Annie Jacobsen
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They outfitted them with oxygen masks.
And then they had humans doing the same thing.
And they were measuring โ
you know, energy levels.
And during this experiment, and they kept making them do it over and over again, the humans and the apes on the treadmills.
And during one of the experiments, one of the apes was basically like, screw this, I'm not doing this anymore.
He pushed the button and got off.
And the anecdote to nuclear war is if apes can figure out how to get off the
Apes aren't watching TikTok.
What's the โ why is that?
It's the old adage that you have to be crazy to become president in the first place or you wouldn't become president because you would realize it's crazy.
Well, it's also so peculiar what happens to people when they become president.
And I'll give you an example of, again, from the nuclear war concept of things.
Do you know about the policy launch on warning?
Do you know about sole presidential authority?
So you know the president alone launches nuclear war.
He doesn't ask the SECDEF, doesn't ask the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, doesn't ask Congress.