How smart is Elon Musk?

"ImmoralMinority" (araimondo)
09/07/2018 at 08:17 • Filed to: None

I am not judgmental about the weed, but now seems to be a particularly bad time for Musk to get high on camera.

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DISCUSSION (17)

ttyymmnn > ImmoralMinority
09/07/2018 at 08:29

I think he’s coming increasingly unhinged, if he was ever hinged in the first place.

The Ghost of Oppo > ImmoralMinority
09/07/2018 at 08:45

Elon is turning into the richer mans version of Papa John

E92M3 > ImmoralMinority
09/07/2018 at 08:47

He’s made a lot of bad choices as of late. I like weed, but if I was in his position I wouldn’t do it on camera (legal or not).

More perp lexing is him daring that cave diver he called a pedo to sue him... I expect tweets like that from Trump, but not from Musk.

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > ImmoralMinority
09/07/2018 at 08:53

He might be smart, but he sure as hell ain’t wise.

ttyymmnn > E92M3
09/07/2018 at 08:53

Maybe Musk has always been like that, but seeing Drumpf getting away with it has emboldened him.

TorqueToYield > ImmoralMinority
09/07/2018 at 08:53

Meh, it’s legal in California, where he lives and this took place, and all the same hand wringing moralizers would have no problem with him drinking a glass of whiskey on camera.

But yeah the baby boomer permanently stuck in the 80s Just Say No stock analysts might have a fit.

Cé hé sin > ImmoralMinority
09/07/2018 at 08:59

He’s short a whole crate of screws at the moment.

Discerning > ImmoralMinority
09/07/2018 at 09:01

I don’t care if the man smokes weed. What concerns me is the poor judgement that led to him smoking on camera without any consideration for the possible backlash.

DipodomysDeserti > ImmoralMinority
09/07/2018 at 09:05

Rogan even gave him an out, too.

Kinda seems like he’s looking to get canned from Tesla. I think the stress is causing him to lose it. Honestly, if I was a board member I’d encourage him to smoke more weed and stay off Twitter. Definitely seemed to calm him down.

As far asnit being bad optics for a CEO to be smoking weed, I don’t know. I was working a gig over the summer and the p resident of the board was openly talking about another board member’s husband smoking weed in a nonchalant manner. Then he started talking about his brother growing marijuana in CA. The rest of the board is composed mostly of old church ladies and they just laughed nervously. Most people are such squares that they’re fine with stuff as long as the state and the bible don’t tell then it’s wrong.

The Dummy Gummy > ImmoralMinority
09/07/2018 at 09:14

I’ll just say this, even smart people do stupid things. From an outsider perspective it looks like he has cracked under pressure. I can’t even blame him. Running a brand new car company, a rocket company, etc etc etc... He’s got a lot on his plate.

Ash78, voting early and often > DipodomysDeserti
09/07/2018 at 09:25

While the Bible does caution against drunkenness (without prohibiting it...hey, we Christians don’t have a lot of rules, we let the Jews keep those), this is my favorite — specifically Jesus speaking to the Pharisees about how many ridiculous rules they insisted on keeping, well beyond anything in Mosaic law:

“ What goes into someone’s mouth does not defile them, but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them.” — Matthew 15:11

Jesus was full of sick burns if you read through the Synoptics sequentially and take it all in. Half of the book of Luke is Jesus going to dinner with the Jewish leaders just to tell them how wrong they were. I have no idea how he kept getting dinner invitations except that they were trying to entrap him.

Ash78, voting early and often > ImmoralMinority
09/07/2018 at 09:27

I remember when some 1970s videos of Arnold surfaced during his gubernatorial campaign. A lot of people were up in arms. You mean people in their 20s smoked weed and had promiscuous sex in California in the 70s?!

DC3 LS, Fuck Hyundai, now and forever > ImmoralMinority
09/07/2018 at 09:47

Started watching it from the beginning, when Joe asks him about the flamethrower

“We didn’t put much time into the flamethrower”

I’m gonna guess he’s not.

DipodomysDeserti > Ash78, voting early and often
09/07/2018 at 10:56

Apparently Jesus had never heard of trichinosis. If I knew a guy who could turn water into wine, I’d invite him over for dinner all the time as well. I’ve read the Bible cover to cover at least two or three times. Jesus was a total smartass. Even in the water to wine story, he basically tells Mary to get lost, and then she’s like, boy, make me some wine. You know he’d been doing it as a party trick.

Jews do have a lot of laws , but they couldn’t care less if non Jews follow them. Sets a pretty good example for the other sons of Abraham.

LOREM IPSUM > ImmoralMinority
09/07/2018 at 11:11

I have a theory that Elon Musk and Seth McFarland are the same person and this has all been an unscripted T ruman-show styled sitcom, with all of us being Truman.

jimz > ImmoralMinority
09/07/2018 at 13:19

I think he’s very intelligent, but lacks any shred of maturity. and is surrounded by a bubble of “yes men” which creates a universe where he’s always right about everything and no one is more important than him. Kind of like Zarniwoop’s alternate universe which saved Zaphod from the Total Perspective Vortex. Which is (IMO) why Tesla is such a mess right now; he has it in his mind that the company literally cannot survive without him having his hands on everything. How SpaceX managed to keep him at arms length while letting Gwynne Shotwell run things is beyond me.

I am not judgmental about the weed

nor am I. the problem is the absolute inability to make good decisions. he should know very well how this would be perceived considering his previous recent actions.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > ImmoralMinority
09/07/2018 at 21:01

What one does in their off time is their business, but musk is tesla and tesla is musk. The two are inseperable and he should know that . How many companies do you do business for that have a negative publicity clause in their work agreements?

Given his behavior over the last few years, I don’t think he can toke tone his ego down.