As Elon Achieves Unimaginable Scientific Milestones, California REFUSES Elon Musk’s SpaceX Launches Because of His Tweets

Today Elon Musk is achieving unimaginable feats – the greatest yet in human history. He is national treasure, the greatest scientific mind of our time. And the idea that the Democrat government is using it’s absolute power to hinder and halt the human mind, hold back mankind, is its greatest crime.

The Democrat government is the greatest threat to life, liberty and our pursuit of happiness – the very founding our country.

One can only imagine what 21st century Democrats would have done to Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell……

“The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.” This means that the government is not the ruler, but the servant or agent of the citizens; it means that the government as such has no rights except the rights delegated to it by the citizens for a specific purpose.” Ayn Rand

BREAKING: SpaceX just successfully caught its Super Heavy rocket booster in mid-air on its first try! This is the first time anyone has accomplished such a feat, marking one of the most significant engineering achievements in human history.

Congrats @SpaceX team! pic.twitter.com/Ho7DIUap23

— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) October 13, 2024

The tower has caught the rocket!!
pic.twitter.com/CPXsHJBdUh

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 13, 2024

Elon just turned science fiction into reality pic.twitter.com/T1ODTQOQyX

— Hodgetwins (@hodgetwins) October 13, 2024

Ship landed precisely on target!

Second of the two objectives achieved. https://t.co/aMnllnkyzP

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 13, 2024

The government disagrees with @elonmusk’s X posts.

Therefore they have decided to deny regulatory approval to his commercial ventures and admit it openly.

This is what tyrannical government looks like. pic.twitter.com/0wCNN3FvgN

— Kevin Bass PhD MS (@kevinnbass) October 12, 2024

I wasn’t making this up. The California Coastal Commission literally says in their reasoning that they aren’t going to approve more launches for SpaceX because they don’t like Elon’s posts on X. https://t.co/H6UBloiIAk pic.twitter.com/3C4xbhI0LV

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) October 12, 2024

John Galt’s speech: “The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man’s rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper government is only a policeman, acting as an agent of man’s self-defense, and, as such, may resort to force only against those who start the use of force. The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign invaders; and the courts, to protect your property and contracts from breach or fraud by others, to settle disputes by rational rules, according to objective law. But a government that initiates the employment of force against men who had forced no one, the employment of armed compulsion against disarmed victims, is a nightmare infernal machine designed to annihilate morality: such a government reverses its only moral purpose and switches from the role of protector to the role of man’s deadliest enemy, from the role of policeman to the role of a criminal vested with the right to the wielding of violence against victims deprived of the right of self-defense. Such a government substitutes for morality the following rule of social conduct: you may do whatever you please to your neighbor, provided your gang is bigger than his.”

California commission rejects SpaceX plan over Musk’s politics

By Andi Shae Napier, The Washington Examiner, October 11, 2024:
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Elon Musk’s posts on X were mentioned by the California Coastal Commission on Thursday as a deterrent for allowing more SpaceX rockets to launch from the state’s coastline.

From posts about the presidential election to posts about Hurricane Helene and Federal Emergency Management Agency misinformation, the CCC found them substantial enough to block the Air Force’s plan to give SpaceX permission to launch up to 50 rockets a year from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County.

“Elon Musk is hopping about the country, spewing and tweeting political falsehoods and attacking FEMA while claiming his desire to help the hurricane victims with free Starlink access to the internet,” Commissioner Gretchen Newsom said at the meeting in San Diego.

The agency’s commissioners were appointed by the governor and legislative leaders. The SpaceX plan was rejected in a 6-4 vote, but there were other concerns besides Musk’s posts, such as SpaceX’s launches being considered military activity, shielding Musk from having to get his own permits.

“I do believe that the Space Force has failed to establish that SpaceX is a part of the federal government, part of our defense,” Commissioner Dayna Bochco said.

The CCC is known for its unwavering dedication to defending the coastline and public access to it. Since the Department of Defense asked to increase SpaceX’s Vandenberg satellite launches from six to 36 per year in May 2023, the agency has been at odds with the Air Force’s Space Force branch.

The CCC was worried about the environmental impacts of the launches, which disturb wildlife, such as threatened species, and people enjoying the California coast who have to leave every time there is a launch.

The CCC eventually agreed to the plan of 36 launches in August on the condition that the Space Force take environmental protection and coastal access seriously, which military officials did not commit to at the meeting, upsetting the CCC.

“Space Force came here and intentionally disrespected us,” Bochco said at the August meeting in which the vote was decided.

The two groups came together in agreement in September when the Air Force said the Space Force would adhere to the CCC’s seven conditions, which include increasing wildlife monitoring and decreasing sonic booms. There was a push toward an agreement by a group of bipartisan state and federal lawmakers who said California should take advantage of the DOD’s embrace of the commercial space industry.

Yet the welcoming attitude toward the Space Force fell away when the actions of Musk, the head of SpaceX, were called into play, as well as the Space Force’s labor record and the opportunity for SpaceX to find loopholes in military permit exemptions.

“I really appreciate the work of the Space Force,” Commission Chairwoman Caryl Hart said. “But here we’re dealing with a company, the head of which has aggressively injected himself into the presidential race, and he’s managed a company in a way that was just described by Commissioner Newsom that I find to be very disturbing.”