Posted on 03/23/2024 6:09:36 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Hell on Earth. Washington, DC, Possibly Sometime in the Near Future
A 1-megaton thermonuclear weapon detonation begins with a flash of light and heat so tremendous it is impossible for the human mind to comprehend. One hundred and eighty million degrees Fahrenheit is four or five times hotter than the temperature at the center of the sun.
In the first fraction of a millisecond after the bomb strikes the Pentagon, there is light. Soft X-ray light with a very short wavelength. The light superheats the surrounding air to millions of degrees, creating a massive fire-ball that expands at millions of miles per hour. Within seconds, this fireball increases to a diameter of a little more than a mile, its light and heat so intense that concrete surfaces explode, metal objects melt or evaporate, stone shatters, humans instantaneously convert into combusting carbon. The five-story, five-sided structure and everything inside its 6.5 million square feet of office space explodes into superheated dust; all 27,000 Pentagon employees perishing instantly.
Not a single thing in the fireball remains. Nothing. Ground zero is zeroed.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
If Washington wiped out by nuclear, we would just order some cherry trees after we stop celebrating.
Why stop at 1-megaton? Why not Operation Castle Bravo, 16-megatons?
“I watched “Jericho” faithfully when it was on CBS. Great show.
I’ve recently started watching it again on Paramount Plus. I find it more unsettling than when it originally aired.”
The show came out in 2006. At the time, none of this current reality was on our radar. The theme of the show seemed like far-fetched fiction. None of us could have foreseen Obama, the stolen election and this current Marxist tyranny... much less the deliberate destruction of our economy and orchestrated invasion of illegals.
Now? It’s almost as if the writers were trying to warn us. An inside job conspiracy by people that only value power, not freedom in America. Kind of like the Black Swan and false flags events that we are now fearing and anticipating happening to derail the next election. Unsettling is a vast understatement.
What would happen to DC if attacked by a nuclear weapon………we couldn’t possibly get that lucky!!!
I’m headed to the liquor store to get party supplies.
As long as Keifer Sutherland isn’t there.
“What would happen to DC if attacked by a nuclear weapon………we couldn’t possibly get that lucky!!!”
Oh sure we could. The way our luck is going, Congress would be in recess.... only non-leftist workers would be in town... and all of the real bad guys would relocate to Richmond, Virginia or some other unfortunate state. The nation would, of course, be thrown into chaos, thus allowing Martial Law to be enacted... requiring that all guns be confiscated by foreign military thugs.
Be careful what you wish for.
Whoever bombed us would be destroyed, leaving us to start over, maybe the brain dead voters in this country would finally get the message.
One of my favorite comics. That and the one where a married couple are down in their shelter, surrounded by canned goods, and she is ragging on him for forgetting a can opener.
Within hours there would be a champagne shortage.
;-)
That entire complex. Plus the Air and Space Museums. The National Archives. The Library of Congress. The monuments.
Which is why the neutron bomb was developed. To exterminate the parasites infesting and degrading our legacy while preserving the important records, materials and resources accounting for our nation's achievements.
When the cops told me I should move out of an area of Nashville compromised by illegal aliens and stop fighting them before they killed me I listened...much that it hurt to give up the battlefield. Any patriotic people still residing in D.C. (or near Maryland) should know better by now that their neighbors are 95% rat bastards and do the same.
Just a thought: we could de-centralize our Federal gov’t:
IDEA:
CREATE VIRTUAL CONGRESS TO STOP WITH BUSINESS AS USUAL WITH TELECOMMUTING PLAN
Close Capitol Staff Buildings and other government properties in DC. Monies generated from sale and eliminated maintenance designated to national treasury.
DONATE Capitol Bldg to Smithsonian to be used only for Inauguration, State of the Union or to declare war.
Mandate agencies be combined in 2 office buildings with other unused properties sold or developed to be used: house homeless veterans, retirement or skilled care condominiums or federally subsidized housing for welfare recipients and enlarge Arlington Cemetery.
NOTE: Federal agencies own nearly half a million buildings, occupying 3.3 billion square feet. “The buildings alone represent enough space to fit 1.4 million average-sized new American homes.A 2009 government report by the Federal Real Property Council indicates that the agencies themselves don’t even know how to use that much space. Of the 429,000 federal buildings, about 11 percent were underutilized in 2009. The definition for under-utilization varies by building type, but the data indicates that 15 percent to 50 percent of the underutilized buildings’ capacity is simply not being used. Even more egregious, about 2.4 percent of federal buildings — more than 10,000 — are designated as excess buildings, which means they have been “formally identified as having no further program use.”
FEDERAL WASTE: buildings generate real operation and maintenance costs. In 2009 alone, the cost of maintaining federal excess buildings was $134 million, and the operating cost of underutilized buildings was $1.7 billion. The additional waste associated with the unused capacity of underutilized buildings is between $250 and $830 million YEARLY!
https://www.aei.org/publication/the-governments-property-bloat/
COLLATERAL SAVINGS:
1. Little to no transportation per Representative/Senator.
2. Hold town hall meetings every Monday throughout own state.
3. Use of electronic communication for voting, committee meetings, etc. open to Sunshine Laws
4. No need for Senator & Representative duplication of housing, offices, staff
5. More environmental ‘friendly’ reducing: paper waste, reduction electricity,
6. Eliminate Congressional travel expense.
7. One-Third of Federal Government less vulnerable to Washington D.C. terrorist attack
POLITICAL BENEFITS:
1. Reduce lobbyists control over government
2. Representatives/Senators more responsive to their constituents
3. Increase accountability while reducing moral temptations for Representatives/Senators
ARTICLE with similar viewpoint
March 22, 2013, 10:22 pm
GOP lawmaker seeks ‘virtual Congress’ By Jennifer Martinez
Rep. Steve Pearce (R-N.M.) wants to create a “virtual Congress,” where lawmakers would leverage videoconferencing and other remote work technology to conduct their daily duties in Washington from their home districts. Under a resolution Pearce introduced on Thursday, lawmakers would be able to hold hearings, debate and vote on legislation virtually from their district offices.
“Thanks to modern technology, members of Congress can debate, vote, and carry out their constitutional duties WITHOUT having to leave the accountability and personal contact of their congressional districts. Keeping legislators closer to the people we represent would pull back Washington’s curtain and allow constituents to see and feel, first-hand, their government at work,” Pearce told The Hill in a statement.
“Corporations and government agencies use remote work technology; it’s time that Congress does the same,” the New Mexico Republican said. He introduced the same resolution during the last congressional session.
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/289947-republican-proposes-letting-lawmakers-work-from-home
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