Elon Musk

[Pat Mustard]

Musk is a lot of things, but "stupid" isn't one of them. We underestimated Trump in 2016 and look where we are now. If you wish to make the same mistake with Musk, go ahead. I'm a  "once bitten, twice shy" kinda dude.

Calling somebody stupid isn't underestimating them (in fact in cases like Galaxy Brain and T****y, pretending they're not is itself a form of underestimation, as you're lulling yourself into the idea that they've enough brains to be rational), it's by thinking that they'll be reasonable, do the right thing or "turn presidential" where the problems will occur. Overestimating their intelligence or capability to do anything constructive for their goals (what goals do they really have other than self enrichment though?) is as bad a mistake as the one that lead the British and French to go into the Sudetenland crisis thinking that Germany was far ahead of them militarily when it was, in fact, significantly behind, Hitler was bluffing at Munich.

Oh and in his first term T****y was an extremely ineffectual president, except in cases where his lack of willingness to put in any effort hurt others. Oh, and ye are where ye are now because ye've a constitutionally mandated electoral system that is so full of holes and so lacking in corrections that in the majority of states it's either as bad as or worse than Russia's.