WTF? The Pentagon's Creepy Sick Deleted New Year's Eve Tweet!
While people across the world celebrated the dawning of the New Year overnight, the U.S. military thought it would be funny to celebrate and make light of one of the things they do best: dropping massive bombs on people and places.
In a since-deleted, U.S. Strategic Command (StratCom), which controls the nation’s strategic missile systems and coordinates offensive nuclear capabilities worldwide, joked that while people in New York City enjoyed the dropping of “the big ball” during the countdown to midnight, “we are ready to drop something much, much bigger.”
Beneath the message was a video, as the New York Times describes it, of “a B-2 stealth bomber soaring across the sky before releasing two GPS-guided bombs that exploded into a giant ball of fire after hitting the ground below.”
While Stratcom deleted the tweet after about three hours—issuing an apology that the message “was in poor taste & does not reflect our values”—plenty of people had already taken screenshots of the message:
Among the reactions of outrage on social media, Walter Schaub, former head of the Office of Government Ethics, simplyasked: “What kind of maniacs are running this country?”
He was far from alone.
Derek Johnson, executive director of the anti-nuclear weapons group Global Zero, said, “Ladies and gentlemen,” “I present to you @US_Stratcom, the stoic guardians of several thousand nuclear missiles who definitely don’t think raining death and destruction from above is some kind of joke.”
But as writer Dani Bostick advised the Pentagon in her reaction to the post: “Maybe a little more ‘Happy New Year!’ and a little less ‘Watch… our powerful bombs of mass destruction.’”
US STRAT COM issued an apology after deleting their tweet.
Our previous NYE tweet was in poor taste & does not reflect our values. We apologize. We are dedicated to the security of America & allies.
To which some people replied:
“Somebody’s in trouble”
“Actually it does reflect your values. And those of your president.”
“Your twitter header says “Peace is our profession” Have we now entered the Orwellian phase of “War is Peace”?”
“Never apologize for being ready to defend us”.
“I for one am happy @US_Stratcom is at the ready. I support fully its mission and the men and women carrying it out. God bless you all and thank you for your service. Close ranks, carry on.”
“It’s only what you really think, so why apologize. It’s this tweet that is disingenuous”
“Oops” is not a phrase the world wants to hear from the operators of the most powerful nuclear arsenal on the planet.”
“It was funny as hell though.”
“So why was it posted? Was the poster fired? It appears you agree with trump’s fear mongering and therefore, did reflect your values. Real strength does not need to boast.”
“I guess you could say it bombed.”
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I think it was a PERSONAL message and WARNING to that moron Chinese admiral who threatened to take out our carriers and the recent threats to take Taiwan back and also a warning to Pootin not to get so arrogant.
After all. WE GAVE them the technology (thank the Clintons) of which they now THREATEN YOU.
This is what Democraps do. This is what they are. They seek to see roles reversed in their SICK delusions. In which America is SUBJUGATED by TURD world barbarians and pagans (aka communist). And they DO everything within their powers YOU gave them to do so.
You should use Democraps as shields in the next barbarian charge.