“Rich guys seem to like rockets,” Trump says, to chuckles from the room, after declaring he will return Americans to the moon.
“Explain that. They do like rockets for some reason.”
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) June 18, 2018
All the real billionaires, the Big Swinging Dicks, get to go on the TV and talk about their mighty throbbing rockets. Donny Dollhands thinks he ought to be able to grift his very own (no doubt Trump-branded, gilt-painted) bunch of rockets out of a grateful nation… and his will be the only ones carrying NUCKALAR BOMBS, suckitlibs!
Trump wants an off-planet branch of the U.S. armed forces.
Congress would have to approve a Space Force, and lawmakers have been divided on it.
Much of the push motivated by space investment by Russia and China. https://t.co/OKB7hFenNr
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) June 18, 2018
Okay. Today trump decided to establish a Space Force. This MORON does not even realize that the US Air Force has a Space Command has been around since 1982. This imbecile simply cannot continue as CIC. Fire the Liar
— American Veteran (@amvetsupport) June 19, 2018
Fortunately, our American armed forces have some experience with slow-walking “demands” from temporary autocrats, so I think we’ll see the first Trump Rocket unveiled on approximately the twelfth of Never. Per the Washington Post:
… Trump has floated this idea before — in March, he said he initially conceived it as a joke — but has offered few details about how the Space Force would operate. Several experts noted that an act of Congress is required to establish a new branch of the military.
Trump said Monday that the branch would be “separate but equal” from the Air Force and that Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, would oversee its creation.
“It is not enough to have an American presence in space, we must have American dominance in space,” Trump said, adding that he didn’t want to see “China and other countries leading us.”
Dunford’s staff acknowledged Trump’s comments in a statement Monday afternoon, pledging to work closely with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’s office, other Defense Department officials and Congress to “implement the President’s guidance.”
“Space is a warfighting domain, so it is vital that our military maintains its dominance and competitive advantage in that domain,” the statement said.
And a spokeswoman for Mattis said in a statement that Pentagon officials “understand” the guidance.
“Our Policy Board will begin working on this issue, which has implications for intelligence operations for the Air Force, Army, Marines and Navy,” Dana White said without elaborating. “Working with Congress, this will be a deliberate process with a great deal of input from multiple stakeholders.”…
In a letter to lawmakers last year, Defense Secretary James Mattis "strongly" urged Congress to reconsider a proposal to establish a separate "Space Corps," saying it was "premature" to set up a new organization "at a time I am trying to reduce overhead." https://t.co/QPByED6Qc0
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) June 19, 2018
Reminder: Commander Babyfingers de-funded NASA and appointed a non-scientist to run it.
Apparently our Space Force will require no knowledge of space. https://t.co/1cS73nsEU3
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) June 18, 2018
As the first act of the Space Force initiative, can we arrange for Babyfingers to tour the front?
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) June 18, 2018
I found the first recruit to enlist in Trump's space force. pic.twitter.com/elkNNoHbYR
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) June 19, 2018
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