Well isn’t this a profoundly upsetting headline that surely won’t ruin my week

2 years ago I moved states. After surviving a tornado and hurricane in the span of maybe 18 months, then covid, I had good emergency kits. But since I moved north much of it had expired or cycled out. When a winter storm hit at the beginning of 2026 I realized I needed to rebuild those kits. This was just around the time things were only "supposedly"ramping up in Iran, ice was going bonkers, the economy was really hitting the shitter, and political upheaval generally kept me up at night. Going through some general prepper lists I ended up with a pretty comprehensive kit. Suddenly my YouTube feed started suggesting societal collapse prep guides, long term grid outages, etc etc. One thing that stuck when looking at building out a good medical kit was saying the potential for either retaliatory strikes, or hitting nuclear plants going up...I ended up with a couple bottles of Potassium Iodide.

After reading this, I'm not saying i need to start reinforcing my basement...but just saying it's not the worst way I spent $10

I genuinely think Trump might choose Remembrance Day to drop a nuke purely to make it more "historic".

Jesus Fucking Christ.

Stop the planet. I want to get off.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/heres-goes-presidents-decision-launch-nuclear-weapons

It looks like, maybe, there are some protections in place for a"screw it, screw them" type decision. The link doesn't offer me too much confidence, though.

I have confidence that most in positions of power "would never", but some of them are not behaving in predictable ways, particularly the president.

That might actually get him impeached and removed from office. Maybe before January.