James Street: I have been pleased (and amused) today at the number of posts in the mainstream conservative press, like the Showalter column you quote, that have finally noticed what I have been documenting now for more than a year, that the Biden administration is out to destroy Musk.

It is great they are finally noting this. It is a shame that even the conservative press has been slow to do so.

“Joe Biden dispatches his flying monkeys to hunt down Elon Musk”
By Monica Showalter

“When Joe Biden told reporters that Elon Musk “is worth being looked at,” it’s too bad Kamala Harris wasn’t there to supply the cackle.

Shortly after that ominous statement, Biden dispatched his federal flying monkeys against Musk, suing him on big and little matters, all of which were on utterly spurious grounds. His real “crime,” of course, was displeasing Biden and his Democrat political machine.

Biden is throwing everything it can find at Musk, hoping that the endless barrage of regulatory, reputational and legal attacks will cause the world’s wealthiest man to kneel before its authority. The viciousness of the investigations being conducted by the Department of Justice, the Federal Aviation Administration, the Federal Trade Commission, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the National Labor Relations Board, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service against a successful American business leader is unprecedented. It says much more about the vindictive nature of Joe Biden than it does about the founder of Tesla, SpaceX and the Boring Company.

And as we look at this broad and ugly picture of trying to pin something, anything, on Musk, through the legal and regulatory process, the outlines of a recognizable plan start to emerge as the operational template:

One, separate Musk from his wealth, attempting to take his business empire away from him.

Two, hit him with as many lawsuits, on the most spurious of grounds, that they can think of, to tie him up in a stew of misery and keep him from progressing onward with his entrepreneurial plans.

Sound familiar?

It sounds exactly like what they are doing to President Trump”
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/12/joe_biden_dispatches_his_flying_monkeys_after_elon_musk.html

He does not have a monopoly on space flight. Granted he is the only game in town making frequent launches as close to on time as possible.
But the US government would just as happily go back to the way things used to be.

In practice there are a lot of reasons why such a drastic actin wouldn’t be feasible, but it sure would get people’s attention. (Even Governor Abbott’s, probably.) The thing of it is, if the 2024 election doesn’t occasion a radical change in Washington, then a “general strike” by the productive members of society may be the only remaining way to take back our country / culture / civilization.

In my view Big Greg talks a far, far better game than he plays and we slide further and further into the Blue-Green ooze.

One of my Senators (Cornyn) is definitely a DIRO (Democrat Imitating a Republican Officer holder). My second Senator (Cruz) seemed Ok til he said he was all in (just for a year or so understand) on the Federal 3 letter agencies spying on myself and 2 or 3 million of my closest friends.

My US Congressional Representative (R) who is a tough talking Navy Fighter pilot who never saw a budget deficit that he did not love and never saw an uncontrolled interaction with constituents that he did not flee.

My State Senator is a Democrat who wants me to die I am sure and my State Rep is another DIRO who voted for the impeachment of Ken Paxton and defeats every attempt to even slightly balance educational choice versus the public school rice bowl. This rice bowl is surrounded by teachers and administrators who just keep screaming “More Money!!! More Money!!!”

Big Greg keeps calling the legislature back (with pay) for the educational choice kabuki but the only thing that happens is more money goes into the Public School rice bowl. BUT, EVERY Republican assures us that they are WORKING FOR US!!!!.

So I wait to see what this bunch does to keep my aging and rapidly fading space dreams alive through Elon and Boca Chica. I am not holding my breath.

Of course, I’d prefer the Chinese option of having them dissappeared. :)

As I see it, a point of Bob’s piece is that these tiny number of Leftist voices attack even when the vast majority is not just supportive of the SpaceX work but enthusiastic for such. Often these are people who are not even actually known by many as being part of the local community. But they get outsize notice with the Feds.

Take this “Carrizo/Comecrudo Nation of Texas, Inc.” It’s a Texas corporation organized in 1999 by a few people, not an American Indian tribe and yet they claim to be affected somehow. The tribe did not live in Texas but in Tamaulipas, Mexcio. Beware Wikipedia entries but on this group it reads correctly: “The Carrizo/Comecrudo Nation of Texas, Inc. is an unrecognized organization. Despite the word nation in its name, it is not a federally recognized tribe,[4] nor a state-recognized tribe,[5] nor recognized by any other Tribal Nation.”

It seems that we are rife with groups created for the purpose of sounding as victims in the press to stop any and all development.

In the RGV even the local liberal press is very supportive of what is happening with SpaceX. It’s the biggest economic positive to happen to the area since the Port of Brownsville.

“Elon is doing all he can to ensure the future freedom and survival of people throughout the world. ”

You have inadvertently hit the nail on the head.

BILL MAHRE: HEAT SEEKING MISSILE

“Now I do not always agree with Bill Mahre, but on the subject of the “Woke” “Progressives” who are driving their particular IMO clearly insane and harmful political perspective in our country and the world he is a heat seeking missile!”

Read the rest and share with a confused friend who cannot make the distinction………

https://www.sigma3ioc.com/post/bill-mahre-exposes-progressive-woke-self-delusion-and-bs

Ron–
You’re fairly young (I’m closer to Doubting Thomas in age) so, don’t abandon all hope!
But, this just sorta illustrates why, we can’t have Nice Things.

I count myself very fortunate in that I witnessed Apollo-8 launch in 1968, and thanks to our Host Mr. Z., who graciously took some 8mm film of the launch and digitized it for me, I watch it quite often, although my copy has pink floyd music attached.
It was amazing. That’s about all I can say!
(Later, we watched the Christmas Eve message, in a campground in Key West, on a portable TV, while we set up the Christmas tree we had dragged all the way from Michigan on top of the station-wagon.)

https://archive.org/details/apollo-8-december-1968-super-8mm-1440x-1080

I skipped elementary school for Alan Shepard and John Glenn’s space flights. I remember that I got caught by my assistant principal, who lived upstairs from us, when he caught me playing in the front yard of the apartment building at lunch time. I was worried and he smiled at me and said that he understood my “space sickness” that day.

All the best.

One of my brothers was born the day Allen Shepherd went to space and is named after him. I cannot imagine the national pride of that era.

Interestingly, I used to write NEPAs when I did environmental work. The only thing I can add to that is all of these groups had a chance to make an argument against this type of work and didn’t. Part of the process is reaching out to each tribe for potential impact/ historical connections and if they signed off on it, there shouldn’t be any legal standing.

I hate these people.

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