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FCC Reverses Musk's Starlink Subsidies

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Trump 2.0 is going to massively over-compensate for this fake scandal, and slather their favorite fake engineer billionaire manbaby with cash at every conceivable opportunity

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The first Trump FCC tried to give Musk nearly a billion dollars to deliver expensive Starlink access to some traffic medians and airport parking lots.

The Biden FCC clawed back most of those subsidies, arguing that the service couldn’t deliver consistent speeds.

Trump 2.0 is going to massively over-compensate for this fake scandal, and slather their favorite fake engineer billionaire manbaby with cash.

The GOP is convinced that Musk is an engineering super-genius who can fix government with a wave of his hand.

They genuinely have no idea that this persona was a press-enabled mythology providing cover for a rank opportunist who takes credit for other peoples’ ideas.

The tech press only belatedly discovered during his bungled takeover of Twitter .

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