The Muskrat Fucker.

federal charging grants and later fired his entire supercharger team. Space Force A gave him a $70 million contract to use his Starlink internet services and the DoD has a $23 million contract with SpaceX to provide its services to the U.S. and its allies. I'm sure there is more we don't know about that Kinzinger knows.

...without getting this wrong.
I just looked it up, and the companies connected to muskrat seem to add up to around $2 billion.
But, to Kinzinger's point, given who Musk has been, that's $2 billion too much.

Apparently, SpaceX contracts are let by the pentagon which is DoD. They have 2 currently, and 1 in the past.

but both are all that with the second one being especially creepy.

It just looks like a handshake.

These photos are extra creepy, especially the second one. I didn't actually recognize in the first, even with the advance knowledge that it was him, but that second one looks like something out of the origin story of a Batman supervillain!

But he always looks creepy to me, in just about every picture I've ever seen of him. I've read that he's fathered 12 kids with multiple women, but I can't fathom why ANY woman would want to sleep with him. (I understand some of the pregnancies were achieved with IVF, but still.) Money must be a powerful aphrodisiac for some people!

Seriously, that smarmy, conceited manboy literally makes my skin crawl! One thing he and TSF have in common is that neither of them ever grew up. They're both like children cosplaying adults. Trump is a 4 year old, and Musk is a bratty 10 year old who never does his homework, bullies all the boys who are smaller than him, and sits in the back row of the classroom shooting spit wads at the girls and giggling when he gets a hit. I knew kids like that in school, I couldn't stand them then, and I can't stand him now.

with him..preferably to an undisclosed planet.

Or should we just adopt a Putin style government?

We do have the right to hope for a tremendous change.

If I ran the world, trump and his evil minions would get the traitors penalty.

YMMV.

This guy seems to really believe we're going to start a new civilization on Mars...What a joke. We're having enough trouble with the one we have. How does he think these folks are going to react when they get to a planet less hospitable than Antarctica? Does he really believe they would try to have babies? No one with a shred of humanity would put a child through that...

No reproduction? Not a chance at a long-term civilization.

The only real payoff might be robotic mining, but the sheer costs involved would far outstrip the benefits.

Let's face the facts...we can't leave this planet for a better one, so we should take better care of the one we have.

I would suspect the first Trillionaire will be the head of whichever company or consortium that figures out a repeatable working process to bring back the minerals in bulk.
Current technology is advanced enough to ramp up such an effort and get it off the ground within 10/15 years.
Colonization is harder and not as profitable in the near term. However, Colonization might give the technocrats somewhere to retreat off Earth to, as climate starts to collapse.
Just like some articles I've read recently suggest AI and robotics Tech Bros are into is actually because they want to start building Stepford Wives for themselves and leave the rest of the females in the world as incubators.

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Seems to me the main issues are repair of the robots when they inevitably break down and the number of said robots required to make mineral extraction and transport back to earth worthwhile.

When climate finally collapses, I think the oligarchs and technocrats are going to have more on their hands than they can handle, as it's going to be very obvious (even more so than now) who is really at fault for this. Of course, I said similar things about T****, so what do I know?

things like starlink are a real problem. It's not under our control, and countries like Russia use it too.
He's willing to sell his goods and technology to anyone. Certain aspects of his business have to come under government/military control, or we can't use them. Personally, I don't trust Musky at all. He's only out for himself, and he believes hitching his wagon to Trump's star will make him far richer, and far more powerful than ever.

Government contractors are not supposed to show political affiliations. Musk breaks the law every day. I propose we send him to Mars and leave him there.

or he's willing to forget for the sake of self-interest.

He is NOT a loyal American. He's a treasonous apartheid fascist.

Probably gave him a discount, seeing whose taxpayers paid for it.

and the DoD has a $23 million contract with SpaceX to provide its services to the U.S. and its allies. There is probably a lot more than that we don't know about that Kinzinger does know .

Eg. Elon Musk despises his daughter Vivian
Jenna Wilson. He cruelly attacked her and declared her dead after she openly became transgender.
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Btw, Lying TraitorTrump claims to be 6’3” tall. But according to Elon Musk himself, he is exactly 6’2”.
However, in the pic, Musk seems a lot taller than
TraitorTrump.

Regardless I don't give any mierd-a about these two pendejos /Cojonesless like Weird Dork Elon Musk & the FAT Pig 🐖 and unlawful Sedictionist
Traitor Donald Trump.
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No matter how much $ he has, he'll never be a cool guy.