Re: Swan Eaters: Rasputin Was A Jerk

On Mon, 28 Apr 2025 14:24:40 -0700, Bobbie Sellers
<bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:

On 4/28/25 12:52, Lynn McGuire wrote:
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On 4/28/2025 9:16 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote:

"Dob" <dobkun@icloud.com> writes:

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"Lynn McGuire"  wrote in message news:vsmqov$1i9df$1@dont-email.me...
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Swan Eaters: Rasputin Was A Jerk
    https://www.gocomics.com/swan-eaters/2025/03/27
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And kinda evil too.

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Musk is the modern american Rasputin.

 
Nope.  Musk is the modern Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and Henry
Ford rolled into one man.
 
Lynn
 

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Edison and Ford yes. Westinghouse not so much as he was a real
inventor and not merely an exploiter of researchers and industrial
giant per-Edison and Ford.  Mush is a hater like Ford and i believe
Edison held some irrantional prejudices as well.
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Mush did have some Rasputin-like hold on American consciousness
but his foolish hacking away at government agencies has disenchanted
a great many of us, US citizens. Evil is banal and Mush is such.

"Foolish" doesn't cover it. "Inept" and "heavy-handed" are closer. But
mostly it is done to maximize headlines -- that is, for propaganda
purposes.

It is hard to be sure, but actual monetary savings appear to be ...
unimpressive, as they are not much more than what they cost to
achieve. Or so those who have sorted out the reality from the
propaganda appear to be saying. A thorough forensic audit will be
needed at some point.

Goebbels and Streicher would be proud of him.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"