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‘What a lie’: Danish astronaut responds to Musk claim that Biden abandoned ISS pair on purpose

www.theguardian.com ‘What a lie’: Danish astronaut responds to Musk claim that Biden abandoned ISS pair on purpose

Musk claimed without evidence that Nasa’s Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were left stranded on the orbital outpost for ‘political reasons’

Summary

Elon Musk accused former president Joe Biden of stranding NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams on the ISS "for political reasons," prompting Danish astronaut Andreas "Andy" Mogensen to label the claim "a lie."

“What a lie. And from someone who complains about lack of honesty from the mainstream media,” wrote the 48-year-old European Space Agency astronaut.

Musk called Mogensen “fully retarded” and claimed SpaceX could’ve rescued the astronauts months ago, without evidence.

NASA refuted Musk’s abandonment claim, calling it baseless.

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Musk called Mogensen “fully retarded” and claimed SpaceX could’ve rescued the astronauts months ago, without evidence.
Ohh just like how he rescued the boys stuck in cave before the actual rescuer did.
- You know, I kinda can't wait for shit to start going wrong on their watch.
  Unfortunately, the more bad, the more quickly, the better.
  
  Unfortunately we're currently looking at their way of handling stuff that gone wrong, melon husk just have to say stupid stuff and start some stupid fight and people from both side will just focus on that.
  
  We need it to be far enough out they can't just blame the prior administration.
  
  like a bunch of plane crashes?
  
  A) there hasn't really been much of an uptick there overall B) it'd have to be wayyy more wrong than that to have an impact on the direction of things.
  
  Is this why the dems are standing aside?
  
  Yeah, the Dems should just be impeaching him with their minority in the House and their Minority in the Senate.
  
  They could be organising huge nationwide protests or storming the capitol like he did. They could be telling the truth like AOC and Bernie
  
  So.... They can do nothing of consequence.
  Don't forget they were already accused of being the boy that cried wolf before the election.
  
  Lets be honest, thats not nothing of consequence. Thats rounding the wagons up and energizing the base.
  There are three special elections coming up that could take away the GOP majority. They need to do things with high optics that show strength; things that energize the base. Saying "we cant do anything" regsrdless of the truth in it LOOKS WEAK. Thats not a way to show leadership.
  
  Thats rounding the wagons up and energizing the base.
  Soooo....... Nothing of consequence. Quite literally nothing of consequence. Like what did all those BLM protests do? Did it rally the voters? NOPE.
  And as much as a hate this phrase, they have to pick their battles. No one cares about USAID (oh wait this is lemmy who misreads. It is important, but at a voting level population that wins elections, far far far too few people care). At this point, pretty much the only people that care about the layoffs are the people laid off (again, talking about voting level population). They won't care until their social security stops coming, or their special needs kid gets defunded. That's how people operate. Dems have to pick a few items and really highlight them. If they pick everything, then nothing comes across.
  
  I get that you're disheartened but pick yourself up.
  Do you know that the vast majority of people lived in absolute poverty, working every working hour for not enough money to eat?
  That's really wage slaving, when you're too poor to have a home or even to rent a bed and you sleep stood up against a rope to stop you falling on the floor.
  Or you can't make it and you go into a workhouse, separated from your kids and made to work for no money and given gruel to eat.
  The way people got out of that hell was to organise, to fight, to keep fighting. That's how workers won ALL the rights which are normal in the west - minimum wage, no child labour, maternity pay... Every single decent law was fought for.
  So don't tell me we or you have it hard right now, just because things are harder than you're used to and we're all scared.
  We've had it easier all our lives and most of us didn't want to go out of our comfort zone to fight to make life better. Our chickens are coming home to roost now.
  Let's try to lift each other up instead of demoralising each other.

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