Let's Do The Space Force Thing For More Rally Applause
At today's swearing in of new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) Gen Mark Milley, President Trump praises outgoing CJCS Gen Joe Dunford including re Space Force. pic.twitter.com/kRfJZfo8CF
— Marcia Smith (@SpcPlcyOnline) September 30, 2019
Was there supposed to be an article here?
Or was the title just a hopeful salutation?
Did you read what was posted?
It seems general public and other politicians never talk about SF. Like nobody know about SLS and Artemis except those in the business or read the space forums. My feeling the SF is one of Trump’s main campaign issues but everybody else doesn’t discuss it (as if it is not important like other issues).
“It seems general public and other politicians never talk about SF.”
Not that most of the press is willing to put on the front page, because they now associate it with Trump, and having passed both House and Senate, and being headed to a Reconciliation Committee, it has a very good chance of passage. Few in the national media want to talk up a political victory for Trump, even if it was the media who ignored its history over the last 4 years, until Trump started talking about it. It may not be a “main campaign issue” by Fall of 2020, but it is positive for Trump, now, a “Orange Man Bad” narrative is not served by talking about it.
The whole Space Force thing was dreamed up just to give Trump talking points at campaign rallies and to sell Space Force branded merchandise to raise campaign funds.
Why should Mike Rogers and Jim Cooper dream up talking points for Trump? Cooper, after all, is a Democrat. They were the people who, after they pushed the “Space Corps” idea through the House in 2017, only to see it fail in the Senate, *then* went to do a presentation to Trump in the WH, IIRC in March 2018. It was only then that Trump began thinking about it, and first talked about it publicly in May of 2018.
The “Space Force thing” began in 2001, long before Trump was a blip on the political landscape.
While your point about the SF predating Trump by a long time is certainly correct, I can remember seeing articles in AvWeek about the SF in the latter half of the 1990’s during the Clinton administration.
Hmmm!
Interesting!
Apparently a twitter URL *was* posted here to read. However, unless it is in DISCUS reposting, the body of kieth’s post flashes onscreen, and then vanishes, at least for my Firefox browser. I am uncertain of why that should happen.