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SpaceX’s Starship explodes in second failure for Musk’s Mars program

Back-to-back mishaps indicate big setbacks for program to launch satellites and send humans to the moon and Mars

www.theguardian.com

The failure comes just more than a month after the company’s seventh Starship flight also ended in an explosive failure. The back-to-back mishaps occurred in early mission phases that SpaceX has easily surpassed previously, indicating serious setbacks for a program Musk has sought to speed up this year.

 

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Pretty sure it’s not the left playing the long game with judges

The irony, here, is that the exact opposite is true. The GOP would have a fraction of the power it has were it not for the courts being in their pockets. Thomas Hofeller was the architect years ago, in North Carolina, re-drawing lines in NC and changing rules to take the voting power away from the bloc of university students on Tobacco Row and other university towns and cities.

The result, in a single election, shifted the state representation from something like 8 Republican and 7 Democrat to 12-3 (not the exact numbers). It was a HUGE win for them and they began to gerrymander the hell out of the state.

Other states took notice and hired him for these "services." We didn't understand the depth of all that he'd done until after he'd died and his children were going through his home. They'd discovered all of these documents, IIRC, and were horrified and so publicized what they'd found.

It was a roadmap to where we are right now. The GOP felt their place in US politics were flagging, they were against the inevitability of their own demise and realized they couldn't win with the people and so needed to win by gaming the system.

Since then, it's been gerrymandering (down to levels that would shock some of you, block by block, street by street) and voter ID laws all designed to shift voting power.

It's sick and undemocratic.

Elon is an ignorant twit and only proves the depth of that ignorance each time he takes to Twitter.

 

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The Republicans tired old playbook of “there was no way we could have legit lost”…the nut brigade are now blaming ActBlue, the secure donation site for Democratic candidates and mail in voting of course. Anything they can dig into & make up to disenfranchise legitimate voters.

Now Elon Musk spreads a conspiracy theory over Wisconsin Supreme Court defeat

‘Election fraud is alive and well and it lives in Wisconsin’ according to Republican lobbyist Roger Stone

www.independent.co.uk

 

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FRAM2 mission splashdown



First mission to orbit North and South poles

 

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Cybertruck owners want to return their vehicles. Tesla says no

As Tesla faces headwinds in 2025, the company is reportedly refusing to accept its own product, the Cybertruck, as a trade-in for a new vehicle.

www.masslive.com

 

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Counting the days till the next election and every contract he has with our Government can be canceled:

Elon Musk inking multibillion-dollar Pentagon deal amid DOGE cuts—report

Musk's SpaceX will reportedly help the U.S. Space Force send sensitive satellites into space.

www.newsweek.com

 

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Elon Musk is claiming, without evidence, that Democrats have been using fraud in entitlements like social security and Medicare to attract immigrants and boost their voting ranks – language that also echoes racist rightwing conspiracy theories.

The billionaire owner of Tesla and SpaceX and Donald Trump’s “first buddy” has been trying to justify cuts to programs like social security, arguing that the fraud has cost the government up to $200bn.

“This is why the Democrats are so upset about the situation,” Musk said on a podcast with the Republican senator Ted Cruz and radio host Ben Ferguson.

“By using entitlements fraud, the Democrats have been able to attract and retain vast numbers of illegal immigrants and buy voters. Basically bring in 10, 20 million people who are beholden to the Democrats for government handouts and will vote overwhelmingly Democrat.”


Musk said that his so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) will “turn off fraudulent payments of entitlements” to “illegals”, as he listed off a long slate of government programs including social security, Medicare, unemployment, disability and small business loans.

He then voiced what sounded akin to the “great replacement theory”, which has been taken on by rightwing extremists and describes the theory that people in the US, specifically those who are white, are being “replaced” by immigrants.

“If the Dems can bring in 200,000 illegals and get them legalized … even without cheating, if you bring in illegals that are 10 [times] the voting differential in a swing state, it will no longer be a swing state,” Musk said. “And the Dems will win all the swing states in a matter of time.”

Musk then warned of the “deep socialist state” that Democrats will achieve if they take over the federal government.

“They will further cement that by bringing in more aliens, so you can’t vote your way out of it,” he said.……

Musk echoes rightwing conspiracy theories to defend social security cuts

Doge head makes unfounded claim that Democrats use fraud in programs such as Medicare to boost voting ranks

www.theguardian.com

 

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Musk, who recently broke WI law to buy votes, projecting his own deeds onto Democrats for all he is worth. He is just vile.

Does the article at least debunk this crap? No, it does not.

“illegal” migrants are unable to collect Social Security or Medicaid or Medicare. They are unable to vote in federal elections. The article never mentions this, all it does is call his allegations unfounded.