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@VegasFrank said:
You guys are hilarious. Nobody actually answered my question. Carry on sheep!

Which question? The Musk/Trump one? I think Steve answered it pretty well.

Lol Todd you're a hoot! You justify one thing with another, and ironically you do so under a false premise yourself while taking the time to respond while intentionally avoiding a simple request.

Despite this, you have answered the question completely. The answer to the question is that it wouldn't be okay if it were reversed, but it's justified based on other dissimilar things that have happened in the other direction.

Copy.

And the real governors of this society, the ones actually pulling the strings, are the oligarchs who exercise undue influence on the entire process. The Kochs, sorroses, musks, bezoses, and buffets of the world, legalized through citizens united and codified through their weopanizing of the utility, real estate, investment, and mass media organizations that they own, are the ones who really control The government. They do it through influence. They influence the politicians to set the policy and the influence the quote-unquote Shadow government, the people who actually execute the offices of the government, to do the things they say. Then they pit the Jimmy's in the Joe's, the common people, against each other to solidify that power .

They do so in such an effective manner that a guy in a t-shirt and a ball cap can stand in front of the president inside the oval office and talk about the things he's going to do to drain a swamp that he himself helped to fill, and all to a rousing cheer.

Thanks for playing buddy! Love you!

Holy

"Die Trying" by Lee Child That's a book fellas.

Only 3 years and 11 and a half months to go.
I'll get some more popcorn.

To wit, Mr. Trump has been widely criticized for his choice of Mr. Musk to perform these tasks. So, he puts Mr. Musk to the forefront to present his ideas. Seems reasonable, yet when he does so, he's now taken to task for allowing Musk to present the ideas he's been tasked with creating.

It seems there's a circular logic to the questioning, a loop which cannot be escaped and only allows a certain pre- ascertained conclusion to satisfy the questioner.

The leader who delegates and then checks to avoid costly mistakes. The AA phrase "and promptly admits when they are wrong" comes to mind.