https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1940257955682951664
Elon's making fun of Trump on X again...How do we cope?

>>509280619 (OP)
What good is saving money on building the rocket if they always explode? This focus on cutting costs above quality is exactly why the last few launches have all been failures.

>>509280619 (OP)
>now leftoids care about going to space

>>509280619 (OP)
Elon is terrified kek. Hope trump cancels all his contracts and deports him

If you come for the king you best not miss

>>509280619 (OP)
I thought Orange McCain was deporting the white nigger?

>>509280619 (OP)
20 billion isn't shit. the goverment hand out billions like mints.

DOGE was worthless, change like that takes years unless you’re willing to start cutting heads off. He sent two “what did you do this week” emails and called it quits.

>>509280619 (OP)
>SpaceX and Boeing
Should've said "Spacex and nobody else". Boeing has been a massive failure at space, and I say that as a former Boeing worker.

Remember that Boeing's "man-rated" capsule almost couldn't dock with the ISS last year -- I'm not even talking about the thrusters themselves, the control systems were fucked. The thrusters were a completely separate shitshow.

Boeing was something like seven years late on that capsule as well. IIRC they were supposed to be completely finished and tested by 2018, whereas 2024 was just their first live test. They still haven't put together a fresh attempt and it's unlikely that they ever will IMHO.

Boeing gets something over a billion dollars every year in a direct subsidy just to "maintain capability", on top of launch costs which are in the hundreds of millions of dollars per launch.

Meanwhile, SpaceX is something like $60M per launch, and they don't receive any further subsidies -- they only get paid for what they accomplish.

>MAGA bros, they're laughing at us again...
Elon and like everyone else in the world, you mean?

>>509281158
DEI killed Boeing. It was an Israeli virus.

>>509281057
he produced a couple months of nonstop leddit seethe at least, I had many good laughs. worth it.

>>509281234
The federal employee subreddit was pretty funny, but he shouldn’t have stopped.

>>509280859
Trump is scared of Elon

>>509280859
Yea dese wypipo so stupid whateven is space? we need mo money fo dem programs

>>509281224
Boeing was dying long before DEI was a thing. When Boeing put McD management in charge after the "takeover", McD management changed the whole company's culture from engineering to bean-counting. This is the same mindset that brought the exploding-gas-tank Ford Pinto to market.

>>509281531
Elon killed his credibility with his now deleted social media crashout. He doesn't have the cards

>>509281884
>rocketships to nowhere
Trump is really losing me on this shit. We need space launch capability for damn near every modern thing, especially defense-related. I get it that he's pissed off at the Muskrat, but the Muskrat is also the only meaningful player in the space launch game right now. Boeing/ULA is still stuck on 1970s era launch technology, which is insanely high-cost compared to Musk's reusable boosters.

>>509281884
Elon has the piss tape.

>>509280859
He didn't come for the king he got high on ketamine and broke some furniture, pissed on the couch and passed out.

>>509282143
literally this
plus Tesla was one of the few US automakers really pioneering the industry (until they got complacent and started falling behind), besides Tesla the vast majority of US-based automakers are almost universally known across the board as inferior to foreign manufacturers.
and Starlink is genuinely a gamechanger for rural residences that otherwise have to deal with ISPs that overcharge the hell out of shitty DSL/Dialup internet, I know many in my own personal social circles that use it themselves, or have parents/family that do on their farms.

Musk is unironically one of the most important National Security assets we have at the moment, especially when you factor in SpaceX and the militaristic potential
and the orange faggot wants to throw it all away for.... what?
What a disgrace

>>509280703
They're talking about Falcon 9/Falcon Heavy, which is a very reliable vehicle.

Starship is still a series of development prototypes, and it is mostly self-funded by SpaceX.
They got $1.15b from NASA for the HLS contract, but they won that primarily because they were the lowest bidder.

>>509280619 (OP)
>20-30b that isnt cycled back into the american economy
thanks i guess

>>509281884
Trump is afraid of Elon Musk

>>509283735
>*hiss*

>>509283735
>20-30b of highly specialized and paid professionals that are now wasting their talent. Not to mention the damage done by DOGE
Thank you Elon

>>509281057
Elon wasn't the one who called it quits, Trump got the Call (TM) to shut it down after he submitted his findings.

>>509280703
They explode like 5% of the time compared to when NASA was developing them in the 60s. And some exploding test rockets are expected because it's testing, not operational. You are repeating the same fucking meme arguments the democrats were just using a few months ago because now you don't like Elon