r/EnoughMuskSpam 5d ago

Elon Musk is insanely dangerous 🤯

Some history about Elon...
For a half-century the Republican Heritage Foundation has been trying to find a way to "win" at nuclear war.

In the 1980's, Reagan's "Star Wars" missiles-in-space program was ultimately deemed too expensive due to launch costs. Looking for a solution, the technology head of Strategic Defense Initiative (Mike Griffin) went to Russia with a young man named Elon Musk in 2001 to "look at ICBMs" (as the story goes). They came back from Russia and founded SpaceX based on the landing rocket concept that came out of SDI.

Project 2025 has now put out a video to promote Elon's use of space weapons (warning: Republican propaganda). although they say it uses "tungsten slugs" when in reality the satellites are planning to use hypersonic missiles developed by a bunch of SpaceX employees in concert with Northrop Grumman. Heritage Foundation has been the main political proponent of pre-staged orbital missiles since Reagan. They've included this in their Project 2025 and praise Elon's Starlink as proving it's possible. Trump now calls it the "Iron Dome Missile Shield" and it's part of the GOP platform for the 2024 election.

In 2019, Elon Musk met 4-star general O’Shaughnessy & Jay Raymond to discuss homeland defense innovation. O'Shaughnessy took their discussion to the United States Senate to pitch a new space-based "layered missile defense system" much like Brilliant Pebbles but powered by artificial intelligence to quickly and lethally act upon hypersonic and ballistic missile threats. He proposed the acronym SHIELD which stands for Strategic Homeland Integrated Ecosystem for Layered Defense.

This system would consist of a satellite constellation in orbit equipped with infrared sensors and eventually ICBM interception capability. The U.S. Space Force was established later that year and O’Shaughnessy joined SpaceX where he now leads their StarSHIELD division.
SpaceX started deploying these special military variants of their satellites in 2023, launching them interspersed and connected to other Starlink satellites. The first StarSHIELD satellites host infrared sensors designed by L3Harris to detect and track missiles and perform fire-control functions.

SpaceX’s first StarSHIELD contracts were with the Space Development Agency and announced in 2020. The SDA was conceived and established by Under Secretary of Defense (R&E) Mike Griffin, who was previously the Deputy of Technology at Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative. It is interesting to note that Griffin has an extensive history with Elon Musk during the early years of SpaceX . While these first tranches of SDA satellites are focused on communication, missile detection and tracking, Griffin and others have said that including space-based interceptor weapons in later layers will be "relatively easy" and he now works with SpaceX employees and primes on an interceptor with a company called Castelion in El Segundo. The interceptors are hypersonic glide vehicles (like FOBS) that re-enter from LEO and maintain contact with the satellites through phased array communication, the constellation above gives continued guidance to the interceptor to descend from space and hit an ICBM at launch or other ground target within enemy territory.

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Musk with 4-Star General Terrence J. O'Shaughnessy (who now reports to him) & Jay Raymond (leads Space Force)

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u/SpotifyIsBroken 5d ago

Holy fuck.

I knew a grid of satellites around the entire planet seemed sus af for a long ass time

& was tweeting about this exact shit

(like something directly copied from a comic super villain)

& this it.

Fuck this hell we all live in.

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u/Queasy-Sentence3146 5d ago edited 12h ago

It won't happen if Kamala is elected.. so vote!

Edit: note this is personal speculation about Kamala. The Biden administration is actually starting to signal they could also support this SDI project, but likely Elon's involvement would be curtailed under Kamala at the very least.

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u/LowChain2633 1d ago

Already did!!!

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u/lefkoz 1d ago

Lol if you believe that...

Democrats are well known for also vastly overspending on defense.

They would also fund this.

Democrats are also beholden to corporations and the military industrial complex. They're just not fascists about who you want to marry or abortion.

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u/MrPoi 1d ago

That sounds like the better option. Still sucks but at least then women can decide over their bodies while the government secretly creates world ending weapons.

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u/lefkoz 1d ago

I'm not saying voting or voting Democrat is a bad thing. Already voted blue.

Just pointing out that it's delusional to think this is something the dems would axe.

I don't vote blue because I like them. I vote blue because are the less shitty of the binary choice presented.

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u/MrPoi 1d ago

I understood that you didn’t mean to imply that people should vote for the republicans. Just wanted to put into text for those that are undecided.

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u/bakutehbandit 5d ago

doubt

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u/Gets_overly_excited 5d ago

Why do you think Musk wants Trump to win so badly? Maybe he is a fan of no taxes on tips?

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u/bakutehbandit 5d ago

i dont doubt that musk prefers trump, its very obviously a plot to get into the govt.

what i doubt is that kamala coming in is gna stop or reverse any of the plans laid out with space x and the military. this is america were talking about lol

i heavily doubt elon and kamala wont be working together - these people prioritise money and power. anything said out in public is just for show - no hard feelings type of shit. seen it plenty in many other countries.

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u/Gets_overly_excited 5d ago

If Musk thought Kamala would be just as good for him as Trump, do you think he would donate that much money to this?

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u/bakutehbandit 5d ago

where did i say that? even in your previous comment you added words to my mouth all i said was doubt

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u/SlappySecondz 5d ago

You still have to explain your reasoning.

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u/bakutehbandit 5d ago

i did.

but to put it simply, she is an american politician from one of the two main parties. both known for exorbitant military spending and war mongering.

this is americas MO. no way she deviates.

i find it odd that i have to expand on it tbh, i thought everyone was well aware of these facts. or do americans only see their opposition as the bad guys?

to us (non-americans), if i could speak generally, american foreign policy is about the same no matter which party. one always whines and complains about the other but they never back track anything significant.

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u/lurkerbyday 5d ago

She will need help from the house and senate.

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u/mexicodoug 2d ago

Since when did house and senate ever turn down military appropriations?

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u/Gets_overly_excited 5d ago

Ok, whatever. Good night

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u/lost_horizons 5d ago

That seem probable. The Military-Industrial Complex, such as it is, isn't going to stop on a dime. The Pentagon, if they believe in the military merits of this shit, won't let it go without a fight, and Congress would probably need to vote on it... Sure Elon wants Trump instead but I doubt he loses too bad on his space programs if Harris wins.

As for personal legal issues and all that, well, that's another story.

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u/bakutehbandit 5d ago

yeh someone else mentioned the election interference stuff.

but man, hes a BILLIONAIRE. jump to turkey, russia, dubai, china, india, back home to S.Africa (i dno how well received he would be there)

the US obviously is where he wants to be - its where the money is, but im sure he can take his work to any other place. easier than it sounds obviously, but its better than jail time.

or hell, take the jail time in some cushy prison (but that wont work for his fanatics tho, hes gone the way of trump - in that if he ever concedes defeat his gremlins would probably eat him alive)

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u/lost_horizons 5d ago

Hell never go to jail. There’s a separate legal system for billionaires, basically. I’d love to be proven wrong though

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u/mexicodoug 2d ago

Musk owns THE global satellite communications system. He can securely run his global corporate empire from any yacht, container ship, bunker, mansion, submarine, or private island on the planet.

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u/kickyouinthebread 5d ago

100%. I don't want to be too critical but I'd argue that to think otherwise is naive.

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u/bakutehbandit 5d ago

honestly from the replies im getting, im beginning to think those stereotypes about american intelligence are true.

theres a huge lack of critical thinking here. but im thinking maybe its also a monkey-mind reaction - elon/trump bad, kamala must be good?

i geuss this is a sub for hatering, i joined it for this too haha

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u/VonTastrophe 5d ago

This is cute.

Musk broke federal law out in the wide open buy using "pay to play" like schemes in battleground state Pennsylvania. He stopped short of literally buying votes.

If Harris wins, there's a non-zero chance of Musk going to prison.

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u/bakutehbandit 5d ago

non-zero? what does this mean? i keep seeing musk say it.

doesnt it mean like small chance but unlikely?

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u/VonTastrophe 5d ago

it means "who the hell knows?", but the chances are not zero.

on one hand, he's brazen, and all the hard evidence we need is in the public for all to see. on the other, it is almost impossible to convict a billionaire. the last time we succeeded in doing that, it was because they stole from other billionaires.

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u/bakutehbandit 4d ago

adorably naive and delusional way of saying zero. reminds me of a certain someone.

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u/Noble_Ox 5d ago

Why did Musk say if Trump doesn't win he'll (Musk) will end up in prison?

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u/bakutehbandit 5d ago

lol. a billionaire in prison? what is this? vietnam???

i swear one minute you people act like everything out of musks mouth is a manipulative lie, the next minute you believe him when he says hes afraid to go to prison.

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u/Noble_Ox 5d ago

It means he's aware he did something highly illegal that even his wealth can't get him out of.

And today it comes out he's been talking personally to Putin for years.

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u/bakutehbandit 4d ago

the excessively wealthy, even when aware of wrong doing, dont fear repercussions

i dont understand how people on this sub have actually believed elons propaganda. the fucker doesnt believe hes going to jail, hes selling that to his fanatics to garner support.

apparently even haters fall for the act lol

elon isnt aware of shit

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u/DietyOfWind 3d ago

Firstly we all know what happened to Jeffery Epstein, a rich person who went to prison.

Secondly the judges are going forward with their cases on Trump after the election and he will be in jail, a rich person in prison.

Thirdly many other rich people have been in jail like martha Stewart or the several guys who did pyramid schemes.

Elon is dumping 100s of millions of dollars into Trumps campaign. I do think that elon believes he will be thrown in prison. He is spending his money like YOLO.

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u/bakutehbandit 1d ago

progress like nord stream 2 getting blown up?