General Trump hilarity free-for-all thread

[Prelate Diogenes Shandor]

So, I don't know if anyone else here is following this, but it turns out a Falun Gong media outfit worked to get Trump elected because they believe he has been sent by Heaven to cause the fall of the Communist Regime.

This same network has been fuelling online propaganda for...Qanon.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/trump-qanon-impending-judgment-day-behind-facebook-fueled-rise-epoch-n1044121?fbclid=IwAR2koWWr8vKsF6uREmkID3YDsM-s7OCngZaBbKeuiBRaPEaFdo4OZiuXtGU

This explains a really weird amount of the disproportionate pull QAnon has had.

It does.

It also made at least one researcher, someone who is pretty much an expert in Aum Shinrikyo, freak out.

Because she's been saying for years that Aum didn't start out as a terrorist group. No, they started out as a new age movement with a side in conspiracy theory.

Like the Manson Family?

[Cain]

Look, while the tube station is only a five minute run up the round from where I am, those 5 minutes could be the difference between knowing about the ICBMs and getting underground or getting a better suntan than I ever wanted.

Speaking of which...

https://www.axios.com/trump-nuclear-bombs-hurricanes-97231f38-2394-4120-a3fa-8c9cf0e3f51c.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic&fbclid=IwAR2y5m0iVXIEqpCIGO6_yc33CzrNup84uWmxL69Q4XFs6LD2-J2DPJkv9_g

President Trump has suggested multiple times to senior Homeland Security and national security officials that they explore using nuclear bombs to stop hurricanes from hitting the United States, according to sources who have heard the president's private remarks and been briefed on a National Security Council memorandum that recorded those comments.

Behind the scenes: During one hurricane briefing at the White House, Trump said, "I got it. I got it. Why don't we nuke them?" according to one source who was there. "They start forming off the coast of Africa, as they're moving across the Atlantic, we drop a bomb inside the eye of the hurricane and it disrupts it. Why can't we do that?" the source added, paraphrasing the president's remarks.

Asked how the briefer reacted, the source recalled he said something to the effect of, "Sir, we'll look into that."
   
Trump replied by asking incredulously how many hurricanes the U.S. could handle and reiterating his suggestion that the government intervene before they make landfall.
   
The briefer "was knocked back on his heels," the source in the room added. "You could hear a gnat fart in that meeting. People were astonished. After the meeting ended, we thought, 'What the f---? What do we do with this?'"

[The Johnny]

That's stupid.

Clearly, if the hurricanes are forming in the african coastline, we should destroy the african coastline! That way we'll never have hurricanes. EVER. AGAIN.

[chaotic neutral observer]

Behind the scenes: During one hurricane briefing at the White House, Trump said, "I got it. I got it. Why don't we nuke them?" according to one source who was there. "They start forming off the coast of Africa, as they're moving across the Atlantic, we drop a bomb inside the eye of the hurricane and it disrupts it. Why can't we do that?" the source added, paraphrasing the president's remarks.

From my armchair:

The energy output and scale of a hurricane dwarfs even the biggest bomb.
Tsar bomba had a yield of 50 megatons, and a blast radius of around ~30-60 km.  (Most bombs are rather smaller).
An hurricane can release the equivalent of 13,000 megatons per day, and has a diameter anywhere from 150 km to 1000+ km.

And aside from the fact that dumping more energy into a high-energy system doesn't make the energy go away, fallout is a thing.

But you know, "Radioactive Hurricane" might be a good name for a death-metal group.

[chaotic neutral observer]

I think it would be a better idea to make an anti-hurricane (rotating in the opposite direction), and then ram it into the first hurricane.  You know, so they cancel each other out.

[altered]

I think it would be a better idea to make an anti-hurricane (rotating in the opposite direction), and then ram it into the first hurricane.  You know, so they cancel each other out.

Weirdly enough, from my knowledge of physics this would actually be effective. Granted, the place where the two met would be utterly fucked, but assuming you matched the wind speeds and sizes, then forced them to meet in the ocean, this isn't entirely insane.

"What about making one?" you say. "How on earth could we engineer a macro scale weather system to our particular needs?" And I laugh at you and throw rancid fish.

[The Johnny]

I think it would be a better idea to make an anti-hurricane (rotating in the opposite direction), and then ram it into the first hurricane.  You know, so they cancel each other out.

Weirdly enough, from my knowledge of physics this would actually be effective. Granted, the place where the two met would be utterly fucked, but assuming you matched the wind speeds and sizes, then forced them to meet in the ocean, this isn't entirely insane.

"What about making one?" you say. "How on earth could we engineer a macro scale weather system to our particular needs?" And I laugh at you and throw rancid fish.

Jesse Ventura tried to warn us about HAARP, but we wouln't listen. 

[Cain]

I have bad news.

There is a very good reason to believe that Trump got this idea from the plot of Sharknado. He was lined up to play the President in Sharknado 3, and the plot of Sharknado is literally "throw bombs in the tornado to equalise it out".

[altered]

For fucks sake. At this point I have to start blaming Eris, that would be just too fucking much to pin on anyone else. Even damn stinking apes are more sensible than that. And Eris just loves to fuck with us, so it fits the MO.

[Doktor Howl]

I can't think of anything that could go wrong with a radioactive hurricane.

[altered]

I can't think of anything that could go wrong with a radioactive hurricane.

I was talking about the Sharknado thing. Radioactive hurricanes sound good now.

[Doktor Howl]

https://www.apnews.com/6482bb8522ef427c8dba0d117327f1b2

Annnnnd then the East coast fisheries are fucked.

[Junkenstein]

I can't think of anything that could go wrong with a radioactive hurricane.

The current apocalypse scenarios were rather dull. Climate change? A yawn. Iran/Pakistan? Too complicated with difficult names.

However, throw a few nukes at anything and it becomes much more entertaining. Just wait until this is proposed to deal with tsunamis. Or flooding.


Or Mexico.

[Frontside Back]

I can't think of anything that could go wrong with a radioactive hurricane.

The current apocalypse scenarios were rather dull. Climate change? A yawn. Iran/Pakistan? Too complicated with difficult names.

However, throw a few nukes at anything and it becomes much more entertaining. Just wait until this is proposed to deal with tsunamis. Or flooding.


Or Mexico.

We can always use nuclear winter to offset the global warming so there's nothing to worry about.

[The Johnny]

I can't think of anything that could go wrong with a radioactive hurricane.

The current apocalypse scenarios were rather dull. Climate change? A yawn. Iran/Pakistan? Too complicated with difficult names.

However, throw a few nukes at anything and it becomes much more entertaining. Just wait until this is proposed to deal with tsunamis. Or flooding.


Or Mexico.

We can always use nuclear winter to offset the global warming so there's nothing to worry about.

Well, we do have a problem with overpopulation and too much heat down here... how bad could a little bit of nuclear winter really be?