Sawfish <sawfish666@gmail.com> Wrote in message:r> On 2/19/25 10:22 AM, jdeluise wrote:> PeteWasLucky <waleed.khedr@gmail.com> writes:>>>> Everything for him is a money deal. He doesn't have a clue about the >> future political consequences of anythingthat is put in the front of >> him.> > Sadly you were supporting him in the critical Biden yearsEGGZ-ACTLY!If you'd have been thinking, we could have had Harris!!!!!-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"I done
jdeluise <jdeluise@gmail.com> Wrote in message:r
PeteWasLucky <waleed.khedr@gmail.com> writes:>> Everything for him is a money deal. He doesn't have a clue about > the future political consequences of anything that is put in the > front of him.Sadly you were supporting him in the critical Biden years
Dems party handed Trump the presidency with their ignorance for
everything.
Scall5 <nospam@home.net> writes:
On 2/19/2025 1:14 PM, PeteWasLucky wrote:
jdeluise <jdeluise@gmail.com> Wrote in message:r
PeteWasLucky <waleed.khedr@gmail.com> writes:>> Everything for himDems party handed Trump the presidency with their ignorance for
is a money deal. He doesn't have a clue about > the future political
consequences of anything that is put in the > front of him.Sadly you
were supporting him in the critical Biden years
everything.
This is true. The Dems should have at least allowed other members of
their own political party the CHANCE at getting the Dem nomination
instead of railroading Harris into the nomination. But those 'super
delegates' are/were so smug that they would win regardless...
Looking forward to your $5k DOGE stimmy check? Let's hope it'll pay for
a cup of coffee or a half a sandwich by the time we get it, eh?
PeteWasLucky <waleed.khedr@gmail.com> writes:
Scall5 <nospam@home.net> Wrote in message:r
On 2/20/2025 9:40 PM, jdeluise wrote:> Scall5 <nospam@home.net>
writes:> >> On 2/19/2025 1:14 PM, PeteWasLucky wrote:>>> jdeluise
<jdeluise@gmail.com> Wrote in message:r>>>> PeteWasLucky
<waleed.khedr@gmail.com> writes:>> Everything for him >>>> is a money
deal. He doesn't have a clue about > the future political >>>>
consequences of anything that is put in the > front of him.Sadly you
handed Trump the presidency with their ignorance for>>>were supporting him in the critical Biden years>>> Dems party
everything.>>>> This is true. The Dems should have at least allowed
other members of>> their own political party the CHANCE at getting
the Dem nomination>> instead of railroading Harris into the
nomination. But those 'super>> delegates' are/were so smug that they
would win regardless...> Looking forward to your $5k DOGE stimmy
check? Let's hope it'll pay for > a cup of coffee or a half a
sandwich by the time we get it, eh?I am counting the minutes until I
get mine. Then I am putting it all in Tesla stock...--
---------------Scall5
I will never buy anything that is related to Musk.
Well, it's definitely a bad time to buy Tesla.
Interesting article on Musk: https://www.yahoo.com/news/author-upcoming- elon-musk-biography-040538098.html
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Attorney, journalist, and Elon Musk biographer Seth Abramson eviscerated
both Elon Musk and his "fanboys" who have attempted to use the
billionaire's IQ as an indication of his intellectual prowess in a
series of messages shared on X Thursday evening and into Friday. "You
are in a cult," he wrote in one before he later noted Musk "has zero *personal* intellectual achievements."
"As an Elon Musk biographer, I would peg his IQ as between 100 and 110," Abramson tweeted Thursday afternoon. "There's zero evidence in his
biography of anything higher. And I want to repeat that now, lest you
think it a typo. There's zero evidence, from his life history, of Musk
having anything higher than a 110 IQ."
The author then stepped away from the platform ("on the basis of this
not being a platform worth spending time on") only to return Friday
morning and find his initial message had gone viral in online MAGA communities — and "because Nate Silver thinks Carlyle's 1800s theory of history, the Great Man Theory, is still relevant to historians in 2025," Abramson continued.
What followed was a lengthy series of messages, each designed to
decimate Musk's reputation among some circles as a kind of genius.
Musk "was sued for stealing the idea for Zip2—which fired him as soon as investors got involved" and "was going to run PayPal into the ground
after his company merged with it—again he was fired." He then "invested
in Tesla when it was distressed and quickly began running it into the ground."
Musk founded Zip2, described as "a sort of digital Yellowpages" by
Belmont Hill School's The Panel Online, with his brother. The outlet
reported that in an attempt to impress investors in the company, Musk "created a large, fake casing around the Zip2 computer to make it seem
like an extremely advanced supercomputer" — a move that worked, but investors who put $3 million into the company did so only after Musk
agreed to step down so "someone more experienced to take his place."
The code used by the program, which Musk taught himself, "was soon
exposed to be so scrambled that a majority of the program had to be
rewritten by more advanced programmers."
Musk ultimately returned to the company as CEO and benefitted
financially when it was sold to COMPAQ in 1999. He used the $22 million
his 7% share brought in to an "internet bank" at X.com — the same
company he merged with the founders of Paypal. He was named CEO after
the merger in April 2000 but was removed from the position six months
later.
SpaceX, Abramson continued, is Musk's only "truly successful and novel company" and a chunk of its success was owed to President Obama, who
Musk "successfully lobbied" after "Russians had laughed Musk out of
Moscow."
"I needn't tell you the Boring Company is a failure that has done no
more than produce an illegal flamethrower for fun, one that cannot be
legally shipped and has caused lots of people legal issues," Abramson
added. "Neuralink is mired in ethics investigations, and Musk does none
of its science."
"Everything" Musk has said about Twitter/X was "a lie," he also said,
"and business schools will teach how he ran this platform into the
ground for 200 years."
"Feel free to Google all the things Musk did to scam people into
thinking he'd made a successful foray into robotics," Abramson
continued. "It does not take intelligence to throw money around and buy
a company or buy a politician. Anyone would/could."
"It does not take intelligence to, having thrown money at a politician,
use the clout you accrued from that to advantage your own businesses— businesses you are well aware you have nothing to do with the success
of, which is why you mess around with their patents to hide that fact."
"If you assign intelligence to just spending money, you're in a cult,"
he also added. "If you attach intelligence to simply owning a successful company whose work on a day-to-day basis you have nothing to do with and
who you are considerably more of a hindrance to than a help to, you're
in a cult."
Toward the end of his messages, Abramson noted, "It is also a
particularly American disease to confuse wealth with intelligence and corporations with those who own them. In most of the world the
conversation we are having would seem utterly preposterous, as again
there is no evidence of Musk having *intellectual* achievements."
"I don't find IQ to be a valuable measure," he also clarified. "I
introduced the term to this conversation because it's used by *you fans*
as some sort of supposed proof of Musk's intelligence—though none of you have any proof whatsoever of any IQ test the man's ever taken."
Abramson's entire thread can be read on X, formerly Twitter.
Everything for him is a money deal. He doesn't have a clue about the future political consequences of anything that is put in the front of him.
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