Time to Get Rid of the Presidential Power for Nuclear First Strike

[j-mac]

The Commander in Chief is still supposed to follow orders from the legislative branch.

Um….No.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

You have the reading ability of a fucking child.

I was talking about a first-strike; not a retaliatory strike.

WTF do you think retaliatory means. It means they nuked is first you moron.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

As the 2024 presidential election season heats up, you'll have candidates weighing in on all sorts of issues to where their impact as President would be minimal at best. The President has nothing to do with crime on the streets, minimal impact on how society behaves, and almost nothing to do with job creation. OF course we like report cards, grades, and objective data so we apply rates and polls to points in time and attribute those to whomever is in office.

One area where the candidates could actually have an impact is to strip away some of the crazy power we give the chief executive. One of the most glaring idiocies is to give the President the ability to essentially end the world by launching a first-strike with a nuclear weapon.

There is no reason to ever have such an ability invested in one person. A retaliatory strike? Yes. But to squeeze off a nuke when we were not hit first is unthinkable and, up until recently, unimaginable.

Or we could just not elect Trump again or another Republican just as bad.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

I see there is nobody who wants to (outside of Thunder) discuss the topic. Typical.

It wasn’t an issue until Trump was president.

 

[Independentthinker]

Wait until after we are hit by a nuclear weapon ? After millions of US citizens are dead then we strike ?

He clearly hasn't thought this through but seems pretty worried Trump will be the next president.

 

[candycorn]

WTF do you think retaliatory means. It means they nuked is first you moron.

Again...you should really read the posts you choose to respond to.

 

[candycorn]

It wasn’t an issue until Trump was president.

Like so many other things about the blob, it should inform all of us that if there is a loophole, an agreed upon norm, a custom, or anything else that is not codified...we will eventually have someone in that position (be it President, Speaker, or whomever) that will take advantage of the fact that nobody ever thought that we'd have an elected official who would stoop to such a depth.

 

[candycorn]

Or we could just not elect Trump again or another Republican just as bad.

I'm all for that.

I'd feel better though if we codified it to the point to where we don't have someone who can end the world on his or her own.