Re: Elon Musk versus the intelligence community

On 2025-03-17 2:48 PM, shawn wrote:

On Mon, 17 Mar 2025 12:58:54 -0400, Rhino
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On 2025-03-17 12:41 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Elon Musks is now trying to force the intelligence community -- the
actual deep state -- to go through layoffs of newly-hired workers.
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Isn't he going to die of natural causes suddenly from previously unknown
symptoms of a disease he wasn't aware of?

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I've heard that the Secret Service has provided him a detail. I don't
know how big it is but it would probably discourage most threats.
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Then again, there must be a lot of people with motivation to act at this
point....
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I wish he'd find a lower-profile deputy to carry on the important work
of DOGE and get his own butt back to SpaceX. I *really* want SpaceX to
succeed and I think they probably need his help to get past their
current problems.

 You mean his help in both getting rid of the people who were looking
into SpaceX and helping to get more contracts from the government?

So your theory is that the richest man in the world, who has more money than anyone has ever had before, is so corrupt that he'll destroy major chunks of the government to either hide some kind of scandal - of which no details have emerged to the best of my knowledge - or obtain more contracts?
Given Boeing's troubles with their spacecraft, I would think Musk is going to get some or all of their contracts simply because they seem unable to fulfill them. From videos I've seen, there is widespread belief that before Boeing merged with McDonnell-Douglas, they were widely perceived as a top engineering company but after the merger, the senior management, most of which was from McDonnell-Douglas, turned them into an entirely profit-driven enterprise willing to cut corners on the engineering. Some experts feel that this explains all or most of the recent issues Boeing has had. I don't see Musk's fingerprints anywhere near that so switching to SpaceX, which does seem to care about making their rockets work, seems like a good idea to me unless Boeing has a major culture change in the very near future.
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Rhino