82 y.o. dude who was railing his secretary while his wife was in the cancer ward demands "thermonuclear detonations" [View all]
The former Speaker of the House shared the story to his 2.5 million followers on X with a quoted passage, which read: “Instead of fighting over a 21-mile-wide bottleneck forever, we cut a new channel through friendly territory. A dozen thermonuclear detonations and you’ve got a waterway wider than the Panama Canal, deeper than the Suez, and safe from Iranian attacks.”
The problem is, it appears Gingrich didn’t know it was satire. ( an article by the ChinaTalk Substack on Sunday that proposed detonating thermonuclear bombs to open up a new lane, eliminating the need for the Strait of Hormuz. )
“The views expressed above do not necessarily represent those of anyone with brain cells,” a note at the bottom of the story read.
A community note was later added to the former Republican congressman’s X post that read: “The open letter ends with: ‘The views expressed above do not necessarily represent those of anyone with brain cells’.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-suck-up-newt-gingrich-82-demands-war-goes-thermonuclear/
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