This should prove interesting...

[JamesE]

Was it the cars or the rockets?

[BigHewer]

Seriously? Elon Musk? 

[KaptainRob]

Better Elon than most others in the daily news.  Does he own Time? 

[BigHewer]

10 minutes ago, KaptainRob said:

Better Elon than most others in the daily news.  Does he own Time? 

No, but now he might buy it. I just wish he’d stop talking about Bitcoin.

[JamesE]

2 minutes ago, BigHewer said:

No, but now he might buy it. I just wish he’d stop talking about Bitcoin.

He's all about Dogecoin.

[Faraday]

Better than last year, when that Scandinavian rabble rouser was on it.

[BigHewer]

The Elon Mask Wealth Creation Model:

1. Buy target asset or equity.

2. Tweet something vague yet positive about said asset.

3. Appear on a talk show and repeat vague, positive comments.

4. After the subsequent surge in price, sell sell sell.

5. Go back to Twitter (and perhaps book another talk show appearance) and make negative comments about the same asset. Wait for price drop.

6. Go back to step #1. 

“Parasite of the Year” for sure. Person of the Year? I guess Wallis Simpson won it back in 1936.

[Fluke]

The Time "Person of the year" isnt given to the best person of the year , it is given to the most prominent/influential/ most newsworthy  person of the year , good or bad .

     

[Faraday]

Just had a horrible thought...

Maybe 'our illustrious leader' will be next...

[BigHewer]

40 minutes ago, Fluke said:

The Time "Person of the year" isnt given to the best person of the year , it is given to the most prominent/influential/ most newsworthy  person of the year , good or bad .

Hitler won it, Stalin, Nixon and others. I’m aware of that. If they really are the criteria, then Trump should have won four years in a row from 2016 onward. But let’s not go there 2020, probably Fauci. 

I still don’t think Musk deserves it. 

[Smithydog]

It can be awarded to a single person or a group of people.

Personally I would have awarded it to the Doctors and Nurses of the world who not only have saved so many people with their skills in times of immense pressure but also have been influential and notable voices in the most intense debate of the year.

[Bluesofa]

1 hour ago, Faraday said:

Just had a horrible thought...

Maybe 'our illustrious leader' will be next...

I was confused for a moment and had to read the title again.
I'd just posted about cremations and it was still in my mind. You can't win 'em all I suppose.

[SuSuFarang]

I wonder when the day will come, when everyone will say "yep, well deserved" to a winner.

 

[TopDeadSenter]

No opinion on Musk. I'm just relieved that anyone other than the duchess of Sussex,  Gaige Grosskreutz, or Jussie Smollett won.

[Rain]

Designed by the indoctrinating establishment.

 

The manner in which we take comfort, yet surely don't recognize.

[King Cotton]

On 12/14/2021 at 7:58 AM, BigHewer said:

Seriously? Elon Musk? 

Elton who . . . you mean the real 'Rocket Man'?

[Russell]

On 12/14/2021 at 10:20 AM, Faraday said:

Just had a horrible thought...

Maybe 'our illustrious leader' will be next...

Settle down Faraday, you have been "flying too many Thai kites" and now it has affected your thinking.

[oldschooler]

On 12/14/2021 at 9:54 AM, Fluke said:

The Time "Person of the year" isnt given to the best person of the year , it is given to the most prominent/influential/ most newsworthy  person of the year , good or bad .

Adolf Hitler must have won continuously then 1933-1941

[Fluke]

1 hour ago, oldschooler said:

Adolf Hitler must have won continuously then 1933-1941

Hitler won it in 1938

[DesperateOldHand]

A dubious honour.

Since 1927, most were of the evil establishment club. Expected. 

Similar to those whom have collected the Nobel Peace Prize - a nasty bunch. 

[Vince]

On 12/13/2021 at 4:35 PM, JamesE said:

Was it the cars or the rockets?

Maybe it was the DOGEcoin manipulation? 

"To the moon!"

[Lyp14 [ctxa]]

1 hour ago, Vince said:

Maybe it was the DOGEcoin manipulation? 

"To the moon!"

Hey look at the bright side of it... 

 

Some made billions with DOGE (Elon Musk, his brother, his wife, etc...) 

Edited January 18, 2022 by ctxa

[Vince]

2 minutes ago, ctxa said:

Hey look at the bright side of it... 

Some made billions with DOGE (Elon Musk, his brother, his wife, etc...) 

I suspect - without proof - that friends of Elon Tesla got "gifts" of big sums of DOGEcoin followed shortly by Elon tweeting & bumping up the price. Then he suggests to his friends to sell :-) 

A Nice little present that would be, eh? 

In regulated securities that would be a crime. In crypto it's perfectly legal. 

[Lyp14 [ctxa]]

1 hour ago, Vince said:

I suspect - without proof - that friends of Elon Tesla got "gifts" of big sums of DOGEcoin followed shortly by Elon tweeting & bumping up the price. Then he suggests to his friends to sell :-) 

A Nice little present that would be, eh? 

In regulated securities that would be a crime. In crypto it's perfectly legal. 

I wouldn't be so sure. 

John McAfee "suicided" in jail in my country (Spain) waiting extradition to the US for this same thing. 

Why Elon gets a free pass? 

[Vince]

Just now, ctxa said:

I wouldn't be so sure. 

John McAfee "suicided" in jail in my country (Spain) waiting extradition to the US for this same thing. 

Why Elon gets a free pass? 

McAffee had loads of problems. 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McAfee

Crypto price manipulation was not one I recall. Drugs, guns, a murder charge I do recall...

Plus he wrote that dreadful software. 

Elon Tesla had the decency to make a nice car at least.