Trump: 'We'll handle North Korea'

[highplainsdem]

Source: The Hill

President Trump on Monday predicted the U.S. would curb North Korea’s nuclear program, days after the rogue nation conducted its latest test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).

“We’ll handle North Korea. We’ll be able to handle North Korea. It will be handled. We handle everything,” Trump told reporters during a Cabinet meeting at the White House.

North Korea last Friday launched its second ballistic missile in less than a month, raising grave concerns about Pyongyang’s capabilities to strike the U.S. mainland.

Experts believe the IBCM could potentially hit the U.S. West Coast. American presidents have long vowed to prevent North Korea from gaining such a weapon.

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Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/344591-trump-well-handle-north-korea

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

1. The Fuhrer-in-Chief needs to handle HIMSELF... the stupid fuck is goin to get us ALL killed!!

[Eliot Rosewater]

53. Hey look, yes he is likely to get ALL of us killed, but my

rightwing (fill in the blank, cousin, friend, neighbor) wanted a $300 tax cut (average tax cut if trump gets his way for middle class vs $300,000 or 3 million for rich people) so yes, to get that tax cut it was worth RISKING ALL LIFE AS WE KNOW IT!

And I havent even gone down the road that I am forbidden to go down here, as to who said what about you know who last year.

[madaboutharry]

2. More words that mean nothing.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. SCROTUS should go off somewhere and "handle" himself,

since he can't seem to handle any other damn thing.

[tblue37]

4. Like a 3-year-old's magical thinking. nt

[TexasProgresive]

5. A translation of tRumpspeak into English

“We’ll handle North Korea. We’ll be able to handle North Korea. It will be handled. We handle everything,” = There is no plan and we just hope it goes away."

[Botany]

14. The man is an idiot. He said handle 4 times and just but in reality he said nothing.

“We’ll handle North Korea. We’ll be able to handle North Korea. It will be handled. We handle everything,” Trump told
reporters during a Cabinet meeting at the White House.

[azureblue]

45. he's doing the thing losers do

repeating the to try convince himself he can actually do it.... Which he can't. He can't handle his own weenie when he goes to pee.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. And North Korea, hearing our Fearless Leader promise to "handle" it,

will presumably do nothing in preparation. Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure!

[riversedge]

7. egods!! that comment is sickening!

[INdemo]

8. It doesnt take a rocket scientist to figure out that NK is getting help

from China or Russia or both. These advances in their missile program is happening way too fast without any outside help.

[RKP5637]

26. Yes, I think the same. n/t

[maryellen99]

30. Yep I agree Trump is being played by both China and Russia nt

[RKP5637]

37. And Trump is too stupid to comprehend what is really going on! n/t

[maryellen99]

39. Yes he has no idea nt

[azureblue]

47. he's way too self deluded

he has detached himself from reality and is living up inside his head, in a world where everyone bows down to him and everything he does is a huge success. AKA, totally nuts...

[RKP5637]

61. Yes, a VERY delusional sociopathic authoritarian individual. n/t

[politicat]

75. I'm not so sure on China. Russia, maybe. Disaffected former Soviet engineers? Likely.

China tolerates Lil Kim, but they treat him like a big family treats the crazy drunk cousin with the conspiracy theories: they invite him to holidays, but they water down the booze. He's family, so they deal with it. But they're not giving him the good booze or matches and the turkey fryer -- they know they don't want to deal with that fire on their backside, or taking in cray cousin's brood of feral children when cray cousin wraps his Fiero around a tree.

Russia does seem curiously blind in NK's direction, and I mean that literally. Their radar at DPRK is either really shitty or they lie very consistently about what they see on launches. (As in, their math always works exactly as if their radar is myopic at the exact same degree.) That could be intentional, or they could be just good and consistent on that lie. They've got a lot of empty territory (populated mostly with people who aren't racially pure Slavs) between Moscow and the bulk of their population and Lil Kim, so they could consider him a minor risk for which they may need billions of pounds of concrete someday.

My bet is DPRK found some former Soviet engineers who couldn't make it into the Russian mil or private sector, coupled with a very well trained generation of math and engineering brains who know what's possible with ballistics, and rely on some old plans plus reverse engineering and refining. Pay the engineers well, ensure they've got what they want.

Lil Kim is not stupid. He's an asshole, but we err at our own peril if we don't credit him with social skills for his own culture and intellectual brains.

[Corvo Bianco]

76. How would China benefit from North Korean missle threats against the USA?

Sincerely asking.

[harun]

80. China is expanding militarily all over the Pacific. Want the attention off of them

and on NK so no one trys to stop them. They can also claim they are just trying to stabilize the region and make the argument of "You want us controlling these areas, or North Korea?"

[icymist]

77. Try Iran. They just launched a rocket capable of carrying a satellite into orbit.

I know this may sound like CT, but think of NK as a test lab for Iran.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/report-iran-successfully-launches-satellite-carrying-rocket/2017/07/27/6385734a-72cb-11e7-8c17-533c52b2f014_story.html

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran successfully launched its most advanced satellite-carrying rocket into space, the country’s state media reported Thursday, in what is likely the most significant step yet for the launch vehicle.

A confirmed launch of the “Simorgh” rocket would mark another step forward for the Islamic Republic’s young space program, but is likely to raise alarm among its adversaries, who fear the same technology could be used to produce long-range missiles.

The U.S. State Department called the launch “provocative.”

Iranian state television said the rocket, whose name means “phoenix” in Persian, is capable of carrying a satellite weighing 250 kilograms (550 pounds). The report did not elaborate on the rocket’s payload. Other state-linked agencies including the semi-official Fars news agency also described the launch as successful.

[harun]

79. Certainly what I was thinking. Russia and/or China using the regime to keep

the heat off of what they are up to.

[jpak]

9. Paper Tiger

yup

[Xipe Totec]

10. Step back, he's gonna tweet! nt

[Achilleaze]

11. Spoken like a true five-time republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

who has shown no true respect for America's men and women serving honorably in the Armed Forces. Disgraceful.

[lunasun]

36. +1 never saw that cartoon before now .

[demigoddess]

55. never a truer sentiment expressed so well!!

as a military brat, I have seen the results of wars. Most started by the stupid republicans.

[NRaleighLiberal]

12. well now, I feel so much better....

[Moostache]

13. If you have any loved ones in or around Seoul, try to convince them to leave ASAP...

The Mad King is going to incite a firebombing of Seoul and if we're lucky not a nuclear attack.

I am utterly convinced that he WANTS to fire off nukes, that he believes that will cement his "legacy" and stamp his name on history in as garish a way as his hideous signs do on skylines.

I have NEVER loathed another human being with a tenth of the vitriol I feel for him. If I had the chance to piss on him or watch him burn to death, he would be a cinder and I would ask for popcorn.

[maryellen99]

16. I'm becoming frightened nt

[Doreen]

24. There is only one person I have ever loathed until trump.

That is my father who abused me in every way that a parent can abuse a child. I loath trump more than my father ( a lot more ) and that is bad. Trump is abusing the whole country and the whole world. He is evil.

[lunasun]

34. Oh you can bet this administration and thier fans are against taking any refugees if this happens

[secondwind]

42. Can't blame you for saying that, Moostache... you spoke for me as well.

[smirkymonkey]

44. +1000

Ditto, word for word.

[NickB79]

68. If recent research is even close to accurate, we're ALL in trouble with just a few nukes going off

Like, we should all be stocking up on canned food, 55-gallon drums of water, vegetable seeds and shotgun shells: http://climatenewsnetwork.net/nuclear-war-would-set-off-climate-catastrophe/

This is based upon an exchange of 100, 15 KT warheads. Be aware that most nuclear devices today are FAR larger than 15 KT; that is the size of the bombs we used in WWII.

Once exploded, such a strike would incinerate 1,300 square kilometres of a city and its surrounds. This would be quite enough to push five million metric tons of black carbon smoke particles into the stratosphere.

This would be enough to screen solar radiation, reduce the agricultural crop season by between 10 and 40 days a year for at least five years, and lower global temperatures to a point lower than normal for at least 25 years.

In the very short term, this cold snap would be colder than anything for the last 1,000 years. Rainfall would decrease by as much as 20% to 80% in the Asian monsoon region.

The American southwest and western Australia could become 20% to 60% drier. South America and southern Africa, too, would see less rain. This global “nuclear drought” and the resulting famines “could kill up to a billion people from starvation.”

China's largest bomb could theoretically alter the climate with one strike: http://www.zmescience.com/ecology/world-problems/nuclear-autumn-04322/

The conclusion was stark. The US, Russia, and China all have weapons that could trigger a nuclear autumn by detonating no more than five bombs. China’s DF-5 ICBM, armed with a single 5-megaton warhead, can alone trigger a nuclear autumn. If the DF-5 were to be detonated over Los Angeles, the 5 megaton warhead would have a fireball more than two miles wide, and guarantee third degree burns 15 miles from the point of detonation.

“The use of only one 5-MT land-based missile deployed by China could burn an area similar in size to that of one hundred 15-KT explosions. Alternatively, if the United States dropped only three 1.2-MT bombs, or used two Trident D5 SLBM (each with four 475-KT warheads), the size of the explosions would exceed the land area required to produce similar climate impacts. Use of only four 800-KT Russian ICBMs or ten 300-KT French gravity bombs would also have similar climate impacts. Thus, use of as few as 1 to 10 deployed nuclear weapons, and fewer than 25 of these prevalent types, from the five official nuclear weapons countries could produce a nuclear drought,” the authors wrote.

The last part I highlighted sounds an awful lot like what I'd expect Trump to launch if NK detonated a nuke over SK.

[madokie]

74. We can only hope the real powers to be

have put up a firewall between little hands and the nukes

He can't be trusted for anything anytime

[uppityperson]

15. Don knows verb tenses. The best tenses.

[NastyRiffraff]

18. Too bad he doesn't know many verbs!

His vocabulary and speech patterns (and Twitter patterns, same thing for him) are those of a 5 year old child. A not too bright child. I'm reminded of the Dick and Jane books we read in first grade.

[RKP5637]

35. Exactly the same! He uses the same simple stupid statements over and over, the

same phraseology and the same trite words.

[vkkv]

17. Oh gawd.. great.. nt

[Javaman]

19. the king of non-confrontation is not going to do a damn thing.

growing up in NYC we called guys like tRump; a mook.

the real definition is an idiot or a jerk.

but among my friends and I, we had our own definition: it's the guy that wants to be tough by hanging around with tough people. but he himself is not tough. you could easily kick his ass but he had tough friends that would come and find you. So he would always get his way not because he was smart, not because he was tough, but only because he had connections.

tRump is a mook.

[RKP5637]

33. And that's how he worked the real estate world IMO. The guy himself is a dope. The term

mook suites him perfectly.

[Duppers]

20. Current CNN headline: 'Time for talk is over': US grapples for new approach on North Korea

It was a seemingly stark admission -- the US ambassador to the UN suggesting the North Korean crisis couldn't be solved through diplomatic channels in the Security Council.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/31/asia/north-korea-china-sanctions/index.html

[Zambero]

21. And coming soon:

Who would EVER have guessed that North Korea could be so complicated?!?

[Cryptoad]

22. Send them an Ugly Twit,,,,,,, dadda teach em!

who knew this was going to be so easy,,,,,,,"Hey Kelly get my golf cubs and lets hit the links....."

[ProgressiveValue]

23. He really wants to be known as a President to use a nuke.

He is too stupid to realize that the majority of North Korea are innocent people under oppression. Or maybe he doesn't give a shit and just wants to wipe everyone out for the sins of their insane dictator.

[RKP5637]

31. Trump is an authoritarian sociopath. He has no feelings. Plus, he's stupid and on top of that

he has no idea WTF he's doing.

[demigoddess]

56. + 1000

I think that is the way he wants to make a name for himself.

[usaf-vet]

25. What is this WE s**t you got a mouse nesting in your hair do?

Are are you, the boys and Ivanka...headed to the front lines?

Remember thousand of our US troops and already within missile striking distant of North Korea.

North Korea is lead by an absolutely crazy dictator. Who has never shown compassion for others. Others who might die so he can pat himself on the back.

COME TO THINK OF IT we are in the same crazy world with a crazy leader with NO compassion.

So hopefully our military leaders will refuse to strike North Korea in an undeclared war without Congressional consent.

The UCMJ clearly states a military member may refuse to follow an unlawful, illegal order (undeclared war).

[RKP5637]

29. I think our military leaders will refuse to do crazy crap for tRump! n/t

[maryellen99]

40. I hope to God not but he's surrounded by rapturists and end timers starting with Pence

[RKP5637]

41. I hate to say it, but Trump looks good in comparison to Pence. Pence, is a real wacko! n/t

[maryellen99]

59. Yes but hopefully he'll be taken down by Mueller nt

[RKP5637]

62. And there must be some very shady shenanigans in the tRump empire! n/t

[RKP5637]

27. Mr. Masculine Donald J. tRump has spoken. As the world says LOL. He looks/acts/speaks

like a buffoon! How embarrassing.

[MGKrebs]

28. Is that one of them there "Executive Orders"?

To: Kellyanne Conway

You are hereby ordered to handle North Korea.

[elehhhhna]

60. He sent it to jaRED but Jarhead

Doesnt read emails to the bottom. Or the title.

[lunasun]

32. His Secret plan to obliterate ISIS ? Still secret

[muriel_volestrangler]

38. It's too big for Trump's tiny hands! Quick! Send up the Jaredsignal!

The Swiss Army Knife of Trumpian foreign policy will surely handle this handful handily.

[PearliePoo2]

43. Remember when Joe Scarborough reported that when BLOTUS was getting Nat. Security briefings..

...three fucking times he asked, "Why do we have nukes if we're not going to use them?" Three TIMES he asked!
And NOW, he's scared shitless hearing Mueller's footsteps coming for him, he might well be the fatally wounded rat backed in a corner and STRIKE. He'll be the WAR President for the catastrophic diversion of all time.

I can only hope that given their proximity, General Kelly and Mattis will do the unthinkable but necessary action as Patriots (that I won't put in words here) and take one for the team (and the planet).

Seoul will be obliterated and Japan will get hit hard too. They are already drilling and practicing going to shelters!
Holy fuck

[smirkymonkey]

48. It's awful that the Japanese and South Koreans have to live in mortal fear not just from one madman,

but now from two. One of who is very likely to provoke the other one into unleashing nuclear weapons on those nations because he has to prove how "manly" and "strong" he is. He doesn't care how many people will die or how many lives will be ruined. All he cares about is his fucking ego and his image. He is the most disgusting human being alive.

[IronLionZion]

67. 2-man rule, General Mattis would have to agree

and I highly doubt he would agree to launch. General Kelly would probably talk Trump down from it or distract him somehow.

I hope.

It's times like this when I wish we had the president who got the most votes.

[miyazaki]

46. He needs to be yanked now, no time for Mueller.

Jesus Christ.

[ElementaryPenguin]

70. You're right!

IMMEDIATELY isn't even soon enough!!

[Vinnie From Indy]

49. Trump is too stupid to keep secrets - We will bomb N Korea soon!

When Trump says "It will be handled" he means that the plans are already in the works and have been approved.

[maryellen99]

63. Yep may God help us all nt

[HughBeaumont]

50. You couldn't handle a 3-7 Lego set, RoadkillHead.

Seriously, how's that whole "Shake things up!" horseshit looking now, Trumpkins?

I also don't have any hope for a "burn it down, rise like a Phoenix" strategy based on who Americans think is a great idea to run our country. We keep sending corporate fuck-up after bought-and-paid-for fuck up to Washington and continue to do so despite Corporatists having the worst shit-bad record when it comes to issues domestic and foreign, all because voters want to believe stories and narratives from Australian Reaganites and wingnut carnival barkers on cable TV. There is going to be NO progressive future at the rate we're going now.

[CanonRay]

51. I have a bad feeling

those words are going to com back to haunt us all.

[SHRED]

52. Fucking kook.

[Doug the Dem]

54. Like "we've" handled everything ELSE the past six months?

May the gods preserve us!

[AJT]

57. "handle" is the new "great"

[Nitram]

58. Blah, blah, blah.

[LudwigPastorius]

64. He's going to try a limited strike,...

which will only ensure that a million Koreans and Japanese are incinerated, that the North Koreans will rally around their leader, and that the DPRK will race to complete the construction of a functioning nuclear ICBM arsenal.

As a bonus, China will turn the screws on the US and throw us into economic turmoil.

[FairWinds]

65. This policy is insane . .

(The Hill, 2/8/17) "The reality is that when it comes to using the bomb, the president has almost complete autonomy with no institutional checks and balances. There are no interagency meetings, congressional hearings, Supreme Court decisions, or UN votes."

I cannot imagine anything more in violation of the letter and spirit of the US constitution than this.

Absent hearings and Congressional votes, at the very least, I would advise launch officers to treat
orders to fire nukes as illegal, and refuse to obey.

Veterans For Peace

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

66. Those aren't reassuring words coming from Trump. He can't handle anything. n/t

[turbinetree]

69. Great, Mickey Mouse with orange hair says and predicted.................

President Trump on Monday predicted the U.S. would curb North Korea’s nuclear program, days after the rogue nation conducted its latest test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).

“We’ll handle North Korea. We’ll be able to handle North Korea. It will be handled. We handle everything,” Trump told reporters during a Cabinet meeting at the White House.

How many f*cking times can you say "handle" as f*cking verb..............apparently four times and the world could possible get this






That's what is scary, since zippy the sexual predator has no f*cking clue, none

[6000eliot]

71. Does the press have to treat this gibberish as if it's an actual response?

[maryellen99]

72. I could him seeing him attempting a limited strike and then the SHTF fairly quickly nt

[Sunlei]

73. the only country left trump can BuLlY. Mr. trump why don't you ask russia to close the NK ferry?

to afraid to open that can of wurms with Russia and China? Open seas, open shipping lane between those 3 'allies'

[Kablooie]

78. God I hope not. If Trump is forced into war with N K we are doomed.

All the damage Trump has done to himself would be wiped out as we would be forced to support him in defending our country.
And as commander of all the US Forces we would be sure to have the worst military strategy ever devised which would mean millions would die, probably on both sides of the Pacific.

[area51]

81. More evidence of Trump's dementia

He keeps repeating the same word over and over. His vocabulary is so limited in comparison to when he was younger.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

82. Why does he say essentially the same sentence four times in a row?

He sounds like such a moron.