Jim Geraghty on the shameless, sordid, indefensible man (not “child”) and the hypocrisy of his father.
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Why did the indictment take so long?
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Thoughts from Jonathan Turley.
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The indictment is a disaster for the White House.
…is in serious decline.
DEI degrades and corrupts every institution it touches.
I wonder if it’s as bad with the Space Force?
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DEI at the FAA is lunacy. It will kill people.
More like the C-Team, actually. What happens when mediocrities are promoted.
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Related: Academics thrill to rape and murder.
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Is Gen Z turning against Western civilization? And thoughts on Weimar America:
…the overwhelmingly minority students (whose school is ranked academically near the bottom among New York City schools) were acculturated to the racist reality that as the “oppressed” they were exempt from any punishment for hunting down their own teacher. As a Jewish (and thus white) “oppressive” supporter of Israel, she was reduced to, in the words an enthusiastic commenter on a Tik Tok video of the riot, a “cracker ass bitch.” And so the student pack tracked her down as if they were hunting an animal. The old Nazi youth gangs tried to kill Jews because they were not considered “white;” our new Nazis hunt them down because they allege that they are. The common denominator between the 1930s and 2023 is an unhinged hatred of Jews.
Yes.
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The people who mobbed the Jewish restaurant in Philly are total psychopaths.
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Addressing the rot in the universities.
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Genocide and Jews at Harvard.
And are Americans finally starting to see the depravity of academia?
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Reverse speech codes aren’t the answer.
Do they extend beyond the planet?
The fact that the UN declaration is a “universal” one strongly suggests that they do. I disagree that “health” is a human right, though.
Yes, there will be a need for it (and a Space Guard to carry it out). And not just for tourists. And the most responsive place to put a base for it would be equatorial LEO.
Branson isn’t going to pour any more of his own money into that hole in the sky he started almost two decades ago.
To be fair, though, most of the money that went into it was other (foolish) peoples’. It never made any business sense given how much they were putting into it.
Thoughts on Artemis.
Here’s the problem: Ignoring the politics that have driven much of the architecture decisions, NASA is trying to do Apollo again, without the budget or schedule driver. When he cites the document “What Made Apollo A Success,” it begs the question of what the definition of success is. Obviously, it was successful in terms of the program objectives: to get a man (or men) to the Moon and return them safely to the Earth within a decade. But it was a complete failure in terms of opening space to humanity, which is why we haven’t been back in over half a century.
He says to remain mission focused, but that’s the problem. We have to end the “mission” mentality. We have to create a transportation infrastructure that makes getting back to the Moon, to other points in cislunar space, and beyond, routine. The fact that we’re not attempting to do so is why Artemis, as currently conceived, will prove as unsustainable as Apollo was.
I would also disagree with his recommendation that we train “pilots” on a simulator where their ass is on the line, as Neil did. We are in an age in which humans cannot fly these machines as well as they can fly themselves, and we’re going to have to test them and build in resiliency and redundancy to the point at which we can trust them to get us where we want to go with an acceptable level of risk.