In a story headlined “US astronauts stuck on space station because Biden didn’t want to risk rescue before election: ex-NASA spaceman” the New York Post cites former NASA astronaut Clayton “Astroclay” Anderson, who spent a total of 167 days in orbit, as their expert in support of the alleged political considerations of the delay in returning Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Suni Williams from their eight day stay on the International Space Station that has now lasted more than nine months.

“Elon said it was politically motivated, I think there’s some truth in that,” said “Astroclay” – whose first-name basis familiarity with the ketamine-addicted SpaceX founder might be one’s first potential red flag in this article – adding that Musk “offered to bring them home earlier. It came about right before the election. My opinion is that they didn’t want a disaster right before an election that they were trying to win and therefore asked the astronauts to sacrifice and stay in orbit.”

“That’s why I loved Trump #DrainingtheSwamp… I’m tired of corruption,” said “Astroclay” not during the interview with the Post, but in a 2021 tweet exchange with some deleted account. The Post naturally omits any such hints at “Astroclay’s” political leanings, instead presenting him as a “neutral” expert on the political dimensions of spaceflight, rather than on spaceflight itself.

It’s also not really a flex that Biden supposedly ignored Musk’s offer to return Wilmore and Williams because “they didn’t want a disaster right before an election.” Would that have been good for Ketamine Brain if the two burned up in the atmosphere on board a disintegrating SpaceX rocket?