The president is on the NASA livestream right now going on a long tangent about how great an ally he is and how supportive his administration is and how he will stop “mob violence” because “radical left criminals, thugs, and others” “won’t be allowed to set communities ablaze”
Now he’s on the NASA livestream using “America first” as a big applause line. 😑
President is now on the NASA livestream invoking colonialism as a way of praising American achievement. 😑
(That’s not exaggeration or extrapolation, he literally talked in glowing terms about venturing out across the sea and settling the frontier and how we’re going to do that in space too because it’s our “destiny”)

(This stuff is why some of us cringe at the term “colonize Mars”)
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