The World Is Getting Dangerous

[vorlon13]

And we have known unknowns and unknown unknowns.

For instance, tests of stored tissue samples has shown the incidence of HIV was already around 5% in the gay populations of New York City and San Francisco, in 1978. It wouldn't be till the summer of 1981 the CDC would flag something odd was happening in regards to PCP and KS.

The significance of nukes and delivery mechanisms (shipping container on a cargo ship in a harbor anyone?) is we know about it. It's those goddam surprises that throw wrenches into the best laid plans.

A big earthquake located somewhere unusual*l, odd ground track for a hurricane, dam failure, hell, there is a new fucking weed loose south of here that has the potential to devastate corn and soy production, and it's not on the national radar yet. What will be the zika/ebola/WNF or 2017? What happens if a 15 year old with a drone downs a fully loaded 747?

There's a shit load of shit we don't effin' know about.



* like that magnitude 5.8 in Washington DC a few years ago, what if it had been a 7?

[Fireball]

My only hope is that the people around them can keep the djinn in the bottle.

Have you taken a good look at the turds that Drumpf has surrounded himself with?

Don't get me wrong! He's got a coterie of people who think like him, but maybe, just maybe, they have a shred more restraint than he does. It's gonna be bumpy, I will agree.

[Opoponax]

The nuclear thing is frightening because we have no control over it whatsoever, and a thin-skinned narcissist who doesn't seem to understand that other people actually exist has the power to use them, and has openly wondered why we haven't used them.

We can vote people out of office and protest this or that, but once the button is pushed we're all well and truly fucked. And we've never had anyone that can begin to approach how dangerous Trump appears to be. And to add to that shit-heap are tens of millions of Americans who are, some-fucking-how, oblivious to the danger, and so support him in every word and deed.

Of course the world has always been dangerous. Nobody denies that. But the world is now suddenly more dangerous than it's ever been because of the cavalier attitude Trump and his supporters have toward the use of nuclear weapons.

[vorlon13]

Makes the congressional races in 2018 all the more important. Yet the dems are still fucking WASTING TIME when they should be thinking about 2018 NOW.

[abaris]

When two psychopaths have control of nuclear weapons?  Yeah.  This is something new.

Nixon got stopped by that shithead Kissinger, who nonetheless was a realist and experienced politician. Nothing of that sort in Trump's environment.

So I'm less afraid of a little dictator, who wants to enjoy the good life and has nothing to gain by setting off nukes.

[Thumpalumpacus]

For as long as there have been people, they have killed each other at the whim of the most wretched among them. They die screaming, by the thousands. Extermination in nuclear fire would be a logical conclusion to what preceded it.

[Pat Mustard]

Makes the congressional races in 2018 all the more important.  Yet the dems are still fucking WASTING TIME when they should be thinking about 2018 NOW.

You honestly think the Republitraitors will let your vote be countex in 2018, after all the shit they pulled in November to have Trump annointed?

[vorlon13]

I'd rather have the dems try and lose, than to have the bastards crawl up their own asshole and die like they are doing now

[brewer]

Just gonna mention Kennedy/Khrushchev. Nuf said.

[vorlon13]

why isn't anyone (besides me) bringing up Boris Yeltsin ?