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TRUMP: "armed drones at every school in USA" (Original Post) kpete Feb 2018 OP
Tear the roof off every school... hell yeah !! C_U_L8R Feb 2018 #1
Aptly named. Turbineguy Feb 2018 #2
Why not a concentration camp type design with favorite checkpoints and guardtowers?!!1!! elehhhhna Feb 2018 #3
This is what Root said after Las Vegas shooting - DURHAM D Feb 2018 #4
Onion? Has to be, no one is so stupid as to suggest armed aircraft hovering over every school. Fred Sanders Feb 2018 #5
What a KKKlown. Look at his kids' names: Contessa Churchill Antoinette Root, Hudson Root... CurtEastPoint Feb 2018 #6
Fuck. If I was one of his kids Turbineguy Feb 2018 #12
GOOD ONE! Or Trunk. Or Branch. CurtEastPoint Feb 2018 #13
UNBALANCED TURDs Angry Dragon Feb 2018 #7
Just think about what is so wrong with this idea. Wellstone ruled Feb 2018 #8
Or someone out of school hacking the "armed" part of it. n/t dixiegrrrrl Feb 2018 #34
Again,you can not fix Stupid. Wellstone ruled Feb 2018 #35
Keep those kids in a heightened state of fear and anxiety. That should help in the learning process. jalan48 Feb 2018 #9
had some teachers who would just drone on and on .....and he want to give them guns? dembotoz Feb 2018 #10
Armed drones in schools???!!! Ohiogal Feb 2018 #11
How would that work exactly? VMA131Marine Feb 2018 #14
And you just know that sooner or later there's going to be a malfunction or... brush Feb 2018 #29
What a stupid idea Maggiemayhem Feb 2018 #15
Paid for by Raytheon, Enabling better teaching through armed aerial robotics JDC Feb 2018 #16
The stupid. It burns. matt819 Feb 2018 #17
jobs and contracts Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2018 #22
Sure! What could go wrong? Initech Feb 2018 #18
FYI he works for Sheldon Adelson Nevernose Feb 2018 #19
Forgot to mention Nevernose Feb 2018 #27
This is who he is ... left-of-center2012 Feb 2018 #20
Ughly SammyWinstonJack Feb 2018 #24
Amazing night with President Trump at Mar A Lago? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2018 #21
Wait, huh? Who is proposing drones in schools? Trump or Root? NurseJackie Feb 2018 #23
The stupid are running the country. What an idiotic idea. Liberal In Texas Feb 2018 #25
Stretching so far to find solutions Codeine Feb 2018 #26
Another damn lunatic CanonRay Feb 2018 #28
Where the hell do these morons come from? paleotn Feb 2018 #30
Someone in Russia must have offered him a million dollars for the contract McCamy Taylor Feb 2018 #31
Hey Root your idea is BS lunasun Feb 2018 #32
He must have deleted the drone tweet. nt USALiberal Feb 2018 #33
Yes, drones with grenades strapped to them! And Hellfire missiles! dalton99a Feb 2018 #36

C_U_L8R

(45,027 posts)
1. Tear the roof off every school... hell yeah !!
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 06:20 PM
Feb 2018

Last edited Sun Feb 18, 2018, 07:06 PM - Edit history (1)

Good gawd these Republican's are bozos

DURHAM D

(32,616 posts)
4. This is what Root said after Las Vegas shooting -
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 06:20 PM
Feb 2018

"This is a real thing. Clearly Coordinated Muslim Terror attack. PRAY for our Vegas police. PRAY for victims. VERY bad. Awful"

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
5. Onion? Has to be, no one is so stupid as to suggest armed aircraft hovering over every school.
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 06:21 PM
Feb 2018

Had a good laugh though!

What is in the water at that house of monsters?

CurtEastPoint

(18,669 posts)
6. What a KKKlown. Look at his kids' names: Contessa Churchill Antoinette Root, Hudson Root...
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 06:29 PM
Feb 2018

Remington Reagan Root, Dakota Root

Right up there with Tuckie Carlson's kids' names: Dorothy, Buckley, Hopie, Lillie

Turbineguy

(37,383 posts)
12. Fuck. If I was one of his kids
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 06:49 PM
Feb 2018

I'd keep my first name because it's off the beaten path, but I'd change my last name to Hitler to hide any association.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
8. Just think about what is so wrong with this idea.
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 06:30 PM
Feb 2018

Some Kid sitting in Home Room Hacking the Hell out of a Drone and using it for his joy ride. Think about it.

jalan48

(13,905 posts)
9. Keep those kids in a heightened state of fear and anxiety. That should help in the learning process.
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 06:32 PM
Feb 2018

Also, with the added benefit that they will think less independently and be more susceptible to authoritarian demands.

Ohiogal

(32,122 posts)
11. Armed drones in schools???!!!
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 06:39 PM
Feb 2018

My God are these wing nuts incredibly bone headed! That's the dumbest and most dangerous idea I've ever heard!

VMA131Marine

(4,158 posts)
14. How would that work exactly?
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 07:02 PM
Feb 2018

Once the shooter is inside the school, the drone can't see him and would be useless. Plus drones are not autonomous; they need remote pilots. The cost of putting an armed drone over every school would be astronomical.

brush

(53,925 posts)
29. And you just know that sooner or later there's going to be a malfunction or...
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 09:06 PM
Feb 2018

human error and a kid dead in the school yard.

Can we just get stupid, winger repugs to drop their insane ideas, put their hands up and step away from the government—because they don't know what the fuck they're doing?

Maggiemayhem

(811 posts)
15. What a stupid idea
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 07:35 PM
Feb 2018

Drones are bad enough in a war zone, but in a school zone? This sounds like something a moron would come up with. We want our children to feel safe in school not terrified of robots that can shoot them. SMFH

No wonder Betsy DeVos looks like she aged 20 years.

JDC

(10,136 posts)
16. Paid for by Raytheon, Enabling better teaching through armed aerial robotics
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 07:55 PM
Feb 2018

Who is this douche? That profile picture says it all.

matt819

(10,749 posts)
17. The stupid. It burns.
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 07:57 PM
Feb 2018

Cheap military drone is $5 million. They cost about $4,000 per hour to operate. There are about 100,000 public schools in America.

That’s half a trillion dollars for the drones and about $2.5 billion to operate daily

This is in addition to the fact that it is too moronic for words.

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,503 posts)
22. jobs and contracts
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 08:28 PM
Feb 2018

Think of the grift ... er ... Defense contracts to cronies ... er ... as-yet undiscovered essential industries! Jobs! Paid for by raiding Social Security.

Make America Grift Again!
Make America Grim Again!

If properly executed (that's not a pun), it could end all this brainwashing public education by making students too terrified to attend, and replace it with proper, home-school, faith-based, fundamentals of evangelical Putinism. GOP eternal!

(Well, now I'm scarin' myself).

Nevernose

(13,081 posts)
19. FYI he works for Sheldon Adelson
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 08:07 PM
Feb 2018

Sheldon is the lunatic who paid $160 million for a $30 newspaper because they were reporting bad things about him, and he felt the need for more RW media in the US (he owns several RW media outlets in Israel).

Nevernose

(13,081 posts)
27. Forgot to mention
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 08:57 PM
Feb 2018

He’s a “National politics opinion columnist” for the biggest newspaper in the state (Adelson’s) as well as a nationally syndicated radio talk show host.

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
20. This is who he is ...
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 08:21 PM
Feb 2018

Wayne is a political figure, television and radio personality, author, television producer, and political commentator.
He is now a conservative talk radio host, syndicated nationally by USA Radio Network.
His show "WAR Now: The Wayne Allyn Root Show" is broadcast by Newsmax TV.
Root is also a national politics opinion columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Allyn_Root

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,329 posts)
21. Amazing night with President Trump at Mar A Lago?
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 08:23 PM
Feb 2018

Melania's not going to be pleased with further philandering.

NurseJackie

(42,862 posts)
23. Wait, huh? Who is proposing drones in schools? Trump or Root?
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 08:33 PM
Feb 2018

Is he quoting/paraphrasing Trump? Or is he proposing it TO Trump?

Either way it's insane.

Liberal In Texas

(13,597 posts)
25. The stupid are running the country. What an idiotic idea.
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 08:43 PM
Feb 2018

The movie that started out as a comedy and is now a documentary:



 

Codeine

(25,586 posts)
26. Stretching so far to find solutions
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 08:46 PM
Feb 2018

when the answer is right in goddamned front of them.

Stupid fucking assholes.

paleotn

(17,990 posts)
30. Where the hell do these morons come from?
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 09:09 PM
Feb 2018

Wherever it is, it needs to be put on the "no immigration" list. That is so fucked up in so many ways it would take all night to count them.

McCamy Taylor

(19,240 posts)
31. Someone in Russia must have offered him a million dollars for the contract
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 09:45 PM
Feb 2018

to put armed drones in schools. Trump is such a greedy idiot loser bastard. It would be laughable if so many lives were not at stake.

dalton99a

(81,649 posts)
36. Yes, drones with grenades strapped to them! And Hellfire missiles!
Mon Feb 19, 2018, 02:54 AM
Feb 2018

That ought to teach them real good

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