My goodness, gracious, where did he come up with THIS idea? JD loves his conspiracy theories, but this one is out in the vicinity of the edge of our galaxy. This one is further out than MTG. And that’s saying something! (Remember the Jewish space lasers?) I must have stared at the title for a good 60 seconds because I had trouble believing what I was reading. With gratitude to Raw Story:
Vice President JD Vance suggested that Iran had the desire to blow up grocery stores with nuclear suicide vests. During a cabinet meeting on Thursday, Vance praised the U.S. military strikes on Iran for creating options for negotiations. “What we have now that we didn’t have when the president took over just a little over a year ago is the ability to use every tool at our disposal to ensure that Iran doesn’t get a nuclear weapon,” he explained. “Because when I say options, I think it’s important the American people know, options, and it’s options to ensure that Iran never has a nuclear weapon.”
Erm. It doesn’t work like that. You can’t make a nuclear suicide vest. It’s the wrong shape. It needs to be round. And even if they put one into a backpack, it would be noticeable right away. It would be a medium sized wastebasket at least. There are scientific reasons it has to be that way. Apparently, J(usta) D(umbass) didn’t learn anything about that sort of thing when he was in school. Physics was definitely not a strong point for JD.
“You talk about people who walk into a crowded supermarket and have a vest on, for what? And they blow up the vest, and a couple of people get killed, and that’s a terrible tragedy. What happens when what’s on the vest, it’s not something that can kill a couple of people but can kill many, many tens of thousands of people?” he added. Vance reiterated a Trump administration talking point about preventing Iran from building or obtaining a nuclear weapon. “That is the most important American national security objective that exists for any administration at any time is you don’t want the worst people in the world to have a nuclear weapon.”
Why would they walk into a supermarket with one? There are multiple better options than a supermarket. If someone is going to do this for effect, they’ll choose something more notable. And there are any number of places across the world that would also make a statement. Why a supermarket in the US? That’s not effective. Again, size is noticeable. Anyone who knows anything about physics can tell you right away that something like that is highly unlikely. And it’s a waste of a nuke for something that small. Nuclear suicide vests. Nonsense!
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