Some More News - Some More News: Elon Musk Thinks You Are So F**king Stupid

Episode Date: February 5, 2025

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Ah, what's up gamers of the world? It's another episode of Some More Noobs, the only gaming channel that erases your memory of its existence every time you finish an episode. I'm Cody, Noob Master Johnston, and here's some more noobs. Today we're talking about the epic gamer, Elon Musk. On top of being a genius and the world's richest genius,

somehow this real life Tony Stark genius hero has the time to be the number one Diablo IV player in the world and is so good at Path of Exile 2 that they're too scared to let him play. All of this on top of being a space and car engineer, master of government efficiency, and the best meme lord who ever lived. His memes are so sick that the woke media

is trying to cancel him for making a random gesture at a Trump rally? Geez, you can make anyone look like anything if you just freeze frame a video of them. Let's see the truth. My heart goes out to you. Oh wow, he just did it, huh? He just did the Nazi-Sieg Heil salute. Twice. Oh, okay, maybe it's a misunderstanding. Let's watch the rest of the clip. It is thanks to you that the future of civilization

is assured. Thanks to you. See, in context, it's totally innocent. He was just saying that thanks to the people at the Trump rally, they have secured the existence of their people and showed them his heartfelt gratitude by aggressively doing the hand gesture that is universally known as the slew to the Nazi party.

It's probably fine. It's probably fine. But maybe that's just how Elon gestures that his heart goes out to people. If only we had any other clip of his heart going out to people for comparison. Oh, we do. And it's different.

Like completely different. Seems pretty definitive that he did the Nazi salute, but you know, the ADL said it wasn't Nazi stuff and those guys are always on the ball. Musk's Nazi puns? Anti-Semitism, must be condemned. The obvious Nazi salute? Everybody calm down, please.

My goodness, everyone is a coward and a liar. Ben Shapiro also defended Musk by pointing out that Elon visited Auschwitz with him a while back. Hey, Ben, do you remember why he did that? This was immediately punctuated with a post by the wife of a Holocaust survivor who was there during Musk's visit saying that the billionaire seemed largely unmoved by the visit and was clearly only there for the photo opportunity. But sure, let's trust Ben instead. Way to do damage control for the Nazi guy, Ben.

Ultimately, it took the gosh darn Hollywood Reporter to state the obvious, which is that, accidental or not, he objectively gave a Nazi salute, and a normal, non-Nazi person would immediately recognize that and apologize for it. They wouldn't deny the basic reality or try to be coy with it because it sure didn't look accidental. He could have even said, well, it was a bad joke to trigger the libs, which is the most likely explanation

because he loves pretending he's a 15 year old edgelord with the best sense of humor in the world. And that explanation is of course still bad because he still did a Nazi salute in front of millions of people at a political rally, thus normalizing and softening Nazi salutes. But he didn't even say that. So if he isn't apologizing or explaining it,

like literally anyone else would be required to do, I guess we have to just assume he's into it, right? That he's kind of a Nazi and it's okay to just call him a Nazi now. Anyway, we're not talking about the world's richest Nazi openly believing in Nazi stuff and then doing a Nazi salute during a political rally. I mean, we should talk about that and have.

Elon keeps doing it. He keeps ingratiating himself with the far far right. But this isn't about Elon Musk, the Nazi. It's about Elon Musk, the gamer, you see. Also, I think we were doing a bit where this was a gaming show praising Musk, or was that a dream? It's only February, guys.

["Epic Elon Musk Best Gamer in the World"] Epic Elon Musk, best gamer in the world. I know we're really whiplashing you around through irony, but I'm going to earnestly say something right here at the top of this. Elon Musk is an Epic gamer. No, really, by the end of this episode, I'm going to prove that Elon Musk is good at gaming.

How's that for a twist? Whoa! After all, at this point, it's safe to say that most people don't like Elon Musk. So the only way to make a hip and subversive video about him is to flip the narrative. Also, I hear it's really lucrative to pander to the X-crowd now.

Anyway, so in case you have a life and a family and or people who love you, let me explain what's going on with Elon Musk and the gaming community. And I promise this will all eventually be relevant to people who have no interest in gaming. But in short, Elon Musk, whose accounts are ranked in the very top for the games, Path of Exile 2

and Diablo 4, streamed himself playing Path of Exile on Twitter a little while back. During that stream, he very confidently navigated and explained this game, which has more than half a million players as of recording this, and in doing so, made it very clear that he had absolutely no idea how to play it. A game that he was claiming to be a top player of. He was really, really bad at it, and people noticed. Check it out. He's not played this for Blasey.

Bro, he's not played this game for Blasey. That's YouTuber Quinn69TV, one of many who pointed out that Elon was making rookie mistakes, such as frustratingly clicking unavailable areas of the map and not using keyboard shortcuts, and referring to top tier weapons that he would have had to acquire himself as not very good because the level requirement

to use the weapon, not the weapon level itself, was lower than his character's level. And I know it sounds very silly, which it is, but it's also very basic stuff even a casual gamer should understand. There's a bunch of other stuff I don't want to explain. Go watch his video about it. One of the many things they point out

is that being ranked at the very top of a game like this is a full-time job. You have to be playing all the time, meaning that Elon would have to be doing this exclusively. On top of this, his game menu was conspicuously labeled in the third person with a folder called Elon's Map, implying that someone else had prepped the game for him. Again, not gonna get into the details

because like Elon, I don't really know much about Path of Exile 2. But for all you noobs out there, imagine if someone claimed to be the best driver in the world. But when they got in their car, it was filled with sticky notes labeling where everything was.

And then they couldn't figure out how to start the car. And then when they finally did start it, they didn't know what the gear shift was. And then they seemed to be baffled by the concept of a steering wheel. That is the equivalent of what we're talking about here. This sparked an entire controversy where gamers rightfully called out Musk for being a cheater

and for likely paying people to boost his ranks in the game. This is not at all an uncommon thing for people to do if they are weird cheaters. But Elon, being the cool meme lord that he is, totally took it all in stride by freaking out at one of the accusers, removing his Twitter check mark, and violating the terms of service on his own platform

by posting private DMs. He also, and this is unrelated, but also kind of related, he seemed to fundamentally misunderstand what an editor is, accusing this gamer dude of having secret bosses, his proof being that in his DMs, the guy referred to his editors, as in video editors, who run his YouTube page. They edit together his streams and post it to YouTube.

They're not his editorial board. It's weird that the richest, smartest, modern Tony Stark was mystified by the concept of an editor and thought this was some big gotcha. This is like stuff a child thinks? Why would he openly refer to his editors if they were a dirty secret, Elon? Did you not, for a moment, think this through?

But anyway, this led to Elon's ex and mother of his favorite human shield, Grimes, hopping on his website to proudly verify that actually Elon is great at video games, to which Elon replied, thanks. I assume he asked her to post that and offered her a better visitation time with her son that he is keeping from her, but whatever,

very cool post and reply. This all came to a climax when Elon Musk mockingly and ironically admitted to cheating, followed by him unironically and earnestly admitting to cheating, saying that while it 100% is him when he streams the game, he has had others play his accounts to boost his levels. Quote, it's impossible to beat the players in Asia

if you don't, as they do. Everybody's doing it, you see? Everybody's doing it. Seems like it goes deeper than that. And I would argue that based on that video of him playing the game, he pretty much exclusively has someone else play his account for him.

But it's nice to hear him admit it, even if it's possibly to distract everyone from him doing the Hitler thing at the rally. Hey, let's see that again. God, he can't even be a Nazi without looking like a dweeb, which makes sense, Nazis are dweebs. Anyway, the point here isn't that Elon Musk lied about this game.

Rather, that's not the main point. Well, it kind of is. It's one of several main points is my point. And another main point is just how sad this is. It's something we've talked about on the show before, but Elon Musk is the most desperately uncool man who ever lived. He is the world's richest person, has everything

he ever could want, and yet is constantly seeking the things he can't get, approval and likeability. You know, I very much dislike Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos, but at least I don't have to constantly see them. They know enough to, for the most part, just quietly stay out of the spotlight. Because, like most of us,

if we ever got so much money that we'd never worry again, the last thing we would do is constantly be on social media. But with Elon, he's like a walking parable, this flesh-formed Aesop fable about the downfalls of greed and loneliness, wandering the earth, perpetually on tilt. Although oddly enough, he's not on tilt when he's playing poker poorly, which we'll of course get to.

But what makes it so hard to ever feel bad for him, besides the fact that he's a fucking Nazi and has more money than God, is that so far, his only method for gaining that likeability is to cheat. He will try any underhanded methods so long as he doesn't have to be a nice and good person. Over on Twitter, he was one of the worst posters who ever memed. Literally anyone could dunk on him and did.

But instead of reflecting on that, he purchased the website and changed the algorithm to boost his posts. He really did that. We didn't make that up. He is the little rich boy that no one wanted to play with that purchased the skate park to force everyone to be his friend.

That is what he did. And now we've learned that he also paid to make himself look like the best gamer ever. Why? Elon, why? You are the richest man in the world. You won capitalism. Why do you also have to be the best gamer?

How insecure are you? And that actually brings me to the most interesting takeaway to all of this, which is that Elon Musk didn't just lie about being the best gamer in the world. He lied badly about it while acting extremely confident. He went on a stream and very boldly sucked at the game, a game that a lot of people play and could see he sucked at.

Like slightly unrelated, but have you ever heard John Benjamin's jazz album where he put together a full ensemble just so he could suck at the piano. ["Piano Sonata No. 1 in C major, Op. 16, No. 2 in C major"] I don't play piano at all. Amazing work from Coach McGurk. This is exactly what Elon Musk did.

Unironically, he went on a stream and talked confidently about something he very clearly didn't know how to do, despite claiming to be the best at it. And you have to wonder, what gives a man that level of blind confidence that they think they can get away with that? I know, superficially, video games don't seem like a big deal to lie about. But after the break, we're gonna explain why that is a big deal to lie about. Because here's maybe an obvious question. What else has Elon Musk blatantly lied about? He's clearly a man who wants to seem like the best at everything and is willing to cheat to do that. So what else is he pretending to be the best at?

The man doesn't even seem to know what editors are. That's weird, right? So if you're a gamer watching this who maybe hasn't thought too much about Elon's politics or his career, stick around perhaps please. I swear I won't do any more bits like that some more noobs thing, okay? I swear it. You know, Valentine's Day is coming up. That's the day we give projectiles to flying babies. Maybe you need to give someone a gift, be that your lover or that security guard at work

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We're doing it normal. Missionary position episode about Elon Musk, the Nazi, and how he lies about cheating at video games. Hey, idiot, great news. I just learned closeup magic. That's the same bit. Why would we do the same bit? Damn it.

The bit is that we said we didn't wanna do a bit and then we did a bit. Fucking piss. My brain is on fire. Okay, so before the break, we laid out how Elon Musk, a Nazi guy, cheated at video games and then lied about video games before confessing to cheating at video games.

Because according to him, it's the only way to be the best. He has to be the best you see, even if he's not literally the best. And it maybe makes you wonder, what else is he cheating at and lying about? I think at this point, a lot of people, regardless of political beliefs, are starting to notice that Musk is maybe sort of kind of a stupid guy, or at least extremely unhinged and dishonest and unpredictable and not super knowledgeable about the many things he claims to be super knowledgeable about. And you might claims to be super knowledgeable about.

And you might be wondering how he got that way. How did Elon Musk go from doing a cameo in Iron Man 2 and getting praise for being this god alien who's good at everything, to this seemingly dim weirdo sharing bad stolen memes and doing Nazi stuff? You probably already know what I'm gonna say because you probably already suspect the answer'm gonna say, because you probably already

suspect the answer. And yes, much of it is simply because unfathomable amounts of wealth has broken his brain, and the website he bought has radicalized that broken brain into Nazi soup. No brain for you! But generally, perhaps when someone says that they are this amazing genius who's really good at a lot of vastly different things, they are most likely just a liar and a weird liar at that, because over time, most people will notice that you're not actually good at those things. We all probably had a friend like this, right?

The kid at school who said his dad is a professional ninja or the guy at the bar who can totally do 500 pull-ups. The big difference is that Elon Musk, A, is an adult, and B, has been up until now, claiming to be really good at stuff that most people don't have the knowledge to call an out on. And his entire persona and career have been based around this confidence.

People would listen to him talk about engineering or space and just assume, well, since he's rich and important and played pretend with an actor pretending to be Iron Man in a movie, that he must know what he's talking about. But over time, he's drifted more and more into common knowledge or areas of other people's expertise. For example, here he is talking about Roman history as it relates to birth rates. Rome fell because the Romans stopped making Romans. That's actually the fundamental issue. And there were other things. There was like, they had quite a serious malaria, serious malaria epidemics and plagues and

whatnot. But they had those before. It's just that the birth rate was farther than the death rate. Hmm, seems correct. I mean, I don't know much about ancient Rome besides what I learned playing Assassin's Creed, but that sounds like it could be true.

Good game, not as good as the one where you fist fight the Pope, but still. Except here's the thing. There are people who do know about ancient Rome. For example, Mike Duncan, a historian and podcaster who pointed out that Elon Musk had no idea what he was talking about. Musk is referring to birth rate concerns

that were recorded around 18 BC, followed by several hundred years of prosperity before the decline of Rome, which is credited to a lot of stuff, but not a declining birth rate. Because again, the low birth rate proceeded, as Duncan pointed out, two centuries of Rome's golden era. But okay, so the guy was wrong about Rome

in order to push his existential fear of lowering birth rates. We are all guilty of occasionally declaring stuff that turns out to be wrong. As they say, to air is humid. It's a weird saying, to air is humid, but that's definitely what they say. It's almost weird saying, to air is humid, but that's definitely what they say. It's almost as weird as that other popular saying, the air is human? It's a weird phrase.

Language is fun, but it's not necessarily even a hit against Musk that he thought COVID wasn't going to be a big thing. I mean, it was obvious how wrong no new cases by April was even at the time, but whatever. Oops, oh well. But what is weird isn't that he was wrong, but that he never reflected on being wrong and continued to say very wrong stuff with a lot of confidence throughout the pandemic, all so he could keep his factory open

and give his workers COVID. You'd think that at some point he'd say, well, I'm not a doctor and I was really dramatically, laughably wrong about this. So maybe I should sit this one out. But he didn't because here's some news. When you're actually a smart person, you also have humility and the wisdom

to listen to other experts. Smart people admit when they are wrong. Stupid, insecure people don't. And not just like, I disagree with your opinion, sir, but wrong about a very straightforward claim, a very verifiable, straightforward claim. And in fact, Elon Musk was so confidently wrong about COVID and so unwilling to be wrong

that he apparently bet a million dollars on it. That's according to podcaster and former friend of Musk, Sam Harris, who Elon bet a million bucks that COVID would fizzle out by April of 2020. Elon was overwhelmingly comically wrong. And instead of owning up to it, he ghosted Harris and then began to publicly insult him and proudly lie about him on Twitter a bunch.

To repeat that, instead of admitting he was wrong about something he was objectively, drastically wrong about, Elon Musk destroyed a relationship. Because it's important to note here that it's not just that Elon Musk is wrong a lot, but he's also incapable of admitting it or of changing his mind. There's always an excuse he will give

and it's always the most obvious and transparent version of that excuse. Remember when he said he was trained in judo, Kyokushin, parentheses, full contact, and no rules street fighting? How can you be trained in no rules street fighting? That's like something Napoleon Dynamite would say. I went to my no rules class and learned all the rules.

And sure enough, when Elon challenged Mark, also terrible Zuckerberg, to a cage match, Zuck called his bluff, to which Elon said he'd totally do it before putting out a series of excuses for why he couldn't do that, until Zuckerberg got disinterested. That's just so obviously a dude who can't actually fight, which is fine, pretended he could for some reason,

and then backed away when called out on it. This is child stuff, baby behavior. But okay, in his defense, maybe he's just a little cocky, you know? But there's no denying that he is an engineering genius. Oh my fucking God. Well, right, okay. So let's explore that.

Is Elon Musk an inventor or expert engineer? People talk about him like that all the time. He's Edison, he's Tesla, he's Tony Stark, et cetera. Here's somebody weirdly calling him Albert Einstein. I mean, you gotta look at Elon. I mean, SpaceX. I mean, Tesla. You know, Neuralink.

I just, I mean, the guy is Einstein. You know how Albert Einstein's contributions to the world are like his companies? What does he think Einstein did? What does he think Elon does? What like physics changing equation do we associate with Elon Musk? What are Einstein's companies?

What nonsense, what absolute nonsense? But maybe accurate nonsense? Maybe he is a brilliant inventor and expert engineer. Except first of all, he doesn't really have the academic background for that. Musk has a dual bachelor's degree in economics and physics. He was, by all accounts, a very good but not exceptional student, and that's fine. Whatever. But none of that really relates to engineering.

In terms of inventing, you can find about 10 patents that have his name on them. Four of them are Tesla Design patents, as in the shape of a door or charging port. He's got one for an autonomous vehicle processor, which he shares with 17 other people, so good job to the team. Three patents are from his work at Zip2 and MyWay doing like map and directory programming. One is vaguely related to Neuralink and Pending, and the last one was filed but abandoned. It should be noted that Tesla itself has filed a little over 3,000 patents, and Musk is on just a few of the design ones. That might explain why, according to people

who worked there, Elon Musk wasn't really involved with Tesla's rise, and in fact became more of a liability than a guiding light. He pushed out several important engineers for very silly reasons. He was seen more like an oblivious money guy or a salesman. And if you have any background in engineering, you might already have known that. We've seen him make these bold claims about what Tesla can do without having the evidence to back it up. For example, saying that Tesla was nearing level 5 self-driving autonomy back in 2020, level 5 being complete automation.

He's been predicting that since 2015, mind you. But okay, he's not like an engineer. He still had to start from somewhere, right? In order to invest in Tesla, he had to have the money for that. And yes, he grew up rich. And yes, despite him continually denying the existence of an Emerald mine, he did literally brag about it himself years ago in an interview.

But it would be inaccurate to pretend like he didn't accumulate wealth between his childhood and his years at Tesla. Like what about PayPal? And Elon Musk as a programmer. This is how he got his start, co-founding a software company called Zip2. You can't take Zip2 away from him.

It was a genius idea to take a business directory and put it online while also providing maps, kind of like the Yellow Pages, but online. But okay, he was one of the first. One of the first people to say, what if we put the phone book online? And he did program the site, which was then sold to Compaq

and made Musk around $20 million. And that's kind of it. It's not nothing, mind you, but Zip2 is pretty much the only thing he built from the ground up himself. He programmed an online directory and sold it off. Cool! He would then form, and this is true,

a banking website called x.com. Yes, he really thinks that's a super cool letter. X would go on to merge with a company called Confinity with Musk named as a CEO. Confinity would be renamed to PayPal, but Elon then tried to rename PayPal back to X because that's just what he does. And just like people had pointed out with Twitter,

back then people also pointed out that making your banking website the letter X just made people think it was porn. But Elon Musk stuck to his guns, rolled up his sleeves, and did a third cliche before being ousted as the CEO and replaced with Peter Thiel. PayPal would go on to drag Elon, kicking and screaming into financial success.

In other words, nothing about Elon Musk's business history suggests he was smart or good at business or even coding. He programmed a single website and has been in the right place at the right time ever since. I'm sure he has some talents, possibly not video games or jokes or truck design, obviously, but surely something. Offering his friends vials of his semen. Is that a talent?

Whatever. Point is at best he's a mediocre guy. At worst he's like if Forrest Gump got rich off of the tech boom. AKA FORREST GUMP! Oh right, he did do that. This is all to say that Musk doesn't seem to know much about coding. When he purchased Twitter, he was called out multiple times for not understanding how to run that site.

And again, if you're not a coder, you might not realize it. But this was the first time a large enough number of people suspected he had no idea what he was talking about. He asked to see screenshots of employees' code commits as proof of their worth. But as real coders have pointed out, that's like a snippet of out-of-context code that doesn't really show the full picture. It's a weird thing to ask for. He also tweeted out a coding joke

that was apparently nonsense. And I know that sounds pedantic, but this is who he is supposed to be, right? He's regarded as this awkward Sheldon Cooper type who makes bad jokes and gets bogged down with the little nerdy details. But there's no actual evidence that he's actually like that.

Everything he pretends to be has been either stolen from others or built upon something that was already there. Even his memes are stolen memes. He claims to be this big meme lord posting fire content. But all he does is repost other people's stuff. That's it. That's all he does to the point that even the New York Times reported on it.

And you know it's accurate because they used expert sources. Thanks, New York Times, for recognizing our journalistic integrity. Weird-ass world. Not a fan. Twitter really shined a light on how dim Elon Musk is. It might be the worst thing that happened to him, which is funny because he purports to love the website,

but anybody on the website at the time could tell him that one of Twitter's best superpowers is exposing rich celebrities and politicians as being insecure, spiteful morons. And we've already done a few episodes specifically about this, so I won't dig into it, but he's just, he's so stupid on there. Like racist grandpa levels of stupid,

like falling for Photoshop stupid, slopping out so much disinformation that it's hard to fact check it all. Possibly he's doing that on purpose now, but who can say? But you see this escalation, right? Elon Musk is a guy who came from wealth and was okay at programming at one point. That seems to be literally it.

But he spoke confidently, knew the right people, and was lucky enough to slowly make money due to his position in life. Then he invested that money in a car company that blew up, not in the Cybertruck sense, but in the sense that it became wildly successful. And to his credit, a lot of that was because Elon was able to successfully sell the company. Because that's what he's good at. He's a huckster, a flimflam man. His biggest talent, at least for a while,

was to bullshit with authority about things that most people didn't have casual knowledge about. And he rode that all the way to the top in an electric car he made popular, even though now he cares nothing about climate change and supports the party that doesn't believe in it either and wants to get rid of electric cars. Before anyone realized he was an idiot,

Elon used his money to create SpaceX, a company that he doesn't run, much like he didn't run Tesla. And just like Tesla, his entire asset is to blurt out empty promises about how they'll totally go to Mars really soon. Totally going. Hey, Elon, it's 2025.

Where's the Mars colony? Because of course, Elon, Mars guy, also doesn't understand space. He has a child's understanding of it. He once tweeted that the car he launched is orbiting Mars. No, it isn't. As a Harvard professor had to explain,

it's orbiting the sun, Elon. Is that another pedantic nerd explanation? It sure is, but again, that's what actual science people do. That's what he's supposed to be. Science people are curious about science and love to explain science, sometimes to everyone's exasperation. Elon has no curiosity about anything. He called colonizing the moon a distraction. Really? Not interested in the moon? Bored with the moon? The moon is woke now. Musk actively dulls the possibility of people being interested in science, and not just

by his general attacks on the scientific community or how he hitched his ride to the party of anti-intellectualism. A while back, there was a flurry of posts on X about his Department of Government Efficiency and all the wasteful spending that it will cut. But most of it was people posting about how the government wastes all this money on things like the sex lives of beetles. And like, yeah, we all know John and Paul jerked off together that one time. We don't need to do studies about that.

But as others also pointed out, studying things like beetle mating habits helps us with agriculture. They help us discover new medicines. It's actually really interesting, and somebody who likes science and wants people to be educated might want to promote things like that. Here's some person posting about how the government wastes millions of dollars on anal footprint toilets. And here's Elon replying like, wow, oh my goodness. Except as his terrible websites community notes clearly points out, it's actually technology

to detect UTIs and potentially cancer. And the $6.9 million was spent on other cancer detection projects as well, not just the toilet. That's interesting and cool and maybe even good. Even if you don't want the government to spend money on that, to pretend like it's this wasteful spending on butt fingerprints instead of the actual thing that it is,

is dishonest and really kind of pathetic coming from somebody who pretends to care about science and humanity. It is deeply incurious and he wants you to be in curious as well. He wants you dull and uneducated and we will get into why a little later. But yes, Elon's meteoric rise just kept escalating to a comical degree, and he's now in charge of this semi-official department created to cut government spending, even ignoring

the butt toilet stuff. Do you trust him to do that? Do you really trust him to run Doge? He named it Doge. Also, really, when you think about it, all toilets are butt toilets. But ask yourself, what in Elon Musk's background qualifies him for a governmental position?

And what about this richest man on the planet who's benefited from government subsidies and has many government contracts makes him trustworthy in this new role. Back when the House tried to pass a spending plan, Musk tweeted out a series of straight up lies about what that plan involved. And just like how gamers called him out, just like how programmers called him out, just like how engineers and history experts called him out, political like how programmers called him out, just like how engineers and history experts called him out, political scientists are now calling him out for not knowing what he's doing.

Perhaps we should listen to them. Musk predictably has already reduced his original prediction of cutting $2 trillion in spending to $1 trillion. Because ultimately, he's just a guy who cheats and lies about it. Everything we learned about Elon Musk as a gamer is how Elon Musk has always operated. His entire career was built by paying other talented people

to do the actual work and then taking the credit for it. His only talent being the money that affords him failure. He can afford to buy Twitter and run it into the ground. He can afford to fire his most talented employees. He can afford to be Twitter and run it into the ground. He can afford to fire his most talented employees. He can afford to be as stupid as he wants. There's actually a really apt metaphor gifted to us by Elon himself in one of Elon Musk's biographies where he plays a game of poker.

I will just quote it. Although Musk was not a card player, he pulled up to the table. There were all these nerds and sharpsters who were good at memorizing cards and calculating odds. Elon just proceeded to go all in on every hand and lose. Then he would buy more chips and double down. Eventually, after losing many hands,

he went all in and won. Then he said, right, fine, I'm done. Unquote. The book treats this story as a testament to Elon's business genius. But that's just describing really bad poker. If you play poker, you probably realize that. If you don't play poker, you probably also realize that.

Based on that story, he was not only insufferable to play with, but absolutely lost more money than he won. Like, all the other players have to do there is be really conservative preflop, knowing that this one dipshit is going to go all in every time. Then you just wait until you have good hold cards and you call him. It'll be boring, but for a professional player, that's a godsend, not a genius tactic. that is noob shit. That's the story of a dumb guy.

Was that even fun for him? That doesn't even sound fun for him. But he just was so rich that he could afford to do that and pretend he won with a brilliant tactic. And that's just the perfect metaphor. Poker is a game of social skill and calculation and patience. That's why there are people who are good at it.

But Elon just bulldozed it using his wealth, won a single hand and walked away no doubt thinking that he had mastered it. It is Dunning-Kruger shit. The same way Elon once claimed that chess was too simple of a game for his beautiful mind. Apparently the only acceptable markers of a good game that requires skill is a tech tree and Fog of War.

He really, really, really loves Fog of War. He's tweeted about it several other times. Fog of War being maybe the funniest thing you could ask for in chess specifically. Like part of the point of chess is that you can each see all the pieces on the board. It's a game of strategy, Elon? And what's incredible, the people telling this poker story

also act like he did something brilliant. But for the most part, he just says stuff. He constantly shares with blind confidence his views about multi-planetary travel, immigration, the media, freaking Blade Runner, Italian politics, German politics, American politics, and people just assume he's right. Because he's a rich genius after all, right? Certainly a rich genius wouldn't be a fucking buffoon. See how it's this self-fulfilling prophecy?

But the secret was, and always was, that he's rich. That's it. That's the magic. He's just a rich guy who bought his status from poker to Tesla to Path of Exile 2. Because again, according to Musk, it's impossible to beat the players in Asia if you don't. He has to be the best, even if it's not actually the best.

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and I'll say it's happy now, thanks. To be continued. I mean, we're back in junk and stuff and crap. And speaking of crap, Elon Musk, we talked about how Musk has spent a lifetime failing upward while pretending to be some kind of genius about everything. And it's rather amazing that he's gotten by on it

for so long. For the most part, he did this by compartmentalizing his bullshitting into niche areas that the general public wasn't able to call him out on. But lately, he has drifted into mainstream things like gaming, where people are starting to realize he actually sucks and lies. Also, he's a Nazi.

Or, or, or, or, or, he's just being autistic, apparently. Sweet, holy balls. Multiple people have used this excuse for him, as if being autistic makes you do Nazi salutes, not once, but twice. I think this is part of how Musk has gone so long being regarded as a genius. He's talked about growing up with Asperger syndrome and is, without a doubt, an awkward guy. I think people looked at his behavior and sort of

assumed it also meant he was a genius. I don't know if you've seen the movie Being There. I'm guessing you haven't because you're young and spry and don't think about your impending death every night. But it's basically that movie. A very simple man with a nice suit and a white complexion goes from wandering the streets to possibly becoming the next president, spoilers! All because the people around him misinterpret his weird behavior

for some kind of quiet genius. I'm not saying that having Asperger's makes Elon Musk stupid or an asshole or something, but you have to assume that a person can have autism AND be a prick, right? Two things can be true. Musk is an awkward guy who might not understand social cues AND can also be a Nazi and a fraud. Oh, and possibly a sociopath, according to his biographer. And not just a fraud, but an obvious fraud.

And this brings me to another big piece of the puzzle. More evidence that Elon Musk has spent his entire life talking out of his ass, which is that he very openly thinks you're stupid. This is very important to remember. Elon Musk thinks you're stupid. Not just you, but you, and also you, and you, and you, and me, which is the you of you, for you, all of us,

everybody, and because he thinks you're stupid, he's gotten sloppier and sloppier at lying. The Path of Exile 2 stuff is a great example. He badly played this game that thousands of people know while talking down about how the game works, because he thought that he could bullshit his way into seeming good at the game works because he thought that he could bullshit his way into seeming good at the game

because he thinks people are stupid enough to fall for that. He's done this with a lot of things. But for the sake of this video, I'm gonna focus on the time he did that whole Nazi salute thing. You know the time, let's see it again for fun. Thank you. Oh, that's weird. Boo!

What happened to the Nazi part? I wanted the Nazi part. See, that's the version that a few media outlets ran with. We should probably do a whole other episode about the media apparently doing damage control for fascists. But that also happens to be the version of the speech that Elon Musk shared on Twitter,

as if hiding it would make it go away. And it begins this campaign of extremely sweaty excuses for why he did a clear Sieg Heil salute, twice. Like he could have just apologized, remember that. Remember that Elon Musk could have just said, oops, I was trying to do a wave and fucked it up. That is extremely embarrassing and I'm sorry. Fuck Nazis."

But he didn't. Instead, he just pretended it didn't happen and that people were overreacting. He whined that the everyone is Hitler accusation is so tired. So last year folks, oh my gosh, jeez, you do one little Nazi salute, twice, and the left thinks you're Hitler.

A bunch of other freaks tried to run point for him by comparing it to times where other politicians raised their hands in a way that, if freeze-framed, could look like a Nazi salute. But that's such a disingenuous and childish argument the moment you watch the actual video of him doing it. In fact, let's watch it again. Nazi salute.

He did a Nazi salute twice and made a little grunt with it. I think a lot of people look at that and say, well, he can't possibly have meant to do that. It's easy to give him the benefit of the doubt based solely on the fact that even if he was a Nazi, surely he'd be smart enough not to do the fucking salute during the inaugural rally of a right-wing demagogue.

It's hard to imagine what's going through his mind there, but I have a theory. Legally speaking, I'm just speculating, but I think Elon wanted to do the Laura Ingraham thing, where she more subtly made the Nazi salute and then turned it into a little wave and had this plausible deniability where she could say, oh, the laughter so nuts

thinking everyone's a Nazi. The idea here is to devalue the accusation of someone being a Nazi. Perhaps so when someone is actually being a Nazi, no one listens. Like how they did that with the okay symbol. Elon, who thinks he is like this masterful troll apparently, like in the wake of the Nazi salute thing,

he literally tweeted how he's a troll. I think that's what he wanted to do, but he fucked it up. Fun fact about that troll face meme, the image came from a web comic that was actually pointing out how trolls think they are really clever and funny, but are actually obvious losers. Pretty fitting.

And so I think Elon meant to do the salute with a lot more subtlety and ended up screwing that up and making it super overt. And a lot of people on the right super want it to be just like that okay symbol and trigger the libs with their fun little new salute. We're already seeing that. And you can sort of see this in his reactions to it. All of his tweets about it feel like this pre-planned

response to something he thought was gonna look more subtle, but is not. You can sort of see this in his reactions to it. All of his tweets about it feel like this pre-planned response to something he thought was gonna look more subtle, but is not. His little lame Nazi puns he got out of a joke book somewhere as if the left was gonna be the laughing stock of this moment. Because he thinks everyone is stupid. He thinks his fans are stupid.

And that he can just lie to our faces about obvious reality. But here's the super depressing thing. So far, he's been right. God bless all of you for what you're doing. Please keep doing it. I hope that I can encourage you, and my heart goes out to you. God bless.

Oh yeah, big claps for the literal Nazi salute. That's Father Calvin Robinson, a man who claims to be a man of God doing the Elon at a pro-life summit. It seems that apparently in some circles, the right is actually going to try and adopt this as their new okay symbol, but it's just a fucking Nazi salute.

Like, are they all gonna start posting swastikas too? Ironically, rounding up people into camps after that? There is no gray area here. I just don't know how to convey this. If you want a secret hand gesture to signal that you want to do certain things, and you land on the literal Nazi salute, maybe the things you want to do are really evil.

Already one person has lost their job for trying to follow along with Elon's little meme because that's what's supposed to happen when you do that. You get fired or ejected from your surroundings or, you know, punched. And yet amazingly, this hasn't happened to Musk. Amazingly, people are debating whether he did the obvious thing.

The news is covering for him, and now others are giving the salute and helping him normalize it. And so Elon Musk, a very stupid man and obvious liar who believes we are all stupider than him, has been given no reason not to believe that. He spent his entire career overselling his abilities while leaning on the talented people under him

and taking the credit and became literally the richest man in the world doing that. He's made predictions and promises for a decade now and every one of them ended up being wrong. And his weird army of sycophants just keep moving the goalposts for him. Remember when he bought Twitter and said his goal was to be politically neutral

and upset the far left and far right? Many people pointed out that he was absolutely full of shit. Now, cut to three years later and he's doing a fucking Nazi salute at the Trump rally, he paid hundreds of millions of dollars to make happen. Are we really going to keep doing this? Yes, obviously, unfortunately. But now he has the president's ear

and has been allowed to purchase one of the largest media and communication platforms we have, because it's not just that he thinks we're stupid, but is aspiring to make us stupider to attack our means of communication and fact checking. He's now trying to claim Wikipedia as some kind of woke propaganda machine for literally just saying a true thing.

Seriously, look at that tweet. Is anything Wikipedia's saying there false? People did indeed compare his gesture to a Nazi salute and he denied it. That's just reality. But you can already see the dominoes falling, right? He's pushing to defund Wikipedia, and he's teasing the idea that Wikipedia can be bought. He's clearly a man who wants to either

destroy Wikipedia or purchase it. And honestly, I have no idea if that's possible. Like, it shouldn't be possible, but look where we are. And Elon Musk doesn't just want you stupider, but he also wants you poorer, and maybe even more religious. Let me explain. Musk has talked about birth rates more recently as the most dangerous threat to humanity. He won't shut up about it. It is an existential, species-ending issue to him that he doesn't really say anything about what should be done about it.

Which is weird. He doesn't offer a solution or talk about making raising kids more affordable or easier. Well, that's not true, I guess. He does offer robots. So you could just let his expensive robots raise your children for you, I guess. But even regarding immigration, he doesn't suggest that perhaps that

could help increase birth rates, which it could. The one thing he does say is that stressful times raise birth rates. So basically could. The one thing he does say is that stressful times raise birth rates. So basically, he's admitted that his goal is to make your life harder. He has been even more specific about this, more than once, like this. The more religious, the less educated, and the poorer, the higher the birth rate. Low on the religion, high on education, and at high on income, that has the lowest birthrate. By far.

So that's interesting. The only way he knows to increase birth rates is to make people poor and uneducated and more religious. The wealthiest man on the planet getting richer every day is really concerned about lowering birth rates and thinks that the only indicators for high birth rates are being poor, uneducated, and religious. And so then, the richest man on the planet

spends a paltry hundreds of millions of dollars to ensure that the election goes to the candidate and party that wants to get rid of the Department of Education and give even more tax cuts to the wealthy and corporations while cutting social programs and benefits and making things more expensive. A guy who wants to buy Wikipedia and probably put Grok in charge.

There's no other explanation for his behavior, is there? His main concern is raising birth rates. He thinks the way to accomplish that is by making people uneducated and poor and his actions result in people being poorer and less educated. Because Elon Musk wants you uneducated and poor and ideally also religious. So bonus, the party he supports is also the party

of evangelicals and the party of this guy's cult. Anyway, the point is this guy fucking sucks. Just like that poker game, Elon has used his wealth to just shove himself into everyone's lives, ruin everybody's good time, and pat himself on the back while collecting bank. He's standing at the president's podium doing a fucking Nazi salute,

and now everyone is debating whether or not he did the thing that he did on camera twice. Oh. He's not smart, he's not interesting, he's not clever. He simply lives in a country that's so out of whack that a person can make a Hitler salute behind the podium of the President of the United States and get away with it, so long as he's rich enough to do it. And in the worst case scenario, he's a sociopath who has been given so much money and power

and possibly other things that we're all watching him lose his fucking mind and take America down with him. I don't want to speculate about someone's mental health, but does he seem well to you? And just like his precious Path of Exile 2 game, he's purchased his way into being in the top tier of the country. Remember his fake $1 million giveaway when he lied about his fraud lottery that he hired winners for? that time he openly manipulated the election and no one seems to care anymore. Well, some people care. He's actually being sued for the fraud he definitely committed. We'll see if the law ultimately agrees. But objectively, what happened

is that he hijacked the entire system using brute force and wealth, and he won. He is, I guess, the ultimate gamer. See? You see how I proved it? I said I was gonna prove it, I proved it! Like maybe he's not talented or smart or charismatic, but he had the one thing that mattered. He had the money to rig the game. Possibly in more ways than one. And he knows those computers better than anybody, all those computers, those vote counting computers.

And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide. So it was pretty good. It was pretty good. So thank you to Elon. Huh. What an odd way to say that. To thank Elon Musk because he knew about the vote counting computers. He didn't have anything to do with the computers. But okay, it's Trump. Dude says a lot of stuff. Stuff just pours out of his wobbly little mouth. It's hard to know what's true. Do we have anyone who could clarify this? I guess so.

All right, we'll get many me here. Yeah, the- If we're in SpaceX, it quietly just do whatever we want. What's your assessment? Is this, did this work? Is he going to win? Yeah, yeah, it is. Not for now. You think it's done?

But not for now. I'm not fluent in child. I think it's done. You think it's done? But never know. Huh. I'm not fluent in child, I'm taking night classes, but did Elon's son just say, at SpaceX, we quietly do whatever we want? And then when Elon said he's confident about the election results, did the child say they'll never know?

Huh. Listen, I'm not a conspiracy guy, nor do I think Elon is smart enough or that anyone could use satellites to hack an election. But that's extremely weird, right? Equally weird that the version of this clip that Tucker Carlson posted abruptly cut all of that out. Excellent.

Should we help President Trump? Yeah. Well, you have, you have. I mean, it looks- I surrender this. I like your laugh. That's a laugh of an honest man. Hey, it's like cutting out the Nazi thing before.

It's just weird. Like again, just speculating, but it seems like Elon had perhaps said the words they'll never know to his child in relation to the election, and then Tucker cut out the part where he repeated that. And maybe someone should perhaps investigate that. Because there are a lot of ways you could screw with an election, right? I mean, he did that openly. He is a cheater. He pretended to pay

people for supporting Trump under the guise of a petition for free speech with a fake promise that they'd win money that actually went to people who were chosen to get the money. Like he paid people to boost his stats on a game, admitted to it, and explained, it's impossible to beat the players in Asia if you don't, as they do. Everybody's doing it. You gotta cheat and you gotta beat the other side, no matter what. Gotta be the best, even if you're not actually the best. Elon Musk, the best gamer in the world.

Anyway, this has been some more noobs. Our gaming show, remember that? Now, as promised, it's time to erase your memory that this ever existed by summoning the blind idiot god Azathoth, as we do. Oh, I bet that's how Elon does it too. Or it's the money, I guess. Probably that.

Okay, here goes. Did it work? Do you all forget? No? That was nothing. One more time. Please forget. Just forget about it. Just forget about it.

How about now? There's nobody here. Fly me to the moon. Elon's not allowed. Fuck you, Elon. I'm going to go to the moon. I'm going to go to the moon. I'm going to go to the moon.

I'm going to go to the moon. I'm going to go to the moon. I'm going to go to the moon. I'm going to go to the moon. I'm going to go to the moon. I'm going to go to the moon. I'm going to go to the moon. I'm going to go to the moon. I'm going to go to the moon. I'm going Fly me to the moon. Elon's not allowed. Fuck you, Elon.

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