Trump unveils the American Golden Dome
Forty-two years ago, the great Conservative President Ronald Reagan initiated the idea of insulating the United States from a nuclear attack. His idea was based on a satellite defense then known as SDI ( the Strategic Defense Initiative.) Unfortunately, the program didn’t move beyond research and development and was closed down in 1993. Four decades later and the great Nationalist Republican President Donald Trump has taken the final step in fulfilling Reagan's vision.
Yesterday President Trump announced the beginning of a Golden Dome missile defense system, which he estimated would cost some $175 billion and be finished within three years. There is $25 billion included in Trump's big, beautiful bill to help jumpstart the project. The allotted funds would cover $7.2 billion to develop and buy space-based sensors; $5.6 billion to develop space-based missile interceptors; $2.4 billion for nonkinetic missile defense capabilities, such as electronic warfare tools; and $2 billion for military satellites with air moving target indicators. Coverage also includes ground defenses such as $2.2 billion to speed up the development of hypersonic defense systems, $1.9 billion to improve ground-based missile defense radars and $800 million for accelerated development and deployment of next-generation intercontinental ballistic missile defense systems.
Trump told the nation yesterday that Reagan “wanted to do it long ago, but the technology just wasn’t there, not even close. But now we have the technology. “It’s very important. This is a very dangerous world. We should have it. We want to be protected. ”
Meanwhile the Secretary of State was being grilled by congressional democrats, and he gave as good as he got:
‘We deported gang members … including the one you had a margarita with.’
Marco Rubio has come a long way from 2016 when he famously chocked on stage. He has become knowledgeable, witty and always able to hold his own during a debate. Thus far he has been an excellent Secretary of State. He is a rising star not only in the GOP but also for MAGA supporters. He is a potential Presidential candidate after Trump's final term.
In other news:
The Justice Department has opened three noteworthy investigations. One is a Civil Rights investigation into the mayor of Chicago who is involved in race-based hiring. Another is a possible perjury case against former New York Governor Cuomo. Another is the state of Washington's transgender policies.
In a rare public rebuke, Britain, France and Canada condemned Israel’s expansion of the war in Gaza as "wholly disproportionate."
Louisiana authorities charged a maintenance worker at a New Orleans jail with helping 10 inmate's escape. Five have since been captured. Six extremely dangerous inmates are still on the loose. Four of them have been convicted of murder.
Trump appears to be walking away from negotiations on the war in Ukraine, which appears to be destined to continue. The Europeans still haven't been able to give Ukraine the necessary security that Zelensky wants. The battle cry in Ukraine is now: “We have to rely on ourselves”
An Air Force veteran who was being held in Venezuela has now been released. Special Envoy Richard Grenell successfully negotiated the release of decorated Air Force veteran Joe St. Clair from a Venezuelan jail.
A former NFL linebacker was one of more than 250 people arrested in a massive human-trafficking sting in Florida, with three dozen illegal immigrants also busted, according to officials.
Elon Musk, who has been attacked on all fronts by the radical left, has apparently been intimidated enough to step back from politics, saying he has “ done enough.”
Tags
Who is online
157 visitors
Good morning and welcome to the news.
"A key committee meeting on the GOP’s “big, beautiful bill” is dragging into the daylight on Wednesday, as Democrats needle Republicans on the contents of the sprawling package and GOP lawmakers wait to review leadership’s changes to the measure.
The House Rules Committee’s hearing — which began at 1 a.m. on Wednesday — was still running as of 8 a.m., with committee chairs and ranking members taking turns testifying about the 1,000-plus page bill . The legislation includes an extension of the tax cuts President Trump enacted in 2017, energy policy, changes to Medicaid and a debt limit increase, among other provisions."
GOP Holds Key Rules Committee Meeting Amid Trump Bill Debate
It's bad enough that I'm living in a country where the government and media are biased in favour of the Arabs (could it be because of the oil?) but now I'm sick about the fact that Canada has stabbed Israel in the back AGAIN, along with Britain and France. I'm not at all surprised about Britain since it's historical that Britain sold Israel down the river back at Partition (oil again) and well, I'm also not surprised about a nation that went Vichy during WW2.
You can also add to the news that the claim that 14,000 Gazan children will die of malnutrician in the next two days, as it has been retracted as false. No surprise to me, however, how it got the bleeding hearts bleeding again.
Really? That seems ironic.
Even Trump seems to be cooling on Israel, snubbing Israel on his Middle East visit. So tell me where I can go in the world where Israel is supported unconditionally?
No where that I am aware of..
When all this started in October I said then Israel will push into Gaza/Hamas and create a no man's land which they appear to have achieved..never again will Israel be attacked like that again...
They have established that and consolidated it..but now when Netanyahu said they want to go further and take over Gaza even I thought that is really pushing it..and what is the point?
If they take over Gaza then what? Israel is extending itself to far and leaving it vulnerable in many areas and will be spread to thin on the ground..
Establish the no man's land and leave it at that, which most countries supported..to go further into Gaza to me is pointless and it will just bog down to a slow grind for both sides..
Oh I assume you do realise thousands of Jews support Hamas?? Go into old Jerusalem and there are Palestinian flags everywhere and why?
They are the ultra Orthodox Jews and they support Hamas because they don't want to be be conscripted into the army.. thousands of them support Hamas so Israel needs to be careful as it has enemies within and outside its borders..
It's my understanding that Netanyahu's most recent intention is for Israel to police Gaza, and I suppose that would be a necessity for at least a while because I'm sure there is bound to be a lot of deep anti-Israel sentiment there.
I have absolutely NO love for the Ultra-Orthodox, and I condone NOTHING about them, and that is not just ideological, but for personal reasons as well.
I am not particularly fond on them either but when there is 1.3 million of them in Israel they are going to be a problem..
They openly support Hamas and the main concern is eventually they will gain control in the parliament and who knows what will happen after that..
Doubt it will be in our life time but there will be trouble looming on the horizon....
I agree on that. I don't mind the food for Palestinians, but how did Trump get it into his head that Iran would ever honor a deal on nuclear enrichment?
Breaking : Rep. Gerry Connolly dies at 75
Before I forget, congrats to the connections of G1 Preakness winner JOURNALISM.
That was an impressive win.
We heed missile defense now more than ever
Some say we should have enhanced the system we already have.
How are we going to pay for it? Trump has already blown 3.8 trillion dollars...
cheaper than threat of a missile strike
From who? Has anyone even made a threat?
I haven't watched the whole thing yet but from what I have seen, Secretary Rubio had the Democrats scrambling. I had seen where Van Hollen had to be admonished by the Chair because of his childish outbursts.
Van Hollen made the mistake of saying that he regretted his nomination vote for Rubio. Rubio shot right back with "that proves I'm doing the right thing." From then on Van Hollen couldn't contain himself.
From that point, his inner Democrat Child presented itself.
He made a fool of himself.
I remember Reagans SDI , the "Star Wars initiative "... still makes me grin .
It probably had a profound influence on Mikhail Gorbachev.
reason it makes me grin , was the supposed "space lasers" , reminds me of austin powers and dr evil with sharks with freakin laser beams on their heads ....
i start my 64th trip around the sun today and im still waiting to find out who owns the "Black knight satellite " and what its true purpose is . nobody has claimed it or knows , or if they do they aint telling .
I never thought of that.
i start my 64th trip around the sun today
The next ten years are the toughest.
Happy Birthday Mark
TY , got asked what type of cake , i simply said "cheesecake".
lets see what that gets me .......in any case , its a win.
Happy Birthday
Thinking back to those days as I read this morning's news about China condemning Trump's Golden Dome system stating that this could start a new arms race. My first thought was this is a page right out of Reagan's initiative. Could this cause China to spend themselves into the poor house and cause a new government just like SDI was the nail in the coffin of the Soviet Union?
I was stationed on White Sands Missile Range in '87 to '88. Fun times!
TY
I'm sure they didn't want him back in the White House.
Morning... happy birthday..hope you had a great day..🦘🐨
Happy birthday Mark..
Nice to see the government acting proactively for once with the golden dome
To be filed under: the meaning of treason:
Can we have healthcare instead? I mean if we’re going to spend a kachillion dollars on something, let’s make it that.
Shooting down an ICBM - a thing no one has ever fired at us, even once - is pretty hard. The “Iron Dome” that protects Israel is defending against an entirely different kind of attack.
Meanwhile, 300 million plus Americans need healthcare continually. The idea that the richest nation on Earth can’t pay for something so basic is absurd and embarrassing.
Additionally, Trump has been promising the American people an amazing health care plan for a decade now. It’s always going to be announced in a few days or a couple of weeks, but no one in his administration is even working on it. They never have been.
You can't have any more entitlement money. It is the killer in all of this.
As Tacos asks, what is Trumps health care plan? Does he still have a concept? Maybe if he wasnt thinking about Taylor Swift and Bruce Springsteen all the time he could give more thought to it.
And what makes you think that the Golden Dome is anything more than an entitlement program for defense contractors ?
Right? It's already earmarked to the richest 10%.
People think the President just waves a wand and trillion dollar entitlements fall out of the magic money tree. Or he could if he just "taxed the rich."
We have a trillion dollar deficit and its nothing but "gimme gimme gimme" and how dare you propose cutting handouts to foreigners or able bodied people with no dependents who don't work.
The understanding the average voter has of the budget and taxation is enough to make one fear for democracy.
It probably wouldn’t take more money. We spend more on services, treatments, drugs, and administration than anyone else, but not because we use more of those things. We have a system that is ripping us off.
The need for healthcare is real, immediate, and solvable right now with existing technology and resources. It is also desired by most Americans and has been promised for a long time, including by Trump. The Golden Dome is none of those things.
We don’t need more money to fix healthcare. But you will need a magic money tree to buy this Golden Dome. Why don’t you care about money for that?
It's also not the topic of this thread. [Deleted.][✘]
Sure. In reality that means you want way less of it, make providers take pay cuts and to put a stop to innovation.
Or you can repeal Obamacare and all other federal regulation. That would make things cheaper, but given the hysterics over simply cutting aid to healthy adults with no adults I'm going to assume progressives won't vote for that. They just want more of the system that is "ripping us off"
. Why don’t you care about money for that?
Because national defense is the priority of having a federal government and protecting citizens from attack is a good thing.
No, it doesn’t. We are paying more than we need to for what we get. Even Trump knows that.
We already have more protection from attack than all the other nations on Earth, and it’s not really close. I’m not suggesting anti-ICBM technology isn’t a thing worth pursuing. It obviously is. But in terms of immediate need, the urgency cannot compare to healthcare.
Healthcare reform is also within our immediate means. The Golden Dome is not.
I don’t think people realize how hard it is to intercept even one ICBM, much less a full salvo of them in a real life attack. They are equipped with countermeasures and jamming technology. They also travel at absurd hypersonic speeds. These are not the dumb, slow missiles that Iran or Hamas lob at Israel - which is clearly where Trump is getting the idea.
Right. It's no different than claiming "if we just cut waste, we'll have a balanced budget." It's very easy and popular to make simplistic claims like that but it's been impossible for the government to accomplish. How's Obamacare working out?
The idea that the government can just solve this problem added more market distorting regulations verges on the pop definition of insanity. This time a problem caused by market distorting regulations will surely be solved by piling more regulations into it.
But in terms of immediate need, the urgency cannot compare to healthcare.
If we don't work on it now, it won't be there when it is an urgent need. Golden Dome is exactly the type of proactive action the defense department should be investing in.
"Fixing healthcare" will result in exacbetertaing the very problems its supposed to solve.
Good. Then I'm all for it.
We have a system that is ripping us off.
Trump pushed for price controls on drugs.
Unfortunately, this bill may be the only train to leave the station. It requires Republican unity.
It comes out in two weeks.
You seem to be misinformed about the state of the market. Your statement implies you think the healthcare market is somehow fair, balanced, and healthy. It is not. It is already distorted. It is well known that Americans pay far more for healthcare than other countries and it’s not because we get different care. This actually is a thing government can fix.
Why do you think there will be an urgent need? If there is some kind of nuclear war, what makes you think there will be value in a missile defense system of this type covering the United States?
Why would it? Why are you so willing to reject out of hand any attempt to reform the healthcare system, where we have a verifiable need right now? You got yours and that’s enough? Screw everybody else?
It actually states the exact opposite. The whole point is that adding more distortions will make it worse.
Why do you think there will be an urgent need?
Because that's how the world works. Change happens.
what makes you think there will be value in a missile defense system of this type covering the United States?
Why would you think there wouldn't?
Who said we would be adding distortions? My whole point is that the market is distorted now. Reform is about fixing that. Why are you against even trying?
Pablum.
Because we have had the weapons for decades without launching any of them. None. Zero. We have had several military conflicts involving the nuclear powers and we still aren’t using them. And there is no sign that we are anywhere close to using them.
Do you have any idea how hard it is to shoot down even one ICBM, much less a full attack?
We could fix healthcare this year. Right now. It will take many years and trillions of dollars to put together Trump’s Golden Dome.
Is it not enough that the MiC has trashed the 'People's House' with gaudy trappings of Palmes D'or, now a 'Golden Dome'? ... And all the sycophants bleat wowee, wowee ... encore, encore!
Meh, by all means build it but do so with the knowledge that world class squirrels will have found all the holes by the time the last wrinkle has been botoxed out.
He will do his best.
.........to waste as much money as possible.
How much did DOGE save?