Feb. 17, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| But I was reading The Economist and they were talking about the relationship between Elon Musk and Donald Trump. | |
| Now, you know, like it or not, like it or not, Elon Musk and Donald Trump are stone geniuses. | |
| I mean, Donald Trump obviously is by far the biggest comeback in political history ever on the planet that will ever occur. | |
| Guy basically wandered in from being a real estate and TV, like he did real estate, he did TV stuff, he was successful in just about anything he touched. | |
| And then he just decided to go into politics and beat out, what, 17 other men and women to get the nomination and won and then survived. | |
| And then, you know, was 94 felonies and then come back. | |
| And I mean, it's just absolutely staggering. | |
| A man is a stone genius. | |
| He's a stone genius. | |
| And as robust as human beings can be fashioned without using spitshine and colloidal silver and diamonds. | |
| And Elon Musk is an absolute stone genius in terms of he understands politics, he understands... | |
| Rockets, business, PayPal. | |
| He was a computer software guy, even as a kid. | |
| I mean, insanely and insanely brilliant. | |
| And so, you know, these absolute dipshit writers at The Economist putting all these snarky comments. | |
| You know, the bromance between Elon Musk and Donald Trump is shaky at its core. | |
| And it's like, you don't fucking know. | |
| You don't even operate on the same planet as these guys, and you're putting your snarky little shit in. | |
| About how their relationship goes. | |
| And it's like, you don't know. | |
| You don't know. | |
| You don't know. | |
| It's just sad. | |
| Yeah, so most people, they're just lying. | |
| They're just faking it. | |
| They have no clue what's going on. | |
| They have no clue what's going on. | |
| I mean, talk to people about politics, if you've had any robust understanding of politics from sort of the ground up. | |
| And do that, and you'll just realize. | |
| Like, you'll just... | |
| The scales will fall from your eyes. | |
| And was it Michael Crichton used to talk about this, where he'd say, There's the Russ Gelman effect or something like that where it's like, you know, you're reading through the newspaper and they happen to be talking about an article you're deeply knowledgeable about and you're like, well, that's not even close to accurate. | |
| That's not even close to true. | |
| They're getting everything foundationally wrong. | |
| But then you go to some other thing where you're not an expert and somehow you think that they're doing something better or more realistic. | |
| I mean, journalists of all people claim to be experts in everything. | |
| All right. | |
| They're just falsifying it all. | |
| Somebody says, when riffing with people, I sometimes get the feedback that I'm too serious because I talk about some heavy-duty topics. | |
| From my point of view, it seems like it's related to the competency disparity you're talking about right now because I think of myself as a fairly jovial and having a good sense of humor. | |
| What's the best interpretation of this feedback? | |
| $30 donation incoming. | |
| Thank you. | |
| I appreciate that. | |
| So, yeah, I mean, what do people mean by heavy topics? | |
| So what people mean by heavy topics is stuff they know they should be thinking about, but it's inconvenient for them to do so. | |
| Stuff they know they should be thinking about, but it's inconvenient for them to do so. | |
| They just call it heavy, man. | |
| Just heavy. | |
| Somebody says, I felt that way at my first two jobs working in kitchens. | |
| Immediately came in, cleaned, organized, and streamlined the kitchen and made the job ten times easier, and they all hated me. | |
| Except the owners, yeah. | |
| Somebody says, I can relate to this a lot, but from a blue-collar point of view, the dumb blue-collar workers are a few tiers below the dumb white-collars. | |
| Yeah, why don't you just learn Spanish? | |
| Then you can just chat with so many more people. | |
| Simples! | |
| Everyone else's problems, to the dumb, everyone else's problems are obvious and simple. | |
| You know, like, the governments that can't fix a fucking... | |
| Pothole on the ground. | |
| Totally care about the temperature and ideas from now. | |
| Absolutely. | |
| The governments that can't fix the schools that they can literally see from their offices, they can't fix those schools, but they could totally reform Afghanistan. | |
| Oh, it's great. | |
| Absolutely fantastic. | |
| Every time the government deals with me, it's really frustrating and annoying. |
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