Im hoping US dems can get the population wrapped around the reality that money spent going to Mars is money that can be spent on the US peoples. This is how Repubs convince their voters to buy into anti-USAID for ex. The hypocrisy needs to be shouted from the rooftops.
Actually, the history of SpaceX is that it saved NASA billions, plus pushed the technology envelope. That is another thing that makes this situation so painful. And remember when Starlink was opened to UKR to fight the Evil Empire? Not that long ago.
I remember when he turned off Starlink during a Ukraine offensive so they couldn't attack Russian warships, if that's what you mean. This dude has no good intentions in anything he does and should not be anywhere near (anyone's) government.
And while I can't claim to be practicing religion, Luke 15:7, the more joy in heaven thing, makes a lot of sense. In fact, a dark version of that is a key to Trump's success: Come to the Dark Side, and I'll forget about all that other stuff.
No one knows how we saved money. It's just a claim. We can require fixed contracts instead of cost plus. Until we know that there is fair competition and a wall separating contractors from our national security, all we know is a large contractor is in our Treasury.
Actually, we do. I work in the trade, have been following SpaceX since inception, have several friends that have worked there. Awesome company that did not come from nowhere.
I am so sick of Paypal scammers that I tell everyone to not ever use it. I don't think money from one company should morph into another. I think Musk's entire wealth was built like a pyramid scheme on the backs of others and on cheap money. Once you are in bed with people like that you are trapped.
Musk’s companies got $28.43B+ in government aid: SpaceX $20B contracts, $900M FCC, $15M TX; Tesla $2B credits, $465M DOE (repaid), $1.3B NV, $4–7B EV tax breaks; SolarCity $750M NY. Without taxpayer support, his $436B net worth wouldn’t exist. Shouldn’t we claim our ROI through taxes or ownership?
Gotta love the fact after securing a near-total monopoly on U.S. low orbital access, he finally pulls off the rubber mask, and lifts his right arm in a stiff salute.
Defund Musk and his racist DOGE from corporate welfare and conflicts of interest NOW Restore #USAid, the constitution and rule of law. It’s not going to get easier. Stand up Speak up Fund Congressmen who #resist
We can save a lot of money by cutting corporate welfare, that is for sure. We are still giving lots of tax breaks and subsidies to big oil still, correct?
Not just him- the GOP end game is to privatize all government services which has always cost the taxpayer more not less.. Read to pay for weather or not have access? In Project 2025.. Happy about losing the 250k FDIC insurance on your bank account ? Also in Project 2025- saves bankers from paying it
Old Trump Donald had a Musk
EO EO Oh
And with this Musk he raided the Treasury
EO EO Oh
With an injunction here and a barment there
Here a crony. There a crony. Everywhere a phony crony
Ask Americans if they’re willing to pay for Mars. First google the year it will be when it’s achieved. MAGA aren’t really that much of a forward thinking kinda folk.
Musk & Theil are Accelerationists (Read up on it) who want to crash the entire world’s current order and rule in the aftermath as Techno-Feudal City-States. We are witnessing a Digital Blitzkrieg to usher in that collapse. Prepare yourselves accordingly
They are literally stealing sensitive data from government computers, copying it to privately owned servers, and doing whatever the hell they want with it. They are running roughshod over laws our government put in place to protect us. Very dangerous. This has to stop.
Or we find out they are mining our data for their own benefit just like they do on X. X makes about a billion a year selling our information...can't imagine this is a money grab too.
Every day his companies stock value drops; Canada cancelled a 100 million dollar contract with space x, Twitter/X profits are in the toilet too. I wish he would take that trip to Mars now. Earth surely wouldn’t miss him. 🚀
I’m not seeing this on reporters’ accounts. Everything else musk & kids are doing is infuriating, but this seems like THE story reporters must be telling right now.
It is your paying attention what's the first thing the new sovereign wealth fund is likely to invest in DOGE and Trump coin. They will make money off of the us government while sitting at home
Trump EOed DOGE Jan21, 2025.
Offices: anywhere they want to be.
Charter: universal, no limits whatsoever.
Officers: Lone Skum, minor affiliation of Rama-lama-ding-dong
Bylaws: see Charter
Authority: again, see Charter
Oversight: none as GOP has been casterated.
Questions: you will be deported.
Dear Sir, I know that EM’s assault on various gov’t departments is a threat to all—indeed, perhaps the most serious threat currently posed by the Administration. Still, I appreciate your ironic comment, and the chuckle that followed. My question: What can a Common Joe like I do to fight back?
I think that you should run for office as an Independent and try to help the American people . I think that we need people to think about America first by helping others because we need our allies
Sen. john kennedy, R-LA shared USAID details by Musk without showing proof and context. Perhaps there are programs needing overhaul but we elect congressional leaders to keep programs updated. Not unilateral sweep! He implies only Dems problem, but hey he didn't discuss Ivanka's hands in the pot🤬
I’m sure lots more contracts will come their way just as soon as the can rid of OSHA and and few other things that might protect silly things like rivers and air.
Affirmative, I would even question how many people actually voted for DJT since he openly admitted after he was sworn in that Musk and Putin bought this election for him.
And since no one will investigate at the local levels who CRIMINAL DJT sent in to disappear Harris ballots, we'll never know!
The power of democracy should not be handed over without a justified fight no matter the garb or faux title worn by the traitorous demagogue or the value and self-interest of their stolen wealth!
Representative Mark Pocan introduced the legislation which is titled "Eliminate Looting of Our Nation by Mitigating Unethical State Kleptocracy (ELON MUSK)."
So freaking CORRUPT!
If decent Americans ever regain power, funding for this crap must be cut on day one!
We need to heal the world, not pay for the fantasies of rich pricks like trusk!
If we survive this. Elon Musk and his companies should be kicked out of the US. No defense contracts and no Musk products are allowed on US soil. He should be tarred & feathered and sent packing. We don't need his crap cars, or his shitty social media, anyone can build a mesh -satellite Starlink.
It'll cost money, but when all this crap is past us and everything is being built back up to wipe whatever they've down out of our systems...they need to cancel SpaceX and bring development back to NASA under govt control
You know trump and musk are stepping on powerful toes right. By just going into that database. This should end most interestingly. Like how will they end. It's gonna be colorful for sure. What they see there could get a lot of people whacked.
Yes. They are so good at saving us $$.
A commercial plane taking undocumented to another country casts $80,000 a pop
A military plane (Trump loves a show!) costs $800,000!!
And that’s just one small example of the waste, incompetence and theft of taxpayer dollars taking place. Just beginning,too.
Sure. More likely Muskrat will grab my $200/month social security and add it to what he's getting for Space X. This is all a grift to steal from the poor and give to the rich.
Maybe he needs all of our names and data for his up-and-coming chip implant. He wants to steal all of our algorithm too and create another being. Elon Hitler is always full of laugh. Don't you think Adam. Bulldozing Gaza is right out of prophecy.
I always knew SpaceX would atrophy into a traditional, politically well-connected, inefficient government contractor I just thought it would take a few decades.
Pretty sure the sovereign wealth fund Trump is setting up will channel trillions to his oligarch buddies.
Then all government employees will be driving Teslas for a million car order.
Unfortunately this government doesn’t understand grid storage…
I don't see any safeguards with a police-like force that can stop him. Sadly, we have to wait two years for an election that can shift the tide. Two years may grant Elon enough time to crack and reprogram the voting system. Then we're really f**cked.
He's not gonna need two years to do that. It's done. The minute that douche nozzle and his merry band of children were allowed near American ss #. He now has all the info he needs to basically just run an election however he wants the end results to be
There are some independents out there claiming vote count manipulations. I'd like to see a reputable news organization either confirm or debunk a manipulated 2024 election.
Even Trump in a speech makes it sound like Elon had a hand in stealing the election.
Remember when the DOD sponsored mentor-protégé contracts with small and middle market businesses? Oh, those were the days … programs designed to support the middle class
Straight up. The flaunting of the crimes makes my head want to explode, probably more than the crimes themselves. There’s a criminal crises occurring that no one seems to be able to control. We are a country where everything is free-falling down to epic proportions
Me too. Elon’s bloated government contracts need to go. Let the riches man in the world subsidize his own shit. Bring the astronauts lost in space back home. Hurry up with those Tesla lawsuits against Musk for the lives he killed. Enforce those regulations he don’t want and make his ass responsible
Can we start with breaking up these large corporations that are controlling the masses. Hello?
Did we not do this to Microsoft.
Isn’t it time we take them all down a notch! Amazon, FB, Google, x and he is a small x
My point is that accidents can happen regardless of safeguards. More satellites in LEO increases the probability of that happening. And can we really trust that other countries with satellites will react appropriately?
Believe me the space industry is aware of these issues. Lots of PhDs are working on these types of problems so don’t despair, it is being looked into. But my main point is that satellites aren’t going away and rn SpaceX launch prices can’t be beat, although there are other companies working on it.
1) I suspect Elon doesn't care for that (how long until he sends the NORAD staff a "Fork in the Road" letter?). 2) the FAA keeps track of flights at Reagan National Airport, and still "mishaps" happen.
Dems need to in simple terms explain that Elon receives BILLIONS in taxpayer funded contracts. His boyhood dream of going to Mars should not be funded at the sacrifice of our healthcare or national security! DEFUND ELON AND ARREST HIM & HIS BABY PROTÉGÉS!
With as many of his rockets that are blowing up after take off and the promises that have been made to those poor people abandoned on the space station, I only expect let downs, lies and damage! God help them, Elon and Trump won’t!
I just cant understand why trumpers are incapable of simple math can you? They want to spend billions on their pet projects, like more military which is totally unnecessary, the border, etc. and cut from the working class for those funds. How is that actually saving money?!
They believe the lies the wealthy GOP donors tell them and then blame the Federal government when they get screwed…not knowing they voted to let them
do so…🤣
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Russian, Chinese, Korean or 1930 German?
No, the investor does not care because Elon and his socialist like companies will suck billions from the Trump government.
Now show Musk's data on government spending! Recent and in the past
He has been hoarding subsidiaries here in Europe as well for his startups and now he's funding Nazis here
https://bsky.app/profile/milemarker0.bsky.social/post/3lhjpxsyphc2s
EO EO Oh
And with this Musk he raided the Treasury
EO EO Oh
With an injunction here and a barment there
Here a crony. There a crony. Everywhere a phony crony
Old Trump Donald had a Musk
EO EO Oh
A Tesla was was your choice if you cared about the environment. If you were woke
Then BMW owners started to buy them and drive like idiots
And now, a democracy ending golf cart
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/investing/2025/02/05/tesla-sales-plunge-59-in-germany-its-worst-showing-in-years/
https://www.green.earth/news/teslas-carbon-credit-profits-hit-2.76-billion-as-ev-market-shifts
What’s a natural business opportunity for SpaceX and the FAA, you may ask?
How about a new air traffic control system—without telling anyone wtf is happening?!🫠
go out and fuck them.
where are its offices located?
what is its charter?
who are its officers?
where can i find its bylaws, policies, and procedures?
by what authority does it act?
to whom is it accountable?
to what oversight is it subject?
just asking questions"
Sam Brody
Offices: anywhere they want to be.
Charter: universal, no limits whatsoever.
Officers: Lone Skum, minor affiliation of Rama-lama-ding-dong
Bylaws: see Charter
Authority: again, see Charter
Oversight: none as GOP has been casterated.
Questions: you will be deported.
He's a government employee
Isn't that a conflict of interest
1. International Health
2. Feeding children
3. Developing nations
4. Free speech
5. Ending disinformation
6. Vaccine research
7. Justice
8. Education
9. Ending rightwing terrorism
#Democracy
#DenyDefendDepose
#Resist
And since no one will investigate at the local levels who CRIMINAL DJT sent in to disappear Harris ballots, we'll never know!
If decent Americans ever regain power, funding for this crap must be cut on day one!
We need to heal the world, not pay for the fantasies of rich pricks like trusk!
Recently , I had to pick out which one was the truck and I must say, it took me a while to figure it out...
A commercial plane taking undocumented to another country casts $80,000 a pop
A military plane (Trump loves a show!) costs $800,000!!
And that’s just one small example of the waste, incompetence and theft of taxpayer dollars taking place. Just beginning,too.
Then all government employees will be driving Teslas for a million car order.
Unfortunately this government doesn’t understand grid storage…
Wasn't the trump fired USAID IG investigating Elon for that very thing?
Coincidence???
Even Trump in a speech makes it sound like Elon had a hand in stealing the election.
My faith in "all created equal" is weak.
No?
Did we not do this to Microsoft.
Isn’t it time we take them all down a notch! Amazon, FB, Google, x and he is a small x
I would say that trump...elon and Shady Vance should take the first flight together under the new upgrade.
YOU FIRST.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-shadow-rule
It was nice having a Democracy while it lasted.
do so…🤣
a fancy resort! But cuts everywhere else… I can’t understand either!