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I wonder if Trump knowingly follows Russian Troll tweets, because he can be sure that their messages are being automatically amplified.
 
Trump folds on government shutdown.

So much for going 'all in' with 9 high hand.

White House announces it will find a other way to get border wall funded. Shutdown won't happen.
 
Trump Retweeted

Vice President Mike Pence
@VP
Today, @POTUS Trump will direct the @DeptofDefense to establish a Combatant Command that will oversee all of our military activities in space. This Space Command will be the 11th Combatant Command in the U.S. military.



And the Martians are going to pay for it!
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Trump Retweeted

Vice President Mike Pence
@VP
Today, @POTUS Trump will direct the @DeptofDefense to establish a Combatant Command that will oversee all of our military activities in space. This Space Command will be the 11th Combatant Command in the U.S. military.



And the Martians are going to pay for it!
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Okay all the "We're fighting aliens!" jokes aside, "Space" as in the communications, surveillance, and other factors in modern combat that take place "in space" are no small factor so, much as with the US finally making Cyber Defense a Combatant Command I support this. Making a war fighting area a Combatant Command gives them resources and an organized command structure.

Again I get it everyone just wants to make a "Hardy har aliens" joke about a "Space Force" but that's not what this is about.
 
JoeMorgue said:
Okay all the "We're fighting aliens!" jokes aside, "Space" as in the communications, surveillance, and other factors in modern combat that take place "in space" are no small factor so, much as with the US finally making Cyber Defense a Combatant Command I support this. Making a war fighting area a Combatant Command gives them resources and an organized command structure.

Again I get it everyone just wants to make a "Hardy har aliens" joke about a "Space Force" but that's not what this is about.
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I think there are a few reasons to object to the whole 'space force' notion:

At this point, the technology regarding 'space' is not mature (for example, The U.S. does not currently have a way to reliably send people to outer space.) Furthermore, the functions that such a 'space force' might provide could probably be accomplished by existing organizations (The Air Force, NASA)

Maybe in a few years, once technology advances and we have a clearer distinction between what a 'space force' and what the air force/NASA does, then perhaps it may make sense to create a new branch of the military. Until then, it just seems like an expensive distraction for Trump and his minions.
 
Hellbound said:
Also, I don't for a second believe that Trump put the thought into this that JoeMorgue has. I can see the reason for a Space Command...but given past history I'm fairly sure Trump just thought "That sounds cool, I'll be the one who started the Space Force! Pew pew!"
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Remember how he acted with a hardhat or in that truck? Yeah, your scenario is very, very plausible.
 
Segnosaur said:
Distinction between what a 'space force' and what the air force/NASA does, then perhaps it may make sense to create a new branch of the military. Until then, it just seems like an expensive distraction for Trump and his minions.
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A Combatant Command isn't the same thing as a full branch of the military. What is being proposed is just a unified chain of command for all space related military actives.

Right now we have 6 Geographic Combatant Commands (Africa, European, Central (Middle East mostly with a few pieces of the horn of Africa and Southwest Asia), Indo-Pacific, Northern (basically North America) and Southern (South America) and 4 Functional Combatant Commands (Cyber, Special Forces, Transportation, and Strategic). A "Space" command in that second category hardly strikes me as laughable.
 
JoeMorgue said:
A Combatant Command isn't the same thing as a full branch of the military. What is being proposed is just a unified chain of command for all space related military actives.
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No what Trump proposed was a full new branch. A space force to go along with the air force. This Space Command is simply not the space force that he was talking about.

THe goal is Space Force as a full military branch, it won't happen like his wall because of the massive stupidity of the idea but that is what this is being sold as a start toward.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/18/politics/trump-space-command-creation/index.html

So a united command of the militaries space assents(of course CIA and NSA assets are not counted in this) might make some sense but it isn't being sold in a sensible fashion. The goal is still Space Force.

So you are wrong, what is being implemented is that, but what is being proposed is a full sixth branch of the military.
 
SezMe said:
Actually, they have a central idea that explains their hatred of the ACA, namely, that government is part of the problem, not part of a solution. They simply cannot abide any program that is run by the government - especially if it is successful. This is similar to their constant harping on entitlements as if they are the scourge of mankind. Their ideal budget cuts would decimate social security, medicare, etc.

They see, and state explicitly, that these programs are huge steps down the road to unbridled socialism and that is to be feared above all else. And that is what the GOP sells:fear. Fear of socialism, fear of blacks, fear of immigrants, ....
it's fear all the way down.

That also partially explains Dump. He sells fear constantly - no wonder the rank-and-file Republican approves of him. He confirms their deep fears and tells them they are right to be afraid.

*dismounts soapbox*
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Apart from the military.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Trump Tweets

I hope the people over at the Fed will read today’s Wall Street Journal Editorial before they make yet another mistake. Also, don’t let the market become any more illiquid than it already is. Stop with the 50 B’s. Feel the market, don’t just go by meaningless numbers. Good luck!

Facebook, Twitter and Google are so biased toward the Dems it is ridiculous! Twitter, in fact, has made it much more difficult for people to join @realDonaldTrump. They have removed many names & greatly slowed the level and speed of increase. They have acknowledged-done NOTHING!
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"Feel the market, don’t just go by meaningless numbers." for once he speaks the truth the figures really are to him meaningless.
 
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