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News & Current Events Apr 2, 2026 at 4:03 PM

Golden Dome as a Leaky Golden Shower: Trump's $4 Trillion Missile Defense System Ridiculed in DC

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Golden Dome as a Leaky Golden Shower: Trump's $4 Trillion Missile Defense System Ridiculed in DC | Common Dreams
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Golden Dome as a Leaky Golden Shower: Trump's $4 Trillion Missile Defense System Ridiculed in DC | Common Dreams
"This is not defense, it's deception—an illusion of safety. The Pentagon has spent hundreds of billions of dollars over the last several decades proving that this freaking thing doesn't work."
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MJcorrieviewer Apr 2, 2026 +11
I'm waiting to hear how much Trump is willing to pay Canada to help with his golden dome. It's can't work without Canadian cooperation.
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IllustriousNorth338 Apr 2, 2026 +8
Oh, now it's $4t. I guess those $50000 toilet seats got hit by inflation.
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Colonel-Mooseknuckle Apr 2, 2026 +7
World, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the piss tape that is missing, I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.
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agaloch2314 Apr 2, 2026 +2
You still think that’s what the ‘p’ represents? As if it matters anyway. Putin thought he had leverage over trump until the US showed it doesn’t care what he’s done, at all.
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sirgrogu12 Apr 2, 2026 +4
It's funny because even if it does exist why would the cult even care? They don't give a shit about him raping kids, why would a piss f***** bother them?
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Colonel-Mooseknuckle Apr 2, 2026 +2
Why do they ignore the fact that he's all over the Epstein files? Same with how you conveniently ignore it when asked.
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Colonel-Mooseknuckle Apr 2, 2026 +2
There is no accused. It's a fact. Or perhaps you'd like to defend the video of him looking at a 10 year old girl, and saying, "I'm going to be dating her in 10 years, can you believe it?!"
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Colonel-Mooseknuckle Apr 2, 2026 +2
If you say so. Continue with your diddle defending.
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sirgrogu12 Apr 2, 2026 +2
I'm sure some of them deny it, most of the ones I've spoken to don't think it's a big deal. It's either "he didn't know they were 13" or "he's my president not my preacher" (yeah, the jokes write themselves).
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Colonel-Mooseknuckle Apr 2, 2026 +1
Next you'll tell me Diddlin' Donnie's name doesn't appear all over the Epstein files.
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eskimospy212 Apr 2, 2026 +6
Look, we can't afford child care or medicare - we need a $4 trillion missile defense system instead.
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OkRush9563 Apr 2, 2026 +3
He's pocketing the money, none of it is going to the "dome".
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FitWrap1959 Apr 2, 2026 +1
Good idea. Use something that he can relate to as an illustration (I'm not referring to the umbrella).
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ReleaseFromDeception Apr 2, 2026
I don't care how much money we sink into something like this - we are simply too big a nation to defend in entirety from mass ballistic missile attacks, especially if it were a nuclear exchange, Say we get 100 shot at us. Even just a single ICBM striking its target would be immeasurably devastating. Ever see a 50 mile wide ball of plasma? It'll be the last thing you ever see if you don't look away immediately.
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Nac_Lac Apr 2, 2026 +4
Which is why the Star Wars program was never something that manifested under Reagan. The entirety of the defense for the Cold War was MAD, so no one would be dumb enough to send an ICBM across the planet. Having a Golden Dome would make you immune to retaliation but due to the vast distances, you'd never be able to do it economically. And as we've seen from Iran, you can exhaust high tech interceptors easily with dumb missiles/drones. Saturation attacks have always been a fear of war planners, which is why it was never a realistic proposal.
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IllustriousNorth338 Apr 2, 2026 +3
No-one's seen a ball of plasma that wide because it doesn't exist. Tzar Bomba's heat reached 100km but the fireball itself was 8 km. All nukes don't come close to approaching that. Interceptors are expensive and have at best 50% effectiveness so you would need tens of thousands of them positioned with maximum possible efficiency, but likely a lot more because you can't predict how many targets will get hit and by how many. You could dump the entire world's GDP into protecting North America and you would still lose cities. The actual answer is diplomacy, defense partnerships, and economic interdependence, all things that dipshits in the Admin refuse to do. Even bending over backwards to Russia still leaves the US at risk of a nuclear exchange with them. "America Alone" is dogshit foreign policy.
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ATLfalcons27 Apr 2, 2026 +2
I don't really know too much about this but doesn't this type of system not even stop ICBMs? Can we even intercept ICBMs at a significant rate even if we had the best available current technology? From my understanding we can't and retaliatory strikes are the thing keeping the world in check there
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StevenMC19 Apr 2, 2026
Leaky Golden Shower? Oh damn on top of it all there's a chance of prostate issues too?!
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socialistForDE Apr 2, 2026
We can just cut all education and healthcare and build a giant golden ballroom that floats in the clouds and pay patriotic American workers 7$ an hour to throw projectiles at any passing missiles, of which there are, apparently, many.
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