Annie Jacobsen

Apes aren't watching TikTok.

What's the – 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?

Okay.

Do you know about sole presidential authority?

Okay.

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.

He launches.

Furthermore, we have a policy called launch on warning.

So when he's told that there is an incoming nuclear missile on its way to the United States, which is how this begins...

he must launch on warning.

That is policy.

We do not wait.

That is a quote from former Secretary of Defense Bill Perry.

Now, before taking office, many of these presidents say that they are going to change that insane policy because it essentially creates this volatile situation where every foreign leader knows that

They're going to launch on warning, and so am I. They say they're going to change the policy before they take office.