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The Trump Presidency: Part 18

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Last night I was so proud to have signed the largest Defense Bill ever. The very vital Space Force was created. New planes, ships, missiles, rockets and equipment of every kind, and all made right here in the USA. Additionally, we got Border Wall (being built) funding. Nice!
 
Checkmite said:
We now have a pointless Space Force, yay us.
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Pointless? Sounds good for PR and ripe for diverting funds into Trump ally pockets.

With that said, I don't have a problem with more presence in and focus on space endeavors. I do have a problem with effort to just ignore treaties, though.
 
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Venom said:
I'm seeing a trend of far leftists, usually socialists and anarchists, some Ron Paul types, pushing Ben Garrison and Antonio Branco cartoons, straight up mouthpieces for the Republican establishment just to stick it to the Dems and the anti-Trump resistance as it were.

It's amusing and confusing. So you'd rather have Trump allow safe passage for more Republican bills? Why are you more outraged by "the Resistance" than Trump?
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It is pretty ironic. Moutpieces for all sort of propaganda from Palestinian terrorists to anti-American/NATO insurgency suddenly have their noses deep up the US government's butt. The overlap between extremists, conspiracy theorists and Trumpkins makes for some... interesting combinations of supporters, shall I say.
 
shemp said:
Space Farce.
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I was kind of hoping they'd go with the old Robotech cartoon idea and call it a "Spacy". It seemed logical that if you had an army and a navy you'd also have a spacy. Donald Trump, Spacy Commander-in-Chief! Yes, that works.
 
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So if we have a Spacy, are they going to have a service academy like the Army, Navy and Air Force? And a football team? Is there going to be an Army-Spacy game?
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From what little I have read, the SpaceForce will be a part of the Air Force. Not quite its' own branch of the military.

I wonder, since Air Force members are referred to as "airmen", will SpaceForce recruits be "space men"?
 
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Distracted1 said:
From what little I have read, the SpaceForce will be a part of the Air Force. Not quite its' own branch of the military.

I wonder, since Air Force members are referred to as "airmen", will SpaceForce recruits be "space men"?
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It should be part of the Navy. Star Trek uses naval ranks and terminology, not army. BSG tried to use army terminology, then threw some navy in there as well, then just made up crap and tried to excuse it by being aliens, but then they were angels, and also ancestors of humans, except they had to do it with first robots and then the half-robot generation did it with neanderthals? BSG is not the example to use for our noble and dignified spacy, is what I'm saying. Ships are naval, even if they're spaceships.
 
Aridas said:
It's nice and also terrible that you're equating having principles and decency with being left of center.
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I realized fairly late why I don't put too much stock in the opinion of "Christianity Today." And it actually reflects well on Billy Graham, I think.

What struck me about the magazine way back in the early '80s was that it emphasized a broader, more tolerant Christianity than what I associate with current evangelicals. It focused on similarities, not differences. It was very different from the church I attended sporadically as a kid, which was the Church of Christ. What stood out to me even as a child was that it was full of people who thought other Christians were doing it wrong. We had to not tell my grandmother when my brother got confirmed as an Episcopalian. She would literally have thought that meant he was going to hell.

Of course, that could have just been my grandmother. In comparison "Christianity Today" was bound to look open-minded. And any publication with a history of open-mindedness was bound to finally look at Trump's behavior and say, "Enough is enough."

My grandma had too much invested to ever change her mind. She believed in hell. Today's evangelicals might be different. To be fair I wouldn't have defined her church as "evangelical." It was about as far as it could be from tent religion. I don't know enough about either the magazine or today's "evangelicals" to judge how likely they would be to change their minds about Trump.
 
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shemp said:
Since it has about as much chance of really happening as The Wall, I doubt anyone will be called anything.
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People are saying that Mexico will pay for the Space Force. A lot of people don't know that. I don't know if that's true or not, but someone said to me, "Sir, Mexico will pay for the Space Force."
 
quadraginta said:
Almost certainly. They always have been. (N.B.; the original Spellchecker Poem was composed in 1991.)

Far worse though is Autocorrect. Which, it should be pointed out, can and ought to be turned off.

Spell Check probably can be turned off as well, but used prudently it can provide some advantages. Okay as a review aid, but perhaps not to rely on.
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That's funny.
 
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