Posted on 06/05/2025 3:56:56 PM PDT by ckilmer
In politics, they say you want your people all peeing out of the tent rather than into it.
In this context, there is a case to be made for assigning Elon Musk a new task to keep his mind off the budget and keep him focused and on point.
Here is the assignment. Give him a contract to develop the desalination technology that will increase the habitable size of the USA by one-third and double the habitable size of the Earth. This can be achieved by collapsing the cost of desalinating seawater to roughly $ 200 per acre-foot. (That would make it economic to farm any desert on earth and place data and server farms-- as well as mango and avocado orchards--in the US deserts.) And if Musk wants to, he can make the technology dual-use. That is, the technology will work on both Earth and Mars.
Do you think this project would achieve the political ends mentioned above while advancing Trump's policy aims?
-PJ
The “feud” is all stage managed.
Yep or musk/Trump are pissing on the media
The media are all running around
No.
Laugh away but consider the obvious: Musk has pi$$ed off a very large portion of the U.S. That includes powerful, capable forces and a lot of loose cannons no matter where he goes.
See, for instance, the assignation attempts on the man with the strongest security system in the world, one of which may have been no more than 1/2" from being successful.
(If Musk is one of the most intelligent among us, did he negotiate a federally provided enhanced security force once he discovered just how deep the fraud had gone?)
They could both grow up.
Bingo! As many here have suggested after your post.
Well put.
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