• PugJesus@kbin.social
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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 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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      Well, to be fair, he probably came up with it after hearing about Israel’s Iron Dome. So he might’ve meant something like that. Or he might think it’s a literal dome. Who can say with Trump.

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    You know, when I watch, uh, our guys operate those things, it’s unbelievable. Missile coming in, missile coming in. These geniuses sit down. Most of them are, you know, they’re from MIT. But they sit down, bing bing bing bing, boom, ph-sheee. It’s gone. It’s amazing. I think we could use, do you like that? I mean, isn’t that better than giving other countries billions of dollars? Billions. We’re going to get billions of dollars out of the countries and so they can build a dome, but we don’t have a dome ourselves. We’re going to have the greatest dome ever.

    He’s clearly not talking about a literal physical dome.

    Clickbait.

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        I’m not a native speaker, but would anybody say “build a dome” when talking about setting up missile batteries?

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          We would. That’s a fairly normal thing to say.

          The problem is that Trump tends to use phrases like this literally. Not saying it’s the case this time, but it’s certainly on brand for him. My initial thought was that he’s advocating for getting rid of missiles and replacing such systems with an actual dome. It’s just so hard to figure out what he means sometimes.

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          Because Isreal has a missile defense system called the Iron Dome. So Trump thinks the that all missile defense systems are called domes.

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      What I’m taking away from this transcript is that he is indeed talking about a real-ass dome

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      I never thought he was talking about a literal wall. Im not getting wooshed again.

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      I don’t know why they bother, reading the verbatim transcript of what he said is more entertaining than any clickbait.

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      Only video I found … During the “pshee” he’s clearly gesturing a missile interception.

      This isn’t “sunlight in your body” stupidity, he’s using an established metaphor to talk about a comprehensive missile defense system.

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    Does he not understand or care that the Patriots we’re giving to Ukraine ARE a dome that does what he’s talking about?

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      If you’re talking about trump and ask ‘does he understand’, the answer is ‘no’.

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    Its like a wall but for the sky, I am a very successful wall builder, some might even say the best.

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    🤨 🤔 🤷‍♀️

    Domes would totally protect us from all of of the government drones that have been flying around for the past couple hundred million years or so. Also turbines and cats. I like cats.

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    Ok Davros, calm yer tits before you go suggesting we genetically mutate our whole race into a bunch of hateful squids in tin cans trying to EXTERMINATE the rest of the universe. 😒

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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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      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.