Former President Donald Trump said he'd "absolutely" be up for adding Elon Musk to his cabinet though he believes Musk will serve more as a consultant.
The Trump II cabinet so far: Tulsi Gabbard, RFK, Jr. and Elon Musk.
Can we shatter this bullshit about tech bros who struck it lucky with some early dotcom investment being geniuses?
I'm fucking tired of hearing about how these barely functional assholes who chanced into luck once are geniuses or in any way genuinely earned their wealth. They're all fuck heads that spend most of their time trying to justify why they're entitled to their lavish lifestyles...
In fact, can we just stop using the term genius? Some people are pretty good at some shit, but the elitism associated with that term is fucking toxic.
No he does not use terms like that. He gives them a creepy nickname that is leaking mental illness and presents it as a teasing joke from grandpa but his demon child mercernaries instantly make it into a hateful call to violence
It goes beyond that and is largely related to the same anti-intellectual propaganda we have had shoved down our throats for decades (basically since reagan).
Think back to basically every single movie/tv show with a "smart" character. Invariably, they are "cool" and have anti-authority tendencies. And, invariably, there is a character who is a conventional nerd who is actually an idiot compared to this cool kid with an ice rink in their basement because they pronounced a word wrong or got a single question wrong.
And what has that done? It has raised generations of people to value "genius" over "smart" where someone who is quirky and weird is WAY more intelligent than the person who actually just sits down and reads things. THOSE people are losers.
And what does a balding techbro with hairplugs who has driven double digit companies into the ground have? That's right, he thinks he is a living meme and thus must be a genius.
The term genius might have its place, but IMO it has nothing to do with how good you are at making money or exploiting your workers. Like in the world of investing maybe you could argue Warren Buffet is a genius, but that certainly doesn’t go for every asshole that’s hoarded millions to billions of dollars.
It’s also overused in most cases anyway. Much like saying something is “awesome” when it fills nobody with awe, saying somebody is a “genius” usually means as little as “pretty good, even solidly above average” rather than somebody who taught us something new about the world or ourselves.
I would even say he had a good run of picking good ideas and making them work. But I think he's too rich and crazy and out of touch now, he has lost his drive.
Pretty sure every president does that. Aren't ambassador jobs to allied foreign governments essentially gifts to friends or donors? Of course were talking about cabinet positions but it seems to me cabinets positions usually go to who kissed the most ass instead of who's most qualified. When's the last time secretary of education went to some who has actually taught a class?
A scary large number of people still seem to see him as a genius. It sounds dumb to those who pay any real attention, but those that don't still (in my experience) see him as smart.
Oh please he doesn't cherish geniuses. He reprimands them and has his aides fire them after they tell him that what he wants to do is fucking idiotic and against the law and then does it anyways.
He is completely against geniuses. And elon is no genius. He's just a rich dumbass that got lucky on a few investments.
Guy walks into a bar and sits at the counter. He pulls out a little piano from one pocket and sets it down, from another pocket he produces a little man in a tuxedo who he sits at the piano and he starts playing a jaunty little tune.
Bartender looks over and is like "Whoa! Where'd you get that?" Guy at the bar says "Well the other day I was cleaning up this old attic for a client and I accidentally knocked over an old oil lamp and, wouldn't you know it, a real live genie appeared and offered to grant me a single wish. Unfortunately, the genie seems to have been hard of hearing so now I have a 10 inch pianist."
People forget emotional intelligence is also just as much if not more important than logical intelligence when attempting to change the world for the better. And both Trump and Musk rank among the lowest of low there.
It, honestly, is not. If you want to decide what is fair, what is true, what is good, you dont fucking believe the universe god flows through your emotions. Instead, you think logically, and try to analize and understand what in the human world are the concepts of liberty, good life. And also, analizing whether your emotions are dumbly guiding you in stupid directions.
You cannot solve any societal problems with emotional feeling of what is good. That is what republicans do. Empirical bullshit loosely based on their inherent emotional desires of racism, chauvinism and the rest of the assorted bag of megalomaniac insanity pills.
If he wants geniuses, maybe he should look at university professors (who likely all hate him).. Maybe he should start by not giving them reasons to hate him (like maybe do something to stop shootings at Schools and universities?)
Musk wouldn't take it, or wouldn't stay long if he did. People in cabinet positions get sidetracked all the time by stuff outside their main goals. For example, Dr. Steven Chu, secretary for energy under Obama's first term, wanted to push a nuclear power renaissance. When BP had an oil rig disaster, he had to focus on that instead. So that's great, we wasted the time of a doctor of physics on an oil spill. It's far from the only reason the nuclear renaissance failed, but it didn't help.
If Musk doesn't realize this problem already, it won't take very long until he does and leaves the job.
You seem to think Musk is putting in a lot of time doing important work, and not shitposting on Xitter. You also seem to assume he would actually give the cabinet position the full attention and effort it deserves.
Yeah, his boss would be Trump, who used fema resources to steal medical equipment from states during an unprecedented (in modern times) pandemic scenario. A president who thought he could gain politically by letting the virus run wild, on the assumption that it would hit cities harder, and then probably didn't even care that much when it backfired.
I think the real reason Elon might not want this position is because there's a decent chance his and Trump's egos will clash at some point.
The Cabinet does not have any collective executive powers or functions of its own, and no votes need to be taken. There are 26 members: the vice president, 15 department heads, and 10 Cabinet-level officials, all except two of whom require Senate confirmation. During Cabinet meetings, the members sit in the order in which their respective department was created, with the earliest being closest to the president and the newest farthest away.
Kinda depends on the context, but it's probably convenient to consider the president, VP, and heads of departments as "the cabinet". The VP attends the staff meetings and is part of the leadership of the white house. In parliamentary systems, they use the term "ruling government" instead of cabinet, which includes the ministers, prime minister, and vice prime minister.