Trumps golden dome is a big useless pile of shit

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Is the "Golden Dome" just a 2.0 version of the Star Wars project I just read about with Reagan in the 80s?
The Military Industrial Complex really has a grip on taxpayer money. lol
 

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Is the "Golden Dome" just a 2.0 version of the Star Wars project I just read about with Reagan in the 80s?
The Military Industrial Complex really has a grip on taxpayer money. lol
Will SpaceX win a nomination contract for a couple trillion ?
 

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The Iron dome works pretty well, and it's all paid for by the US.
 
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I would bet that it will work and that it will be more expensive than predicted.
 
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The Iron dome works pretty well, and it's all paid for by the US.
I'm more than sure if China is against it then it's a good thing.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised by how many CCP supporters there are on here though.
 

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I'm more than sure if China is against it then it's a good thing.
That's not a bad rule of thumb.

However, the DoD and the USA research infrastructure is being so badly damaged by purity tests and blind cuts and intimidation that being able to do this to stop ICBM's will become much harder.

Look at how/why USA scientists shot past the Russians 60-70 years ago. Big funding, freedom of thought, peer review, independent inspector generals, etc. Once you put loyalty tests and nepotism and other forms of corruption etc - like how all totalitarian states roll - you kill your science and future.
Look at Putin's Russia or North Korea's military - defective products, armaments that don't work, etc.
 
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I guess I shouldn't be surprised by how many CCP supporters there are on here though.
So is Israel going to pay for the golden dome, to return the favor?

CCP supporters bad. Zionist supporters good.
 
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Well, if anyone is qualified to speak on a 'big useless pile of shit' it would be you. Seems like you're really in your element here.
 

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That's not a bad rule of thumb.

However, the DoD and the USA research infrastructure is being so badly damaged by purity tests and blind cuts and intimidation that being able to do this to stop ICBM's will become much harder.
Can you show a non partisan source that can back up your assertion here.
 

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Can you show a non partisan source that can back up your assertion here.
Its been fairly clear - just some news infrastructures refuse to tell their viewers/listeners/readers.
Harvard gets DoD money, and all their federal funds frozen...
 

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The Iron dome works pretty well, and it's all paid for by the US.
The Iron Dome is only good for shooting down bottle rockets fired from Gaza or Lebanon and even at that it's easily overwhelmed by volume of fire. It's been proven to be almost completely useless for shooting down ballistic missiles.

As I understand the "golden dome" is just using THAAD and Patriot batteries to start out. I have no doubt that anything new will be just as expensive and just as useless as the old. The entire idea of shooting down an ICBM is just plain silly, especially considering most contain multiple re-entry vehicles.

The only thing this is going to accomplish is enriching the shareholders of US military contractors. If Carney was smart he'd tell Trump to take his golden dome and blow it out of his ass
 

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Can you show a non partisan source that can back up your assertion here.
On top of this Kash Patel is going after those FBI agents who followed the law, as is Hegseth at DoD removing folks who are not white and male and keeping loyalists.
One of the reasons Arab armies suck is that promotion is based on tribe and loyalty. Then they rely on conspiracy theories when the Israelis kick their arses.
Until now, the USA and most of Europe and Canada worked hard to not have armies like that.
 
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