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am_Unition  ·  862 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: FBI sought nuclear documents in search of Trump's home

Nuclear weapons.!

This could be much worse than I thought. I figured, sure, the military administrative complex certainly overclassifies material, as a general rule, and maybe the feds were after something like his correspondence with other world leaders that he had decided to keep for old times' sake, but nah.

Now, I wonder if it's more likely that Trump has/intended to sell U.S. nuclear secrets, or if he was ordered by Vladdy Putty to get the goods.

And if it truly was someone very close to Trump that turned on him, it might've taken some very substantial material to do it. Or Melania having some fun.

But... wow.





kleinbl00  ·  862 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm kinda torn about it.

For more than ten years now I have measured cars in "Mooney units". My father bought an M20F for $65k and from that point forth every extravagance was measured in terms of how many private planes would it buy. My wife's Honda? 1/4 Mooney unit. The Porsche? 1/3 Mooney Unit. A Gallardo? 2x Mooney Units. Any reasonable house in our Los Angeles neighborhood? 20 Mooney Units.

"18 FBI agents" is sorta my baseline now. It's what asking your father about half a critical mass of plutonium on a tapped line brings to his house. That's 1800sqft on 2 acres in dirt-poor New Mexico occupied by a senior citizen. 30 agents to Mar-el-Lago? It seems like underkill to me.

So work with me here. THINGS TRUMP HAS PROPOSED NUKING:

Afghanistan

No really, Afghanistan

Seriously, Afghanistan

Hurricanes

If I were a betting man, I would bet that Trump has some documents related to "this warhead can be tuned to do between this and this much damage according to models." 'cuz remember - we haven't tested since '92. Any number is plenty big enough, as doctrinally our warheads are tuned well below what we've ever tested to but whereas every armchair dipshit has a guesstimate DOE/SAC's guesses are probably better.

And if I were a betting man, I'd bet that Trump kept that shit on principle because why the hell would you hide your strength from your enemies? Rocket Man has these sad nukes, so sad, barely five kilotons, we could wipe them off the face of the earth, a couple warning shots and it'd be all over!

thenewgreen  ·  858 days ago  ·  link  ·  

in the interviews with Woodward for his book trump bragged that we had nuclear.weapons that the rest of the world doesnt even know about yet.

But… I think the FBI also found documents showing Trump had blackmail material on republicans. -no proof just my gut feeling.

demure  ·  862 days ago  ·  link  ·  

"Mooney units", easily subdivided into "AMUs" or Aviation Monetary Units

Current conversion rate is 1 Mooney unit = 65 AMUs, but you know...inflation

Does the M20F still fly?

kleinbl00  ·  862 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Haha the first one he didn't have a hangar for and it died in a hail storm. He had it insured, but he didn't have it insured to cover the value of the $20k an avionics in it so the insurance company totally yanked that.

So then he got a second one but then the tendon in his right elbow popped out and he waited six weeks for it to pop back in for some reason and the strength never really came back. And as a 5'5 man in a Mooney, which was designed by a 6'2 Texan who could barely see over the dashboard, which has a 55 knot stall speed, which has a variable pitch prop and flaps, and which has to deal with this at the end of every flight:

...the fact that he couldn't get the gear down without excruciating pain put a bit of a damper on his enthusiasm.

Never mind being 80.

demure  ·  861 days ago  ·  link  ·  

ah, makes sense. Johnson bar with a weak right arm is...not ideal

kleinbl00  ·  861 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Riding shotgun for a landing in that plane at that airport with that pilot was not unlike watching a bus driver suddenly pull out four bowling pins and attempt to juggle while also going a silver medal in luge. I'm sure it's much less dramatic experience with a confident, experienced pilot but I am equally sure he started too old to become one.

user-inactivated  ·  861 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I've heard that selling the Saudis nuclear secrets might be how Jared Kushner got his $2B "investment"