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04-13-2017 , 01:07 PM

#25976

Huehuecoyotl

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Any videos of it? Brian Williams need some jacking material.

04-13-2017 , 01:09 PM

#25977

ye90

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Trump making power moves.

04-13-2017 , 01:11 PM

#25978

Huehuecoyotl

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Quote:

Originally Posted by cuserounder

Starr: Trump is considering sending more troops to Afghanistan.

The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: No smocking guns.

This is the war that never ends. It goes on and on my friend.

04-13-2017 , 01:16 PM

#25979

SuperUberBob

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Hopefully enough people realize that Spicer is a side show to distract people from bad **** going on that actually matters.

People need to ignore that guy's gaffes and report on serious issues.

04-13-2017 , 01:21 PM

#25980

rockfsh

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Cue side show

04-13-2017 , 01:21 PM

#25981

MrWookie

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Trump's just gotta play with all the toys he has. No sense in not using all the cool **** we got.

04-13-2017 , 01:24 PM

#25982

TrollyWantACracker

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Hope nobody tells him about that vial of Smallpox they kept.

04-13-2017 , 01:25 PM

#25983

sirin

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Our House

LC but, LOL Winter White House

Undercooled meat. Dangerous fish. Health inspectors zing Trump’s Mar-a-Lago kitchen

"Inspectors found 13 violations at the fancy club’s kitchen, according to recently published reports — a record for an institution that charges $200,000 in initiation fees.

Three of the violations were deemed “high priority,” meaning that they could allow the presence of illness-causing bacteria on plates served in the dining room."

Fake news, everyone knows this is impossible, Trump is a germophobe.

04-13-2017 , 01:26 PM

#25984

otatop

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Originally Posted by thethethe

I'm guessing something big was about to be leaked to warrant this...

Quote:

Originally Posted by rockfsh

Dumped out of the back of a cargo plane by parachute so not precision guided.

It uses gridfins to guide itself, it's actually very precise considering how insanely huge it is.

It creates a mile wide crater though, so precision is essentially meaningless.

04-13-2017 , 01:28 PM

#25985

housenuts

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Spicey, please tell us more about this Easter egg hunt

04-13-2017 , 01:31 PM

#25986

Huehuecoyotl

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Quote:

Originally Posted by MrWookie

Trump's just gotta play with all the toys he has. No sense in not using all the cool **** we got.

Nah I don't think that the idea originated or even had anything to do with Trump. It's the military playing with its toys. Guaranteed that the explanation to Trump involved at least one guy miming a bomb explosion with his hands with the other guy making sound effects. In any case, let's hope there were no civilians nearby and the military has its head screwed on straight. Dead terrorists are fine, dead wedding guests, not so much.

04-13-2017 , 01:33 PM

#25987

General Tsao

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Quote:

Originally Posted by housenuts

Spicey, please tell us more about this Easter egg hunt

Everyone else finds Spicer's criticism of Assad using WMDs and the statement that the US government used its biggest non-nuclear bomb in the same 2 minute window, absolutely amazing, right?

04-13-2017 , 01:35 PM

#25988

microbet

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Quote:

Originally Posted by otatop

Probably related to this.

One source suggested the official investigation was making progress. “They now have specific concrete and corroborative evidence of collusion,” the source said. “This is between people in the Trump campaign and agents of [Russian] influence relating to the use of hacked material.”

It uses gridfins to guide itself, it's actually very precise considering how insanely huge it is.

It creates a mile wide crater though, so precision is essentially meaningless.

I don't think mile wide crater is exactly right. Maybe impact area.

04-13-2017 , 01:41 PM

#25989

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl

Military officials have stated that policies have not changed, yet there is escalation on all fronts. Perhaps it's Trump, perhaps others in the administration, or perhaps others lower in the chain of command feel as empowered as an ICE agent.

04-13-2017 , 01:41 PM

#25990

kerowo

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Quote:

Originally Posted by General Tsao

Everyone else finds Spicer's criticism of Assad using WMDs and the statement that the US government used its biggest non-nuclear bomb in the same 2 minute window, absolutely amazing, right?

No. Conventional bombs used in the mountains is nothing like chemical weapons being used in the cities.

04-13-2017 , 01:44 PM

#25991

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If an ISIS tunnel complex was the target why not a bunker buster rather than a non penetrator weapon?
WH claims that all precautions were taken to avoid civilian deaths. What did they do? Drop leaflets saying "RUN"?

04-13-2017 , 01:46 PM

#25992

otatop

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Originally Posted by microbet

I don't think mile wide crater is exactly right. Maybe impact area.

You're right, it's a "blast radius stretching a mile in each direction". Either way, precision guidance isn't a huge deal.

04-13-2017 , 01:47 PM

#25993

poconoder

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Trump knows to drop bombs on Thursday the last day people pay attention to the news before going into weekend inattention mode.

04-13-2017 , 01:49 PM

#25994

Huehuecoyotl

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Quote:

Originally Posted by microbet

Military officials have stated that policies have not changed, yet there is escalation on all fronts. Perhaps it's Trump, perhaps others in the administration, or perhaps others lower I the chain of command feel as empowered as an ICE agent.

I'd say it's all the way down. McChrystal got canned for sh*t talking, Mattis left for not getting on board with Obama, etc. My assumption is that Trump doesn't have the capability to understand any of the intricacies and trade offs if they're presented to him. He's your drunk uncle yelling, "why can't we just bomb the ragheads to oblivion?", so he'll do whatever the military says as long as they use bright pictures and small words.

04-13-2017 , 02:13 PM

#25995

Our House

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Originally Posted by microbet

MOAB = Massive Ordinance Air Blast Bomb = Mother of all bombs

But, it was surely precision guided and didn't kill any babies.

And it was UNmanned!

04-13-2017 , 02:24 PM

#25996

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When asked about the 4 major 180s from Trump yesterday (NATO, China, Russia, Syria), Spicey basically replied "It's not Trump who changed, it's everyone else."