If ordinary people don’t show up at those upcoming FAA Starship/Superheavy public meetings they WILL be screwed
Starship splashing down vertically in the
Gulf of Mexico on November 19, 2024
Yesterday radio host Robert Pratt sent me a news story from a Texas newspaper, the Texas Tribune, which attempted quite surprisingly to capture fairly the local response to the most recent Starship/Superheavy test launch out of Boca Chica on November 19, 2024.
The reporter, Bernice Garcia, clearly made it a point to talk to a lot of people, especially those who came out to see the launch. As a result, she showed that in general, no matter what people felt about Donald Trump or Elon Musk, the local population was almost entirely in favor of SpaceX’s efforts there. For example:
Sanchez was slightly concerned about [the rocket’s sonic booms] but believed the benefits of jobs created by SpaceX was worth the risk. “They know what they’re doing,” Sanchez said.
But his favorable opinion of Musk’s company did not extend to Trump. A naturalized citizen who gained amnesty under the Reagan administration, Sanchez didn’t view Trump’s immigration policies as logistically sound. “If you throw those people out, who’s going to work?” Sanchez said. “You don’t see a white man laboring out in the sun. On the other hand, Mexicans, foreigners, people from other countries –– that’s why they come here, to work.”
While the story found locals with a whole range of opinions about Trump, both positive and negative, it only quoted one person who was hostile to SpaceX, and that quote and person tells us a great deal about the bankrupt nature of that opposition:
Trump’s visit and the launch itself drew the ire of a coalition of Rio Grande Valley organizations which condemned the SpaceX launch in a statement Tuesday. “SpaceX does not help humanity; it’s a sci-fi fantasy for the rich and powerful,” Josette Hinojosa, with South Texas Environmental Justice Network, partly said in a statement. “Elon Musk inviting Trump to watch our low-income community used as a testing site for rocket explosions is a blatant example of white supremacy.”
This organization is among several others that formed once Boca Chica began to ramp up operations, and apparently have very little support from the local population. Instead, it appears they are getting their money from outside leftist sources, most of whom focus on increasing environmental regulation while promoting the most extreme Marxist policies within the Democratic Party. These groups include Hinojosa’s network above as well as SaveRGV, the Sierra Club, the Friends of Wildlife Corridor, and the fake Indian Carrizo/Comecrudo Nation of Texas (which never existed in Texas). All appear to have very small memberships of dedicated supporters who show up to every government meeting related to SpaceX, calling for its shutdown.
The quote however shows us however how ignorant and idiotic these people are. Boca Chica is not a “testing site for rocket explosions.” The whole goal is to explode nothing. Instead, Boca Chica was conceived by an immigrant to America who wants to make possible the exploration and colonization of Mars in order to make humanity a multi-planetary species.
Nor does “white supremacy” have anything to do with Elon Musk. All you have to do confirm this fact is watch just a few of his company’s launch telecasts. He employs a wide range of people from many races and ethnic backgrounds, and demands only that they work smart and hard and creatively.
For these Marxists activist groups, it
is race and hatred, 24 hours/7 days
a week.
Josette Hinojosa however is typical of those who have been indoctrinated by our very bankrupt and Marxist major universities. She is very ignorant and has no interest in deepening her knowledge. To her, everything must be measured by race and hatred, and anyone who opposes what she believes in is thus a bigot and racist. Proof of this conclusion can be seen merely by glancing at the South Texas Environmental Justice Network’s webpage. Right at the top it proclaims itself as “A network of directly impacted people of color working towards environmental justice in South Texas’ Rio Grande Valley!”
Moreover, all issues are always reduced by Hinojosa and these organizations to Marxist-type slogans that are cliches and meaningless. See for example this interview of her and many of her allies. Or their statements here. What they say has no real substance, nor does it show any interest in what the people of the Rio Grand Valley really want.
All this underlines how important is is for that local population to show up at the scheduled FAA public meetings in January to comment on its approval of SpaceX’s request to increase the launch rate out of Boca Chica. We can be sure a crowd from the organizations like Josette Hinojosa’s will show up, with the intent to fill the meetings with a mob of protesters hostile SpaceX and everything it does.
If ordinary people don’t come out as well, in large numbers, the FAA will get the wrong impression that says the local community opposes SpaceX, when it most definitely does not. And even if the FAA knows this is the wrong impression, it is a government agency that is forced to react to the hard evidence presented to it.
Does Brownsville wish its new burst of economic revival to continue? Or will its citizens sit on their hands and let these radicals force policies on them that will return the region to the depressed and bankrupt status it has held for decades? We will find out in January.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Starship splashing down vertically in the
Gulf of Mexico on November 19, 2024
Yesterday radio host Robert Pratt sent me a news story from a Texas newspaper, the Texas Tribune, which attempted quite surprisingly to capture fairly the local response to the most recent Starship/Superheavy test launch out of Boca Chica on November 19, 2024.
The reporter, Bernice Garcia, clearly made it a point to talk to a lot of people, especially those who came out to see the launch. As a result, she showed that in general, no matter what people felt about Donald Trump or Elon Musk, the local population was almost entirely in favor of SpaceX’s efforts there. For example:
Sanchez was slightly concerned about [the rocket’s sonic booms] but believed the benefits of jobs created by SpaceX was worth the risk. “They know what they’re doing,” Sanchez said.
But his favorable opinion of Musk’s company did not extend to Trump. A naturalized citizen who gained amnesty under the Reagan administration, Sanchez didn’t view Trump’s immigration policies as logistically sound. “If you throw those people out, who’s going to work?” Sanchez said. “You don’t see a white man laboring out in the sun. On the other hand, Mexicans, foreigners, people from other countries –– that’s why they come here, to work.”
While the story found locals with a whole range of opinions about Trump, both positive and negative, it only quoted one person who was hostile to SpaceX, and that quote and person tells us a great deal about the bankrupt nature of that opposition:
Trump’s visit and the launch itself drew the ire of a coalition of Rio Grande Valley organizations which condemned the SpaceX launch in a statement Tuesday. “SpaceX does not help humanity; it’s a sci-fi fantasy for the rich and powerful,” Josette Hinojosa, with South Texas Environmental Justice Network, partly said in a statement. “Elon Musk inviting Trump to watch our low-income community used as a testing site for rocket explosions is a blatant example of white supremacy.”
This organization is among several others that formed once Boca Chica began to ramp up operations, and apparently have very little support from the local population. Instead, it appears they are getting their money from outside leftist sources, most of whom focus on increasing environmental regulation while promoting the most extreme Marxist policies within the Democratic Party. These groups include Hinojosa’s network above as well as SaveRGV, the Sierra Club, the Friends of Wildlife Corridor, and the fake Indian Carrizo/Comecrudo Nation of Texas (which never existed in Texas). All appear to have very small memberships of dedicated supporters who show up to every government meeting related to SpaceX, calling for its shutdown.
The quote however shows us however how ignorant and idiotic these people are. Boca Chica is not a “testing site for rocket explosions.” The whole goal is to explode nothing. Instead, Boca Chica was conceived by an immigrant to America who wants to make possible the exploration and colonization of Mars in order to make humanity a multi-planetary species.
Nor does “white supremacy” have anything to do with Elon Musk. All you have to do confirm this fact is watch just a few of his company’s launch telecasts. He employs a wide range of people from many races and ethnic backgrounds, and demands only that they work smart and hard and creatively.
For these Marxists activist groups, it
is race and hatred, 24 hours/7 days
a week.
Josette Hinojosa however is typical of those who have been indoctrinated by our very bankrupt and Marxist major universities. She is very ignorant and has no interest in deepening her knowledge. To her, everything must be measured by race and hatred, and anyone who opposes what she believes in is thus a bigot and racist. Proof of this conclusion can be seen merely by glancing at the South Texas Environmental Justice Network’s webpage. Right at the top it proclaims itself as “A network of directly impacted people of color working towards environmental justice in South Texas’ Rio Grande Valley!”
Moreover, all issues are always reduced by Hinojosa and these organizations to Marxist-type slogans that are cliches and meaningless. See for example this interview of her and many of her allies. Or their statements here. What they say has no real substance, nor does it show any interest in what the people of the Rio Grand Valley really want.
All this underlines how important is is for that local population to show up at the scheduled FAA public meetings in January to comment on its approval of SpaceX’s request to increase the launch rate out of Boca Chica. We can be sure a crowd from the organizations like Josette Hinojosa’s will show up, with the intent to fill the meetings with a mob of protesters hostile SpaceX and everything it does.
If ordinary people don’t come out as well, in large numbers, the FAA will get the wrong impression that says the local community opposes SpaceX, when it most definitely does not. And even if the FAA knows this is the wrong impression, it is a government agency that is forced to react to the hard evidence presented to it.
Does Brownsville wish its new burst of economic revival to continue? Or will its citizens sit on their hands and let these radicals force policies on them that will return the region to the depressed and bankrupt status it has held for decades? We will find out in January.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
The term “redneck” is a term for us gringos who do infact work out of doors.
And she represents just why I had no use for Reagan.
“Elon Musk inviting Trump to watch our low-income community used as a testing site for rocket explosions is a blatant example of white supremacy.”
I read that sentence to the bar where I was having lunch. Hilarity ensued.
“You don’t see a white man laboring out in the sun [off the books, for near slave wages, with no social security, unemployment insurance or benefits of any kind]. On the other hand, Mexicans, foreigners, people from other countries –– that’s why they come here…[to undercut the wages that Americans are willing to accept and send the money they make back to their home countries instead of spending it here].”
There. Fixed it for him.
I grew up on a farm before mechanization had taken over quite as much as it has now. The big time farming corporations shipped in hundreds of “migrant workers” (ostensibly from Texas, but we all knew they actually came from further south) because those migrants were willing to live in overcrowded shacks with no A/C and no indoor plumbing, get paid a fraction of what an American would want, and were willing to be paid in cash under the table so the Ag Corp could avoid all those messy payroll taxes and minimum wage laws and such things.
There were plenty of Americans who were willing to do the work, just not under the conditions that the “Texans” (who strangely rarely spoke anything other than Spanish) were willing to endure.
My family was a small operation. We didn’t really even make any money farming, we did it more out of tradition than anything else. My dad also worked in a factory and my Mom was a teacher at the local elementary school. Their “real” jobs are what subsidized our farming hobby. We refused to hire illegals but never had any trouble filling out our ranks when it came time to hire de-tasseling or de-rouging crews. Most of our employees were high school kids who leapt at the chance to make a a thousand bucks or so for a few weeks of work. At the time, minimum wage was $3.25 an hour IIRC, but we didn’t pay by the hour, we paid by production, which ended up being significantly more than minimum wage for anyone who pulled their weight.
But, with that said, if my parents didn’t have alternative income, we’d have never survived. The price we could get for our crops barely (sometimes didn’t) pay the expenses of running the farm.
Part of that was because of the big Ag Companies who could undercut us both by production volume and by the slave wages they paid their workers.
That depression in prices due to nefarious business practices is a large part of what necessitates “farm subsidies” wherein they pay farmers not to farm in order to prevent gluts on the market. Interestingly, there are politicians who’ve invested in thousands of acres of farmland that they never farm…they just collect the subsidies from the government…which they conveniently voted for in congress.
Quite a gig if you can get it.
One of the many ways that a “public servant” can hold a political office that pays a high middle class income for their entire adult lives but retire as a multi-millionaire with several mansions in various states.
But I digress.
There are no jobs that Americans “won’t” do. Americans just demand fair compensation for their labor because they didn’t just spend their entire lives living in a shack outside of Mexico city living on a dollar or two a day.
The excuse is “but if we have to pay American wages, the costs of the food and construction and other industries they work in will go up”.
True. For a while. But then when more Americans are gainfully employed and are no longer dependent upon food stamps and welfare and charity, and have money that is the result of their own productivity to spend, the entire economy will grow and everyone will benefit. We’ll be able to afford the higher prices because we’ll have more production, more wealth staying in the US and fewer people living on everyone else’s dime.
Oh…and because big ag will no longer have access to virtual slave labor, excess farm production will decrease so those subsidies can be cut or eliminated altogether…which is why it will never happen. Remember those politicians getting rich from those subsidies?
If immigrants come here to work, or even to work for a few months then go home, what’s wrong with them getting a visa in their passports that allows them to do so?
Either we have CBP at the border or we don’t.
“If you throw those people out, who’s going to work?” Sanchez said. “You don’t see a white man laboring out in the sun. On the other hand, Mexicans, foreigners, people from other countries –– that’s why they come here, to work.”
Who’s going to work? Perhaps the same people who worked five years ago, before all those illegal aliens that we should throw out. And if they came here to work, why are so many on the public dole rather than on a payroll?
And, yes, we do see a white man laboring out in the sun. We see him up on a multi-hundred foot man-lift working on the booster at Starbase, and we see him out on the catcher arms, and we see him several places outdoors at the Star Factory, too. Those are tough jobs in the sun, in the high winds, and high in the air. Anyone can pick fruit, lettuce, or tomatoes, but it takes someone with courage and intestinal fortitude to work that high up! This brave man works side by side with others, some of various colors and of the other sex, too.
“’If you throw those people out, who’s going to work’ Sanchez said.”
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