I know why I dislike Elon Muskrat even more now

[kimbutgar]

All these government programs like Space Ex he is getting paid for is being recycled back into the convicted felons campaign as donors.

Theoretically, US Taxpayers are funding the convicted felons re election campaign via Elon Muskrat.

[JohnSJ]

1. Exactly, which I will never buy or utilize any product he is associated with.

[NEOBuckeye]

2. Harris needs to revoke all of his govt. contracts when she wins

Musk can go back to S. Africa and fuck himself. He’s the exact kind of immigrant we don’t need here in our country.

[Clouds Passing]

4. Rec x10000

[dchill]

6. I'll bet he can feel that one coming.

[ancianita]

10. Who would replace Space X in sending supplies to the International Space Station?

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Who would run Starlink, the planetary constellation of communications satellites?

SpaceX raised $1 billion funding from Google and Fidelity Investments in Jan 2015, in exchange for 8.33% of the company, which made the company valued at $12 billion.
That same month SpaceX announced the development of a new satellite constellation, called Starlink, to provide global broadband internet service with 4,000 satellites.

Are all the engineers that Musk hired -- his contracted employees -- supposed to go with him back to South Africa?

This relationship between Space X and the U.S. govt has been going on since 2008.

We have to get used to the fact that our tax money is awarded to some folks we don't like, for projects we don't like, because the reality is that America's NASA can't just run every planetary project. It's like when ARPA and DARPA just couldn't run the entire planet's Internet, and had to turn it over to university labs and orgs like ICANN that set up digital protocols, and then private engineering companies that built the Internet's oceanic backbone.

We can definitely go too far, though -- e.g., when the Heritage Foundation wants a piece of NOAA, the National Weather Service and/or The National Hurricane Center (Project 2025).
Knowledge about weather that affects billions of humans daily should just not be privatized.

[MadameButterfly]

12. I can't conceive of why the govenrment is funding

a private entity they need to wage the war in Ukraine when the owner is loyal to Putin (and Trump).

What will it take with all the money we spend on miliitary to have our own version of space-X and not to job this out to a private firm that doesn't have an allegiance to our government or our foreign policy? At any moment he can block access and get our allies killed. What kind of foreign policy/defense is this?

[Blue Owl]

3. Funny how nobody talks about Dump's glorious Space Force anymore

It was just a big scam all along, like his many other failures

[cutroot]

5. He is also destroying the beautiful beach at Boca Chica

It was a national treasure

[BattleRow]

8. Cue the "Muskrat Shamble".

[oldmanlynn]

7. Elon is not happy with $260 billion.

Elon is not happy with $260 billion. He wants to take over United States and then maybe even the larger world but make no doubt about it Elon will run for president in 2028 or 2032. He is already carving out his media space and making sure to capitalize on the 1st amendment by legally spreading disinformation like Russian TV

[LittleGirl]

9. His satellites out roaming

in our skies is a national security risk. We must end his monopoly in space. Or we’re doomed.

[kimbutgar]

11. He can't run because he was not born in the US

he was born in South Africa which makes him an immigrant

[standingtall]

13. Maybe so but do you remember when republicans liked Arnold Schwarzenegger?

and some of them wanted to amend the constitution so he could run for President? I do and you can bet if Elon wants to run for President your going to see a whole lot of republicans who engaged over a decade of birtherism flip flop.