Summary
Elon Musk accused former president Joe Biden of stranding NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams on the ISS “for political reasons,” prompting Danish astronaut Andreas “Andy” Mogensen to label the claim “a lie.”
“What a lie. And from someone who complains about lack of honesty from the mainstream media,” wrote the 48-year-old European Space Agency astronaut.
Musk called Mogensen “fully retarded” and claimed SpaceX could’ve rescued the astronauts months ago, without evidence.
NASA refuted Musk’s abandonment claim, calling it baseless.
You know, I kinda can’t wait for shit to start going wrong on their watch.
Unfortunately, the more bad, the more quickly, the better.
Unfortunately we’re currently looking at their way of handling stuff that gone wrong, melon husk just have to say stupid stuff and start some stupid fight and people from both side will just focus on that.
like a bunch of plane crashes?
A) there hasn’t really been much of an uptick there overall B) it’d have to be wayyy more wrong than that to have an impact on the direction of things.
We need it to be far enough out they can’t just blame the prior administration.
Is this why the dems are standing aside?
Yeah, the Dems should just be impeaching him with their minority in the House and their Minority in the Senate.
They could be organising huge nationwide protests or storming the capitol like he did. They could be telling the truth like AOC and Bernie
So… They can do nothing of consequence.
Don’t forget they were already accused of being the boy that cried wolf before the election.
Lets be honest, thats not nothing of consequence. Thats rounding the wagons up and energizing the base.
There are three special elections coming up that could take away the GOP majority. They need to do things with high optics that show strength; things that energize the base. Saying “we cant do anything” regsrdless of the truth in it LOOKS WEAK. Thats not a way to show leadership.
Soooo… Nothing of consequence. Quite literally nothing of consequence. Like what did all those BLM protests do? Did it rally the voters? NOPE.
And as much as a hate this phrase, they have to pick their battles. No one cares about USAID (oh wait this is lemmy who misreads. It is important, but at a voting level population that wins elections, far far far too few people care). At this point, pretty much the only people that care about the layoffs are the people laid off (again, talking about voting level population). They won’t care until their social security stops coming, or their special needs kid gets defunded. That’s how people operate. Dems have to pick a few items and really highlight them. If they pick everything, then nothing comes across.