Yes but there are other things you’d want the president to be able to do before noon and after four! And again there is a perception problem which is based on a thing that turns out to be realer than people including myself were convinced to give full credence to.
I remember when someone leaked that for the Sulemani assassination that they presented Trump with three retaliation options calibrated to get him to pick the middle one, but then he picked the biggest one.
That was when I first realized... oh yeah, of course the natsec ghouls were managing Obama
the whole time by giving him stuff calibrated to produce the result they wanted.
And I'm sure they are doing that with Biden too. But like... that's bad! We should actually want the president to be seriously considering things and make choices!
If he is woken up to "push the button" that just
that he isn't making choices, and he's just a rubber stamp for the real decision makers.
That sounds like a great reason for him to resign!
Obviously the problem of natsec people giving calibrated options and info isn't solved, but that's a hard problem we can start working on after we replace the
