I wish this was an inflated title but no, he really said this.
America, you need to get rid of this asshole ASAP.
Source: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115460423936412555
Thanks @notarobot@lemmy.zip
And he’s doing this while the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is furloughed… 🧐
The labs which design, test, and build them are not furloughed. Only the federal oversight.
You mean the labs funded by Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation money? That just got raided to pay the troops?
Go check. Their employees are not furloughed.
He’s been itching to nuke something since his first term. Hurricanes, he suggested at one point. And Americans voted him into office twice. Fucking morons.
Some Americans voted for him 3 times!
Seriously, imagine how fucking dumb you would have to be to fill out three separate ballots over nearly a decade voting for a failed reality TV star.
Now imagine those who want to not have to vote anymore and let him run forever
Some Americans voted for him 3 times!
so far…
usa is cooked as usual
This is horrifying. Like, mind-bogglingly bad.
It’s also a blatant lie. Other countries are not testing nuclear weapons, they’re running simulations. We didn’t do that in the 60s because it wasn’t possible, but the US (and presumably China/Russia) literally have giant supercomputers for this purpose now.
…And we would know if they were doing real testing because it would show up on seismographs.
But who cares about truth? Or sanity? No, all my relatives (even scientifically minded ones) won’t even bat an eye, lest some Democrat steal their retirement, ugh.
Trumplethinskin is too stupid to understand any of that . He desperately wants to to be the one to trigger a spectacular overreaction and turn another country into glass.
#smallcarrotproblems
show up on seismographs
and any surface tests would show up on sattelites
Good time to remind that, in all History, only one country used nuclear bombs in a war.
Twice!
For “Research Purposes” ™
Just shows he is desperately trying to create many more distractions from the Epstein files to see what works.
Ah, the “I had no choice!” argument for scaling up world tension. Yeah, we’ve never heard that one before. Hitler also “had no choice” but to invade Sudetenland, Austria and Poland.
The “we had no choice” argument is always used to take the victim role as an excuse to justify anything you like. Whether it is joining wars because they sank your illegal weapons shipment hidden in an ocean liner, invading a country because you made it look like they sank your ship, invade a country because a few terrorists attacked your country, invade a country because you claim there might be weapons of mass destruction, send troops and chemical weapons to a dictatorial regime because the freedom fighters threaten your overseas naval base, invade a country for denazification, commit ethnic cleansing, genocide and other horrible war crimes because some terrorist extremists attacked your country after years and years of oppression and apartheid, etc etc etc. There are so many examples in history where this tactic has been used. The entire cold war thrived on this bullshit argument “look at them, I have no choice”.
“I’m going to do something bad, so I find a way to justify it.”
- every dictator, agressor, war criminal in history.
Is he unstable enough for the 25th amendment yet? Asking for a friend.
He’s been unstable enough for that, for 9 years
He’s currently in his stable genius arc so we’re out of luck.
Can someone just tell him no one else has nuclear fusion power stations yet but (china|EU|Russia) are close and how much money it would make.
It would make money at a country level, but does it fill his personal wallets like the oil industry?
So it’s worthless for him
Yup. He doesn’t care about this country.
It only matters if it makes money for him. Someone wealthy and interested in cracking nuclear fusion would need to be giving him a payout.
Build it in mar a Lago and pay some rent
Why? They work… We checked.
Orange Don wants to make sure he can launch them the next time someone calls him names, without anyone being able to stop him
One can never be sure what President Brain Worms is talking about but I’m pretty sure Obama started a ten year plan to modernize our nuclear forces early in his presidency.
No doubt but it would not include a detonation test. I think 1000 tests was enough.
@RattlerSix@lemmy.world @MuskyMelon@lemmy.world I might have to add President Brain Worms to my list of “pet” names for the orange man.
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It’s supposed to say alleged, now it’s censored to say aged.
I think it’s a good play on words, tbh, as the alleged part is mostly used to legally cover what is widely known. An innocent person wouldn’t cover up the Epstein list as voraciously as he has.
And he is very very old, therefore aged.supposed to say alleged, now it’s censored to say aged
Thanks! And “No ██king” does the same. Kinda funny, kinda clever.
This comes up every time they post this stupid image.
There’s way better Epstein memes
It’s wrong to say alleged, and aged fits better for this wrinkly orange
Fuck censorship.
Post a better meme
Even if it wasn’t for the other million reasons, this guy’s grammar alone should disqualify him from having the nuclear codes.
Secured safely in the bathroom of his golf course.
ffs we’re still in 2025 man.
Someone distract Gramps with shiny ballroom pictures again.
A giant waste of money. 800 nukes is plenty for pretty much anything and launching 100 would probably mean the end of life as we know it on planet earth. If you wanted to blow a bunch of money on the military there are better ways to do it.
100 would probably mean the end of life as we know it on planet earth
It would alter the course of human history for sure, but it wouldn’t actually end human civilization. Just being annoyingly pedantic after growing up in the cold war and learning about such cheerful topics as fallout patterns and blast wave radius and how to fashion air purifiers from an early age.
True, but don’t tell them that, it’s better if they waste money on useless nuclears than genocide technology.
If you wanted to blow a bunch of money on the military there are better ways to do it.
Ohh we got you fam.
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Do you mean 100 all at once? Because we’ve been averaging 26.5 per year for the last 80 years
Hmm I don’t think so. If it is true those are over the ocean or something. I mean an attack with 100 missiles would destroy nearly any country. Russia is especially vulnerable because they only have a couple of cities with any population in them. Modern nukes are 50-75x the yield of the ones they dropped on Japan. There are all kinds of externalities. They can poison the ground water for generations. They can kill any life feeding in the area. They can cause fallout which is like a radioactive dust cloud covering everything. It isn’t good.
Do you want me to link the wiki article? We’ve exploded 2121 nukes since 1945
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_weapons_tests
Does the ocean not count as the earth? I don’t see how you go from exploding 100 nukes will end all life on earth to over the ocean doesn’t matter
Also, does 1962 count as modern for you?
You are misunderstanding what I wrote. I’m aware that setting nukes off over the ocean won’t end all life in earth. I never said that tho and you might have me mixed up with someone else. I said that it will end life as we know it and it absolutely will, setting nukes off over cities will cause radioactive fallout, as well as destroy power grids, the internet infrastructure. It will poison the water. You have to also remember that it will short out the hundreds of nuclear power plants potentially leading to meltdowns, unless they are fail safe designs. I don’t think most plants are designed to withstand an emp. Either way a nuclear war would likely mean a reset for human civilization. If you don’t believe this then I’m not going to waste my time trying to convince you otherwise.
And who, exactly, is going to get paid to do that? Last I saw 75% of them were furloughed at the moment.
Don’t worry, there will be a company popping up tied to some Republicunts who’ll do the testing for “cheap”.
doG help us all:
the US Department of Energy (DOE) launched an application for interested parties to apply for access to a maximum of 19 metric tonnes — a little under 42,000 pounds — of weapons-grade plutonium, which has long been a key resource undergirding the US nuclear arsenal.
One of the companies anticipated to receive shipments of the fissile isotope from the DOE is Oklo, a “nuclear startup” backed — and formerly chaired — by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
He really is hellbent on literally destroying America for money.
However
As the FT reports, we won’t know for certain until December 31
So I hope this makes the rounds and steps are taken against it soon.
Look, I hate the guy too. However, this probably isn’t bad. Nuclear energy is incredibly safe, and clean. If he wants to use some of his money to build out nuclear power then I’m fine with that. It will almost certainly never make up for the damage done by “AI” but it’s better than not having it.
You don’t use weapons grade plutonium for nuclear reactors
Incorrect. That’s the purpose of this.
https://interestingengineering.com/energy/plutonium-into-nuclear-reactor-fuel-us
We get that. But instead of controling the process he’s literally selling off weapons grade plutonium to shady, megalomaniac tech bros as I stated before.
He’s literally selling off weapons grade plutonium to shady, megalomaniac tech bros. That leaves very little wiggle room for concern trolling and you’re way off the mark.
But the article implies that it isn’t a done deal until the end of the year (I’m not sure I got that right though), so it’s not too late to protest, raise awareness.
I’m NGL If my job put in the position to be the one testing nukes it would be very tempting to do so even without pay just on a ‘oonga boonga big boom’ basis. Unfortunately I’m educated enough to know how awful that is for the environment, also not a nuclear test engineer or whatever the job title even is.
