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That actually sounds pretty awesome.
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Quote:The Netflix version of Space Force will be a bureaucratic comedy, much like "The Office", not a drama. When I look at the real Space Force, it is a complicated bureaucratic move that will take detailed planning and coordination with groups to bring it all together (organizing is not a Trump strength):
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
That actually sounds pretty awesome.
The responsibility for space acquisitions is fragmented between approximately 60 different organizations within the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community. Within the military services, approximately 80% of the space budget is invested in the Air Force, but other components are located within the Army and Navy, including satellites and space personnel. Moreover it is reported that the classified military intelligence space budget of the National Reconnaissance Office and other intelligence agencies may rival that of the Air Force.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Space_Force
What needs to be done does not sound like one of Trump’s strength as an administrator. He will delegate the work, but Trump doesn’t have people who can do it, unless he hires new people exclusively for Space Force:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie sees the Trump White House as a rogues' gallery of flawed people sidetracking the work of the U.S. president. Trump employs a “revolving door of deeply flawed individuals — amateurs, grifters, weaklings — who were hustled into jobs they were never suited for, sometimes seemingly without so much as a background check via Google or Wikipedia,” Christie, who was a senior adviser to Trump’s 2016 campaign, says in his memoir, “Let Me Finish,” which is due to be released on Jan. 29.
https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-christie/grifters-weakling
s-felons-christie-on-the-trump-white-house-idUKKCN1PB02L
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Meh... why ruin a Steve Carell vehicle with political opinion.
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Quote:Everything is politics. That is why Carell picked Space Force to lampoon, rather than another project. Politics has always been about finding the hidden motivation that the politician or the voters don’t want to talk about. Business is the same. Jack Bogle died yesterday and he was worth well below $100 million, despite once being head of Vanguard. His competitor, Edward C. Johnson 3rd, the chairman of Fidelity, is alive and worth $9.3 billion. Johnson turned over the Chairmanship of Fidelity to his daughter Abigail Johnson. She continues the looting of customers and is worth $10.3 billion, more than her daddy. Johnson 3rd got rich by organizing Fidelity to make his family rich, all the while claiming he wasn’t in it for the money, wasn’t screwing over his customers. Bogle’s wealth was more modest because his motivation, which he did not keep hidden, was building a monument to himself – he wanted to prove that he was looking after his customers, not just falsely claiming it. Bogle wanted to prove he actually understands the stock market, unlike the Johnsons, whose main talent is knowing how to legally separate suckers from their money and keep those ignoramuses coming back for more.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Meh... why ruin a Steve Carell vehicle with political opinion.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/business/john-bogle-vanguards-founder-is-to
o-worried-to-rest.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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The stock market was designed to siphon wealth off of the labor of others.
They're all scumbags.
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Quote:Really? Retirement funds for lower middle class people are stored in the stock market because the return on investment is higher than a bank account. That retirement money is huge, it attracts sharks. The sharks are kept under control, sometimes even put in jail if you remember famous swindler Bernie Madoff, by government regulations. Who is against regulations? The GOP.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
The stock market was designed to siphon wealth off of the labor of others.
They're all scumbags.
www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/regulating-economy.asp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Madoff#Investment_scandal
Vanguard’s John Bogle created more social good than any contemporary in finance
https://qz.com/1527689/
"A sub-theme of the course I teach on ethics in finance explores role models in the finance industry. They are few and far between. The challenge in discussing Bogle lies in the scale of his impact. By so effectively pressuring the asset management industry to lower its fees, he created more social good than perhaps any contemporary in the finance industry. He makes comparisons with other potential role models daunting."
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It’s always hard to envision the road not taken, but let’s try: Suppose there had been no Iraq War. The war wound up amplifying a central talking point of jihadist recruiters — that America is at war with Islam. (A number of anti-American terrorists, including Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, have cited the Iraq War as motivation.) So absent the 2003 invasion, there might well have been less terrorism—especially less “homegrown” terrorism — and the electorate Trump faced might have been less freaked out, less susceptible to his fearmongering.
In fact, this alternative history lacks one distinct and large fear inducer: ISIS. Its precursor incubated amid Iraq’s post-invasion chaos before rebranding as the Islamic State and then metastasizing during the Syrian civil war. Imagine a candidate Trump who couldn’t point to ISIS — an actual territory-occupying army that commits (and videotapes!) vivid atrocities and targets Christians — as an evil that matured on the watch of President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (and that Trump alone can conquer). Does that candidate Trump get elected?
As long as we’re imagining roads not taken: Consider Obama’s decision in 2011 to turn a bombing campaign in Libya aimed at protecting endangered civilians (which was explicitly authorized by the Security Council) into a regime-change operation (which wasn’t). After the regime collapsed, Libya became home to various terrorist groups, and weapons from its stockpiles flooded the region — flowing to jihadists in Africa and also, in large quantities, to jihadist rebels in Syria, as well as to more secular Syrian rebels. The rebels still lost the civil war, but not before they had used Libyan weapons to intensify it, creating more dead bodies and more refugees.
In a world with fewer Syrian refugees clamoring for passage to the US and Europe, does Trump’s proposed “Muslim ban” carry so much power? (And does the Trumpian right in Germany, France, and Italy have so much energy? Does Brexit pass?)
Again, alternative histories are speculative. But the general principle makes sense: If your policies bring instability that in turn breeds fear and hatred, then candidates who thrive on those things are more likely to get elected.
More at www.wired.com/story/trump-style-nationalism-make-globalism-great-again/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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lol...
Do try to remember that our current "fear" of Russia was started entirely by Hillary Clinton.
This is a both-sides problem.
I have noticed that you don't seem very scared of that yourself. It's one of the defining characteristics that set you apart from some of the stooges here who can't make a single post without Russia in it.
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Quote:The thing about connecting Trump and Russia is about making Trump look like a traitor. And a traitor he could be, if you look at his 45 year business history, there are reasons to believe he would cheat and lie and sell out for money. Russia is just a convenient stick to beat Trump with, but there is probably worse crooked deals. My favorite is that Trump owes about a half billion to the IRS in unpaid estate taxes. But to understand how he cheated the IRS is even trickier than his international connections.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
lol...
Do try to remember that our current "fear" of Russia was started entirely by Hillary Clinton.
This is a both-sides problem.
I have noticed that you don't seem very scared of that yourself. It's one of the defining characteristics that set you apart from some of the stooges here who can't make a single post without Russia in it.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
". . . he received at least $413 million in today’s dollars from his father’s real estate empire, much of it through tax dodges in the 1990s."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-sc
hemes-fred-trump.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:The thing about connecting Trump and Russia is about making Trump look like a traitor. And a traitor he could be, if you look at his 45 year business history, there are reasons to believe he would cheat and lie and sell out for money. Russia is just a convenient stick to beat Trump with, but there is probably worse crooked deals. My favorite is that Trump owes about a half billion to the IRS in unpaid estate taxes. But to understand how he cheated the IRS is even trickier than his international connections.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
lol...
Do try to remember that our current "fear" of Russia was started entirely by Hillary Clinton.
This is a both-sides problem.
I have noticed that you don't seem very scared of that yourself. It's one of the defining characteristics that set you apart from some of the stooges here who can't make a single post without Russia in it.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
". . . he received at least $413 million in today’s dollars from his father’s real estate empire, much of it through tax dodges in the 1990s."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-sc
hemes-fred-trump.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
A convenient stick, indeed.
I'll hold you in higher regard for realizing this. Maybe you'll reciprocate and appreciate that I noticed you don't go around Russia fearmongering either.
I'm sure there's plenty of skeletons in Trump's closet to find if you stop looking under rocks outside of Putin's mansion. We could put every single politician behind bars from here to eternity if we dug up the dirt on them.
Because, believe me, it's there. Every single time.
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