Like some other leaders who made the news today (Barry & Rahm), you have to listen carefully to, as well as, watch your back around, power brokers who are from Chicago. Recall that Larry has his Chicago roots. He's a politician of a certain sort, as seen by his blend of Silicon Valley techno business populism, anti elitism/elitism dialectics, political incorrectness, and, most importantly, Chicago shrewdness. It's not that he's authentically driven by various ideals, ideals which might otherwise be individually supportive of and embodied in the elements just mentioned; it's just that he's Larry, and, authentic or not, Larry gets what Larry wants.
"You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's...the Chicago way! And that's how you get Capone. Now do you want to do that? Are you ready to do that? I'm offering you a deal. Do you want this deal? "
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