Timothy Birdnow

A number of the ill-informed, particularly the Millenials, seem to believe that Donald J. Trump is some sort of a crazy man who will push the nuclear button if he gets angry. This appears to be the general opinion of many, who have accepted the Hillary/Media mantra that he is somehow "temperamentally unfit" for office. While it can well be argued that Trump is a bad choice for POTUS, one must question the underlying assumptions of this particular charge.

It's wrong.

First, this is the exact same argument used against Ronald Reagan, who was accused of being a senile fool who would start WWIII one day by pushing the nuclear button while believing it was the coffee maker. This was, of course, absolute nonsense, and Reagan's careful strategy of competing with the Soviets forced them into a retreat that eventually ended their evil reign. How did Reagan do this? He used the strategy the Soviets were using ON US! Until Reagan we had first Containment, which made it American policy to simply stop the Soviets from expanding. (This was the brainchild of a liberal wonk named George Kennan.) Richard Nixon doubled down on this by instituting the policy of his idiot savant Henry Kissinger, a scheme called Detente, which essentially recognized Soviet desires to expand and tried to make it palatable. By taking off the pressure America allowed the Soviets to engage in their own policies toward us, namely, to start a series of brush fires around the world which would exhaust America. Reagan, by instituting a big military buildup and engaging the Soviets wherever they struck, turned the tables on them and they collapsed. Why? Reagan knew they were economically weak, and in a tit-for-tat global struggle they would lose.

Yes, there was a danger some madman would launch the birds on the Asiatic side of the globe, but it was unlikely as most Soviet leaders were interested in survival. Criminals rarely die for a cause since they are more interested in living with ill-gotten gains. Reagan knew that.

So when it is said Trump will blow us up randomly, one must question the historical precedent involved. These same wizards told us Reagan would do that.

Let us ask a question; can Trump actually launch the birds?

Not so easily.

There isn't just a button in the White House the President pushes when he wants to launch the missiles.

The older proceedure entailed a special agent with a briefcase called The Football which contained the nuclear launch codes and a list of targets in a give scenario. The President had to obtain these documents AND enter his own identification code (this is now done electronically and the President must submitt to a retinal scan.) It should be pointed out that former President Bill Clinton LOST THE CARD containing his identification code and it remained lost for several months while he was sodomizing Monica, er, running the country. So, extreme carelessness characterized Bill Clinton as it does Hillary, who leaked all manner of secret information through her home knitted server.

But even then, when the codes go out, the order has to be obeyed and it is entirely possible it will not be.

The Secretary of Defense has to relay the order, and he could well report to Congress instead, invoking the 25th Amendment and removing the President. The protocol further requires that the Speaker of the House, the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, the heads of all the major committees, etc, be notified prior to launch. They7 can stop the launch if needed. While the system is designed to move quickly there are serious oversights. And there are, of course, many we are not made privvy to, I might add.

It's not just a button. Trump can't just get mad and nuke someone,

And this idea that Trump WOULD get mad and nuke someone is nonsense; a man doesn't wind up with a billion dollar company by acting irresponsibly. How many times has Donald Trump eaten crow for the betterment of Trump Inc.? A hothead is not going to wind up in his position, because he will inevitably cut off his nose to spite his face. Trump has been quite public about some things that are indeed quite childish (like his fights with Rosie O'Donnell) but much of that was calculated to maximize publicity or make a point. To think that Trump would simply fly off the handle is a gross misunderstanding of how billions of dollars are made in real estate in New York.

On the other hand, who has gotten us into war? Hillary. It was her policy to "reset" relations with Russia, which signalled weakness to them and led to the invasion of Ukraine and their subsequent baiting of America across the globe (like their warships cruising off the coast of Australia a while back.) It was Hillary who wanted Assad gone in Syria, something that anyone competent in Russian policy would know was unacceptable. It was Hillary who gave us ISIS by pushing an early withdrawl from Iraq (and she was all for invading Iraq at the beginning) and it was Hillary that gave us Benghazi and put an innocent American citizen in jail for her failure. In one of the debates Hillary called for arming teh Kurds in Iraq - something sure to bring emnity with the Turks. Oh, and she pushed the Iran nuclear deal which guarantees a nuclear bomb to iran if they signed it and furthermore had the U.S. pay them lots of money to invest in the program.

And Hillary has a fierce temper; just ask anyone with close contact with her. She is notorious for throwing things and screaming, and insulting her bodyguards.

No, if anyone is likely to launch the nukes it will be Hillary, who has a deep, enduring, smoldering anger at the world. I would feel much safer with a businessman in charge, who isn't going to risk destroying his corporation rather than someone like Hillary who makes money through selling policy and blackmailing "donors" into coughing up or else.

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