Subject: More phony heroics
The reason this kind of BS works for Trump is that he knows he has an audience of undiscerning folks who will only get their 'news' from sources that propagandize for him.

“I have just asked Elon Musk and @SpaceX to ‘go get’ the 2 brave astronauts who have been virtually abandoned in space by the Biden Administration. They have been waiting for many months on @Space Station. Elon will soon be on his way. Hopefully, all will be safe. Good luck Elon!!!”

once again: no, no, no, no, and fuck no. that’s not what’s happening.

--The astronauts Musk and Trump are presumably referencing are NASA's Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams. NASA has long said the crew isn't “stranded” and a plan to return them safely to Earth has been in place for months. In fact, NASA astronauts always train for lengthy missions and medical experts have kept a watchful eye on the health of the two during their extended stay.--

so no, MAGA, Sleepy Brandon didn’t abandon any astronauts in space. it’s just Donny Convict, playing with his Buzz Lightyear action figures — pew-pew! pew-pew! — and concocting some bullshit story that makes Dear Leader the hero at its center.

just as The Apprentice was carefully stage-managed and edited to make a blundering bankrupt buffoon look like the Smartest Businessman in the world, Donny’s second presidency is being carefully stage-managed and edited to make a reckless moron with the impulse control of a coked-up squirrel seem like a great strategist and statesman. he’s not just the Great General in the Battle of the Faucet — he’s also the Savior of the Space Program!

oh look, the Space Nazi is only too happy to play along.

“The @POTUS has asked @SpaceX to bring home the 2 astronauts stranded on the @Space_Station as soon as possible. We will do so. Terrible that the Biden administration left them there so long.”

it’s all Kabuki posturing, scripted to make Dear Leader look like a hero. because the Space Nazi knows the astronauts aren’t “stranded” — the plan for SpaceX to bring them home has been in the works since Sleepy Brandon was president. the Space Nazi was part of the planning.

now here’s a fun fact: it’s the Space Nazi’s own fault that those astronauts are still up there.

--But NASA updated that timeline in December, saying that SpaceX needed more time to complete the capsule it would use for the Crew-10 mission.--

so of course he wants to sweep his own blithering incompetence under the rug, and play along — because the more heroic Donny looks, the more heroic he looks.

and, once again, wingnut media is uncritically regurgitating all of this shit.

and once again, MAGA is uncritially swallowing everything they’re told.