Musk-Trump dispute includes threats to SpaceX contracts

Post by jiggawatts » Sat, Jun 07, 2025, 9:06 PM UTC

bobsmooth wrote: post #121

candiddevmike wrote: post #114

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> Both Trump and Elon have generational talent in their respective domains That's an interesting way of saying they were born into a wealthy family

I was also born into a wealthy family but I haven't created multiple billion dollar companies.

Post by btilly » Sat, Jun 07, 2025, 9:08 PM UTC

martin-t wrote: post #133

blibble wrote: post #112

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> Hey, at least it looks more entertaining! :/ did people expect any different when they elected a reality TV star to be president? one that's such an incredible businessman he managed to bankrupt not one, but two casinos

He's first and foremost a narcissist (strongly grandiose subtype, and all over the place on the communal/malignant axis). That condition should make him ineligible for any position of power. This is what a society gets when it elects someone mentally ill (in the harmful-to-others rather than the typical harmful-to-ill-person sense). I am continually astounded by how many people, even if you explain the symptoms to th…

Post by michaelmrose » Sat, Jun 07, 2025, 9:08 PM UTC

jmyeet wrote: post #38

BirAdam wrote: post #24

So, the government would do what, lean on Russia with whom the USA is currently engaged in a proxy war? Also, for Boeing or Blue Origin, the cost would currently be higher per launch, and as far as I know, no one has the kind of satellite network that SpaceX does. Of course, those are sane considerations. I suppose I shouldn’t accuse the Donald of any kind of rational thinking.

SpaceX is critical infrastructure to the US at this point and its continued availability and operation is of national security interest. That may sound like it gives Elon power. It's the opposite, actually. No US administration will take lightly threats to national security infrastructure like this. The nuclear option for any administration is to nationalize SpaceX, which they absolutely could do. Less nuclear: the U…

Post by thinkindie » Sat, Jun 07, 2025, 9:12 PM UTC

Post by amiga386 » Sat, Jun 07, 2025, 9:15 PM UTC

aisenik wrote: post #78

the_af wrote: post #46

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Agreed. It's also wild that someone who was a major contributor to the election campaign and a major advisor to the president now declares "well, the president is a pedophile" and nobody bats an eye either. I mean, Musk supporters now have to believe Musk knowingly supported a pedophile but only turned against him after he had a falling out for unrelated reasons? In the eyes of his supporters, what does this say abou…

Musk is a known pedophile-accusation-maker and affiliated with the Epstein child rape organization through his Kung-Fu lessons with Ghislaine Maxwell. Prior supporters will be less reactive for the first reason and more likely to perceive the situations as unfounded petty accusations for the latter (the dissonance of both Trump and Musk being connected to child rape is resolved this way).