Trump's Make Space Great Again video pulled after former 'naut says: Nope A funny thing happened overnight in the world of space and politics as a campaigning video featuring SpaceX's commercial crew launch and promoting US President Donald Trump was abruptly pulled from YouTube. "Make Space Great Again" was uploaded to YouTube following the successful launch, attended by Trump, and featured a mix …
450 cities across America are protesting racism. Lots of all-white peaceful protests protesting 'racism'. Really its about kicking Trump out because the Republican party seems to have lost its moral compass and backbone.
4th July Coup basics
You maybe noticed a few things recently:
* Bunker-Boy is turning the Whitehouse into a fortress.
* Tanks are planned for the 4th July,
* Trump claims he can move the military into the States by declaring protestors as 'insurgents/terrorists'.
* General Mattis warning against Trump, suggesting America unite *without* Trump.
* Military leaders reminding their troops they swore loyalty to the Constitution. The Constitution is not the divider-in-chief! Soldiers cannot legally fire on US citizens just because Trump wants them to. Even if Barr says its OK, even if Fox New is screaming "kill kill kill".
I know it sounds alarmist, but you need to prepare NOW, for what's about to hit you. There is no bottom with this guy. There is nothing he won't do, and nothing that his enablers won't enable. It should be clear from John Dowds letter and Bill Barrs action they are still planning to go for it.
Coup Basics.
The Whitehouse isn't the power. It's just a building. He will try to use its symbolism for his coup. He's fortifying the Whitehouse. Call him 'little bunker-boy hiding in his Wendy House'.
Trump will pretend to have the military behind him. Enablers on Fox News will pretend he has the military supporting his coup. Call in Generals to testify their support of the Constitution. Prepare them now, get them in now swearing their loyalty to the Democracy that is the United States. Get them lined up to testify their loyalty to the Constitutional Democracy. America, America America. Canvas their views now.
Get more ex-Republicans like Bush on board. This guy isn't the Republican party, and the current party members are afraid to speak out in case he attacks them and they lose power. Find ex party members who will speak out.
You see how Barr has his private paramilitary security team ready? Get yours own security ready. You don't want a gun to your head.
Don't let him capture the Supreme Court or its judges. A vote under duress is not a vote.
Don't let him capture the House & Senate. If Trump captures the building, hold the votes somewhere else and declare it the legal vote anyway regardless of location.
Fox News will be there trying for the full coup, trying to legitimize the coup. Trying to portray government as uniting around bunker-boy. Bunker boy will be trying to block all other channels.
Twitter HQ, Google HQ, and Facebook HQ prepare your security. Anticipate the worst case. The worst case will involve guns to the heads of your CEOs! Prepare.
There is no bottom with this guy. There is no bottom to his enablers.
Decide NOW that you want the United States to be a democracy. Agree NOW that this is the best for everyone. Get Republican Fox News viewers to imagine their ideal candidates, suggest competent strong Republican leader figures they might like. Then remind them that a dicatorship will be Donald, Jared, then Baron. Not their guy. Not their vote. Not their choice.
Ask entitled rich Republicans to imagine their life under a dictator. What if they say something that offends the dictators, can they breathe? Will he let them breathe? Do they think their money is worth anything if they can't breathe?
In the 'Night of the Long Knives', hitler killed his enemies AND his rivals. People on his own side who could potentially take power from him. You might want to remind Barr, Pascale, Kavanaugh, Hannity, Pompeo, Murdoch, etc. of that fact. None of them think, they'll end up like Khashoggi, tortured and dismembered, but all of them are candidates for the scalpel. By the time they do, it would be too late. So paint their future for them now so they can see they don't want this.
End it now.
He has to go.
End it now.
He has to go.
Hmm ...
Steady now, don't go and ruin a great 231 year streak.
Get ready and come November flood the voting booths with people willing to vote a change instead of staying at home because they can't bother and ignoring the fact that the Electoral College is a clear and present danger.
With all its defects and pitfalls, Democracy is the only way to go.
I know what it is like to live in a country where Democracy, institutions and due process have been trampled on quite a few times, curiously enough (or not) with the concourse and approval of US governments of the time.
Believe me, it is not something you want.
O.
Wait until you have lived in a country like South Africa as a “non-white/coloured/black” in the 1980’s. if it had not been for De Klerk then I should think there really would have been all-out war as there was no where else to go.
Wonder who America’s De Klerk is? They already murdered their Mandela.
"if it had not been for De Klerk then I should think there really would have been all-out war as there was no where else to go."
South Africa is still festering. All that changed was that some of the ANC elite carved themselves a slice of the big pie at the top table. The oppressed are still in much the same position as they were during apartheid - possibly worse as the country's economy appears to be falling apart.
It could still descend into civil war - possibly along tribal lines like Zimbabwe. Even forty years ago the many tribal (black, coloured, white) histories, rivalries, and multitude of pecking orders going back hundreds of years were still clear demarcations in people's minds.
@"Steady now, don't go and ruin a great 231 year streak."
46 years. Nixon was impeached and booted out by protests. Republicans can get a spine, they don't need to get in with this coup. They can cut their losses *now*, like they did with Nixon.
Every Republican can simply decide they'd like to be part of the Constitutional democracy. They don't need to block this election, they don't need to roll out the tanks on US streets to attack peaceful protestors. Trump's coup needs to fail.
How many do they think he'd kill? 10? 10000? Because he was 3 million votes short, perhaps he should kill 3million +1 Americans? And you think he'd limit himself to attacking voters but not leaders? There is no bottom with this man. 111,390 dead so far and he won't even wear a mask.
@"Get ready and come November flood the voting booths with people willing to vote a change instead of staying at home because they can't bother and ignoring the fact that the Electoral College is a clear and present danger."
Republican States opened up early, Covid19 cases are spiking again, Florida, Arizona,... they blocked mail-in ballots to force people into those voting booths. Republicans States won't hold an election.
If Trump rolls out the military across the country, and body bags line up along the walkways, there is no way they'd hold an election.
USA needs to be a Constitutional Democracy again.
Every Republican can simply decide they'd like to be part of the Constitutional democracy.
It is thus worrisome how many chose to vote for him in the (mostly unopposed) primaries. Many more could have chosen to vote for the other guy, whateverhisnamewas, just to show that Mr. Trump had no real support (among the lowest in approval rating polls, compared to other presidents). But he got to boast 90% or so win in the primaries. It sucks to be a Republican today, embarrassing.
Republicans are a pack animal, they follow the leader of the pack, till he's too badly crippled then they replace him on mass.
There never is a middle state with them.
You see him lie about his popularity among Republicans to delay the ejection from the pack.
Have you ever been at a shareholder meeting and the CEO says "sure things are bad, but without me they'd be much worse"? It's that strategy. I've never seen a meeting where that has ever worked (or been true), but they keep trying it.
Their window for ejecting him is very very limited. Once they're cancelling the elections they become powerless and are full on locked into a full coup.
46 years. Nixon was impeached ... *
I'm citing 231 years of continuous Democratic process with all its institutions intact.
No small feat in the Americas.
O.
* IIRC, Nixon resigned to avoid the final House vote and then the Senate vote, which would have probably impeached him so he decided not to chance it. Republicans in congress are still bleeding from that wound, which (besides most of them being professional assholes) is the main reason for closing ranks behind The Idiot® on every occasion.
Peaceful?! Tell that to the Shop owners, who got robbed, and their properties burnt to the ground? But, I guess they must of bee equaly as guilty of killing an uncontrollable man hopped up on goofballs? Which I would remind you AGAIN was the offically stated cause of death, and not because a Policeman decided to give a knee to the cause.
Well here I was wondering if we would ever hear from BLM ever again. Lord knows impeachment was a bust. The Economy will eventually recover eventually, and Biden is a fools hope. But, we need to find something new to bitch about, and Wuhan Flu is just getting long in the tooth now. Also explains why so many Europeans are on the streets this time 'round. like anyone gives a **** about BLM. and, that this isn't just a way to blow off two months plus of self quarantining due, to the coof.
If Sleepy, Creepy, Sleazy, Stuffy headded, and, Wheezy Quid Pro Joe, is the best that side has... (And, he is!), the our side has nothing to worry about. I agree with you though. The left are baiting our President into a false flag moment, and as much as I hate to say it. The only winning move really is to not play their game. If they want to have commie thugs runnig the place. Then let them. hopefully by the time November rolls along both the Mayor, and that useles know nothing Governor of Washington State will both be out on their arses. If nothing else, I forsee Seattle, and Portland becoming the left coast equivalents of Detroit.
All the protest footage is faked.
Obviously all of America is faked, when you fly there they just have you circle around and then you land in a studio backlot. That's why it all looks like the movies.
The moon landings were real - the USA is fake. Wake-up sheeple !
"what diseased mind invented Washington DC? Or the Philadelphia cheese steak?"
Probably intelligent people fleeing British oppressiveness.
Shame that both have become perverted over time ... except you can still get a good cheesesteak in Philly. (Being a foodie, I'll leave the Pat's vs Gino's argument alone in this forum. Recommend all y'all do the same. I also recommend you try both and make up your own mind.)
I can only imagine the sigh of relief from villagers and townsfolk up and down blighty, when their local fuckwits left to go to America, in search of similar thinking fuckwits, that they might form a community, that against all Darwinian thinking would prosper, flourish and grow to create the greatest amalgamation of self serving fuckwits the planet has ever seen.
"The power of Christ compels you! The power of Christ compels you!"
See! Even Christ is powerless to intervene in America's ascendency up the Devils sphincter.
I actually grew up not far from Plymouth, Mass of pilgrim fame. ' Religious dissidents' was the phrase used. SOme were zealots and some weren't. Zealotry tended to wane among those who stayed on the East Coast and wax among those who moved west. The revolution? The teaching was that George ignored the colonists'rights as British subjects so it was his own damn fault the whole thing happened.
Speaking of monarchs.... Some people here in the north east US have been wondering..... Do you think if we asked really, really nicely the Queen would take back New England, NY, and NJ? NY, NJ, Conn., and Mass. all pay way more in taxes than we get back from DC so we can offer a sweet deal. Pretty please?
Probably intelligent people fleeing British oppressiveness
Ironically - the Pilgrim Fathers (and Mothers) were fleeing because England wasn't oppressive enough for them - they wanted to kill all the Catholics but were not allowed to. So they got in a huff and left to form their own white, oppressive theocracy.
Sounds familiar eh?
Relax. Trump will go when his owners say so, not before. They, not the voters, installed the fool, and he's done a good job: tax breaks for buddies, division of the rabble and lower middle class, outrage among the minorities, while the Fed's owners give themselves a few trillion bonus for all their hard work. They see the empire's finally got too expensive to maintain without milking the locals, who are finally waking up. Trump's orders are ignored, his decisions reversed daily. Does he even notice? So relax, the owners have it all under control.
Its normal for politicians to mooch off success, Trump's just a bit more barefaced about it than most. He desperately needs a win, any win, and the fact that he probably didn't even know SpaceX existed a month or so ago (and definitely has nothing to do with agencies like NASA because they just represent funding to cut if they can't be co-opted directly to further the interests of his circle).
Most of us have just got to the point of "shrug" -- its less than 150 days to the election. Anon above has pointed out the dangers we face and they are real, Trump's not so politically savvy to understand he's acting like a Fascist dictator (in the Mussolini mold) but there are identifiable senior Republicans who openly espouse this political system (they just don't call it by name, using terms like 'common cause' that don't trigger a reaction). We're stress testing the Constitution (again), let's see if it holds up.
Just looking at the British monarchy, we can see, how following a particularly nasty Royal, society takes a little more power away from them, until the position of king or queen is nothing more than a tourist attraction.
If Trump has achieved anything in his presidency, it is that he has shown the position comes with more power than an insane man should ever be allowed to wield.
I look forward to the day that the American president is bedecked with gold and jewels. To be rolled out at state functions and then returned to the walled garden, where their manic rantings and dribbling rhetoric is hermetically sealed from the rest of us Earthlings.
America! For the sake of humanity, put your dog on a leash. A very short leash. And in Trump's case, muzzled, and booked in with Cesar Millan, the dog whisperer, for some very long and trying training sessions.
until the position of king or queen is nothing more than a tourist attraction
We're not quite there - the Queen still has the power to refuse to sign something into law. Of course, all the frothing republicans would immediately demand that she be de-throned and the UK becomes a parliamentary republic.
Because that's worked so well for the US..
Trump's not so politically savvy to understand he's acting like a Fascist dictator (in the Mussolini mold)
Oh, I think you are very wrong in this. I think he knows very well what he's doing. Look that the world leaders he's praised and calls "very fine people" and look at the leaders he's shunned and insulted. Look at the way he argued that he should have an extra year because the impeachment took a year out of his Presidency or at least his focus on the Presidency.
If he pulls a win in this election out of his ass, it's very possible the next 4 years will be hell. I worry not only about our people but the Constitution as he continues seeking work-arounds of it.
If he wins.... my find all be having to chant "Hiel Trump". Be afraid, very afraid, this guy's mental state has been questioned by my folks brighter than most of us and it shows that he's all out for power.
For October: A year ago, if I had said the President would allow 150,000 Americans to die in six months without any effective response, and would then say "This is a great, great, day!" - you would have said I was pus-brained crazy and run away from me.
Vote against the pus-brained crazy.
Yes but people are still dieing at about 500 per day, lock down is non-existent and there is much under reporting as you need to pay for medical attention (like getting your death certificate filled in correctly).
Just a matter of time before the death rate exceeds the appalling UK total.
That implies he was ever on or owned his own trolly to start with...
What I want to know is why everyone (at least those that mattered) let him get to this point? I mean the whole tax return thing, the amount of failed businesses that he's had. The sexism, nepotism... The lack of a thick skin. The list goes on.
It's like some bizarre mashup of 1984, Brazil and idiocracy. All while desperately wishing Starship troopers would be the actual reality instead (I would mention a brave new world but there hasn't been a film of it yet).
(and yes I'm aware of the irony of Starship troopers that the film misses by a planetary system).
"That implies he was ever on or owned his own trolly to start with"
Well he may not own the trolley, but he may have manged to con someone into thinking that putting his name on the trolley would drive up business. But that doesn't stop him from claiming to own the trolley, at least until the trolley runs into financial trounle, then he will claim he had nothing to do with it, never even heard of the trolley. Doesn't even know what is a trolley.
I would have first read it in my early teens. At that age, the politics of it went right over my head as assumed "American nuttiness" or something. Like the rest of Heinlein, it is a good story. His later works were more insidious and it took me a long time to see through TANSTAAFL and other bogus ideas.
Let's just face it - in a nutshell, the orange guy is completely off his trolley and border-line nuts. I rest my case
Don’t forget that he was democratically elected. He was, then, the choice of the US electorate.
Same as Brexit, BoJo as pm, Bolsonara in Brazil.
Social media has a lot to answer for.
And, THANK GOD ALMIGHTY FOR THAT TOO! If you think 2020 sucks now... Imagine if it was Corbyn running this sh-show, along with kill-em-all Killary? we would be both broke, and dead...
I hope in a hundred years time history will be kinder to Boris, and that he might have a statue next to Churchill, for having saved Great Britan.
Social Media is only a micosom of any population. Anyone willling to bend the knee to the Twatterati should do so at their own peril. Case in point? Um.... Didney Star Wars, Gamergate, and Comicsgate spring to mind.
As to our "Girl! having all the votes... Well much like Social media, the major Urban areas DO NOT GET TO DICTATE their unwanted opines onto the rest of the County. And, once you get away from the filth, and utter degeneracy of those Urban centers. You will find that most people are just downright closet yatziees, who will disrespect your pronouns.... And, so you thankfuly end up with someone alpha AF like President Trump. Because that is how the Electoral College was created. Precisely so New York, Chicago, the Left Coast could, not impose their wills onto the rest of us.
Go to AliExpress search for Hat 'Make America Great Agian' you'll get a few pages of offers starting from around a dollar eighty.
So, this time around, I think there is evidence the Chinese are supporting Trump, I am thinking of buying a Trump 2020 tee shirt to hang on my dart board. Only $5.00
"[...] T-shirt is illegal by police
IIRC the Telegraph basically said it was a justified police action as "think of the children".
Many years ago a woman similarly took me to task for wearing a T-Shirt motif that was "69 - try it you'll like it". I pointed out to her that any kid who understood it was long past being "corrupted" by the motif. A neighbour was puzzled by the motif - until her 14 year old daughter said "oh mum!" and then explained it to her.
Some people trot out "think of the children" when they realise that "the bible says" is no longer going to cut any ice - in much of England at least.
Posting this now, 4 weeks later for the record...
British Transport Police have apologised to the woman:
"Now Flynn has received a letter of apology on behalf of the chief constable of British Transport Police (BTP), which says the instruction to cover her T-shirt and the brief detention to give that direction were unlawful. It apologises for any distress caused and gives an undertaking that “the wearing of the T-shirt alone will not lead to her arrest or any direction to cover it”"
I am thinking of buying a Trump 2020 tee shirt to hang on my dart board. Only $5.00
Don't waste your hard-earned money on a t-shirt.
Mark my words, before the end of Trump's first term, he'll demand to have his face in a new US$4 bill.
Covfefe
The thought has occurred. The main 'donor states' (pay more to D.C. than they get back) might be interested. NY, NJ, Mass., Conn. are in the top 5 and the rest of New England would prob go along. Do you think the Queen would take us back? From this side of the pond it certainly looks like you guys are doing better than we are.
Thank you, but no thank you... We are happy with the way things are. Perhaps we need to make Europe Great Britan again.... (Well if it gets you to shell out that fine Stirling why not?!). As it is though its looking like the European Union is going to loose that one, and jolly good show too! hopefully Italy will be the next to leave, and we can be done with this rotten expriement in globalism.
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Rattle thrown clear out the pram on that one.
People like Nelly love to be feared and admired.
Not ridiculed and laughed at.
Having no sense of humour (about themselves) they can't take jokes about themselves (they don't mind laughing at other people, like the poor, minorities or women for example).
...why the owners of Star Trek haven't sued yet. As his "Space Force" badge is a clear rip off of Star Fleets badge. It really feels like he got one of his arse kissers to do the logo, who has no clue about design so just trawled the Internet until they found something they liked.
Because the TOS insignia is strikingly similar to the delta-esque shape in NASA's 1959 "meatball" logo and astronaut pins NASA began awarding in 1963. If you're thinking about the TNG logo that is derived from the Air Force Space Command's logo dating to 1982. The existing government-created prior art makes the suit virtually impossible to win.
I made that rocket, it's a great rocket, can you see the rocket that I made? Isn't it a great rocket. Who are SpaceX? I made the Space Force logo too. It's a great logo because I made it. It doesn't have a rocket on it but it's very spacey, like Star Trek. I don't know what senile means. Is it used in rockets? What do you mean I can now use 280 characters in my tweets? Since 2017? But I am no longer able to think in more than 140 characters per thought. I'm 73 you know.
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