# Insurrection Act on April 20?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insurrection-act-on-april-20/1016453>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Tags:** trump\
**Created:** [April 1, 2025, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insurrection-act-on-april-20/1016453 "2025-04-01T15:09:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 3

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2025, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insurrection-act-on-april-20/1016453/41 "2025-04-20T18:40:15Z")

</div>

> [@ThelmaLou](#):
>
> This is from google search.

By “from Google search” you mean the AI? Because that quote reads like an AI.

> [@Sage\_Rat](#):
>
> Spend money on impractical things, rather than on people

Like an impractical and excessively expensive anti-missile satellite network that won’t work and nobody wants?

[https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/musks-spacex-is-frontrunner-build-trumps-golden-dome-missile-shield-2025-04-17/](https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/musks-spacex-is-frontrunner-build-trumps-golden-dome-missile-shield-2025-04-17/)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2025, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insurrection-act-on-april-20/1016453/42 "2025-04-20T18:45:02Z")

</div>

> [@Smapti](#):
>
> Like an impractical and excessively expensive anti-missile satellite network that won’t work and nobody wants?

> **[Why a space-based missile interceptor system is not viable](https://thebulletin.org/2018/06/why-a-space-based-missile-interceptor-system-is-not-viable/#post-heading)**
>
> The United States has plans to develop two new missile defense programs in the space domain: a space-based sensor architecture and a space-based missile

Stranger

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insurrection-act-on-april-20/1016453.md?page=2)