Let's see what happens when the backlash to their over reach occurs. How long will it take to reach that point? Good question. What will be the catalyst? Well... let's just see.
I'd like to see the unblinking MAGA faithful wake from their hypnotized stupor and put pressure on their Republican reps. Dems definitely need to start acting like an opposition party and obstructing everything like McConnell did to them, but Republicans still have a majority. Red state voters need to put heat on their politicians to give any resistance a fighting chance. As you said, let's just see...
well written, as usual. I'm pretty sure that Musk with Tesla wasn't championing" clean energy, He just tried to ride a wave.
I haven't read the biography. From what I understand, however, the rise to wealth started with some business he started just after he decided not to enroll at Stanford, voiding his student visa and turning himself into what trump calls an "illegal alien." THAT biz he sold to get his funding for PayPal. Far as I know, no work permit. It seems amazingly ironic that trump can void the work permits of thousands who are here legally, but that money earned ILLEGALLY can now control our data in the Treasury.
What scares me really is that as far as I know, payments to those in the Witness Protection Program is in that database--along with addresses. Sales of that info on the Dark Web could be incoming.
I've never watched those comic book based movies (save for the first Captain America) so I can't comment on which villain Musk is most like. I suspect he's part of all of them, wrapped up in what he himself has named "a ball of worms"--his term for our programs giving humanitarian aid which includes funding stuff like research into emerging dangerous diseases.
Susan, I haven't read his biography either. Other than the snippets I've seen in the articles linked in the piece and reporting elsewhere, I don't know much more of what Isaacson's book says. I agree that Musk wasn't clean energy's champion, but when other people lauded him and Tesla for being that, he readily embraced the portrayal. Deceptive. You also make a fair point that his character traits may have resemblance to some other fictional villains. Ball of worms may describe him better after all.
Let's see what happens when the backlash to their over reach occurs. How long will it take to reach that point? Good question. What will be the catalyst? Well... let's just see.
I'd like to see the unblinking MAGA faithful wake from their hypnotized stupor and put pressure on their Republican reps. Dems definitely need to start acting like an opposition party and obstructing everything like McConnell did to them, but Republicans still have a majority. Red state voters need to put heat on their politicians to give any resistance a fighting chance. As you said, let's just see...
Yes. All of this.
well written, as usual. I'm pretty sure that Musk with Tesla wasn't championing" clean energy, He just tried to ride a wave.
I haven't read the biography. From what I understand, however, the rise to wealth started with some business he started just after he decided not to enroll at Stanford, voiding his student visa and turning himself into what trump calls an "illegal alien." THAT biz he sold to get his funding for PayPal. Far as I know, no work permit. It seems amazingly ironic that trump can void the work permits of thousands who are here legally, but that money earned ILLEGALLY can now control our data in the Treasury.
What scares me really is that as far as I know, payments to those in the Witness Protection Program is in that database--along with addresses. Sales of that info on the Dark Web could be incoming.
I've never watched those comic book based movies (save for the first Captain America) so I can't comment on which villain Musk is most like. I suspect he's part of all of them, wrapped up in what he himself has named "a ball of worms"--his term for our programs giving humanitarian aid which includes funding stuff like research into emerging dangerous diseases.
Susan, I haven't read his biography either. Other than the snippets I've seen in the articles linked in the piece and reporting elsewhere, I don't know much more of what Isaacson's book says. I agree that Musk wasn't clean energy's champion, but when other people lauded him and Tesla for being that, he readily embraced the portrayal. Deceptive. You also make a fair point that his character traits may have resemblance to some other fictional villains. Ball of worms may describe him better after all.