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Elon Musk pulls back on threat to withdraw
Dragon spacecraft

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Posted By: FlyRight, 6/6/2025 2:51:21 PM

As President Donald Trump and Elon Musk argued on social media on Thursday, the world’s richest man threatened to decommission a space capsule used to take astronauts and supplies to the International Space Station. A few hours later, Musk said he wouldn’t follow through on the threat. After Trump threatened to cut government contracts given to Musk’s SpaceX rocket company and his Starlink internet satellite services, Musk responded via X that SpaceX “will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately.”

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Newtsche 6/6/2025 3:01:25 PM (No. 1960829)
Elon blinks.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: zephyrgirl 6/6/2025 3:15:45 PM (No. 1960834)
I'm guessing that something has worn off and he's realizing that he stepped in it big time.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Jesuslover54 6/6/2025 3:47:25 PM (No. 1960851)
Smart move.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: TexasHillCountry 6/6/2025 3:48:53 PM (No. 1960852)
An intelligent step, Mr. Musk. Many of us have been hoping and voting for smaller, less expensive and intrusive gov't. Sometimes we have had to settle for smaller increments of progress than we might have liked but that is the gritty, grimy nature of politics.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: DVC 6/6/2025 3:49:14 PM (No. 1960853)
More and more, I believe this was a performance by Elon and Donald to try to help Elon get back somewhat in the good graces of the vast numbers of TDS folks out there, who he has as customers for his companies.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: earlybird 6/6/2025 3:51:21 PM (No. 1960855)
Elon forgot who was president. He also said PDJT was "ungrateful" which end not true. Taking his complaints to X was inappropriate to the max, and the lying slurs against our President were ugly and unalledfor. Elon shrunk himself.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Venturer 6/6/2025 4:31:17 PM (No. 1960869)
I thought Elon was much smarter than to make such a stupid threat. You can be upset, even angry, bit never take a dump in your mess kit.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: DVC 6/6/2025 4:57:24 PM (No. 1960874)
Signed contracts and billions of dollars......
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Reply 9 - Posted by: VirtuDawg 6/6/2025 7:18:23 PM (No. 1960910)
It liooks like Elon’s ego got WAY ahead of his common sense , . .
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Reply 10 - Posted by: billa57 6/7/2025 6:40:05 AM (No. 1961011)
Elon must be careful not to step into the black hole of neither party buying your products anymore. It's a death noll to any business.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: bpl40 6/7/2025 6:55:26 AM (No. 1961017)
I think this is pre-arranged five dimensional chess designed to give Musk breathing room. Let us wait and see!
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Reply 12 - Posted by: anniebc 6/7/2025 7:30:13 AM (No. 1961030)
This is a crap show.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Lazyman 6/7/2025 7:32:40 AM (No. 1961032)
I'm betting he wasn't always a hip shooter. Must be the ego developed over the years.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Msquared112 6/7/2025 8:05:09 AM (No. 1961044)
Elon's impulse control is a problem. He's autistic with a teen's gamer mindset. He may be fabulously wealthy and a niche genius, but he lacks wisdom and experience of the kind Trump has. They should make up.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: felixcat 6/7/2025 8:39:26 AM (No. 1961057)
Elon has to remember that the way to reduce government spending (and since entitlements programs are being spared unfortunately) is for Congress to pass a budget for each Department. Not more of these omnibus bills that cover the entire federal government and are so large no one can pick through for all the pork and waste. No more CRs which just rubber-stamp and repeat the same spending levels year after year without any review. The Big Beautiful Bill is to make the 2017 Trump tax cuts permanent. Yes, it's not perfect but when you have republicans like Lawler and Collins, ya gotta deal with their non-conservative desires.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 6/7/2025 9:21:25 AM (No. 1961075)
Like I said yesterday, it's all a superb head fake. Trump and Elon are working together to get the msm and deep state off of Elon's back. The appearance of them having a big snit with each other is all for show. So far it is working.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua 6/7/2025 10:27:39 AM (No. 1961100)
Play nice guys or go to your rooms for a 'timeout'.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: gto1344 6/7/2025 1:13:43 PM (No. 1961146)
Elon needs to run for office and make the changes that he wants.
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