Just a little memo for everyone out there, especially those who thought compliance with government authority was going to be the future trend, they were wrong. I’ve listened to complete idiots tell me for more than two decades now that compliance with government authority was only going to increase year by year, and I have argued with them to the contrary. COVID destroyed people’s tolerance for government pinheads forever. Government power had been abused, and people were finally pushed too far. And that’s why Elon Musk was on stage with President Trump in Pennsylvania, cheerleading on a Republican administration that promises to cut down on government red tape dramatically. Musk is not a Republican or a conservative. However, the FAA process denying him approved applications for his next space flights for Starship 5 has pushed him into Trump’s corner. Just as they have with many Democrats who have now crossed over and joined supporting Trump, a common theme has emerged. The government has become too big and has all the wrong values, and people are tired of interrupting their lives needlessly. That is certainly the case with Elon Musk, who has to file a lot of permits for the launch of each of his Starships which he is working through his company, SpaceX, to prove the landing of the largest vehicle to ever enter space and return to earth. What the Starship 5 mission proves to do is re-land the Super Heavy Booster rocket back at Boca Chica with their chopstick system. From there, refueling and reentry into space will become a common occurrence. But first, SpaceX has to stick the landing of the Superheavy rocket to prove the whole capture system works. So, there is a lot of urgency to increase the innovation rate to meet the missions’ needs because Starship is a key to NASA’s programs of returning to the moon, and this application process with the government is holding everything up needlessly.
To make matters worse, and to my point, you can’t put the heads of lazy people in compliance authority to the genuinely heroic efforts of manufacturing. It was never a math problem that would work, and Elon Musk has tried to play nice his whole life. And the Federal Aviation Association did pretty well with SpaceX until the second part of 2024 when Elon Musk formally endorsed Trump for president. Two iconic photos tell the complete story of the 2024 election cycle and precisely, this problem. The first is the attempted assassination of President Trump, where he is pumping his fist in the air with blood running down his face after just being shot in the head. Within moments of that picture hitting the public, Elon Musk formally endorsed President Trump for president, stepping away from years of supporting Democrats such as Joe Biden and Barack Obama. Elon Musk is hardly a conservative. But then again, neither is President Trump traditionally. But what they all have in common is the difficulty in dealing with government bureaucracy where entire groups of worthless people get mall cop authority over the titans of industry with the stroke of a pen. From there, the FAA stopped approving Musk’s applications for SpaceX flights, as if to punish him for supporting President Trump in any fashion. It all essentially started with that photo of Trump right after the assassination attempt, which has backfired massively in the intention of getting rid of Trump. Instead, it solidified him into the world’s consciousness in ways no political campaign could have done otherwise.
The other photo to come out of all this is when Trump returned to Butler, Pennsylvania, to finish what he started, which was interrupted by that assassination attempt. This time, Elon Musk came on stage to speak on behalf of President Trump. And Trump was in the picture standing at the podium calm and resolute, in the same spot where an assassin’s bullet had narrowly missed him just a few months earlier. And there he was, standing boldly to the possibility of death. Elon Musk, the wealthiest man in the world and one of the smartest who has declared himself to the task of carrying human civilization to space to colonize other planets, was jumping around on the stage like a little kid, excited about being there. The picture that was instantly famous is of Musk jumping in the air with joy at the prospect of Trump winning and deregulating his industry to the point where it has crippled his efforts in a way government pinheads only can. The joy is evident on Elon Musk’s face, the empowerment of taking back the government from the hands of the truly terrible, the people who are worthless in life and have only defined themselves as demanding that good people adhere to some government mob. Otherwise, punishment will follow. If you look across the world, especially across the regulatory industry, this communist push to make centralized government appeased has gone too far. And now there was proof that even the friendly and compliant Elon Musk would be punished if he didn’t support the tyrannical mob in government to the point that they would stonewall the permit process for his life’s work. That is why you can never give the government too much power over you; they always abuse it.
We’re not talking about making the world unsafe. There will always be a need for the government to provide some regulatory bumpers to hazardous conduct. However, the lesson everyone has had to learn is that capitalist practices are a far better regulator than government pinheads. Market conditions are far more potent because failure has a more significant impact than some regulatory committees. The case of the FAA holding up the next Starship flight has to do with concerns over the water system used for fire suppression having an environmental impact on the local wildlife. People have had it with this EPA argument. The earth serves humanity’s needs, not limit them to appeasement like a bunch of primitives sitting around a campfire throwing sticks at every noise in the dark. And that is what the government has been offering with its ridiculous rules centered around EPA concerns, which has just turned out to be a cover story for outright communism. And the mob mentality of the government these days who put their political opponents in jail and deny permits as punishment to those who don’t support them politically. Over the last four years, Biden has pushed too far and tyrannically, and his relationship with a former supporter, Elon Musk, has shattered. Musk was so happy about the revelation that he was glad to be on stage with Trump and put his entire support behind electing the President back into office so that he could get his company, SpaceX, moving again and not sitting around like a bunch of idiots waiting for the FAA to approve their launch application. If the permit process for these launches takes more than a few hours, it’s too long. And that holds in every industry. More compliance to senseless mobs of government power is not the wave of the future—quite the opposite. When Trump wins, he will put Musk in charge of improving the government’s work, including the ridiculous permit process holding SpaceX back. Elon Musk will finally be able to solve that problem directly. And he is jumping for joy, literally. And who will there be to blame in the end, the government that pushed too much and too far to advance tyranny and compliance to a bunch of worthless people who should have never been part of the process, to begin with? They will only be able to blame themselves for what they did.
Rich Hoffman
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