Current Events > Remember when Newt Gingrich admitted that his strategy was feelings over facts?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnhJWusyj4I

He literally admits that "as a politician", he will go with what people feel over facts, which he'll "leave to the theoreticians".

"Facts don't care about your feelings" much? This is literally the playbook of politicians

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Remember when Newt Gingrich wanted to make the Moon the 51st state?
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DeadBankerDream posted...

Remember when Newt Gingrich wanted to make the Moon the 51st state?

No but I'd appreciate if you put a link about it in this topic

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/blog/2012/jan/25/newt-gingrich-moon-base

"By the end of my second term [being this year] we will have the first permanent base on the moon and it will be American," he said. According to Talking Points Memo Gingrich went on to say that the base would be used for "science, tourism, and manufacturing" and to create a "robust industry" modelled on the airline business in the 20th century.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/27/gingrich_moon_base/

However, his plans dont just stop at colonizing the Moon Gingrich wants to make it American. He has already proposed a "Northwest Ordinance for Space," which would allow the Moons residents to apply to become a US state once the population reaches 13,000. The UN would certainly have an issue with this, since the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, to which the US is a signatory, expressly forbids any government from claiming the Moon as its territory.

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Lmao, that's pretty funny

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Also from the second article:

Looking further ahead, Newt said that by the end of 2020 he wants to see mankind going to Mars using a continuous propulsion system that he said would drastically cut transit time to the Red Planet.

By the end of 2020, we will have the first continuous propulsion system in space capable of getting to Mars in a remarkably short time, because I am sick of being told we have to be timid and I am sick of being told we have to be limited in technologies that are 50 years old, Gingrich said.

Which as I'm reading it sounds like he wanted to usual actualy fuel to propel a space ship from earth orbit to Mars rather than using the vacuum of space and gravity slings, despite the fact that a spaceship needs massive fuel tanks just to escape Earth orbit. I highly doubt it would be feasible, nevermind logical and monetarily sound, to build a spaceship with a large enough fuel tank to actively propel itself towards Mars.
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sounds like a harry potter OC

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