Trump / Musk (other than DOGE)

[lawtig02]

I don't see how we ever come back from this idiotic bullying policy against everyone of our allies? America is now the narcissistic personality of the President and like Trump we'll soon have no friends.

I don’t think the Pubs will ever realize the people in the world they most resemble are the impotent stooges of authoritarian dictators like Putin, Orban and Erdogan. In other words, the pathetic enablers of freedom-haters they claim to detest.

 

[nycfan]

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/22/politics/video/us-veteran-arrested-by-ice-wife-speaks-digvid

‘ICE is about to detain me’: Wife of US veteran details moment husband was arrested

Listened to this story on the radio in car earlier today … immensely frustrating and not clear why this particular military veteran living in the U.S. legally was obviously targeted (his prior drug offense maybe?).

 

[DougDaBroadcasta]

Legalizing hard drugs is up there with abolishing the police as far as stupid ideas the far left comes up with. Get real, people who advocate this have no idea how unserious of a proposal this is, its so unrealistic and will be far more harmful than you realize. You know nothing about human psychology or why people do drugs in the first place if this is your idea of a solution.

It actually sickens me that people think its okay for the government to offer people ways to destroy their own lives (and anyone who loves them).

Fast food is more of an overall danger to our society than narcotics. Alcohol being everywhere now (dog parks, movie theaters, etc) is more of a danger than narcotics.


I thought you people were for freedom. You want a nanny state under your own rules. You don't want personal liberty.

 

[nycfan]

It is going to be a real easy one in court, but not the way he thinks. It would take about 10 minutes to enter the injunction.

 

[nycfan]

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.

www.rollingstone.com

“…
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.” …”

 

[nycfan]

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.

www.rollingstone.com

“…
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.” …”

Continued

“…
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.

…
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. …”

 

[nycfan]

“… Musk’s posturing has also raised concerns about his own conflicts of interest, especially considering his apparent control over government spending.

In July, NASA awarded SpaceX a nearly $1 billion contract to manage the decommissioning and return to earth of the ISS in 2030. Musk, who is currently wreaking havoc on the federal budget — including reviews of NASA’s spending — despite actively managing corporations benefiting from federal contracts, wrote Thursday amid his spat with Morgensen that the ISS’s decommissioning should be pushed forward to 2027.

“It is time to begin preparations for deorbiting the @Space_Station,” he wrote on X. It has served its purpose. There is very little incremental utility. Let’s go to Mars.”

Musk added that the decision would be “up to the President, but my recommendation is as soon as possible.”

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.

www.rollingstone.com

——
So much of Musk’s obsession with shutting down as much of the government as possible is to redirect as many resources as possible to his personal obsession with going to Mars — so long as his taxes don’t go up to pay for it.

 

[nycfan]

“Less than three years before Elon Musk tapped him to take part in a sweeping overhaul of the US government, Edward Coristine, then 17, was the subject of a heated dispute between two executives at the Arizona-based cybersecurity firm where he was an intern.

At issue was whether to allow Coristine to keep his job even though he was suspected of leaking proprietary information to a competitor.

“You’re willing to risk our entire network to a 17-year-old?” one frustrated executive asked the company’s CEO in 2022. “Are you for real right now?”


In a recording of the call, reviewed by CNN, Marshal Webb, the CEO of Path Network, a company that offers services to protect businesses from cyberattacks, defended his decision.

He said he wanted to allow Coristine to continue with his internship, in part, because he didn’t want to make him “an enemy” or have him “running amok” with information he was suspected of taking. Webb allowed him to stay with the proviso that the young employee “not be exposed to anything that’s really sensitive.”

That was then.

Today, the 19-year-old, once known by the online moniker “Big Balls,” is part of Musk’s controversial effort to remake the federal government. He is a “senior advisor” with access to various departments, including Homeland Security, FEMA and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

The details of Coristine’s role with the government are not clear. But his young age and relative lack of experience have raised concerns about his overall suitability for such potentially sensitive work.

Some government experts have questioned whether Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency – under which Coristine works – has appropriately followed all rules meant to protect US government data. …”

 

[nycfan]

 

[aGDevil2k]

Is that not an offensive phrase these days

 

[Duke Mu]

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.

 

[EyeballKid]

Is that not an offensive phrase these days

Of course it is. Elon and his merry band of incels and neonazis are “reclaiming” it, because D.E.I./PC culture.

 

[Duke Mu]

Continued

“…
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.

…
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. …”

Musk needs to be deporting is illegal @$$ back to South Africa.

 

[JCTarheel82]

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.

www.rollingstone.com

“…
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.

 

[nycfan]

Is that not an offensive phrase these days

It has been something Elon is proud of reviving in the name of free speech and masculinity(?), apparently…

 

[nycfan]

 

[superrific]

It's obvious you don't read anything, nor do you know anything, about how the world actually works.

The funniest and most hilariously pathetic thing written on this board in a long time.

 

[nycfan]

 

[mpaer]

I work for the CIA
If I told you I would have to kill you
Whatcha do with that Big Balls?

 

[nycfan]