The 2021 Inauguration

Thomas Veil said:
Here's an interesting side story I read the other day.

How does the nuclear football get handed off from one president to the other when Trump takes off for Florida early instead of attending Biden's inauguration?

www.cnn.com

How Trump will hand off the 'nuclear football' to Biden

President Donald Trump will not be in attendance Wednesday to watch as his successor Joe Biden is sworn into office, but his absence will have little impact on what may be one of the most important moments of Inauguration Day, the handing off of the "nuclear football."
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Turns out there are multiple ones: one for Trump (deactivated and presumably taken away from him at noon today); one for the Vice President (which will be passed from Pence to Harris very subtly, behind the scenes); and a third one for the designated survivor (used during stuff like State of the Union speeches).

A different version of this story I saw had some military guy saying, "Oh yeah, we game plan the heck out of this stuff." Good to hear!
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I always thought nuclear football sounded like a sport that will be played hundreds of years in the future....

Nice article, thanks for sharing.
 
Thomas Veil said:
Here's an interesting side story I read the other day.

How does the nuclear football get handed off from one president to the other when Trump takes off for Florida early instead of attending Biden's inauguration?

www.cnn.com

How Trump will hand off the 'nuclear football' to Biden

President Donald Trump will not be in attendance Wednesday to watch as his successor Joe Biden is sworn into office, but his absence will have little impact on what may be one of the most important moments of Inauguration Day, the handing off of the "nuclear football."
www.cnn.com www.cnn.com

Turns out there are multiple ones: one for Trump (deactivated and presumably taken away from him at noon today); one for the Vice President (which will be passed from Pence to Harris very subtly, behind the scenes); and a third one for the designated survivor (used during stuff like State of the Union speeches).

A different version of this story I saw had some military guy saying, "Oh yeah, we game plan the heck out of this stuff." Good to hear!
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The Guardian had an interesting - and thought provoking - article on that very subject yesterday.
 
Ah yeah. That's where I read the rest of the stuff. Thanks.

“So you got the ceremony going down front, [but] behind one of the big pillars there, these two guys are standing in their uniforms. And at the right moment, [the outgoing military aide] reaches over and hands it to the newly designated military aide and he takes it from that moment on.”
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“We war-game this stuff, and we practise it ad nauseam for years and years,” Buzz Patterson, who carried the football for Clinton, told Business Insider, adding that the transfer needed to be instantaneous....

“We don’t take this stuff lightly. There won’t be any kind of hiccup. It’ll just go down without anybody even noticing, which is what is supposed to happen.”
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Thomas Veil said:
Ah yeah. That's where I read the rest of the stuff. Thanks.
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Interesting that Donald Trump - graceless as ever - took his "nuclear briefcase/ball" with him, but that meant that the codes would be deactivated by - or at - noon, today (EST).

Given that Mr Biden was sworn in at - as you have already pointed out - 11.49, I wonder idly (an enquring mind) whether Mr Trump's case and codes was deactivated then, or at noon, precisely.
 
Scepticalscribe said:
Interesting that Donald Trump - graceless as ever - took his "nuclear briefcase/ball" with him, but that meant that the codes would be deactivated by - or at - noon, today (EST).

Given that Mr Biden was sworn in at - as you have already pointed out - 11.49, I wonder idly (an enquring mind) whether Mr Trump's case and codes was deactivated then, or at noon, precisely.
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They would be activated/deactivated simultaneously. Only one person at a time has that authority.
 
Thomas Veil said:
They would be activated/deactivated simultaneously. Only one person at a time has that authority.
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Excellent.

Relief and reassurance in one.

Until the very last minute, I had feared that that moral monster, that agent of chaos, that destructive and cruel and corrosively corrupt creature would seek to unleash something insane (a bomb on Iran, perhaps) as a final farewell gift to his country and the world.

Thank the divinities whose existence I doubt that this is no longer possible.
 
P_X said:
He's definitely stolen some of the show:D
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https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1352295468856963072/
This one is personal
https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1352068094907338758/
:ROFLMAO:
 
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