[cbanek]

"Musk, who has been engaged in a high-profile feud with US President Donald Trump, on Thursday threatened to decommission the Dragon before later saying the spacecraft would stay in operation."

Interesting timing.

[Propelloni]

I'm usually not one to defend Elmo, but it was a response to P47 threatening to defund SpaceX. It's like watching children. Poor USA, poor us.

[numpad0]

One thing I wanted to ask somewhere, Jared Isaacman was NOT a Musk pick, or am I not right?

[Hamuko]

Wasn't it Musk that was calling for a smaller and leaner government?

[tonyhart7]

he got himself on gov watch list after that tweet for sure

[AStonesThrow]

Yeah I heard they're gonna start live-tracking his private jet flights

[amelius]

That was a pretty dumb tweet as it gives Trump all the ammo to put SpaceX under close government scrutiny and/or make plans to nationalize it, or whatever whimsical thing he can think of to hurt Musk.

[elif]

It's kind of crazy how he can get away with increasing taxes, increasing debt, cronyism, price controls, demolish law and order and convince his base he's doing the opposite. I wouldn't be surprised if he pulled off forced nationalization of industry.

[kevin_thibedeau]

I'm hoping Melon loses his SpaceX security clearances. He routinely commits federal crimes. Everyone else would have lost theirs long ago.

[TheOtherHobbes]

He was never going to decommission Dragon. That was just playground petulance.

There's nothing Putin enjoys more than watching two senior underlings fighting like rats in a sack.

The US space and science programmes are useful collateral damage in this.