• ristoril_zip@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1022·
    16 days ago

    hmm unfortunately for this plan everything nuclear is a bit more difficult for the President to do willy nilly.

    less dangerous but more funny would be for him to resign and let Harris be the 47th President. you know Trump and his cult have plowed millions into “47” merch that would suddenly become worthless to them.

    (there are a lot of things that he can do that SCOTUS has preemptively granted him immunity for, though…)

    • jj4211@lemmy.worldEnglish
      151·
      16 days ago

      Trump and his cult have plowed millions into “47” merch that would suddenly become worthless to them.

      No, His followers have plowed millions into it and Trump received those millions.

      So while funny, you just have Trump get millions more for his “48” merch.

    • verity_kindle@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
      10·
      16 days ago

      It’s already been theorized in this thread. We’re in a crisis, we need the freshest shitposts! We go to the mattresses!

    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      32·
      16 days ago

      (there are a lot of things that he can do that SCOTUS has preemptively granted him immunity for, though…)

      Biden is actually in the trolley problem. He can either save many and go to hell (he’s Catholic) or he can let the many die. I don’t envy him.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    321·
    16 days ago

    The thing is, where Putin has oligarchs that would dump him in a hot second if he dropped a bomb, Trump is absolutely eager to blow shit up and doesn’t care / can’t process the consequences of dropping the first nuclear bomb in hostility† and breaking the black ice.

    In Trump’s first term no-one in the Department of Energy or the Department of Defense brass were MAGA loyalists, even though many considered themselves Republican, conservative and endorsed US military interventionism and adventurism. So when they were told (for instance) to nuke the snot out of North Korea to give them what for, Mattis was there to say no. None of the later secretaries of defense under Trump (Shanahan, Esper, Spencer, and Miller) would have authorized a nuclear strike either. And if one of them did, the generals under them were likely to resign than carry out such an order.

    Enter Project 2025’s Schedule F plan, which is going to retire all the old brass US loyalists that are sworn to defend the Constitution of the United States (and mean it) and replace them with Trump loyalists, who, when asked to launch a nuclear strike against somewhere in the other side of the world will say Yes Sir! (or By Your Command ) or ( With Pleasure ) whatever the going evil-empire affirmative salute is.

    So it is a likely possibility non-zero not-insignificant possibility President Donald J. Trump will order a nuclear strike during his second term, and it will be carried out by the department of defense. He still really wants to express his fire and fury and show the world his dick is absolutely the biggest.

    I thought about this during Trump’s first term (and pondering the possibility of Hope, Montana getting nuked – three times! – at the end of Far Cry 5 ), imagining that unlike Greg Stillson in The Dead Zone bullying his principals to launch a first strike, Mattis would be there, steak-knife in hand to save the world from a rogue president. He actually did, just without the confrontation or the need of a steak-knife. But it means the Heritage Foundation is forewarned this time.

    † Yes, technically two atomic bombs have been dropped in hostility, but after Castle Bravo / Bikini Atoll we quietly shifted from the atomic age to the nuclear age. It’s a significant difference. Hiroshima had about a 15KT yield (12-18KT estimated) while Bikini Atoll had a 15MT yield (that’s 1000x Hiroshima). US Peacekeeper missles carry ten MIRV 0.5MT warheads and bombs dropped from airplanes are 2.1MT. So yeah, we’ve had atomic war, but not nuclear war.

    • nuke@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
      261·
      16 days ago

      Yall too serious

      And making me read and shit. At least add some pictures yall know I’m fucking dumb

    • verity_kindle@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
      9·
      16 days ago

      Could you make a crudely animated version of your saga and get back to me? We have construction paper and a grubby assortment of scented markers. Have fun!

      • Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        16 days ago

        Man, the marines already ate the crayons, you know the infantry will just huff away all the scented markers. Then we will need to propose a new budget for things like pencils, and that means running the bidding process to design the pencils, produce the raw materials, make the pencils, ship them…

        New, rule, markers are for non-infantry only.

          • Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            15 days ago

            Listen, had you not eaten the crayons, and had the Army infantry not inhaled everything with chemical fumes, we could have nice things, like painted rocks. Until then, maybe we can compromise with a monitored use system.

            • verity_kindle@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
              1·
              15 days ago

              That doesn’t work at the post laundromat, it sure as shit isn’t going to prevent one of them from sticking a marker up his nose and breaking it off inside his sinus. FLORES.

  • howrar@lemmy.caEnglish
    61·
    16 days ago

    Does he even need to send them anything? Doesn’t he just have to say a few words to give Ukraine permission to build their own? Although I guess if they lose US support, they wouldn’t need permission anymore.

    • nuke@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
      111·
      16 days ago

      Doesn’t he just have to say a few words to give Ukraine permission to build their own?

      He already did, it’s right there in the Bible:

      Genesis 6:9
      “And Bidens said, ‘Let there be light’. Then he slapped on his Aviators, took a sweet slide over the hood, and hopped in his 1967 Stingray and drove off into the sunset.”

    • Trantarius@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      5·
      16 days ago

      Making a nuke is pretty difficult, even for a whole nation. It would probably take years for them to develop a nuke if they started from scratch.

      • mkwt@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        15 days ago

        Well, they ain’t starting from scratch, cause they designed a bunch of nukes for the USSR.

        They almost certainly have workable designs in a file drawer, and the old facilities are all in Ukraine too. It’s a question of how much decommissioning those got in the nineties, and how long it takes to enrich the uranium.

  • JoYoEnglish
    5·
    16 days ago

    I thought that said Putin Synthesizer. Lke what a Geiger–Müller counter?

    • verity_kindle@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
      6·
      15 days ago

      This is a shitposting community. Consider a revision with some joke about Navy SEAL sodomite harems or fanfiction about Yamato or sumthin. I know everybody is traumatized, but we still have rule #10, which mods interpret pretty generously.