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The Cold War might have ended a generation earlier if that happened. Also if there still was a Korean War it would have ended in total defeat of the communists. Hek, Vietnam might not have been a thing either.
Ho Chi Minh showed up to the UN general assembly in 1948 with a document quoting the US Declaration of Independence and begging us to recognize Vietnam as an independent country.

We didn’t want to backstab our lovers, the French, so we told him to pound sand.

However a youngish Nikita Khrushchev was in attendance, and felt moved by this warrior poet’s chingy chongy plight. The Soviets offered to recognize Vietnam, and so the Viet Minh movement began.

In 1954, 50,000 troops under General Vo Nguyen Giáp moved artillery to the hill tops surrounding the valley of Dien Bien Phu, where France’s main garrison of 10,000 troops were probably smoking cigarettes, drinking wine and acting angsty.

The French did not win, and Vietnam became an independent, Soviet aligned country

I just typed this all out from memory so don’t bitch if minor details are slightly wrong. I’m getting older
 
Couldn't find him giving the salute but close:

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That's okay, I got this:
obama salute.jpg

I've got just about everyone doing a salute saved somewhere.

taylor swift nazi salute.jpg

This ticks me off, one of the few things that US science does well probably going to go and it's still only a blip in the budget. Musk better come out saying he'll make up for this somehow.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025/04/11/nasa-science-budget-cuts-trump/ https://ghostarchive.org/archive/E2txb
Probably just moving towards finally cancelling that atrociously over-priced SLS lift vehicle. It costs too much to even test launch it, upwards of $1 to $2.5 billion per launch, and NASA is probably just going to end up using SpaceX vehicles anyway. Starship will lift more to orbit and currently Starship test launches are about $100 million.

Stuff like this in the article:
“It needlessly terminates functional, productive science missions and cancels new missions currently being built, wasting billions of taxpayer dollars in the process. This is neither efficient nor smart budgeting.”
This is just classic Sunk Cost Fallacy, you see it a lot with bureaucrats desperately trying to keep milking a dead program.
 
China just announced a nuclear battery that can last 50 to 100 years without recharging. To be fair, South Korea has an alternative in development, but it doesn’t appear to be ready yet—and oh yeah, Trump slapped tariffs on them too.
That's literally just a beta-decay collector
It's generating microwatts for a long time, that's it.
It's like a better-lasting button cell.
We already have those, pretty much every first country does
 
What's the deal with trump giving himself a military parade and instituting martial law?

According to leftoids he's about to do that on April 20th to celebrate Hitler or something.

And if Trump actually did that, what would these faggots do about it outside of whining online and doomscrolling?

They'd be too busy celebrating 4/20 for another reason.
 
France’s main garrison of 10,000 troops were probably smoking cigarettes, drinking wine and acting angsty.
Roald Dahl, who flew combat missions for the RAF in WWII, had a story of flying one against a Vichy French airfield, where they surprised the pilots with their planes still on the ground and could have destroyed them with minimal danger; but as it happened, the French were showing off their planes to local women, putting them in danger, so Dahl and his squad did not fire on their first pass out of chivalry. As a result the planes made it off the ground, and not all of his wingmen made it back that day. Dahl always held a special place of contempt in his heart for the French collaborators.
 
Bill Maher eats dinner with Orange Man, concludes he's not really all that bad.

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Kudos to him for going, and for deciding to be honest about it.
I wonder how much backlash he'll get though. Any attempts to not be an extremist death cult TDS suffering retard get the wrath of the progressives so he's guaranteed to get some.
Whether the death spiral of the Democrat party will continue despite feeble attempts to course correct remains to be seen...
 
If I have to see one more fucking normalfag take on tariffs I am going to kill and eat someone.

EDIT: holy shit, this is the Washington post? And they make fucking opinion piece tiktoks? They should have been banned by trump yesterday.
If the tiktok predictions turns out to be true everyone will have to wear the burger suit and let Fatpacks choose a new avatar
 
Ho Chi Minh showed up to the UN general assembly in 1948 with a document quoting the US Declaration of Independence and begging us to recognize Vietnam as an independent country.

We didn’t want to backstab our lovers, the French, so we told him to pound sand.

However a youngish Nikita Khrushchev was in attendance, and felt moved by this warrior poet’s chingy chongy plight. The Soviets offered to recognize Vietnam, and so the Viet Minh movement began.

In 1954, 50,000 troops under General Vo Nguyen Giáp moved artillery to the hill tops surrounding the valley of Dien Bien Phu, where France’s main garrison of 10,000 troops were probably smoking cigarettes, drinking wine and acting angsty.

The French did not win, and Vietnam became an independent, Soviet aligned country

I just typed this all out from memory so don’t bitch if minor details are slightly wrong. I’m getting older
The Viet Minh movement started in 1941 to fight the Japs. And Ho Chi Minh was at the Versailles Conference in 1919 to try to pass a letter to Pres. Wilson, who totally ignored him, not the UN in 1948. You also forget he met Henry Walton Jones, Jr. in Paris during the conference.

Other than that, pretty much correct.

Ho Chi Minh was also secretly supported in his fight against the Japanese by the OSS, marking yet another example of the US directly supporting what would become a future enemy a generation later. Looking at you Ukraine, can't wait until NATO is bombing you for invading Romania in 15 years....
 
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