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Maybe I’m alone, but this feels like a huge, “no shit”.
Idk why but I assumed getting investigated was a large part of getting government aerospace contracts but I guess that's just the movies
You would certainly hope so, but the government really likes the lowest bidders. So they likely don’t look to carefully into contractors.
I guess that's just the movies
Close. It’s just the non-billionaires
Not so huge, he's a billionaire.
In theory he's allowed to:
- mistreat his workers
- not pay his bills
- pump and dump stocks
- undermine the worlds help to Ukraine by messing with their internet for Russia
- Steal subsidies for EVs and lying about the capabilities
- Bribing officials to get public transport contracts and never fulfill them
- bribe voters / election interference
- defame everyone on his platform with misinformation and supports domestic terrorism
There's plenty more, he's probably heavily cooking the books at Tesla too.
In theory he isn't allowed to. Practically he is, which is just as bad IMO
I get so tired of these headlines that are basically "Authority figure says obvious thing". Like, yeah, and so do most other people, thanks for the update.
But then after they say it nothing usually happens. As if just saying it is enough
Musk has a security clearance for the SpaceX contracts, right? Did he file the proper forms reporting the foreign contacts?
Stop giving any money to that dipshit. He is literally the biggest welfare queen in the history of mankind
No, force him to divest from spacex. It's too valuable for our space industry to just stop using it.
Fuck, just make him give it to Gwynne Shotwell.
It would be strange for SpaceX to become a state-owned company like Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, TVA or USPS.
The faith people have that shotwell is insulating SpaceX from Musk's incompetency feels more hopeful than factual.
No, nationalize it.
"We don't want to make these investigations look political"- DOJ
Once the election is over, the DOJ may or may not investigate depending on who wins the election.
And there's nothing political about that, of course.
And then right after he posts this fucking video of himself playing Diablo 2 while in a SpaceX launch review meeting:
The SpaceX CEO's name really is Shotwell?
Should someone from the DOJ be saying something along these lines?
Bill has spoken. Investigate away!
That's Administrator Bill Nelson to you.
Used to be my Senator and we've had a few conversations.
this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2024
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