Annual Doomsday Clock still at 2 mins to Midnight

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Due to:

Nuclear weapons - largely due to the trump administration’s policies.

And man made climate change.

https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/01/24/world/ ... n.com%252F

Seems accurate.

And yet we've remained at DEFCON 5.

It should be 2 seconds to midnight not because of any of Trump’s nuclear policies but because of Trump’s “personality”. The scarily ironic thing is the more he loses the bigger chance of a temper tantrum nuclear war.

Does he have any record of throwing temper tantrums? I don't mean twitter posts. I mean fistfights, brandishing a weapon, shoving matches, going on a rampage smashing things etc.

Nothing says “end of the world” like a big fake clock.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists gave its annual Doomsday Clock presentation on Thursday and announced that it’s still two minutes to midnight. Last year, the group of 15 scholars and scientists moved the phony minute hand of fate 30 seconds closer to Armageddon, from two-and-a-half minutes to midnight to its present setting, 11:58 pm sharp. By the Bulletin’s logic, we’re as close to the end as we’ve ever been. The whole thing is adorably retro.

The Doomsday Clock debuted in 1947 and was set at seven minutes to midnight. You could say that one Doomsday Minute is roughly equal to ten years, except the Doomsdayers move the Clock forward and backward depending on what’s going on in the world. So the whole time-running-out thing is symbolically incoherent. And it’s not been the best predictor of emergencies either: In 1960, a year after the Cuban Revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power, the clock added five minutes to the survival time of the human race. Two years later, we had the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The last time the clock was two minutes to midnight was in 1953, at the peak of the Cold War and the nuclear arms race. What’s so scary this time around? “Humanity faces two dire and simultaneous existential threats: nuclear weapons and climate change,” said former California Governor Jerry Brown, executive chair of the Bulletin.

The Doomsday Clock has been suffering from mission creep for years now. Since the end of the Cold War, the people behind the Bulletin have been put in the position of alarmists looking for a fire. And climate change has been working its way to the fore of the Bulletin’s concerns.

Source: Apocalypse Creep: Liberal Eschatology

The moral of the story: It's not a good idea to put too much stock in a big-ass, fake Armageddon clock.

I saw someone here lamenting loudly with anxiety over this Doomsday clock thing. Myself, too many times of people crying "Wolf!" has made me resistant. I mean, I'm informed and politically active (to the extent of voting every election, national and local) but I have too many other worries and problems to pay attention to a fake clock.

He claimed in his book "Art of The Deal" he punched his 2nd grade music teacher and gave him a black eye.

A reporter just revealed Trump threw things in childish tantrum after meeting with Pelosi and Schumer


Donald Trump's 5 Biggest Tantrums: From Smashed-Up Furniture To Anti-Boat Bias


Most of his life he has gotten his way, now he is not, that is the concern.

Emphasis on the timeline, second grade.

Regarding the armoire, it sounds to me like something that if Gordon Ramsey did it, no one would bat an eye. Besides, it was his armoire that he wanted gone.

That's good research. I was honestly wondering. But breaking one piece of his own furniture once and scattering some paper once, tells me he doesn't come anywhere close to having a history of throwing actual temper tantrums. I have a feeling that running a hotel and casino empire whatever was pretty stressful demanding work that I doubt went smoothly all the time. So personally I'm not going to loose any sleep over the notion of him literally going nuclear.