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TheBlackAdder

(28,182 posts)
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 11:27 AM Nov 2020

Trump: "I'm Insignificant? I'll Show You! Is There Anything Preventing Me From Nuking Arkansas?"

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Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) on Sunday said that his administration is working with President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team because President Donald Trump’s words are “not quite as significant” after losing.

“The courts have not seen evidence of such extensive fraud,” Hutchinson said of the election. “Scores of courts have looked at that and so that’s why the General Services Administration recognized Vice President Biden as president-elect. He is president-elect. We need to work on that transition.”

“The worst thing that could happen is that we do no have a smooth handoff when it comes to our vaccine distribution,” the governor explained. “That takes that transition to start now and I’m grateful that it has.”



https://www.rawstory.com/2020/11/gop-governor-explains-why-hes-working-with-biden-the-words-of-president-trump-are-not-quite-as-significant/



We all know Trump will do something to that state or governor in the next few days.

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Klaralven

(7,510 posts)
2. They've come close before
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 11:50 AM
Nov 2020

The Damascus Titan missile explosion (also called the Damascus accident[1]) was a 1980 U.S. Broken Arrow incident involving a Titan II Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM). The incident occurred on September 18–19, 1980, at Missile Complex 374-7 in rural Arkansas when a U.S. Air Force LGM-25C Titan II ICBM loaded with a 9 megaton W-53 Nuclear Warhead had a liquid fuel explosion inside its silo.

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Early in the morning of Friday, September 19, a two-man PTS investigation team consisting of Senior Airman David Lee Livingston and Sergeant Jeff K. Kennedy entered the silo. Because their vapor detectors indicated an explosive atmosphere, the two were ordered to evacuate. The team was then ordered to reenter the silo to turn on an exhaust fan. Senior airman David Livingston reentered the silo to carry out the order and shortly thereafter, at about 3:00 a.m., the hypergolic fuel exploded – likely due to arcing in the exhaust fan. The initial explosion catapulted the 740-ton silo door away from the silo and ejected the second stage and warhead. Once clear of the silo, the second stage exploded. The W53 warhead landed about 100 feet (30 m) from the launch complex's entry gate; its safety features prevented any loss of radioactive material or nuclear detonation.[5][6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Damascus_Titan_missile_explosion

Cracklin Charlie

(12,904 posts)
7. I lived about 30 miles from there at the time.
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 12:16 PM
Nov 2020

We didn’t even hear about it for several hours.

Of course, I was in college, and may not have had a television.

luvs2sing

(2,220 posts)
9. I grew up with Senior Airman David Livingston.
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 12:31 PM
Nov 2020

One of his older sisters was one of my best friends in elementary school. I remember him as a real prankster, one of the neighborhood clowns. Such a terrible tragedy.

ThoughtCriminal

(14,047 posts)
13. Talk about seeing the light on the road to Damascus
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 05:34 PM
Nov 2020

Lighting up a Titan 2 will do that.

I lived near one of the silos near Tucson for a while and thought about that incident often.


KY_EnviroGuy

(14,489 posts)
5. A few of the Rs seem smart enough to know it's time to move on.....
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 12:07 PM
Nov 2020

to a new set of lies, deceptions and grifts.


The tRump ones have now expired.....

LiberalArkie

(15,708 posts)
10. The Waltons, Koch and all of our other billionaires have instructed hutch to move on.
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 12:56 PM
Nov 2020

Those are who he listens to.

BobTheSubgenius

(11,562 posts)
11. Only a thin-skinned narcissist or a madman would feel threatened by a statement that bland. And true
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 03:23 PM
Nov 2020

So...retaliate he will.

peggysue2

(10,828 posts)
12. Yup!
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 03:29 PM
Nov 2020

Hutchinson will have the long-knives after him after these comments. Particularly suggesting that Trump's words are less significant.

Donald Trump has sliced and diced people for far less.

That being said, it's well past time for these Republicans to act like adults instead of childish cult followers who deny the reality of the world as the country falls apart.

This is the House That Trump Built. Time to apply the torches.

Cha

(297,117 posts)
14. The Gov of Arkansas must know that
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 05:40 PM
Nov 2020

but he said it anyway!

trump has already Whined that he's "ashamed he endorsed Gov Kemp"

peggysue2

(10,828 posts)
16. When it comes to Kemp?
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 06:03 PM
Nov 2020

Trump should keep it up. Because the more distrust Trumpers have for the electoral process in GA, the less likely they are to turn out for the January 5th run-off.

Carry on, I say.

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