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I have to salute our righteous Vice President who solemnly, nay, gravely announced. declared that the United States needed and was committing to a 6th Defense Force - The Space Force! Thank you, Thank You, Mr. Vice President! I have spent the last few months being assaulted in every corner of my life. Death and horror abound! Sickness and racism! Attorneys and blood! Everywhere I look is literally burning. Then I heard something so ridiculous, so dim-witted, I couldn't stop laughing! What gave it the added gravitas, that OMG feel, was Mr. Pence's deadpan (dead eyed? Something was dead) delivery. Like, "This is truly serious, hear me!"
Oh my Lord, that's funny! Still. Space Force? I chortled, I guffawed, I howled! I laughed my butt off! When I stopped choking and crying I went to my trusty laptop and put in those two words and let it rip ! I was taken to several yuk-fests. Many Internet sites are blow-liquid-out-your-nose, you laugh so hard funny. For me, the classics are the best. Bill Murray doing the sleazy lounge singer in '78, belting out his slimy "Star Wars" song (Did that Vader guy scare you as much as he scared me?) (U-Tube) is my favorite
The Space Force may be a passing notion for the White House, but I'm keeping it! Get me all their merchandise: I want a coffee mug from Nasa, put Yoda on a Space Force shirt (have VP Pence call George Lucas), I killed brain cancer maybe I could be a force! Just when I thought humor was gone (like civility, humanity, good manners, reading, etc.) Mike Pence made me do a spit-take! "We need a Space Force!"
We need a lot of things; a wall on the border is stupid, but I can get behind a Space Force. The world seems particularly cold and dangerous right now. Anything that guarantees helpless laughter is very valuable, priceless, even. Cracking up makes me feel less overwhelmed, more energized.
I never thought I'd say this but, "Thank you, Mike Pence!"
Maybe Pence read a lot of Robert Heinlein as a kid, Heinlein was the dominant early sci fi novelist in the 60s, he was a former US Air Force pilot and his protagonists much of the time were Space Soldiers battling it out there on Mars or something...but sorry, Charlie, we never will place astronauts on Mars, and astronaut moon exploration is finished as well...dream on...
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