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[–] [email protected] 131 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (6 children)

Probably pointless fact check for the non word salad part:

Elon has never landed anything on the moon.

Further context:

Elon has received roughly $3 billion of taxpayer money before 2022 (and another $1.7 billion in 2022) to create a system capable (Starship + Heavy Booster) of delivering and returning humans to and from the moon by Q1 2025.

It was supposed to have conducted an orbital flight test in early 2022, and so far has only accomplished a few semi-successful suborbital flights, which have prompted Elon to downgrade the supposed mass to orbit capacity in half, from 100 to 50 tons, (proven cargo capacity so far is 0, even for suborbital), and state that there will now be a Starship/Heavy Booster 2 and 3, entirely new and untested rockets which appear nowhere in any of the government funding agreements.

In orbit refueling has not been demonstrated, Starship has not returned from orbit or suborbit or the moon or anywhere other than small test hops without exploding on impact or melting in reentry...

...when it should have completed an uncrewed Moon landing and return about 8 or 9 months ago, and by now should be human rated.

... And this is the person Trump wants to be in charge of finding and eliminating wasteful government spending.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The king of false promises.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago (2 children)

It’s hard to tell if it’s total nonsense or just nonsense if you’re not up to speed on the Fox Cinematic Universe

Aka, total nonsense but the long way…

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I've had more normal conversations with people on the tail end of a 3 day meth binge and I am not exaggerating in the slightest

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Unironically same, I've had convos with multiple meth and fentanyl addicts that make more sense.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Sounds like he's just listened to War of the Worlds? Cylinders came from Mars, slowly unscrewed themselves and out popped critters larger than a bear, with snake-like tentacles.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Trump is Sonic the Hedgehog confirmed. He just needs his beautiful rings!

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 days ago (4 children)

The circles he may be referencing were from 2020 when corona was at its peak, Biden had a town hall or something outside and they had very few people there with everyone spread out in their own circle to socially distance if I remember correctly. Still has not a damn thing to do with Elon or Rockets, just that there were some circles in each story. But you know, he was doing the weave again so he thinks he sounded smart at least.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

I thought he meant the circles of Hell and just lost count. Either way, he thought they were beautiful, and he's sad that they couldn't fill them up!

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Me when I manage to decipher his word salad:

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Attempting to explain what Trump means is sanewashing and makes him look less incoherent.

Just let his words speak for themselves.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Hey, remember that part I said it still made no fucking sense? I do.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 days ago

Give this man the launch codes. Just put me out of my misery.

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