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PCIntern

(27,574 posts)
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 12:55 PM Tuesday

So if a Dem prez pulled this stunt with "Space Command"

The media’d be screaming: WASTE AND ABUSE!!! GOVERNMENT REARRANGING THE DECK CHAIRS ON THE TITANIC!!! IS THIS NECESSARY?? THINK OF THE COST!!

Meanwhile, next week on Fireball XL-5….


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So if a Dem prez pulled this stunt with "Space Command" (Original Post) PCIntern Tuesday OP
This message was self-deleted by its author PeaceWave Tuesday #1
We will need to provide that next DEM POTUS with a DEM wall in Congress Attilatheblond Tuesday #2
This message was self-deleted by its author PeaceWave Tuesday #3
We need to get away from executive orders in place of laws EdmondDantes_ Tuesday #4
Trump relocates a military command to a red state for the Trumpiest of reasons LetMyPeopleVote Wednesday #5

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Attilatheblond

(7,097 posts)
2. We will need to provide that next DEM POTUS with a DEM wall in Congress
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 12:59 PM
Tuesday

One person can't fix what is broken. It will take a huge force of legislators, national and state, to wade thru the mess and actually drain the swamp.

And then, for good measure, add some chairs to fix that SCOTUS puppet show.

Response to Attilatheblond (Reply #2)

EdmondDantes_

(857 posts)
4. We need to get away from executive orders in place of laws
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 02:23 PM
Tuesday

It encourages Congress to do nothing and it means we whipsaw between administrations. Doing ever more of them is a really bad idea.

LetMyPeopleVote

(169,117 posts)
5. Trump relocates a military command to a red state for the Trumpiest of reasons
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 06:14 PM
Wednesday

The president, by his own admission, is making decisions about the military that have nothing to do with the military.

Trump relocates a military command to a red state for the Trumpiest of reasons

flip.it/Pnai6w

BIG KICKBACK $ ?

MORE GRIFT $ ?

POLITICAL RETRIBUTION ?

CO BIG MAIL IN VOTING ?

ALL THE ABOVE ARE VERY PLAUSIBLE.

BUT VANITY IS THE MAIN REASON.

IT WILL BE NAMED AFTER TRUMPF PER ALABAMA GOP.

Greed Apocalypse (@juanmunoz.bsky.social) 2025-09-03T17:37:10.227Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-relocates-military-command-red-state-trumpiest-reasons-rcna228767

When the U.S. Space Command was formally created six years ago, it was temporarily based in Colorado and military leaders recommended that it stay there. There was no great mystery as to why: Colorado was already home to the Air Force Academy, which graduates Space Force guardians, as well as three Space Force bases.

What’s more, moving the Space Command would’ve taken time and resources, opening the door to setbacks as China’s efforts to militarize space intensify......

Two years later, Trump is reversing the reversal. NBC News reported:

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that U.S. Space Command’s headquarters will move to Alabama from Colorado, reversing a Biden administration decision. In remarks at the White House, Trump said he was making the shift in part because of Colorado’s use of mail-in voting.


That might sound like a weird joke, but it accurately summarizes the president’s own comments.

Trump on moving Space Force base from Colorado: "The problem I have with Colorado -- they do mail in voting. They went to all mail in voting, so they have automatically crooked elections. And we can't have that."

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-09-02T18:53:55.736Z


.....In other words, the incumbent president held a grudge against Colorado because of his discredited and conspiratorial beliefs about the state’s election administration policies, and this contributed to his willingness to relocate a Pentagon command. (The Space Command is comprised of elements from the Army, Navy and Air Force. It’s not the same thing as the Space Force.)

I can appreciate why most Americans probably don’t care where the Space Command is located, but let’s not miss the forest for the trees: Trump, by his own admission, is making decisions about the military that have nothing to do with the military.

What’s more, he’ll soon be rewarded for the move: At Tuesday’s White House event, Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville, who’s currently running for governor in Alabama, announced that he intends to name the Space Command Center in Huntsville after Trump.
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