"But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops. Uh, depending on the breaks."

It’s easy to dismiss Flynn except there are some who want him to run nationally and he was in the Oval Office talking about using government apparatus to seize voting machines. https://t.co/tDYjt2KSpD

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 15, 2021

That would be this guy.

Remember this? https://t.co/OdbzZ9Di42

— Ross Garber (@rossgarber) November 15, 2021

Who is retired from the military. As opposed to Curtis LeMay, who hoped to start (and win) a nuclear war with Russia in 1954, while he was still in the military. And only didn’t use them when he had the power to in 1957 because he never got the scintilla of an excuse he needed (being in command of SAC, he could do it easier than Jack D. Ripper, and send out more planes. As in, all of them.).

Or maybe I should say Gen. Buck Turgidson. During the Cuban Missile crisis LeMay tried to goad Kennedy into bombing Cuba. He hoped to provoke Russia into war, one he was sure would be nuclear and winnable because our losses would be sustainable. We’d get our hair mussed, that’s all.

“Dr. Strangelove” wasn’t that far removed from reality. In fact, Gen. Turgidson looks kind of sensible next to LeMay.  And he was a fictional character; LeMay was in real life.

Suddenly Michael Flynn doesn’t scare me that much. I mean, all he would do is commit enough crimes to put him in jail until he died of old age. Why does nobody remember the role of the courts last December?