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On June 18th, the Cheeto-in-Chief™ opined on his desire to create an independent sixth branch of the armed forces known as Space Force, since:

“Space is a warfighting domain…”

Major Matt Mason, (sure, it’s an obscure reference, but you’ll figure it out), better go “…defend the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic…”, or, at least in this case, terrestrial and extra-terrestrial! Yup, it’s soldiers in space suits….

Political cartoonists around the nation savaged his harebrained idea, as well they should!

This morally bankrupt administration is so desperate to divert attention from Trump’s cynical, cowardly, callous policy to forcibly separate immigration children from their parents, why not trot out the threat of “…little green men…” and see if that works?