The Imperial Presidency

[robkelk]

This one isn't on the bingo card, but it could easily have replaced "tariffs" as the free space. (Something similar happened in Canada the last time we had a right-wing government. History rhymes with itself.)

National Science Foundation FY 2026 budget cut by more than 60%

[robkelk]

NASA boss-to-be gets spaced as proposed budget cuts detailed

[classicdrogn]

trump - n
1. The place between an asshole and a cunt or wrinkly nutbag.
2. Something not technically obscene but embarrassing and often offensive to reveal in public.
3. Something difficult to reach or cleanse.
ex: "After all that shit I really had to stretch to clean up the trump."

[Jinx999]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0j76djzgpvo

And Musk has turned on Trump.

If there's one thing the guy is good at, it's burning bridges.

[Labster]

NASA boss-to-be gets spaced as proposed budget cuts detailed

It looks like nearly all of the space missions are getting canceled faster than Kevin Spacey.

[Jinx999]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0j76djzgpvo

And Musk has turned on Trump.

If there's one thing the guy is good at, it's burning bridges.

And their online spat has got a bit heated, with personal attacks and outright threats.

[Labster]

Elon Musk, for a day, decided to that he was going to dismantle the crew module for SpaceX, if the federal contracts were gone, which would bring us back to the "stranded astronauts" thing all over again. But he backed off because the whole thing is pretty dumb, of course, just Twitter threats.

Trump's adviser, Steve Bannon (remember the Biosphere guy?), has said that he wants to investigate Elon's application for citizenship. It looks like the play is to strip Elon Musk of citizenship, then because a non-citizen cannot have our secrets of rocketry under law, have the government seize control of SpaceX, all completely* legally. Looks like we'll be sending Elon back to Canada, where he belongs.

Where is that gif of Ami eating popcorn, again?

[robkelk]

Looks like we'll be sending Elon back to Canada, where he belongs.

No refunds, no returns! You took him, you keep him!

Where is that gif of Ami eating popcorn, again?

[robkelk]

Downtown Los Angeles has been declared an "unlawful assembly" zone, and the Oval Office has called out the National Guard against the wishes of the state's Governor.

I hope that our forum members in L.A. are not caught in this use of US armed forces against US citizens on US soil.

[Dartz]

The Local Lego Builders club has the chance to do the funniest things ever.

Or someone carrying two white shopping bags.

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From what I can read - these are fairly small protests with a few torched Waymos who everyone apparently hates anyway.

In a complete contrast to every evil administration everywhere, which seeks to massively downplay any civil unrest to the wider population, before quietly sending in the tanks anyway. Evil dictators make molehills out of mountains.

Meanwhile, America's doing the opposite. Making a massive show of Sending in the Troops, even when this is something that even the evil dictatorships are sort of embarrassed to do. The thing with going full Send in the Troops at this point is that it paints the administration as being keenly aware of it's own brittle weakness, and is deliberately trying to puff itself up as inflexibly strong.

It's such a bizarre thing.

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Other than that - there're eight thousand nine hundred and sixty four things that can go wrong with active troops being used to police civil disobedience.

And while that's an extreme, the consequences are well documented in several 'civilised' parts of the world, where troops have opened fired on protestors for shits and giggles.

All it takes is one Soldier F.