Elon Musk in row with Danish astronaut over claim Biden abandoned ISS pair
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Musk claimed without evidence that Nasa’s Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were left stranded on the orbital outpost for ‘political reasons’

Summary

Elon Musk accused former president Joe Biden of stranding NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams on the ISS “for political reasons,” prompting Danish astronaut Andreas “Andy” Mogensen to label the claim “a lie.”

“What a lie. And from someone who complains about lack of honesty from the mainstream media,” wrote the 48-year-old European Space Agency astronaut.

Musk called Mogensen “fully retarded” and claimed SpaceX could’ve rescued the astronauts months ago, without evidence.

NASA refuted Musk’s abandonment claim, calling it baseless.

  • chilicheeselies@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    2 months ago

    Lets be honest, thats not nothing of consequence. Thats rounding the wagons up and energizing the base.

    There are three special elections coming up that could take away the GOP majority. They need to do things with high optics that show strength; things that energize the base. Saying “we cant do anything” regsrdless of the truth in it LOOKS WEAK. Thats not a way to show leadership.

    • someguy3@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      2 months ago

      Thats rounding the wagons up and energizing the base.

      Soooo… Nothing of consequence. Quite literally nothing of consequence. Like what did all those BLM protests do? Did it rally the voters? NOPE.

      And as much as a hate this phrase, they have to pick their battles. No one cares about USAID (oh wait this is lemmy who misreads. It is important, but at a voting level population that wins elections, far far far too few people care). At this point, pretty much the only people that care about the layoffs are the people laid off (again, talking about voting level population). They won’t care until their social security stops coming, or their special needs kid gets defunded. That’s how people operate. Dems have to pick a few items and really highlight them. If they pick everything, then nothing comes across.

        • someguy3@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          2 months ago

          What the hell are you about. I think this is a case of projection, you are disheartened so you project it on to others.

          I’m just saying/observing/analyzing that it’s nothing of consequence. People expect the Dems to magically solve the Trump problem (all this “why don’t they do something??”) and I’m saying they can’t do anything of consequence.

            • someguy3@lemmy.worldEnglish
              11·
              2 months ago

              Again, what the hell are you on about. No conversation can be had when you ram what you want to read into people’s mouths, instead of reading what they actually say. Read what I have already written. Ciao.