The U.S. Space Force Comes of Age as America Deploys Orbital Deterrence
Posted by Leslie Eastman
The U.S. military’s public acknowledgment that it has deployed “space control weapons” in orbit should surprise no one who has followed my reporting on the accelerating contest for the ultimate high ground.
The United States has stationed weapons in Earth’s orbit, Air Force Secretary Troy E. Meink said on Monday, the first such public acknowledgment by a Pentagon official after years of preparations to counter potential deployments by Russia and China.
“We are increasing readiness against existing threats, and the United States has on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the Joint Force against hostile adversary action,” he said at a convention in Maryland, according to a news release published on the Air Force’s website.
Mr. Meink did not provide details about the type of weapons or say when they had been deployed. He made his remarks in a keynote speech at the Air, Space and Cyber Conference in National Harbor, Md., an annual forum hosted by the Air and Space Forces Association, a nonprofit organization for members of both services.
The Space Force did not immediately respond to a request for comment late Monday.
In 2025, I covered a story about China’s satellite “dogfighting” maneuvers and stalking activities near U.S. assets. These tactics are exactly the kind of hostile in-orbit behavior that makes the passive American space policy perpetrated by the Biden administration a luxury the nation can no longer afford.
The Trump administration clearly takes these threats seriously.
Meink said that for more than a decade, the U.S. has been aware that adversaries such as China and Russia were developing their own capabilities to threaten U.S. systems.
“We need to maintain dominance in space as it becomes more and more important to how we function, how we operate militarily and economically, civilian-wise,” he told reporters.
The secretary called it necessary for deterrence, but he would not give more details about the weapons, saying that would negate its purpose.
“I’m not going to talk about the specifics of what we’re doing, whether we’ve tested or not tested or anything else,” he said.
President Donald Trump’s decision to create the Space Force in 2019 was dismissed by Democrats and late-night comedians, yet that force has matured into an essential instrument for missile warning, secure communications, positioning, navigation, and defending U.S. and allied forces. The new disclosure is therefore less a sudden militarization of space than confirmation that Trump’s foresight gave America an organization built to deal effectively with a strategic reality our rivals were already exploiting.
The announcement underscores how rapidly the new space race has evolved, both in speed and direction.
The secretary’s limited remarks are sure to raise eyebrows, as frank discussion of orbital weaponry generally was taboo for the US government for many years amid fears of sparking a global space arms race — even as the Pentagon loosened policies related to potentially offensive capabilities and began to speak openly about their necessity. The US has also spearheaded efforts to promote responsible behavior in orbit, including a ban on destructive anti-satellite testing advanced during the Biden administration.
“Space control” has been defined as defensive actions to protect US and friendly space forces and offensive actions to “negate” an adversary’s space capabilities. While Meink did not specify what types of weapons are on orbit, options in theory include both kinetic and non-kinetic systems. (Any weapons of mass destruction, however, would be expressly forbidden by the Outer Space Treaty.)
In a subsequent roundtable with reporters, Meink bristled at suggestions that publicly discussing space weapons could embolden America’s adversaries.
“Is there any question in the room by anybody about whether or not the Chinese and Russians have been developing these sorts of weapons?” Meink asked. Officials for over a decade have raised concerns that Moscow and Beijing are pursuing orbital weapons, the secretary said, emphasizing that “we are focused on making sure that we can protect ourselves and operate in that environment as we’ve done for decades.”
How good is this development for our country? We can gauge the benefits by reviewing the response of China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun, who urged Washington to stop expanding its military space capabilities and “preparing for war in outer space.”
The Foreign Ministry said it opposed the move, warning against the “weaponisation of outer space, turning it into a battlefield, as well as an arms race there”.
“We urge the US side to stop expanding its military capabilities and preparing for war in outer space,” ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said in a news briefing.
It must also be noted that U.S. authorities allege that Chinese satellite-imagery firms supported Iranian strikes on U.S. forces in the Middle East.
China’s predictable protest is perhaps the clearest evidence that our nation is finally addressing a vulnerability Beijing hoped to exploit without meaningful resistance.
Deterrence in orbit does not automatically equate to war in space. This move merely ensures that China, or any other adversary cannot blind, disrupt, stalk, or destroy the satellite systems on which America’s military, economy, and allies depend….at least without suffering meaningful consequences.
After years of treating space as a sanctuary while our rivals treated it as a battlefield in waiting, the U.S. is wisely preparing to defend the ultimate high ground.
Thank you, U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force.
And they have been there for how many decades ??
Since the late 50’s.
The Babylon Bee has the answer:
https://babylonbee.com/news/us-space-weapon-revealed-to-be-little-triangle-that-shoots-bullets-out-the-front?fbclid=IwY2xjawUaGB5wZG9mBWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAGJyaWQRMVE3MXBhdGV4aXhYbXZmVmVzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeDEkiUwAMoSKImpLggz1usSWUQ3ihw5rvX6-S3i4gAywCEZkVSx9xTngohD4_aem_yz0u0aXTjQ9F8xOLQhCBYQ
Nintendo Asteroids! LOL
Sorry, no social welfare, education or public infrastructure for you. Need to wage forever wars in the middle east and in spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace.
If I point a gun at you and you protest, does that mean you were trying to exploit me not pointing a gun at you?
Reasoning on this side reached a new level of low, I guess satan will soon complain about invasion of his privacy.
Which means he was going to exploid your not abysmal level of reasoning.
We already have government spending on Social Welfare (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid), Education (Public schools K-12), Public infrastructure (California alone has $1.60+ in Gas Taxes “For Public Infrastructure Projects”) which the Democrats demanded be “Paid into the General Fund” so it can be used anyplace they deem necessary and not just infrastructure projects. California Democrats even cut school funding once the Lottery was instituted and 34% of every dollar spent was to fund schools.
Speaking of forever wars, we declared a war on poverty over 60 years ago. So far, poverty is winning.
Please check the data.
News said lowest rate in history .
Lowest rate probably had more to do with an improved economy than to government action.
But what improved the economy that wasn’t either a direct or indirect result of a Government action or policy?
Given the 10’s of trillions of dollars that have been spent on eliminating poverty, poverty should be gone by now.
Whatever improvement has been seen has been caused by capitalism increasing the over all standard of living.
The only thing government programs have ever done is trap people in poverty.
As expected.
Huh? They’ve already been pointing guns at us. Satan? WTH are you on?
The party says that China and Russia are not potential adversaries, therefore they aren’t.
When you’re paranoid to the point of being scared of everything, then everyone is a potential adversary.
Times change. Germany and Japan were once adversaries of the US, now they’re allies.
China and Russia were allies of the US, now they’re adversaries. The US is still at war with North Korea, which was an adversary of Japan before Japan went from adversary of the US to being an ally.
Funny old world, isn’t it?
It’s not paranoia when they are out to get you.
Russia was only an ally because we had a common enemy. They were never a friendly nation. Communist China was never an ally of ours.
Germany and Japan only became allies because they were beaten thoroughly by the end of WWII. Both countries were occupied by US and other allied forces for years and their political structures completely rebuilt.
“exploid”… Spell much?
This is entirely a word salad with no meaning whatsoever.
If you point a gun at me, be forewarned that I will be pointing a gun at you. If you want to play Russian Roulette, let’s go. Or, you could turn and walk away. See the logic?
This announcement is kind of a formality. The concept of “weapons in space” sounds ominous, but we have been testing offensive capabilities in and around orbit for a while. Whether some of those weapons were entirely ground or space based or not is more of a technicality. Launch an ASAT? It’s a “weapon in space” regardless of where it came from.
Why is exactly no one surprised?
When you got your ass even kicked by goatherders in Sandals and one of your last ,of the few victories, was against a country with no real army(Grenada) and your enemies are getting the ability to fight back,
than you need to focus on your main strength of warfare, as Strativarious’ most favorite Rock Star Roger Water called it “The bravery of being out of Range” .
That way you can strike again with impunity and bring Blackrock,Halliburton and Lockh…Freedom,Democracy and Prosperty by killing a few dozen million more.
Because everyone else wants to be a culturless ignorant ghoul and have a daughter and wife with Only Fans accounts.
Or maybe its fatigue – after bombing everyone everywhere on the world you eventually ran out of targets and started to go after Aliens now( the martians have WMD’s and are 2 weeks away from having a nuclear bomb – and they hate our freedoms).
PS – why does no one actually know about CIA’s first regime change.
They always come up with Mossadeq ,
while it was 1949 in Syria,destroying the first Democracy in this region
by removing Al Quatli after he rejected the Aramco(=Texaco) Tapline .
This is of interest as it does not only show the traditional ” for Wall Street&Proxy government” strategies,
but also that the CIA was able to initiate regime changes right after its creation.
As it is impossible to have such an effective infrastructure 5000 miles away in such a short timeframe it is highly likely that the CiA and the Mi6 have been working together from the very beginning.
And it indicates that Oscar Wildes catamite Claude Dansey was involved in the CiA creation since the time he visited Carnegies Sleepy Hollow( East Coast Bohemian Grove posing as Country Club)
Too bad you cannot control yourself and so you present historical context with much negativity and disparaging commentary.
It would have been a good read otherwise.
Trump suggested Department of war instead of defense. Here’s why.
Department of war is the reality of it.
Indian wars 1620 to 1900
War of Independence April 19, 1775 to Sept 3, 1783
War with East coast tribes, French & Spanish
Barbary piracy wars
War of 1812 – 1815
War w Mexico – 4/1846 to 2/1848
Plains Indians 1800 to 1900
Civil war 4/12/1861 to 5/26/1865
Spanish American war 4/21/1898 to 8/13/1898
Banana wars 1898 to 1934
WW I 7/28/1914 to 11/11/1918
WW II 9/1/1939 to 9/2/1945
Korea 6/25/1950 to 7/27/1953
Iran, CIA coup 1953
Bay of Pigs April 1961
Grenada 11/25/1983
Vietnam 1950 to 1973
Noriega 1989
Somalia 1990s – TBD
Persian Gulf war 8/2/1990 to 1991
Afghanistan 9/11/2001 to 2021
The late Ward Churchill was right, we had it coming. 9/11 was payback for US Middle Eastern foreign policy from the shores of Tripoli to post WW II Middle East gerrymandering, creating Israel, CIA overthrowing Mossadegh for the Shah 1953, Ghadaffi, Somalia, Saddam, Iraqi regime change and meddling continuing through to today where the scales of US hegemony are still out of whack.
“9/11 was payback for US Middle Eastern foreign policy from the shores of Tripoli to post WW II Middle East gerrymandering, creating Israel,”
so you like mozzy pirates ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_corsairs
As a citizen of a country still pirating ships to this day – what’s exactly your point?
Let alone that your country got its slaves mainly from mozzy slave traders
while the owners of the slave ships were … now this may be too confusing for old Bobs.
The USA led the effort to end slavery.
But the mozzys still like it and practice it .
Get real .
Hmmm….
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_abolition_of_slavery_and_serfdom
You even fought a civil war about that. Afterwards you continued with enforced racial segregation.
“you continued with enforced racial segregation.”
which ended DECADES ago .
Get real.
And what is the EU doing NOW?
What is the EU doing now?
DECADES…such impressive, much wow.
Yes decades. Roughly 80% of US citizens alive today were born after segregation was ended. That means me, who is nearing 60, has never seen white only drinking fountains or blacks being required to sit in the back of the bus.
Does racism still exist? Sure it does and honestly I think it’s getting worse. Not more white racist but more racist from minority populations. I put a big part of the blame on social media spreading racism.
If you look at the comments I responded to:
And the timeline and dealing with the topic in the US is not impressive but american exceptionalism lets people think otherwise.
650,000 AMERICAN dead in that Civil War and I would think that things were getting better until Obama and the Dems-oh, what’s the point? Just remember, shitforbrains that the Dems were the original slaveholders, then became the Klan, then became the modern POS that they are…that’s our problem. But to the point, Americans ARE exceptional, nitwits like you notwithstanding.
And virtually no-one alive today in the USA or their parents, or their grandparents, or (most of) their great grandparents either Owned or Were Slaves themselves.
Yep. Thank a Dem or an up and coming socialist for that crap…oh, and Obama.
You forgot your bow before your wow .
😉
DECADES…such impressive, much wow.
Now there’s a Biden/Harris Statement if ever there was one.
The democrat party has been remarkably tenacious about keeping blacks subjugated since slavery was made illegal. They have utilized government edict and organized terrorism since the days of woodrow wilson up to today’s rap, drug, and violence “culture” instigated by government agencies, foreign interests, academia, and media acting in collusion.
Curious, eh?
He obviously, based on his posts, is not an American and has no clue what it is like in this country, aka no direct personal experiences to draw upon.
Historically, England (British Empire)ended their slavery a few years before the US (1933 to 1843).
Since is was not so woven into the fabric of society, no “Second Revolution” or “War of Secession” was involved. Not that it was problem free.
Really? Starting in 1772, and culminating in the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, you might give a bit of credit to the British.<g>
Nowadays, slavery is called human trafficking and much of that is perpetrated by illegal aliens selling them overseas (all countries). Other forms are pimps and prostitutes (all countries).
Under maritime law, piracy is strictly defined as illegal acts of violence or detention committed for private ends by non-state actors. Because the U.S. military operations are conducted by a sovereign nation under government orders, they do not meet the legal definition of piracy.
Instead, the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard have been carrying out highly aggressive maritime interdictions and blockades.
Since you are so big on history, how about going back and researching how the Pope granted Portugal the rights to establishing the African slave trade.
Who’s done better?
We don’t pirate ships…we blow them up. Mostly druggies, but hey-ya gotta have a hobby and keep your gunners sharp. The occassional Iranian tanker is just for shits and grins.
Ward Churchill was a 1st-rate nutter.
Like everyone who quotes him favorably.
Indeed.
Israel existed long before 1946. The Israelites have been around and in that area since the times of Pharaoic Egypt and before that.
Being around and Israel existing are 2 different pair of shoes.
You may be around the Empire State Building forever – but its not yours.
And those who were around had no interest in an Israeli state .
Yakov Rabkin states in his book “Zionism decoded in 101 quotes”, that the number of Palestinian Jews participating in those early zionist congresses was > 1 %.
Or as he quotes further “Zionism is an Ashkenazi thing”.
And those are so authentic that Israel is the state where It’s the hardest to get a DNA Test in Israel.
The best quote can be found on page 30 by Vladimir Jabotinsky – it explains a lot, but I can’t quote it here.
And it gets even more interesting with Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro “Zionism wants to destroy Judaism” – that’s what he said during his interview with Katie Halper(j).
Why you never heard anything about that ?
In dec. 23 Torah Judaism tweeted on their X – account who controls media in the US .
Israel was a country (Judea) conquered by the Romans.
Nope. And I don’t care for a whole lot of reasons, not the least of which is that apologists and dissemblers like you foster fascists (real ones) and genocide.
The existence of Israel as a country going back around 5000 years has been well documented by archeologists. There are frequent mentions of it in the archives of the surrounding countries.
And they have the title deed as proof, it is called “The Old Testament” .
Nice touch.
Either you are totally ignorant of the background of Ward Churchill and his ideas, or you are a disciple of his—carrying on his hate of the US—without admitting to such.
However, to throw some light under this rock for fellow WUWT readers:
— Ward Churchill was an American ethnic studies professor, author, and political activist who became the center of a major national debate over free speech, foreign policy, and academic integrity.
— His writing and activism centered on Native American history, government mistreatment of indigenous peoples, and political dissent.
— In 2001, he wrote an essay titled “Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens,” which compared financial workers killed at the World Trade Center to Nazi officials, claiming they were part of America’s global financial empire.
— Following the public outrage over this essay, his employer, the University of Colorado at Boulder, investigated his broader body of work and found multiple instances of plagiarism and research fabrication. The university’s Board of Regents voted to dismiss him from his tenured position in 2007.
Ward Churchill was not an authority on Middle East history/affairs/politics, knew essentially nothing about “America’s global financial empire”, lacked professional ethics, and was basically incompetent to comment about the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center.
That you support Ward Churchill’s comment that the United States deserved the WTC attacks speaks volumes about your own ethics, as well as your own ignorance of facts.
Well written.
Ditto
Here’s why?
I did not know you had mind reading abilities.
Wow.
The original Department of War was established in 1789 by Congress and under George Washington.
The Department of Defense was originally formed as the National Military Establishment under the National Security Act of 1947, combining the Department of War, Department of the Navy, and the newly created Department of the Air Force.
In 1949 it was reorganized as the Department of Defense, demoting the individual service secretaries so they were no longer cabinet-level positions, placing them under the single Secretary of Defense.
Any of those historical dates prior to 1947 were under the Department of War.
Some of those dates are not wars per the Constitution.
However, regardless of how they are classified, guns were fired, bombs were dropped, and people were wounded and killed, which fits the social definition of war.
You left out Iran, 1979 to present, including the 1980 military action to retrieve the hostages (Carter).
Man has waged war for as long as man has existed. From one caveman tribe warring with a neighboring tribe or Cro Magnon warring with Neanderthal. War is a perpetual state with Mankind. Get used to it!
It is likely to persist until some other spacefaring species is discovered and we finally unite against them. Even then a state of war will still exist.
And from far out in Left field comes a what? A non-sensical wild throw? Dunno. As for it all, go read some real history and study some maps and try to figure the why and the how of these actions. I know, shocking thought, but do try it.
You mean like why the US sent a fleet to deal with the Barbary Pirates?
Actually, yes. A 5th rate navy from an agricultural based country got tired of being fked with and her citizens being enslaved-and “somebody did something” to borrow a phrase. History, and trade mapping…lovely subjects to chew on.
I’m all for the USA improving our military and technological capabilities in every sphere. But can someone explain to me why this column is posted on a website which is focused on environmental policy, energy policy, and climate change?
Because over time, politics has polluted this blog.
The more our “esteemed” trolls divert topics to politics, the more political articles appear. [Ok. Correlations does not define causation.]
A lot of this, too, comes from UK policy concerning climate, Net Zero, etc.
The little Dutch boy has pulled his finger from the dike.
WUWT exhibits the admirable trait of occasionally posting articles that might be of general interest to many of its readers. Such range from announcements of reported science/technology “breakthroughs”, to current politics/legislation, to astronomical discoveries, and so forth.
As but one example, a search of prior WUWT articles on “black hole” reveals 20 relevant articles on just the first of 19 pages of hits. It is fair to say the black holes have nothing to do with “environmental policy, energy policy, and climate change”.
Of course, you would need to have followed WUWT for, oh, six months or more to realize this.
Also, I will offer that if a “shooting battle” breaks out in orbital space anywhere from LEO to GEO, there is a very good chance that some of the resulting debris will enter Earth’s atmosphere, with resulting probable impacts on Earth’s climate and the ability to monitor such (such as degrading/destroying orbiting weather satellites and/or environmental monitoring satellites, such as those used by UAH for monitoring “global warming” and the CERES and EarthCARE satellites for monitoring Earth’s “radiation balance”).
Very good point. Should Star Wars start in earnest and we lose the weather satellites, that will definitely impact the “anthropogenic climate change” debate.
I’ll take “global political theater” for $500 Alex.
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
We all know what happens, as in the movie!
Diamonds Are Forever – 007 And Counting – James Bond
Biden opened the southern border and made space defenseless —both indefensible.
Trump closed the southern border and defended space—both defensible.
Jimmy Carter is smiling down from above. He is no longer the worst President ever.
While Trump is one of the two best Presidents of my lifetime, the other being Reagan who ended the Cold War and broke the USSR.
Well, this update certainly kills the concept of AI Data Centers in space.
The idea of AI data centers orbiting Earth in space is a sophomoric concept of those, including Elon Musk, that have insufficient engineering background to understand:
1) that practical-scale nuclear reactors cannot be launched into or operated in space, and thus cannot power the data centers,
2) that solar photovoltaic panels of the necessary physical area cannot be launched into or operated in space, and thus cannot power the data centers,
3) that a solar thermal power system or any other presently known electrical power generation system is nowhere mature enough to supply power in space on the scale needed for a just single significant AI data center (said to be in the range of 0.1 to 1.0 GWe),
4) that radiator panels of the physical area needed to dissipate the waste heat from data centers and their yet-to-be-developed power supply systems cannot be launched into or operated in space,
5) that orbiting data centers hardware and semiconductor CPUs/memory banks face radiation and MMOD damage significantly higher than that of (shielded) ground-based centers; in addition it will simply will not be feasible for astronauts or robots to access orbiting data centers to perform any of the inevitable component repair/upgrade/replacement that will be needed.
Relaying communications via Earth-orbiting satellites is something altogether different than performing massive computing is space.
Yes, but he made his competitors spend time and money to do studies and find this out. Also, I think he is considering multitudes of small (large for space) interconnected data centers in LEO, which would be more plausible than semi-truck sized data centers in GEO. Why he thinks the small data centers in orbit is a better idea than small data centers on earth I have no idea. Has anyone yet thrown out the idea of a floating data center complete with all the cold water you could possibly need? Or, cover Canada with data centers, lots of cool air and water up there.
Well, if so, Musk himself didn’t “find out” the above facts, which are not at all hard for an engineer with a BS degree to figure out. Here, are his AI satellite constellation plans as of June 13, 2026:
put up to one million so-called AI satellites into space – beginning in as little as two years
(ref: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/06/12/elon-musk-spacex-orbital-data-center-ai-satellites/90520416007/ )
In doing so, as quoted in the linked article, Musk, “. . . believes orbital data centers to be the most efficient method to run artificial intelligence systems on Earth”. (Note the oxymoron in that statement, but I digress.) Now, one of the acknowledged limitations of modern supercomputers is the speed-of-light limit on the time it takes electronic signals to travel from one node in a computer to another node . . . this leads to the typical clustering of computers around a central nexus to minimize signal delays among cooperating computers. If one goes to distributed, orbiting AI satellites operating cooperatively to support one or more AI bots, then that approach will increase communication path lengths from tens-of-feet or less to tens-of-miles or more, thereby “building in” about a factor of 5000 or more REDUCTION in computational speed, all else considered equal.
As to other matters you surfaced (pardon the pun):
“a floating data center” . . . using what as its power supply?
“cover Canada with data centers” . . . sure, right . . . I cannot imagine why Canadians might object to that. /sarc
Why did they bother admitting they had weapons in orbit? The chinese satellite used to target U.S. troops in the middle east just disappeared, and no comment was necessary unless there was intent to confront the chinese about complicity with iran.
More importantly, why the US news media publish photographs that the Iranians can use to further their missile and drone strikes. Letting the enemy know their attacks were successful and especially which attacks hit gives them the military intelligence needed for the next strikes.
Almost seems like treason as in aiding and abetting the enemy.
Except this is not a declared war, so there is that.
Still, it creates risks for American Service personnel and that is an unhappy consequence.
Well, we need an “informed” citizenry. We get a propagandized Press instead. There’s a reason the MSM is polled at below Congress…below 20%. I personally think a few of those grinning entertainment fools posing as journalists should be shot, but as a firm believer in the Bill of Rights I recognize that chaff comes with wheat and it has to be winnowed out-in short keep educating myself and keep alot of grains of salt around. Sad, really, but the US press has always, historically been a mouthpiece for the powers that be.
WOW, that really is a sad statement.
I suggest you look into some things, like:
— how “the press” in the American colonies countered the British Empire that ruled over them,
— how the US press countered the Vietnam War reporting as fronted by the Pentagon and several US Presidents (ref: the “Pentagon Papers”),
— how key parts of the US press, in particular two diligent reporters, brought down a sitting President during the “Watergate scandal” of criminal conspiracy run out of the White House,
— the landmark Supreme Court case New York Times Co. v. United States, where the Court ruled 6–3 in favor of the newspapers, establishing that the government carries a heavy burden to justify censoring the press before publication.
Of particular relevance to news from just yesterday:
In his first Presidential term, in 2018, Donald Trump revoked the press credentials (the “Hard Pass”) of CNN’s Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta following a contentious press conference. Subsequently, in response to a lawsuit filed by members of the press, a federal judge sided with the press and ordered the White House to immediately restore Acosta’s credentials. This case set a powerful modern precedent that the Executive Branch cannot strip a journalist’s access simply because it dislikes their reporting or questioning. Yet, despite this precedent, the Orange Man just yesterday (Friday, September 18) banned CNN, MS NOW (formerly MSNBC), and Politico reporters from the White House, citing cumulative unfavorable coverage and “fiction and lies” (but offering no evidence of such). Access badges for reporters from those news organizations were deactivated this morning, Saturday, September 19, 2026. The Orange Man . . . what an ignorant poseur and loser!
TDS much? As well as some really crappy cherry picking for examples of how “wonderful” our Press is. Acosta-and his chickie sidekick-were and are uncouth bullies. The fact that a Fed judge sided with the so-called press (crybabies all) is further proof that the Judges themselves are out of control. Besides, MUR, if less than 20% of the AMERICAN people think our MSM is just ducky, maybe you should consider that. Oh, our Colonial press did not counter the Empire…you really know nothing about our Colonial culture, do you? So much you don’t know…about us or our culture.
Oh, BTW-MS and Politico are opinion mouthpieces-all hat, no cattle. And CNN? Surely you jest; that pitiful outfit is going broke as we speak…even the sheeple know that CNN freely invents news, flat out lies, and doesn’t report news…GIGO.
Speaking of TDS: MAGA = Making America Goofy Alright
“Oh, our Colonial press did not counter the Empire…you really know nothing about our Colonial culture, do you? So much you don’t know…about us or our culture.”
Actually, I do know more than you imagine, but I’m not so proud as to not use independent sources to rebut erroneous statements, such as yours.
From Google’s AI bot:
“The Revolutionary War: Open Antagonism (1775–1783)
— Role: Patriot printers functioned explicitly as morale boosters, framing King George III as a tyrant and urging total severance from Britain
— Survival: Loyalist presses were largely silenced, driven underground, or forced out by revolutionary enforcement.”
Missed again there, buckwheat. The press, both sides, were burned on a regular basis. In the South, the Loyalist presses were more numerous, and protected by the Redcoats. In New England, the Patriots were more numerous and more bloody-minded and therefore more active. Your AI needs a tune-up. Like I said, you really don’t know much about the Colonies; but it all came out in the wash and the Loyalists were shipped off-to our extreme joy.
Wheatchaff, please send your extensive knowledge about the British colonies in North America pre-1776 to Google (Alphabet Inc.), where I’m sure they will give it all the attention that it deserves.
Best you got, buckwheat? Usual run and hide? Biteme and just go away.
Still in high school, huh?
Nixon was running a criminal enterprise from the White House?
Compared to LBJ, Nixon was a choirboy.
The left never forgave Nixon for prosecuting the Rosenbergs and had been out to get him regardless of the excuse.
It sounds like you actually believe Nixon’s famous statement “I am not a crook.”
Carry on.
Subtle-or maybe not so subtle-politics for both domestic and foreign consumption.
As Sun Tzu so eloquently explained in The Art of War, the key to managing an opponent’s mind is to make your actions completely unreadable, forcing them to doubt their own strategy:
“The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy so that he cannot fathom our real intent.”
One good aspect of this is, more satellites, etc., means more solar energy diverted to powering satellites and especially more reflected prior to entering the biosphere.
Are we entering the era of Runaway Global Cooling. /s
Technically, good old standard intercontinental ballistic missiles, in silos and submarines for about 70 years now, are space weapons because their flight paths go way above the atmosphere.
Next thing you know, there will be a Pigs In Space Program.
Well, legendary test pilot Chuck Yeager called early Mercury astronauts “spam in a can” . . . so sure, why not?
This is a very desperate and foolish move. USA has many times more space assets than anyone else but both Russia and China are capable of picking off an individual satellite with a missile.
Instead of a collision, make that a small warhead. Create a bit of schnapnel in Musk’s LEO and you get a chain reaction of debris which end space surveillance and space travel for a thousand years.
US military goes deaf, dumb and blind in minutes.
Society goes full Mad Max in three days.
They may still manage to drive Trump to a hole in a mountain, if they find someone who still know how to read a map or can remember how to get there.
Trump finished off the last nuclear treaties. Now he’s ended non militarised space.
We are now just counting down to the end of civilisation.
“Create a bit of schnapnel in Musk’s LEO . . .”
I’ll drink to that!
And BTW, I did not know that Elon Musk had purchased and now owns LEO, but what the heck, why not?