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On 2025-03-18 13:36:13 +0000, Dimensional Traveler said:
> On 3/17/2025 12:58 PM, shawn wrote:
>> On Mon, 17 Mar 2025 15:44:56 -0400, Rhino
>> <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>>> On 2025-03-17 2:48 PM, shawn wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 17 Mar 2025 12:58:54 -0400, Rhino
>>>> <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 2025-03-17 12:41 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>>>>>> Elon Musks is now trying to force the intelligence community -- the
>>>>>> actual deep state -- to go through layoffs of newly-hired workers.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Isn't he going to die of natural causes suddenly from previously 
>>>>>> unknown symptoms of a disease he wasn't aware of?
>>>>> 
>>>>> I've heard that the Secret Service has provided him a detail. I don't
>>>>> know how big it is but it would probably discourage most threats.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Then again, there must be a lot of people with motivation to act at 
>>>>> this point....
>>>>> 
>>>>> I wish he'd find a lower-profile deputy to carry on the important work
>>>>> of DOGE and get his own butt back to SpaceX. I *really* want SpaceX to
>>>>> succeed and I think they probably need his help to get past their
>>>>> current problems.
>>>> 
>>>> You mean his help in both getting rid of the people who were looking
>>>> into SpaceX and helping to get more contracts from the government?
>>> 
>>> So your theory is that the richest man in the world, who has more money
>>> than anyone has ever had before, is so corrupt that he'll destroy major
>>> chunks of the government to either hide some kind of scandal - of which
>>> no details have emerged to the best of my knowledge - or obtain more
>>> contracts?
>> 
>> Yes. After all did you see him getting Trump to help make an ad for
>> Tesla. That tells you a lot about both men.
> 
> Plus being that corrupt is part of HOW he became the richest man in the world.

Being corrupt is to some degree how *ALL* rich people get their money, 
even if it is only by their customers greedily excessive prices. Very 
few of them have done any real work. Most have simply bought a widget 
for $2 and managed to selfishly con others into buying it for $20.