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 pretty standard, and not limited to Republicans. A significant part of Jordan Peterson’s appeal came through the same process.
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.
GOP idiots
Speaking specifically about Rand Paul, I’m pretty sure that Rand Paul has an MD, worked as a specialist doctor of some sort prior to entering the Senate, as I remember reading from his first race.
checks Wikipedia
Yeah, he’s an ophthalmologist, an eye surgeon.
Says he went to Duke.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_University_School_of_Medicine
Duke University School of Medicine is recognised as one of the best medical schools in the United States and the world. It is currently ranked #3 in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report’s rankings for best research medical schools in 2022.[15] Several Duke programs are ranked as some of the highest in the country. Top-ten nationally ranked programs for 2022 include surgery (ranked #2), anesthesia (ranked #4), internal medicine (ranked #5), radiology (ranked #6), pediatrics (ranked #7), obstetrics/gynecology (ranked #8), and psychiatry (ranked #10).[16] Historically, the Duke University School of Medicine consistently ranks in the top ten medical schools in the United States.[17]
Admission to the school’s medical degree program is highly competitive, with more than 7,500 applicants for approximately 115 openings each year.[18]
I doubt that he’s an idiot.
If you’re speaking more-generally about people who may or may not be supporting Musk having a House role…shrugs don’t know who they are, so can’t know much about 'em.
Have you heard Ben Carson speak about politics? He’s an actual brain surgeon. And an idiot. Just goes to show that having a medical degree doesn’t make someone a genius.
He was the son of an influential congressman who also got a medical degree from Duke. You think that might have affected his chances of admission?
Just because you have a degree doesn’t mean you’re smart. That’s like saying Elon is a genius because he’s a billionaire. The two are not mutually exclusive.
I feel like if you ask any nurse they know of at least a few doctors in their hospital that may be brilliant at their specific field but absolute dumbasses anywhere else. And often doctors - because they have a doctorate - think they are delicate geniuses themselves (shoutout Seinfeld).
Like redding33 said: Ben Carson is very stupid, but he can separate conjoined twins like no other.
Most medical doctors do not have a doctorate. They will have an MD and/or some other credentials.
I doubt that he’s an idiot.
I know quite a few people who are brilliant in their field, yet absolute morons at everything else.
He’s an idiot. He’s also an asshole.
Just like his dad.
I may have disagreed with Ron on almost all things policy, but at least the man had a spine and stood up for his values with consistency. Rand does not.
Heres a hot take: you didn’t have to be that smart to be any kind of medical doctor. Good at memorizing? Hell yes. Persistent? You bet. Good at associations and drawing on things you’ve seen before? Absolutely. Good at reading between the lines and really solving the tough cases? Sometimes. Magic hands? Definitely if you’d like the big big money.
At the end of the day most doctors are walking on ground someone else already traveled, and of course there are some greats who expand the field, but that’s not everybody. If youve got the tenacity to do any medical degree, kick butt. We need you and you earn your take with pride. You don’t need to win a nobel prize to be valuable.
It is, however, NOT a job you get for being a great thinker. It’s a lot of college and a lot of residency and a lot of shoveling crap. A lot of thinking? Not compared to other education tracks or professions. You can absolutely be a medical doctor and be an idiot.
This has been a soapbox rant about professional doctorates.
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.
I understood lift pitch roll yaw etc in grade school when I became obsessed with making paper airplanes.
I speak house now?
Joe Rogan does that with anyone that comes on and talks techno babble. He’s really clueless.
Not everyone, only the rich ones.
I remember Neil deGrasse Tyson, and it was a completely different attitude than anyone rich, no matter how technical or dumb they are.
Joe is a motherfucking asshole, nobody should listen to anything he says, or anyone else willing to go talk to him.
Angela Collier just released a video about how billionaires really want to be seen as physicists, whilst most of them dropped out of college. “I could’ve become”, “I considered to” and so on.
They really want to be perceived as smart. I don’t get any brownie points for saying “I thought about getting a PhD”, why should they?
Especially when they can hire several professors to teach them personally with their billions of dollars.
It’s a long video, but well worth the watch.
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.
I was just thinking about listening to an unedited conversation between these two. Musk with his stammering incomplete sentences and Trump with his stream of run on nonsensical sentences. I don’t think I can handle it.
The only way I can listen to Musk is on Common Sense Skeptic’s YouTube channel where he destammers Musk talking.
