After Helene, Elon Musk AGAIN steps up as Uncle Sam falls down

Elon Musk is sending in hundreds Starlink satellite systems to areas hit hardest by Hurricane Helene, saving lives as FEMA falters in its own mission.It’s a triumph of modern innovation: The devices connect to low-orbiting satellites, allowing first responders to communicate and providing 30 days of free internet access to residents of storm-ravaged areas who’d otherwise be completely cut off.Of course, as Musk himself pointed out, Starlink likely would’ve already been up and running in some of these areas if the Harris-Biden Federal Communications Commission hadn’t slammed the breaks on a $885 million grant to SpaceX to provide broadband to rural communities back in 2022.

That Musk needs to step in at all is another indictment of Harris-Biden bungling.The 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law set aside $42 billion-with-a-B to build broadband infrastructure in rural and underserved communities; so far, Harris-Biden haven’t connected anyone.Their “Broadband Equity Access and Deployment” program just reached it’s “year of execution” this year; now comes its four-year timeline for “implementation” — a level of inefficiency that only government can get away with.

Sorry, Helene victims.Kam and Joe will have you covered in 2028 .

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maybe.It’s hardly the first time Musk has come to the rescue: See the use of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon to retrieve astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, whose “one week” visit to the International Space Station has stretched to months thanks to poor decision-making by NASA and a faulty Boeing craft.Elon also sent thousands of Starlink kits to Ukraine in the early of the Russia invasion — a huge boon to Kyiv’s defense, as it enabled communication and drone warfare in areas where both would have otherwise been impossible.

Musk is reviled by the left because of his commitment to protecting free speech, even the speech of (gasp!) conservatives.But when the feds biff it, he has repeatedly jumped in to pick...