NASA begins cutting staff and eliminating three offices, marking the start of a mandated reduction in force at the space agency under Elon Musk’s directive. Gotta keep SpaceX afloat, right? Conflict of interest!
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Sadly I had a maga (I refuse to capitalize this sorry if it’s confusing) member explain that NASA should be completely dismantled and SpaceX should be given total control because “he’s going to send one of his rockets to get the astronauts trapped on ISS”.
what i dont see is this. if nasa had this worthless level of "success" every single conservative would be screaming "that is why corporate is better" but since corporate is failing and the always do. crickets from conservatives
i would also point out that nasa rarely failed in decades of work
Then it was the post office. Now they are after the schools…and everything else. That is how we have now got unqualified corporate appointees at all levels of government, guaranteeing no oversight to protect consumers or the environment on any level.
The first big place I noticed was the military. Where it once was self-sufficient, it now makes profit for the corporations who provide the services once maintained by military personnel (that’s separate from the military-industrial complex…the weapons manufacturers, the materiel manufacturers).
You don’t understand the purpose of “Corporate”. It is very simple: make more money for rich people. Government is not supposed to be profitable; it is supposed to serve the people. I am 75 years old. During my lifetime, GOP have slowly, but steadily, been converting government to corporate.
Totally agree, been seeing the same thing. If only they would listen. I grew up in the north and watched how little Trump cared about hard working Americans. Time after time it was always about him.
i don't care if he blows up his own rockets; he doesn't care if he blows up his customers' rockets. we CAN'T allow him to waste the precious resources (time, brain power, and money) of Americans' NASA!!
If only we had something like, oh, a Congress of elected representatives from all 50 states who'd speak up for & fight for Americans and their rights.
If only.
It’s all a bid for Elon to take over. I’m having a hard time believing this shit is okay with republicans. They’re total asswipes but I’d think these hostile takeovers of our government would be a bridge too far.
Calling Musk out on his hypocrisy isn't enough. These people know their hypocrites and they've never cared. It's not just naive it's outright stupid to believe that democracy can survive so long as he draws breath.
Seems a stupid question right now, but since you're the expert I'm going to ask: Should we avoid the national parks until part of this mess gets cleaned up?
Is there a lawsuit yet? Executive branch has legal responsibility to distribute funds as Congress allocated. So if they cut staff and eliminate offices, that $ still has to stay within NASA. Where is so-called savings going? If it goes to SpaceX when it wasn't allocated to SpaceX, isn't that theft?
The amount of corruption during the Trump 2.0 administration, just starting, is unprecedented. Elon Musk conflict of interest is alarming. This is how democracy dies if this corruption is normalized.
Senator Chris Murphy hit the nail on the head: keep doing things over and over and keep it out in the open and eventually it just seems normal. https://youtu.be/hycoCYenXls?si=DsuegHWKuplrmOhF
I don’t understand how this is still happening. Has the US devolved into a country comprising so many imbeciles and assholes that we are going to collectively and consciously allow these harmful actions (and inactions) to destroy us? It appears so. Despicable.The passive resistance is not enough.
The U.S. elected a dictator. It’s happening because of misinformation, facts are mixed with alternate reality in social media. Checks and balances are collapsing (republicans doing nothing). The tech brothers (Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, et al) are only interested in power and money. Damn democracy.
I should have said that I can’t believe it is happening. I understand the mechanisms at play. I just can’t believe they are working in what used to be a pretty decent country with at least enough people in it who understand and respect the tenets of a modern society and science to uphold both.
The U.S. is a divided nation. Donald Trump should not have been allowed to run for re-election after the Jan6 insurrection. But yes, we will lose our democracy if we normalize what is happening. The DEMs, the biggest opposition party, are in disarray, no true leader, no communication strategies.
Everyone is hoping someone *else* will step up to fight back while they read about it in the news. Revolution will take everyone (everyone that cares), a lot of weapons, and a lot of sacrifice. Read: death and dismemberment, trauma, pain. Everyone who wanted that already enlisted in the military.
I just can’t get used to an unelected billionaire treating our government like one of his projects. Repubs have wanted to eliminate most of our govt, for a long time. Who knew, all they had to do was create an “agency,” and appoint whoever they wanted!
frankly it makes me angry that we waste as much money as we do on NASA (need another seven astronauts) I do not care about space and other planets and see it as a waste of time energy and money and pollution
Earth is a planet that exists in a busy solar system, and a lot that we know about its existence and cohabitation with other celestial bodies is due to the research and hard work of scientists in that field, including people at NASA.
I’m so sick of this guy treating our government as if it where merely a startup for another shitty app… Real people are losing their careers arbitrarily, families are losing their income and have to make emergency plans… And no consequences for him…
Of all the American institutions to close, this hits closest to the heart. America is entering a dark age where it is erasing its decades long global science lead. I fear how far this will regress before halting, and how long it will take to build it back up again.
Yes, Musk and DOGE destroy value and knowledge that the experts and scientists in our agencies have indeed gained over decades. It's some kind of macaber joke that they are concerned with efficiency.
It is all the more gratifying when this South African Boer's rockets fly around his ears. The next attempt should be manned. With Trump and his lollipops. They all need a new world view...at least a little
I couldn’t accept a cup of water at someone’s home when I worked at one department, but DOGE can reduce employment at NASA despite their leader owning a company that is regulated/competes with it? Astonishing corruption.
I don't think this is about generating more business as much as it is about getting rid of oversight so he can break things how he wants whenever he wants. Also a douchebag move because NASA helped get SpaceX off the ground with significant funding.
Totally agree, his goal for so many agencies from environmental regulations over road safety or the last bit of private data protection left in the U.S.
Why are we getting rid of NASA and replacing it with SpaceX?
NASA was always the gold standard for space exploration
Four out of eight Space X's rockets have exploded
Maybe NASA would be great again if we put the money into it
But with Musk as the boss, it is his choice 😱
NASA has landed men on the moon successfully and returned them safely to Earth. SpaceX has had 8 consecutive rocket explosions, resulting in thousands of flights needing to be redirected.
Moral: The government does better in-house than outsourcing.
And not just convenient for privatization, but it also jibes with general anti-science, anti-research, anti-expert tone of the populist anti-intellectualism, Crunchyism, Flat-Earthing, and theocracy for P225.
Staff at #NASA lock the doors. Stage a sit in. Don’t let #musk kick you out. #spacex go on strike before anymore people get hurt. #elon doesn’t care for your safety.
All contracts with SpaceX should be canceled immediately. That's not where I want my tax dollars to go. Let Elon go out and clean up all the debris from his failed launches.
Musk could be prosecuted for federal violations due to his conflicts of interest. Not that there's any chance of that with a criminal administration, corruption in the DOJ.
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I think SpaceX and Starlink have grown to be real national security interests. I would like to see the next Democrat king nationalize them.
New Space X motto?
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i would also point out that nasa rarely failed in decades of work
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I couldn’t accept a cup of water at someone’s home when I worked at one department, but DOGE can reduce employment at NASA despite their leader owning a company that is regulated/competes with it? Astonishing corruption.
NASA was always the gold standard for space exploration
Four out of eight Space X's rockets have exploded
Maybe NASA would be great again if we put the money into it
But with Musk as the boss, it is his choice 😱
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Moral: The government does better in-house than outsourcing.
Any Dem politicians want to raise awareness?