Is there a gaping loophole in the law barring federal contractors “from making contributions or expenditures to any political party, committee, or candidate for federal office,” or do we just rely too much on this guy to get stuff into space to enforce it?
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https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-super-pac-spending-competitive-house-races-republicans-2024-9
Elon Musk PAC is spending millions to keep GOP in control of the House
After spending tens of millions on Trump, Musk's "America PAC" has begun spending at least $2.1 million across more than a dozen House races.Bryan Metzger (Insider)
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in reply to Joshua Holland • • •Starlink satellites are designed to leak radio emissions & to lack longevity. On purpose.
No one considers whether this is deliberate.
Play along with this thought experiment: military & economic strategy.
1. A satellite with built-in obsolescence & then it joins an increasingly dense miasma of near-Earth space junk, becomes a navigational hazard for every other space-capable competitor.
Musk has incited riots to hurt competitors
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-10/ford-toyota-halt-production-protesters-block-us-canada-border/100820532
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"Oops, EU we are sooooo sorry we trashed your last satellite launch." Disingenuous plausible deniability.
https://spacenews.com/spacex-slams-faa-report-on-falling-space-debris-danger/
https://www.widemoatresearch.com/wide-moat-daily/starlink-isnt-going-to-replace-this-income-opportunity-anytime-soon/
2. If you were a Putin-aligned Republican & an insider to the GOP's military industrial complex, you'd want to milk the DOD budget at every opportunity by building shoddily.
Bonus: It hampers military preparedness.
Just like the littoral ships.
Senator Tuberville's Alabama donors profited enormously from that white elephant...
Starlink Isn’t Going to Replace This Income Opportunity Anytime Soon | Wide Moat Research
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...and his extortion.
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-navy-spent-billions-littoral-combat-ship
https://yellowhammernews.com/guest-rep-jerry-carl-alabama-delegation-secure-shipbuilding-funds-in-annual-defense-bill/
Reminder, Tuberville wanted Space Command moved to Alabama so he halted Senate confirmations for a year.
https://www.al.com/news/2024/04/tuberville-if-president-trump-is-elected-space-command-jobs-will-come-to-huntsville.html
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/19/senate-confirms-top-military-nominees-ending-tubervilles-hold-over-promotions-00132588
Why would any administration agree to locate critical military infrastructure in a possibly rebel red state owned by corrupt GOP megadonors?
3. A satellite that is easily identified from its radio wave leakage is easy pickings for any hostile foreign...
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... nation like Russia & China in a war.
https://theconversation.com/starlink-satellites-are-leaking-signals-that-interfere-with-our-most-sensitive-radio-telescopes-215250
Will early warning systems like NORAD be impacted?
4. Republican billionaires are gearing up for a war if they lose the election. War is enormously profitable.
In any war, control of communications is essential.
Musk has already shown himself to side with the enemy before.
https://apnews.com/article/spacex-ukraine-starlink-russia-air-force-fde93d9a69d7dbd1326022ecfdbc53c2
& extort extra cash from the DOD mid-conflict.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/13/politics/elon-musk-spacex-starlink-ukraine/index.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/06/01/starlink-ukraine-pentagon-elon-musk/
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2023/09/12/elon-musk-blocking-starlink-to-stop-ukraine-attack-troubling-for-dod/
Pentagon discloses it’s paying for Elon Musk’s Starlink internet in Ukraine
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Republican megadonors like Musk already believe they control the fate of nations & they are indifferent to who dies as a consequence
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-shadow-rule
https://cepa.org/article/should-elon-musk-decide-who-wins-wars/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/11/elon-musk-ukraine-war-decisions/
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/24/1195463008/ronan-farrow-says-elon-musk-has-become-an-arbiter-of-the-war-in-ukraine
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-27/musk-lauds-vaccine-rule-protest-convoy-barreling-toward-trudeau
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/the-most-interesting-thing-about-elon-musks-war-with-brazil.html
https://www.thedailybeast.com/countries-cant-stop-elon-musk-stoking-civil-warbut-we-can
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/06/tech/elon-musk-civil-war-uk-riots/index.html
https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-x-election-voting-trump-misinformation-3479f2348f6ec47ce641ddf20fd6ce4e
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/09/elon-musk-ukrainian-war-offensive-last-year
https://wjla.com/news/nation-world/elon-musk-politics-x-twitter-riots-irresponsible-election-data-false-claims-tense-moments-concerning-day-voting-donald-trump-kamala-harris-misinformation-efficiency-billionaire-unchecked
Elon Musk shouldn’t be calling the shots on how Ukraine fights
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