As a kid for whom this was my childhood who’s always dreamed a space force…
This is retarded. Until the Klingons or those aliens from Independence Day or Emporer Dark show up, there’s literally no need for one right now. What would they actually do, besides flying super high altitude planes around making “Pew Pew” noises?
Trump might just be setting this up to send Mattis on a one-way ride:
“We have the Air Force, we’ll have the space force,” Trump said in March.
As it turns out, the Space Force sounds a lot like the space corps legislation the Trump administration opposed last year . . .
At the time, the White House, the Air Force as well as Secretary of Defense James Mattis disapproved of the idea to create a sixth branch of the military.
“I oppose the creation of a new military service and additional organizational layers at a time when we are focused on reducing overhead and integrating joint warfighting efforts,” Mattis wrote in a letter to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees.
The same way the tax cuts for rich people did. By totally not paying for themselves and then low income individuals being told they now need to shoulder the difference with cuts to social programs they rely on to sustain a basic standard of living.
And then “The Forgotten Man” can continue to vote for Republicans who funnel the fruits of their labor to an ever shrinking number of ultra rich at the top, all while blaming “the other” for their lot in life because they are too stupid to realize Fox News, conservative talk radio, and the stupid Facebook posts they see from their cousins and uncles are just lying to them.
So, is this one of those things that Dip ■■■■ Donnie just proclaims, to much applause, and then the smart people just keep their heads down and ignore it?