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Musk’s Trump Wager Had ‘Greatest ROI Of Any Investment Ever’
I think everyone gets the joke. Whether you're willing to say it out loud largely depends on your partisan persuasion and, relatedly, your willingness to quietly countenance the flagrant as long as it squares with your politics.
Personally, I can't call a spade anything other than a spade. I'm unsparing in that regard, and I don't give out passes, even to myself.
Someone who's likewise disinclined to politeness where it isn't warranted or where being polite would be tantamount to dishonesty is
I have to hand it to Musk, he never does anything the “usual” way.
Cars?
Everyone: Hybrids increase efficiency, but you still need that gas engine for support.
Musk: Let’s ditch the engine, make it all electric, and also faster than anything else on the road.
Everyone: That will never work!
Musk: Does it.
Rockets?
Everyone: Rocket launches are single use vehicles, because the forces involved are too destructive, to say nothing of the challenges of recovery.
Musk: What if we had them land under their own power and reused them?
Everyone: That will never work!
Musk: Does it. [As an aside, I never get tired of watching SpaceX launches. Nothing compares to watching a Falcon 9 booster landing itself on an autonomous barge like a pencil landing on its eraser, only instead of a pencil it’s a 25 story building that you dropped from the edge of space].
Lobbying?
Everyone: We’ll set up a shell corporation, funnel money to it from offshore, sponsor a fake foundation, create a PAC, and use that to funnel money to friendly politicians in exchange for votes on the issues most important to us.
Musk: I’m going to publicly endorse the candidate, tune my whole social media platform to promoting him, appear on stage next to him, wear the hat, brag about how much money I’m spending, then afterwards, be seen constantly next to him, tell him who to hire, and get appointed to run a brand new agency with the power to fire anyone and even eliminate entire departments.
Everyone: That will never work!
Musk: … yeah …
Agreed wmd
This certainly makes his Twitter investment look a lot better. Not only that, but it’s his co-investors that will be the bagholders while he enriches himself via his other companies. Elon was apparently playing 3d chess the whole time.
Trump draining the swamp.