I've not even seen Tucker be hard on Trump. Fair maybe, but not hard on him. And Tucker has been taking more slings and arrows than anyone for the man.
Yes Trump has said it quite a few times recently.
Someone pointed out Trump might be being sarcastic, and that is possible I suppose. But Trump usually loves to praise people. Tucker hasn't been losing a step lately, so maybe it is an inside jab or something. Especially considering everyone thinks Tucker is the nicest dude ever.
I just don't know. I was just wondering if anyone knew of some specific thing.
If Trump and Tucker have some sort of ball-punch relationship, like some dudes do, it makes sense. But I've never seen anything hinting at a close relationship.
And I have not given up on Barr yet. I will if Trump starts to. But I have this niggling feeling that it wasn't Barr holding himself back. It was probably Rudy.
Because Rudy has done this before.
Keep in mind, "all the King's men", as in the Feds, couldn't bring down the Five Families of NY. It took Rudy. And it was because Rudy didn't just build a case. He built a case to hit them all at once. I am thinking that's what is going on here. Because this rat and this exposure is what Rudy used to take them all down. And Rudy is the face behind a lot of this all of a sudden. His previous comments like months ago make a lot more sense in this context too.
Barr is a fed guy. He's going to try and do things the fed way, and that would probably fail. Barr knows he needed a tight case, but feds always go after a guy as soon as they have what they need. That makes the other bad guys scurry, so you don't get the whole kit and kaboodle.
Rudy figured out how to get them all at once (Mafia Commission Trial). And I think that is why Trump got Rudy back into the game, and it may be the actual reason why Trump didn't make him AG in the first place. So he could operate outside of the confines of a government department.
I'm speculating at this point, but it's making a lot of sense to me. I don't have any sacred Q or Y or X knowledge, but this is really starting to come together here the way I look at it.
I know I keep comparing it to the Mafia, but the Swamp is really the biggest Organized Crime Syndicate in history if you think about it. In a real, very important way, you've "gotta catch 'em all" to destroy it.
Well, there's that part. But there's also the fact the idiot put into his "testimony" that he got left out of a multi million dollar deal. In other words, he feels cheated. And the idiot included that in his announcement.
And that is the best kind of rat, for the prosecution. An angry one.
We let a lot of really bad dudes that did really bad things go into witness protection programs when they took down the 5 Families, and in previous prosecutions of Mafia families.
And I don't care. Give them a second chance. As long as they obey the law going forward, fine.
But if it dismantles the criminal network, it's worth it.
Our government has become the biggest organized criminal syndicate in world history. It's even developed a La Familia vibe to it. It's like they learned how to do it from the Mafia and just expanded on it.
And in this case, our government corruption has a much, much, much greater impact on our country and it's people than the Mob ever had.
So I am willing to let a thousand "made men" go free to take down the whole network and fix the underlying problem that has been in place for half a century or more.
If it ever will, this is the time it does.
Seriously, I've had to travel a TON through the Midwest since Summer, and while I didn't get quite close enough to MN to report on it, I don't remember seeing what I see now in 2016.
Especially the flags. So many flags. Everywhere. Even in Detroit. Even the middle of freaking Detroit.
I'll be honest with you, I think the only time I've believed Trump lied about something was the first time he said "I didn't know how bad it was".
He ran because he knew how bad it was. He knew how bad it was in the 80s and 90s when he made overtures about running.
His running had nothing to do with cutting taxes and overhauling regulations and doing some trade deals. Or even NAFTA or stupid wars.
Yeah, he wanted to fix all of that, but he didn't run because of that. Because he knew as soon as he fixed everything and left office, it would all go back and go worse.
Early on in his 2016 campaign (technically in 2015), he talked about how he knew these people, all of them. Was at all the parties, the dinners, all of the meetings about getting money, how to use them to get what he wanted. All of it.
He knows the dirt. He knows their evil. He ran to come after them.
He spent his first term going after every piece of low-hanging fruit he could to try and help the country as best he could and get us back on a good track, while building the case.
And he had to win another term, because it would take years to even build the case, much less execute it.
He ticked off campaign promises like sidequests, waiting until he was ready to take on the main quest. And that is the point we are entering now. He's got what he needs to do what he came to do.
He knew how deep the swamp was. He just doesn't want them to know that.
Gentlemen, I suspect there will be a lot of "fuckery" going forward in this election. An election I think early on the Democrats figured out they probably have little hope of winning squarely.
And I suspect that it will delay things here and there, tie things up, and deny a sense of victory on November 4th.
But when the dust settles, I do believe it will not be a victory. It will be a TOTAL victory.
There were many lessons to be learned in 2016, and they refused to learn them. The whip always cuts harder the next time it comes around.
Hunter is no longer needed. I would, however, protect this rat though. I'd put a Secret Service detail on him. And maybe some Marines. And some SEALs. And that dog who killed that terrorist. Some helicopter support too maybe.
And Chuck Norris.
Exactly. This is a method I think he has pioneered.
JFK did this at least once that I know of, with his "We choose to go to the Moon" speech, which was basically a rally intended to convince the public to invest in the Apollo program.
Maybe there are other examples.
But Trump did a LOT of rallies since he was elected last time and before this election. And some of them weren't agenda driven so much as I think he just loves the rallies. He did a sort of "victory lap" in the critical swing states he won too.
So there will be more rallies. It's not over yet.
I gotta admit, I keep wondering why President Trump, when he refers to Tucker, says "well he's getting better".
Did I miss something? Has there been a point when Tucker was bad to Trump? I'll admit, I don't watch him all the time or anything. But he always seems solid. And he is the biggest show on cable news, by far. Trump would usually praise someone like that.
Artificial gravity using rotation is not that hard to achieve. However, most likely they will apply what NASA has learned on the ISS over the past couple of decades and use a combination of specialized exercise equipment and supplements to maintain a relatively healthy bone density. It does require something like 2-3 hrs of exercise a day, but it seems to work well enough, at least for over a year in space. Going from Mars back to Earth could be more problematic, but most plans seem to be 1-way trips to Mars for now.
Radiation is a concern mostly in unexpected acute dosages, which can absolutely happen. There will be some shielding, as there is on the ISS, and there will be "safe spaces" if there is advanced warning of incoming solar weather events. Overall, as far as radiation is concerned, I think we already can send people without dying from it, and cancer risk is really dependent upon what type of radiation and dosage and how acute it is. Long-term, low-level exposure has shown signs of actually reducing cancer risk.
But it is a risk, no matter what you do. We cannot afford to launch heavy lead vessels to Mars. It is a current risk to astronauts on the ISS right now. Yet they still take that risk. We may find in the decades to come that those astronauts all die from cancer eventually. We can't be 100% sure until they finish living.
When it comes to age, it has never been about age really. It's about experience. It's about putting the most useful people into space, because it is expensive, requires extensive training and a big investment. You're not going to send someone who can't contribute the optimal best to the overall mission. Each astronaut is really like a piece of specialized equipment. You don't take inadequate equipment because it might hold up better but still not do the job.
Hey, if this kid spends her young adult life preparing to be a Mars astronaut and becomes an accomplished professional in a relevant field and at that point is really a prime candidate for it by any measure, then sure. Send her. Godspeed to her.
But I really suspect it's just a propaganda thing. And it's terrible if someone convinced her she's actually going.
You gotta do the work to get the cheese. Especially if the cheese costs billions.
Read up on how the 5 Families were taken down. This development looks a lot like that.
The Mafia was so hard to take down because law enforcement and the FBI could connect all of the big bosses and their dealings, and they could connect members to crimes, and members to bosses. But they couldn't connect the crimes by members to the bosses. So individuals would go to jail, but the bosses remained untouched.
So they needed at least some crimes connected to a boss or a few bosses to unravel the whole thing in a solid case that couldn't lose under RICO.
And that needed direct evidence connecting the two, and rats to corroborate the evidence.
And bam, now the Mafia is a shadow of itself and mostly is a movie trope.
And who was the primary figure behind that? Rudy Giuliani. And what was his method? Take all the bosses out in one case. Connect enough to the bosses to prove RICO, and the bosses are gone with life sentences, including many lieutenants and anyone else who could possibly run anything, plus the guys who committed the crimes that didn't rat.
Exactly. And the bigger picture is, Biden's son is so sloppy, it gave the Trump Administration a backdoor into not just Biden and his corrupt dealings, but into all of the interconnected corruption in government.
I guarantee the personal connections are all made, material evidence has all been collected, they just needed a weak enough entry point to unravel it all, and a material witness to corroborate, in order to turn this into a solid case.
Thanks to Hunter's crack habits and irresponsibility, we may even see Hillary in prison someday.
That's exactly what is happening. And what the Trump administration and his allies have been working on for likely years now. Gathering tons of evidence, especially connections between people. They needed one weak link, and one guy to flip to get their "in". The rest falls into place. Like taking down the Mafia.
And here it is. Biden's dealings are the weak link. This guy is the rat.
Once this election is over (it is over for Biden regardless of how much traction this story gets), the real fun begins.
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Yes, and this is bigger than the emails themselves.
Eyewitness testimony of a verifiable connected party is even stronger in court. Especially when it implicates that party in the crimes committed.
It's like being ratted out by a member of your bank robber crew. It's the kind of evidence prosecutors dream of, and why they are always trying to flip people with plea deals.
This is a big chink in the armor. Forget the election, it was over anyways. This is a direct attack at the whole political machine, because too many will be connected to it, and they already have a direct link to a "big guy".
The only way SpaceEx does it without NASA is if NASA just won't play ball. The current plans are SpaceEx will, as NASA missions, return to the Moon with their Starship program as a proof of concept, and as a springboard for building a lunar base either in orbit or near one of the poles. And then, as NASA missions again (potentially with international partners) going from there to Mars.
So it's not a race per se but more convincing NASA to use their hardware instead of someone else's. And SpaceEx is WAY ahead of everyone else now with their successful manned spaceflight to the ISS. They've proven the Merlin engines and the Falcon platform. And they remain the only company that routinely lands their yuge expensive first stage rockets for resuse, which is revolutionary for cost savings.
As far as I know Musk does not intend to operate separate from NASA, since they have infrastructure and especially funding that he doesn't. But he has hinted that he would if he had to. And considering the Apollo mentality is pretty much gone from NASA and has been for a long time now, it's possible NASA will drag their feet too much and he'll lose patience, if he can find the investors.
And it is very possible he could find investors, who could theoretically commercialize a Mars colony, even if it doesn't bring any material value back home. There are lots of ways of commercializing such a thing.
I think this is where Trump comes in. He clearly wants NASA to have a different attitude. That could be a catalyst for a NASA mission to the Moon and then to Mars, using SpaceEx hardware, much sooner than you think.
Musk might never see Mars himself, but I've really given up on doubting that guy.
I think he will do it within the next 10-15 years. His approach is vastly better than current space programs, especially NASA, and far better than the money laundering schemes known as Boeing and Lockheed-Martin and others. He doesn't take a decade to figure something out, he takes months to a few years.
Frankly, Apollo was an absolute triumph and still unthinkable for its time. Truly amazing. But we should have been able to get man to Mars well before now, had there been any resolve to do so, even with only modest funding.
In other words, none of the problems are scientific. None require discovery. It's all matters of engineering. And the engineering approach at SpaceX is one that gets results quickly, and most importantly doesn't stay on dead end roads for long, which is the main failing of NASA and their usual contractors.
At this point it is really a question of how risk averse are we going to be? In most of human history, explorers obviously tried to plan for the worst, but they were not ready for everything when they made their voyages. And many died in the process. But it only takes one successful voyage to open the whole of humanity up to a place.
The question then is are we willing to take those leaps? Or will we continue to resign ourselves to baby steps? I think Musk is a leaper. And I think he will launch a mission with or without NASA being on board with it, if he can get the funding himself.
And it may end in tragedy. But then it might end in triumph. Considering the low particle density of space and our now good experience with living in space, I think it's a better than even odds shot right now. Add some more engineering solutions over the next 5 years, even higher than that.
I'm optimistic, without being unaware of the inherent dangers.
It doesn't matter if it's a Xir, the only real requirements are expertise and value to the mission. There is no way they are going to save a seat for some inexperienced kid that could instead be filled by another engineer or scientist. The whole point of getting to Mars is first, getting there, and second, doing as much research as possible.
And if it's a one-way mission (which is likely), a 3rd mission parameter will be survival.
She's a mascot, nothing more. She won't be going to Mars.
The Van Allen Radiation Belts (there are multiple). These are areas in our magnetosphere that capture and deflect ionized particles from solar and cosmic radiation, which helps keep the Earth safe.
The astronauts on the Apollo missions went through these and found they measured at lower intensities than they had anticipated, yet they still chose the best route through them to limit exposure. They vary in strength based on space weather and location.
Anything in space, especially any mission that is expected to pass through or outside of those belts will be using hardened electronics that can handle it.
We have, obviously, sent a LOT of probing missions, such as the many landers on Mars, through these belts and have a good amount of data and experience at this point in dealing with that issue.
There are still other problems to deal with, such as human exposure out in space and away from our protective magnetic field, but there are already some reasonable concepts being worked on. Another problem is micrometeorite impacts during the journey, as well as maintaining muscle and skeletal strength.
It's not going to be like the Moon missions, that's for sure. But the Van Allen Belts are not really an issue anymore.
Yeah I don't think he read the right Q'ran