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Elon Musk: Time Person Of 2021
The richest man in the world does not own a house and has recently been selling off his fortune. He tosses satellites into orbit and harnesses the sun; he drives a car he created that uses no gas and barely needs a driver. With a flick of his finger, the stock market soars or swoons. An army of devotees hangs on his every utterance. He dreams of Mars as he bestrides Earth, square-jawed and indomitable. Lately, Elon Musk also likes to live-tweet his poops.
“Just dropping some friends off at the pool,” the 50-year-old zillionaire informed his 66 million Twitter followers on the evening of Nov. 29, having previously advised that at least half his tweets were “made on a porcelain throne.” After an interval—21 minutes, if you must know—an update: “Splish splash.”
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WNU Editor: From Glenn Greenwald ....
.... A friend comments: “Good call. He’s a delightfully odd human being. His eccentricity and ingenuity are truly historic and worthy of the title. Give me the Elons of the world any day over the self-important pencil-pushing desk poghs within the sad little DC bubble….the utterly useless, wholly uninspiring political elitists of recent past. Elon is a real mover and shaker – he’s among a select few worldwide who truly make things happen. An actual genius. Time got it right for the first time in a very long while.
She’s right.
2 comments:
Good choice, and he hates Biden.
The DC establishment demonstrated why the US is ultimately screwed with its universal and relentless hatred for DJT, which predated his inauguration and continues unabated to this day. It will simply not tolerate any thinking, let alone behavior, outside its little box of "how things are done around here." If Elon operated within its orbit, it would no doubt shut him down post haste until he understood who's boss. Can't have eccentric rebels, no matter how brilliant, upsetting the system. The only thing that might change this sad state of affairs is getting our asses stomped in an actual war (not one of those military conflict thingies we've participated in exclusively since WWII), although I doubt we'd see anything other than finger pointing and media spin even if that were to happen. The only thing we learn from history is that we don't learn from history.
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