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Space Force as the Next Great Grift
from The Middle Of The End · #109
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
5 minTim connects economic fragility (China/Russia dumping treasury bonds) to a prediction that Space Force will become the next massive defense-contractor fraud, joking about sleeper cells on the sun and QAnon's space colonization theories, then laments that conspiracy theorizing has become mainstream and boring.
- 1:02:03Tim predicts false flags are coming, claiming they'll be amateurish with green people in suits running around.
- 1:02:25Raytheon and similar companies got bored selling terrestrial missiles and wanted to pivot to space.
- 1:02:35Tim imagines a future Trump Jr. administration claiming sleeper cells exist in the sun to justify shooting missiles at it.
- 1:02:48The Space Force represents the next phase of total outright fraud because no one can effectively challenge its spending.
- 1:03:06When billions are wasted on Space Force, defense contractors just claim the work is classified and great.
- 1:03:22Defense contractors can show pictures of anything from movies and people wouldn't know if it's real or from the moon.
- 1:03:32QAnon probably advocates for Space Force because he's convinced pedophiles are running Jupiter under Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
- 1:03:52Tim used to enjoy discussing conspiracies but now finds it difficult because true believers won't engage with skepticism.
- 1:05:24The country works because most people don't have strong political opinions; forcing everyone into politics creates radical groups.
- 1:05:56People form opinions from Twitter posts and funny videos rather than reading books and doing actual research.
Space ForceQAnonSacha Baron CohenRaytheonBilly Wayne RuddickHillary ClintonBarack ObamaGrumman