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03 Aug 2022, 3:13 pm

But back to the topic.

The way they killed him is ...rather interesting.

The Hellfire missle comes in several variants. Some are bunker busters. Some are for blowing up tanks. But they also have low explosive versions for 'soft targets' in cities to minimize 'collatoral damage' that contain less chemical bursting charge and more metal in the warhead.

But this particular variant has no explosive warhead at all. It just has pop out steel blades. And the sheer kinetic energy of its forward motion.

Six blades pop out as it flies. And ...while you're standing there on the balcony of your "safe house" in Kabul, enjoying the fresh air, it wizzes past you at mach 1.2 (about 950 mph) and catches you with one, or two, of its six blades, and turns you into instant hamburger. But doesnt harm the child holding the puppy dog sitting in the chair next to you on the balcony.

Wow.

And apparently the blades don't even spin. From what I gather the blades are just stationary. But at 950 mph even a stationary blade would...do the job.

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03 Aug 2022, 3:29 pm

AH...so the blades do spin. So ...it was as if we put him into Waring Blender and turned him into gazpacho.

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03 Aug 2022, 3:39 pm

More like a lightning-fast kensai with two razor-sharp katanas.

Or maybe Darth Maul on crack.

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03 Aug 2022, 7:50 pm

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You'd think at this point more people would recognize that not being able/willing to ignore Trump is how we got Trump, and is how we'll get him again, but then you'd think a lot of things.

I would have pretty much forgotten about Trump by now, except they keep bringing him up. I don't watch Fox outside of a random youtube clip here and there, so the main source that's keeping Trump in the forefront for me and those like me, is them.

Kind of hard to ignore Trump when he's got his cult running for elected offices all over the country. At one time, the local Republican party wouldn't have given the time of day to 2020 election/mass shooting deniers who believe in "the great replacement," and call sane members of the GOP RINO's, but now they're winning in the runoffs. We talk about Trump because we'd be ignoring him at our own risk, as his cult certainly haven't. You want to stop talking about Trump? Then lock your hard right up in the insane asylum, and return to normalcy.

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03 Aug 2022, 8:50 pm

The Flying Ginsu.

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03 Aug 2022, 8:54 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:

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Dox47 wrote:

You'd think at this point more people would recognize that not being able/willing to ignore Trump is how we got Trump, and is how we'll get him again, but then you'd think a lot of things.

I don't like the massive publicity he's always getting as if he's the most important person on earth and on people's minds more than food or sex.

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03 Aug 2022, 10:02 pm

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Dox47 wrote:

You'd think at this point more people would recognize that not being able/willing to ignore Trump is how we got Trump, and is how we'll get him again, but then you'd think a lot of things.

I don't like the massive publicity he's always getting as if he's the most important person on earth and on people's minds more than food or sex.

Trust me, I agree. It's just the existential-threat-to-all-that-is-free-and-good that he and his worshipers represents that makes ignoring him an impossibility.

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03 Aug 2022, 10:34 pm

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Trust me, I agree. It's just the existential-threat-to-all-that-is-free-and-good that he and his worshipers represents that makes ignoring him an impossibility.

I'm very active on a large busy public forum that has plenty of Republican members, and they don't talk about Trump one tenth as much.

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03 Aug 2022, 11:16 pm

Matrix Glitch wrote:

Kraichgauer wrote:

Trust me, I agree. It's just the existential-threat-to-all-that-is-free-and-good that he and his worshipers represents that makes ignoring him an impossibility.

I'm very active on a large busy public forum that has plenty of Republican members, and they don't talk about Trump one tenth as much.

Are they the saner of your brethren? If so, that would explain a lot.

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04 Aug 2022, 2:03 am

Kraichgauer wrote:

Matrix Glitch wrote:

Kraichgauer wrote:

Trust me, I agree. It's just the existential-threat-to-all-that-is-free-and-good that he and his worshipers represents that makes ignoring him an impossibility.

I'm very active on a large busy public forum that has plenty of Republican members, and they don't talk about Trump one tenth as much.

Are they the saner of your brethren? If so, that would explain a lot.

So you agree that talking about Trump to excess is insane

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04 Aug 2022, 2:14 am

Matrix Glitch wrote:

I'm very active on a large busy public forum that has plenty of Republican members, and they don't talk about Trump one tenth as much.

Me too, actual Republicans on actual right wing sites don't hang on the man's every utterance the way a certain type of liberals common to this forum do, I don't know if it's Stockholm Syndrome or what. I know the elected Democrats and their media enablers do it because they think focusing on him will turn out their voters, but I don't think your average online blue anon type is that calculating, especially here.

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04 Aug 2022, 2:16 am

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The media and everyone did ignore him in 2016 until he started to win primaries. Ignoring him did not stop him then.

LOL, no. The free media that Trump was given was measured in billions, with a 'B', and it didn't start when he had the primary in the bag already, it was sustained from 2015 on to the end.

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04 Aug 2022, 3:03 am

Matrix Glitch wrote:

Kraichgauer wrote:

Matrix Glitch wrote:

Kraichgauer wrote:

Trust me, I agree. It's just the existential-threat-to-all-that-is-free-and-good that he and his worshipers represents that makes ignoring him an impossibility.

I'm very active on a large busy public forum that has plenty of Republican members, and they don't talk about Trump one tenth as much.

Are they the saner of your brethren? If so, that would explain a lot.

So you agree that talking about Trump to excess is insane

His worshippers on the right are insane, and if they're making the rest of us crazy, it's their fault. I'll leave it at that.

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04 Aug 2022, 3:03 am

Fnord wrote:

More like a lightning-fast kensai with two razor-sharp katanas.

Or maybe Darth Maul on crack.

Very apt description.

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04 Aug 2022, 3:13 am

Dox47 wrote:

naturalplastic wrote:

The media and everyone did ignore him in 2016 until he started to win primaries. Ignoring him did not stop him then.

LOL, no. The free media that Trump was given was measured in billions, with a 'B', and it didn't start when he had the primary in the bag already, it was sustained from 2015 on to the end.

The Pied Piper strategy.

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