Needs a “tweet” button.
Fuck. It’s so much worse now than it was in the 80s.
The nuke button flushes the toilet
This is the world we live in
And these are the hands we’re given
Use them and let’s start trying
To make it a place worth living inOH OHHH OH
the puppets in that video were weird
They were from a ‘80’s British comedy tv puppet show called Spitting Image.
My favorite trivia from that is that the Phil Collins deformed puppet was from a British show mocking Phil Collins. He loved it so much he hired the puppet makers to create puppets for the entire band and used them for this music video.
When you said context, I thought you were going to link to the Genesis video.
puppet Ayatollah gets me every time
The Phil Collins puppet bears a strange resemblance to Liz Truss.
Love that video
“Buckaroo! The President wants to know if everything’s OK with the alien spacecraft from planet 10 or should he just go ahead and destroy Russia?”
“Tell him yes on 1 and no on 2.”
“Wait, which was ‘yes’? To destroy Russia or number 2?”
There’s a yellow button too, for Russian sex workers & rubber sheets
luckily for all of us, there is really no such button.
i am not really sure whether you agree with me or that was supposed to be some sarcastic burn, but at least some generals are in the chain of command.
the “nuclear football” is not some magic button that president presses and the nukes start flying.
it is basically sat-phone and a password, that connects the president with some command center and authenticates, to person in the command center, that the person on the other side is the
presidentperson holding the card with password 😀after that long line of people follows, starting with secretary of defense and ending up with some soldier in the missile silo who physically has their hand on the button.
every single one of them has duty to disobey unlawful command.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_football https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_command_and_control
The cool thing is that thanks to the NSA and public key cryptography, the chain of authentication goes all the way down the chain of command.
When the guys in the silo get that Emergency Action Message and authenticate it, they can have confidence that it was issued under the authority of the President, or at least the holder of the Presidential biscuit.
It’s both - I’m well aware that it’s not just pressing a random button behind a curtain, and it’s a bit of an issue that generals under Trump were thinking seriously about disobeying a military order because the considered him to be potentially erratic around the use of nuclear weapons.
