Trump's Make Space Great Again video pulled after former 'naut says: Nope
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/06/05/make_space_grate_again/
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"Make Space Great Again" was uploaded to YouTube following the successful launch, attended by Trump, and featured a mix of footage including some from the Demo-2 commercial crew mission.
It also set off a firestorm of protests, including one from retired astronaut, Karen Nyberg, who is married to NASA 'naut, Doug Hurley. Hurley is one of the two lucky crew-members of that Demo-2 mission.
Nyberg, understandably, was somewhat aggrieved that imagery of her and her son was being used in what she described as "political propaganda" without consent.
I find it disturbing that a video image of me and my son is being used in political propaganda without my knowledge or consent. That is wrong. [2]@nasa [3]@JimBridenstine [4]https://t.co/cXcKHxmn6e — Karen L. Nyberg (@AstroKarenN) [5]June 4, 2020
[6]Others highlighted the unfortunate appearance of a European Space Agency (ESA) logo in the presidential campaign video.
As is so often the case these days, a petition soon popped up, urging the master of the caps-lock key to stop politicising space. After all, while the implication of the video is that if it wasn't for the efforts of the current US President the mission might not have happened, NASA's Commercial Crew Program was actually kicked off by President Barack Obama years previously, and has its roots in the George W Bush administration.
Sadly, the politicisation of space is difficult to avoid. President Richard Nixon, for example, was less than keen to lavish credit on John F Kennedy during the moonlandings of 50 years ago, while the space race itself was arguably driven more by political gesturing rather than pure science.
Lawmakers, after all, hold the purse strings and, as the saying goes, "No bucks, no Buck Rogers."
As well as perhaps allowing someone to take a little more credit than is due and managing to annoy a former astronaut, the video also stomped over NASA's [7]media usage guidelines , which aren't keen on the agency's logos being used to "imply endorsement" and state that permission to show identifiable people needs to come from those individuals.
We suspect that ESA might also be [8]a bit grumpy about its logo popping up.
Trump has infamously found himself on the receiving end of a [9]long overdue prodding by social media anger trumpet, Twitter, but this particular bit of video self-aggrandisement was swiftly [10]yanked by the uploader , presumably Trump's campaign itself.
The good news for Trump fans is that while a like on the Make Space Great Again video is no longer possible, support can still be shown with the purchase of a hat from [11]Trump's online store . Right up until Disney notices a distinct similarity to its own, Epcot-based [12]Mission Space logo.
The [13]motion simulator ride in Florida's Epcot theme park itself can leave some of its users a tad nauseous. Not unlike sitting through "Make Space Great Again". ®
[1] https://www.theregister.com/2020/05/30/nasa_spacex_manned_launch/
[2] https://twitter.com/NASA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[3] https://twitter.com/JimBridenstine?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[4] https://t.co/cXcKHxmn6e
[5] https://twitter.com/AstroKarenN/status/1268667789604270082?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[6] https://twitter.com/RobertPearlman/status/1268233724493266944
[7] https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines/index.html
[8] https://www.esa.int/About_Us/Law_at_ESA/Intellectual_Property_Rights/ESA_and_trademarks
[9] https://www.theregister.com/2020/05/27/twitter_fact_checks_trump_tweets/
[10] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSexGgpihE0
[11] https://shop.donaldjtrump.com/products/make-space-great-again-hat
[12] https://www.disneyworld.co.uk/attractions/epcot/mission-space/
[13] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLM-uy4dQdw
450 cities protesting racism
450 cities across America are protesting racism. Lots of all-white peaceful protests protesting 'racism'. Really its about kicking Trump out because the Republican party seems to have lost its moral compass and backbone.
4th July Coup basics
You maybe noticed a few things recently:
* Bunker-Boy is turning the Whitehouse into a fortress.
* Tanks are planned for the 4th July,
* Trump claims he can move the military into the States by declaring protestors as 'insurgents/terrorists'.
* General Mattis warning against Trump, suggesting America unite *without* Trump.
* Military leaders reminding their troops they swore loyalty to the Constitution. The Constitution is not the divider-in-chief! Soldiers cannot legally fire on US citizens just because Trump wants them to. Even if Barr says its OK, even if Fox New is screaming "kill kill kill".
I know it sounds alarmist, but you need to prepare NOW, for what's about to hit you. There is no bottom with this guy. There is nothing he won't do, and nothing that his enablers won't enable. It should be clear from John Dowds letter and Bill Barrs action they are still planning to go for it.
Coup Basics.
The Whitehouse isn't the power. It's just a building. He will try to use its symbolism for his coup. He's fortifying the Whitehouse. Call him 'little bunker-boy hiding in his Wendy House'.
Trump will pretend to have the military behind him. Enablers on Fox News will pretend he has the military supporting his coup. Call in Generals to testify their support of the Constitution. Prepare them now, get them in now swearing their loyalty to the Democracy that is the United States. Get them lined up to testify their loyalty to the Constitutional Democracy. America, America America. Canvas their views now.
Get more ex-Republicans like Bush on board. This guy isn't the Republican party, and the current party members are afraid to speak out in case he attacks them and they lose power. Find ex party members who will speak out.
You see how Barr has his private paramilitary security team ready? Get yours own security ready. You don't want a gun to your head.
Don't let him capture the Supreme Court or its judges. A vote under duress is not a vote.
Don't let him capture the House & Senate. If Trump captures the building, hold the votes somewhere else and declare it the legal vote anyway regardless of location.
Fox News will be there trying for the full coup, trying to legitimize the coup. Trying to portray government as uniting around bunker-boy. Bunker boy will be trying to block all other channels.
Twitter HQ, Google HQ, and Facebook HQ prepare your security. Anticipate the worst case. The worst case will involve guns to the heads of your CEOs! Prepare.
There is no bottom with this guy. There is no bottom to his enablers.
Decide NOW that you want the United States to be a democracy. Agree NOW that this is the best for everyone. Get Republican Fox News viewers to imagine their ideal candidates, suggest competent strong Republican leader figures they might like. Then remind them that a dicatorship will be Donald, Jared, then Baron. Not their guy. Not their vote. Not their choice.
Ask entitled rich Republicans to imagine their life under a dictator. What if they say something that offends the dictators, can they breathe? Will he let them breathe? Do they think their money is worth anything if they can't breathe?
In the 'Night of the Long Knives', hitler killed his enemies AND his rivals. People on his own side who could potentially take power from him. You might want to remind Barr, Pascale, Kavanaugh, Hannity, Pompeo, Murdoch, etc. of that fact. None of them think, they'll end up like Khashoggi, tortured and dismembered, but all of them are candidates for the scalpel. By the time they do, it would be too late. So paint their future for them now so they can see they don't want this.
End it now.
He has to go.
Practically the only thing that has gone right in his Presidency
Its normal for politicians to mooch off success, Trump's just a bit more barefaced about it than most. He desperately needs a win, any win, and the fact that he probably didn't even know SpaceX existed a month or so ago (and definitely has nothing to do with agencies like NASA because they just represent funding to cut if they can't be co-opted directly to further the interests of his circle).
Most of us have just got to the point of "shrug" -- its less than 150 days to the election. Anon above has pointed out the dangers we face and they are real, Trump's not so politically savvy to understand he's acting like a Fascist dictator (in the Mussolini mold) but there are identifiable senior Republicans who openly espouse this political system (they just don't call it by name, using terms like 'common cause' that don't trigger a reaction). We're stress testing the Constitution (again), let's see if it holds up.
Make ? great again
This week, trademark infringement, among other things.