“The California Coastal Commission puts the brakes on the future of space but allows nuclear waste 100 feet from the surf at San Onofre."
The hell-raising big-wave surfer Ian Cairns once chased a man into the traffic on the North Shore ready to disintegrate his foe and for a time there would slaughter any column of big waves that came his way.
Ian Cairns founded the modern version of professional surfing, long before it became a sideshow of longboarders in wave pools and world titles gifted to fragile little men in two-foot waves, and surfed with such force he once admitted, “I’ve got such a powerful bottom turn it’s berserk. It even surprises me sometimes.”
Ian Cairns’ political bent is skewed, I think it’s safe to say, slightly right.
So when the California Coastal Commission rejected Musk’s request for permission to launch fifty rockets a year from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County, a sight that would bring joy to anyone who thrills to the spectacle of man triumphing over his god-give limitations because of Musk’s political views, he pointed out the obvious hypocrisy.
“The California Coastal Commission puts the brakes on the future of space but allows nuclear waste storage 100’ from the surf at San Onofre,” Cairns tweeted. “Make it make sense. Four more years!”
According to reporting by Politico,
“Commissioners raised concerns about Musk’s political rhetoric, slammed the company’s labor record and questioned DOD’s contention that the launches should benefit from military permitting exemptions even if military payloads aren’t being carried.”
“I really appreciate the work of the Space Force,” said Commission Chair Caryl Hart. “But here we’re dealing with a company, the head of which has aggressively injected himself into the presidential race and he’s managed a company in a way that was just described by Commissioner Newsom that I find to be very disturbing.”
Where do you stand on the Musk question?
Those of us leaning left will hate, I predict.
Those from the centre-left, centre, centre-right and on the actual right will laud the work of Musk, and correctly I think.
For his part, Musk just tweeted: “Incredibly inappropriate. What I post on this platform has nothing to do with a “coastal commission” in California! Filing suit against them on Monday for violating the First Amendment.”
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I see there are mostly liberal morons and CCC and Newsome bootlickers on here. Let me break down how stupid the CCC decision is so you simpletons can understand. They decided to not let spacex increase launches at least in part, according to them, because Elon is guilty of wrong-think, and has posted some completely unrelated things the board subjectively have issues with. All this accomplishes is prevents what would have been many more high paying engineering and aerospace jobs to California, and help keep the US ahead of our adversaries in the access to space. All because some crybaby libs don’t like Elon anymore since he no longer shares the same political viewpoint. Now California and the US as a whole are set back because some democrats had their feelings hurt. Then we all wonder why California is in such a sorry state. It’s almost as if democrats making decisions based on feelings instead of reason and logic are detrimental to the well being of their own state….
If you live in Lompoc you know 50 launches a year is 25 to many… as far as “nuclear waste”…. That’s what’s between his ears…. A complete lie.
The studies show that the animals arent effected. Only kooks, cucks and white liberal women in Ojai.
Now THIS is the hard-hitting journalism that I expect Beach Grit to write about!
He’s right. Whether you are left, center or right politically. Politics shouldn’t have any input on these decisions. One thing I would love to know is if this Commissioner Newsom is related to Govenor Newsom. Newsom isn’t a very common name and political nepotism is rampant in California and it should stop. It reminds me of that scene in the move Casino where everyone’s family is “juiced in” with no-show or gambling jobs in the casinos. BTW, A thing that still goes on in Nevada.
His political views were not in question. He’s free to believe what he wants. The issue the state has was with him spreading false political information about others. He can state his own views but lying about others is a different issue.
This is a rehash of “if Obama is elected, he’ll take everyone’s guns away.”
Are you really that dumb?
The marxist cabal that rules California have no brains. They also dont care about creating jobs in this state. Its no wonder California is losing its working population to other states with sane policies. How are you going to make the welfare payments to the drones when the people who work and pay taxes leave the state?
Why the christian downvotes ?
As a Californian, I’m glad they didn’t let him launch here. Fuck Elon. He’s an entitled “dark MAGA” dumbass.
Another welfare drone speaks up.
Loser,,,,,
Not all of us are brainwashed MAGAts 🖕🏼💙
Instead you are a brainwashed lefty sock puppet….Got it, thanks.
My favourite PIL song. Cheers.
Sooo good
They’re eating the dogs they’re eating the cats instead of eating Stormy’s p### like I did.
Gavin is #1 liberal cuck.
even MR? Savage!
‘Commissioner Newsome’? Edging ever closer to Chairman Mao territory, seems like.
“aggressively injected himself into the presidential race”… Which of course, had he ‘injected himself’ to support the other side, there’d be no problem whatsoever… They’d all still consider him a hero.
Only a surfer knows the feeling, brah 🤙🤙
if you surf, never stop
He totally trash talks California but can’t stay away…
Foreigner Ian Cairns bellowing about foreigner Elon Musk. get stuffed
I bet their fav band is Foreigner.
is Tim the same guy who banged Shaun Tomson’s wife? And if so, has he banged every single wife of every single Aussie or Saffo of Bustin Down the Door fame?