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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(130,048 posts)
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 02:44 PM 23 hrs ago

The bromance is over. Musk doubles down in fight with Trump administration, risking his empire

Over the next several years, Elon Musk aims to take astronauts to the moon using a 403-foot rocket, launch a fleet of autonomous vehicles that lack a steering wheel or pedals, and turn millions of existing Teslas into self-driving cars overnight.

Musk has acknowledged his ambitions require overcoming regulatory hurdles, roadblocks presented by NASA, the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Throwing caution to the wind, Musk took aim at the man overseeing each one of those agencies in X posts this week - Transportation Secretary and acting NASA administrator Sean P. Duffy - igniting a new public feud with the Trump administration through an official who possesses direct oversight of his business empire.

“Having a NASA Administrator who knows literally ZERO about rockets & spacecraft undermines the American space program and endangers our astronauts,” Musk said in an X post on Wednesday.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/musk-doubles-down-fight-trump-124025760.html

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The bromance is over. Musk doubles down in fight with Trump administration, risking his empire (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 23 hrs ago OP
Stopped Clock Example ProfessorGAC 23 hrs ago #1
Off today, on tomorrow. Adolescent crush Raven123 23 hrs ago #2
I could see him trying to attain the post himself, this being but one method Torchlight 23 hrs ago #3
Ha ha..let them take each other down BlueWaveNeverEnd 23 hrs ago #4
Up next: even more crazy fuckwits flinging monkey poo! struggle4progress 23 hrs ago #5
Eloon KNEW NOTHING was head of DOGE leftstreet 23 hrs ago #6
One could say this in reference to every appointment TSF has made. What, therefore, does that say about him?? Sogo 23 hrs ago #7
It's all performative. Basso8vb 23 hrs ago #8
Now would be a sweet time for some mutually assured destruction Blue Owl 22 hrs ago #9
Musk also plans to produce an army of general-purpose robots DavidDvorkin 21 hrs ago #10
Some say he's still fucking Stephen Miller's wife. flvegan 20 hrs ago #11
KAYFABE... IrishAfricanAmerican 20 hrs ago #12

Torchlight

(5,931 posts)
3. I could see him trying to attain the post himself, this being but one method
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 02:50 PM
23 hrs ago

He repeatedly showed his belly to trump, and that's all trump requires. Musk's bizarre showmanship and ability to run a great company into dirt is a green mark in the trump column as well.

struggle4progress

(125,003 posts)
5. Up next: even more crazy fuckwits flinging monkey poo!
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 03:07 PM
23 hrs ago

Never ending fun!

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Sogo

(6,724 posts)
7. One could say this in reference to every appointment TSF has made. What, therefore, does that say about him??
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 03:20 PM
23 hrs ago

“Having a NASA Administrator who knows literally ZERO about rockets & spacecraft undermines the American space program and endangers our astronauts,”

DavidDvorkin

(20,397 posts)
10. Musk also plans to produce an army of general-purpose robots
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 05:16 PM
21 hrs ago

There will be one in every home. And he has said that he wants to have influence over that army (or words to that effect).

flvegan

(65,395 posts)
11. Some say he's still fucking Stephen Miller's wife.
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 05:40 PM
20 hrs ago

I'm certainly not, rather just asking questions.

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