Not a constraint. Under the War Powers Resolution, he’s got 48 hours after launching military action to inform Congress, and 60 days to either end the mission or receive authority to continue.
Designed to ensure that a President (or whomever was surviving in the chain that becomes the President after a decapitation attack) would not be hamstrung in the event of a real disaster.
Post-trump, really one of those things that we might want to seriously think about revising.
That’s a great scene, but I think my favorite bit is this:
Ambassador de Sadeski: In the end, we could not keep up with the expense involved in the Arms Race, the Space Race and the Peace Race…The deciding factor was when we learned your country was working along similar lines and we were afraid of a Doomsday Gap!
President Muffley: This is preposterous! I’ve never approved of anything like that!
Ambassador de Sadeski: Our source was the New York Times.
I suspect he thinks a nuke is just a bigger version of, say, a 500-lb bomb and has no idea of the horrific effects of nuclear radiation. I recall reading that some nukes are “cleaner” than others and that an enemy might deliberately use a “dirty” bomb for its secondary killing power.
DJT’s atomic word salad:
Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible.”
We may never know what he passed on to Putin, most likely for money laundered through Deutche Bank.
(with apologies to Jim Croce)
On the South Side of Chicago
You see hand painted signs
In bakery windows for Atomic Cakes
You know that cake looks fine
Atomic Cake is more than trouble
You see it layers about six by four
Chocolate, vanilla, banana, too
Plus strawberries and custard more
It’s common knowledge in the banking and real estate world Trump launders money from various oligarchs and cartel leaders by selling them condos and commercial real estate at properties all over the planet at quadruple their market value.
Chump’s leg started vibrating like a dog when you scratch the sweet spot…just thinking he had Bikers or Sheriffs on his side. Imagine his fascination with other types of weaponry. He really seemed hesitant to use it on the world’s stage (didn’t want to piss off actual dictators) …but here at home he really fantasized about wiping out anyone who dared speak a word against him.
I still bet he knows a lot less than he thinks he does about nukes.
If we give him another term he’ll be less hesitant to act on those urges.
Genius!
I have fond memories of playing with Estes rockets purchased at my local hobby shop. Also the small fuel powered Cox cars and planes as well as an electric slot car Ford GT that I used to bring to the slot car center. Fun times, more kids today ought to get into hobbies like that instead of soul crushing video games.
But wait! If this doesn’t back up his claim to have magically declassified those documents, I don’t know what does:
And we have some systems that nobody knows about, and frankly, I think I’m better off keeping it that way.”
It’s known, but I don’t know if it can be labeled common knowledge.
Or if he and his cult take another term by chicanery and force.
Every once in awhile impaling a friend with one of these was a cheap thrill. Various family doctors loved our clique.
I remember the duck and covers I had to do in grade school but under my desk I felt safe but I didn’t know from what.
So, Trump went from not knowing what the Nuclear Triad was to Enrico Fermi in two years ?
Only thing that makes sense. (/s)
Rudy Giuliani tells Newsmax that Trump was just trying to preserve documents by putting them in a safe place. pic.twitter.com/tDJag4loW4
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 19, 2022
