Stephen Smith 🇺🇦
I am a long-time advocate of space exploration, settlement and commerce. Migrated from @WordsmithFL on Twitter.
Joined Nov 2022
Not to be cold about it, but I don't think he'll live until 2028. His sclerotic cholesterol-clogged arteries will take care of that.
@ToruOkada "But I also can see the US citizens resist this order."
They couldn't be bothered to vote, a very passive exercise, so I doubt they'll be motivated to engage in active resistance.
#StarTrek The Roddenberry Archive released today this ten-minute video that returns William Shatner as Kirk. They used AI CGI to render his face.
The second link is the press release explaining who did what.
@pkatlga23 This 2021 #FloridaToday article is about our self-declared "constitutional sheriff" Wayne Ivey and his extreme political statements. He was just re-elected without opposition.
@pkatlga23 Yep. That's occurred to me.
I live in a Trumpy county with a sheriff who's one of those "constitutional" sheriffs who thinks his office gives him dictatorial power. I can see him gladly going along with any #Trump order to round up the opposition.
Voter registration is public information, so it would be real easy to give him lists of Democrats. How you vote is supposed to be secret, but they'll cough it up for the enemies list.
@PoliticalEd I won't be the least bit surprised if he orders troops on the border to shoot anyone trying to cross, including children. That's where this is going.
@ToruOkada Well, "the people" -- the majority, at least -- just chose to commit political suicide. They willingly gave up their liberties to a known menace.
I can certainly see #Trump ordering the military to open fire. He's tried before.
I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if he puts the military on the border and orders them to shoot anyone trying to cross, including children.
We all know that Hitler began with rounding up the Jews. Trump might begin with Hispanics, with Muslims, with Chinese -- all sorts of rumors are flying.
If SCOTUS lets him do it, what's to stop him from rounding up, e.g. people registered Democrat?
If SCOTUS lets him do it, I'm seriously considering leaving the US. That poses complications, since my #MAGA wife will be quite happy about all this and won't leave. But I'm already researching nations that take US citizens. (5/5)
"Operation Wetback" was Eisenhower's program to round up Hispanics and dump them across the Mexican border. Some of those detained died while in custody due to sunstroke or disease; how many is unknown. (4/x)
https://www.history.com/news/operation-wetback-eisenhower-1954-deportation
Most of us know that FDR ordered 112,000 Japanese-Americans rounded up during WW2 into internment camps. They had done nothing wrong other than they were Japanese. They lost their liberties and their properties. George Takei is a survivor and often speaks about it. (3/x)
https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/japanese-relocation#background
History gives us several precedents, for example:
In 1932, Hoover sent in the army to round up veterans camped out in shanty towns around DC. Tanks armed with machine guns rolled through DC to roust the protestors. (2/x)
#Politics Breaking from #Axios:
#Trump confirms he will declare a national emergency to put US military in the streets once he's President.
https://www.axios.com/2024/11/18/trump-mass-deportations-military-national-emergency
@Kinnison Asif is the author of an excellent detailed two-volume history about the Soviet space program. The books are on my shelf.
#Trump nominates Project 2025 co-author to run the #FCC.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/17/brendan-carr-fcc-trump-pick-00190075
@Tacitus_Kilgore Tonight's launch was clouded out. I saw all of two seconds.
I can still appreciate the marvel of new technology while hoping that Elon somehow is sacked and Gwynne Shotwell runs the company.
More importantly, one of the other launch companies need to step it up. Blue Origin would seem the probable candidate but Jeff Bezos doesn't seem to be in a rush.
Elon Musk may have gone full Darth Vader on us, but there was a time when he was apolitical and a friend to the #Obama administration.
This is April 15, 2010. Elon gave President Obama a tour of the Space Canaveral SpaceX launch site. They agreed to work together to achieve rocket reusability.
The #Falcon9 that just launched today and landed for the 18th time? Obama helped make that happen. Otherwise, Elon might be out of business.
Stephen Smith 🇺🇦
I am a long-time advocate of space exploration, settlement and commerce. Migrated from @WordsmithFL on Twitter.
Joined Nov 2022