What I don't get is what happened to 'I'm keeping spaceX private so we can actually get to mars', with the understanding that'd be almost impossible as a public company.
Welp, guess that idea got sold out...
Having a trans kid seems to have flipped him from "I must save humanity by colonizing Mars" to "I must save humanity by electing Donald Trump."
It fell into place for my dense ass when I heard someone muse that inside SpaceX the joke is "Mars == Wars"
True or not, it rings with reality IMO