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Opinion: Everyone who grasps the risk of nuclear war says Trump shouldn’t be trusted
Los Angeles Times ^ | Sept. 26, 2024 3 AM PT | Jill Lawrence

Posted on 09/29/2024 5:46:19 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

It was a mistake to visit Los Alamos in the middle of a presidential campaign that Donald Trump might win. I get that now, after wandering around the New Mexico town that is synonymous with clichés like “cautionary tale” and “Pandora’s box” and “be careful what you wish for.”

The shadow over the Manhattan Project — the undeniable feat of scientific brainpower that gave us the nuclear bomb — is apparent nine miles from this haunting town, in a roadside protest sign that quotes Pope Francis speaking five years ago in Hiroshima: “The possessing of nuclear weapons is immoral.” It is apparent in a video at the local history museum, as scientists reflect on their work with ambivalence and pride — regretful that Japanese leaders were not offered the chance to see a demonstration of a nuclear bomb and perhaps surrender before two cities were destroyed; thankful that after President Franklin Roosevelt’s death, President Truman followed through with the plan to use the bombs that ended World War II.

Truman could have stopped it. He didn’t, but right afterward he ordered that presidential permission was required for such action, and his administration made it official policy in a 1948 memo: U.S. presidents had the sole authority to launch nuclear weapons. If a president gives the word, the military must obey. That’s even if America has not been attacked, and even if a president is demonstrably unfit. A president, for instance, such as Trump, whose reckless, divisive term ended with his loyalists — at his urging — staging a deadly attack on the Capitol to try to keep him in power after he lost the 2020 election.

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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Beat me to it.

They continue to advance this false narrative.

21 posted on 09/29/2024 6:16:24 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: DownInFlames

Well, she certainly wouldn’t want to mess up all those nice laws and mcds would they??


22 posted on 09/29/2024 6:17:10 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So we’re supposed to trust Cumola and Waltz? LOLOLOLOLOLOL. She can’t even tell the truth about the turnips condition and we’re going to trust her to keep us safe from vaporization? I just hope I go in the first wave.


23 posted on 09/29/2024 6:20:06 PM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: VTenigma

Why should qw trudt whoever is telling Biden what to do?


24 posted on 09/29/2024 6:24:22 PM PDT by JeanLM
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They absolutely the significance of Jan 6th for sure. But, as a political maneuver or statement or whatever it was…. It was absolutely stupid. It gave the Dems a powerful rhetorical weapon. First rule of warfare… never giver your enemies a weapon to use against you.


25 posted on 09/29/2024 6:29:49 PM PDT by Mustangman
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Next the warmongering D’s will use AI to fake President Trumps face on Barry Goldwater and scare voters with nuclear annihilation if they don’t vote for Ineligible Harris.

How stinking low can they go?


26 posted on 09/29/2024 6:29:55 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I remember very well how the Media told us that Ronald Reagan would blow up the world. Turned out to be the first president to negotiate an actual reduction in the number of nuclear weapons on the planet.


27 posted on 09/29/2024 6:34:08 PM PDT by MrChips ("To wisdom belongs the apprehension of eternal things." - St. Augustine )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They don’t even pretend to tell the truth anymore.
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This is raw Communism. They know they are lying. We know they are lying. They know we know they are lying. They don’t care we know they are lying. They continue to lie because a big enough lie told often enough will come be believed as the truth. Just look at the Left who watch the MSM lying propaganda. Their minds are now lost to Communist lies.


28 posted on 09/29/2024 6:36:08 PM PDT by iontheball
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To: iontheball

Excellent post.

How do we combat this/their lies?

They own the lying media :-(

We have the new, conservative media, which reaches far less? No idea the actual numbers.


29 posted on 09/29/2024 6:37:53 PM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It is the L.A. Times, Jake.


30 posted on 09/29/2024 6:38:00 PM PDT by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Lighten up Jill. You don’t grasp jack. Get a life slob.


31 posted on 09/29/2024 6:44:28 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The Jamaican/Injun "immigration" plan. Dilute and pollute until America is a third world sewer..)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

..and anyone with a grasp on reality knows it is only by the Grace of God that our country has not had a nuclear attack in the last 4 years.


32 posted on 09/29/2024 6:47:44 PM PDT by mware
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The real danger to America are the people who think national politics and the office of the presidency is a role-playing game. They are completely oblivious to the sinister elements in the World and read from scripts written by hidden authors who treat our country as an Ivy League master thesis.


33 posted on 09/29/2024 6:52:19 PM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

LA Slimes. Enough said.


34 posted on 09/29/2024 7:00:38 PM PDT by ZULU (Remember: ABBEY GATE, Kate Steinle, Joscelyn Nungary, Rachel Morin and Laken Riley. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

As someone who navigated boomers, I’d trust Trump to keep us out of war before I would any democrat, especially the puppets they’ve had in office lately.

Today’s pentagon can’t be trusted and so we need a CinC who will fire them when they step out of line like Trump has.


35 posted on 09/29/2024 7:15:02 PM PDT by MNnice
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Everyone who grasps reality knows never to trust the lying feckless los angeles times


36 posted on 09/29/2024 7:21:59 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: All

“Teaching America’s racist history is first step to addressing inequity”

Jill Lawrence in USA Today, 2022.


37 posted on 09/29/2024 7:30:07 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Many years ago the LATimes banned me from commenting


38 posted on 09/29/2024 7:44:05 PM PDT by Haddit
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I saw it on the intanet, Trump plans to drop a nuke on erryone in da ho werl.


39 posted on 09/29/2024 7:57:23 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

He resolved many existing conflicts and avoided others - and the world has caught on fire under this current administration’s policies since Trump left office - but Trump is more likely to cause a nuclear war to break out?


40 posted on 09/29/2024 8:56:30 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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