I give it maybe a 10-15% chance of an actual attempted cuop.
At the end of the day, Trump would absolutely attempt a coup if he thought he could reasonably succeed.
What does a fat squirrel do once he stores his 1,000th nut? He looks for 1,001. Guys like Trump are always looking for the next bump in power and fame.
He made a $118M bet on the Republican ticket that should now payoff like 100,000x in future automobile and space industries. His industries. Not a bad bet at all.
If these rules are so quaint and old fashioned then Biden should just not leave and Kamala should just not certify the election. After all, it is Kamala that needs to certify Trumps win and Biden who needs to walk out of the White House for Trump to step back in.
Looks like the dems are just cowards handing America over to a dictatorship for the democracy to fall
Yes, he’s weird. But compared to other peers in the CEO/Tech ranks… Zuckerman, Bezos, … Jobs, … they’re weird too.
Compared to other competitive companies, his have been (decently) successful. (Tesla vs. Fisker, or other EVs comparatively struggling; Starlink vs. I dunno, but am sure there’s others out there; SpaceX has won some contracts vs. others… ). That’s not a bad portfolio of company performance.
I deactivated my Twitter account yesterday. I wasn’t much of a user anyway, but I wanted to join the movement.
I want to add a Starlink to our boat in the spring. I hate supporting him but there really isn’t an equivalent on the market and I doubt there will be soon.
I put it in the Howard Hughes category. You can be brilliant at some things and have a personal defect otherwise that’s pretty bad. No need to get into examples or opinions on that one, but I have to personally admit some of the brilliance and drive for some things Musk does. But also there’s a lot of his character that is far from ideal.
I feel the flaws outweigh the plusses in regards to him being someone I would be comfortable having in government, even if he was a liberal.
He seems quite obtuse. Is there a compassionate bone in his body? I don’t know. Fathering multiple children with multiple women it seems like it is just normal to him. With his frenetic lifestyle is there any chance he spends time with them? I read his authorized biography a few years ago and it made me think I wouldn’t want in any way to work for him or be associated with. Yes the federal gov’t is bloated but unwinding that is a job for somebody with a skilled approach I think he would just leave wreckage behind him.