Trump Thread

[Husar]

Unless American society rejects its agreement to the current government power structure, then this may be something that continues to snowball.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/203198/...ald-trump.aspx

[a completely inoffensive name]

https://news.gallup.com/poll/203198/...ald-trump.aspx

Hence my pessimistic statements a week or two ago...

A man is above the law when there is no one able (or willing) to hold him accountable.

[Montmorency]

Perhaps a third ultimately approve, or half of Republicans.

"Law and order"

Obama orders that all potential thought-criminals preemptively surrender their firearms to federal agents under penalty of immediate incarceration.
Freedom-loving patriots: "Welp, it's the law." ???????

If I believed in evil, that's what I would call it.

[a completely inoffensive name]

Perhaps a third ultimately approve, or half of Republicans.

"Law and order"

Obama orders that all potential thought-criminals preemptively surrender their firearms to federal agents under penalty of immediate incarceration.
Freedom-loving patriots: "Welp, it's the law." ???????

If I believed in evil, that's what I would call it.

That will increase as talk radio and Fox News continue to feed the base with the piss-poor explanation of "It's the law, Obama did it and if he didn't he should have according to the law."

[Montmorency]

We should talk about Obama, though. And Clinton.

It's to my shame, you know, how a few years ago I almost proudly related on this forum to the skeptical that 'Obama is like, the harshest deporter EVAR! So there!'

Tough on crime. Tough on immigration. These are the dividends of Democrats playing to independents and Republicans. Intensify the bad things in government but along the lines of something less bad than the opposition wants - and isn't that really all Democratic policy has been, "technically superior" to Republican alternatives? - and how can you not end up helping license the worst?

We need a clean break with the past.

[Gilrandir]

On that note the Space Force is an incredibly stupid steps because once he begins to weaponize space, so will others.

So have others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Space_Forces


The Russian Space Forces (Russian: Космические войска России, tr. Kosmicheskie Voyska Rossii) are a branch of the Russian Aerospace Forces, that provides aerospace warning, air sovereignty, and protection for Russia. Having been reestablished following the 1 August 2015 merger between the Russian Air Force and the Russian Aerospace Defence Forces after a 2011 dissolving of the branch.

[Husar]

So have others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Space_Forces


The Russian Space Forces (Russian: Космические войска России, tr. Kosmicheskie Voyska Rossii) are a branch of the Russian Aerospace Forces, that provides aerospace warning, air sovereignty, and protection for Russia. Having been reestablished following the 1 August 2015 merger between the Russian Air Force and the Russian Aerospace Defence Forces after a 2011 dissolving of the branch.

That sounds different to me, they're not militarizing space by sending soldiers there. Trump talks about a military space branch and then about sending people to the Moon and Mars, which seems to hint at literally claiming space with the military before others do, in part to prevent them from going there and claiming things. That's quite different from just having plans to defend against a laser satellite, ICBMs or whatever.