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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThey need to catch Trump with a butterfly net today...
Trump: Space Force and Air Force will be 'separate but equal'
By Betsy Klein, CNN
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump used a term from US segregationist history to describe the relationship between the Air Force and his newest military branch, the Space Force, calling it "separate but equal."
"We must have American dominance in space. Very importantly, I'm hereby directing the Department of Defense and Pentagon to immediately begin the process necessary to establish the Space Force as the sixth branch of the armed forces. That's a big step," he said in the White House East Room during a meeting of his National Space Council Monday.
"We are going to have the Air Force and we are going to have the Space Force: separate but equal, it is going to be something so important," he said.
The term "separate but equal" became a legal precedent following an 1896 Supreme Court ruling Plessy v. Ferguson that said the use of racially separate facilities, if equal, was not discrimination. That legal rationale was deemed unconstitutional through a series of Supreme Court decisions, ending with 1954's Brown v. Board of Education.
In addition to calling for the Space Force, Trump signed Space Policy Directive -- 3 Monday, part of his administration's push to lead in the space space.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/18/politics/trump-space-force-air-force/index.html?utm_content=2018-06-18T19%3A10%3A09&utm_term=image&utm_source=twCNN&utm_medium=social
By Betsy Klein, CNN
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump used a term from US segregationist history to describe the relationship between the Air Force and his newest military branch, the Space Force, calling it "separate but equal."
"We must have American dominance in space. Very importantly, I'm hereby directing the Department of Defense and Pentagon to immediately begin the process necessary to establish the Space Force as the sixth branch of the armed forces. That's a big step," he said in the White House East Room during a meeting of his National Space Council Monday.
"We are going to have the Air Force and we are going to have the Space Force: separate but equal, it is going to be something so important," he said.
The term "separate but equal" became a legal precedent following an 1896 Supreme Court ruling Plessy v. Ferguson that said the use of racially separate facilities, if equal, was not discrimination. That legal rationale was deemed unconstitutional through a series of Supreme Court decisions, ending with 1954's Brown v. Board of Education.
In addition to calling for the Space Force, Trump signed Space Policy Directive -- 3 Monday, part of his administration's push to lead in the space space.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/18/politics/trump-space-force-air-force/index.html?utm_content=2018-06-18T19%3A10%3A09&utm_term=image&utm_source=twCNN&utm_medium=social
Yeah, Flint still doesn't have water, Puerto Rico still doesn't have electricity and we're jailing refugees at the border and separating them from their children.
Sure, this "Space Force" idea will go just fine.
"Space Force?" "Separate but equal to the Air Force?" "Spaceballs?"
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They need to catch Trump with a butterfly net today... (Original Post)
MrScorpio
Jun 2018
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Maeve
(42,279 posts)1. Such a space cadet! eom
Solly Mack
(90,762 posts)2. Damn
lame54
(35,277 posts)3. He wants to build a Trump Tower on the moon
Hela
(440 posts)4. In space...
no one can hear you scream about your bone spurs.
nolabear
(41,956 posts)5. Infrastructure, anybody? Health Care? Education? Anybody?
malaise
(268,846 posts)6. He's a nasty racist
This should be getting serious coverage.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)7. Let's work on the problems on terra firma first. n/t