The Guardian gives some good context on trump’s public back and forth on Isaacman, but it’s disappointing not to see a peep about what Sean Duffy has done to NASA in the intervening months. NASA has been gutted. Climate science is, predictably, especially disfavored, but they’ve also dealt a major blow to graduate academia and really all of science in the US.

Maybe now that most of the house has been burned down, Isaacman can be trusted to funnel much of the public purse into SpaceX or other rocketry billionaires and focus on Mars like a good boy. It doesn’t matter if he once voted Democrat if it’s too hard for him to put the old priorities back into place even if he wanted to.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Really reading the room after his rebuke last night.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

He can't even read a "Cat in the Hat" book.

[–] jaek@aussie.zone 5 points 5 days ago

That dudes head looks like an experimental glider.

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

And so NASAs focus shifts almost entirely to PR stunts

And watch him rename it XASA or NAXA or something stupid.

[–] trailee@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Make America Space Again

[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 days ago

MASA, an apt name for the current times. Billionaires want all of us to call them masa.