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Space Entrepreneur Opines Donald Trump Could Do an Inspirational Space Program (examiner.com)

MarkWhittington writes: Robert Bigelow of Bigelow Aerospace opened his new Twitter account with the suggestion that Donald Trump, the mercurial businessman who is running for president, might just give the United States an inspirational space program. Then, thinking better of the idea, Bigelow deleted the tweet and replaced it with an image of the Olympus inflatable space module, which his company envisions as being the basis of a commercial space station.

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  1. Endorsing Trump: The official 2016 play for attent by bigsexyjoe · · Score: 0, Troll

    Dennis Rodman and Hulk Hogan have endorsed Trump. And now this C list jag-off is too. It's pretty clear that endorsing Trump is the official way to draw undeserved attention to yourself in 2016.

  2. wow...just...wow. by nimbius · · Score: 0, Troll

    What this country needs is an inspirational space program. I'll bet @realDonaldTrump could do it.

    Rob --can I call you Rob?-- Rob, what youre proposing is that a 69 year old living anachronism of economic wrack and ruin that predicated everything from the death of the middle class to the torpedoing of the american dream through predatory lending and carte-blanc bailout...is going to somehow get it together in 10 months and become the next president of the United States. Granted, bush is an excellent example of how sometimes the electoral college conspires to pedal this nation into a gaping fiery hell-maw of endless war and poverty...however...at no point does a man whos alienated every known minority in the country stand a chance of doing anything more than passing by 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in a Rolls Royce, clenching his fists and swirling his caviar around his vacuous cocksucker of a mouth as he pines for the days of Reagan oncemore.

    now, laughably, should a republican actually secure the presidency in 2016, youre going to find out the hard way that never ever would he fund something his party has been diametrically and vehemently opposed to ever since the fall of the Soviet Union. That is, unless your space program involves ground troops in the middle east or a renewed commitment to the war on drugs. Does your space program install american backed dictators in key islamic states? does it destabilize threats to american capitalism in central and south america? is it somehow working to disenfranchise millions of voters across the country? then no, its not getting any cheddar from a man who once starred on a television show that made light of terminating employees.

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