Our consolidated corporate press doesn’t really make this clear, surprisingly, but the United States is too corrupt to function. There’s simply no shortage of evidence across every arena that matters. Trump’s corruption is utterly historic, yet it’s just endlessly normalized. To the point where most press outlets don’t really even mention Trump’s corruption clearly when discussing policy moves. But it exists all the same.

Recently, the administration issued yet another executive order; this one purportedly aimed at “expanding U.S. commercial space transportation.” How? Mostly by urging the U.S. government agencies to market U.S. commercial space options. There are also some vague calls for new export controls; as well as a push to make it easier for SpaceX to obtain land.

The goal purports to be to orient the U.S. to support more than 1,000 launches and reentries annually by 2030. But a lot of the order, as is typical for Trump EO’s, just a bunch of words jumbled together to make it sound useful and official: “The Memorandum directs the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Commerce to ensure U.S. space transportation market access to promote and enable U.S. space transportation capabilities and standards.”