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posted by martyb on Sunday March 03 2019, @06:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the Space-Force-or-Space-Farce? dept.

The Washington Post has an editorial by Vice President Pence, asking Congress to pass our National Defense Authorization Act for, or of 2020. Which will create a 6th branch of the United States military, called the United States Space Force. It's going to be part of the Air Force, but, this one won't be in the air. It will be in space. And there's no air, there. An excerpt:

Under this proposal, the Space Force would be within the Air Force, similar to the placement of the Marine Corps within the Navy. More than any other organization, the Air Force has been at the vanguard of building the world’s best military space programs. So, creating the Space Force within the Air Force is the best way to minimize duplication of effort and eliminate bureaucratic inefficiencies.

Just as the Air Force began within the Army before becoming a separate military department, so too will this first step in establishing the Space Force pave the way for a separate military department in the future. The Space Force is the next and the natural evolution of U.S. supremacy in space.

Also at Chicago Tribune.


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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 03 2019, @06:48PM (17 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 03 2019, @06:48PM (#809492)

    I'm sure the Space Force is their highest priority right after funding that wall and an enormous tax cut that will pay for itself and more through the power of compound interest *waves hands*

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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by takyon on Sunday March 03 2019, @06:53PM (8 children)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Sunday March 03 2019, @06:53PM (#809493) Journal

    Pay for itself? We're already $15-20 trillion in the hole. The trick is to dig as far as possible and then declare all debts void.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 03 2019, @06:57PM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 03 2019, @06:57PM (#809497)

      All that debt is denominated in U.S. Dollars. Guess who prints U.S. Dollars? The United States.

      • (Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday March 03 2019, @07:34PM (2 children)

        by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Sunday March 03 2019, @07:34PM (#809508) Journal

        We'll switch to Buttcoins at that exact moment.

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        • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 03 2019, @08:07PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 03 2019, @08:07PM (#809522)

          Too late, Pornhub cornered that market.

        • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday March 04 2019, @02:59PM

          by Phoenix666 (552) on Monday March 04 2019, @02:59PM (#809781) Journal

          At that moment the look on the faces of all the crooks who have squirreled away trillions of US dollars in offshore accounts would be one for the ages. It could only be exceeded by the look if they were arrested after having lost all that loot.

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    • (Score: 4, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 03 2019, @11:22PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 03 2019, @11:22PM (#809596)

      The trick is to dig as far as possible and then declare all debts void.

      If only we had a leader who was well versed in declaring bankruptcy and reneging on his debts.

    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 04 2019, @04:12PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 04 2019, @04:12PM (#809825)

      The national debt isn't anywhere near the point where it's a problem. The real issue is that what we're doing with that money. If we rolled back the Trump and Bush tax cuts and cut our military spending back to pre-9/11 levels, we'd be running a surplus of over $150bn without cutting services that people actually care about.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 04 2019, @07:06PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 04 2019, @07:06PM (#809921)

      The trick is to dig as far as possible and then declare all debts void.

      No, the trick is to dig as far as possible, and then take away everyone's earned benefits (Social Security, Medicare, etc.) that we've paid into all our lives and use the stolen money (it IS our money, after all, even if it is held in trust by the government, for loose definitions of "trust") to help offset the cost of the tax custs the Republicans gave to the very rich.

      End result: the rich don't have to pay their fair share, they empty our social security and Medicare accounts to cover the cost, and we're all told to "just go off and die" when we get too sick or too old to continue slaving for the very rich, and making them even richer while we struggle, paycheck to paycheck.

      But, but, but ... her emails. And abortion.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 04 2019, @07:33PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 04 2019, @07:33PM (#809936)

        Don't forget the R-lite position of "taxation is theft!!@!@!!!"

  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 03 2019, @07:47PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 03 2019, @07:47PM (#809513)

    Trump will be the President for the next 46 years.

    Donald Trump 6 more years 2024

    Donald Trump Jr 8 years

    Ivanka Trump 8 years

    Eric Trump 8 years

    Tiffany trump 8 years

    Barron Trump 8 years

    • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 03 2019, @08:59PM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 03 2019, @08:59PM (#809534)

      First female president? Check.
      First autistic president? Check.

      We're in for a surprisingly diverse half century.

      • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 03 2019, @09:04PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 03 2019, @09:04PM (#809537)

        Hopefully, one day we will all be republicans and work together to help the rich help us become like them, rich too.

      • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 03 2019, @09:34PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 03 2019, @09:34PM (#809547)

        First insane president? Check.

  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Whoever on Sunday March 03 2019, @08:57PM (1 child)

    by Whoever (4524) on Sunday March 03 2019, @08:57PM (#809533) Journal

    "tax cut". LOL.

    My taxes are a lot higher than last year, much more than my increase in income would justify.

    I guess I am just not wealthy enough to benefit from Trump's gift to the ultra-wealthy.

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by TheGratefulNet on Sunday March 03 2019, @10:03PM

    by TheGratefulNet (659) on Sunday March 03 2019, @10:03PM (#809561)

    ...he's going to make the Martians pay for it.

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