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.

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
    113·
    3 months ago

    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.

    • ohellidk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      20·
      3 months ago

      You support me = genius. You don’t support me = asshole, woke, liberal, loser, commie, ect. Ass kissers at their best.

  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    58·
    3 months ago

    If Trump wins, Musk will effectively have purchased a seat in the federal government. How democratic.

    • Delusional@lemmy.world
      18·
      3 months ago

      Just like trump’s last cabinet where he appointed people who donated large amounts of money to him.

    • Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 months ago

      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?

  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    3 months ago

    He’s shaping up to form a truly unique cabinet…

    • RFK Jr - Secretary of Brain Worms
    • Tulsi Gabbard - Secretary of Bullshit
    • Elon Musk - Secretary of Arrogance and Hubris
    • Kari Lake - Secretary of Bootlicking
    • Mike Lindell - Secretary of Shouting
    • Roger Stone - Secretary of Crime
    • Stephen Miller - Secretary of Child Snatching
    • Donald Trump Jr - Secretary of Self-Loathing
    • Eric Trump - Sturgeon General
  • Delusional@lemmy.world
    18·
    3 months ago

    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.

  • samokosik@lemmy.world
    12·
    3 months ago

    I do not think musk is stupid but he is an idiot. At least behaves like one.

    Whilst I do not think he has a low IQ, he certainly misses crucial points in many areas.

    • quafeinum@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 months ago

      It’s really easy when you inherit wealth… hard part is inheriting wealth for most people though

      • samokosik@lemmy.world
        13·
        3 months ago

        Elon actually says he hasn’t inherited money from parents and had quite terrible relationships with them.

    • ClamDrinker@lemmy.world
      21·
      3 months ago

      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.

      • Eximius@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 months ago

        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.

          • Eximius@lemmy.world
            1·
            3 months ago

            Relying on logic and rationalism is just intelligence. Emotional Intelligence is understanding and to some degree using peoples emotions, if you want to be very correct. You dont use emotions to define social policy, and hopefully, any social policy will be devoid of emotions, because that can only lead towards confusion, biasedness and group mentality.

            If you want to define EI as ability to step away from one’s own emotions. Sure. We can agree with that. Personally I would just call that intelligence.

            • ClamDrinker@lemmy.world
              1·
              3 months ago

              Every piece of legislature ever needs to deal with the emotions of it’s subjects. An unemphatic, but cold hard rational law, will be nothing less of tyrannical most of the time. Laws are for humans to follow, and humans have emotions that need to be understood for a law to be successful and supported to last into the future. A law that isn’t supported by it’s subjects eventually leads to revolution (big and small).

              How logic and rational a person can be is highly dependent on their emotional intelligence. You might be able to suppress your emotions when there is no stress at all, but if you cave during a stressful situation and start lashing out, that does impact your overall intelligence. Intelligence is just the collection of behaviors and training that make you effective at doing what you want to do, and being rational and logical is definitely good, but not the end of it all.