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Remember when everyone was supposed to get “DOGE dividends” and $2,000 tariff rebates? Now Elon Musk is promising to give every child a SpaceX share, while Trump is claiming he'll dole out $5,000 checks if Republicans win the midterms. Their desperation is showing. Don’t be fooled.

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My wife and I used to be Muslim (we're atheists now), she Shi'a and me Sunni, and somehow we missed this. Mostly we were told to tell the truth even if we stand alone, for Allah (swt) loves the truthful. Ineed, the whole point of Islam is that it is the Truth.

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That would give it a similar ownership structure to other large defense contractors like Northrop Grumman.

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Realistically, I think it would be unwise to nationalize SpaceX - we have national SpaceX, we call it NASA - but I imagine creative application of the president's national security industrial policy powers might be able to force it to go public on an 1-vote-1-share structure with Musk forced out.

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