STRANDED: Astronauts Were Trapped In Orbit While Biden Played Petty Politics
Biden did NOT give the go-ahead to save them
So much for that ‘Soul of the Nation’ brand Biden was trying to pitch. He put party politics above the lives of two stranded American astronauts.
That’s not just un-American, that’s the kind of technocratic indifference to human life you might expect of the Soviet space program, NOT NASA.
When Boeing and NASA fell short, and the Ukraine war took their hitch-a-ride-with-the-Russians Plan off the table, Biden administration still had someone they could have turned to… but they were too busy throwing the weight of the US government at harassing and impeding Elon’s various companies to ask him.
SpaceX had been to the Space Station before. More than once. But rather than call on Elon and risk him getting the chance to be a hero in cleaning up the mess that Boeing and NASA left behind, they did not give the go-ahead.
Under Trump, that policy is being reversed. Elon’s got a green light to bring them back to Earth, and so long as the mission goes smoothly, he thinks he can bring them home in about 4 weeks.
.@elonmusk: “At the President’s instruction, we are accelerating the return of the [NASA] astronauts [stranded on the International Space Station].”@POTUS: “They didn’t have the go-ahead with Biden. He was going to leave them in space!” pic.twitter.com/aTZ2zRTfDW
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 19, 2025
What kind of an inhuman and cheap view of the value of human life does a career politician need to have to make the decision that rescuing two people trapped in space — by a failure involving a joint venture with his own damn government in NASA — might benefit the *other* political party, and decide that’s a price he can’t afford to pay?
Anyone trying to pitch a story about the decent and honorable Joe Biden wakes up today finding out their spin job just got that much harder.