1moretimeagain
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Oh my.
Elon Musk Catch-All
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gtyellowjacket
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Out of curiosity, outside of Trumpworld, what does one call it when a person is hiding in the bushes with a rifle waiting for the president to come up the fairway?
Maybe a plot but not an attempt. You need to at least be in eye shot for it to be an attempt.
gtyellowjacket
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That seems like a very small difference to me. To me, it seems like that guy attempted to assassinate Trump. It also seems like he plotted to kill Trump.
Then would you consider it an assassination attempt when the gunman actually shot into the Obama White House even though, unknown to the gunman, they weren't home? I don't consider either of them to be since there was never a time when they were in danger.
gtyellowjacket
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Certainly. He attempted to assassinate Obama.
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MUSK BLOWS UP AT ASTRONAUT FOR CALLING OUT HIS SPACE STATION LIE
The billionaire lost it after Andreas Mogensen corrected his false claim about two fellow astronauts stuck at the International Space Station
Musk Blows Up at Astronaut for Calling Out His Space Station Lie
Elon Musk attacked astronaut Andreas Mogensen after the pilot called out his lies about two astronauts stuck at the International Space Station.
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Danish engineer and astronaut Andreas Mogensen sparred with Musk on Friday after the SpaceX founder claimed during an interview with Fox News that two astronauts who have been in low orbit at the International Space Station (ISS) for over six months had been abandoned in space for “political reasons.”
Mogensen, who in 2023 piloted SpaceX’s Crew-7 mission to the ISS, responded on social media to Musk’s claim that the astronauts were abandoned: “What a lie. And from someone who complains about lack of honesty from the mainstream media.”
Musk couldn’t cope, immediately resorting to slurs against a man who had piloted one of his spacecrafts to the ISS and back. “You are fully retarded,” he wrote to Mogensen. “SpaceX could have brought them back several months ago. I OFFERED THIS DIRECTLY to the Biden administration and they refused. Return WAS pushed back for political reasons. Idiot.” …”
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MUSK BLOWS UP AT ASTRONAUT FOR CALLING OUT HIS SPACE STATION LIE
The billionaire lost it after Andreas Mogensen corrected his false claim about two fellow astronauts stuck at the International Space Station
Musk Blows Up at Astronaut for Calling Out His Space Station Lie
Elon Musk attacked astronaut Andreas Mogensen after the pilot called out his lies about two astronauts stuck at the International Space Station.
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Danish engineer and astronaut Andreas Mogensen sparred with Musk on Friday after the SpaceX founder claimed during an interview with Fox News that two astronauts who have been in low orbit at the International Space Station (ISS) for over six months had been abandoned in space for “political reasons.”
Mogensen, who in 2023 piloted SpaceX’s Crew-7 mission to the ISS, responded on social media to Musk’s claim that the astronauts were abandoned: “What a lie. And from someone who complains about lack of honesty from the mainstream media.”
Musk couldn’t cope, immediately resorting to slurs against a man who had piloted one of his spacecrafts to the ISS and back. “You are fully retarded,” he wrote to Mogensen. “SpaceX could have brought them back several months ago. I OFFERED THIS DIRECTLY to the Biden administration and they refused. Return WAS pushed back for political reasons. Idiot.” …”
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NASA’s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are scheduled to return to Earth with astronauts leaving the ISS as part of the SpaceX Crew-9 in March. Crew-9 launched in September for a planned six-month stay at the ISS, departing from Cape Canaveral with two fewer crew members than originally planned in order to accommodate for Williams and Wilmore’s return.
Williams and Wilmore arrived at the ISS over six months ago as part of a two-man test mission for Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft. Technical issues with Starliner rendered their planned 10-day return unsafe, leaving Williams and Wilmore as residents of the space station until they could be safely returned to Earth on an alternate mission. Extended stays at the ISS are not unheard of. Astronaut Frank Rubio spent over a year at the station between 2022 and 2023 after damage to the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft delayed his return from orbit by over six months.
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In an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper earlier this month, Williams and Wilmore pushed back on the notion that they were stranded, stuck, or abandoned by the American government.
“We don’t feel abandoned, we don’t feel stuck, we don’t feel stranded,” Wilmore said.
“We knew that we would probably find some things (wrong with Starliner) and we found some stuff, and so that was not a surprise,” Williams added.
Nevertheless, their stint on the ISS has become a political flashpoint for the Trump administration.
Last month, Musk wrote on X: “The @POTUS has asked @SpaceX to bring home the 2 astronauts stranded on the @Space_Station as soon as possible. We will do so. Terrible that the Biden administration left them there so long.”
… NASA has pushed back on the accusation that the Biden administration abandoned two astronauts in space. Former NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said in August that “unequivocally,” politics “has not played any part in [the] decision” to delay Williams and Wilmore’s departure from the ISS.
In a report released in February, NASA wrote that had the agency attempted to return the astronauts on Starliner, the risks to their safety would have been exponentially higher. The delay “ensured that the crew would return safely while minimizing the risk associated with the Starliner’s technical issues,” NASA wrote. …”
Duke Mu
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The image with the chain saw *should* win a lot of elections for Dems. Musk looks dorky Euro - very unappealing to the working and middle class in America.
Dems need to be fighting harder and taking out TV ads, rather than continuing their hand-wringing, pearl clutching, milquetoast Schumer ways. It should be political poison as working class and middle class Americans in red states are seeing jobs and services cut.
Dems need to be fighting harder and taking out TV ads, rather than continuing their hand-wringing, pearl clutching, milquetoast Schumer ways. It should be political poison as working class and middle class Americans in red states are seeing jobs and services cut.
EyeballKid
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Of course it is. Elon and his merry band of incels and neonazis are “reclaiming” it, because D.E.I./PC culture.
Duke Mu
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Musk needs to be deporting is illegal @$$ back to South Africa.
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MUSK BLOWS UP AT ASTRONAUT FOR CALLING OUT HIS SPACE STATION LIE
The billionaire lost it after Andreas Mogensen corrected his false claim about two fellow astronauts stuck at the International Space Station
Musk Blows Up at Astronaut for Calling Out His Space Station Lie
Elon Musk attacked astronaut Andreas Mogensen after the pilot called out his lies about two astronauts stuck at the International Space Station.
“…
Danish engineer and astronaut Andreas Mogensen sparred with Musk on Friday after the SpaceX founder claimed during an interview with Fox News that two astronauts who have been in low orbit at the International Space Station (ISS) for over six months had been abandoned in space for “political reasons.”
Mogensen, who in 2023 piloted SpaceX’s Crew-7 mission to the ISS, responded on social media to Musk’s claim that the astronauts were abandoned: “What a lie. And from someone who complains about lack of honesty from the mainstream media.”
Musk couldn’t cope, immediately resorting to slurs against a man who had piloted one of his spacecrafts to the ISS and back. “You are fully retarded,” he wrote to Mogensen. “SpaceX could have brought them back several months ago. I OFFERED THIS DIRECTLY to the Biden administration and they refused. Return WAS pushed back for political reasons. Idiot.” …”
Reminds me of a few years ago when Musk volunteered to help rescue the kids trapped in the cave in Thailand. Officials said they had it under control and declined Musk's assistance. Then Elon had a meltdown on Twitter and called one of the guys a pedo. That was the first time I started to question Musk's character and motivations.
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It has been something Elon is proud of reviving in the name of free speech and masculinity(?), apparently…
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Democracy and the rule of law are the inventions humans created to resolve disputes without violence.
When a person tries to end democracy and the rule of law -- or at least put himself above them -- then he cannot complain if someone acts violently. He is literally asking for it. This is the way it has been throughout human history. Tyrants get killed. And it's the threat of being killed that holds them in line; when they feel unthreatened, they trammel on everyone else.
This is why people (not me, btw) were celebrating Luigi as a hero. The response to unbridled tyranny always has been to kill the tyrants. It's as old as civilization. It gives me no pleasure to type this, as I have long admired non-violent resistance and consider that to be the optimal approach to tyranny. But it takes a long time, and we don't have the luxury of time.
I fear the end game is Trump = Romanovs. Elon being Rasputin, of course.