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I keep having this feeling like all these GOP idiots think musk is really super duper smart because he can at a really basic level speak in some technical terms they just don’t understand. So as a result they think he’s just sooo smart.
This is a party full of ancient people. “A series of tubes” party. So anyone who has a little bit of technical knowledge will sound like a wizard to them with the bonus that they might be able to grift off of it all.
Or musk is just a rich asshole and they all want to be rich assholes so they cozy up to him.
This is a party full of ancient people. “A series of tubes” party.
Hey now, I’m not that old.
I think it’s just secular prosperity gospel. He’s rich, therefore he must me smart. Right?
I’ve always thought that Elon Musk is a stupid person’s idea of what a smart person acts and looks like.
He never really says anything of substance, but he says it while using big words and some unfamiliar accent (at least unfamiliar to those idolizing). That’s enough for many really stupid people. The fact he always pretends to be thinking about anything for the first time completes the aesthetic.
A similar effect can be seen with Trump himself. A lot of dumb people read his nonsensical, stream of consciousness rambling style as intelligence. To someone with a brain, Trump is clearly just babbling with no overall point, except maybe repeating sound bites. But to many of his supporters, the fact he jumps around so much means they can’t keep up, and if they can’t keep up, welp, he must be real smart.
You don’t think it’s more to do with his proximity to power?
I know this is damning to admit here, but back when I was willing to watch Joe Rogan I distinctly remember during Elon’s episode (the one where he hit a joint and tanked Tesla stock, not the latest one), the topic went to electric airplanes. Elon was talking technical about it and Joe was sitting there wide-eyed like he was revealing the secrets of the weave of the universe, sure that aerospace was going to be revolutionized by this man.
Maybe I’m the stupid one here, but I’m pretty sure he was just talking about how airfoils generate lift. You know, the stuff the Wright brothers figured out in the 19-aughts. Its in high school physics textbooks.
Most technology is magic to the average person. It doesn’t take much to sound like an expert.
For a number of years now, work has been proceeding in order to bring perfection to the crudely conceived idea of a transmission that would not only supply inverse reactive current for use in unilateral phase detractors, but would also be capable of automatically synchronizing cardinal grammeters. Such an instrument is the turbo encabulator.
Now basically the only new principle involved is that instead of power being generated by the relative motion of conductors and fluxes, it is produced by the modial interaction of magneto-reluctance and capacitive diractance.
The original machine had a base plate of pre-famulated amulite surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurving bearings were in a direct line with the panametric fan. The latter consisted simply of six hydrocoptic marzlevanes, so fitted to the ambifacient lunar waneshaft that side fumbling was effectively prevented.
The main winding was of the normal lotus-o-delta type placed in panendermic semi-boloid slots of the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a non-reversible tremie pipe to the differential girdle spring on the “up” end of the grammeters.
The turbo-encabulator has now reached a high level of development, and it’s being successfully used in the operation of novertrunnions. Moreover, whenever a forescent skor motion is required, it may also be employed in conjunction with a drawn reciprocation dingle arm, to reduce sinusoidal repleneration.
Turboooo-encabulatorrr mannn!
We should have you as House Speaker!
I understood lift pitch roll yaw etc in grade school when I became obsessed with making paper airplanes.
I speak house now?
This is pretty standard, and not limited to Republicans. A significant part of Jordan Peterson’s appeal came through the same process.
That Venn diagram is just a single circle though.
Hey, don’t paint mister Series of Tubes with that brush, that analogy is still more accurate than 99% of the bullshit about the internet coming out of DC
Yeah…let’s not canonize Ted stevens. He was a massive piece of shit.
That meme was him rallying against net neutrality while head of the senate commitee that regulated the internet.
Yeah, I’m not trying to call him a saint, only that he (or maybe more accurately his staffers) actually took the time to understand the thing he was talking about to some extent.
They really are the party of ass kissing. Republicans are embarrassing.
Don’t you have to be, like, I don’t know, an ELECTED FUCKING REPRESENTATIVE to be speaker???
This is one of those Air Bud moments where they point out that there’s no rule saying an unelected person CAN’T be speaker…
One problem with government is that there are lots of unspoken rules that have been followed as tradition but never formalized.
Interestingly, no. There’s never been one who wasn’t, but there’s no actual law that says so. Some people floated the idea of appointing Donald then impeaching and convicting Biden and Harris on some bogus charge (or assassinating them, but that was usually an unsaid “wink wink, nudge nudge”) to get him back in. Musk should be out of the line of succession for President at least if it does happen though since unless I’m mistaken the “natural born citizen” part of the requirements still stands
By convention, not by law
The Constitution does not explicitly require the speaker to be an incumbent member of the House of Representatives, although every speaker thus far has been, and as a member the speaker also represents their district and retains the right to vote.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives
Rules? Hehe. If no one gets punished, what are rules? If no one fights totalitarianism, I guess they want it.
So we’re just gonna go full send on stupid. Wonderful.
First of all, where is Rand Paul’s neighbor now that we need him?
Secondly, Elmo would be no more successful than Johnson. Which is to say not successful at all.
Yes please give that man with that barely coherent Pretoria-English × US-attempting hybrid accent the job title of “Speaker”.
His accent is literally the last thing that matters about him.
It matters more that he’s literally the richest guy in the world, a massive cunt, massively power hungry, and barely american.
Oh, I know.
It’s just funny, Rand Paul watching him mumble stupid shit at the Trump rally, and then thinking “Wow. What an excellent orator. We should make him the house speaker”.
Republicans won the house, right? So I doubt the next incumbent house speaker is not going to be a total piece of shit.
I doubt Elon will even acknowledge a nomination. House Speaker looks like a job where you can’t fly your private jets coast to coast nor tweet all fucking day nonstop.
He would be second in line to the presidency. That’s a scary thought, but honestly, could he be worse than Trump or Vance?
Edit: never mind, he’s not qualified to be president.
Yes
