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The Trump campaign wants to sell Space Force gear, and they're asking you to pick a designPresident Donald Trump’s campaign wants to start selling a new Space Force themed line of merchandise, and they are soliciting votes on which design to use. In June, Trump ordered the Department of Defense and the Pentagon to being the process of creating a sixth military branch known as Space Force. In an email to supporters sent out this afternoon, the Trump Make America Great Again Committee asked their supporters to vote for their favorite Space Force logo design. The campaign gave six different options to choose from. One of the proposed logos (top right) looks like NASA’s logo, except with a red background and the phrase “SPACE FORCE” instead of “NASA.” Another option (bottom left) has the same background as NASA’s logo, but features the silhouette of a space shuttle along with “SPACE FORCE.” A particularly extraterrestrial design (bottom right) declares “MARS AWAITS,” printed above a space shuttle taking off from what appears to be a pine forest into a red sky. Trump issued a directive to NASA last December to have humans return to the Moon, and then travel to Mars and “perhaps someday, to many worlds beyond.” No mention of travel to Mars was made in reference to the proposed Space Force. In a speech today at the Pentagon, Vice President Mike Pence laid out the Pentagon’s report on building the Space Force. The Congressionally-mandated report laid out the changes the Pentagon can make without Congressional approval to implement the president’s order to create the Space Force as a sixth branch of the military. Congress would have to approve any plan to make the Space Force a new branch. Instead, the Defense Department wants to establish two new entities that wouldn’t be military branches, the U.S. Space Command and Space Development Agency. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-campaign-sell-space-force-gear-pick-design/story?id=57126814 You just can't make this stuff up... smh
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This entire thing is nothing more than a way of sending more of our tax money to defense contractors. It’s absurd. I thought trump was going to fix healthcare, fix infrastructure, etc. Instead he’s reintrocing us to asbestos and spending money on a ‘Space Farce’. We can’t be rid of the moron soon enough.
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Seems like a heap of wasteful spending to me. I don't get it, what is this theoretical Space Force going to be used for that the Air Force doesn't already do?
Its a bit confusing. I heard a new branch of the military requires congress authorization, so yeah, this probably won't happen. At this point I'm not sure I want it to. Now if the goal of space force is to explore extra terrestrial existence then I'd be all for it.
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I am a designer have all my life. Every one of these is an amateur design. It looks like Trump Junior came up with them. These are really pathetic.
Space Farce would be more appropriate.
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Cool... they can always sweep for space junk during the intermissions of Star Wars.
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General ‘Elon Musk’ at your service sir. For One Triiiilllion Dollars.
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I don't care what Trump does it make you Libs mad. All you do is hate.
Trump could send you money and it would p--- you off........Wait a minute, he did and it did.
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I hope they send Laura Ingraham into space first and tell her it's just like Summer Camp.
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I'm so in for Mars awaits lmao
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This wouldn’t be a heap of bad spending, or a moon of bad spending, IT WOULD BE A SPACE STATION OF BAD SPENDING!
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I don't care what Trump does it make you Libs mad. All you do is hate.
Trump could send you money and it would p--- you off........Wait a minute, he did and it did. Instead of generalizing and avoid the topic - why not comment on this? You agree with this? You like the spending? You think it's a high priority for the Nation? Forget that Trump is increasing spending all over the place while also cutting revenue ... just tell us if you love the idea of spending Billions or Trillions on a Space Academy.
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I hope they send Laura Ingraham into space first and tell her it's just like Summer Camp. I wouldn't complain if the vessel had a faulty airlock, either.
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I hope they send Laura Ingraham into space first and tell her it's just like Summer Camp.
Make a reality show out of it, similar to chimps in space only she's not that smart.
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Not one response to DJT turning this into a merchandising opportunity for his campaign. smfh
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I dont understand why we need a space force military branch.
It begs the question, exactly who are we fighting in space?
He should forget that, and just send NASA some more funding.
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You should use the correct term. He is cutting taxes, not "revenue". The government is not a business, and revenue is not created by simply taking money from someone else. smh.,
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I wasn't going to come back in here, but I knew this one would get a ton of negative comments.
China, in particular, is reportedly working on satellite killer missiles, that could take out communication and defense satellites. If we lose those satellites, we lose much of our communication ability, the ability to see troop deployments on a battlefield, and to launch attacks successfully, not to mention everyday communications that could also easily be disrupted.
I think that this, in addition to hardening utility infrastructure, are absolute necessities. People can laugh about the designs and maybe selling merchandise, but that sure seems like a good way to raise funds voluntarily, in addition to using taxpayer money. I also seem to remember having heard the figure of $5 to $10 billion thrown around, and that's a drop in the bucket compared to our $4.1 trillion overall federal budget.
Just my $0.000002 worth .... or whatever my opinion is worth.
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I wasn't going to come back in here, but I knew this one would get a ton of negative comments.
China, in particular, is reportedly working on satellite killer missiles, that could take out communication and defense satellites. If we lose those satellites, we lose much of our communication ability, the ability to see troop deployments on a battlefield, and to launch attacks successfully, not to mention everyday communications that could also easily be disrupted.
I think that this, in addition to hardening utility infrastructure, are absolute necessities. People can laugh about the designs and maybe selling merchandise, but that sure seems like a good way to raise funds voluntarily, in addition to using taxpayer money. I also seem to remember having heard the figure of $5 to $10 billion thrown around, and that's a drop in the bucket compared to our $4.1 trillion overall federal budget.
Just my $0.000002 worth .... or whatever my opinion is worth.
OK, I'm out again. yet when it comes to funding education, you're against it. what a joke.
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Pentagon Officials Listen In Silence As Mike Pence Details Plans For Angel-Guided Defense Weapons System https://politics.theonion.com/pentagon-officials-listen-in-silence-as-mike-pence-deta-1828231250WASHINGTON—Feigning polite interest throughout the 90-minute meeting, Pentagon officials from all five branches of the armed forces listened in silence Thursday as Mike Pence presented his detailed plans for a state-of-the-art angel-guided weapons system. “Though we are grateful for the vice president’s interest in national defense, the prospect of using seraphim-targeted bombs and heretic-seeking missiles to protect America from hostile sinners is not feasible, nor indeed useful, at this time,” said Secretary of Defense James Mattis, graciously thanking Pence for his hand-drawn schematics of a proposed Holy Ghost cloaking device that would allow planes to fly undetected above the homes of prostitutes and thieves. “Obviously, we cannot plan our defense against North Korea around the face of God appearing before Kim Jong-un and turning him into a pillar of salt, but it’s not like I can tell the vice president of the United States to stop talking. Luckily, he wound down after explaining how the Gabriel’s Trumpet Alert System worked, which is just as well, because apparently the idea behind it is that we would just all ascend bodily into Heaven, which in many ways contradicts our current strategic goals.” The National Guard, however, may consider Pence’s contingency plans for non-lethal counters to possible civil unrest, saying the idea of a crowd-dispersing holy water cannon is “not completely without merit.”
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Walls in Space!
Will the profits from these sales as pitched by Pence for The Wall, to The Wall, and nothing but The Wall, so help you God? That should be the extent of the funding and more than enough for a wildly popular idea like this.
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I'm pumped for this, all those years of playing Wing Commander will finally pay off. 
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I wasn't going to come back in here, but I knew this one would get a ton of negative comments.
China, in particular, is reportedly working on satellite killer missiles, that could take out communication and defense satellites. If we lose those satellites, we lose much of our communication ability, the ability to see troop deployments on a battlefield, and to launch attacks successfully, not to mention everyday communications that could also easily be disrupted.
I think that this, in addition to hardening utility infrastructure, are absolute necessities. People can laugh about the designs and maybe selling merchandise, but that sure seems like a good way to raise funds voluntarily, in addition to using taxpayer money. I also seem to remember having heard the figure of $5 to $10 billion thrown around, and that's a drop in the bucket compared to our $4.1 trillion overall federal budget.
Just my $0.000002 worth .... or whatever my opinion is worth.
OK, I'm out again. Ah ok. Kinda weird for the Govt to sell tshirts, but not really. The FBI sells FBI gear. Seems Space Force Tshirts could be very popular.
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Maybe he's been watching to many "documentaries" on the syfy channel....
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You should use the correct term. He is cutting taxes, not "revenue". The government is not a business, and revenue is not created by simply taking money from someone else. smh., OK to be technically correct, which is important to some only when it doesn't come to Trump. He is reducing taxes which has the net effect of reducing income from those taxes, coupled with his increased spending which is increasing the deficit. Trickle down economics has been tried and failed. So we know that reducing the taxes on the wealthy does NOT increase income to the government.... and interesting that you don't bat an eye at my reference to Trump increasing spending everywhere. More interesting again that you choose to play semantics over 'taxes' / 'revenue' / 'income' / 'balancing a budget' .... rather than comment on the thread Trump's amateur hour space academy. smh smh smh
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I don't care what Trump does it make you Libs mad. All you do is hate. It was a joke. Geez some of you gooper’s need to lighten up and chill. Smile, laugh, enjoy life. You know breath in breath out. Stop and smell the roses bro.
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I like the line.by Kimble...... This is like taking $1,000,000,000,000,00 and throwing it at moon.
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I don't care what Trump does it make you Libs mad. All you do is hate. Well, we're nothing if not relentless. And consistent. Deal with it. Or don't. Nobody cares. 
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so much wrong with this meme.
such as stephen miller not being present.
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Seriously? A Swatchika?
I normally find you better than this.
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so much wrong with this meme.
such as stephen miller not being present. And the Swatchika.
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Seriously? A Swatchika?
I normally find you better than this. have you paid attention to the history of Trump?
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Seriously? A Swatchika?
I normally find you better than this. have you paid attention to the history of Trump? I have. And who else is in the photo? Are they Nazis too?
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Seriously? A Swatchika?
I normally find you better than this. have you paid attention to the history of Trump? I have. And who else is in the photo? Are they Nazis too? nope. but the head honcho? "good people on both sides".
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I'm no Trump fan or a fan of his administration. But stuff like the picture above is disgusting. That's what politics does to people.
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Who has time to actually make sh** like that? Every time someone says or claims that someone is a Nazi or uses that symbol, I have to question if they know history or what the real nazi's were.
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