CNN has a major hard-on about the bomb Trump just had dropped in Afghanistan.
The US military has dropped an enormous bomb in Afghanistan, according to four US military officials with direct knowledge of the mission.
A GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB), nicknamed the “mother of all bombs,” was dropped at 7:32 pm local time Thursday, the sources said. A MOAB is a 21,600-pound, GPS-guided munition that is America’s most powerful non-nuclear bomb.
Villago Delenda Est
My nym. The day cannot come too soon.
Wipe them out. All of them.
Peale
I guess I would have called that a 11 ton bomb, but then 21,600 pounds sounds more technical and much larger.
Old Broad in California
Gap Band! Love that song.
MattF
Gravity! Making things fall downwards for the past 13.8 billion years
amygdala
Talk me off the ledge, guys. He’s normalizing something far worse, I’m thinking.
Cain
Cripes. A useless gesture. Did he talk to Putin before dropping it?
The Moar You Know
This is what CNN lives for. Money in the bank as all the rubes tune in and gape.
Means absolutely nothing in strategic terms, but hey, Trump’s got approval numbers that need shoring up.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
meh, if that bomb was so big I would see it from here.
Mart
Dropping bombs is the only thing he has done that the media and the rubes like. Expect we will have ego-escalation of confrontations. He scared me to the core when waxing poetic of his fleet of Navy vessels steaming for North Korea, with hs beautiful powerful submarines, more powerful than his aircraft carriers, not that the carriers are not powerful, but they are nothing like stroking a nuclear sub.
mapaghimagsik
CNN shows its wargasm face. Again.
Steve in the ATL
@Old Broad in California: if I may be pedantic (if not, I’ll take this over to LGM), it’s GAP Band, as the group is named after the Greenwood-Archer-Pine district in Tulsa, OK, which was once the most prosperous black area in the country (spoiler alert: angry white men burned it down). IIRC correctly, they were originally the Greenwood Archer Pine Band, but that was too long so they abbreviated it G.A.P., then at some point a lazy typist left out the periods.
My actual point is that white people should be forced to learn the history of the Greenwood Archer Pine district and consider how it relates to the way black people are still treated in this country.
Alain the site fixer
@amygdala: Perhaps, but I just don’t like the waste. It’s a very expensive munition you use on appropriate targets, and I’m not sure they exist in Afghanistan now. Not that the Taliban and associates/rivals aren’t targets for our military, just that there aren’t likely enough high-value targets near each other for such a weapon to make it cost-effective. Or this could be Trump adding to his dividends from Defense investments….
Andrew Beck
@Steve in the ATL: They didn’t even teach the Tulsa Race Riots in our Oklahoma History class when I was in HS. It was only because I had an AP US History teacher that thought it was important that I learned anything about it at all.
Eric U.
Why? What possible target would call for this munition?
catclub
@Alain the site fixer: I
A tunnel complex, which was apparently the target, seems like it may actually be that appropriate target.
Steve in the ATL
@Andrew Beck:
Which is horrible but not surprising. I should ask my relatives in Sumner, Mississippi whether and what they were taught about Emmitt Till.
amygdala
@Alain the site fixer: I’m seeing [uncited] statements of a 1 mile blast zone with this thing. I’m sick thinking about it.
PaulW
problem is, this is an administration that can’t be trusted to aim with a pea shooter. I’m terrified this is going to have civilian casualties or some other painful blowback.
Mike in NC
Trump loves pissing away the taxpayers’ money, whether on a golfing vacation or pointlessly blowing shit up in the desert.
Is there a spare MOAB to drop on Mar-A-Lago?
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Steve in the ATL:
the problem is the dumb ass elders who think Leave to Beaver is a documentry.
Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho
@Eric U.:
Stan
@Eric U.:
CNN
Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho
@amygdala: I’ll talk you down if you’ll talk me down. A Benz may be in my future today. MG, not Mercedes, if you know what I mean.
one more dave
So ISIS is in Afghanistan now? And wtf is ISIS-K?
Oatler.
Just like Nero, with Bombs and Circuses for the rabble.
Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA
@amygdala: My first thought was that he once asked why we don’t use nukes.
After this bomb, he has nowhere else to go. And you know he’s thinking about how presidential he’ll look on the teevee.
glory b
@Steve in the ATL: “…which was once the most prosperous black area in the country (spoiler alert: angry white men burned it down).”
And white people want to know why we (colored folks) don’t have nice things.
Anonymous At Work
@amygdala: Kinda yes, kinda no. On cave complexes, it sends shockwaves to collapse tunnels that far away. Some of them, not sure on this model, also suck up the air and result in suffocating people in the caves.
manyakitty
But why does Ivanka hate Afghanistan?
Aleta
@amygdala: And it’s also about his need to keep experiencing the rush. I’m sure he gets high off giving the orders (especially while eating, and especially chocolate cake). (In this case, not directly.) And gets high off watching the footage. But also newly addicted to the approval he got on cable last week. They’re complicit.
Nashville_fan
Check out this cartoon . . . sums it up nicely . . .
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/4/13/1652206/-Cartoon-War-Beat-the-mag-for-journalists-with-missile-crushes
James E Powell
It’s like the Malaysia 370 story which an unnamed CNN executive said was a “tremendous story that is completely in our wheelhouse.”
Similar to the CNN Film Reviews
A very large percentage of Americans, maybe even a majority, get their thrills from watching USA military drop bombs on people who aren’t even shooting back. And they’ve never shown any remorse for dropping them on people who aren’t military or terrorists of anything other than ordinary people going about their business.
This is a very sick culture and I’m at a loss to guess at the cure.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@Nashville_fan: Make it brief, son; half/short and twice strong
kindness
CNN has become a parody of itself. How is it that chasing Fox’s demographic makes you lose all sense of sanity?
Miss Bianca
@one more dave:
A brand-new Breakfast Cereal For Terrorists?
TenguPhule
@kindness:
Answered your own question, didn’t you?
Singular
“It was the biggest blast I have ever heard,” he said, slowly stroking his engorged cock.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@GrandJury: C-N-N >>>>>>>>>>> CNN
TenguPhule
@Singular: Which begs the question, who is Trump raping at Mar Ga Largo and the Whitehouse? Because he’s got urges and informed consent is obviously going to be impossible given the power difference and repulsiveness.
D58826
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: I sure the sage of Wasilla saw it from Alaska
Nashville_fan
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD):
Had to do a double take with that headline . . . sad but true.
Brachiator
@Steve in the ATL:
It also helps to listen to the actual music. Here
Old Broad in California
@Steve in the ATL: I did not know that. Thanks, I appreciate the clarification.
J R in WV
@catclub:
Actually, probably not. For tunnels or cave complexes, you should probably use a ground penetrator bomb, which would penetrate some 200 feet before exploding. .
In this case probably into the cave complex itself, if you used that correct ( GBU-57A ) ordinance.
Cain
@Mike in NC:
Probably one, we’ll probably have to be satisfied with the MOAB he drops in his pants every day when he gets the summary of the world events.
efgoldman
@manyakitty:
I doubt that daddy can spell it, and I’m reasonably sure he can’t find it on a map.
Doug!
@Steve in the ATL:
That’s very interesting, I didn’t know that about GAP band. For some reason, I thought they were from Houston.
Mnemosyne
@GrandJury:
I was wondering which front pager would draw your creepy attention next. Now we know, I guess.
RobertFarleysAssistant
@Eric U.:
Robert Farley over at LGM had this to say:
Hoodie
Only makes sense tactically if used to wipe out relatively widely distributed structures that are not very deeply entrenched. Hard to imagine a c130 lumbering over an active facility and not taking heavy fire, so the place may have been largely empty. Like the missile attack, likely just Trump showing who has the most beautiful bombs in a tactically meaningless display.
Uncle Cosmo
@GroinJerky: FOADIAF.
J R in WV
@Hoodie:
A C-130 can fly so high that no one would hear a thing until MOAB went off. They’re the most lethal tool in the AF armory in many ways.