Morford: Trump Impeachment Watch: Mother of all bombs edition

[niyad]

Trump Impeachment Watch: “Mother of all bombs” edition
By Mark Morford on April 14, 2017 at 9:38 AM



$16 million each. We had 20 of them. Now we have 19.


lso comes in bright, shiny orange


Did it work? Were you distracted? By “the mother of all bombs” (MOAB, which actually stands for Massive Ordnance Air Blast, which is no less juvenile) the thoroughly grotesque, $16-million, 11-ton monster of doom our very own orange monster of doom sort of maybe allowed to have dropped on ISIS caves, killing a few dozen Islamic fighters (at a cost of, oh, about $450,000 per) and creating hundreds more in instantly raging counter-recruitment?

It was, as breathlessly reported just about everywhere, “the largest non-nuclear device ever dropped by American forces,” which sounds impressive, but actually isn’t, considering its absurd expense and near-complete ineffectiveness at actually changing anything – but mostly considering how the bomb will ultimately fail its primary task – eliminating the endless delights of #RussiaGate, AKA the imminent impeachment gift that keeps on giving.

Be not distracted. Not by Trump’s spitwad-grade understanding of military and foreign policy, nor any other of his acts of buffoonery and moral violence of the week – like China’s president forced to school our imbecile-in-chief on basic North Korean relations, or Trump’s complete reversal on the value of NATO, or his signing of a vicious law – in secret, of course – allowing states to completely defund Planned Parenthood, because women are very important to the president the way a bird is important to a shotgun.



Be hereby advised: Neither Trump’s vicious incompetence nor his macho, phallic posturing are any sort of match for what’s coming in the Russia investigation, as evidenced by the endlessly gathering storm-clouds of intel constantly swirling, surging, quieting down for an hour only to leap into view all over again, much to the orange goblin’s dismay.

Here’s a nice, current headline, from Slate, retweeted by savvy wonks everywhere and only slightly/temporarily overshadowed by MoaB coverage:

Guardian Report Claims U.S. Has “Concrete Evidence” of Trump-Russia Collusion


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http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2017/04/14/trump-impeachment-watch-mother-of-all-bombs-edition/#photo-791732

[ananda]

1. So, what then?

They're just sittin' on it ... the evidence I mean, not the bomb.

(That would be Dr. 45 Strangelove)

[burnbaby]

5. lol

visualizing sitting on the bomb

[L. Coyote]

2. One Moab can pay the salary of every teacher in Afghanistan for a month.

Maybe we should bomb the shit out of ignorance instead.

[niyad]

3. come on--you mean, actually do something useful and intelligent and productive?

[L. Coyote]

4. That would violate the only rule of acquisition.

1.) Always profit.

[pbmus]

6. Cost of MOAB has been misreported

The actual cost is 170,000

http://www.businessinsider.com/real-cost-of-moab-mother-of-all-bombs-170-000-2017-4

[niyad]

7. rigggghhhhht. because the military always tells the truth. we know what the program costs,

and we supposedly know how many of those things they have. simple math.

[pbmus]

8. If a 1000 pound bomb costs 12,000

Why do you think the Moab would cost 16 million... ??

Or do you want to believe to fit narrative...

[L. Coyote]

9. kick for visibility