D. Messier: And I think you routinely and naively take the side of government agencies without question, especially if those agencies are being run by Democrats. I find it tiring and tedious, and repeatedly wrong.

Robert: I feel your original post overreacted to some relatively minor disputes. Mexico wants SpaceX to clean up the debris on its territory and for the contractor it hires to have proper permits to do the work. Perfectly reasonable. Do that and the issue fades. It doesn’t seem to be holding up Starship development; SpaceX just did a static fire today.

Things like this have happened before. Wernher von Braun’s team once sent a V-2 rocket into a Mexican cemetery. Ft. Bliss officers apologized and worked with Mexican authorities to retrieve the debris.

Nope. Not the Mexican-American War. Rather the Frontier Rangers dealing with spillover from the Mexican Revolution affecting Texas-based individuals and corporations. That was 20th century, And when Texans say “don’t mess with Texas” they generally include those living in Texas and Texas-based businesses.

This is like a cop telling you to slow down then giving you a ticket for going too slow.

D. Messier: You of course are completely right. No government official would ever EVER have ulterior political motives for his or her actions. They are our gods, who know all and must always be respected and obeyed.

This is absolutely so because they have never done anything wrong. How dare I doubt them!

https://www.infobae.com/mexico/2025/07/23/gobierno-de-sheinbaum-analiza-sanciones-por-plataforma-de-space-x-en-tamaulipas-hubo-trabajos-sin-permisos/

As I thought, Mexican officials did say the cleanup contractor didn’t get the proper permit to do the work.

The president was asked about the cleanup effort during a daily press conference. She responded. The Secretary of the Navy also commented on the situation.

It’s hard to see all this as some power crazed Mexican president picking on poor Elon and his little rocket company.

If permission was not granted for this activity by the Mexican government, then perhaps they have cause for concern and even investigation, though it is hard to see what the worst outcome should be beyond a small fine and a slap on the corporate wrist. My question is why President Sheinbaum repeatedly escalates episodes like this to presidential level discourse, when it’s nothing more than a minor marine salvage regulatory fracas. But she has domestic political constituencies to play to, too, and those constituencies obviously do not like the politics of SpaceX’s owner and CFO. To put it mildly.

Well, you tell me. She seems to be very upset about Trump. She also seems to be somewhat anti-American. So, maybe it’s just anti-U.S. virtue-signaling. Not really much difference for a lot of folks.

Hey GWB: Not everything is about Trump. What does he have to do with this?

Seawriter: So you’re invoking the Mexican-American War over some minor disputes over rocket wreckage and recovery? Mexico’s disputes are with SpaceX. SpaceX is in Texas. It’s not Texas.

You guys take some minor disputes and turn them into incidentes internacional.

SpaceX has lawyers. SpaceX’s retrieval contractor has lawyers. Mexico has lawyers. Let them work this out.

But that would take initiative and work.

“Sheinbaum is also suing Smith & Wesson, because some of their product is making it into the hands of the cartels. ”

She was; SCOTUS tossed the lawsuit on PLCAA grounds.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/supreme-court/3432353/supreme-court-tosses-mexico-lawsuit-against-us-gunmakers/

The original concern seems to be about debris and contamination on Mexican territory. If someone contaminated your property with debris, you’d be considering legal action as well. Nothing unreasonable about that.

It also appears the company that SpaceX hired didn’t obtain the proper permit(s) to retrieve debris from the bottom of the Gulf. I imagine there are fees that need to be paid as well. Nothing unusual about that, either.

You use that picture and caption far too often. It starts to lose its meaning after a while.

What is there to investigate? Mexico has no jurisdiction.