Yeah, Stewart admitted as much during the clip.

LOL their "stenciled" signs are identical, including margins.

Because in the fascist mindset, art as expression, outlet or simple fun is useless and/or dangerous.

Art must serve a practical purpose, like propaganda. Otherwise it's subversive, a threat to power.

The machine will obey unquestioningly ; Once you have it, you can just remove the human artists.

Musk ought to know that.

Musk likely DOES know that, and is just trying to manipulate people. 15/15

tl ; dr

Musk is lying. Trump is lying. Trump-supporting media are also lying.

The astronauts were not left on the ISS until yesterday because of some "political goal", it was a careful decision, the safest course, and Musk's company did not have the technical capability to do it better. 14/15

That would leave the crew on the ISS without a proper ride home for about three weeks, vs. putting them on a rush job, uncertified ship yanked from the proper human certification pipeline.

Staying on the ISS is pretty safe, so they went with that. 13/15

Now ask yourselves: What was the alternative?

Well, the alternative was to delay Crew-9, launch it with two empty seats and two return suits for the Starliner crew, and just have them both come back with the regular rotation. 12/15

While it may have been technically possible to just grab either one, rush job to put it on top of a Falcon 9 and launch, it would've been INCREDIBLY unsafe.

And NASA already has a high enough astronaut body count to be very, very wary of taking this kind of risk without a damn good reason. 11/15

The only options for an extra mission were C213 or C210.
C213 was never flown and was having serious technical issues.

C210 was still being refurbished for Axiom Ax-4. 10/15

C206 was still on the ISS ; Using that would've just left two other astronauts behin.

C207 couldn't dock.

C212 was slated for Crew-9 and using it for a rescue mission would've meant an undercrewed ISS until March next year. ISS crews are already barely adequate to keep up with maintenance. 9/15

DRAGON C212: Already refurbished, ready to fly Crew-9 to the ISS in late September.

Review this list ; Musk claims that SpaceX could've launched an extra ISS mission between August and September specifically to return the Starliner astronauts.

But they had no ship which could've done that. 8/15

DRAGON C206: Docked on the ISS as part of Crew-8, planned to return in October 2024

DRAGON C207: Modified for Polaris Dawn mission, it had its docking port removed.

DRAGON C213: New capsule, still being certified, numerous technical problems, originally slated for Crew-10 to be flown in 2025 7/15

Longest answer:

In June 2024, there were five Dragon capsules in the pipeline

DRAGON C210: It flew the Crew-7 mission to the ISS and returned to Earth on March 12. It was being refurbished and slated to fly the private Axiom mission Ax-4, originally planned early 2025. 6/15

NASA begins weighing its options ; They would prefer to resolve the issues with the Starliner capsule and finish the mission normally, but we all know this ended up not being viable.

So...could the crew have been brought back with an emergency launch?

In short, no.

Longer answer: Hell no. 5/15

The Starliner Crew Test mission launches on June 5 and docks with the ISS. The docking process reveals some thruster issues and it seems from the get-go that the original mission, planned for ten days, might end up very delayed. 4/15

Please understand that while SpaceX's Dragon capsules are reuseable, that doesn't mean you can just pluck one out of the ocean, stick it on a rocket and fly it again the next day. After each mission, it takes months to refurbish a flown capsule for human use.

So...let's go back to June 2024. 3/15

Musk is even claiming that he offered to launch a capsule to get them back in 2024, but Biden refused.
This is also a lie.

Here are the facts: IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE TO LAUNCH AN ADDITIONAL SPACEX RESCUE MISSION IN 2024.
There were, simply, no spacecraft available. 2/15