{"id":49012,"date":"2025-07-31T02:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T02:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/49012\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T02:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T02:21:10","slug":"franklin-foer-elon-the-man-who-ate-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/49012\/","title":{"rendered":"Franklin Foer: Elon, the Man Who Ate NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rise of Elon\u2014and why he is still involved with our government\u2014has everything to do with the dimming of America&#8217;s one-time crown jewel, NASA. We are now dependent on his rockets and his satellites because Obama and the U.S. government saved SpaceX. Of course, Elon&#8217;s hypocrisy knows no bounds, because when he had the power, he quickly worked to dismantle the very same government that came to his rescue. The Atlantic&#8217;s Franklin Foer explains how NASA engineered its own decline, as well as Elon&#8217;s prophecy about becoming the engineer savior who colonizes Mars. Plus, Zelensky&#8217;s giant misstep on corruption, and how humanitarian groups need to get back into Gaza to flood it with food.<\/p>\n<p> Frank Foer joins Tim Miller.<\/p>\n<p data-attrs=\"{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.thebulwark.com\/p\/franklin-foer-elon-the-man-who-ate\/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}\" data-component-name=\"ButtonCreateButton\" class=\"button-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebulwark.com\/p\/franklin-foer-elon-the-man-who-ate\/comments\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"button primary\" target=\"_blank\">Leave a comment<\/a><\/p>\n<p>show notes<\/p>\n<p>As always: Watch, listen, and leave a comment. <\/p>\n<p>Ad-free editions of The Bulwark Podcast are available exclusively for Bulwark+ members. <\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t care for video? Use the controls on the left-hand side of the player to toggle to audio. <\/p>\n<p>The Bulwark Podcast is available wherever you get podcasts and on YouTube. Add the show to your player of choice, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebulwark.com\/s\/bulwarkpodcast\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The rise of Elon\u2014and why he is still involved with our government\u2014has everything to do with the dimming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-49012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}