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    6 months ago

    This looser did not even manage to build a wall at the Mexican border (and failed to make the Mexicans pay for it). And now he wants to build a f-ing dome?

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        6 months ago

        As much as I’ll happily rag on the prequels, I think a lot about a line from the Phantom Menace, as said by Yoda: “Fear is the path to the dark side…fear leads to anger…anger leads to hate…hate leads to suffering.”

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          they are afraid because they were told to be afraid. lies are repeated every 30 seconds on fox news to achieve this fear.

          why do people allow this to happen to them? lack of critical thinking skills and social isolation.

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      They’re not. At least not “truthfully”.

      Whether it’s drag shows, lesbian sex tapes, or whatever example you want to use, the Republicans don’t personally have a problem with any of them.

      What they DO have, is the knowledge that if you give uneducated people someone to hate/fear and then say that YOU are the one who can save them from it while implicitly giving them permission to hate, you’ll get votes.

      It’s not about what they personally believe. Never has been. It’s what their voters are afraid of.

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    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.

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      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.

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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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    “We’re going to have the greatest dome ever,” he continued.

    I swear, this guy talks like a seven-year-old child. Guess that’s what his supporters understand.

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    At this point he is just watching series and movies and stealing all the weird things thinking no one has seen it and it is a good idea.

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      Sweet, innocent child. The idea of protecting america from space belongs to the late, great Ronald Reagan. He dreamed of a Star Wars defense back in the 1980s. He also believed that catsup was a vegetable, nuclear wars were survivable, and that astrology was a real thing.

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    Imagine thinking the U.S. doesn’t already have one hell of an anti-missile defense system. No one has launched a rocket at the U.S., but if they did, that shit would absolutely get intercepted