Oh Damn, Lindsey Graham. Oh Boos, Ted Cruz.
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.
Wow! Just wow!
1Yikes
2triple digit IQ guy selling nuclear football to China would have really pissed off Trump. He was counting on that money.
3Snatching Pence’s nuclear football by the insurrectionists would be a terrifying rebooted conclusion for the movie Dr. Strangelove. You got your bombs, your idiots, and plenty of hootin’ & hollering’ as the modern day Slim Pickens wannabes take all of us along for the ride.
4You know if pence had a duplicate nuclear football, it was actually mother dearest pence in control (while the Trumpf briefcase was at the garden party celebrating the insurrection). Now that’s scary.
5Considering that some nuclear ICBM launch sites are running floppy disks, how old and hackable is the launch code?
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