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Trump / Musk (other than DOGE)

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nycfan said:
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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. …”
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Musk needs to be deporting is illegal @$$ back to South Africa.
 
nycfan said:

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

www.rollingstone.com

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 www.rollingstone.com

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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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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.
 
I work for the CIA
If I told you I would have to kill you
Whatcha do with that Big Balls?
 
gtyellowjacket said:
Frankly, spending some tiny fraction of 1% of his wealth on security seems like one of the saner things he's been doing lately. We've heard multiple people on here call for his assassination. We've seen Trump have two assassination attempts including one that missed killing him by about 2 in. I definitely think Musk has a reason to be concerned that some mentally unbalanced jackhole might want to end him.
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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.
 
nycfan said:


“A Northern Virginia couple is hashing out their next steps after the husband, a 13-year, disabled military veteran and nearly two-year information technology technician with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, was fired Monday, as part of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency’s efforts to shrink the federal workforce.

… Because they are concerned about possible retaliation and a likely appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board, the couple asked WTOP not to use their names for this story.

The man pointed to the fact that his performance at FEMA was upgraded to “career conditional,” a step between one year and three years, and he was not a “probationary” employee. At three years he would have qualified for “career” status. He also cited his military service, disability status and exceptional performance reviews.

“I was all in the range of fours, which means exceeding expectations,” he said.

… The termination is complicated by the fact that last November they supported Donald Trump when he sought the White House for a second term.

“I voted for Donald Trump. But this is not what I was expecting,” he said. “We didn’t think they were going to take a chainsaw to a silk rug.”

… The man’s wife said they also believed his 13 years of military service in the Navy and Air Force Reserves, with an honorable discharge as an E-4, would have offered him more protection against DOGE cuts.

“I recognize there are a lot of cuts that need to be made, but this is not the one that you think will happen to your family,” she said.

“I encouraged him to take the job there, because he loved working for the agency, and I think it has a good mission.” …”
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I'm trying to find my sympathy. I am genuinely trying.
 
nycfan said:

Trump ends deportation protection for 500,000 Haitians​


www.bbc.com

Trump ends deportation protection for 500,000 Haitians - BBC News

The move comes amid deteriorating conditions in the Caribbean country.
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“The US government will end the temporary protected status (TPS) for 500,000 Haitians living in the country in August, the Department of Homeland Security said on Thursday.

This comes despite deteriorating conditions in the Caribbean country, with gangs controlling about 85% of the capital and sexual violence against children increasing by 1,000% last year, according to the United Nations.

TPS is granted to nationals of designated countries facing unsafe conditions, such as armed conflict or environmental disasters. …”



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