are the nuclear war heads actually controlled by some codes in the possession of the president, is it like he can wake up one day and decide to key in those codes into some enigma like machines and the bombs just fire.

the interesting thing about Trump is that Trumpsters know that Trump is not fit so they keep on explaining his statements to everyone and excusing him. Trumpsters are also apologists.. ad populists, ad hominems e.t.c.

"When you're driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a post turtle .You know he didn't get up there by himself, he doesn't belong up there, he doesn't know what to do while he is up there, and you just wonder what kind of dumb ass put him up there to begin with."

I am guessing this ritual was one of the things she was doing

and also they may have cooked this recipe

https://twitter.com/UberFacts/status/795600943589027840?s=08

I have never understood why one would use foul language when one disagree with another member.
Why this intolerance?
Boss;civility, courtesy and tolerance demands you persuade others to agree with you viewpoint and if you are unable to do that. ..live and let live;it is not a matter of life and death.

let me ignore the matusi part, its uncalled for, inappropriate, unjustified, unsolicited, unprovoked and not welcome at all

so is that briefcase (the football) should have some wireless connectivity to all the american nuclear centers silos, I thought congress has to pass some stuff for the president to activate that, and even in that case I assume there exists a mechanism on every launchpad for the technicians huko to fire the thing, its not like after the president keys in the code the missiles get fired.

I just don't get why they use the nuclear weapon codes to bash a presidential candidate, its not like the president will stumble in his sleep go to the 'football' key in the codes and the whole world comes to an end

There's no question the president now has just as much authority as he had then. You should read then-Vice President's Dick Cheney's declaration about the president's unchallengeable power to launch nuclear missiles whenever he sees fit.

Here's what Cheney told Fox News: "The president of the United State is now, for 50 years, is followed at all times, 24 hours a day, by a military aide carrying a 'football' that contains the nuclear codes that he would use and be authorized to use in the event of a nuclear attack on the United States. He could launch a kind of devastating attack the world's never seen. He doesn't have to check with anybody. He doesn't have to call the Congress. He doesn't have to check with the courts. He has that authority because of the nature of the world we live in."

There was a fascinating debate among constitutional law specialists on the Volokh Conspiracy blog following the Cheney statement, and, alas, from my reading of the cases cited, there was no definitive judicial limit to his power as commander in chief to avow he had no time to consult Congress for a declaration of war. No one could come up with a definitive constitutional refutation of this. If a president said he had intelligence of an imminent nuclear attack there was no provision requiring him to prove it to anyone else. Congress couldn't defund a missile once in flight. (Well, it could, but lawmakers would have better things to do at that point—i.e., run for the hills.)

In other words, what Richard Nixon said still holds true: Any president could, on his own, leave a room, and in 25 minutes, 70 million (or more than that) would be dead. Not likely but in the new, more unstable, multi-polar nuclear age we've entered, Maj. Hering's question about the instability or sanity of the president himself remains valid, as does the larger sanity question: Can any order to kill 20 million with the twist of a wrist be sane?

http://www.slate.com/art...nuclear_age.single.html