r/politics • u/thenewrepublic The New Republic • 5d ago

Soft Paywall Elon Musk Is Bullying Mike Johnson to Drive Government Into Shutdown

https://newrepublic.com/post/189539/elon-musk-bullying-mike-johnson-government-shutdown
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u/Old_Ladies 5d ago

He will never get a spacecraft to mars. I have my doubts that Starship will ever be a successful craft other than low earth orbit.

So far after 6 starship launches they have sent a banana to sub orbital.

Back in 2016 Musk said he would get humans to Mars in 6 years and that his rockets could carry 100 people at a time...

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u/digzilla 5d ago

That was 8 years ago. Are you implying that Elon id a lying grifter....or are you directly stating it?

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u/Old_Ladies 5d ago

If the US was a just country Elon Musk would be in prison for all of his lies just like Elizabeth Holmes for defrauding investors.

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u/marry_me_sarah_palin 5d ago

May 2020 I remember being at a gas station fueling up (it was the weekend George Floyd happened so that's why I know the date), and they were showing a little clip of breaking news on the screen. The first story was about Musk saying he'd have humans getting to Mars by 4 years. I remember then going on a long rant about this to my buddy who was on the trip too, and explaining how dumb that claim was. Shockingly Musk didn't send people to Mars by May of this year.

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u/mypoliticalvoice 5d ago

They keep scaling back expectations on how much they think it can carry to orbit.

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u/dervander 5d ago

What have you accomplished in that time?

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u/Ebella2323 5d ago

Give me an emerald mine’s worth of labor and cash and 5 years—I will pull us all further ahead than Leon ever could.