CIB

This man makes Trump look like a draft dodging criminal. Of course, anybody does. That blue bar on his uniform top right is a Combat Infantry Badge. It is that thing that means something that all the other pretty colors do not. I always wanted one. My brother who fought in Vietnam had one and two uncles had them, one from the battle of the bulge and the other as a green beret in Vietnam. Trump hates honorable soldiers because they are the antithesis of his life. It seems like the military might just do something about removing Trump over how he treats people he considers losers and suckers. Would a military coup be any worse than the one Trump tried? Even Pete Hegseth, who also has a CIB, if approached and asked to keep the faith, might just change his path and try to redeem himself. I can dream.

Is It On Rachel?

We have to show up angry in the street now….tens of millions of us. And make it clear to Republicans that if they do NOT vote to impeach Trump and Vance and hold a new election that they will NOT be forgotten and they will NOT be forgiven and when this oligarchy falls, they WILL be held accountable. They will go to prison for the rest of their lives. America ended on election night and what comes next is going to be a “New America” with money removed from politics, billionaires taxed into oblivion, corporations stripped of their personhood, misinformation and lies outlawed, the courts restacked with impartial judges, universal healthcare, free tuition, and Climate Change addressed as a national priority. Nobody is coming to save us and our children from serfdom and environmental ruin except us.

Martial Law Soon

Hawk nailed it. They will push and push and either take absolute power that way or, when We rise up, crush us with the military. They are taking over the country and we will be subjects, no longer free.

He might have made a big mistake with the school lunches, meals on wheels, snap, etc.; when enough people see those they love hungry and suffering they historically have often completely destroyed whatever regime is in power.

SPACE and Musk

In a rapidly rotating environment, if you pour a drink it will go sideways… or turn your head and it will so disturb your inner ear you get extreme vertigo and nausea. It is called canal sickness and why very long tethers are really the only practical option for artificial gravity. Simply walking and operating hand tools also pose challenges

Rotating room experiments have shown doing even common tasks becomes progressively more difficult as rotation rates increase. Even as little as 2 RPM seriously affect efficiency and requires habituation, and of course rehabilitation upon return to real gravity. This is why a very good benchmark is 1 rpm. If you go to the artificial gravity spin calculator site and plug in lunar gravity and 1 rpm you get a radius of about 500 feet or a 1000 foot tether system. I say system because it would likely be multiple tethers with lesser movable masses to tune out oscillation. A crew compartment with an equal mass at the other end of that tether system is what you would need to simulate lunar gravity in space. To provide 1G and eliminate debilitation the tether system would be about 6000 feet long. To shield a small capsule from cosmic radiation to eliminate dosing would require a minimum of 400 tons of plastic or about 500 tons of more utilitarian water shielding. Providing practical long duration living space, for even a crew of two on an exploration mission, this shielding would go well over a thousand tons, though this water would provide medium for closed loop life support.. So for a true Spaceship, maybe capable of a Ceres mission, IF some efficient Nuclear Electric propulsion is developed, the ship will mass several thousand tons. Since nobody is going to sign off on the damage a mission Beyond Earth and Lunar Orbit without a Near Sea Level Radiation 1 Gravity environment will do to a crew, this makes a joke out of Musk’s Mars fantasy.

Trumps Einsatztruppen

The storm, the day of the rope, or whatever you call it, is inevitable. The democrats should tell the republicans that it is obvious Trump is going to cause immense harm and will eventually fall and that those who switch parties and impeach Trump NOW and prevent that catastrophe will avoid what is going to happen when the republicans are eventually held responsible.

Killing We the People

Make no mistake…these shutdowns will cost lives. Trump caused the deaths of tens of thousands by mishandling Covid and now he will cause more without even a pandemic.

A “warrior.” That is actually not a good term and is in reality used for morale purposes in the military. Organizations may play with the word, but I was taught that we were soldiers. Citizen soldiers not fighting for glory or honors or treasure or conquest; only to defend America. I guess he will change that now that America is over.