Kim has the supreme satisfaction of having gotten under “The Donald’s” skin. And the Orange Menace is just too stupid to clam up and keep the Big Un guessing.
Kim has a reason for his nuttiness: he can only rule as long as his people feel threatened (and that he is protecting them). Trump is just giving him what he wants.
I am old enough to remember the brinkmanship game between Khrushchev & Kennedy over the missiles in Cuba. The U.S. military was on high alert, and we were a hair’s breadth away from nuclear war.
Fortunately, Russia blinked first, and through skillful diplomacy on both sides, disaster was averted.
But, Trump and Un are NOT rational thinkers, nor war veterans, like Kennedy and Khrushchev were. The latter two had seen first hand the devastation of war and combat.
Trump and Un have NEVER served in the military, but are both highly enamored of all things military. They both see themselves as military geniuses, and world conquerors. Neither is inclined to listen to advisors and neither is governable.
These are not the type of individuals who should have their finger on the nuclear trigger. They are both temperamentally, and psychologically unfit.
For you neocons, altcons, and war hawks, speaking as a combat veteran, I warn. Be careful what you wish for.
(Reposted from a private group, so you folks know why I might be taking some time off to recuperate mentally….)
Until today, I could honestly say that the shortest radio job I’d ever worked was for XXX XXXX. I was hired as a temp to board-op and babysit WFPG-AM on Christmas Eve and New Years’ Eve one year when I was between regular gigs. Employed for one week, two shifts.
Until today, I could say that I’d only been forced out of a broadcasting job because I was gay once.
Both those things changed today with the end of my two days’ employment by Colonial Broadcasting.
I had been brought on as Assistant Operations Manager for their Olean NY/Bradford PA cluster. In addition to the various management duties I was going to be tasked with revitalizing the cluster. The owners were in town this week, and they wanted to make sure I was a good fit for their operation and that I was up to the job.
I proved to be more than up to it, as three hours going up and down a mountain to a transmitter site with the owner proved as we debugged a problem with the news transmitter he was using to put a translator on the air that day. I mastered ENCO within 24 hours and showed how much of a dab hand I was at Cool Edit Pro. They had me voicetrack two stations, WXMT and WNMB, for the midday shift to show I knew what I was doing. I learned how to retrieve syndicated programming and where to put it in the system. I’d even spent two hours calling contest winners from my own cell phone because they didn’t have any working phones in the building other than what the sales department was using, and plans were underway to have me track for five different stations in the company’s different markets.
BE THIS GUY almost 7 years ago
They both cheat.
Baslim the Beggar Premium Member almost 7 years ago
I seem to remember a card game called War. They could play that.
Monopoly? Frump might clean up….
Risk?
Rock, Scissors, Paper?
Sherlock Watson almost 7 years ago
Maybe they could have a contest to see who hits the softest.
Meh~tdology, fka Pepelaputr almost 7 years ago
Kim has the supreme satisfaction of having gotten under “The Donald’s” skin. And the Orange Menace is just too stupid to clam up and keep the Big Un guessing.
gmartin997 almost 7 years ago
It’s a good thing Pumpkinhead doesn’t read this strip.
pcolli almost 7 years ago
I thought that N Korea and the US were due to go a joint military exercise.
Masterskrain Premium Member almost 7 years ago
Just put fat boy and fat head in a locked room and let them fight it out.
P51Strega almost 7 years ago
Kim has a reason for his nuttiness: he can only rule as long as his people feel threatened (and that he is protecting them). Trump is just giving him what he wants.
Linguist almost 7 years ago
I am old enough to remember the brinkmanship game between Khrushchev & Kennedy over the missiles in Cuba. The U.S. military was on high alert, and we were a hair’s breadth away from nuclear war.
Fortunately, Russia blinked first, and through skillful diplomacy on both sides, disaster was averted.
But, Trump and Un are NOT rational thinkers, nor war veterans, like Kennedy and Khrushchev were. The latter two had seen first hand the devastation of war and combat.
Trump and Un have NEVER served in the military, but are both highly enamored of all things military. They both see themselves as military geniuses, and world conquerors. Neither is inclined to listen to advisors and neither is governable.
These are not the type of individuals who should have their finger on the nuclear trigger. They are both temperamentally, and psychologically unfit.
For you neocons, altcons, and war hawks, speaking as a combat veteran, I warn. Be careful what you wish for.
Pab Sungenis creator almost 7 years ago
(Reposted from a private group, so you folks know why I might be taking some time off to recuperate mentally….)
Until today, I could honestly say that the shortest radio job I’d ever worked was for XXX XXXX. I was hired as a temp to board-op and babysit WFPG-AM on Christmas Eve and New Years’ Eve one year when I was between regular gigs. Employed for one week, two shifts.
Until today, I could say that I’d only been forced out of a broadcasting job because I was gay once.
Both those things changed today with the end of my two days’ employment by Colonial Broadcasting.
I had been brought on as Assistant Operations Manager for their Olean NY/Bradford PA cluster. In addition to the various management duties I was going to be tasked with revitalizing the cluster. The owners were in town this week, and they wanted to make sure I was a good fit for their operation and that I was up to the job.
I proved to be more than up to it, as three hours going up and down a mountain to a transmitter site with the owner proved as we debugged a problem with the news transmitter he was using to put a translator on the air that day. I mastered ENCO within 24 hours and showed how much of a dab hand I was at Cool Edit Pro. They had me voicetrack two stations, WXMT and WNMB, for the midday shift to show I knew what I was doing. I learned how to retrieve syndicated programming and where to put it in the system. I’d even spent two hours calling contest winners from my own cell phone because they didn’t have any working phones in the building other than what the sales department was using, and plans were underway to have me track for five different stations in the company’s different markets.
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