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2022-03-27 Home Front: Politix
Elon Musk sez the US has a 'very, very ancient leadership'
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Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 I guess because Elon's grifts are aimed at young people and the "we'll just invent new power sources, never mind the industrial throughput..." naivete.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-03-27 00:54||   2022-03-27 00:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Musk said that he'd like to see political leaders be ideally within 10 or at least, 20 years of the average age of the population."

Fifteen year-olds, huh?
Another powerful ped0phile outs himself
Posted by Jeamp White5113 2022-03-27 01:09||   2022-03-27 01:09|| Front Page Top

#3 There are few 'game winning' NFL quarterbacks, 'Top Gun' fighter pilots, or MMA champions over the age of 50. Musk is simply stating the obvious.





Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-27 02:06||   2022-03-27 02:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Typical haughty words of rich men destined to meet death in the worst way.
Posted by Kain 2022-03-27 02:16||   2022-03-27 02:16|| Front Page Top

#5 ...
Dear fellow commentors;
Did you actually understood what you read? The age of average U.S. citizen is 38 point something so translated into plain English, Musk was saying that professional politicians should be "kicked out" of politics and away from the levers of power by the time they are ~60.

Are you really disagreeing with this considering the current clown-show of 60+ geriatrics in DC?
Posted by Nomad 2022-03-27 07:52||   2022-03-27 07:52|| Front Page Top

#6 As DeGaulle opined, "The graveyards are full of indispensable men." The problem here is too many of them use the trappings of power to put the graveyard off for too long.

Term limits are all that's really needed, along with a "no lifetime bureaucrats (looking at you, Fauxi) and no family political dynasties" policy enshrined in a special clause of the Constitution that says "this clause is not subject to alteration or removal."

Oh, and reduce the power they wield and the opportunities for graft. You will be surprised how quickly a certain type suddenly gravitates to other pursuits.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-27 07:59||   2022-03-27 07:59|| Front Page Top

#7 
Posted by Skidmark 2022-03-27 08:20||   2022-03-27 08:20|| Front Page Top

#8 An amen to both #5 and #6. Denying the obvious has become the hallmark of politicians and the current roster of democrats for certain.

Another method of effective crop rotation would be the taxpayer funding of first two terms only. Stay for more than two terms and the comp package is your responsibility.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-27 08:24||   2022-03-27 08:24|| Front Page Top

#9 No correlation either way between age and effectiveness. Jefferson and Bobby Kennedy were in their 30s; so are Ocasio-Cortex and Swalwell. Franklin, Eisenhiwer, De Gaulle, Reagan were in their advanced old age when they achieved great things; so were Brezhnev and so is our fetid geriatric politburo.

Musk has achieved a lot. Kudos. He's also an exploiter of corporate welfare, a chaotic and nasty boss, a manipulator of markets. I wouldn't trust him or his fellow Silicon Valley overgrown adolescents anywhere near the levers of power.
Posted by Thor Henbane1957 2022-03-27 08:31||   2022-03-27 08:31|| Front Page Top

#10 ^ That's an excellent idea. I also think eliminating full-boat lifetime benefits for those appointed to fill a partial term and then not re-elected would be helpful. I also think when a politician is tossed out (rare, I know) for criminal reasons, the district they serve should do without representation until the next regular election. they can use the time while they have no say in gummint to maybe ponder electing a better class of candidate next time.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-27 08:35||   2022-03-27 08:35|| Front Page Top

#11 Have the states compensate their own legislators.
Posted by badanov 2022-03-27 08:41||   2022-03-27 08:41|| Front Page Top

#12 ..recalls a statement by a federal AG here, Chicago has nothing on corruption on New Mexico, its just that the politicians were just cheaper.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-03-27 08:53||   2022-03-27 08:53|| Front Page Top

#13 



"I am not afraid of dying. I think it would come as a relief," he said in the interview.

He wants yo die? Let the putz drive these Teslas. In the meantime despite my own age I'll still learning from the experience and wisdom of my elders. TW comes to mind.
Check out Karl Pillemer's work on the subject.Lessons for surviving crises, from the wisest among us.

Lithium melts at 180C / 356F, and burns at 2000C / 3632F. A few weeks ago I asked a firefighter friend how they extinguish electric vehicle battery fires.

He said “Oh you mean like a Tesla or something? The answer is you can’t. You cordon off the area, and spray a fine mist of water on the fire to try to keep the temperature down until it finishes burning. Takes a few days until it is safe”.

The problem is, besides being highly flammable, lithium is literally the lightest metal. At atomic number 3, it is the first element in the periodic table which is a solid. The two previous elements, hydrogen and helium, are both gasses.

Lithium is so light, it floats on water (lithium density 0.543, half the density of water). Lithium is entirely happy to blaze away while sitting on the surface of a puddle of water.

So if you try to smother a lithium fire with sand, the sand sinks to the bottom, and the lithium floats on top.
Posted by Woodrow 2022-03-27 09:51||   2022-03-27 09:51|| Front Page Top

#14 Ford Pinto - Wikipedia
Posted by Slappy 2022-03-27 12:04||   2022-03-27 12:04|| Front Page Top

#15 Lithium? - how about natural gas that is pumped into your homes.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-03-27 15:11||   2022-03-27 15:11|| Front Page Top

#16 Slappy I was in a Pinto that was rear ended by at 50 mph by a 67 4 door Chevy. The Chevy was totalled, my rear bumper was a mess.

And I drove the Pinto for another year.

My point was even "young geniuses" are not perfect.
Posted by Woodrow 2022-03-27 17:01||   2022-03-27 17:01|| Front Page Top

#17 Term limits as in 'you can hold office in the House and Congress a maxumum of 12 years combined. Extend that to their staff as well.

And for God's sake put term limits on Supreme Court Justices.

Once you run for any federal office you are not currently holding; you automatically and immediately forfit any other federal office you are holding.
Posted by CrazyFool 2022-03-27 18:35||   2022-03-27 18:35|| Front Page Top

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