Boring Company Chicago: Can They Dig It?

[Ty_McMahan]

When it comes to Elon Musk’s plan to dig an 18-mile high-speed transit tunnel under Chicago, it seems they’re not “digging” it. “They” being former federal prosecutor Lori Lightfoot and Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, who will be considered by voters in a mayoral runoff election on April 2. Neither candidate has endorsed Musk’s...
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[JonathanD]

"If you look at Elon Musk’s career—he comes off as a grifter."

Coming from a Chicago politician this is rich. I wonder if he watched the DM-1 mission over the weekend. Or noticed you now can buy a Model 3 for $35k. I'm intensely curious to find out what Carlos has achieved in his career that he feels qualifies him levy such criticism at an undeniable doer.

 

[RDoc]

When politicians start talking like this it means that someone who they get money from has a problem. That, or they are put out that Musk hasn't yet offered them a cut. Money talks, everyone else walks (or waits in traffic).

 

[Rob W]

Why does this article make me feel I am reading a lost chapter of "The Fountainhead".

 

[Moonlight]

grift·er
Dictionary result for grifter
/ˈɡriftər/
noun
INFORMAL•NORTH AMERICAN

1. a person who engages in petty or small-scale swindling.
   "I saw him as a grifter who preys upon people"

I do not think that word means what you think it means." — Inigo Montoya