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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by IX-103 on Monday February 03, 2025 @06:58PM (#42925191)
The thing about Trump and Musk is that they both believed the other to be a convenient fool. It will definitely be interesting to see who lasts longer.

I'd bet on Musk as he has better connections among the Silicon Valley elite that are propping up this administration. Plus, the way that Trump is rubber-stamping everything Musk does as soon as he hears about it seems to suggest which one is actually in charge.

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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by ethbr1 on Monday February 03, 2025 @09:38PM (#42926988)
One of them is 78 and the other is 53. Eventually, time wins.
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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by 1659447091 on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @02:50AM (#42929392)
Time doesn't matter here. Elon can never hold the highest office nor the second highest. The best he can ever do is be their appointed henchman.

The MAGA mobs may only care about a few cherry picked bits from the Constitution, but the requirement of being a natural born citizen (usually meant as born on US soil with 2 US parents, but generally, either one is accepted) is definitely one of them. And he won't be getting meaningful support from anywhere along the other end of the scale anytime soon, so I left them out

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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by ethbr1 on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @07:48AM (#42931669)
Elon doesn't have to be president to run things. We've had multiple US presidents who were proxies for business interests.
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