Where Is the Hype for Polaris Dawn?

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Elon Musk's SpaceX just accomplished something that nobody has done in 50 years: put human beings into space beyond the Van Allen belt and into high Earth orbit. 

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They did it with an all-civilian crew, tested new spacesuits, did a spacewalk, and performed a concert in high-definition video and audio from hundreds of miles away in orbit. 

It was an amazing achievement, and nobody in the Biden administration congratulated anybody, and the mainstream media barely covered it. 

Why?

It was only through the magic of Starlink--an Elon Musk project--and SpaceX's reusable rockets and reusable Crew Dragon--that any of this was possible. Boeing, which has been in this business for about 70 years, couldn't do it. They couldn't perform a round-trip manned mission to the space station safely. SpaceX does it routinely. 

We all know why so little attention has been paid to any of this. It's the same reason the FAA has been slow-walking approvals for testing of Starship: Elon Musk is behind these projects. 

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Boeing and Blue Origin (which is struggling mightily to get into orbit with any payload of importance) are owned by friends of the Democrats, while SpaceX is owned by Musk, who has endorsed Trump. Musk is the last free speech warrior, and that is simply unacceptable. 

You would have at least expected a tweet of congratulations and some hoopla, but of course, that would be asking too much. Celebrating milestone achievements by American companies is verboten if they are owned by vocal Republicans. 

The Biden administration is at war with Musk. When Elon expressed support for Ron DeSantis and bought Twitter, the administration kicked Starlink out of a program to connect rural communities, homes and businesses to high-speed internet. Starlink is up and running, helping people get connected no matter where they are; meanwhile, the Biden/Harris program has not connected a single home. 

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Musk has a target on his back, and the transnational elite are working every day to destroy him. That this harms Americans, undermines innovation, and slows Musk's massive progress in getting people to Mars is far less important than harming Republicans and free speech. 

The left sees Musk as dangerous, and they do because he is a danger to their monopoly on power. Just as the EU wanted to shut down Musk's conversation with Trump, they want to bully Elon into complying with their agenda. 

It's a worldwide phenomenon, and I think Musk's free speech stance is more important for them to destroy than anything else. And if that means attacking Musk, downplaying his achievements, strangling his companies' revenues, or anything else they are all-in. Here, Europe, Brazil...they all agree: get Musk. 

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Musk may be quirky, but he is doing more to move humanity forward than any other single human being. 

That makes him dangerous, because he can't be controlled by the technocrats who want to rule by committee. 

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John Sexton 5:30 PM | September 18, 2024
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