Hallowe’en Is Coming

 So if you’re looking for nightmare fuel:

Well, one thing the country needs to understand clearly, is that under the Constitution ... there's only two people who can give a lawful order to the Armed Forces," said McCaffrey. "They're both civilians. One's the commander-in-chief, the president in that function, and other is the Secretary of Defense. The Chairman of the JCS has zero command authority, nor do the service chiefs their advisers — they're advisers to the president, vice president, National Security Council." 

What that means, McCaffrey continued, is that "when we end up with a president like Trump, who essentially is a Mafia-like figure in his understanding of the use of military power, or for that matter, domestic law enforcement, who lacks character, who has installed in office an acting Secretary of Defense and his gang of cohorts who he has reason to believe will follow his orders, then we're in enormous peril. That's what we're seeing, again, out of this brilliantly resourced article ... we have no defense against a president with this lack of character, and we were in enormous national peril."