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Trump Calls for ‘Giant Dome’ to Protect the US ‘From a Hostile Source’ (themessenger.com)
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[–] 66 points 2 years ago (2 children)

We'll say it yet again: This isn't an act, folks. He really is this stupid.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    I...I kind of wonder if he means something like the iron dome that Israel has. I'm trying to translate his senile brain into something that is tangible.

    But then again.. we're talking about a man who said a nuke could get rid of a hurricane.

    Sigh

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    That's exactly what he's talking about. The full context is him talking about MIT graduates shooting down an incoming missile - kindergarten sound effects and all.

    The way people here are misinterpreting it as him wanting a physical dome just makes us look like fools in addition to him.

    What he's actually saying is dumb enough. Turning a scarecrow into a straw man isn't helpful.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I don't know man, he's shown time and again that he has some real difficulties truly understanding certain concepts.

    A part of me feels like he genuinely believes there's some sort of physical dome involved in this particular type of air defense system.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    So people are fools for not interpreting the incoherent ramblings of the mango shitgibbon? If a US presidential candidate is incapable of basic communication, and is ahead in the polls, lord help the world.

    We're doomed.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    FTA:

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If you follow the senile logic, a nuke very well may end a hurricane. That much overpressure and heat added to the environment is going to affect it - and the living things on the only habitable biome…

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    No, they're too weak. Trump wasn't the only person with that idea, so NHS has had a discussion of the math up for years: https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd-faq/#Stop

    The tl;Dr is that hurricanes have much more power tied up into them than currently used nukes release, by a tremendous amount. Quoting:

    The heat release is equivalent to a 10-megaton nuclear bomb exploding every 20 minutes. According to the 1993 World Almanac, the entire human race used energy at a rate of 1013 watts in 1990, a rate less than 20% of the power of a hurricane

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