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Trump nominates Jared Isaacman—Shift4 CEO, commercial astronaut, and Musk friend—to be next NASA administrator.

www.cnbc.com Trump nominates Jared Isaacman, private astronaut and Shift4 CEO, for NASA chief

President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday nominated Jared Isaacman to be NASA Administrator.

“Jared will drive NASA’s mission of discovery and inspiration, paving the way for groundbreaking achievements in Space science, technology, and exploration,” Trump wrote in a post on social media.

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Yeah, so all those astronauts who used to say that they needed politicians to go to space so they could be in awe of the Earth and come back feeling like it's important to protect can be lumped in with all the idiots who say the world would be better if everyone took hallucinogens.
I think this guy and Musk prove both of those things to be fucking fantasies and copium, because for folks like this, nothing can shatter their worldview. They simply don't see the same earth or the same problems we do.
“Back at home we all have a lot of work to do, but from here, Earth sure looks like a perfect world,” Isaacman said during the spacewalk after emerging from the capsule.
- The kind of people for whom a total perspective vortex would have nil effect.
  
  I need a pan galactic gargle blaster.
- "everyone should take hallucinogens" is a way more legitimate take, backed by science
  
  Possibly...the counterexample is tech CEOs jetting off to Burning Man, tripping balls for a week, and coming up with app ideas for things nobody actually needs.
  Musk has used a lot of drugs, including psychedelics.
  Currently I'm in the middle of what's apparently one of his favorite book series....communism, post-scarcity, and frequent gender changing are featured front and center.
  The "everybody should take psychedelics" argument maybe carried some weight in the 60s when the "squares" were the ones in the way. (Though I still kinda doubt that because look who so many of those "free love" boomers turned into).
  But the Republicans of today are not the same as they were then. They are partying, smoking weed, and doing a whole lot of other drugs including psychedelics. It's possible to eat drugs, realize some profound things, become incredibly self-actualized, and be so addicted to power that it doesn't really matter anyways.
  Or just be so narcissistic that you just ignore the things you read in a book or think about on your acid trip and just carry on...
  I don't doubt the research into psychedelics, and their power on an individual level to help people work through things in a therapeutic way. I am starting to doubt the idea that "if everyone just tripped one time the world would be a better place".
  
  Hallucinogens make people more like they already are. That's not always a good thing.

Who did he rape?
- Hilarious and also legitimate question.
  
  First rape in space I’m guessing. Now that is a giant leap for mankind.
- No one, but he did pay Musk to go to space aboard Crew Dragon, and to do a spacewalk in a SpaceX EVA suit.
  
  I think it might be hard to be an astronaut and not have some sort of dealings with SpaceX these days
  
  The facts are we don’t really know. There may have been some shady backroom deal that required him to

Not great, not terrible
- Likely just going to shovel money at Space X.
  
  Yea, but he going to be really enthusiastic while he is shoveling money to both musk and perhaps himself. And he believes the moon landings are real.
  It could have been a moon landing denier or even a flat earther.
  There is a non zero chance he may actually be good for the space program in general? In the meantime the bar is lowered enough that this may be the best in a bad lot, even if this nomination redefines the term “industry capture”
  
  Still preferable to shoveling money at Boeing, no? At least SpaceX has a healthy launch cadence of reliable vehicles.
  
  And go all Waxahatchie on current NASA projects.

Non-title-gore version:
Trump nominates Jared Isaacman—Shift4 CEO, commercial astronaut, and Musk friend—to be next NASA administrator.

The bar is so low, the fact I could name whole groups of dumb fucks that would be worse in that position means this is one of Trump's better picks. Not that this guy's any good and won't try to funnel federal money towards himself and Musk.
- Trump's best is so far worse than anyone else's worst that there's no point ranking Trump's picks at all. It's like asking you which flavor of dogshit you prefer to be force-fed.
  
  You're right but the bar is so damn low right now that a relatively scentless piece of shit is preferable over one baked in the sun for days, the smell wafting into Canada.

A jerk with no scientific background. More kakistocracy.

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