Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, on Thursday said his company SpaceX would begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft after he engaged in an extraordinary public fallout with Donald Trump who had threatened to cancel government contracts with Musk’s businesses.
“In light of the President’s statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately,” Musk posted on the social media platform X, which he owns.
A few minutes earlier Trump had posted on Truth Social – the media platform that he owns – that he might cancel huge lucrative contracts with Musk’s businesses, which include the SpaceX company that is building a fleet of rockets.
The SCOTUS is useless as it’s in the back pocket of the Donvict, and it’s America we are talking about, you know they like to replace entire governments, if they don’t want the tech leaving it just will not be allowed.
All the Cheeto in charge has to do is say national security risk or Elons now a terrorist blah blah blah, the most powerful nation on earth will do whatever it feels like to protect itself.
Except that it is still America, and the government seizing private property…especially from a billionaire…is straight up “socialism” as far as most Americans are concerned. I have a feeling that might not go over as easily as people think.
The right wing has no actual ideology except power. They will happily nationalize anything that is mildly convenient, moans of “socialism” vanishing like the morning mist once Fox hands out talking points for a few days.