On Monday, 22 May 2023 at 16:34:05 UTC-4, palsing wrote:
On Monday, May 22, 2023 at 3:41:25 AM UTC-7, RichA wrote:
On Sunday, 21 May 2023 at 11:04:18 UTC-4, palsing wrote:
On Saturday, May 20, 2023 at 11:39:11 PM UTC-7, RichA wrote:
Seems odd they'd have picked Blue Origin over Space-X for this. Unless Musk ran afoul of Biden and the "agenda."
https://phys.org/news/2023-05-nasa-bezos-blue-lunar-landers.html
Lowest bidder?
I hope not. Blue Origin doesn't have much of a track-record compared to Space-X.
Ever consider that lobbyists carry a lot of weight, and throw lots of cash around?
Sure, explains why Cold War stalwart companies still get all the big contracts, but there is still no question that Musk has fallen from grace with the agenda crowd:
Sunny Hostin slammed Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) on Wednesday,
claiming it was unwise for him to announce a presidential bid with
someone “unpopular” like Elon Musk — only to get fact-checked on air by her own producer before she could even finish the sentence.
Hostin, who has repeatedly attacked DeSantis throughout his tenure as
governor, said during Wednesday’s broadcast of “The View” that his decision to announce his 2024 bid alongside Musk would miss the mark.
She went on to claim that Musk’s approval ratings were “in the toilet” — and then reacted in shock when she learned that the Twitter owner was actually more “favorable” than either President Joe Biden or former President Donald Trump.
WATCH:
The View's Sunny Hostin on Elon Musk: "I don’t know what his
approval rating is, but it’s, like, in the toilet — oh, I'm
sorry, I was just told that he’s more favorable than Biden
and Trump, which scares me."
(deleted previous tweet claiming she was referencing DeSantis) pic.twitter.com/vSGTYH02gA
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) May 24, 2023
Hostin began by attacking DeSantis’ decision to announce his 2024 presidential bid via Twitter during an event with the platform owner,
saying that only 20% of Americans were even on Twitter — and of those,
only a percentage were the loud ones driving the conversation.
“You’re hearing from such a small group of people,” she said. “And the you compare a Twitter announcement with Elon Musk, who — I don’t know
what his approval rating is, but it’s like in the toilet …”
Hostin paused and the audience laughed, but then the host’s facial
expression changed as she apparently listened to her earpiece. “He’s —
ah — I was just told he’s more favorable than Biden and Trump, which — scares me. But, ah, so it’s 47%, When you compare that to Joe Biden’s video, that — when he announced, which was, ‘I’m here to save the soul
of the nation,’ I think so many people felt that and related to it.”
The poll Hostin’s producer likely referenced was conducted by The
Harris Poll and HarrisX from May 17-18, 2023, and it found that Musk
had a 47% favorable rating and a 33% unfavorable rating (net rating
+14). In that same poll, Trump received a 46% favorable rating and a
47% unfavorable rating (net rating -1); DeSantis received a 45%
favorable rating and a 37% unfavorable rating (net rating +8); and
Biden received a 42% favorable rating and a 52% unfavorable rating (net
rating -10).
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