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nolabear

(43,850 posts)
Tue Aug 8, 2017, 02:17 PM Aug 2017

I'm within range of NK and 45 is tweeting about "fake news."

I'm realistic; I know nukes aren't coming over the horizon to the West Coast tomorrow. But this is a real crisis. We, and millions of innocents in SK and NK are in mortal danger, and that stupid, thoughtless, self-involved asshole is not up to this. And Kim Jung Un knows it. And the rest of the world isn't reaching out, because they have no one to reach out to.

I'm as freaked out as I have ever been.

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Mrs. Overall

(6,839 posts)
1. Yes, it's anxiety producing to be on Puget Sound within the vicinity of the largest nuclear weapon
Tue Aug 8, 2017, 02:22 PM
Aug 2017

stockpile in the world--Bangor Submarine Base.

The implications of a strike in the Seattle area are absolutely mind-blowing and beyond catastrophic.

get the red out

(14,072 posts)
2. I am very worried
Tue Aug 8, 2017, 02:26 PM
Aug 2017

He needs to be out of office as soon as possible. This is a serious crisis and we have a madman in charge of our nuclear arsenal.

hlthe2b

(114,704 posts)
3. It got my attention when they said Hawaii within range, then LA and west coast to Seattle
Tue Aug 8, 2017, 02:40 PM
Aug 2017

and then

DENVER !!!


Yeah, I do take it seriously

Initech

(109,271 posts)
4. Mueller had better get to work here and throw his ass out of office!
Tue Aug 8, 2017, 02:42 PM
Aug 2017

And the whole damn GOP needs to be thrown out on their ass too!

FuzzyRabbit

(2,219 posts)
5. We all have been 20 minutes away from nuclear oblivion for decades.
Tue Aug 8, 2017, 03:20 PM
Aug 2017

Being under threat of nuclear war is not new. Remember the old Cold War? The old Soviet missiles, now Russian missiles, have been pointed at us for more than a half century, since the early 1960s. They still are. And our missiles are pointed at them.

Now we have a New Cold War, with North Korea. We can only hope that the aptly named MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction) continues to work.

Heartstrings

(7,349 posts)
6. My son and grandsons are visiting relatives in Japan
Tue Aug 8, 2017, 04:14 PM
Aug 2017

and need to go through Seoul to get home....

Thanks asshole!

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