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X Marks the Spot [1]

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Date: 2023-07-31

By David Glenn Cox

He’s the new Henry Ford, the new caped crusader turned to a super villain. A 1920 poll listed Henry Ford as one of the greatest men who ever lived, behind Jesus and Napoleon Bonaparte. Ten years later, Henry Ford was considered a greedy money-grubbing racist. So, let’s kick Elon.

Ford was X before Elon X ever thought about being X. Ford had a newspaper he published and forced all his car dealerships to sell. The Dearborn Independent was the ravings of an ignorant 19th Century rural American racist and antisemite. But Ford was so popular, he thought he could say just about anything, and the folks would just ape along.

Ford once said the Great Depression could be a good thing, if it taught Americans the value of a hard day’s work. Because as Ford famously said, “Americans won’t do a good day’s work, if they can get out of it.” Who does that remind you of today? Yes, Americans could learn some useful skills that would help them later in life, by starving and becoming homeless.

Success breeds contempt, “They can have the car in any color they want, as long as it’s black.” Ford knows better! Changing the name of Twitter to X is dumb on so many levels. The ravings of the delusional billionaire suffering with affluenza. Taco Bell to change their name to “Mike’s (sort of) Mexican food maybe?” McDonalds to change their name to Q. “let’s all go get some Q burgers! I’m going to order a big Q! And get the kids a couple of Happy Q meals with Chicken Q nuggets. Kleenex to change their name to “Just Snot Rags Inc!”

But in Twitter’s case, when you use the app, it’s called a Tweet. Is it now to be called an X? Is a dirty tweet now a triple X? There was no pressing or compelling need to change the name, none whatsoever. No massive lawsuits from Bill Twitter and family, claiming their lives had been permanently damaged because of the app’s name.

Ford had a vision of America he wanted to preserve. He didn’t like Jazz music, Ford liked waltzes and square dancing and held dance classes in his factories. And if you want to be promoted, by god you’d better like waltzes and square dancing too. It was all about control. Ford wanted to control his vendors, so he used his own railroad cars and bought his own coal mines. Building a rubber plantation (Fordlandia! Catchy name huh?) in South America where Ford ordered rubber plants to grow on command.

Fordlandia reminds me of Elon’s plans to colonize Mars. Grandiose, verbose, and doomed to failure. The problem being that there is no compelling reason to colonize Mars. Americans didn’t pour into California in 1849 because some billionaire thought it would be fun or a good idea. Americans thought they could get rich and escape slums and poverty. Now, why would I want to go to Mars again? What’s in it for me?

After the SpaceX Starship (Grandiose much? To seek out new life and boldly go) rocket went out of control back in April and had to be self-destructed. Elon confidently predicted; they would be ready to go again in two months. May, June, July and now August. The launch facility was heavily damaged because the water dousing system wasn’t ready, but they launched anyway! How very Soviet of them.

The Soviet Space program had a habit of launching rockets and if they happened to explode to just launch another one, until they got it right. Launching unperfected rockets from incomplete launching facilities doesn’t show the best sound engineering judgement. But sitting right in the front row of launch control sat Elon. “I’m important!” When Apollo 11 launched for the moon, in July of 69 Werner Von Braun sat in the back of the room.

The Space X employees cheered and clapped like a North Korean birthday party for Kim Jon X. As the rocket tumbled out of control they still cheered. “Isn’t it great? Well sure, we wished it hadn’t gone out of control. But wasn’t it great?” Why did it take so long to push the self-destruct button? Did it have anything to do with the guy sitting at the end of the front row? The FAA wants to know.

Spin is in, Space X is now going to use hot staging. Think pilot light. Space X had developed a new method of staging their Starship, but it didn’t work. Hot staging was first used to put John Glenn into orbit back in 1962. Hot staging is used when the engineers don’t have any confidence, they can get the second stage to ignite on its own. But when Space X does it, it’s a marvelous new improvement.

31 engines in the first stage of the Starship rocket. 31 engines to test and 31 engines to troubleshoot. New Space X Raptor 3 engines engine broke a world record recently, after being test fired for five seconds. It’s just a forward-thinking genius company, that’s why they improved them! It had nothing to do with the engine failures of the last launch. Test twice, launch once!

What happened to the Bluebird of a verified Twitter account? Dead as a dodo? Do you have to buy an X now? Are X-Men comic book superheroes or just social media employees?

Twitter or X is the new Dearborn Independent, the ravings of a billionaire megalomaniac. Kanye West is to be allowed back on formerly Twitter now X. But didn’t Kanye also change his name to Ye? How did that work out? Elon X first bought Twitter because he felt conservatives weren’t being given a fair shake. So, Elon X preaches and allows racists and antisemites back onto the X platform in the name of fairness.

Musk X bought Twitter for 44 billion dollars and incurred $13 billion in debt. Today the company is valued at around 14.4 billion dollars and is considered another Musk X raging success story. I don’t particularly want to see Musk fail, but I’ve read this story before. The genius billionaire admired by all, who falls prey to his own grandiose affluenza and begins to think he is smarter than everyone else.

Henry Ford eventually retired to his private estate, guarded by a private army with machine gun nests and stopped talking to the press. Not because Ford was tired or weary, but because Ford felt the public no longer deserved his genius and wisdom anymore. Ford even returned the special medal sent to him by Adolf Hitler. Hitler loved reading the Dearborn Independent. X marks the spot where the dead pirate buries his loot.

“It’s not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves” — William Shakespeare

“You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker” ― Malcom X

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