This is why we all seem to remember guys like Donald Trump and Elon Musk being smarter years ago. Because they were. Their brains have turned to vanilla pudding and it's not just dementia.

March 17, 2026 - 03:46 UTC

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People that think Elon was smart, I’m begging you to read about his PayPal days
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nazi elmo is the very definition of “born on thirdbase thinking you hit a triple”
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I'm not buying "smarter". Maybe "put more effort into lying".
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Elon is a dumb person's idea of what a smart person is.
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It was fascinating watching Elon devolve. He truly was passionate about rockets and EVs but Twitter and the ability to ignore "no" that wealth brought destroyed his ability to think critically. He reveled in the attention the worst of Twitter gave him and leaned into it.
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Let’s all be clear, tho - he was never smart, only rich
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He was ALWAYS a mid edgelord who'd overstayed his visa, purchased cool technology companies, smoked weed to feel intellectual, and whose engineers were literally distracting him in the workplace so they could do the actual work. He was rich enough to buy others' work is all

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No, it's also tons upon tons of Special-K and crushes up Adderall.
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Elon was smarter years ago; Trump has always been a fucking moron.
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People who have actually worked with Elon and have no incentive to work his shaft have been pretty clear he's always been a shitty human being and a moron. It's just that he was talking through filters so the public wasn't getting the full experience.
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Elon occupied a position ideally intended for a smart person, in a field where expertise is relatively uncommon, and everyone gave him the benefit of the doubt on that basis. He was also hyped by the media as a genius, of course. I’ve seen no evidence he was ever more than a preening mediocrity.
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Musk is also blasted out of his gourd on ketamine most of the time. Another way his brain has rotted.
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Trump grew up with wealth, fame and privilege. It's the only life he knows.
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Both were more cogent before, neither were ever smart.
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lol, i don't think so. they just spent more time making sure people saw them doing things that could be interpreted as smart, and they spent more money hiding the acts and foibles that made them seem dumb.

and, really, trump never came off as smart.
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I think its the Viagra, steroids and whatever other life extending drugs they're taking
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Power. Power is a helluva drug.
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I mean the drugs aren’t helping. But yeah.
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I am not sure I agree, Brandon. Remember when good ol' Turd Blossom, Karl Rove, was regarded as some kind of political genius? It is not, in my opinion, genius to have no values on what you will do to obtain money or power. It's instead a weird form of narcissistic solipsism, not genius.
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No, they were never smart.
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