Negative mojo from the current administration.
Might as well paint a big bullseye on San Fransisco.
Imagine today’s press following Edison’s search for a suitable filament material as they try to make every failure in a Star Wars test look like it spells doom for Ronald Reagan’s vision for a safe America!
Edison went through hundreds and hundreds of materials, always with the same result, failure. Until he got around to tungsten.
At his summer home in Ft. Myers, FL, they tell the story of a reporter asking him if it wasn’t very depressing to keep coming up short over and over. His classic reply was that he considered every test not a failure, but rather a success in that each time it didn’t work he knew he was one step closer to what WOULD work.
Sir Winston Churchill said it well, “Success, the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” Might not be correct word for word, but you get the idea!