Elon's Dusk?

Elon Musk must be one of those people who can get by on only 3 or 4 hours of sleep a night. And he'd probably be busy even with that. Well, there's a lot riding on the shoulders of "the World's richest man" - and he's been busy slashing payroll in a big way at his newest acquisition. If you were important enough, last Friday you got a friendly email from him. If not you got a downer email. Over 3500 got the downer version. With many more said to come.

And no doubt Elon has gotten, or soon will be getting, an email of his own. Spelling out the Tribe’s demands. Which he will agree to or else. Given that, don't expect to see big changes at Twitter. The last thing the Tribe wants is free and open public debate. Because they know they will lose. Bigly. To Musk's credit (though there are bona fide doubts about his proclaimed commitment to free speech) thousands of twits have gotten the sack! So, good on him for it. It's always gratifying to see liberals getting their asses kicked by the reality they've spent their lives rebelling against.

Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch.

Anyway, for what it's worth, my opinion is that Musk is one of the great con men of history; and his immense wealth is largely fictitious. I could be wrong, but....

My father once worked for a “very rich” guy who owned radio stations in Florida. He also owned a beautiful, waterfront palace on Hibiscus Island in Miami, which is still there.

Out back he moored his two yachts. A 60 foot Chris-Craft, and a 100 foot something else. He also owned a resort and another home in Jamaica . He'd fly his personal seaplane there. Parking it on the beach behind the place and living the dream!

But as things turned out, all wasn't as it seemed. In fact it was a fraud. He'd misrepresented his wealth on all kinds of business deals, loans and mortgages. He was swindling bankers. LOL! In truth he was swimming in a sea of debt a mile deep. Furthermore he wasn’t paying the people he owed money to – of whom there were very many. But he was charming, likeable and smart (an Englishman, ex-RAF) and was somehow able to pull it off for about fifteen or sixteen years before he came up a busted flush. Still, he never spent a day in jail.

Elon? He's probably going to get a comeuppence of some sort. Frustrated by their inability to make Vladimir Putin give them Ukraine, the Tribe will be looking for someone to take it out on. And Elon could quickly go from being a billionaire to a millionaire. Or maybe dead, if he's not careful. My bet: he'll play ball and nothing much will change at Twitter.

We’ll know more in a year if we’re still alive.


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