Idiocracy

[herman]

https://news.vice.com/story/trump-folder-positive-news-white-house

Twice a day since the beginning of the Trump administration, a special folder is prepared for the president. The first document is prepared around 9:30 a.m. and the follow-up, around 4:30 p.m. Former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and former Press Secretary Sean Spicer both wanted the privilege of delivering the 20-to-25-page packet to President Trump personally, White House sources say.

These sensitive papers, described to VICE News by three current and former White House officials, don?t contain top-secret intelligence or updates on legislative initiatives. Instead, the folders are filled with screenshots of positive cable news chyrons (those lower-third headlines and crawls), admiring tweets, transcripts of fawning TV interviews, praise-filled news stories, and sometimes just pictures of Trump on TV looking powerful.

This is even more amazing than I imagined. The film basically writes itself (if we aren't left with a nuclear wasteland and runaway greenhouse effect/ice age, which incidentally, would also write itself).

 

[Zee]

The Leafs are closer to a Cup than anytime in my lifetime and we're also closer to nuclear annihilation. I always figured the world would end before the Leafs won another cup.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

He knows nukes have been used in the past right? What's bigger, 2 nukes?

Actually just about any modern nuclear weapon would be significantly larger than the ones dropped on Japan.

Further to Nik's point, I'm fairly confident Trump doesn't know anything about Hiroshima and Nagasaki anyway.

 

[herman]

He knows nukes have been used in the past right? What's bigger, 2 nukes?

Actually just about any modern nuclear weapon would be significantly larger than the ones dropped on Japan.

Further to Nik's point, I'm fairly confident Trump doesn't know anything about Hiroshima and Nagasaki anyway.

It took until grade 6 for me to learn that there was one dropped on Nagasaki as well.

 

[Zee]

He knows nukes have been used in the past right? What's bigger, 2 nukes?

Actually just about any modern nuclear weapon would be significantly larger than the ones dropped on Japan.

Further to Nik's point, I'm fairly confident Trump doesn't know anything about Hiroshima and Nagasaki anyway.

It took until grade 6 for me to learn that there was one dropped on Nagasaki as well.

The bigger one no less.

 

[WhatIfGodWasALeaf]

So this is geopolitical grandstanding yes?

Another proxy war between Russia/China and America/The West?

There was an excellent comment on reddit yesterday that outlined the whole situation.

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/6sfvxd/comment/dlclsnx?st=J655ZV6N&sh=ccf46a2b

 

[L K]

He knows nukes have been used in the past right? What's bigger, 2 nukes?

Actually just about any modern nuclear weapon would be significantly larger than the ones dropped on Japan.

Further to Nik's point, I'm fairly confident Trump doesn't know anything about Hiroshima and Nagasaki anyway.

I heard they are bad hombres. The Chinese have been stealing our jobs for too long.

 

[herman]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fbi-conducted-predawn-raid-of-former-trump-campaign-chairman-manaforts-home/2017/08/09/5879fa9c-7c45-11e7-9d08-b79f191668ed_story.html

They're looking into additional pressure points in Manafort's dealings to get him to roll on his comrades.

 

[Bender]

'they will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.'

He knows nukes have been used in the past right? What's bigger, 2 nukes?

Actually just about any modern nuclear weapon would be significantly larger than the ones dropped on Japan.

Bigger than the Tsar Bomba? I mean we haven't "seen" what kind of devastation it could bring to people but that was one hell of a bomb.

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[Guru Tugginmypuddah]

'they will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.'

He knows nukes have been used in the past right? What's bigger, 2 nukes?

Actually just about any modern nuclear weapon would be significantly larger than the ones dropped on Japan.

Bigger than the Tsar Bomba? I mean we haven't "seen" what kind of devastation it could bring to people but that was one hell of a bomb.

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Tsar Bomba yielded about a 50 megaton explosion, largest ever.

Fatman (Nagasaki) was about 20-22 kilotons.

Little Boy (Hiromshima) was about 13-18 Kilotons.

Current US warheads can yield about 100-500 Kilotons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_yield

 

[Kin]

Bigger than the Tsar Bomba? I mean we haven't "seen" what kind of devastation it could bring to people but that was one hell of a bomb.

I can't rightly claim to be an expert on these things but I think that's still the biggest bomb ever tested.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

Fatman (Nagasaki) was about 20-22 kilotons.

Oh, yeah. Ok maybe Trump DOES know something about Nagasaki then.

 

[Zee]

Fatman (Nagasaki) was about 20-22 kilotons.

Oh, yeah. Ok maybe Trump DOES know something about Nagasaki then.

Duck and cover, we'll all be fine.

 

[L K]

Hopefully they just let Trump get a big red button that he can push and they can make some sound effects with their mouth.  The idiot would probably think that was a real explosion.

 

[Bullfrog]

Hopefully they just let Trump get a big red button that he can push and they can make some sound effects with their mouth.  The idiot would probably think that was a real explosion.

If they could fake the moon landing, they can fake a nuclear war. Where's Kubrick when you need him?

 

[bustaheims]

Hopefully they just let Trump get a big red button that he can push and they can make some sound effects with their mouth.  The idiot would probably think that was a real explosion.

If they could fake the moon landing, they can fake a nuclear war. Where's Kubrick when you need him?

Still faking his death.

 

[Bates]

"That was easy"

Hopefully they just let Trump get a big red button that he can push and they can make some sound effects with their mouth.  The idiot would probably think that was a real explosion.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/895081686681124864

Bigly!

 

[herman]

So glad I wasn't drinking anything as I opened this.

 

[WhatIfGodWasALeaf]

So glad I wasn't drinking anything as I opened this.

I think someone might have slipped LSD into my drinking water this year.

If you told me 10 years ago this would be the political climate, I'd have laughed in your face.

I honestly don't know how to deal with people who are swallowing all of this, in Texas they are all drinking the kool-aide.

College graduates around me who have no interest in facts or reason, I honestly feel like I'm going crazy being so close to these people.

I'm all for discussing our differences, but when people seem to have completely abandoned decency, it's very unsettling.