What Kind of Guy is Elon Musk?

As a kid growing up in rural Alabama....we had these characters.  The best way to describe them.....they'd hear that Maytag had a new 'silent' washer, and they'd go and spend $600 to buy one....taking it to the garage, and tearing it apart...to find the silence thing, and how it worked.  Then they'd sit there with a Pall Mall cigarette hanging out of the side of their mouth....sipping a PBR....devising the same thing, but making even more silent than what Maytag could manufacture.

These were the people asking how you could charge the Air Force $800 for a special hammer....trying to understand what made it different.

The thing about these characters....they weren't engineers, or dedicated to one single area of 'science'.

If you told Elon there's too much fat content in Pop-Tarts or we need a way to crank a car without a battery being involved....he'd put his passion into resolving the issue.  

This Twitter discussion?  Lets be honest....more than half the content-writers of Twitter are fussy over how it works,  and the Twitter-heads, Twitter-mob and Twitter-hoards are unable to comprehend or resolve this issue.  So Elon figures....he can fix this....make it profitable (since day one, it's not been profitable), and make everyone but the Twitter staff happy.

Here's the thing....Elon can be anything.  Bill Gates, all of Apple, the pro-woke crowd.....they can't be Elon.  They have limits.

My gut-feeling on Elon?  Rocket science really isn't rocket science, with Elon around.  

The Democracy Story

 So this poll was done....Yahoo News-YouGov ran it.  Question was....might the US cease to be a democracy in the future?

Results?  Around 53-percent of Republicans said 'it was likely', and 55-percent of Democrats said this.

So the reality of this question, and the answer?

Over the past two-hundred years....if you done polls....even in 1812, 1866, or 1935....I would imagine that the numbers suggesting the 'cease' might have come to a minimum of one-third of society....to the 50-percent level.

If you were trying to see the landscape....we've always been on the edge of 'zero-confidence'.  Part of the blame goes to politics being a daily affair....us-versus-them, and some blame goes toward a desire by people to have some authority to guide them.  

Lets also be honest....if someone laid out the evidence that most of the House and Senate big-wigs were getting rich off the democracy (which they are)....we'd question their ability to lead.

Lets also be honest....if someone laid out that maybe five-million votes were manufactured from thin-air in 2020.....our confidence would be shaken.

I'd call this reality something like the 9th season of the TV show 'Dallas'.  If you remember....this was the season without 'Bobby', and it wandered around in a daze....never making a lot of sense and it should have been 'done' at the end of season 8.  But then, we came to the beginning of season 10....where Pam 'wakes' up and just says the whole script for all of season 9....was a dream.  

That's kinda the reality of life in America today.....we don't have a Bobby-JFK-Reagan character....so we are trudging along with Joe Biden-Kam Harris characters....wishing the 'season' could just end.  At some point, some 'Pam' gal will announce that 2020 to 2024....was just a dream.  

This is when you pour 2nd and 3rd shot of gin in the glass.  

Noticed Last Week

 I was at a grocery this past week, here in Germany, and upon the smoothie shelf was this new item.

Yeah, a cannabis smoothie.

Naturally, NO loaded with the THC stuff....just enough of the taste to make your senses identify it as Cannabis. 

Who might buy the stuff?  I would imagine mostly the 15-to-25 age group.

High apple-content?  Yeah, with some various fruits.  

Any suggestion of THC?  None.  It's a health drink, pure and simple.