# Big Daddy Warbucks' address to the nation about his war **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 2, 2026, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-daddy-warbucks-address-to-the-nation-about-his-war/1028946 "2026-04-02T00:11:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2026, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-daddy-warbucks-address-to-the-nation-about-his-war/1028946/21 "2026-04-02T01:29:48Z")
Just said the US could take out Iran’s warfighting capabilities “in one day”. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2026, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-daddy-warbucks-address-to-the-nation-about-his-war/1028946/22 "2026-04-02T01:30:21Z")
I am reminded of this scene: > **Spock:** Captain, the speech follows no logical pattern. > **Kirk:** Random sentences strung together. > **McCoy:** He looks drugged, Jim. Almost at a cataleptic state. > –_Star Trek The Original Series_, “Patterns of Force” ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2026, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-daddy-warbucks-address-to-the-nation-about-his-war/1028946/23 "2026-04-02T01:32:33Z")
He called one of our ships “the SS Cole”. Surely someone can write a parody of the theme song of _Gilligan’s Island_ to incorporate that. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2026, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-daddy-warbucks-address-to-the-nation-about-his-war/1028946/24 "2026-04-02T01:39:57Z")
And now I’ve reached the end of that stream of absolute bullshit. November 3, 2026 cannot arrive soon enough. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2026, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-daddy-warbucks-address-to-the-nation-about-his-war/1028946/25 "2026-04-02T02:38:25Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > He called one of our ships “the SS Cole”. Surely someone can write a parody of the theme song of _Gilligan’s Island_ to incorporate that. I’m going to give him the benefit of the doubt that his addled mind was thinking the USS Cole, which of course was destroyed by the Israelis. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2026, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-daddy-warbucks-address-to-the-nation-about-his-war/1028946/26 "2026-04-02T02:59:31Z")
He was definitely talking about the USS COLE. But he’s the only adult American who doesn’t know our Navy’s commissioned ships are USS. And what kind of moron brings that up while talking about a war in which Israel is supposedly an ally? ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2026, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-daddy-warbucks-address-to-the-nation-about-his-war/1028946/27 "2026-04-02T03:04:07Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > And what kind of moron brings that up while talking about a war in which Israel is supposedly an ally? The same one who brings up Pearl Harbor to the Japanese Prime Minister as a “gotcha”? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2026, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-daddy-warbucks-address-to-the-nation-about-his-war/1028946/28 "2026-04-02T03:04:29Z")
USS Cole was attacked by Al-Qaeda, but not destroyed. Israel attacked the USS Liberty during the Six-Day war in 1967. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2026, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-daddy-warbucks-address-to-the-nation-about-his-war/1028946/29 "2026-04-02T03:05:55Z")
I wonder what he thinks he accomplished with this talk? Apologies for using the word _thinks_ in a sentence about him. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2026, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-daddy-warbucks-address-to-the-nation-about-his-war/1028946/30 "2026-04-02T03:17:51Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > Israel attacked the USS Liberty during the Six-Day war in 1967. I stand corrected. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2026, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-daddy-warbucks-address-to-the-nation-about-his-war/1028946/31 "2026-04-02T03:18:02Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > About the girls’ school, I think it’s pretty obvious that the girls blew up the school themselves in chemistry class. Surely everyone can see that. I laughed out loud. Thank you! 😆 > [@Monty](#): > > Whoever said he’d say “nobody’s ever seen” just won a Qupi doll. > > He also said the war–actually he said excursion–would end “very soon”. > > Now he’s taking questions. > > “Nobody’s ever heard.” Another one (from a very brief clip that I managed to watch) was “everyone is saying …”. Apparently everyone is saying how terrifically well this war is going, thanks to the leadership of the Great Orange Shitstain, certainly the greatest military strategist in history. ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2026, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-daddy-warbucks-address-to-the-nation-about-his-war/1028946/32 "2026-04-02T04:51:51Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > I’m going to take one for the teeming millions. Thank you, Monty. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2026, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-daddy-warbucks-address-to-the-nation-about-his-war/1028946/33 "2026-04-02T05:17:47Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > He was definitely talking about the USS COLE. But he’s the only adult American who doesn’t know our Navy’s commissioned ships are USS. > > And what kind of moron brings that up while talking about a war in which Israel is supposedly an ally? His brain is pudding. If you asked when the Cole bombing happened he’d probably blame it on Joe Biden. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2026, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-daddy-warbucks-address-to-the-nation-about-his-war/1028946/34 "2026-04-02T05:44:51Z")
November 2028 cannot arrive soon enough, either! ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2026, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-daddy-warbucks-address-to-the-nation-about-his-war/1028946/35 "2026-04-02T06:13:02Z")
I’m hoping he’s impeached and removed from office after the new Congress meets in January of 2027! ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2026, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-daddy-warbucks-address-to-the-nation-about-his-war/1028946/36 "2026-04-02T07:05:03Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > If you asked when the Cole bombing happened he’d probably blame it on Joe Biden. Or thinks it was a coal _mine_ blown up by those commie-fascist greens. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2026, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-daddy-warbucks-address-to-the-nation-about-his-war/1028946/37 "2026-04-02T07:17:06Z")
> [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](#): > > … Maybe this was the most pointless address to the nation by any President. Men are coming up to him with tears in their eyes, saying, “Sir, nobody’s ever ~~seen~~ heard a speech as pointless as this one.” ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2026, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-daddy-warbucks-address-to-the-nation-about-his-war/1028946/38 "2026-04-02T17:55:25Z")
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