I can include "pretend" games, like the nuke thing, but I meant a pretend game that's actually feasible, like, "Who do you want to shoot, or the "f" thing, or something, like that.
Yen Lo: Why don't you pass the time by playing a little solitaire?
Manchurian Candidate. It was the trigger that had Raymond Shaw going through the deck until he saw the queen of diamonds. He would then be in a trance state in which he could be given orders that he had to carry out. That would have been shooting a presidential candidate in the head during his acceptance speech.
My challenge was about a game of solitaire, not chess.
"Bombing CA..." Use the neutron bomb, proposed because it kills people and saves much of the infrastructure. But be sure you drop it on Excremento Sacramento for those not clued in) in order to eliminate the Lefty politicians!
Hold on, my son and grandson live in Sacramento and I'll be spending Labor Day weekend there with them! Apparently there are some good parts but I agree, the politicians have to go.
I disagree because they can retaliate. I believe a multipolar world order where we balance our power with China and Russia, looked at through the lens of 19th Century European Great Powers doctrine, is inevitably the way forward.
I agree PK. Vito Corleone said, “Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.” Though I believe nukes are a deterrent rather than a tool of aggression for most countries, you can never predict what North Korea’s unpredictable Kim or a miles worse threat of hostile nuclear armed Iran might do in a fit of anger or revenge seeking. Maintaining a balance of keeping at arm’s length and civility is the prudent thing to do in the nuclear age. In Iran’s case this is impossible which is why their program needs to be destroyed.
That is the problem. We, as a species, are not smart enough to have nuclear responsibility. I used to think we were, but upon reflection of the last 20+ years, I do not believe so.
Sadly the list of those who just blame the Jews is becoming longer every day. The keffiyeh and the red rose are the symbols of the DSA. They will destroy everything.
Well, to hell with them Mr Lederman. This anti Semitic revival among the young is troubling as it seems to contradict their other alleged values of tolerance and diversity. More importantly treating any ethic or religious group as a monolith is outmoded thinking. Now we can certainly debate current foreign and domestic policy in Israel, but starting from a standpoint that Israel has a right to exist and must exist.
All I can say is watch WW2 with Tom Hanks. He makes a very good case as to why the US bombed Japan. Actually the 20 programme series was far better than anticipated. One should always remember that it took 2 and the Japanese high command wanted to continue the war but the Emperor overruled. The main raison d'etre of the series is to explain why the US became a global player and why NATO was required (the last programme).
The Japanese wouldn't have stopped fighting without it. As it was, they stopped only with the greatest reluctance after the second bomb. If the choice was going to be between loss of American lives or Japanese lives, that calculus is clear. We didn't start the war, and we didn't want to be in it. The Japanese forced that on us by stabbing us in the back.
There's no rule that an all-out war has to be "proportional." In fact, you fight it with overwhelming force. Assuming, of course, that you really want to ~win~ the war.
Yes I agree. One of the first ships my paternal grandfather served on in the early 1930s was the Arizona. He never forgave the Japanese for what they did at Pearl Harbour or the treatment they gave to the POWs.
With the WW2 with Tom Hanks, at first I rolled my eyes at the Japanese historians but they did do a good job at explaining the Japanese mindset at the time, particularly the military mindset. The military were not going to surrender. The emperor of Japan had to be forced to surrender.
Interesting. My own father served on the USS Mississippi in the early 1930s. Went to Havana, went through the Panama Canal and to Hawai'i and Pearl. Fortunately for him, a Radioman 3rd class (3rd Class being the top of the heap - telegraph in Morse Code) he left after 1935, and then got a job with the Bell System as it was known in those days, AT&T and the local companies. That made him indispensable in WW2 in the US communications and he did not get called into action. Probably good for hm because he was quite the isolationist and anti-communist. I think seeing the concentration camps and tales of the survivors after the war changed his mind about isolationism at least in Europe, though he was a ferverent anticommunist all his life. He opposed Vietnam before anyone knew its name.
What platform was the Hanks show on? My best friend's dad was in the Army and on a troop ship headed into the Pacific when the bombs were dropped. Saved his ass for sure.
It was on NOW in the UK. A quick google shows the History channel in the US.
Very interesting about your father. The US was really divided for a variety of reasons -- Pearl Harbour changed all of that overnight. My grandfather was a career navy officer (class of 31, same as John McCain Sr) -- not as high flying as Rainbow's illustrious forebearer but a war hero. He was v much a Cold War warrior. He end up serving in Germany in early 50s.
After my grandmother's death, I discovered a note she'd written detailing what she'd grab if she had five minutes, an hour or several days to evacuate. She kept scrapbooks -- in one she had a photo of the demarcation line in Berlin -- with the sand. If there were footprints in the sand, apparently the E German guard was shot.
Do watch if you can. It was better than I thought it would be.
That is spot on and one problem with our current battle plan in Iran. I don’t have much memory of Vietnam as I was mostly a little kid. But it seems we are forgetting some lessons we learned there about fighting a limited war against an entrenched enemy who is fanatically dedicated to their homeland, even if following a misguided doctrine (Communism in Vietnam, Islamist in Iran),
I was struck by watching the episodes on the war with Japan -- particularly the Burma episode that the problem in Iran does really chime with the Japanese militaristic culture from the early 20th century. I do agree that lessons which ought to have been remembered appear to have been forgotten.
I’ve caught excerpts of the Hanks documentary but after a few minutes it’s just a rehash of facts I already know so I change the channel. As to the Arday affair, it will be the case study moving forward on the devastating impact of DEI on academia’s crumbling credibility. .
Agree. However, re: WWII, I've read extensively about that period of world history but like going back and revisiting it. It seems that I always learn something new. I haven't seen it, but I will watch it.
My husband claimed that I was getting in touch with my inner Tony Soprano, but in the end, he had to admit the series was fascinating. It does approach things from slightly different angles. The episodes on Japan are fascinating, particularly in light of what is currently happening. (My maternal grandfather divorced my maternal grandmother and married a Geisha girl, eventually taking Japanese citizenship so I already knew a fair bit)
There is more in the Sunday papers re Arday. Cambridge academics including those from minority ethnic background and who are very distinguished in their fields (eg Mathematics or economics ) have started attacking the vice chancellor.
A quote from the Telegraph "Prof Sir Partha Dasgupta, a Cambridge economist, told The Telegraph: “If, as is now clear even to outsiders like me, Arday’s appointment short-circuited academic standards, it was not because the university procedures are deficient, it is because members of the appointments committee permitted ‘political correctness’ to override all else.
I am sorry but if you are Professor of Economics at Cambridge you are no longer an outsider, but a fully paid up member of the establishment, even if you don't feel that. Imposter syndrome is a real thing.
I suspect some of the prominence given to the Arday affair is because Arday weaponized the police in efforts to conceal his deficiencies, seeking to censor the press.
Yet by vowing never to use them, much of the deterrent effect is neutralized. I took a class at UT titled “Nuclear Warfare” where we studied the history of nuclear weapons, mostly through the then current Cold War lens. From MAD to MIRVs, I learned the jargon but never quite grasped how humanity will extricate itself from this dilemma.
When I was a teen, we assumed that it would all end in nuclear war. Surviving in the post-WWIII world was the focus of a lot of near-future Earth-based SF (and fantasy--the Shannara series is set in a post-nuclear medieval U.S.).
I’m only a couple years older so yes, I remember the feverish fear 😧fueling the decadent nihilism that separates the Baby Boom from early Gen X, no matter what date various scholars debate about when the cohort change falls.
Exactly. Even given that he (obviously) knows Stuff that I don't. it beggars my imagination what could override the plain (almost certain) fact of (reported) hangings of job lots of those who might arise if the clock was cleaned. Per General Sherman, war is hell -- if it's going to end hell.
Yup, you got it right, it’s Canada Geese as they are not Canadian at all. Rather they are avian globalist and birds of a feather akin to human globalist who also merde up wherever they go.
They are the symbol of our welfare state run amok. Normal CG’s flew way south long ago. Canada to South America. It’s the stuff of legend. Then on one of their layovers, they partook of the breadcrumbs do-gooder, SPCA types and their progeny tossed in their general direction. As night follows day, we were overrun laying tourism. Now? God forbid you stir those anchor eggs, sic goofy, adorable labs on those docile creatures, or (horrors) “harvest” them for the Yuletide table. I agree. Add them to the Nuke ‘em list.
Collateral damage issues abound. Much less authoritative weaponry would suffice is most cases enumerated' (Except maybe Oakland; I'm not that up on Oaklandiana but I'll take your word for it.)
That describes a surprising number of cities; an enclave (or sometimes several) of filthy richards and other well-offs and a lot -- too often mostly -- Other Stuff.
I don’t believe Russia is a threat. It was treated like shit after helping crush the Germans in WWII after loosing millions of soldiers in the war. The Cold War buggy man kept Russia out of polite society and that continues today. The US foreign policy establishment would’t have anything to do if Russia were a friendly nation. I believe Russia can easily be an ally if proper time and trade were established. We need Russia to counter China.
China, on the other hand, scares me. It’s the first real experiment with a communist country having economic might. All other communist regimes have fallen because they were broke. At the same time, Xi and his puppet masters have a very long memory. And that pulls the Century of Humiliation into the present for them, causing the actions you see on the geopolitical chess board today. I honestly don’t believe China has global expansion goals, as in land grabs. It’s building a very deep and wide moat, supported by economic might (and a military) to prevent another Century of Humiliation. When Marco Rubio took back control of the Panama Canal from China, Xi didn’t send his navy, he move pieces around on his economic chess board.
Saudi Arabia is the home of Islam. That’s where Mohammad cut his teeth, in Mecca and Medina. Every Muslim in the Middle East and across the former Roman Empire has DNA from the Arabian Peninsula. MBS (Sunni), the leader of Saudi Arabia is a snake, cannot be trusted one bit. While he may seek protection from Iran and the Mullahs (Shia), because of the ancient conflict between Sunni and Shia, he is still playing the game of, we will normalize with Israel if the Palestinians get a state. And that’s not going to happen and he knows it. Recently Trump held back the sale of fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, seeking such normalization in exchange.
To you and to JBell: Giving due attention to those who intend to clean up after the useful idiots -- who appear to be the immediate problem -- have run their courses.
All kidding aside, and after noodling this as I said earlier. This is not funny in the end. As ex-military and one who maybe knows more about this stuff than many, this is not a joke to be trifled with. Most people alive today equate nuclear weapons with the damage and destruction that occurred in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and that could not be farther from the truth of today. Those were tiny weapons by today's standards, very tiny. I would argue and hope that this genie never gets unleashed, and don't make fun of who you'd like to nuke. It's not funny, seriously.
Want an actual take on what it entails and how quick it spins out of control, go read Annie Jacobsen's take on it (https://www.amazon.com/Nuclear-War-Scenario-Annie-Jacobsen/dp/0593476093). How it starts is a little hinky to me, but the events that unfold are really close to what can/could unfold, and how fast it spins out of control.
You are -- of course -- correct. If one is being taken literally. The only nukes-in-anger have rightfully stirred discussion. (The anti case IMHO being unpersuasive.) But (also ex military) I would add that in addition to that which you cite, the circumstances can no longer be duplicated.
In 1943, my father was plucked out of high school by the Navy (as a 17 year-old) because he was one of only seven men in the whole country who had a perfect score on an aptitude test for doctors.
After two years in school, the Navy pulled him out and sent him to the Chelsea Naval Hospital outside of Boston to be trained as a medic for the invasion of Japan, which had been scheduled for late 1945.
Everybody in his class, all teenagers and young men, knew that this was a suicide assignment. The Japanese, when they saw a Red Cross on a helmet, immediately focused fire on that one man because he had all of the companies’ medical supplies and that, if he fell, another dozen would come out to retrieve him.
I asked my father about the ethics of dropping a bomb on Hiroshima. He said, “Tim, there was not one dry eye that day in the classrooms. Everybody was whooping and hollering. They all knew they had just been saved from certain death..”
My dad was a medic (Chief Pharmacist's Mate) on an LCS (Landing Craft Support ship). They'd just been at the Battle of Okinawa. Their ship would undoubtedly have been part of the invasion of Japan.
I’d use one to take out the Capitol during the State of the union. Then we could start over. Tom Clancy had the story line of flying a plane into the Capitol during the SOTU. 1994 Debt of Honor. I’ve often thought they used that book for 9/11 but the mopes couldn’t get the job done.
I’d drop one on Mecca and then one on Qom. I’d magic up another one or two and then drop them on the Muslin hordes vowing retaliation to take them out. Or maybe I’d just need some bunker busters and drones for that.
But not while Trump's president. He’s still useful for most policies but he couldn’t bring himself to pull the trigger on Mecca or Qom I’m sure.
When Independence Day came out, everyone loved the image of the alien ship taking out the White House. But the Capitol would be a much more useful target.
First one over the Indian Ocean with a 48 warning that all Islamic nations must renounce forced conversion and conquest of any other part of the global community and vow to live in peace with and respect for all religions and peoples. Then if a clear statement is not forthcoming Teheran and Mecca. And no serious student of WW2 capable of a cost benefit analysis seriously doubts the atomic bombings, as horrific as they were, ultimately saved lives.
I was thinking through what would result from bombing Mecca, and that may actually be the biggest bang for the buck. Because every Muslim on the planet would instantly become violent toward non-Muslims in response, legitimizing taking them out at whatever level they're encountered.
A rational response would be that if Allah didn’t save Mecca, it sure as hell won’t save other Islamic states and people. Then again we are talking about Islam, the ultimate irrational religion.
All three right over my head! Take me home, Lord, take me home!
Well, that's nice if you think there's a Lord, and a home.
ohhhh... this is hard! must noodle on this one. 🙂
That was my thought when I saw the idea, "I'll have to think it over." Then, I think I'd rather play games that can actually be played.
"How about a nice game of chess"?
I can include "pretend" games, like the nuke thing, but I meant a pretend game that's actually feasible, like, "Who do you want to shoot, or the "f" thing, or something, like that.
"How about a nice game of solitaire?" Identify the source, win a buck. No cheating!
“WarGames.”
I cheated a little; I knew the name but not that they spelled it as one word.
I misquoted. The actual quote I had in mind was
Yen Lo: Why don't you pass the time by playing a little solitaire?
Manchurian Candidate. It was the trigger that had Raymond Shaw going through the deck until he saw the queen of diamonds. He would then be in a trance state in which he could be given orders that he had to carry out. That would have been shooting a presidential candidate in the head during his acceptance speech.
My challenge was about a game of solitaire, not chess.
;-)
Ok. Aside from the obvious murder is bad, those were funny.
True pedophiles deserve to be drawn and quartered so a bomb is too good for them.
Bombing CA, nah, it’s too beautiful. Let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
What would I get rid of? Basically most of the Middle East. We need to seriously reduce the Muslim population.
"Bombing CA..." Use the neutron bomb, proposed because it kills people and saves much of the infrastructure. But be sure you drop it on Excremento Sacramento for those not clued in) in order to eliminate the Lefty politicians!
Hold on, my son and grandson live in Sacramento and I'll be spending Labor Day weekend there with them! Apparently there are some good parts but I agree, the politicians have to go.
Oh Lord, if there be but 10 righteous….
Tehran, Beijing and Moscow.
🎯🎯🎯
I disagree because they can retaliate. I believe a multipolar world order where we balance our power with China and Russia, looked at through the lens of 19th Century European Great Powers doctrine, is inevitably the way forward.
Good point. As satisfying as it might be to bomb Moscow and Beijing, those governments have nukes with which to strike back.
I agree PK. Vito Corleone said, “Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.” Though I believe nukes are a deterrent rather than a tool of aggression for most countries, you can never predict what North Korea’s unpredictable Kim or a miles worse threat of hostile nuclear armed Iran might do in a fit of anger or revenge seeking. Maintaining a balance of keeping at arm’s length and civility is the prudent thing to do in the nuclear age. In Iran’s case this is impossible which is why their program needs to be destroyed.
That is the problem. We, as a species, are not smart enough to have nuclear responsibility. I used to think we were, but upon reflection of the last 20+ years, I do not believe so.
Everybody might use the "Dr. Strangelove" policy, announce it this time - if only there were no Islamist countries.
“Just blame the Jews”. I am sure that someone said it. Mamdani anyone?
Sadly the list of those who just blame the Jews is becoming longer every day. The keffiyeh and the red rose are the symbols of the DSA. They will destroy everything.
Well, to hell with them Mr Lederman. This anti Semitic revival among the young is troubling as it seems to contradict their other alleged values of tolerance and diversity. More importantly treating any ethic or religious group as a monolith is outmoded thinking. Now we can certainly debate current foreign and domestic policy in Israel, but starting from a standpoint that Israel has a right to exist and must exist.
All I can say is watch WW2 with Tom Hanks. He makes a very good case as to why the US bombed Japan. Actually the 20 programme series was far better than anticipated. One should always remember that it took 2 and the Japanese high command wanted to continue the war but the Emperor overruled. The main raison d'etre of the series is to explain why the US became a global player and why NATO was required (the last programme).
Cambridge has been unable to draw a line under the Arday affair btw. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/07/cambridge-academics-reject-universitys-attempt-to-end-row-over-jason-arday
And Glasgow is now going to investigate. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/society-culture-and-history/social-issues/glasgow-university-to-review-its-past-appointment-of-jason-arday/ar-AA29CCup?ocid=BingNewsSerp Apparently Arday went to primary school near where the novelist Philip Hensher lives (something he just learned) and locals remember him as a normal child (ie not non-verbal) -- there is a tiktok video about this by someone claiming to be a former classmate also doing the rounds. https://x.com/PhilipHensher/status/2086016404310863965
And the Ann Widdecombe police have reopened an inquiry to an alleged attempt in 2025 to firebomb Farage https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/aug/07/counter-terrorism-police-investigating-death-of-ann-widdecombe-reopen-2025-attempted-burglary-case
The Japanese wouldn't have stopped fighting without it. As it was, they stopped only with the greatest reluctance after the second bomb. If the choice was going to be between loss of American lives or Japanese lives, that calculus is clear. We didn't start the war, and we didn't want to be in it. The Japanese forced that on us by stabbing us in the back.
There's no rule that an all-out war has to be "proportional." In fact, you fight it with overwhelming force. Assuming, of course, that you really want to ~win~ the war.
Yes I agree. One of the first ships my paternal grandfather served on in the early 1930s was the Arizona. He never forgave the Japanese for what they did at Pearl Harbour or the treatment they gave to the POWs.
With the WW2 with Tom Hanks, at first I rolled my eyes at the Japanese historians but they did do a good job at explaining the Japanese mindset at the time, particularly the military mindset. The military were not going to surrender. The emperor of Japan had to be forced to surrender.
Interesting. My own father served on the USS Mississippi in the early 1930s. Went to Havana, went through the Panama Canal and to Hawai'i and Pearl. Fortunately for him, a Radioman 3rd class (3rd Class being the top of the heap - telegraph in Morse Code) he left after 1935, and then got a job with the Bell System as it was known in those days, AT&T and the local companies. That made him indispensable in WW2 in the US communications and he did not get called into action. Probably good for hm because he was quite the isolationist and anti-communist. I think seeing the concentration camps and tales of the survivors after the war changed his mind about isolationism at least in Europe, though he was a ferverent anticommunist all his life. He opposed Vietnam before anyone knew its name.
What platform was the Hanks show on? My best friend's dad was in the Army and on a troop ship headed into the Pacific when the bombs were dropped. Saved his ass for sure.
PBS or Discover I think. I see it when scrolling cable TV in hotels.
It was on NOW in the UK. A quick google shows the History channel in the US.
Very interesting about your father. The US was really divided for a variety of reasons -- Pearl Harbour changed all of that overnight. My grandfather was a career navy officer (class of 31, same as John McCain Sr) -- not as high flying as Rainbow's illustrious forebearer but a war hero. He was v much a Cold War warrior. He end up serving in Germany in early 50s.
After my grandmother's death, I discovered a note she'd written detailing what she'd grab if she had five minutes, an hour or several days to evacuate. She kept scrapbooks -- in one she had a photo of the demarcation line in Berlin -- with the sand. If there were footprints in the sand, apparently the E German guard was shot.
Do watch if you can. It was better than I thought it would be.
That is spot on and one problem with our current battle plan in Iran. I don’t have much memory of Vietnam as I was mostly a little kid. But it seems we are forgetting some lessons we learned there about fighting a limited war against an entrenched enemy who is fanatically dedicated to their homeland, even if following a misguided doctrine (Communism in Vietnam, Islamist in Iran),
I was struck by watching the episodes on the war with Japan -- particularly the Burma episode that the problem in Iran does really chime with the Japanese militaristic culture from the early 20th century. I do agree that lessons which ought to have been remembered appear to have been forgotten.
I’ve caught excerpts of the Hanks documentary but after a few minutes it’s just a rehash of facts I already know so I change the channel. As to the Arday affair, it will be the case study moving forward on the devastating impact of DEI on academia’s crumbling credibility. .
Agree. However, re: WWII, I've read extensively about that period of world history but like going back and revisiting it. It seems that I always learn something new. I haven't seen it, but I will watch it.
It should be the case study. But it may be studies by one side only…
My husband claimed that I was getting in touch with my inner Tony Soprano, but in the end, he had to admit the series was fascinating. It does approach things from slightly different angles. The episodes on Japan are fascinating, particularly in light of what is currently happening. (My maternal grandfather divorced my maternal grandmother and married a Geisha girl, eventually taking Japanese citizenship so I already knew a fair bit)
There is more in the Sunday papers re Arday. Cambridge academics including those from minority ethnic background and who are very distinguished in their fields (eg Mathematics or economics ) have started attacking the vice chancellor.
A quote from the Telegraph "Prof Sir Partha Dasgupta, a Cambridge economist, told The Telegraph: “If, as is now clear even to outsiders like me, Arday’s appointment short-circuited academic standards, it was not because the university procedures are deficient, it is because members of the appointments committee permitted ‘political correctness’ to override all else.
“And they permitted that to happen either because they themselves are second-rate or because they represent the university administration and want an easy life.”" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08/08/cambridge-professors-hired-jason-arday-attacked-whiteness/ or https://archive.ph/aAOB8
I am sorry but if you are Professor of Economics at Cambridge you are no longer an outsider, but a fully paid up member of the establishment, even if you don't feel that. Imposter syndrome is a real thing.
I suspect some of the prominence given to the Arday affair is because Arday weaponized the police in efforts to conceal his deficiencies, seeking to censor the press.
I will choose not to explode them at this time. They will be a deterrent until such time when necessary. I did enjoy the humor of some of these.
It's nice having a powerful bargaining chip!
Yet by vowing never to use them, much of the deterrent effect is neutralized. I took a class at UT titled “Nuclear Warfare” where we studied the history of nuclear weapons, mostly through the then current Cold War lens. From MAD to MIRVs, I learned the jargon but never quite grasped how humanity will extricate itself from this dilemma.
When I was a teen, we assumed that it would all end in nuclear war. Surviving in the post-WWIII world was the focus of a lot of near-future Earth-based SF (and fantasy--the Shannara series is set in a post-nuclear medieval U.S.).
I’m only a couple years older so yes, I remember the feverish fear 😧fueling the decadent nihilism that separates the Baby Boom from early Gen X, no matter what date various scholars debate about when the cohort change falls.
Agreed. But it seems to me that we have lost the wisdom to use it effectively.
Serious question i thought about earlier this week
If trump had been president instead of Truman would he have dropped the bombs.
Maybe after the 150th time they wouldn’t make a deal.
That is painful but REALLY hard to argue, isn't it?
I don’t know what the hell Trump's doing. He looks indecisive, wimpy and foolish.
Exactly. Even given that he (obviously) knows Stuff that I don't. it beggars my imagination what could override the plain (almost certain) fact of (reported) hangings of job lots of those who might arise if the clock was cleaned. Per General Sherman, war is hell -- if it's going to end hell.
DMV. Big Lots/Ocean State Job Lots. The woodchuck colony in my backyard.
“The woodchuck colony” LOL 🤣
I second the woodchuck colony! Ours is annoying as hell.
The Canada geese population at our local park! Oh my gosh I hate those dirty nasty rats of the sky!
Yup, you got it right, it’s Canada Geese as they are not Canadian at all. Rather they are avian globalist and birds of a feather akin to human globalist who also merde up wherever they go.
They are the symbol of our welfare state run amok. Normal CG’s flew way south long ago. Canada to South America. It’s the stuff of legend. Then on one of their layovers, they partook of the breadcrumbs do-gooder, SPCA types and their progeny tossed in their general direction. As night follows day, we were overrun laying tourism. Now? God forbid you stir those anchor eggs, sic goofy, adorable labs on those docile creatures, or (horrors) “harvest” them for the Yuletide table. I agree. Add them to the Nuke ‘em list.
I got stuck on what happened to the 'to' in the infinitive 'to explode.'
How about nuking every neighborhood that produces thugs like the one in the video going around of the guy punching women in Charlotte?
How about nuking Oakland?
How about nuking the board that hired Arday at Cambridge?
How about Gracie Mansion while a certain hirsute snake is asleep (if hirsute snakes sleep).
Collateral damage issues abound. Much less authoritative weaponry would suffice is most cases enumerated' (Except maybe Oakland; I'm not that up on Oaklandiana but I'll take your word for it.)
Slip a warning to Seneca Scott and he'll get all the worthwhile people out of Oakland first.
I am up on Oakland. One/third of it is equal to the better parts of Beverly Hills. My daughter went to college there is how I know.
That describes a surprising number of cities; an enclave (or sometimes several) of filthy richards and other well-offs and a lot -- too often mostly -- Other Stuff.
YeahButt, I spent my youth on one side of town, and my adulthood on the other. Is this a great country, or what.
YES!
Who needs a nuclear bomb domestically when you have the DSA?
Maybe instead of nukes we need the selectivity of Putin’s plutonium pill….
Just what I was thinking. Mak’em glow.
😊
Tehran
Riyadh
Ankara
Interesting approach.
Three really bad places.
Do you think Saudia Arabia is more threatening/dangerous than China or Russia???
I don’t believe Russia is a threat. It was treated like shit after helping crush the Germans in WWII after loosing millions of soldiers in the war. The Cold War buggy man kept Russia out of polite society and that continues today. The US foreign policy establishment would’t have anything to do if Russia were a friendly nation. I believe Russia can easily be an ally if proper time and trade were established. We need Russia to counter China.
China, on the other hand, scares me. It’s the first real experiment with a communist country having economic might. All other communist regimes have fallen because they were broke. At the same time, Xi and his puppet masters have a very long memory. And that pulls the Century of Humiliation into the present for them, causing the actions you see on the geopolitical chess board today. I honestly don’t believe China has global expansion goals, as in land grabs. It’s building a very deep and wide moat, supported by economic might (and a military) to prevent another Century of Humiliation. When Marco Rubio took back control of the Panama Canal from China, Xi didn’t send his navy, he move pieces around on his economic chess board.
Saudi Arabia is the home of Islam. That’s where Mohammad cut his teeth, in Mecca and Medina. Every Muslim in the Middle East and across the former Roman Empire has DNA from the Arabian Peninsula. MBS (Sunni), the leader of Saudi Arabia is a snake, cannot be trusted one bit. While he may seek protection from Iran and the Mullahs (Shia), because of the ancient conflict between Sunni and Shia, he is still playing the game of, we will normalize with Israel if the Palestinians get a state. And that’s not going to happen and he knows it. Recently Trump held back the sale of fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, seeking such normalization in exchange.
Here on X.
https://x.com/clashreport/status/2085712577225433437?s=61
To you and to JBell: Giving due attention to those who intend to clean up after the useful idiots -- who appear to be the immediate problem -- have run their courses.
Replace Riyadh with Doha and specifically the HQ of the Muslim Brotherhood. Thats who'd directing the $$$$.
HQ of Muslim Brotherhood would set these evildoers back a bit.
The request was three.
Doha is my number 4.
I like this list
Thanks Ken, it’s where evil resides in the Middle East.
All kidding aside, and after noodling this as I said earlier. This is not funny in the end. As ex-military and one who maybe knows more about this stuff than many, this is not a joke to be trifled with. Most people alive today equate nuclear weapons with the damage and destruction that occurred in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and that could not be farther from the truth of today. Those were tiny weapons by today's standards, very tiny. I would argue and hope that this genie never gets unleashed, and don't make fun of who you'd like to nuke. It's not funny, seriously.
Want an actual take on what it entails and how quick it spins out of control, go read Annie Jacobsen's take on it (https://www.amazon.com/Nuclear-War-Scenario-Annie-Jacobsen/dp/0593476093). How it starts is a little hinky to me, but the events that unfold are really close to what can/could unfold, and how fast it spins out of control.
You are -- of course -- correct. If one is being taken literally. The only nukes-in-anger have rightfully stirred discussion. (The anti case IMHO being unpersuasive.) But (also ex military) I would add that in addition to that which you cite, the circumstances can no longer be duplicated.
LOL, wonder why the third ex-wife was spared?
That's what makes it so funny!
She still sleeps with him occasionally lol 😝
In 1943, my father was plucked out of high school by the Navy (as a 17 year-old) because he was one of only seven men in the whole country who had a perfect score on an aptitude test for doctors.
After two years in school, the Navy pulled him out and sent him to the Chelsea Naval Hospital outside of Boston to be trained as a medic for the invasion of Japan, which had been scheduled for late 1945.
Everybody in his class, all teenagers and young men, knew that this was a suicide assignment. The Japanese, when they saw a Red Cross on a helmet, immediately focused fire on that one man because he had all of the companies’ medical supplies and that, if he fell, another dozen would come out to retrieve him.
I asked my father about the ethics of dropping a bomb on Hiroshima. He said, “Tim, there was not one dry eye that day in the classrooms. Everybody was whooping and hollering. They all knew they had just been saved from certain death..”
My dad was a medic (Chief Pharmacist's Mate) on an LCS (Landing Craft Support ship). They'd just been at the Battle of Okinawa. Their ship would undoubtedly have been part of the invasion of Japan.
I’d use one to take out the Capitol during the State of the union. Then we could start over. Tom Clancy had the story line of flying a plane into the Capitol during the SOTU. 1994 Debt of Honor. I’ve often thought they used that book for 9/11 but the mopes couldn’t get the job done.
I’d drop one on Mecca and then one on Qom. I’d magic up another one or two and then drop them on the Muslin hordes vowing retaliation to take them out. Or maybe I’d just need some bunker busters and drones for that.
But not while Trump's president. He’s still useful for most policies but he couldn’t bring himself to pull the trigger on Mecca or Qom I’m sure.
When Independence Day came out, everyone loved the image of the alien ship taking out the White House. But the Capitol would be a much more useful target.
Hardcore lmfao 😂
First one over the Indian Ocean with a 48 warning that all Islamic nations must renounce forced conversion and conquest of any other part of the global community and vow to live in peace with and respect for all religions and peoples. Then if a clear statement is not forthcoming Teheran and Mecca. And no serious student of WW2 capable of a cost benefit analysis seriously doubts the atomic bombings, as horrific as they were, ultimately saved lives.
Tehran will fall on its own because they have no water and can’t get more water. Drop on Qom which is where the Mullahs infest
I was thinking through what would result from bombing Mecca, and that may actually be the biggest bang for the buck. Because every Muslim on the planet would instantly become violent toward non-Muslims in response, legitimizing taking them out at whatever level they're encountered.
A rational response would be that if Allah didn’t save Mecca, it sure as hell won’t save other Islamic states and people. Then again we are talking about Islam, the ultimate irrational religion.
I valid point and yet it hasn’t yet
I’ve seen reports where the water is severely rationed. It’s just a matter of time