You raise some interesting points.... Here’s the thing about “his billions”. They are literally all “paper” and debt. He did go “all in” during the grim times for both SpaceX and Tesla. Bully for him, he laid his cajones out there and went for it. But all his liquidity (and his previous X.com and PayPal winnings) was…

I think random drug testing is required for CAC card base access, so theoretically he could fail and get all access restricted.  There are also “approved vendor lists” that GSA administers... and you don’t want to be a contractor on the “restricted” list with a history of non-compliance with soft program requirements…

Well, canceling his clearance and the clearance of other SpaceXers on the base at Vandenberg is going to make life more difficult. These military bases take drug use seriously.

Cancel his clearance or risk losing the ability to ding anyone else for it. As seen with Hillary, the very next person to get in trouble for “accidental” mishandling of classified info hired a lawyer that pointed to precedent.

The Air Force could revoke his security clearance which will make it very hard for SpaceX to receive government contracts. The Air Force itself, despite what the article writer and others might think, would be largely unaffected by this given their own internal space launch capabilities and the capabilities they use…

You know....it makes sense that Republicans don’t give a shit about kids getting shot in schools. Young people tend to be more idealist and progressive, so the less of them that make it to voting age, the better.

Yes they could cancel because SpaceX isn’t the only player in the game.

Previously the Air Force used Lockheed Martin Space Systems and Boeing Defense, Space & Security and their joint venture, United Launch Alliance.

Cancel their contracts and send their shit to space on balloons ULA?

That doesn’t fill me with hope.

I understand that being locked in a cage for 27 years would take a serious mental toll on anyone, but his demeanor is so different he’s basically a completely different character.

Solitary confinement in modern prisons consists of the prisoner being housed in a small, lighted cell, receiving meals from guards, and…

God. I forgot about him. The Republicans are just so full of vile monsters I can’t even keep track anymore 

Need a source on this.

Two words: Dennis Hastert

Right cause high school coaches are famous for being perfect. I was going to link you an article about one abusing a student but a quick google search brought up so many different instances I was too depressed to bother

The whole thing stinks. Kavanaugh has committed perjury, of that I have no doubt. He had $60-250k of debt for "baseball tickets" disappear virtually overnight. I'm guessing he's a gambling addict from some things that have surfaced. 

I feel the same.  My dad worked in network news at the time, and, while I thought I had caught on to what was happening, the scales really fell from my eyes when I heard him testify.

I was 12 when Watergate happened. Didn’t really get it, at first.

We are watching, in slow motion, the whole ballgame (to quote Charlie Pierce). Kavanaugh is the seat the GOP needs to get decades of 6-3 and 5-4 decisions in favor of corporations, to literally dismantle the progress of the 20th century. This is the ballgame.

Because Allan heard the gunshot of himself being killed in the future when he first came back to see her years earlier. That’s much more than normal Alzheimers, that requires some timey-wimey stuff.