May they can fake this somewhat convincingly, since Trump and his cabinet are a bunch of fucking retards.

Need to reframe this:

"The satellites measure success of our roaring industry! The higher values, the better."

I would say that if presidents are allowed to be this corrupt, no long-term legislation or treaties can possibly be assumed to survive in between presidencies ... except that would imply that the US is still a representative democracy when the reality is otherwise.

Yeah, if the Democrats weren't a fucking joke of a controlled opposition, they'd be running on total rollback: declare a state of emergency and remove and detain every single Trump appointee, repeal every single executive order, reverse every single item of legislation, revoke every grant, cancel every contract signed during the Trump administration. Then ban any Trump appointee from ever holding office again, blacklist every recipient of a federal contract awarded for the first time under Trump, shut down any "nonproit" that served as a fascist front organization, and revoke the corporate charter of any corporation involved in corrupt lobbying.

measuring things is woke

I read this this is the voice of Butthead. To which Beavis would reply "Heh, heh, yes, we need more FIRE!"
yeah all that "quantitative objective science" liberal BS
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Oh god how do we share a planet with these troglodytes
Ban rulers, speedometers, fuel gauges and pressure sensors! Cook meat on a gut feeling! Destroy all cups! Long dresses for all so we can't see feet! YAAARGH!
- Cook meat on a gut feeling!
  Anyone who needs a thermometer to cook meat is either a minimum-wage flunky who can't find their ass with both hands and a map, or shouldn't be cooking meat at all.
That's why no more weather service. If you can't see the F5 Hurricane barrelling down on you it doesn't exist.

If we don't test for CO2, then no-one can complain that we have high levels of it taps forehead - that's big, beautiful brain thinking right there.

Just relabel the satellites as methanedione detector and good for the plants for big beautiful grasses and they are not going to check back

This is some "Don't Look Up" type shit. Can't happen if you don't acknowledge it.

I guess as an American I'm counting on the rest of the world to continue working on problems while we sit here and shit in our own mouths for the next 3.5 years(hopefully just 3.5)

Hopefully by a few different miracles, a much much shorter amount of time
- I don't trust Americans to fix their own problems.

I am just amaze at how Americans (and those residing in America) have truly been conditioned and pacified to accept such blatant act of self-harm being inflicted. Never mind the defunding of climate change research, but defunding welfare is really the red line most other governments will never cross. In France, they riot whenever welfare is touched. In Russia, of all places, the only time Putin was seriously challenged by the public was when he announced pension reforms. And then he backed down! A dictator!

Americans have been brainwashed to think free healthcare, unemployment benefits and childcare is bad for them! Not even conservatives in other countries will dare touch the welfare because it is a political suicide! What is happening in the US right now is the culmination of liberal values it was founded on; worshiping the altar of individualism at the expense of the common good.

It's somewhat that, but the key point is the manufactured consent that our biggest corporations prescribe via their media subsidiaries. I'd argue America has the best propaganda in the world. WE'RE #1!!! WOOOO
- That documentary about Edward Bernays. The Century of the Self. The episodes are appropriately named too! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self
  It explains how we are here. Basically after WW2 the leaders embarked on a psychology advertising campaign for Western civilization where it would be too uncomfortable to wage a war again like that without all the comforts of consumerism. America is at the peak of it.
  The only way the citizen of America will really push back is when the government collectively takes something from them that lies at or near the base of Maslow's Pyramid. When it gets too uncomfortable. Or else everything is actually fine.
I remember reading once that we (America) never had a true labor revolution because the labor movement was always divided by racism. It may not always be racism, but during reconstruction the powers that be definitely learned that keeping the lower classes fighting among each other will keep them rich.
We DO have labor history in this country. Unless you're from one of the union stronghold states like Pennsylvania, it isn't taught much.
Even in the founding of our country most of the founders were merchant class. France and Russia have a cultural history of killing monarchs. The US has a cultural history of the wealthy finding a way to keep making money. These two things happened in similar ways but the way that they're framed historically are completely different. Your revolutions are taught to be about bread and injustice. Ours are taught to be about taxes.
Poor Thomas Paine. He tried so hard to help put us on the right track.
Two factors, probably:
America has never had a war on our soil, a real bona-fide war anyway. Smaller town or city-sized disputes that got whitewashed and omitted from history, of course. I don't think we fully comprehend what is necessary to protect our freedom? Not apologist here either, just...that is partly why. Look at how much we constantly boast about WWII even though we just showed up late, well-rested with a bunch of guns, after almost turning Fascist ourselves.
In America: You protest, you riot, you lose your job because you don't have enough time off available to drive 2500 miles, or the reason isn't valid based on made up rules by your employer. Then you lose your health insurance because you have no job. Then you lose your home because you can't pay the mortgage (or more these days, rent), your car on a 5 year loan is repo'd. So now your family is homeless without transportation or medical care and you're basically dead at that point.
They set the US up to make failure->death the easy fast default option unless you're a proper peasant working the fiefdom.
Indeed, the French beat the Americans hands down.
i dont appreciate your sentiments

If I was in his position and absolutely had to part with the sats, I would SELL or RENT them out. Like how a genuine businessman would. This bull is stupid on all the levels.

I think the intention is to get rid of the data being provided to fix global warming. If the satellite is sold the data would turn up in some fashion eventually.

Yep

Watching every organization and person capitulate to this bullshit is exhausting. There’s a real cool word you can use when someone tells you to do something fucking stupid and authoritarian:

“NO.”

The same thing the Trump administration does every time a judge tells them to stop doing something
Do you think Trump respects when someone tells him no? The guy who's been accused dozens of times of rape? He (and any other fascist) speaks and understands only one language: violence.
- They could tell him to do it himself. Im pretty sure he won't actually have a clue how.
  I certainly don't know how. I couldn't even get up there.
- That's when you back it up with force

Have republicans actually ever done anything that hasn't been absolute dog shit decision?

Budd Dwyer blew his brains out on live TV. Granted it was on a snow day when all the kids were at home watching TV. Maybe not the best decision but it did lead to one less republican wasting oxygen.
Many of them have died
- Not enough :(
- yeah but it doesn't count when it takes that long.
  too little too late
Technically they made the EPA, which I guess they decided was a bad idea.
Yes, but not since the days of Goldwater
- The super racist guy who Hillary Clinton supported whom the Goldwater Rule was named after?
  That's who you think was the last good Republican?
Oppose slavery.
But its hard to believe they were the cool party until the 50s. Thank you Reagan.
- Slavery is still explicitly legal in the USA.
- They were Hoover's party. They stopped being cool long before the '50s.

Sounds like a diversion seeing that Trump is in the Epstein files.

Yeah, destroying the planet to exacerbate wealth inequality really is a distraction from the scapegoat figurehead that has survived a hundred scandals being a child rapist. Surely this time if we focus all of our attention on the scandalproof figurehead's scandals rather than any of the issues, we're going to win. I know it sank two elections, but this time it's different. Because that's what's really wrong with the current US administration: Not imprisoning people without trial or destroying libraries of scientific knowledge, but the figurehead having some something wrong personally.
I guess Trump was right - when you're a star, you can grab them by the pussy and you can do anything.
- The reason that people keep repeating it is because Epstein is the conspiracy theory that Trump's cult is founded upon. Him denying that the list exists has caused the biggest schism in his supporters that we've ever seen. People made this thing their entire belief system, and now their idol is saying that it never existed and that he won't release it. Even though his campaign was based on the promise of releasing it.

Just like every other dictatorships, the Trump regime wages war on knowledge and data.

And it's not new either: this started on day one of Trump's "presidency", and it should have been an ominous sign of things to come.

Americans voted for this. What a sad, sad country.

NASA, please say you destroyed it but instead turned it over to a country who gives a shit about the world. I know there are so few of them but this is such a waste.

I have come to the conclusion that Trump is actually an alien. He is helping to prepare our planet for the arrival of his species by ensuring CO2 levels quickly reach a more tolerable level. It's the only explanation that makes sense.

Honestly, I WOULD prefer him to be some kind of alien super agent. It is a lot less depressing than the alternative.
Sadly he's just the product of the american "culture" of selfishness and arrogance. They will destroy the world as we know it.
My conclusion is that he’s the culmination of the US losing the Cold War. Putin has been investing in kompromat on all the red politicians for a long time, and this is the era of profit taking.

Ah employing the same 500iq strategy as they did during Covid.. if no numbers are reported, then there must be no climate change!

Distraction.
He's on the Epstein list and wants it to be buried under all his other bullshit.

He does anything to make the Epsein circus go away

He was constantly doing horrible things before the Epstein circus started. This is just what Trump does.

The question is, will americans do something about there antichrist problem before he destroys the whole world, or will they just watch and complain only if they are personnally afected. The answer is within the question.

Don't look up, people.

Sell it to the ESA, if it isn't a cover-up.

Would require transferring the relevant ground infrastructure and the people involved or at least their knowledge. Not as simple as one might think. Also ESA would have to allocate funds to it first.

Chat, are we cooked?

literally trying to cook us now
We won't know. Neat, isn't it?

Who would've thought that the bourgeoisie will weaponize climate change and put it against us, the working class? 🤦‍♂️

What next? Trying to get rid of animated cartoons factually depicting Tumps penis?

Gonna have myself a time.

It's standard procedure to deliberately deorbit satellites that are no longer in use, since the whole program was defunded.

It's not like they are doing this out of spite, they are just doing what they said they would do, which people voted for.

Crazy, but true.

I don't think anyone voted for this, and certainly most people didn't vote for the administration in charge, so ...
- People keep saying that most people didn't vote for this, but it's just disingenuous
  2/3 of eligible americans did not vote against this. that's the stat that matters

Sorry Donnie, we're gonna need a really big missile in order to take that down, could you send us some cash to build it?

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2009-05-20

Someone should just offer to buy it. Pakistan has the means and motive. Should be the kind of thing that fat idiot would go for. Plus he's salty at India rn...

Is it massive enough to be deorbited on top of Mar-a-Lago?

I put my phone down, then picked it up a few moments later hoping I ate the onion.

I hate him.

"You will serve until such a time you are no longer needed".

if nasa really have those laser destroyer sats it's time to aim at the whitehouse

Can we accidentally leave the keys near ESA HQ?

.... ostrich ....

Looking forward the Mad Maxy future that's coming up. Where Gasoline and Drinking Water are the primary commodities and no one truly remembers how things were in "the before times" and the "long long ago" (aka a single generation ago).

Vandalism

That's not how the UN works. It's a diplomatic platform, not a world government.
- Plus the US is one of the least blockeable countries on earth. They have basically every natural resource and industry.

Trump Does Is Things The Way He Wants

Just deorbit it straight into cunt-a-lago

I love BBQing indoors. Babies taste best. CO and smoke detectors are just alarmist annoying hysteria that my family would use against me to value their lives over baby BBQs. BBQ hating commies in my household should not ruin my freedom with information based logic, and so tools of alarmism must be destroyed.