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General Category => Huh? => Topic started by: Pigmeat on October 01, 2018, 1134 UTC

Title: Elon Musk. Is he on the road to going...
Post by: Pigmeat on October 01, 2018, 1134 UTC
full-blown Howard Hughes?
Title: Re: Elon Musk. Is he on the road to going...
Post by: Josh on October 01, 2018, 1722 UTC
Hughes earned his fortune, Musk swindled his from the government.
Title: Re: Elon Musk. Is he on the road to going...
Post by: MDK2 on October 01, 2018, 1750 UTC
Hughes earned his fortune, Musk swindled his from the government.

Since Hughes was a military contractor, it would be fair to say that he swindled his from the government as well.
Title: Re: Elon Musk. Is he on the road to going...
Post by: Josh on October 01, 2018, 1833 UTC

I used to go out to eat with a socialist friend every week, and had no issues with his che t shirts and etc socialismo memorabilia. One time he was ranting about how Chile was getting screwed by the US capitalists, and I asked him to explain it to me.

So he said Chile had to pay a fortune for copper wire made from copper ore mined in Chile itself! He left out the part where some American company had to buy the ore from the Chilean mine, pay to have it shipped to the USA, pay to have it refined into pure copper, paid to have it drawn into wire, paid to have it insulated, and then sold to whoever wanted copper wire. You remind me of him.
Title: Re: Elon Musk. Is he on the road to going...
Post by: MDK2 on October 01, 2018, 1915 UTC
I've got a friend who likes to rant about the Mueller investigation being a witch hunt. He's not impressed by the fact that it's netted many "witches" who have broken the law. You remind me of him.
Title: Re: Elon Musk. Is he on the road to going...
Post by: JimIO on October 01, 2018, 1926 UTC
And Chile was a socialist democracy then.

Title: Re: Elon Musk. Is he on the road to going...
Post by: Josh on October 01, 2018, 1932 UTC
Perhaps the amazingly successful witch hunt will ensnare a wyche who used to routinely email thousands of top secrets on a non secure line and server.
Title: Re: Elon Musk. Is he on the road to going...
Post by: MDK2 on October 01, 2018, 1934 UTC
The one who wasn't elected? As the saying goes, she should be the material used on the wall because people can't get over her.
Title: Re: Elon Musk. Is he on the road to going...
Post by: Josh on October 01, 2018, 2004 UTC
Pictures of her likely would work, yes.
Title: Re: Elon Musk. Is he on the road to going...
Post by: fieldstrength1947 on October 01, 2018, 2221 UTC
I'm just over here chuckling at Elon Musk smoking weed and talking about being in a universe simulator.

If you don't take life too seriously, you'll find that your blood pressure returns to normal and you feel great.
Title: Re: Elon Musk. Is he on the road to going...
Post by: MDK2 on October 01, 2018, 2307 UTC
If Musk were like Hughes, he'd have been able to put off the SEC for years, like Howard allegedly did to avoid having to divest his TWA stock until it was worth what he wanted to dump it at. Or maybe that was the stockholders who were after him. I can't remember the details now, but they were vividly embellished in the fiction of James Ellroy. Then again, what would Hughes be like on Twitter?
Title: Re: Elon Musk. Is he on the road to going...
Post by: Pigmeat on October 02, 2018, 0039 UTC
Now, now... Howie got his money the old fashioned way, he inherited it. Dad left him an oil bit company years ahead of it's time to finance his passion for racing planes and chasing women. I don't know where Elon got his, but calling the Thai SEAL a "child molester"  for trying to rescue kids from a cave said to me Elon will be in his enclosed private penthouse before long.
Title: Re: Elon Musk. Is he on the road to going...
Post by: redhat on October 02, 2018, 0159 UTC
Conversations like this remind me of an old George Carlin bit;  'What do people in politics do?  They come up with a never ending slew of mud to sling at each other to keep the public fighting while they run to the bank with our money."

'nuff said.

+-RH
Title: Re: Elon Musk. Is he on the road to going...
Post by: Weed Dick on October 02, 2018, 1437 UTC
Leave it to the liberal left to bring their stupidity and animosity onto a radio forum. Isn’t anything sacred anymore?
Title: Re: Elon Musk. Is he on the road to going...
Post by: Josh on October 02, 2018, 1510 UTC
For musk to achieve Hughes status he will also need to be borg'd by a organised religion. I suggest some good old time snake hanlin religy!
Title: Re: Elon Musk. Is he on the road to going...
Post by: JimIO on October 02, 2018, 1929 UTC
I can picture this at a trump rally

https://youtu.be/sKgD5TchgsI
Title: Re: Elon Musk. Is he on the road to going...
Post by: Pigmeat on October 03, 2018, 1045 UTC
Leave it to the liberal left to bring their stupidity and animosity onto a radio forum. Isn’t anything sacred anymore?

Aren't you a self-proclaimed Commie? Why the hostility towards your fellow travelers?
Title: Re: Elon Musk. Is he on the road to going...
Post by: Josh on October 03, 2018, 1905 UTC
Marx (Groucho) and Lennon! (John)
Title: Re: Elon Musk. Is he on the road to going...
Post by: Pigmeat on October 03, 2018, 1945 UTC
I kind of look like Lenin when I put on a trenchcoat. When my hair first started going, I came in wearing mine saw myself in the mirror and thought "Why Vlad Ulyanov, I haven't seen you ages! How are things in your tomb?"

I think we both got our eye-folds from the same Central Asian horde. I wonder if he got the blue spot above his butt crack? I got cheated.
Title: Re: Elon Musk. Is he on the road to going...
Post by: fieldstrength1947 on October 03, 2018, 2233 UTC
I kind of look like Lenin when I put on a trenchcoat.

I know a guy whose fashion style can best be described as "early Russian Bolshevik, when they were still underground."

He's the leader of the local Socialist club.
Title: Re: Elon Musk. Is he on the road to going...
Post by: JimIO on October 03, 2018, 2300 UTC
"He's the leader of the local Socialist club."

We don't have any Socialist clubs around here, but we do have some socialist parks and libraries.
Title: Re: Elon Musk. Is he on the road to going...
Post by: Pigmeat on October 03, 2018, 2324 UTC
At my college there was an huge three story brick house where the radical left types lived and hung out. It was the biggest thing on the block. We called it "The Kremlin". They had free community feeds once a month with food donated by a local co-op. It wasn't great but it beat Top Ramen. I was up there for one when a fight broke out over who were "real" Bolsheviks. It was hilarious. Glad I filled my plate before the floor show began.

Most of them are probably insurance salesmen now
Title: Re: Elon Musk. Is he on the road to going...
Post by: Traveling Wave on October 04, 2018, 0211 UTC
Have you ever seen a Commie drink a glass of water....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr2bSL5VQgM

and... Is Your Washroom Breeding Bolsheviks........https://libcom.org/files/Washroom%20bolsheviks.png

 ;D
Title: Re: Elon Musk. Is he on the road to going...
Post by: ChrisSmolinski on October 04, 2018, 1555 UTC
At my college there was an huge three story brick house where the radical left types lived and hung out. It was the biggest thing on the block. We called it "The Kremlin". They had free community feeds once a month with food donated by a local co-op. It wasn't great but it beat Top Ramen. I was up there for one when a fight broke out over who were "real" Bolsheviks. It was hilarious. Glad I filled my plate before the floor show began.

Most of them are probably insurance salesmen now

At U of MD, we had the Food Coop, a place in the Student Union that proudly sold things like bananas from Nicaragua. (This was in the mid 80s when the Sandinistas were oppressing the local populace in the name of freedom)
Title: Re: Elon Musk. Is he on the road to going...
Post by: JimIO on October 04, 2018, 1738 UTC
Did you eat the bananas?  :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandinista_National_Liberation_Front

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_affair
Title: Re: Elon Musk. Is he on the road to going...
Post by: Pigmeat on October 04, 2018, 1925 UTC
Bill Moyers loved a good cigar, as did Al Haig. Moyer's was coming down the hall to attend a press briefing early in the Reagan years and found Haig smoking outside. Moyers saw the band and said, "Why Al, that's a Cuban cigar! I wouldn't have thought that of you." Haig answered back, "Destroying the enemies crops one cigar at a time, Bill." Haig gave Moyers a couple he had stashed in his jacket pocket and they both went inside. There are embargo's you pay attention to, and others you don't.

The ban on Cuban cigars was one that was never going to work, there's nothing else like them when they're on. JFK was breaking that one almost as soon as he declared it. A fella has to have his sticks.
Title: Re: Elon Musk. Is he on the road to going...
Post by: Josh on October 04, 2018, 1945 UTC
Speaking of Cuba and commies and JFK, Vladimir (Russian for "ruler of world", however "mir" is also the word for "peace") Putin has allegedly installed mobile nuclear missiles in Cuba.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIreaM3XV4M

Title: Re: Elon Musk. Is he on the road to going...
Post by: ChrisSmolinski on October 04, 2018, 1958 UTC
Did you eat the bananas?  :)

I think I walked into the Coop once, and quickly exited.  8)
Title: Re: Elon Musk. Is he on the road to going...
Post by: Pigmeat on October 04, 2018, 2335 UTC
Ours was where you got your homebrewing supplies. Homebrew supplies make for a prosperous sideline in a college town. If you can boil water, you can make beer.