Paul Manafort got yanked off a plane while attempting to get to Dubai, because his passport has been revoked.
Probably trying to get home to Mother Russia.
As I suggested in the P&E thread, I think its more likely that he’s hoping to suck up to Oligarchs who are hanging out in Dubai while they try to figure out how to avoid sanctions.
Individual 1’s plan for ending the Putin war:
“Well, what I would do, is I would — we would — we have tremendous military capability and what we can do without planes, to be honest with you, without 44-year-old jets, what we can do is enormous. And we should be doing it and we should be helping them to survive and they’re doing an amazing job.”
“I listen to [Vladimir Putin] constantly using the n word. That’s the n word, and he’s constantly using it: the nuclear word. And we never talk of, we say, ‘Oh, he’s a nuclear power.’ But we’re a greater nuclear power. We have the greatest submarines in the world, most powerful machines ever built. Most powerful, and they got built under me. Most powerful machines ever built, and nobody knows where they are. And you should say, ‘Look, if you mention that word one more time, we’re going to send them over, and we’ll be coasting back and forth up and down your coast.’”
Dear God, please make him stop!
May I please ask, if “nobody knows where they are”, what good are they? We really ought to be keeping track of this stuff. (Or is it just like the Russian problem, where the stuff exists on paper?)
I have often compared Trumps ramblings to a drunk at a bar. But this is actually worse. A bar drunk would make substantially more sense.
I’m just a stupid girl, but don’t submarines take years to build?
Ok, I looked it up and the number of years does vary, but the least number of years was 6. So either he’s taking credit for something which began before he was in office or these “machines” aren’t done yet. Or, and I know this is difficult to believe, but it’s possible that Trump is talking out of his stupid fucking ass.
Hard to believe, I know.
Trump doesn’t drink. Not alcohol anyway; he seems to consume a lot of Diet Coke. He has no excuse to sound like a drunk at a bar.
Have you ever seen a fifth-grader called upon to give a book report to the class he hasn’t read?
It’s still more coherent than the deranged rambling we hear from Trump.
(patting not_what_you’d_expect on the head, gently so I don’t muss her hair) Despite that you still sounded smarter than Trump. Now, go cool your brain and let the menfolk talk.
What the actual fuck?
I took it as intentionally ironic given what was quoted.
It seems that Trump thinks a nuclear submarine is an underwater nuclear bomb, or something.
You give too much credence to his thought processes, such as they are. It’s more like, “Ooooh! Nukyoular! Nukyoular power it’s good, and submarine – those are sneaky. If I was president I’d just order one to do a sneaky, good strike against the Russians – except Putin; spare him – and let the guys who run the thing figure it out.”
It would be kind of like that transgender tweet back in 2017 that confused the hell out of the Pentagon.
Trident submarines are, or at least nuclear weapon delivery systems. So there is some truth to that. Subs with nuclear missiles are one of the scariest things the US has in their arsenal.
(My dad served for years on a Trident sub, my mom used to work for the groups that refit and supplied them, I used to work around them and the area where they stored the nuclear missiles. I pretty much grew up around them.)
That doesn’t make Trump’s rambling any less batshit though. Russia knows damn well how strong the US is. Flexing that strength won’t get Putin to back down, rather the opposite. I imagine he’s already feeling pretty strained with this Ukraine blunder, and if you give him the idea that someone is going to nuke him, I wouldn’t doubt he would strike first out of paranoia and a desperate need to prove his toughness.
What if we put Chinese flags on the subs? Or should we put them on the missles, too?
Well, if Trump doesn’t know where they are, maybe he should visit Seattle. We have the most deployed nuclear weapons about 20 miles from downtown Seattle. Including 8 out the 14 U.S. nuclear submarines. Heck, they even advertised it on the sides of buses a few years back.
Yeah, that’s where I grew up.