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Trump Impeachment Watch: Mother of all bombs edition
By Mark Morford on April 14, 2017 at 9:38 AM
$16 million each. We had 20 of them. Now we have 19.
lso comes in bright, shiny orange
Did it work? Were you distracted? By the mother of all bombs (MOAB, which actually stands for Massive Ordnance Air Blast, which is no less juvenile) the thoroughly grotesque, $16-million, 11-ton monster of doom our very own orange monster of doom sort of maybe allowed to have dropped on ISIS caves, killing a few dozen Islamic fighters (at a cost of, oh, about $450,000 per) and creating hundreds more in instantly raging counter-recruitment?
It was, as breathlessly reported just about everywhere, the largest non-nuclear device ever dropped by American forces, which sounds impressive, but actually isnt, considering its absurd expense and near-complete ineffectiveness at actually changing anything but mostly considering how the bomb will ultimately fail its primary task eliminating the endless delights of #RussiaGate, AKA the imminent impeachment gift that keeps on giving.
Be not distracted. Not by Trumps spitwad-grade understanding of military and foreign policy, nor any other of his acts of buffoonery and moral violence of the week like Chinas president forced to school our imbecile-in-chief on basic North Korean relations, or Trumps complete reversal on the value of NATO, or his signing of a vicious law in secret, of course allowing states to completely defund Planned Parenthood, because women are very important to the president the way a bird is important to a shotgun.
Be hereby advised: Neither Trumps vicious incompetence nor his macho, phallic posturing are any sort of match for whats coming in the Russia investigation, as evidenced by the endlessly gathering storm-clouds of intel constantly swirling, surging, quieting down for an hour only to leap into view all over again, much to the orange goblins dismay.
Heres a nice, current headline, from Slate, retweeted by savvy wonks everywhere and only slightly/temporarily overshadowed by MoaB coverage:
Guardian Report Claims U.S. Has Concrete Evidence of Trump-Russia Collusion
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http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2017/04/14/trump-impeachment-watch-mother-of-all-bombs-edition/#photo-791732
ananda
(28,876 posts)They're just sittin' on it ... the evidence I mean, not the bomb.
(That would be Dr. 45 Strangelove)
visualizing sitting on the bomb
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Maybe we should bomb the shit out of ignorance instead.
niyad
(113,552 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)1.) Always profit.
pbmus
(12,422 posts)The actual cost is 170,000
http://www.businessinsider.com/real-cost-of-moab-mother-of-all-bombs-170-000-2017-4
niyad
(113,552 posts)and we supposedly know how many of those things they have. simple math.
pbmus
(12,422 posts)Why do you think the Moab would cost 16 million... ??
Or do you want to believe to fit narrative...