Telling him to go back to where he's from, he and his friends are so fond of saying that to others.

It’d be a lot of people leaving America to work at his companies in Africa if this were to happen.

I think he's going to fizzle in the near future so I don't think he'll have that impact. I think mos employees will have left him by then, he's not a very good boss.

If half go with him, it would have some sort of impact.

Other havoc and economic devastation that will be going on, I don't see where he'll matter by then.

He's at the point in his Icarus flight where he'll be getting the pitchfork treatment sometime next year.

We definitely don't want SpaceX to leave. There are lots of government contracts with them, probably due to an under-funded NASA.

we're all dead, the planet will be a wasteland, and anything you like about this place will be gone. Maybe not everything if you like cockroaches, but you won't be around to appreciate them. Mothball NASA except for weather and climate science.

If NASA can't do the job, SpaceX is needed at this time.

instead of funding SpaceX so they can do it. if we pay for it we should own it, not Elon. This is how he gets rich and then tells everybody else not to rely on government funding when they need for, say, food, or retirement.

The NASA budget should be $50 billion a year or more.

Due to mission control redundancy concerns.

You are probably thinking of the vanity mission to irradiate a billionaire (nominated to be the head of NASA by the acting co-president-elect whatizname) in the Van Allen belts.

I was talking about this one:

https://apnews.com/article/spacex-launch-boeing-nasa-stuck-astronauts-e179d0dc6c77d224278fd0430148ff8b


Of course, I'm sure NASA would have stepped in had there been no SpaceX.

It was very helpful to Ukraine until he withheld it for some critical battles. If this technology has that kind of power someone will be developing it so I don't see us just leaving it to others. It just shouldn't be used at the whims of a private citizen.

Of course, now it's dangerous in government hands. To your point, I guess. But one could extrapolate that to, our whole CIA/FBI/military is a securtiy risk to America. As is Trump and his cabinet.

Spacex is not.

but should be in government hands. Theoretically. Except when the government is just as bad (or the same) as the private citizen who is playing with our money.

I'm not anit-government. But what will it look like after Jan. 20? It appears it will be Trump and Elon's playground.

My guess is not many. Call the bluff

gap, greed never escapes them.

denaturalized and deported, as far as I'm concerned. Yesterday isn't soon enough. I' sure South Africa would welcome the $$$, no?

But only after seizing his assets.

he probably worked in the U.S. illegally in the 90s. So another that got in the door and slammed it shut after he made it.

Sorry to be blunt.

We only deport poor people. So the answer to the question is obvious.

as he did not get his debt ceiling longer term raise (for Trump's shitfuck tax cuts for the rich and his attempt to deport millions of undocumented people)

and he's very happy about that

Neither will Canada

Stop Afrikaner-splaining to Americans how our government should be run. Even if you ARE a naturalized citizen, that doesn't mean you know more than the rest of us do about our own fucking country!

Like he's a potential cardiac risk....overweight, pasty, and hard-driving. Also, probably very stressed. And the rumored drugs can't be helping.

but look what Trump has survived

The first defense is ridiculous.
Around 60% of his net worth is Tesla. He moves all the jobs, the enormous capital cost & the disruption in production would devalue the stock.
He's trying to become the first trillionaire. Doing something to lower stock value is not on his agenda.