What a twat.
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Klip fuckin rules. Please give him some due.
This is pretty much a summary of a lot of already public data. Could be valuable as an appendix of ways to attack Vance but otherwise not much new here.
My takeaway is the Trump campaign was too sycophantic to Trump to notice Vance’s actual problems. They have records of his weird views on domestic violence and other strange views but they’re buried in mountains of data about everything he’s said about Trump. And his obsession with childless women isn’t in the document anywhere as far as I can tell.
Nice.
What a strange read. I can’t believe they went with this weirdo.
Is JD Vance required to wear the same outfit as Trump, except with a shorter, less girthy tie?
Out of the criticisms I have of Vance, I do have to say that he wears the Trump uniform better than Trump himself.
Free speech absolutist
Someone trying to invoke good old Barbara Streisand?
They’re fucking, aren’t they?
FB is also threatening bans for posting any links to it.
I just can’t take all this free speech that’s happening right now
Musk is a fucking anti American liability. How the fuck does he have access to military contracts
Money
Money
asks the same question ☞ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/26/elon-musk-us-national-security
Well, despite its owner, SpaceX is actually doing cool and useful stuff. Nobody else bothered with the reusable rocket thing until they made it happen. Starship is on the way to becoming the world’s first 100% reusable orbital transport system, propulsively landing the second stage as well as the first. Soon as they get those toasty melty flaps figured out.
It just sucks that he’s in control of it.
People forget Musk isn’t actually technically smart, he’s just good at buying into and investing in already good ideas using money he got by playing the capital machine (and his parents south africa money).
He didn’t found PayPal; he merged another company with them and capitalized on their already good idea.
He didn’t found Tesla, he invested in them and then drove the original founders out.
He did admittedly create SpaceX, but only by bringing on good engineers from the start after failing to buy ICBM’s from Russia. Yes, he tried that… spaceX has been successful only because he gave them the runway to let engineers work right.The cult of personality is insane, he’s just another average investor bro who got lucky in the crazy growth of the 90’s/00s.
Tres comas, indeed.
Maybe NASA would have bothered if its funding hadn’t been cut again and again and again…
NASA farms these out to outside companies to build anyway, as seen with the latest Boeing space fiasco, so I don’t necessarily believe this to be true. These defense contractors seem to be interested in little more than milking the US government for all they’re worth.
Sure, because they don’t have any budget themselves…
They have a $25B yearly budget.
What is SpaceX spending on R&D? From what I’ve read, Starship is estimated to cost $10B for development and their R&D budget for 2023 was $1.5B. If NASA was going to build something similar themselves, they’ve had nearly 70 years and hundreds of billions to accomplish it.
In reality their budget goes toward companies like Boeing, Northrop Grummon, and Lockheed Martin, who then pocket it and build substandard equipment. This is all public information so I can’t imagine why people are downvoting other than being extremely emotional for some inexplicable reason.
What spacecraft do you think they built themselves, without big contractors doing mos5 of the work…?
I actually prefer NASA to focus on science engineering. There’s a need for private launch capabilities anyway and this way NASA can focus on what they do best.
What’s the need for private launch capabilities? Private = capitalist. I don’t see much good in capitalist ventures.
Because there’s a need for private satellites? Should NASA use limited resources for that?
I’m hoping reusables becomes so standard Musks company isn’t needed anymore.
But that’ll be a long ways off. I agree SpaceX basically revitalized the industry.
Matching suits and ties. How fucking weird.
The ties don’t exactly match. The orange one made sure his tie was the longest and stupidest looking.
I hope he eventually dyes his hair the same color, too.
Either one of them. It would be weird either way.
It would make trump look a tiny bit more normal I think.
Anyone have a working link to it?
Here’s a better link that actually works
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/read-the-jd-vance-dossier
No idea where the other person got their API link
This link doesn’t work anymore, which is why I believe OP specified.
Hmm seems to be working for me? 🤔
Thank you.
Wait… That couch fucking muppet wears same tie?
