“We’re not going to wait for one company,” said Duffy, who is also serving as the acting administrator of NASA. “We’re going to push this forward and win the second space race against the Chinese. Get back to the moon, set up a camp, a base.”
Musk has not taken kindly to Duffy’s remarks.
First, he responded to Duffy’s tweet with a GIF of a famous exchange in which an African anchor asked a guest, “Why are you gay?”
Then, he took a shot at Blue Origin, SpaceX’s Jeff Bezos-owned rival. "Blue Origin has never delivered a payload to orbit, let alone the Moon"
There is no honor amongst oligarchs who view themselves as being granted a position at the top of the food chain by divine intervention. That's why the rules that they make to control all the little people below, never actually apply to them.
Elon/DOGE served as the public face of responsibility when he took a chainsaw to the government during Trump's second administration. However, Peter Thiel had already begun strategizing everything that DOGE took the blame for during Trump's first administration.
During Trump's first administration, Thiel inserted his former employee (Michael Kratsios) to help out with technology in the White House. Kratsios is now Trump's Science Advisor despite having no actual qualifications for the position (what a fucking surprise). The ousting of Elon began right around the time Kratsios received Senate confirmation.
Basically, Thiel set Musk up to take the public blame, then once again, ousted him in a coup just like he did at PayPal. Now Thiel is receiving very shady government approval to open the first U.S. crypto bank, and Elon's contracts are being cancelled.
A recent history of media narrative control and how quickly the reality being created and fed to the American public can change in a few months:
"Sean Dummy?" Really?...🙄
Idk if it's "toxic empathy" or what, but knowing he almost definitely has cPTSD and untreated mental illness, (which Thiel has publicly joked about convincing him to not seek therapy for) sometimes I almost feel bad for this guy.
Or, I guess I at least feel bad for the part of him that is still very much a child stuck under his abusive father, and acting out so desperately to gain a sense of control while being oblivious to his own manipulation by abusers like Thiel.
He is an adult and can afford all the therapy and other help. Not all that he needs, literally every single therapist.
Fuck him.
Pretty often the people who need therapy the most, will find any excuse to avoid it regardless of finances, even if it's being offered for free. I think the world would have way fewer assholes capable of dissociating and pretending their actions haven't directly caused harm to millions of innocent people, if mental wellness wasn't treated differently than anything else health related. Everybody could benefit from a regular checkup, but just like any other health issues, if you get seriously injured or break a bone, the chances it will heal correctly without a professional helping you, are very slim.
But if more people did go to therapy, it would get in the way of a lot of evil plans. That's why the right tends to discourage their supporters from both therapy and empathy. Honest self reflection is not conducive to the success of people who rely on delusional narratives and sycophants to convince people that they're not the villain in the story they're creating.