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Trump orders destruction of CO2 measure satelites

https://futurism.com/white-house-orders-nasa-destroy-important-satellite

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Have republicans actually ever done anything that hasn't been absolute dog shit decision?
- Many of them have died
  
  Not enough :(
  
  yeah but it doesn't count when it takes that long.
  too little too late
- Technically they made the EPA, which I guess they decided was a bad idea.
- Yes, but not since the days of Goldwater
  
  The super racist guy who Hillary Clinton supported whom the Goldwater Rule was named after?
  That's who you think was the last good Republican?
- Budd Dwyer blew his brains out on live TV. Granted it was on a snow day when all the kids were at home watching TV. Maybe not the best decision but it did lead to one less republican wasting oxygen.
- Oppose slavery.
  But its hard to believe they were the cool party until the 50s. Thank you Reagan.
  
  Slavery is still explicitly legal in the USA.

Watching every organization and person capitulate to this bullshit is exhausting. There’s a real cool word you can use when someone tells you to do something fucking stupid and authoritarian:
“NO.”
- The same thing the Trump administration does every time a judge tells them to stop doing something
- Do you think Trump respects when someone tells him no? The guy who's been accused dozens of times of rape? He (and any other fascist) speaks and understands only one language: violence.
  
  They could tell him to do it himself. Im pretty sure he won't actually have a clue how.
  I certainly don't know how. I couldn't even get up there.
  
  That's when you back it up with force
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Massacre

Just like every other dictatorships, the Trump regime wages war on knowledge and data.
And it's not new either: this started on day one of Trump's "presidency", and it should have been an ominous sign of things to come.
Americans voted for this. What a sad, sad country.

Sounds like a diversion seeing that Trump is in the Epstein files.
- Nah, this seems in line with Project 2025 goals.
- Yeah, destroying the planet to exacerbate wealth inequality really is a distraction from the scapegoat figurehead that has survived a hundred scandals being a child rapist. Surely this time if we focus all of our attention on the scandalproof figurehead's scandals rather than any of the issues, we're going to win. I know it sank two elections, but this time it's different. Because that's what's really wrong with the current US administration: Not imprisoning people without trial or destroying libraries of scientific knowledge, but the figurehead having some something wrong personally.
  I guess Trump was right - when you're a star, you can grab them by the pussy and you can do anything.
  
  The reason that people keep repeating it is because Epstein is the conspiracy theory that Trump's cult is founded upon. Him denying that the list exists has caused the biggest schism in his supporters that we've ever seen. People made this thing their entire belief system, and now their idol is saying that it never existed and that he won't release it. Even though his campaign was based on the promise of releasing it.

NASA, please say you destroyed it but instead turned it over to a country who gives a shit about the world. I know there are so few of them but this is such a waste.
- Every country seems to be following America. It's sad really. We the rest of the world are so hungry to suck on America's test that we well do anything for it. Problem is it's going to stop being so prosperous and we fucked ourselves for a very short term goal.

I am just amaze at how Americans (and those residing in America) have truly been conditioned and pacified to accept such blatant act of self-harm being inflicted. Never mind the defunding of climate change research, but defunding welfare is really the red line most other governments will never cross. In France, they riot whenever welfare is touched. In Russia, of all places, the only time Putin was seriously challenged by the public was when he announced pension reforms. And then he backed down! A dictator!
Americans have been brainwashed to think free healthcare, unemployment benefits and childcare is bad for them! Not even conservatives in other countries will dare touch the welfare because it is a political suicide! What is happening in the US right now is the culmination of liberal values it was founded on; worshiping the altar of individualism at the expense of the common good.
- It's somewhat that, but the key point is the manufactured consent that our biggest corporations prescribe via their media subsidiaries. I'd argue America has the best propaganda in the world. WE'RE #1!!! WOOOO
  
  That documentary about Edward Bernays. The Century of the Self. The episodes are appropriately named too! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self
  It explains how we are here. Basically after WW2 the leaders embarked on a psychology advertising campaign for Western civilization where it would be too uncomfortable to wage a war again like that without all the comforts of consumerism. America is at the peak of it.
  The only way the citizen of America will really push back is when the government collectively takes something from them that lies at or near the base of Maslow's Pyramid. When it gets too uncomfortable. Or else everything is actually fine.
- Two factors, probably:
  America has never had a war on our soil, a real bona-fide war anyway. Smaller town or city-sized disputes that got whitewashed and omitted from history, of course. I don't think we fully comprehend what is necessary to protect our freedom? Not apologist here either, just...that is partly why. Look at how much we constantly boast about WWII even though we just showed up late, well-rested with a bunch of guns, after almost turning Fascist ourselves.
  In America: You protest, you riot, you lose your job because you don't have enough time off available to drive 2500 miles, or the reason isn't valid based on made up rules by your employer. Then you lose your health insurance because you have no job. Then you lose your home because you can't pay the mortgage (or more these days, rent), your car on a 5 year loan is repo'd. So now your family is homeless without transportation or medical care and you're basically dead at that point.
  They set the US up to make failure->death the easy fast default option unless you're a proper peasant working the fiefdom.
- Americans are very much a me country. Look at me I want mine all of that. They would be so much better off if they where a we country they used to be.
- Indeed, the French beat the Americans hands down.

He does anything to make the Epsein circus go away

This is why I don’t care about MAGAts. They are enemies of the human species and we should all be preparing to over throw these people when they try stealing the next election.
I am walking 12 miles a day at time just to get my millennial bones in shape. Pushing almost 300lbs on the bench and curling over 145lbs for sets. Get ready people. We need to defend this world.
- I bought a shotgun, and once a month aim to do a gunnery drill for 150 shells. It is exhausting and expensive, but should be a good benchmark for the results of my swimming exercises: About an hour and a half of water weights, walking, and swimming. Probably another 20 minutes in the steam and hot rooms. Figure I need enough strength and endurance to patrol and wield a rifle.
  If there is a 2nd American Civil War, the good guys will need infantry, and I intend to be part of the ranks. I won't excel, but at least it frees up skilled people to hack, drone, or spy on the MAGATs.
  
  My back was fucked. But forcing myself to do manual labor has basically healed my vertebra. I do 12 miles of walking a shift. So my whole core is in its best shape in decades.
  I need to go to the range with my rifles and shotguns. My dad was a sniper and trained me how to shoot. I hope to get something that can put a bullet through an engine block. Soon.

- Yep

I guess as an American I'm counting on the rest of the world to continue working on problems while we sit here and shit in our own mouths for the next 3.5 years(hopefully just 3.5)
- Hopefully by a few different miracles, a much much shorter amount of time
  
  I don't trust Americans to fix their own problems.

Sell it to the ESA, if it isn't a cover-up.
- Would require transferring the relevant ground infrastructure and the people involved or at least their knowledge. Not as simple as one might think. Also ESA would have to allocate funds to it first.

If I was in his position and absolutely had to part with the sats, I would SELL or RENT them out. Like how a genuine businessman would. This bull is stupid on all the levels.
- I think the intention is to get rid of the data being provided to fix global warming. If the satellite is sold the data would turn up in some fashion eventually.

Who would've thought that the bourgeoisie will weaponize climate change and put it against us, the working class? 🤦‍♂️

measuring things is woke
- Ban rulers, speedometers, fuel gauges and pressure sensors! Cook meat on a gut feeling! Destroy all cups! Long dresses for all so we can't see feet! YAAARGH!
  
  Cook meat on a gut feeling!
  Anyone who needs a thermometer to cook meat is either a minimum-wage flunky who can't find their ass with both hands and a map, or shouldn't be cooking meat at all.
- yeah all that "quantitative objective science" liberal BS
  /s
  Oh god how do we share a planet with these troglodytes
  
  Perhaps this is what the great filter is. Any species that's intelligent, but isn't a hivemind; dies out via the stupidity of the collective -- sure, you can have accumulated knowledge, but if half (being extremely generous in our case) of your entire species is made up of drooling fucking morons that will actively drag the rest of you down, what good is it?
- That's why no more weather service. If you can't see the F5 Hurricane barrelling down on you it doesn't exist.
- I read this this is the voice of Butthead. To which Beavis would reply "Heh, heh, yes, we need more FIRE!"

This is some "Don't Look Up" type shit. Can't happen if you don't acknowledge it.

Chat, are we cooked?
- literally trying to cook us now
- We won't know. Neat, isn't it?

I would say that if presidents are allowed to be this corrupt, no long-term legislation or treaties can possibly be assumed to survive in between presidencies ... except that would imply that the US is still a representative democracy when the reality is otherwise.
- Yeah, if the Democrats weren't a fucking joke of a controlled opposition, they'd be running on total rollback: declare a state of emergency and remove and detain every single Trump appointee, repeal every single executive order, reverse every single item of legislation, revoke every grant, cancel every contract signed during the Trump administration. Then ban any Trump appointee from ever holding office again, blacklist every recipient of a federal contract awarded for the first time under Trump, shut down any "nonproit" that served as a fascist front organization, and revoke the corporate charter of any corporation involved in corrupt lobbying.

I have come to the conclusion that Trump is actually an alien. He is helping to prepare our planet for the arrival of his species by ensuring CO2 levels quickly reach a more tolerable level. It's the only explanation that makes sense.
- Honestly, I WOULD prefer him to be some kind of alien super agent. It is a lot less depressing than the alternative.
- Simulation theory is my reasoning at this point. They're just throwing shit into the simulation now to see what happens. like a wealthy pedophile who can corrupt anything he touches and destroy people's lives as they cheer.
- Sadly he's just the product of the american "culture" of selfishness and arrogance. They will destroy the world as we know it.
- My conclusion is that he’s the culmination of the US losing the Cold War. Putin has been investing in kompromat on all the red politicians for a long time, and this is the era of profit taking.

Don't look up, people.

Sorry Donnie, we're gonna need a really big missile in order to take that down, could you send us some cash to build it?
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2009-05-20

It's standard procedure to deliberately deorbit satellites that are no longer in use, since the whole program was defunded.
It's not like they are doing this out of spite, they are just doing what they said they would do, which people voted for.
Crazy, but true.
- I don't think anyone voted for this, and certainly most people didn't vote for the administration in charge, so ...
  
  People keep saying that most people didn't vote for this, but it's just disingenuous
  2/3 of eligible americans did not vote against this. that's the stat that matters

Distraction.
He's on the Epstein list and wants it to be buried under all his other bullshit.

If we don't test for CO2, then no-one can complain that we have high levels of it taps forehead - that's big, beautiful brain thinking right there.
- Same thing he did with Covid and the jobs guy last week

Need to reframe this:
"The satellites measure success of our roaring industry! The higher values, the better."

Ah employing the same 500iq strategy as they did during Covid.. if no numbers are reported, then there must be no climate change!

"You will serve until such a time you are no longer needed".

I put my phone down, then picked it up a few moments later hoping I ate the onion.
I hate him.

if nasa really have those laser destroyer sats it's time to aim at the whitehouse

What next? Trying to get rid of animated cartoons factually depicting Tumps penis?
- Gonna have myself a time.

.... ostrich ....

Someone should just offer to buy it. Pakistan has the means and motive. Should be the kind of thing that fat idiot would go for. Plus he's salty at India rn...

Vandalism

Can we accidentally leave the keys near ESA HQ?

Just relabel the satellites as methanedione detector and good for the plants for big beautiful grasses and they are not going to check back

The question is, will americans do something about there antichrist problem before he destroys the whole world, or will they just watch and complain only if they are personnally afected. The answer is within the question.

Thanks to all you "enlightened liberals" who refused to vote for Kamala. THIS IS YOUR FAULT. We'll bury you with the republicans
- Da fellow Amerikan it’s DEFINITELY not the fault of trumpers. That would make too much sense.
- I'll never understand the whole assigning blame routine. Blame isn't a solution. It doesn't fix a damn thing to know whose fault it is. If you want to solve the problem, figuring out who to blame is nothing but a waste of time and energy.
  That said, you're wrong. There's plenty of people and organizations to blame, from Rupert Murdock to the Heritage Foundation and beyond. Did refusing to vote for Harris help? Of course not. But this didn't fucking start with "enlightened liberals" (which is a complete useless term, btw; why the fuck is everyone got such a hard-on for calling people liberals, anyway?).
  Besides, all your doing here is playing into the divisive rhetoric. Our only chance is solidarity amongst the working class, and this bullshit ain't helping. Well, no, I guess if I'm going to be honest here it does help the sociopathic oligarchs maintain control. So congratulations - you're fighting for the wrong fucking side.
  
  Did the guilt of making the objectively wrong choice write this?
  
  I'll never understand the whole assigning blame routine
  Proceeds to assign blame:
  There's plenty of people and organizations to blame, from Rupert Murdock to the Heritage Foundation and beyond.
  And then continues to assign blame:
  Well, no, I guess if I'm going to be honest here it does help the sociopathic oligarchs maintain control. So congratulations - you're fighting for the wrong fucking side.
  So guess you understand it just fine.
- Why is "enlightened liberals" in quotes? I feel like anytime this conversation comes up it's "leftist" or something similar in scare quotes.
  
  Some people seem to think if you don't try harm reduction you aren't a real leftist.

Looking forward the Mad Maxy future that's coming up. Where Gasoline and Drinking Water are the primary commodities and no one truly remembers how things were in "the before times" and the "long long ago" (aka a single generation ago).

Is it massive enough to be deorbited on top of Mar-a-Lago?

I love BBQing indoors. Babies taste best. CO and smoke detectors are just alarmist annoying hysteria that my family would use against me to value their lives over baby BBQs. BBQ hating commies in my household should not ruin my freedom with information based logic, and so tools of alarmism must be destroyed.

Just deorbit it straight into cunt-a-lago

Maybe they can fake this somewhat convincingly, since Trump and his cabinet are a bunch of fucking removed.

Trump Does Is Things The Way He Wants

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“NO.”