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Courtney Barnett + Kurt Vile: "Continental Breakfast"

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lawhawk10/11/2017 6:21:24 am PDT

Greets and saluts from the Resistance in the NYC metro area.

GOPers continue attacking Clinton for her ties to accused sex predator Weinstein, while the GOP continues to rally around admitted sex predator they elected to WH, Donald Trump.

That’s entirely expected.

What isn’t expected is that Trump called for a massive expansion of the US nuclear weapons stockpile. He’s calling for a 10x increase.

To put that into perspective, it would cost more than $1.4 trillion just to maintain and modernize the existing stockpile over the next couple of decades.

Trump wants to essentially abrogate existing nuclear weapons treaties (START, SALT, and their follow on agreements) so we can do what exactly?

We’re supposedly going to find trillions of dollars to spend on nukes when we can’t find a few billion (pocket change in comparison) to help Puerto Rico get its grid rebuilt and help millions of Americans in need now.

Trump wants an earth shattering kaboom. He’s been fixated on it since before he ran for office, and it was one of the first things he asked upon beginning to receive briefings as a nominee. The man is completely deranged and delusional, and still more evidence is that there’s apparently a plan for top advisers to tackle Trump should he go for the nuclear football.

Trump must be removed from office, but that’s still entirely in the hands of a feckless and craven GOP that is fully compromised because they’ve enabled Trump all along. Even if we just stick to the issue of nuclear weapons, Trump’s fascination and intent to try and use them shows a reckless disregard for human life.

But we can’t just narrow Trump’s mental health mess to nuclear weapons. There’s his lack of empathy towards others, his constant attacks on people he considers enemies because they don’t agree with him (even when Trump is factually wrong). No one around Trump seems willing or able to correct Trump (surrounded by yes men as advisers), and he doesn’t seem grounded in reality on anything he tweets or speaks of.

There’s a cult of personality he’s created within the GOP, and the GOP wont act because their core support believes Trump over them. He’s coopted the GOP’s own refusal to accept facts and reality and now the GOP is endangering the nation and the world.

The GOP is compromised and has undermined US national security with each passing day, so any GOPer who wants to talk about national security should start with their oath of office and resign for failure to uphold and defend the Constitution and the nation from threats foreign and domestic.

Turns out that Trump is both - a threat foreign and domestic.

But don’t take my word on Trump’s insane nuclear weapons plan… let’s go to the experts: