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[–] PugJesus@kbin.social 132 points 11 months ago (7 children)

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.

It astounds me that anyone is willing to vote for someone this stupid. It's not an act. He is legitimately stupid. That's been on full display this past fucking decade.

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 49 points 11 months ago (1 children)

We will build a dome that covers the entire 3.5 million square miles of the United States of America, and Mexico is gonna pay for it. This will also solve Climate Change for America, except that it is a liberal hoax anyway.

[–] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I just want to know when we’re going to implement his plan to nuke hurricanes?

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 44 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] dhork@lemmy.world 40 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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.”

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Hazzia@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago
[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago
[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

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

[–] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago
[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

What? You think Israel's dome is better than ours? Theirs isn't even a real dome its just missiles! We're gonna put a real American dome around our country!

[–] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm certain this is like his "invisible jets" stuff he is always spewing about, where someone demonstrated our military being able to protect the US from outside missile attacks by showing him a picture with a "dome" over the US to illustrate how it would be all covered or something. And since he isn't all there these days he thinks of it as a literal "dome", just like the jets are actually invisible (not just to radar).

Edit - ha even dumber! I see someone mentioned the Iron Dome over Israel as probably what he is trying to convey in his word salad.

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago
[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Not just stupid - he’s legitimately demented and an obvious sociopath. The fact that he literally smells like shit and ketchup is just that soupçon of chef’s kiss that makes him the pinnacle of the republiQan party.

Well done republiQans. No wonder you’re so goddamned proud.

[–] Nougat@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

/nottheonion ?