Donald Trump once again blew up the Internet by riffing on something insane. This time: Space Force! Trump appears to believe that the galaxy is under threat by alien invasion and that the United States military will be creating a Space Force to defend humanity. Given Trump’s obsessive xenophobia, one assumes that there will of course be a Space Wall to defend too.
Enlist in Donald Trump’s Space Force!
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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Au contraire, Ted ; it is the «aliens» who will gladly put up and pay for a wall to keep H sapiens sapiens confined to the immediate vicinity of the Earth (they might allow us access to the moon as well ; nothing much there to destroy, and if we start mining Helium-3 there, our demise might come about more quickly than otherwise, thus saving them the need to intervene directly)….
Henri
Ever since Sputnik went up, the threat of a space force has been hanging over our heads. (See what I did there?) The first country to hang a nuke in orbit deserves what will inevitably befall them when hackers inevitably hack the platform.
But it does look like we’re gearing up for another space race – this time to Mars. Doubleplus Good! The last space race created jobs and produced technological innovation heretofore unseen outside of war.
“The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.”
–Robert A. Heinlein, Homo “Sapiens”
“The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for us to share with the human race.”
– Every other species on the planet