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dajoki

(10,678 posts)
Thu Aug 29, 2019, 10:25 AM Aug 2019

Why can't we use nuclear weapons against bedbugs?

Why can’t we use nuclear weapons against bedbugs?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-cant-we-use-nuclear-weapons-against-bedbugs/2019/08/28/c5cb6b20-c9c4-11e9-a4f3-c081a126de70_story.html

Have you heard the one about the lawbreaker who got pardoned by President Trump?

It’s so funny it’s criminal.

As The Post’s Nick Miroff and Josh Dawsey report, Trump has told his subordinates to seize private land and disregard environmental rules as they build a border wall, offering to pardon them for breaking the law. The White House response? Trump is joking.

Hahahahahahaha. My sides are totally splitting.

That was almost as funny as the time when — stop me if you’ve heard this one — Trump told Russia to hack into Hillary Clinton’s emails. “He was joking,” the White House said.

<<snip>>

But apparently we shouldn’t take him seriously, either — because he and his aides have recast a series of ominous statements as jokes that the rest of us just didn’t get:

● Asking then-FBI Director James Comey to end the investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn.

● Telling a campaign crowd to take a loyalty pledge to him.

● Threatening to fire then-Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price.

● Saying “I love WikiLeaks” when it released stolen Democratic emails.

● Saying Democrats who didn’t applaud his State of the Union address were “TREASONOUS.”

● Calling himself the “Chosen One,” among other messianic claims.

● Wishing he were “president for life” or serving another “10 or 14 years.”

● Thanking Russian President Vladimir Putin for expelling U.S. diplomats.

<<snip>>

After dropping one in the eye of Hurricane Dorian, he could use another one to deforest the Amazon, thereby eliminating the threat of future forest fires. A string of nuclear explosions along the southern border would prove a more effective deterrent than a wall. Nuclear fallout would swiftly eliminate the alleged bedbug infestation at Trump’s Doral club in Florida. Nuking Greenland would likely bring down the purchase price.

There’s hardly a problem Trump couldn’t eliminate with a controlled nuclear detonation. He could nuke his tax returns, nuke the Fed, nuke Obamacare, nuke the federal debt, nuke 40 pounds of body fat, nuke rare steaks, nuke opioid stockpiles, nuke measles outbreaks, nuke Democratic precincts and nuke the leech with three jaws and 59 teeth just discovered in Washington.

In the unlikely event anything were to go awry, Trump has a well-tested excuse for pressing the button: I was just joking.

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Why can't we use nuclear weapons against bedbugs? (Original Post) dajoki Aug 2019 OP
because they will mutate with horrible consequences DBoon Aug 2019 #1
It is an ultimate solution, no doubt. Newest Reality Aug 2019 #2
Trump needs better writers. world wide wally Aug 2019 #3
If you could safely irradiate a mattress customerserviceguy Aug 2019 #4

customerserviceguy

(25,183 posts)
4. If you could safely irradiate a mattress
Thu Aug 29, 2019, 12:49 PM
Aug 2019

then, it would work. We could get rid of e-coli bacterial outbreaks if we irradiated food.

And no, it doesn't make either the mattress or the food radioactive.

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