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Should be a wild four years.

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NASA's TikTok influencers are very worried about potential cuts:
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It's an apparently uncommon bit of knowledge that NASA has always relied on contractors to build its rockets and ships. Back in the day, that would've been Boeing, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, etc. I'm not particularly worried if NASA pays private contractors for rockets. One thing that is absolutely true is that modern NASA is about the sciences, not spaceflight. We've had huge breakthroughs in deepspace telescopes and there are a bunch of really neat unmanned missions planned to deep solar objects like Titan. I'd be happy to see the climate shit dropped from NASA in favor of focusing their funding on non-earth objects. I wanna see a giant deepspace microwave telescope built into the side of the moon. I want a mission to europa to investigate its oceans. I really want to see the space version of LIGO that spans the solar system and can detect extraordinarily long gravitational wavelengths.

Frankly, I don't give a damn if humans walk on the moon. Bloody ball of static electricity is a pain in the ass unless you're trying to start building deep space extrasolar vessels from the moon itself. Until that's the goal, it's just not worth the effort.
 
I wonder what makes former 90s, 80s pop, rock artists be so Trump dernaged, they oppose any of their songs to be used by them. I discovered few minutes ago this list and it looks pathetic. At this point it is easier to list artists that support Trump.



I am surprised CCR, Guns N Roses and Twisted Sisters are on this list.
CCR and GnR are no real surprise. I love CCR but the band is comprised of rich California trust fund Jew babies who barely set foot outside of daddy's mansion. They were just incredible at pretending.

Besides. Trump has all he needs. I bet he could get Creed for every single rally.
 
One thing that is absolutely true is that modern NASA is about the sciences, not spaceflight. We've had huge breakthroughs in deepspace telescopes and there are a bunch of really neat unmanned missions planned to deep solar objects like Titan.
What happened is NASA realized that human spaceflight missions are not worth it. They are stupid expensive, they risk human lives like no other, they lose funding when an astronaut dies, and the value of those human spaceflight missions are minimal. Unmanned missions are cheaper, safer, you do not have to deal with the disastrous effects of zero gravity on the human body, and we get better data from them.

We cannot fly a human to Pluto. We can fly a probe, get a cute ass picture of Pluto with a natural heart formation on it, and put that on a tumbler. Until we figure out how to get and keep humans in space long-term, unmanned probes and observational projects (like James Webb) will be king. The James Webb telescope has been an extraordinary success and anyone who cares about astronomy is hopping excited about it. Furthermore, because of major biological limitations (humans absolutely need gravity for our bodies to function correctly), we're basically stuck on Earth until we figure out artificial gravity.
 
Still seeing liberals do the "Have fun with egg prices skyrocketing" argument. Question here, did Kamala have any fucking plans to drop egg prices? These guys act like Kamala's plan to grant mass amnesty and flood the country with more 3rd world migrants will some how drop egg prices. She literally had no plans to drop egg prices and yet liberals are acting like we'd have cheap eggs if she was president.
No plans? What are you talking about, she wanted government price-fixing. Woulda solved everything lol
 
Department of Education handles student loans with them picking the lenders for the FASFA application. I have doubts that DOGE or Musk would want to rehaul the student debt system, rather it's a justification to abolish the DoE.

If the loans default, then who is responsible for it? The lenders? The colleges? The states?
I'll answer the shortest first, and echo what others have said if the loans are defaulted, the US is left holding the bag. They are federally guaranteed student loans. Not all student loans are of this type, private student loans for instance wouldnt be under the Dept of Ed.

DOGE auditing of the DoEd would yeild some very different results than other departments. For instance in USAID you want to find where the money is going, why etc. Well this would be the same for DoEd. Who's getting these loans? What schools? How many of these people are graduating? What types of degrees are they going towards? all of this is probably in the back of your mind but the answers would likely shock middle America and really anger them about the prior administrations attempt to buy votes through loan forgiveness. Why would the US forgive a student loan for a high end state school who's campus is drenched in decadence, for a minorities lesbian studies degree? Most middle America types think student loans are people scraping by getting the bare necessity education in a lucrative field such as STEM or Teaching down at the community college.

There is also a fraud factor to find. How many student loans are going to legit student expenses, aka tuition? How many are paying for those on student visa's not even from the US? How many people are working but not even paying it back?

There is a lot to uncover at DoEd in regards to the student loans. I can't wait to see what comes of it


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You guys remeber when I told you our Truman aircraft carrier got run into by a bulk carrier, we now have some images of the damage.

Ship nerds, you know how bad damage like this is? is this more or less superficial or will require more serious repair?

read that its the ships incinerator behind there

Hope your doing alright boss, I always love seeing you post <3
If this was battle damage during a war they wouldnt even bother fixing it. This is all pretty minor, a few million in welding, steal, and mostl in inspections. to give you some sort of semblance the anchor and chain if lost are about $200K to replace.
It is a life changing amount of money for many people and will directly help convert people to our side on cutting government waste. Its much easier to sell people on cutting spending when you give it back instead of spend it elsewhere.

Its my money I want it back if I can't have it back fuck you were spending it on trannies and gay frogs not whatever you want. Spend your share on what you want not mine.

on the topic of the hopefully passing comment of "paying $5000 dividend" if this were done it should only go to tax payers. Further it should not be sent out at all, instead a tax credit for 2025, and scaled to match the tax brackets, so those paying more taxes get to retain a bigger amount.There is no payout to "print money" for more inflation. There is no life changing money to those who arent earning. you just get to keep more of what you earned. This would incetivize the American worker, and those who receive nothing have no grounds to complain.
 
Am I reading that right? $110k in student debt to go work at the DC DMV? For those who don't know DC isn't a state so the DMV there is "federal". If you live in DC proper you have to get DC plates and a special parking tag. When I lived there there was ONE office to do this at and you had better be in line by about 7:30am. They used to cut the line for the entire day at about 10am. It took me three full days to get a plate and license
DMV in this case is short for DC, Maryland, and Virginia aka the DC area. He says he worked for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing as GS-13 which is good pay. He's an overpaid fag working in a job that he's so proud of he cared more about mentioning he put his personal files into a shared folder and made a powerpoint no one gives a shit about that explains colors and logos after saying he had a very heavy burden, implying he did a ton of work. He's full of shit because if he was doing a ton of work worth a damn then he'll have no problem getting a job elsewhere, but may need to step out of the DC area.

These people are a joke, sobbing as soon as they're treated like normal people and not a protected, unfireable class. Working for the government should not be a guaranteed job for life, that just makes it an unsustainable white collar jobs program.
 
Ok I got to call out the populist Trump types here and ask some questions.

1: You say that Elon's comment about giving every American 5000 dollars would not cause inflation and would not be a big deal, but republicans kept saying how the war in Ukraine was costing America to much money even though giving every American 5000 would cost more then America has spent on Ukraine the entire war.

2: How does America giving up on Ukraine benefit America ? ?Ukraine talked about a 500 billion dollar mineral deal meanwhile giving up would on America nothing and make all the previous money spent a waste.

3: Be honest why do you hate European countries so much ? The majority of Americans are European and even if you are not as an American Europe is your spiritual motherland. If you want to be able to keep up with China at a time when China is making inroads with other countries for deals you can't alienate your base, if you want to support Israel (I don't know why you would but the majority of Trump voters do) then you shouldn't alienate Europe t a time when more and more are getting stick of Israel and recognizing Palestinian state hood.
 
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