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posted by janrinok on Thursday January 25 2018, @11:28PM   Printer-friendly
from the wish-me-luck-as-you-wave-me-bye-bye dept.

A draft budget proposal would end support for the International Space Station (ISS) by 2025. The U.S. was previously committed to operating at the ISS until 2024:

The Trump administration is preparing to end support for the International Space Station program by 2025, according to a draft budget proposal reviewed by The Verge. Without the ISS, American astronauts could be grounded on Earth for years with no destination in space until NASA develops new vehicles for its deep space travel plans.

The draft may change before an official budget request is released on February 12th. However, two people familiar with the matter have confirmed to The Verge that the directive will be in the final proposal. We reached out to NASA for comment, but did not receive a response by the time of publication.

Also at the Wall Street Journal.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Grishnakh on Friday January 26 2018, @12:56AM (2 children)

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Friday January 26 2018, @12:56AM (#628005)

    Let's end support for the Trump Administration in 2018

    What's that going to do? Maybe you don't realize this, but Trump's first term doesn't end until January 2021, and there's no such thing as a "recall election" for the President, so we're stuck with him, like it or not, unless he does something that actually gets the Republicans in Congress to go along with impeaching him (good luck with that).

    Worse, I predict we're going to have a 2nd term with Trump if he isn't prevented by health issues. Most likely, the DNC will pick yet another unbelievably horrible candidate, perhaps quack-medicine-peddling Oprah, and again enough people will vote for Trump out of disgust for the DNC that he'll win just like this time. The Democrats have shown over and over and over and over that they just can't learn the simple strategy of how to beat the Republicans (hint, you just have to pick a decent, likable candidate who isn't scandal-ridden, and has more charisma than a paper bag; apparently this is just too much for them).

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday January 26 2018, @02:29AM (1 child)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Friday January 26 2018, @02:29AM (#628039) Homepage

    They are nuts, but they won't go with Oprah. If they do, it will only be surface noise to cover their real choice(s) so that their real choices don't fizzle out too soon. There is the Oprah/Weinstein stuff as well, and all those aides and other insiders who've seen Oprah's bad side are likely to come out of the woodwork at the most inopportune time -- somebody with a past like Oprah's is not likely to be all unicorns shitting rainbows and roses. The Bannon war machine is playing for keeps now, and nothing is hidden anymore*.

    So who would they pick?
    • Kamela Harris (flaming bitch aka Hillary-in-Training) -- nope.
    • "Creepy Uncle Joe" Biden -- nope.
    • Luis "La Migra" Gutiérrez -- that depends on whether or not the DREAMERS, Salvadorians, and other scumbags are allowed to stay and given voting rights. Should that be the case, he'd be at least a VEEP.
    • Bernie Sanders -- nope, but only because the vengeful DNC-infested FBI are going to dirty him with the investigation (something about his wife misappropriating funds for a college, or something) as retribution for indirectly diverting Democrat votes to Trump and third-parties. Otherwise he would stand a chance.
    • Anybody else from California -- nope. Everybody else, including Californians, are sick of California's bullshit.

    * Opinion -- Bannon and Trump's 'falling out,' like their previous spats, are all misdirection. With the 2018 midterms coming up, Trump and Breitbart both had to shed that liability. Bannon is still working behind the scenes to dig up and expose dirt on Trump's enemies.

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by Grishnakh on Friday January 26 2018, @03:44PM

      by Grishnakh (2831) on Friday January 26 2018, @03:44PM (#628292)

      There is the Oprah/Weinstein stuff as well, and all those aides and other insiders who've seen Oprah's bad side are likely to come out of the woodwork at the most inopportune time -- somebody with a past like Oprah's is not likely to be all unicorns shitting rainbows and roses.

      Huh? Look at what happened to Hillary: she had bad associates (Kissinger), and insiders came out of the woodwork, yet the Dems still happily nominated her. I'm sorry, your comment seems to assume that the Democrats will actually learn from their mistake, and I just don't have any faith that they will (don't forget here, I'm usually a Dem voter!). They've been pushing lousy Presidential candidates for ages, and that includes 2008: they didn't want Obama at all, and were forced into it when Obama "stole" the nomination from their queen Hillary. They just can't seem to learn that the only way they win elections is when they have a *likable*, charismatic candidate. That's how (Bill) Clinton won, and that's how Obama won. All their other candidates in the past several decades didn't meet this very simple test, and lost. They should have learned in 2008, with Obama's huge success, how important charisma is, and how unpopular Hillary is, but nope, they had to double down with her in '16, and lose an election that they should have had in the bag.

      Really, your reasoning seems to be assuming "they can't *possibly* be so stupid to make the same mistake a 3rd time". With these people, I just don't think that's a reasonable assumption. I really would not be surprised to see them push Hillary yet again.