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Late Night Open Thread: SPACE. FARCE — Again

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You can lead a media whore to context, but you can’t make them think.

Like kids in the toy aisle pursuing blind bags, much of the WH press corps became addicted to the Trump administration’s high-octane press briefings. Sometimes there was a Chucky doll, sometimes a box of live scorpions, frequently the gaudy packaging contained nothing at all — but it was always something different, therefore EXCITING! (And it didn’t require thought, much less research, to write up afterwards.)

Cue the predictable outrage!

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  2. 2.

    craigie

    So we’re just stuck with this ridiculous Space Farce forever?

    Maybe Biden should create the Underground Force, just to complete the set.

  4. 4.

    Fair Economist

    Part of the point of Psaki’s dig is that the Space Farce apparently *is* a farce. There’s nobody on it – it’s pure fakery from Trump.

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    DMcK

    I was going to joke about Psaki’s lack of reverence for the Space Force’s hallowed history as our first line of defense vs. the shape-shifting Reptilians, but then I realized that given the current trajectory of the GQP, it won’t be long before that is proffered as a genuine justification for its ongoing funding. No joke there…

  10. 10.

    NotMax

    @Jay

    May as well again mention that the ultra-cheesy Battle Beneath the Earth is airing on TCM at 6 a.m. Eastern. Splinter group of the communist Chinese army burrow under U.S. cities to place nuclear bombs. By tunneling all the way under the Pacific, BTW.

    ;)

  12. 12.

    Amir Khalid

    I have a lingering suspicion that Trump conceived of Space Force as something like the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers, but American.

  14. 14.

    Jay

    A federal judge has ordered the state of Oregon to immediately begin offering COVID-19 vaccines to incarcerated people: "During difficult times we must remain the most vigilant to protect the constitutional rights of the powerless."https://t.co/Bf25dmKt6n— reason (@reason) February 4, 2021

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    SFBayAreaGal

    So let’s make another part of the trekverse realistic. Take the Space Force put it in San Francisco and rename it Star Fleet Academy and Headquarters.

  19. 19.

    Jay

    UPDATE: Rittenhouse's attorney says they intentionally wrote the wrong address on court papers after being advised to do so by a "high-ranking member of the Kenosha Police Department." This, the defense claims, was to protect the location of a "safe house" for the defendant. https://t.co/FGGKcHAYHm— Colin Kalmbacher (@colinkalmbacher) February 4, 2021

    So, Kenosha KKKops are protecting a murderer,

    From what?

    Sure ain’t antifa,

    Fellow Nazis?

    Or all the Nazis are in on it together.

  21. 21.

    John Revolta

    @Amir Khalid: Hey Amir, if you’ve already done this I missed it, but I’d love to hear some thoughts on the Myanmar coup from somebody who’s actually nearby. For example- Do you think that the election was legitimate? There’s been no real analysis up here one way or another, that I’ve seen.

  24. 24.

    Amir Khalid

    @John Revolta: ​
      This has all happened before. The Myanmar military’s pet party lost a general election. The generals, who are the real ruling power there, hate when that happens so they lashed out in the usual way. So it’s not quite a coup d’etat like you’d see elsewhere. This time, though, there’s a lot of open public anger about it. Will that actually change anything? I don’t know.

  28. 28.

    NotMax

    Wirthy of a quark-sized violin.

    After his social media platform was largely wiped off the web, Parler CEO and co-founder John Matze says he has been fired by his company’s own board of directors, according to a memo obtained by Fox News and The Wall Street Journal and a text message confirmation he sent to Reuters. His LinkedIn page shows an employment end date of January 2021. Source

  30. 30.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    If you’re livin’ in a bubble and you haven’t got a care
    Well, you’re gonna be in trouble ’cause we’re gonna steal your air
    ‘Cause what you got is what we need and all we do is dirty deeds
    We’re the Spaceballs!
    Watch out, ’cause we’re the Spaceballs

  35. 35.

    lowtechcyclist

    Psaki:

    We look forward to the continuing work of Space Force and invite the members of the team to come visit us in the briefing room anytime to share an update on their important work.

    That tweet is a thing of beauty.

  37. 37.

    Geminid

    The Space Force may not have many personnel, but it does have a Space Force  March. I haven’t heard it yet, but it is said to have some awesome piccolo parts.

  38. 38.

    RSA

    @SFBayAreaGal:

    Take the Space Force put it in San Francisco and rename it Star Fleet Academy and Headquarters.

    You know that if Trump owned significant property in San Francisco this would have happened already.

  42. 42.

    BruceFromOhio

    Sometimes there was a Chucky doll, sometimes a box of live scorpions, frequently the gaudy packaging contained nothing at all

    This was the entire four fucking years of the dumpster fire.

    And it’s endless comedy that the morans kicking sand at Psaki obviously do not watch the briefings. Boo Bear’s haughty twatter reminds me of a snotty six-year-old announcing she does not care for spinach.

  44. 44.

    MontyTheClipArtMongoose

    @craigie: Steer into the spin & prop up Jim Trafficant’s desiccated corpse as civilian chief of the SF.

    Plus, as only Dem vote for Gingrich as Speaker, he would make Biden-Harris regime bipartisan.

  46. 46.

    The Moar You Know

    Jen Psaki mocked our service heroes.

    There is nothing funny about the Space Force.

    Oh God yes there is. The Coasties are no longer at the bottom of the pecking order, for starters. Their relief is palpable.

    Space Farce is going to be the home of a bunch of Air Force rejects who do nothing but browse the internet, play Kerbal Space Program and shitpost all day. The regular military drags it so fucking hard if you mention it around them. They all know it’s a fucking joke.

  47. 47.

    Pennsylvanian

    I don’t even understand what the Space Force is supposed to be. Isn’t the US Space Force called NASA?

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