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Digby wrote:What actually is the given rationale for hiving off the role from the air force?

And what does Donny think his space force would look like, which is does he envisage what the Pentagon would realistically think doable, or does he have Imperial Star Destroyers in mind?

Rationale? "HEY LOOK OVER THERE".

I doubt he understands gravity and other space stuff. Can't wait for him to start attacking black astronauts for taking a knee during the anthem.

Digby wrote:What actually is the given rationale for hiving off the role from the air force?

There is no air in space. Even Donald Dunce knows that.

I'd contend there is air in space, it's not a vacuum, it's just not especially plentiful

There are tariffs on vacuums, so Space Force should be right as rain.

Reports starting to filter in from lawyers and such like regarding denaturalisation of foreign born citizens on any technicality possible, including in some cases not accurately reporting sexual orientation at the time of application. Traffic fines, found with a roach in your pocket, whatever. The overriding priority of this administration is stamping out diversity as harshly as possible. Pretty fucking grim. The ghoul Stephen Miller is driving a pretty hard race war through the orange puppet.

Harsh on ghouls, and given they're even going after those who've served in the military the rest don't look well placed

You wouldn't think he could still surprise you, but bollocks to national security and the right to free speech just to try and move the story away from another 'dog' he hired himself. he's not draining the swamp as much as filling it with effluent.

What's really surprising me (in a "Jesus, I thought we were at the bottom already, but, no, here's a lower place" sort of way) is the Republican primaries for the November elections and the attacks that candidates are making on each other. Trumpism has such control of the base voters that candidates are running attack ads that "X didn't stand by Trump when the Access Hollywood tapes came out and had the nerve to say that sexual assault of women was wrong when the country and the Supreme Court was in the balance. I always stood by him and that's why I am the better conservative and republican." And they're effective!

Puja

We attack politicians for being weirdos, but they can reasonably show that's what we vote for

It's just fuckin embarrassing.

Puja wrote:What's really surprising me (in a "Jesus, I thought we were at the bottom already, but, no, here's a lower place" sort of way) is the Republican primaries for the November elections and the attacks that candidates are making on each other. Trumpism has such control of the base voters that candidates are running attack ads that "X didn't stand by Trump when the Access Hollywood tapes came out and had the nerve to say that sexual assault of women was wrong when the country and the Supreme Court was in the balance. I always stood by him and that's why I am the better conservative and republican." And they're effective!

Puja

I don’t think there is much Trump could do to lose some of his core base. It’s insane and depressing in equal measure.

A few interesting things happened today then. Manafort found guilty and likely to be found guilty again at state level where Trump can't pardon him and he's said to be reconsidering his stance on not cooperating wih Mueller, Flynn's sentencing pushed back again due to ongoing cooperation with Mueller, Cohen pleading guilty and implicating Trump on campaign finance crimes, before going on to heavily imply that he's considering cooperating with Mueller and that he's got hard evidence of Russian collaboration.

Obviously everyone knows what's desired by Mueller and is talking up their value to try and get a better deal, so it may all be smoke and dust, but the odds of Trump reaching 2020 in the White House have just lengthened considerably.

Puja

And using all the guilty verdicts as cover Trump has made it easier to pollute the world using coal

Digby wrote:And using all the guilty verdicts as cover Trump has made it easier to pollute the world using coal

To be fair, I'd imagine he's probably annoyed that they've taken attention away from his glorious victory over the forces of environmentalism, science, and other anti-American demons.

Puja

The guy is irrelevant to policy making. He sucks all the oxygen out of the room so that the soulless cracker army can wage race war while their wealthy benefactors dismantle as much infrastructure as they can to line their pockets in their twilight years. What a fucking sock puppet Trump is. I am genuinely amazed at how clueless he is, even after a year in charge. Maybe we deserve it after decades of ignorance and inactivity.

cashead wrote:The Republicans won't do shit, but things'll get interesting in November. If (and it's looking likely) the Dems win big in the mid-terms, it'll get rather spicy in Washington. And we all have a porn star and her hyper-efficient lawyer to thank for it. So thank you, Stormy Daniels and Michael Avenatti.

Sadly even if the dems win big in Congress and move to impeach, the Senate won't ratify. There are only a third of Senate seats being contested and they are predominantly rust belt, Bible basher, shit squishing sort of states.

Shit. What the fucks going to happen to the Space Force now? I was hoping to become a cadet.

Buggaluggs wrote:Shit. What the fucks going to happen to the Space Force now? I was hoping to become a cadet.

It will be powered by coal, like a sort of intergalactic Titanic.

Buggaluggs wrote:Shit. What the fucks going to happen to the Space Force now? I was hoping to become a cadet.

Thought you already were a space cadet. Boom Tish!!

morepork wrote:The guy is irrelevant to policy making. He sucks all the oxygen out of the room so that the soulless cracker army can wage race war while their wealthy benefactors dismantle as much infrastructure as they can to line their pockets in their twilight years. What a fucking sock puppet Trump is. I am genuinely amazed at how clueless he is, even after a year in charge. Maybe we deserve it after decades of ignorance and inactivity.

If the Democrats has fielded a less polarised candidate and had an agenda that actually appealed to people (for months it seemed to be vote for Hillary because she isn’t Trumpand she is a woman) they it could have turned out so much better.

Ain’t populism great?!

Trump in disrespecting the flag shocker, though really colours are tricky m'kay

cashead wrote:In other GOP news, a candidate, Kelli Ward, is pissed off at John McCain for having the temerity to die, which apparently makes her look bad. What the christ.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... e918caecd8

100% batshit crazy.

Of course, Trump himself has taken the opportunity afforded by the death of a political heavyweight to demonstrate his statesmanship.

Oh, wait. That would require him not behaving like a petty minded child.

Unbridled narcissism - it's the new electoral strategy

Which Tyler wrote:Unbridled narcissism - it's the new electoral strategy

Disturbingly effective.