Posted on 06/06/2025 7:59:30 PM PDT by vespa300
In a stunning escalation of the war of words between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump on Thursday, the SpaceX tycoon announced that the company would begin “decommissioning” its Dragon spacecraft “immediately,” a threat to America’s space launch capabilities fueled by his personal animosity for the President. Musk later walked back the threat.
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He threatened that AFTER Trump said he was thinking about ending all US Government contracts with Space X, X, and Tesla, etc.
Stable genius...meet Elon.
If one man can cripple USA’s space capabilities, what does that say about NASA, Blue Origin, Boeing, ET AL?
Musk used his own $$$ to create SpaceX. Many, many moons ago, NASA rejected reusability. Use a rocket once, let it sink into the ocean. There is always more $$$$ from the taxpayers.
The Falcon 9 rocket appears more reliable than Boeing.
I continue to wonder if all of this Musk vs President Trump is not just some show.
Somehow here, a lot of Trump’s staff started resisting Elon’s efforts. They undermined everything he found in DOGE and he got no cover. Blondi never prosecuted anyone for the USAID theft scandal totaling billions. Same for the Agency for African Development, same for that Peace Organization that lavishly spent for their NGO HQ...
Then Bessent resisted the DOGE cuts and is pushing the Porky BBB and made a career of insulting Elon.
Elon was pushing a man for NASA, and the guy was a friend of his as would be expected if he is in the cutting edge of space and aviation... he was probably the most immiently qualified NASA director candidate ever nominated, including Von Braun. And some Trump aid campaigned hard against him just to spite Elon.
He wasn’t allowed on the Saudi trip and his AI was ignored and they took the leftist/globalist/CIA Palantir guy.
A lot of people made it personal with him. And he sunk a few hundred million into getting Trump elected, and his DOGE work cost him dearly in the public square.
He took a hell of a lot of arrows for Trump, and now the swamp rats are working hard to humiliate him. This has been going on for a month or two now, and has finally erupted.
Elon has his unconventional side and his issues, but this isn’t all his doing. A lot of lying scrotes have already surrounded Trump.
Agreed, and one more thing. Musk is acknowledged to have some instabilities. They're part of what makes him a maniacal innovator and workaholic, what gives him his visionary ideas, what makes him a "wild and crazy guy" in his personal life.
But it also means he has buttons that his enemies know about and are perfectly willing to push. Hard, and relentlessly.
They are trying to kill him. Literally and figuratively (his businesses and reputation). They may yet succeed. They are playing for keeps.
I hope he survives this onslaught. His recent actions are worrisome, as they indicate just how far his enemies have pushed him.
He’s unstable. We don’t need his kind. Ever know someone whose moods swung so drastically that you walked on eggshells trying not to rile them up? I did. I’m a divorced female with two sons in their 50’s. At the time, I was in my early 50’s. She was maybe 40. I met her in regards to historical research we were both doing on the same black Civil War Regiment. I live in NY State. She lived in Pa. We figured that two heads were better than one, and cheaper for traveling, so we periodically visited libraries and historical societies together, in order to dig through records. She seemed to drink an awful lot of wine, and would get very tipsy. She confided in me that she had done a lot of drugs previously, but had stopped. It was obvious to me that she had substituted the wine for the drugs. After experiencing a few of her bizarre tantrums, one being that I put dill relish in tuna salad and not sweet relish, which totally set her off, I decided her mood swings, and her drinking habit weren’t worth spending another day dealing with. I never contacted her again.
How about yanking Starlink from the Ukrainians and thus ending the war instead?
Musk already said he would not do this. Why do people keep trying to keep all this going? Nothing new since yesterday.
‘ Why do people keep trying to keep all this going? Nothing new since yesterday.’
Ancient history, or something.
I believe Trump fired the first shot in that war.
Doge found massive fraud in Medicaid and Medicare... and Blondi and Kash haven’t indicted a soul.
You make a very good point about them driving him crazy and pushing his buttons. He destroyed his business reputation and became hated for Trump and MAGA. He exposed the entire US FBI censorship operation.
They laughed and mocked his efforts, they went after the EV tax breaks but left them there for drilling oil. They mocked him personally. They pushed him to the side all they could when he rescued the astronauts and tried to make it a “nasa operation” all they could.
They flipped him the finger on AI and hired MAGA Hating Palantir.
They worked to kill a decent and wildly qualified professional man Musk supported for NASA.
They have pushed him hard and I think they would love to see him dead, or destroyed professionally.
Then Bessent resisted the DOGE cuts and is pushing the Porky BBB and made a career of insulting Elon.
Seems like we're better off killing the BBB bill. Then the Democrats will retake Congress in the Midterms. By 2028, Vance or Rubio can run for President. And we'll nominate MAGA candidates for Congress.
Elon did not self unalive.
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He needs a Rubber Room.
.....”But it also means he has buttons that his enemies know about and are perfectly willing to push. Hard, and relentlessly.
They are trying to kill him. Literally and figuratively “
Interesting. That explains a lot of things.
Trump should. Why are we giving a billionaire so much welfare?
This guy’s entire empire is based on ill-conceived .gov grants and subsidies and what-not.
Space-X, at least, should be eminent domain.
He can have his crappy EVs that no one wants.
Sweet or Dill Relish...
Yuppers
.
Lived with that Narcissistic
Behavior for years...
.
Silent Terrorists and
Sing song head cutter.
.
Ya can’t fix them
Only Way is DISTANCE.
The cheese has slid almost completely off his cracker.
Elon is Toast
But now PDJT needs to
Diffuse and Distance because
Elon is making Threats on
Our President and This Nation.
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