of his word after all.
I genuinely view conservatism as a mental illness at this point.
You know, when I watch, uh, our guys operate those things, it’s unbelievable. Missile coming in, missile coming in. These geniuses sit down. Most of them are, you know, they’re from MIT. But they sit down, bing bing bing bing, boom, ph-sheee. It’s gone. It’s amazing. I think we could use, do you like that? I mean, isn’t that better than giving other countries billions of dollars? Billions. We’re going to get billions of dollars out of the countries and so they can build a dome, but we don’t have a dome ourselves. We’re going to have the greatest dome ever.
He’s clearly not talking about a literal physical dome.
Clickbait.
Are you sure about that? With that word salad, who can really be sure what he’s thinking.
I’m not a native speaker, but would anybody say “build a dome” when talking about setting up missile batteries?
We would. That’s a fairly normal thing to say.
The problem is that Trump tends to use phrases like this literally. Not saying it’s the case this time, but it’s certainly on brand for him. My initial thought was that he’s advocating for getting rid of missiles and replacing such systems with an actual dome. It’s just so hard to figure out what he means sometimes.
Because Isreal has a missile defense system called the Iron Dome. So Trump thinks the that all missile defense systems are called domes.
Well Hitler built the Atlantic wall without any real wall.
He heard someone talking about this, probably: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Dome
Which is still stupid, because the we already have this tech.
So… Patriots
What I’m taking away from this transcript is that he is indeed talking about a real-ass dome
I never thought he was talking about a literal wall. Im not getting wooshed again.
I don’t know why they bother, reading the verbatim transcript of what he said is more entertaining than any clickbait.
Only video I found … During the “pshee” he’s clearly gesturing a missile interception.
This isn’t “sunlight in your body” stupidity, he’s using an established metaphor to talk about a comprehensive missile defense system.
Why are Republicans in general so damned afraid of everything?
fear is how they control their base. its not logic, which is why we cant argue with them.
As much as I’ll happily rag on the prequels, I think a lot about a line from the Phantom Menace, as said by Yoda: “Fear is the path to the dark side…fear leads to anger…anger leads to hate…hate leads to suffering.”
The base is what I was talking about.
they are afraid because they were told to be afraid. lies are repeated every 30 seconds on fox news to achieve this fear.
why do people allow this to happen to them? lack of critical thinking skills and social isolation.
lack of critical thinking skills
Exactly. So much could be solved with just a basic highschool critical thinking course.
But the GOP have their voters so brainwashed, that they’d just pull their kids out of school and “home school” if they even tried to institute one.
Religion is probably part of it. A lot of the more conservative sects of Christianity emphasize both uncritical conformity and a fear of punishment.
It’s why some don’t understand how you can be a good, moral person without religion. Their morality is based on that fear of punishment.
By definition.
If conservatives in general weren’t so damned afraid of everything, they wouldn’t be conservatives in the first place.
They’re not. At least not “truthfully”.
Whether it’s drag shows, lesbian sex tapes, or whatever example you want to use, the Republicans don’t personally have a problem with any of them.
What they DO have, is the knowledge that if you give uneducated people someone to hate/fear and then say that YOU are the one who can save them from it while implicitly giving them permission to hate, you’ll get votes.
It’s not about what they personally believe. Never has been. It’s what their voters are afraid of.
The Simpsons movie is getting a remake?
I was elected to lead, not to read.
Can’t wait for the maga folks to defend this saying things like “he didn’t mean that”
Well, to be fair, he probably came up with it after hearing about Israel’s Iron Dome. So he might’ve meant something like that. Or he might think it’s a literal dome. Who can say with Trump.
I swear I made this joke in 2016.
Does he not understand or care that the Patriots we’re giving to Ukraine ARE a dome that does what he’s talking about?
If you’re talking about trump and ask ‘does he understand’, the answer is ‘no’.
Let’s face it, they replaced Trump’s brain with ChatGPT alpha internal dev version, where the trainee set the wrong parameters.
Its like a wall but for the sky, I am a very successful wall builder, some might even say the best.
You won’t be laughing when your magnets get wet.
🤨 🤔 🤷♀️
Domes would totally protect us from all of of the government drones that have been flying around for the past couple hundred million years or so. Also turbines and cats. I like cats.
The world is only 2024 years old. Read a colander, maroon!
But would it protect us from the 5G? Or, the 6G! Jesus save us all…
