Could have shortened the title significantly, and reuse it daily.
"Trump speaks, experts say that's ridiculous"
this post was submitted on 28 Sep 2024
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the onion should've gotten on that a decade ago
There already is one. There are aound 100 Patriot missile batteries in the US. As usual Trump knows nothing about the subject he talks about.
To be fair, they told him about this in dozens of briefings, but he was always distracted by his Happy Meal toy.
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You mean NORAD missile defence system?
The point of putting it around Canada was so missiles would be shot down over it instead of the US
If NORAD can keep us safe from Santa they can keep us safe from anything
Dude, nothing can protect us from Santa.
Except for Mrs. Claus! She stomps her foot and Santa gets grounded and goes to his room with his tail between his legs (yeah, they have a separate room arrangement)
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You are so wrong… the most direct route for a missile attack to US from Russia passes over Canada, hence the location.
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He must have recently rewatched Reagan's Star Wars videos.
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I can build that for him for a cool 250 billion. I'm willing to guarantee 0% penetration of short range rockets launched by Hezbollah from anywhere in Lebanon.
That's outrageous! I'll do it for 249 billion!
Honestly, I'll do it for a hundred bucks.
To protect us from whom? I thought his love affairs with Putin and Kim Jong would protect us from anyone that might want to attack the US?
Do you think he realizes it's not LITERALLY a dome?
Simpsons did it!
His would be gold though
And in the shape of a T
It's to keep us pesky Canadians from trebuchet-ing poutine over the border.
Keep the cobra chickens at bay. Smort.
Are you telling me it's futile to face north, open my mouth and hope for poutine to rain upon me?
Not yet?
Hopefully it’s more to keep the attack geese out. Loons too.
About time! We in Michigan are tired of the moose raids from Canada. They swim across our half of the lake and eat up our maple syrup.
To protect the US from rockets from... Canada?
To protect him & his billionaire buddies from his fellow Americans.
To protect a future, thoroughly fascist America from the rest of the free world should the GOP seize permanent power.
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"I was elected to lead, not to read."
Number 3!
Pretty sure we have multiple anti missile systems deployed already.
Also, who's shooting missiles at America right now?
I mean, other than North Korea, but that's like a 10 year old with a water rocket trying to blow up the school from across town.
AND MEXICO WILL PAY FOR IT!!!
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Great, just what we need, an even louder Trump
Doesnt america already have one??? Also in the current geopolitical environment this may not be the worst idea ever......
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Trump wants a lot of stupid shit. In the interest of national security, he should not under any circumstances be given any of it.
And this man is potentially going to be elected to run a country.
Trump thinks we are in the Middle East
Just East of the Midwest duh.
That’s Pennsylvania, right? We know that’s the biggest “battleground state”.
Isn't this just Reagan's "Star Wars" program under a different name?
Yup - anyone who is likely to try and hit the US is far enough away is going to be using long range ballistic missiles, and it's been pretty conclusively demonstrated that it's technically feasible to intercept a single missile, it sure isn't reliable enough to be a reasonable deterrent or cheap enough to build enough launchers to give you any amount of coverage.
Iron dome works because Israel is small, with a concentrated population, and is being attacked with small, short range rockets that are easy to spot on radar - that isn't a likely scenario for the US to face
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It's called the Atlantic/Pacific oceans sport
I'm sure a tinfoil hat can be arranged.
Is he going to occupy Mexico too? Maybe some modern manifest destiny?
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