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Rapidcreek@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year ago

Trump Calls for ‘Giant Dome’ to Protect the US ‘From a Hostile Source’

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Rapidcreek@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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Donald Trump said during a rally on Saturday he intends to build a 'giant dome' around the U.S. to protect it from a 'hostile source'
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    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.

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      Joke’s on you, in the time it took you to write out this informed rebuttal he’s already moved on to wet magnets.

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        What is a wet magnet?

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          Try to keep up with the gish gallop:

          https://news.yahoo.com/donald-trump-latest-relentlessly-stupid-084138421.html

          The Republican 2024 front-runner on Friday complained to a crowd of supporters in Mason City, Iowa, about electric catapults and magnetic elevator systems for U.S. aircraft carriers.

          The four-times-indicted former president polarized with this line: “All I know about magnets is this, give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that’s the end of the magnets.”

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            What the ever loving fuck?

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              Speak confidently and people will assume you are right, no matter how stupid what you’re saying is

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              First time?

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        I thought you were joking, but then a couple posts down was an article about his wet magnet comments. Unbefuckinglievable.

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        Slop 'em up

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