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by bacchusracine 1036 days ago
>Cold War Kid here. This is cute. Y'all now just figuring out the nuclear apocalypse is only ever minutes away? I grew up with this shit being shoved in my face every single day.

Yeah. This is definitely an 'everything old is new again' moment. Anyone remember the music video for Genesis' Land of Confusion and how that ended? Amazing how history rhymes! Here we are again with a dementia patient in the White House and everyone pretending that's OK somehow...

EDIT: To the people downvoting me, could you please explain the difference between Reagan having the nuclear football and Biden having the nuclear football to me rather than just mashing the downvote button? Thanks.

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The two problems I spot are (1) You had to include an edit to your original comment to try and clarify what your original post was referring to (Reagan vs Biden) rather than just stating that and (2) the seemingly unnecessary "dementia patient" reference in the context of what you posted. FYI, my account is young so I am unable to downvote anything.

> could you please explain the difference between Reagan having the nuclear football and Biden having the nuclear football

Seeing as the protocol is for the President of the United States to have control over the nuclear arsenal, I don't think there is a difference. Are you suggesting that there is a difference? It is unclear your intention. Perhaps someone else will care to know what your discussion goal is here.

The teams are different.
>The teams are different.

Do the teams really matter that much when we're talking about dementia patients with access to a button that pretty much kills the world?

>Do the teams really matter that much...

Not to me they don't.