"Unless Trump wins and we get rid of the mountain of smothering regulations (that have nothing to do with safety!) humanity will never reach Mars. This is existential."

What regulations? This is the US you already have the anarchy you want.

Also, you admitted it yourself Musk. Only stupid people would trust you. You used that as a legal defense.

lmao I'm so fucking glad he outed himself to a much wider population as a lil' ol' not-smart weirdo with... y'know... everything he's done recently

Still not ideal

So this story arc is liable to be the funniest. I'm calling it now, we will see Elon Musk get blown up in his own wizz-bang xp5000 while attempting to escape Earth. It will be due to a faulty pressurized fuel valve that he directly ordered not to be thoroughly tested because "move fast and break things". The black box, once recovered, will show that he died moments before the big boom of a stroke from doing absolutely zero g force conditioning and having a Neurolink. Boring Star X-r corp will announce that it's okay, they downloaded his brain before lift off, and proceed to call a press conference to watch as they switch on their digital Musk. The machine only beeps once and does nothing, they are unable to recover any coherent data. Still love the space ship tho.