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[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 188 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

hahahaah someone clearly used the words 'israel iron dome' in his presence, and this is the result.

what a fucking idiot.

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 64 points 9 months ago

I also think it's finally sunk in that the wall idea will never actually work. And then someone said "iron dome", and his brain concluded that a dome sounds more bad-ass than a wall, anyway.

Recall he has said that his temperment now and when he was in first grade is "not all that different". So whenever you try to work out his thought process, it helps to think like a seven-year-old. (Not six: If Trump were a kid today, his parents would have definitely held him back a year)

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 23 points 9 months ago

Alternative hypothesis: he's also been listening to flat-earthers who think there's a crystal dome keeping the air from leaking into space, and he got both ideas mixed together in his brain.

[-] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 31 points 9 months ago

Doesn't dementia affect a person's ability to recognize metaphor?

[-] Sabata11792@kbin.social 19 points 9 months ago

So dose Ameridome temperature IQ.

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[-] cannibalkitteh@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 9 months ago

Maybe he just watched Biodome with Pauly Shore?

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[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 138 points 9 months ago

Trump criticized sending "billions of dollars out of the countries so they can build a dome, but we don’t have a dome ourselves."

"We’re going to have the greatest dome ever," he continued.

It astounds me that anyone is willing to vote for someone this stupid. It's not an act. He is legitimately stupid. That's been on full display this past fucking decade.

[-] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 52 points 9 months ago

We will build a dome that covers the entire 3.5 million square miles of the United States of America, and Mexico is gonna pay for it. This will also solve Climate Change for America, except that it is a liberal hoax anyway.

[-] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 15 points 9 months ago

I just want to know when we’re going to implement his plan to nuke hurricanes?

[-] numbermess@kbin.social 21 points 9 months ago

The answer is always Two Weeks.

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[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 29 points 9 months ago

I’m gonna guess that what he’s attempting to refer to here is the Iron Dome system of Israeli fame.

We already have anti-ballistic missile systems:

  • the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense system is exactly what it sounds like
  • Aegis, Patriot, and THAAD are all short-range, terminal phase anti-ballistic-capable systems.

Also, to be clear, it would be a very bad idea for the US to pursue an expansion of the GMD system to be “impermeable” to a peer state, because not only would it be cripplingly expensive (even in the context of US military budgets), but it would also diminish the disincentive of doing a nuclear first strike (which would obviously lead directly to an intercontinental nuclear war), and you can guess who would want to do something like that.

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 46 points 9 months ago

Joke's on you, in the time it took you to write out this informed rebuttal he's already moved on to wet magnets.

[-] DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago
[-] dhork@lemmy.world 42 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Try to keep up with the gish gallop:

https://news.yahoo.com/donald-trump-latest-relentlessly-stupid-084138421.html

The Republican 2024 front-runner on Friday complained to a crowd of supporters in Mason City, Iowa, about electric catapults and magnetic elevator systems for U.S. aircraft carriers.

The four-times-indicted former president polarized with this line: “All I know about magnets is this, give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that’s the end of the magnets.”

[-] meco03211@lemmy.world 32 points 9 months ago

What the ever loving fuck?

[-] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

Speak confidently and people will assume you are right, no matter how stupid what you're saying is

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[-] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

I thought you were joking, but then a couple posts down was an article about his wet magnet comments. Unbefuckinglievable.

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[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 78 points 9 months ago
[-] Oderus@lemmy.world 24 points 9 months ago

Can't wait for Trump to advocate for a monorail.

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 33 points 9 months ago

Monorails would reduce the cost of rails by 50%.

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[-] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 67 points 9 months ago

We'll say it yet again: This isn't an act, folks. He really is this stupid.

[-] CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world 24 points 9 months ago

I...I kind of wonder if he means something like the iron dome that Israel has. I'm trying to translate his senile brain into something that is tangible.

But then again.. we're talking about a man who said a nuke could get rid of a hurricane.

Sigh

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[-] knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works 64 points 9 months ago

Why are Republicans in general so damned afraid of everything?

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 54 points 9 months ago

fear is how they control their base. its not logic, which is why we cant argue with them.

[-] GoodbyeBlueMonday@startrek.website 14 points 9 months ago

As much as I'll happily rag on the prequels, I think a lot about a line from the Phantom Menace, as said by Yoda: “Fear is the path to the dark side…fear leads to anger…anger leads to hate…hate leads to suffering.”

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[-] paddirn@lemmy.world 22 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's crazy how easily manipulated they are. I think that must be why Republican politicians are so goddamned detestable, you have to be a POS to be taking advantage of people like that in the first place. They know they're going after less-educated people, taking advantage of their fears, and soaking up whatever money or power they have to give. Just constantly throwing out these new threats for people to be afraid of to distract them from the fact that they're robbing them blind and directly working against their own base's interests. Like, as long as you don't mind lying to people on a regular basis, have at least some small amount of charisma and don't feel bad attacking some other minority group, you can probably do ok in the Republican party, regardless of whatever you've done in the past.

[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
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[-] csm10495@sh.itjust.works 49 points 9 months ago

The Simpsons movie is getting a remake?

[-] akincisor@sh.itjust.works 26 points 9 months ago

I was elected to lead, not to read.

[-] TheJims@lemmy.world 39 points 9 months ago

As impenetrable as the dome protecting trump and republicans from reality.

[-] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 29 points 9 months ago

...sooo how's that wall going?

Seems like that'd be the first step in building a dome, but the best we could do was a couple of stretches of fence. I'm sure it'll be fine - Trump is a man of his word after all.

I genuinely view conservatism as a mental illness at this point.

[-] ares35@kbin.social 27 points 9 months ago

the reason magas love the guy? he speaks fluent moron.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago

He... he knows that Israel's "Iron Dome" isn't LITERALLY a dome, right? Like the Iron Curtain wasn't ACTUALLY a curtain.

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[-] rimu@piefed.social 20 points 9 months ago

You know, when I watch, uh, our guys operate those things, it’s unbelievable. Missile coming in, missile coming in. These geniuses sit down. Most of them are, you know, they’re from MIT. But they sit down, bing bing bing bing, boom, ph-sheee. It’s gone. It’s amazing. I think we could use, do you like that? I mean, isn’t that better than giving other countries billions of dollars? Billions. We’re going to get billions of dollars out of the countries and so they can build a dome, but we don’t have a dome ourselves. We’re going to have the greatest dome ever.

He's clearly not talking about a literal physical dome.

Clickbait.

[-] GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago

Are you sure about that? With that word salad, who can really be sure what he's thinking.

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[-] grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago
[-] Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website 12 points 9 months ago

Which is still stupid, because the we already have this tech.

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[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago
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[-] dudinax@programming.dev 16 points 9 months ago

And he'll make the aliens pay for it.

[-] badaboomxx@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

Can't wait for the maga folks to defend this saying things like "he didn't mean that"

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[-] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

I swear I made this joke in 2016.

[-] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

My life experience tells me we will never agree on a thermostat setting.

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

It would basically pay for itself, with the savings from not having to nuke the hurricanes.

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[-] Burninator05@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

Does he not understand or care that the Patriots we're giving to Ukraine ARE a dome that does what he's talking about?

[-] june@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

If you’re talking about trump and ask ‘does he understand’, the answer is ‘no’.

[-] SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

Let's face it, they replaced Trump's brain with ChatGPT alpha internal dev version, where the trainee set the wrong parameters.

[-] Yewb@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

Its like a wall but for the sky, I am a very successful wall builder, some might even say the best.

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