Hypothetical Question (please give your honest from the gut answer)

[yuiyoshida]

If Trump NUKED some place.... Would The Republicans remove him from office?

[Wellstone ruled]

1. NO!!!!!!!!!!

[yuiyoshida]

3. You know what?

I tend to agree. I think they will find a way to blame Obama for the decision, or they will say they (the target) deserved it.. or just find excuses to make it legit.

[Wellstone ruled]

23. The GOP is and have been

blaming their problems with their constituents on Obama. Read a story the other day about the use of a Nuke would be the result of failed Obama foreign policy. Typical Right Wing Shit my friend.

[yuiyoshida]

26. There are some days I really wish there was a

SuperGirl to save us....

[MFM008]

41. Any meta human

Even suicide squad.

[yuiyoshida]

51. I will always take the girl of steel!

[Bear Creek]

53. Waiting to

They think they would win. Chopping at the bit.

[tgards79]

2. Depends on the circumstances...

...and the process. But given the likelihood of it being unjustified and impulsive, yes, if anyone was still alive.

[Angry Dragon]

4. 50-50 ........... it would depend on the place

[anneboleyn]

5. With zero context, impossible to say. IF it followed some massive terrorist incident like a suitcase

nuke here (which we heard about constantly after 9/11) -- and wasn't just a sudden decision on his part but at least discussed with military etc to some degree -- I would doubt it, even though the fallout so to speak would be a massive problem internationally from the US using nukes for the second time in world history (a suitcase bomb is not anything close in power to a proper nuke). Totally randomly on his own? He'd be out of the White House in minutes and Pence would be president.

Sorry, I should have said third time since WWII obviously involved two atomic bombs. I was thinking of WWII as one event.

[Ligyron]

6. Depends...

If it was in response to a first strike, NO.

Hopefully, his generals would refuse to do it otherwise.

Either way, Godzilla would attack Washington.

[unblock]

7. only if it was over america. maybe, maybe over canada or western europe.

anywhere else, they'd call it un-american not to rally around the president in a time of crisis.

[gordianot]

8. The nuclear key is not as easy as some think.

From what I have read targeting and counter response need to be considered which puts the entire military and civilian infrastructure on alert. It is quite possible such orders are scrutinized.

[Softail1]

9. he would be removed or stopped from doing it

unless we were attacked with nukes first...he doesn't want his buildings flattened in a retaliation!

[MindPilot]

10. I tend to think that should 45 give the order...

before keys are turned and arming switches flipped, cooler heads would prevail.

That's my little thread of hope and I'm clinging to it!

[world wide wally]

43. I cling to the idea that they gave him a fake code

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

11. There really needs to be a context.

And somehow I doubt that the President can just give the order to drop a nuclear bomb some where completely on his own. I rather suspect he wouldn't be able to do that unless some serious senior military types also agreed that dropping a bomb was the best thing to do.

[yuiyoshida]

13. I am hoping you are correct

most of us would sleep better at night knowing that Trump hasn't extinguished some country.

[mikelewis]

17. Unfortunately, that's not the protocol... it's at the President's discretion...

"The president has supreme authority to decide whether to use America's nuclear weapons. Period. Full stop," said the Arms Control Association's Kingston Reif. A president could only be stopped by mutiny, he said, and more than one person would have to disobey the president's orders.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/06/politics/nuclear-football-president-button/

Voting Matters... apparently...

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

38. That article talks mostly about the need to launch very quickly

if there are incoming enemy warheads.

I think the scenario being proposed is that Trump simply decides to drop a nuclear bomb somewhere. Absent an immediate threat from that somewhere, I find it a bit hard to believe that he'd be able to do it without saner people stopping him.

But if he were simply to decide to bomb some foreign country and actually succeed in doing so, I think he'd be yanked out of office rather quickly. Even trying to do so and being stopped would result, I hope, in very rapid removal.

I hope.

[mikelewis]

46. Yeah, like who would mutiny against him? His NSA? LOL? No, they'd launch...

Sorry, but if he orders it... it'll happen... even if it was against an American target... they'd launch and not even blink an eye. 45 may not take his job seriously but they do... they would most certainly launch.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

47. All I can say is that I sincerely hope you are wrong.

[mikelewis]

12. No... they would say "Fuck Yeah!!! Hit em again!!!"

[Doreen]

14. You want it from my heart?

Fuck no!! The mofo's would blame it on Obama and the Democrats. They would probably arm to nuke the first country that said they would help the country that the vile slimes already nuked.

[yuiyoshida]

18. Thanks, and yes... My honest gut feeling is the same

Republicans would do that!

[kacekwl]

15. No

Trump can't just Nuke somewhere by himself. They would be held just as responsible.

[Takket]

16. No. They would collectively climax.

[Bettie]

19. Nope

they would love him even more.

[yuiyoshida]

20. Make him the next Ronald Reagan....

Call him the greatest President ever... gawd, that makes me want to throw up a little.

[Bettie]

24. Me too

Then again, I feel that way most days lately.

[yuiyoshida]

29. I know right?

What is driving me crazy is, as Depressed as I feel, I would really love to have access to some pot right now. California passed the law, and friends have told me, the stores will not be legally selling it until next year. It will take that long for them to get a licence. I don't know anyone who has access to Marijuana, but I sure wish someone would start selling it ... the only other option is to try and get a medical marijuana card... and that's easier said than done.

[Bettie]

30. I'm in Iowa

we have none available, medical or otherwise.

[yuiyoshida]

32. Bettie, pack up those bags and get thee

to the California Border before Trump Builds a wall around it too!!

[Bettie]

33. It may come to that, but at least Minnesota is only a couple of hours away

And it's nice there.

[MindPilot]

63. It's super-easy to get a card.

Depression is a good reason, check google, weedmaps.com for a clinic. The visit will be just some forms, a short interview, and the doc will probably take some vitals. PM me if you want.

[yuiyoshida]

64. Thanks... I had been reading up about it..

I would have to get a ride to a clinic, and find someone to put me though the process. I don't know how long it takes, and we do have three places that distribute the stuff. The other day I tried some edibles that just contained hemp oil but they were really expensive. I have feeling the weed will be too.

In the good old days a baggie was about 20 dollars. I am sure something that size is twice or maybe even three times that expensive.

[LeftInTX]

21. No

Unless it was Utah, home of Jason Chaffetz

[Stinky The Clown]

22. Depends

[madinmaryland]

35. David Vitter??

[BeckyDem]

25. ?

What would it matter, we'd be hit soon after.

Your OP is a fear of mine with this unpredictable man, he has never been humiliated by a head of state, and he is petty, stupid and careless with his need to win.

I'm in my 60's, I never worried about this before, not the way I do now.

[MrScorpio]

27. Nope.

[lpbk2713]

28. Nope. Not at all.

The GOP has always thought armed conflict was a good way to make big money.

[Blue_Tires]

31. Depends on the place

[Iggo]

34. White people or non-white people getting nuked?

Because to the war-boner crowd, that matters.

[yuiyoshida]

62. Oh, of course it would be Non White People...

He wouldn't Nuke Scotland, because they wouldn't give him a decent golf course.. or ...maybe he would!

[coco22]

36. No.

[madinmaryland]

37. No.

[janterry]

39. No

Most of them would find a reason to cheer

[Skittles]

40. refukes are fucking COWARDS

they're afraid of losing the support of the idiots who voted for that piece of orange SHIT

[haele]

42. The Teahadists who call themselves GOP currently in power? No.

Old school republicans and conservatives who aren't batshit end-timers, maybe. If they would finally get off their silent butts and stop pretending government is nothing but a big old game of "Federal Football" because they got butt-hurt over Nixon.

But if he does nukes someone, it will be too late. We're done as a nation. Everyone else in the world will work to take us down, and take us down hard.

Haele

[agincourt]

44. The military would not follow the order,

Trump would have to fire generals and replace them with congressmen.

[vlyons]

45. What makes you think there will be any Republicans left?

I imagine that if Trump drops a nuke somewhere that retaliation nukes will drop on us somewhere(s). Wash DC would surely be a target, as would the locations of major cities, naval ports, nuclear silo installations and god knows what else. The Hoover dam, the Mississippi river, the Houston and New Orleans oil refineries? I'm sure the Russians and Chinese have long had a list of targets. Not all of us would get wiped out on first strike, but we would certainly be exposed to down wind radio-activity.

[sunonmars]

48. they would probably say Hillary detonated it with an email......

[arthritisR_US]

49. No

[NightWatcher]

50. No, but I would, surrounded by a shit ton of other Americans who would storm the gates of the WH

[Glamrock]

52. How does their base feel about it?

That will answer your question.

[trof]

54. No

[Historic NY]

55. M A D perhaps if there was anything left after a 2nd retaliatory strike

[Lil Missy]

56. No hesitation here - NO, they wouldn't. n/t

[NBachers]

57. They'd be in a wipeout state of ecstatic sexual frenzy if he nuked California.

[yuiyoshida]

61. Hey, lets leave my state out of this...

Talking about another country...

[heaven05]

58. no

they would get off on it....bunch of old dicks turgid in the joy of destruction of some brown-other than white people.

[Greybnk48]

59. No.

They will never admit to a mistake. This is Dubya Bush redux, on steroids.

[Rex]

60. No. However he would be removed, by the People.

What to start a real fucking revolution? That would do it. People are crammed into townhalls yelling at the top of their lungs mad.

If he dropped the bomb it would send this country into apeshit overdrive. Everyone is already livid, the small groups that are not are already lost to whatever depravity took them long ago.

People would lose their shit imo.