Does anyone think this moron is actually going to consult with anyone when he flips out and punches in the launch codes?
@mcfate I don't think a mid-level officer is going to do anything controversial when cadet bone-spurs whistles him over. He'll just open the brief case as ordered.
@tmbrown327 You talk as though there's no one around but the two of them, like there aren't another half dozen people watching that briefcase like hawks.
They arranged to make it impossible for Nixon to unilaterally start a nuclear war when he started drinking heavily. I wouldn't be surprised if the "unilaterality" of Caligula's ability to destroy the entire planet doesn't have a few extracurricular safeguards.
In any case, I can't do shit about it, so why worry?
@mcfate @tmbrown327
I bet those kinds of safeguards existed when Mattis, Kelly, McMaster etc. were around, anyway.
Well, like I said, I could get anxious about it, or I could simply recognize that there's not a lot I can DO about it and get on with things.
I might be the laziest person on Earth, I'm REALLY picky about the things I expend energy on.
@mcfate @YineDeYap Probably a good thing that we all have different schedules of when we get wound up about stuff.
@mcfate @tmbrown327
True, I know there's nothing I can do about it except do my tiny part to try to remove him from office.
I think about it, still. Mostly these days just mentally rehearsing how it might be, not worrying per se.
@YineDeYap @mcfate They really didn't. He's authorized, he'd just remove them all until he got the things launched.
@tmbrown327 @mcfate
I had a bit of a fantasy involving a marble bookend and a "My god, sir, what's that behind you?!"
@YineDeYap @mcfate It'd be the sir part that'd get him.
@tmbrown327 I don’t know how all of that works but I sure hope there are procedures in place that make it difficult
@Museek There are not.
@tmbrown327 I guess we better hope that if the command were to be issued, that the person acting, considers it very carefully, first. That happened with a Russian guy, I recall reading.
@Museek This is the procedure. None of it is hard or requires any actual consideration of the impending doom.
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/graphics/2016-nuclear-weapon-launch/
@tmbrown327 woah.. why aren’t there procedures with safeguards in place?!
Probably because they thought we wouldn’t be stupid enough to allow a lunatic in, in the first place
@Museek Back in the day, during the cold war, there was *some* justification for the way it is set up now. In this day and age, I suspect there is very little justification. Having a lunatic occupying the White House really brings it home.
@tmbrown327 Couple of years back, a neighbor of mine pointed out that Trump did not have the "football". He said it was in possession of a high ranking military man. He said he'd seen it on TV at some sort of press conference. I don't know if that's the case, but at the time, I found it comforting. Now, not so much.
@tmbrown327 this presidency is like being married to an abusive person and everyone is walking around on eggshells... if we get through this and I’m sure, we will...we can’t ever let this happen again...
@tmbrown327 Not quite that simple: he's got to at least "consult" with the guy carrying the "football", who's probably making himself hard to find, if he's smart.