“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:
I don't say this as an excuse for him, or to downplay his actions, but from my own experience with abusive people who refuse to go to therapy.
I feel like if many of the people like this (globally) would just go to therapy and work on themselves, instead of convincing themselves they've got it under control as they re-enact the garbage they were taught, and the maladaptive strategies they learned to cope, there would be less anguish and suffering inflicted upon other people.
You can still believe he's an evil asshole, and legitimately he personally enabled what is being done to him by hurting other people. I just wish people could see the very clear pattern in the cycle of abuse and narcissism that almost always finds a way to repeat itself unless it's addressed head on.