We were just talking about this dude a few months ago with the Polaris Dawn private space mission. I’ve done a little reading on this guy and while he’s pretty tight with Musk and Space X, he’s avoided the political arena. On Musk, he’s said

“I don’t need to have a public opinion on his politics because there is much more to the man and his companies,” Isaacman said of Musk in an October 11 post. “What I care about are the enormous world changing problems Elon and his companies are working to solve and generally, how I can help.”
“I respect people’s passionate views on emotionally charged topics like politics, but I am anchored in the center and will always aim to be a unifier rather than a divider,” he wrote in a November 6 post on X.

A bit fuzzy, but better than the insanity coming out of a lot of Trump appointees. I think space exploration is likely to get a big boost in the coming years. Is that worth all the damage Trump will cause to the planet? Hell no!

But I’m going to try and take a positive spin here. Conversion to renewable energy sources will happen no matter what the Orange Clown does at this stage simply because it’s cheaper than coal and oil and will soon be cheaper than natural gas. EVs will continue to grow because other nations will make them, and Trump will want to keep Musk happy. NATO nations may suck up to Trump and tell him how “brilliant” he is enough times that he actually doesn’t pull out of the alliance. The guardrails of our institutions might once again withstand Trump’s authoritarian onslaught. Or maybe the POS will die in office and JD will revert to a traditional republican, i.e., pro NATO, pro Democracy? Nobody knows what this asswipe really believes.

This is my thin hope. And then NASA and the boom in space exploration might be one small silver lining.