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deisik

An Option 3 is possible too.  Strauss-Kahn may have embarrassed himself (or worse: other Elite members) and gotten the boot just for that.  IIRC, he was hanging around and molesting women in gross ways for years.

The Elite is a little bit flexible.  They can kick-out members, and of course induct new ones.

Also, there are probably hierarchies.  If you are a Rothschild or Soros, you can pretty much get away with almost anything as long as it is not widely known.  The Clintons, after all, are still in The Elite.  Yet, Huma and Weiner are probably on the way OUT because they are no longer useful to the rest of 'em...