Space:The Economic Military Scientific Frontier

I confess I was almost certain My Sweet Baboo was kidding when he told me the president was going to create a sixth branch of the military.

Sadly, he was not. Monday, the president told us that he wants a Space Force (Force, not Farce, although...)

At a meeting with the National Space Council, after doing his usual "I Love Me" speech (economy great, numbers great, I'm great, womenblackhispanic employment great) and after hammering home his lies on immigration (including the Dems not cooperating because they aren't being invited to the discussion and their ideas aren't being considered) there was this:

You take a look at the death and destruction that's been caused by people coming into this country, without going through a process. We want a merit-based immigration so that Boeing and Lockheed and all of the people - Grumman - all of the people that are here today, the heads of every company, so that you can hire people on a merit-based -- you know they're coming in -- they're people that came on merit, not on a lottery, or not people that snuck across the border. And they could be murderers and thieves and so much else.

So yes, the president just promised business leaders in the aerospace and defense industries to just sit tight and they'd be able to not hire Americans and instead hire all the smart or meritoriously endowed immigrants, #MAGA #winning and all that jazz, but I digress.

And, you know, just a great group of other executives are here from the top companies. And it's patriots like you that are the reason why America was first in flight, first to the moon, and why America will always be first in space.

You know, before I got here, it wasn't looking so good. Before we came in, I will tell you, they didn't have such big plans for space. Now they have plans. And it's great not only in terms of jobs and everything else; it's great for the psyche of our country.

Which is taking a beating from every ally except Israel, and every trading partner bar none, and every religious demographic bar none, and a majority of reasonable people everywhere who think beyond their own pocketbooks, so yes, our psyche is bigly important. And then he babbled about 1776 economic statistics before getting back on track, or whatever.

I want to also say that when it comes to space, too often, for too many years, our dreams of exploration and discovery were really squandered by politics and bureaucracy, and we knocked that out. So important for our psyche (Where are you? Where is she? Our psyche?)

It's going to be important monetarily and militarily. But so important for right up here (pointing to his 'wherever' -- you know, where the blood comes out) - the psyche. We don't want China and Russia and other countries leading us. We've always led - we've gone way far afield for decades now, having to do with our subject today. We're going to be the leader by far. We're behind you a thousand percent. 

 Our "vital interest in space lost out" he told them to special interests -- "except, of course, for the senators and congressmen here," of course. But the times, they are a-changing.

My administration is reclaiming America's heritage as the world's greatest space-faring nation. The essence of the American character is to explore new horizons and to tame new frontiers (like mail order steak, and for-profit education). But our destiny beyond the Earth, is not only a matter of national identify, but a matter of national security. So important for our military. So important. And people don't talk about it. 

No - not so much. But again, the times they are a-changing, bigly.

When it comes to defending America, it is not enough to merely have an American presence in space. We must have American dominance in space. So important.

Very importantly, I'm hereby directing the Department of Defense and Pentagon to eemeediately begin the process necessary to establish a space force as the sixth brand of the armed forces.  That's a big statement (like my hands, right? Like my hands?) So big.

 We are going to have the Air Force and we are going to have the Space Force - separate but equal. It is going to be something. So important. (dare I say bigly?) General Dunford, if you would carry that assignment out, I would be very greatly honored, also. Where's General Dunford? General? (Bueller? Anyone?) Got it? 

And from a corner of the room, "(oh crap...) We got it!"

Let's go get it, General (loud bursts of orgiastic glee, described as 'applause' in the official transcript, can be heard in the room). But that's the importance that we give it. We're going to have the Space Force!

After that it got really boring, as he went back to doling out opportunity to those immigrant-hiring American patriots, as paraphrased below:

•  we're going back to the moon, but it's about jobs and the economy, and establishing a long-term presence on the moon, and an eventual mission to Mars (it's not just about flags and footprints). Got it?
• rich guys love their 'rockets' and can't wait to launch them and we'll be happy to give them the real estate to do that, they love their rockets, it's all good as long as the rocket is launched by a rich American, har har har.
• there'll be timetables and they'll be aggressive and we'll charge cheap rent for you to use government facilities and let me tell you about the regulations, right? There'll be almost none, I tell you, because record regulation-cutting leads to record-setting profits. They can be really big when no regulations go uncut. 
• we'll be in charge of space traffic management, but don't get too carried away with regulations, again, because (and I quote) "We have regulation. We have a lot of regulation. We have good regulation."
• congested conditions in orbit?  Yeah, we're going to take care of that too.

And then he went back to lofty stuff, about the first astronauts who walked on the moon., and their fearless bounding and impossible doing.

This is a very important day. This is a very important gathering. A new generation of young people seeks to challenge -- really challenge hard - to get their talent and their skills to work (provided there'll be jobs left over after all those meritorious immigrants are hired). And now we're giving them a forum and a platform from which they can put that genius to work.

But fear not, American workers -- you'll be needed to weld things and work metal and build stuff - rockets and spaceships. And there was more, eve loftier stuff.

Once more, we will launch intrepid souls blazing through the sky (hopefully riding a rich man's rocket or something)  and soaring into the heavens.. And once more, we will proudly lead humanity - and that's what it is, humanity -- beyond the Earth and into those forbidden skies, but they will not be forbidden for long.. 

What you're doing has been incredible, but it will be even more incredible - far more incredible - because we are giving you a platform, the likes of which nobody has ever been given before. 

(then I saw her face and) I'm a big believer. 

You will go out there and you will take that frontier (move on it like a bitch and grab it by the asteroid, as it were) which is largely unknown by man or woman, and you will learn everything there is to know about it. And what you're doing is so important - remember - economically, militarily, scientifically.  In every way, there is no place like space.

There is no place like space... 

There is no place like space...

There is no place like space...