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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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TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: 0001bscrap; agitprop; california; gaslighting; jilllawrence; liesliesandmorelies; lol; losangelesslimes; losangelestimes; media; msm; nevertrumper; nevertrumpers; putinista; tds; trump; war
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I honestly come here to avoid garbage like this. Why post this here?

-SB


41 posted on 09/29/2024 9:03:26 PM PDT by Snowybear (Liberalism is a mental disorder)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So wait....

We should prefer Giggles with HER finger on the button.

Or Tampon Tim with the nuclear codes?

Or BIDEN?!?!?!?!


42 posted on 09/29/2024 9:04:19 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus”)
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To: norwaypinesavage
Anyone who grasps leadership knows Harris can’t be trusted to run anything.

Except her pantyhose.

It's easy to put a run in those.

43 posted on 09/29/2024 9:05:27 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus”)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Bingo. Reagan was going to get us all nuked. That dude was a crazy warmonger. And then he went and won the Cold War without firing a shot.

As with Trump and NK.

Yet to date, he's one of the few that had a war free term, the only one who's ever met with whatever his name is, and got him to disarm and behave himself.

44 posted on 09/29/2024 9:07:14 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus”)
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To: Snowybear
I honestly come here to avoid garbage like this. Why post this here? -SB

Because 43 other people and counting were interested in it and you aren't the center of the universe?

Just thinking out loud here.

45 posted on 09/29/2024 9:13:00 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Opinion: Everyone who says Trump shouldn’t be trusted shouldn’t be trusted.


46 posted on 09/29/2024 10:09:36 PM PDT by Hootowl
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If you get your news and opinions from the LA Times you just might be a communist.


47 posted on 09/29/2024 10:14:21 PM PDT by McGruff (Ask everyone, Are you better off than you were four years ago?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
People are being manipulated and controlled, yes. This morning TASS published this and it is serious stuff.

https://tass.com/defense/1848637
The changes in the Russian nuclear doctrine announced by President Vladimir Putin are due to the deterioration of the military-political situation in the world and new threats and security challenges to the Russian Federation, Igor Korotchenko, Editor-in-Chief of the National Defense Journal writes.

If the United States delivers a strike at us with air or seaborne cruise missiles, we shall now consider it a casus belli and can retaliate by nuclear weapons at the USA. It is the supreme commander-in-chief to decide whether strikes by long-range precision US or UK missiles deep in Russia from the territory of Ukraine should be considered a casus belli. He will decide how Russia would react in any specific case and which weapons – conventional or nuclear - to engage.

48 posted on 09/30/2024 12:36:52 AM PDT by jdt1138 (Where ever you go, there you are.)
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To: Snowybear

OP is a communist agent...


49 posted on 09/30/2024 12:39:01 AM PDT by jdt1138 (Where ever you go, there you are.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

There are few greater enemies than the #EneMedia.


50 posted on 09/30/2024 2:19:46 AM PDT by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see. #MAGA-A)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Want nuclear war? Vote Harris.

Trump via strength will de-escalate.

These same kind of left scum said the same thing about Reagan. He’s the reason the Wall fell.

These left scum are stupid, ignorant, or just plain evil.

To be fair a lot of the young left scum were corrupted by a toxic “education system.” Sigh.

To paraphrase Hitler, Stalin, and Mao (I could go more ancient history), own the children, own the future. The NEA has done this for decades.


51 posted on 09/30/2024 2:39:45 AM PDT by piytar (Remember Ashli Babbitt and Rosanne Boyland!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Nope :)

It SEEMS as if WWIII isn’t quite as improbable as I once though, what with those pesky nukes and such :)

But biden/harris have done it!!

They’ve made it possible!

So talented :)

There was no feeling that WWIII was even close to being at hand under Trump.

Now there is.

There can be a WWIII without nukes...but for how long?

We need the world to avoid it for almost 4 more months.

Until Trump ends the insanity.


52 posted on 09/30/2024 2:41:18 AM PDT by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: DownInFlames

Her IQ is actually about 78 per some reports. Qualifies as mental retardation.

People, we are not running against Harris. She is simply a stupid sock puppet. We are trying to hold the line against the people running the imbeciles Biden and Harris who they can manipulate to take down the US and forment more wars.

They won a round in2020 and see what wars have ensued.

Some of you know some of the names. Soros is the least of them.


53 posted on 09/30/2024 2:55:30 AM PDT by piytar (Remember Ashli Babbitt and Rosanne Boyland!)
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To: Rdct29

Well said.


54 posted on 09/30/2024 2:56:25 AM PDT by piytar (Remember Ashli Babbitt and Rosanne Boyland!)
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To: piytar

Sorry for the typos - big hands, small phone. Sigh.


55 posted on 09/30/2024 2:59:46 AM PDT by piytar (Remember Ashli Babbitt and Rosanne Boyland!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Is that “projection”? So many terms for all the various ways they bukksh** and lie.


56 posted on 09/30/2024 3:50:21 AM PDT by GrumpyOldGuy
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Orange Man didn’t nuke anybody last time. What makes these Angelenos think he would now?


57 posted on 09/30/2024 5:09:12 AM PDT by Srednik (Polyglot. Overeducated. Redeemed by Christ. Anticommunist from the womb.)
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To: DownInFlames

What I find especially frightening is that Harris is falsely presenting herself as a nitwit with an IQ of 80 TO GET ELECTED. Idiocy is a strategic feature, not a bug.

Is this because:
1) Playing the fool lets her evade disclosing her real platform and policies, which would derail her completely.
2) She knows that only gullible idiots would vote for her, so she’s going all in, while winking out the occasional Marxian Spock Thought to signal to the intellectual Leftists that she is actually as brilliant as they are, only pretending.
3) She is a racist, who believes that acting brainless establishes her black identity.
4) She’s making sure the Deep State knows she will be a compliant puppet.
5) All of the above.


58 posted on 09/30/2024 8:40:49 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It’s the old Johnson attack on Barry Goldwater. Trump is the least likely candidate to use nuclear weapons since George McGovern. Trump was President for four years, never threatened to use nuclear weapons, and voluntarily left office, despite the fraudulent result of the 2020 election. How did ultra-Dem Jill Lawrence miss that?


59 posted on 09/30/2024 8:53:05 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Everyone blah blah blah…“

Sounds like something a mean girl from the 6th grade would say…


60 posted on 09/30/2024 8:59:54 AM PDT by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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