What comes next after the Trump win?

[Loren Pechtel]

Besides, the real danger is the isotopes that are used by the body or mimic things used by the body.

Yeah, most of which are short-lived (eg Iodine-131), or are poorly taken up even when ingested (Strontium-90 and Caesium-137), or have such huge half-lives (ie low activity) that you would need to eat a crap-ton of them to suffer any ill effect.

Take iodine tablets in the immediate aftermath, and avoid eating locally grown produce, and there's not really a problem at all. A dirty bomb in a city - where little food is grown - is a fairly minor problem, as long as people are sensible and don't lose their minds over tiny risks.

So it's a really major problem.

It's the strontium that would concern me the most. And a city basically can't be cleaned up--if they manage to dump a sufficient amount there's nothing to do but leave. They didn't need to leave Fukushima, but that town near Chernobyl wasn't exactly where you would want to be. (Although it's down to reasonable levels by now.)

 

[Loren Pechtel]

I doubt there's much of a market for plutonium.

Have you asked the North Koreans? Or the Iranians? I suspect that there is plenty of demand for weapons grade plutonium. If you can deliver it no-questions-asked to the right location. That's the challenge.

But smuggling sensitive materials (and sensitive information) is a well established black industry. Security services play whack-a-mole, but they can't stop it.

And live to enjoy the proceeds. Trying to sell it sounds like a recipe for suicide.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

And trying to recover the fuel of a solid rocket is pretty risky.

For sure. But storing such rockets for long periods is also risky. At least, the USAF seem to worry about it quite a lot.

Liquid fuels will have been pilfered (or in the case of alcohol based fuels, drunk). Solid fuel rockets will be unstable due to poor maintenance. The warheads will have been stripped of valuable materials - if not the plutonium or the conventional explosives, then certainly the computer chips in the arming, firing, and/or security systems. The engines will be unfit for firing, even if the fuel hasn't been pinched. And everyone involved knows that firing such a weapon at NATO is a death sentence for anyone near to the launch facility - so there's a pretty strong incentive to make sure it can't be done (at least from the launch facility you are staffing), even if you are such an incompetent crook as to be unable to profit from your sabotage.

So long as the silos don't flood the solid fuel should hold up pretty well.

Our warheads you can't strip the security systems without destroying the warhead--they put critical stuff inside the warhead as an anti-tamper. And killing yourself if you don't take enough care in the process.

 

[ZiprHead]

Special counsel moves to abandon election interference and classified documents cases against Trump

Special counsel Jack Smith moved to abandon election interference and classified documents cases against Donald Trump.

apnews.com

This is some major bullshit!

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Special counsel moves to abandon election interference and classified documents cases against Trump

Special counsel Jack Smith moved to abandon election interference and classified documents cases against Donald Trump.

apnews.com

This is some major bullshit!

He's trying to save his ass from the new regime that's certainly going to make them go away anyway.

 

[southernhybrid]

What about his latest plans to put tariffs on things from Canada, Mexico and China. He says he will do that on day one and yes, presidents do have the power to mandate tariffs. Of course, considering his senility, he might change this plan by tomorrow. This will hurt the price of a lot of produce and cars, since a lot of cars are manufactured in Mexico and a large percentage of our fresh fruit comes from Mexico. Oh well. Trump doesn't eat fresh fruit so he doesn't care. it's also depressing to think that we couldn't elect a female for our president but Mexico did.

https://wapo.st/4fIyW2N

I had 3 article left to share, so read the entire thing if you want, although you can find this information on most any news site.

Mexico’s president responded angrily Tuesday to President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to impose a 25 percent tariff on its products if the country didn’t curb the flow of irregular migrants and fentanyl, warning that the penalties would only wind up causing inflation and unemployment in the United States.



President Claudia Sheinbaum also made clear that Mexico would retaliate with its own tariffs if Trump went ahead with his plan.
“President Trump, it isn’t with threats or tariffs that we resolve the migratory phenomenon or the abuse of drugs in the United States,” Sheinbaum said at her morning news conference, reading a letter she had written to the incoming U.S. leader. “What’s needed to confront these great challenges is cooperation and understanding.

Trump on Monday night said he would impose the 25 percent tariff on Mexico and Canada on his first day in office, to halt the “invasion” of drugs and migrants. He also vowed to introduce a 10 percent tariff on goods from China, the source of precursor chemicals to make fentanyl.

 

[Patooka]

Special counsel moves to abandon election interference and classified documents cases against Trump

Special counsel Jack Smith moved to abandon election interference and classified documents cases against Donald Trump.

apnews.com

This is some major bullshit!

He's trying to save his ass from the new regime that's certainly going to make them go away anyway.

I mean, considering the guy's fucked it might be in his interest to go full blown Samson at the temple instead.

 

[TV and credit cards]

I had to put this somewhere.
McConnell cries foul after 2 Democratic judges cancel retirement after Trump victory
Yeah, that McConnell.
I hope the Circuit Court judges flip him off too.
The nerve of this fucking guy!

 

[ZiprHead]

Fuck him again. Pack the Supreme Court.

 

[Shadowy Man]

I had to put this somewhere.
McConnell cries foul after 2 Democratic judges cancel retirement after Trump victory
Yeah, that McConnell.
I hope the Circuit Court judges flip him off too.
The nerve of this fucking guy!
View attachment 48690

And if anyone knows how to spot a “a partisan gambit that would undermine the integrity of federal courts” it would be Mitch.

The right wingers can’t contemplate that it could possibly be less that the judges don’t want republicans replacing them so much as they don’t want unqualified hacks, which Trump is wont to nominate, replacing them.

 

[Swammerdami]

Many Americans are bowing down to their Fascist Overlord: CEOs, formerly principled Republicans; even "Morning Joe" Scarborough went to Mar-A-Lago to pay homage. Now, acting on the advice of Viceroy Elon Musk, the GOP may shut down the government deliberately. Will they? This seems like an interesting early test.

Robert Reich identifies 4 classes of institution which might put up a fight against fascist takeover. All four have been targeted by the incoming criminal regime:

* Universities?

University faculties are dedicated to finding and exposing the truth — which has often meant calling out Trump’s lies — but Trump has warned that he’ll change the criteria for university accrediting in order to force university faculties into line.

In a campaign video, he said, “Our secret weapon will be the college accreditation system … When I return to the White House, I will fire the radical left accreditors that have allowed our colleges to become dominated by Marxist Maniacs.”
… Trump has also threatened to increase taxes on university endowments.

* Nonprofits?

The U.S. House of Representatives has already passed a bill that would empower the Treasury Department to eliminate the tax-exempt status of any nonprofit it deems to be supporting terrorism.

* The media?

The flurry of defamation lawsuits … are the latest signs that the incoming Trump administration is poised to crack down on unfavorable media coverage. Trump and his allies have also discussed revoking networks’ broadcast licenses and eliminating funding for public radio and television.

* Organized labor?

Trump has warned organized labor that he will oppose their efforts to organize. The president of the Teamsters Union even appeared at the National Republican Convention in support of Trump.

 

[ZiprHead]

Trump has warned organized labor that he will oppose their efforts to organize. The president of the Teamsters Union even appeared at the National Republican Convention in support of Trump.

Fucking idiot.

 

[crazyfingers]

Trump has warned organized labor that he will oppose their efforts to organize. The president of the Teamsters Union even appeared at the National Republican Convention in support of Trump.

Fucking idiot.

He got them to stupidly vote for him. He doesn't need them anymore.

But it would be nice to see a link.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

So Trump isn't even in office yet and he has convinced the GOP to shut down the Government. There was a bill that had the votes, but Trump convinced the GOP not to even bother voting on it.

Trump / GOP come out with a different bill. It failed, by a lot, as it needs 2/3's approval.

The Trump-endorsed plan was opposed by almost all Democrats, who are frustrated and angry after the president-elect tanked an earlier bipartisan deal, and a significant number of Republicans.

Government funding expires at the end of the day on Friday.

The GOP measure included a three-month extension of government funding, a two-year suspension of the debt limit into January 2027, as well as roughly $110 billion for disaster relief, according to five sources. The House voted 174 to 235, with 38 Republicans voting against the measure and 2 Democrats voting in favor.

Trump wants to Biden to eat the debt-ceiling (two-years), not himself. And this "compromise" doesn't include a budget... it is just a two month kick the can deal. Quite the abusive compromise. About 15% of Republicans voted against it in the House. I think any debt-ceiling change needs to come with an actual budget. The GOP have the majorities by January.

 

[ZiprHead]

So Trump isn't even in office yet and he has convinced the GOP to shut down the Government. There was a bill that had the votes, but Trump convinced the GOP not to even bother voting on it.

That was not Trump. That was President Musk. Trump was just following the president's orders.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

I had to do some driving and AM radio is bizarre. They are talking about the top presidents since the 80s, how Iraq War might look in 200 years, and how young people are turning on government because of Covid and Biden.

Meanwhile, the GOP can't pass a budget continuation bill in the House, the chamber they control. Couldn't even get a majority vote on the Trump supported bill.

So... of course, on the AM dial they are talking about how if Iraq is a beacon of democracy in 300 years, W might be looked at differently. I consider this a red flag on Trump's upcoming Presidency. We are sooooooo fucked. The wealthy will be alright though.

 

[Elixir]

Special counsel moves to abandon election interference and classified documents cases against Trump

Special counsel Jack Smith moved to abandon election interference and classified documents cases against Donald Trump.

apnews.com

This is some major bullshit!

He's trying to save his ass from the new regime that's certainly going to make them go away anyway.

So Trump isn't even in office yet and he has convinced the GOP to shut down the Government. There was a bill that had the votes, but Trump convinced the GOP not to even bother voting on it.

That was not Trump. That was President Musk. Trump was just following the president's orders.

It’s like they’ll both be shocked to learn that their “base” aren’t all billionaires. At some point they might begin to smell a muskrat.

 

[Elixir]

Special counsel moves to abandon election interference and classified documents cases against Trump

Special counsel Jack Smith moved to abandon election interference and classified documents cases against Donald Trump.

apnews.com

This is some major bullshit!

He's trying to save his ass from the new regime that's certainly going to make them go away anyway.

I mean, considering the guy's fucked it might be in his interest to go full blown Samson at the temple instead.

President Musk should grant him a blanket pardon.

 

[TV and credit cards]

I saw you with another guy. And I thought you loved only me.

 

[steve_bank]

It is going to be a rough 4 years for the country and the world.