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Tue Oct 30, 2018, 06:18 PM

 

What if Trump suddenly flees to Russia and takes the football with him?

Frighteningly possible!!!

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Reply What if Trump suddenly flees to Russia and takes the football with him? (Original post)
Le Gaucher Oct 2018 OP
The Velveteen Ocelot Oct 2018 #1
Le Gaucher Oct 2018 #4
Le Gaucher Oct 2018 #10
The Velveteen Ocelot Oct 2018 #14
bearsfootball516 Oct 2018 #2
TheBlackAdder Oct 2018 #29
demmiblue Oct 2018 #3
The Velveteen Ocelot Oct 2018 #6
Agschmid Oct 2018 #5
Caliman73 Oct 2018 #7
FSogol Oct 2018 #8
Totally Tunsie Oct 2018 #9
BSdetect Oct 2018 #11
The Velveteen Ocelot Oct 2018 #16
LakeSuperiorView Oct 2018 #24
The Velveteen Ocelot Oct 2018 #25
bearsfootball516 Oct 2018 #28
tirebiter Oct 2018 #12
NightWatcher Oct 2018 #15
Whiskeytide Oct 2018 #13
TeamPooka Oct 2018 #17
Le Gaucher Oct 2018 #18
TeamPooka Oct 2018 #19
onenote Oct 2018 #23
bearsfootball516 Oct 2018 #21
bearsfootball516 Oct 2018 #20
The Velveteen Ocelot Oct 2018 #27
tandem5 Oct 2018 #22
FiveGoodMen Oct 2018 #33
Kajun Gal Oct 2018 #26
sarisataka Oct 2018 #30
enid602 Oct 2018 #31
RainCaster Oct 2018 #32

Response to Le Gaucher (Original post)

Tue Oct 30, 2018, 06:19 PM

1. The Pentagon would just change the codes.

Anyhow, he doesn't even carry it; there's a military officer who travels with him that has physical control over it. Trump can't even fold up an umbrella.

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Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #1)

Tue Oct 30, 2018, 06:21 PM

4. I am just wondering if the original designers ever thought of this scenario

 

Kidnap yes ..but this..I doubt it

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Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #1)

Tue Oct 30, 2018, 06:24 PM

10. What is the protocol for that .. What prevents that from happening now?

 

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Response to Le Gaucher (Reply #10)

Tue Oct 30, 2018, 06:26 PM

14. It's actually kind of complicated.

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Response to Le Gaucher (Original post)

Tue Oct 30, 2018, 06:20 PM

2. That's one heck of a theory you've got there.

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Response to bearsfootball516 (Reply #2)

Tue Oct 30, 2018, 06:53 PM

29. The bottom of the suitcase says "PlaySkool" on it.

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Response to Le Gaucher (Original post)

Tue Oct 30, 2018, 06:20 PM

3. No it isn't. n/t

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Response to demmiblue (Reply #3)

Tue Oct 30, 2018, 06:22 PM

6. The president doesn't carry the "football."

A military officer has charge of it. If it fell into the wrong hands somehow, the Pentagon would just change the codes.

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Response to Le Gaucher (Original post)

Tue Oct 30, 2018, 06:22 PM

5. No, it's not.

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Response to Le Gaucher (Original post)

Tue Oct 30, 2018, 06:22 PM

7. I am sure that they would suspend the codes in that case.

The president does not usually carry the "football" alone anyway. Usually a military personnel will be with him. We will likely know where he is headed before he gets there. It would be a MAJOR scandal and serious international incident, but he would not likely be able to give access to our nuclear weapons to Russia, especially if we knew he was fleeing.

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Response to Le Gaucher (Original post)

Tue Oct 30, 2018, 06:23 PM

8. pos·si·ble - adjective - 1. able to be done; within the power or capacity of

of someone or something

Nope.

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Response to Le Gaucher (Original post)

Tue Oct 30, 2018, 06:23 PM

9. Good riddance.

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Response to Le Gaucher (Original post)

Tue Oct 30, 2018, 06:24 PM

11. I'm pretty sure they gave him an inflatable replica anyway...

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Response to BSdetect (Reply #11)

Tue Oct 30, 2018, 06:27 PM

16. It doesn't inflate. It's a briefcase.

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Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #16)

Tue Oct 30, 2018, 06:47 PM

24. The real football is said to weigh about 45 pounds.

 

tRump probably has a replica with the functionality of a toddler's play phone.

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Response to LakeSuperiorView (Reply #24)

Tue Oct 30, 2018, 06:48 PM

25. He probably can't carry 45 lbs.

except for the extra lard on his gut.

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Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #25)

Tue Oct 30, 2018, 06:52 PM

28. He's also not going to outrun anybody with it.

The guy wouldn't be able to outrun a snail carrying a sumo wrestler.

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Response to Le Gaucher (Original post)

Tue Oct 30, 2018, 06:26 PM

12. Shoot him down

The military's job is to protect us from threats foreign or domestic. 2 out of 2 sorta covers it

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Response to tirebiter (Reply #12)

Tue Oct 30, 2018, 06:26 PM

15. This this this

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Response to Le Gaucher (Original post)

Tue Oct 30, 2018, 06:26 PM

13. Change the codes and send his ass..

... a bill for fumigating the White House.

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Response to Le Gaucher (Original post)

Tue Oct 30, 2018, 06:27 PM

17. you have an active imagination un-rooted in reality. The president doesn't carry the football.

military officers do.
he's not overpowering any of them to get it and then outrun them.

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Response to TeamPooka (Reply #17)

Tue Oct 30, 2018, 06:28 PM

18. What can I say? Its the times we live in

 

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Response to Le Gaucher (Reply #18)

Tue Oct 30, 2018, 06:30 PM

19. no, it's unrealistic fantasy that you seem to think is "frighteningly possible."

It is not.
Don't be an unhinged conspiracy theorist.
That's the Republican's job.

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Response to TeamPooka (Reply #19)

Tue Oct 30, 2018, 06:39 PM

23. +1

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Response to Le Gaucher (Reply #18)

Tue Oct 30, 2018, 06:31 PM

21. See my post below.

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Response to TeamPooka (Reply #17)

Tue Oct 30, 2018, 06:31 PM

20. It's kind of a funny image.

As if Trump could grab the nuclear football and somehow outrun dozens of highly athletic Secret Service agents. The dude can't even walk a hole of golf without getting on his golf cart.

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Response to TeamPooka (Reply #17)

Tue Oct 30, 2018, 06:52 PM

27. Especially since the "football" is a 45-lb. briefcase.

Tiny can't outrun anybody, ever.

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Response to Le Gaucher (Original post)

Tue Oct 30, 2018, 06:35 PM

22. They're not literal codes that anybody can use to launch a strike...

it's more like a protocol to verify an unbroken chain of command from the top. It's not automatic as in computerized -- the process goes by way of multiple people. If Trump flees he could still conceivably call in his codes to verify his identity for a command, but then it wouldn't really matter as he's a fled traitor and the order would be ignored.

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Response to tandem5 (Reply #22)

Tue Oct 30, 2018, 07:53 PM

33. Unless Joshua is still lurking in the machine!

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Response to Le Gaucher (Original post)

Tue Oct 30, 2018, 06:50 PM

26. Let him go!!! He'd have fun there! Please, go!!!

 

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Response to Le Gaucher (Original post)

Tue Oct 30, 2018, 07:17 PM

30. Normally such a ridiculous idea

Would Merit a sarcastic reply

However I will not because it is comedic gold for a video short.

The great Trump Escape

Opening scene is Trump in the motorcade complaining he needs to use the bathroom and they pull up to a 7-Eleven. He jumps out of the limo and scoots into the bathroom having grab the football before anybody can realize it.

Next scene is the Secret Service standing guard outside the door asking if everything is okay. Swipe to Interior shot of trump squeezing his ass outside of the window in the back with a plane ticket to Moscow clutched in his teeth.

Final scene is Trump running down the alley clutching the football in both hands, toupee flapping, screaming for a taxi to take him to the airport. Behind him is a mass of Secret Service agents chasing him like the Keystone Cops.

Final cut back to the limo with a befuddled military officer holding the actual football and asking a secret service agent why the president ran off with his lunch.

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Response to Le Gaucher (Original post)

Tue Oct 30, 2018, 07:27 PM

31. Trump leave?

And leave his adoring children to face the guillotine alone? Never!

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Response to Le Gaucher (Original post)

Tue Oct 30, 2018, 07:35 PM

32. Dancing in the streets!

We would all celebrate

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