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For those that missed it, I posted the original tweet in #1945 (this thread), but the link to the tweet is no longer good.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3715518/posts?page=1945#1945
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US Strategic Command deletes New Year’s Eve tweet about dropping nukes
The U.S. Strategic Command deleted a tweet Monday that said that the unified command was prepared to drop bombs, if need be, on New Year’s Eve with a video depicting U.S. stealth fighters doing just that.
“#TimesSquare tradition rings in the #NewYear by dropping the big ball…if needed, we are #ready to drop something much, much bigger,” the tweet read.
.@US_Stratcom just deleted their tweet threatening to drop some bombs on New Year’s Eve so I guess the war is off and all of our terrible parties can now go on as previously scheduled. pic.twitter.com/GnDX6i34GG— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) December 31, 2018
The tweet encouraged viewers to watch the video “to the end.” The conclusion depicted explosions after bombs were dropped by planes like the B-2 bomber out of Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, which was tagged in the tweet. U.S. Strategic Command personnel did not immediately respond to request for comment.
USSTRATCOM is a unified command in control of the U.S. arsenal of nuclear weapons, among other things, and is based out of Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. The command slogan is “Peace is Our Profession” and was used in hashtag form in the tweet, which caused some people to question the motive of the tweet and video. The tweet inaccurately stated that they were willing to drop “something much, much bigger.” The largest nuclear warhead currently in service in the U.S. is the B83 nuclear bomb, which weighs approximately 2,400 pounds and has an 18-inch diameter. The Times Square ball dropped on NYE every year weighs just under 12,000 pounds and is over 12 feet in diameter.
Lisa Mei Crowley has it up, link above.
So the PC crowd gets another little feather in their...wherever...after throwing some shade at the AF.
What a crock of absolutely mindless crap.
Boiled down to the fundamentals, the only function of ANY military organization is to break things and hurt people on command.
We just happen to be the richest country on a planet full of people, some of whom would cheerfully destroy us and our necessarily mean and nasty military is the sole reason why they don't.
If these tender little snowflakes can't accept the faintest hint of that reality in their magic world of unicorns and skittles, my only request when the SHTF is that they go run to their favorite Safe Place, stick their heads under the covers and just stay the hell out of the way.
Sometimes there are really, really nasty jobs to be done in this old world and I don't really think any of those...individuals...can hack any of 'em.