Who’s got the football?
News broke this morning that Mike Pence’s nuclear football was within grabbing distance of the blood-thirsty mob at the Capitol.
Military officials overseeing the authorization process to launch nuclear weapons were unaware on January 6 that then-Vice President Mike Pence’s military aide carrying the “nuclear football” was potentially in danger as rioters got close during the violent Capitol insurrection, according to a defense official.
The vice president is always accompanied by a backup of the “football,” which contains the equipment to carry out orders to launch a nuclear strike. It must be ready at all times and is identical to what the president carries, in case he becomes incapacitated.
Okay, so here’s the deal – you can see the guy carrying the damn thing in the pictures of the security people taking out Pence and his family.
Now look, I seriously doubt that the mob boys would know how to use the damn thing if they got it, but you know those kinda rebel flag carrying guys, they would have taken it over to Woody’s Transmission Repair Shop and tinkered with it. And that’s the best option. If the triple digit IQ guy got it, he’d have sold it to China.
I found out this very day that the Vice President has a duplicate football. I was actually kinda relieved when I first heard it, thinking that somebody had been wise enough to take it away from Trump. They gave Pence a duplicate in case Trump got his thumb stuck in the handle. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.