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Big Brains, Small Minds
These guys don’t understand intelligence
In November, Elon Musk put out a call for “super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries willing to work 80+ hours per week on unglamorous cost-cutting.”
Applicants were instructed to DM Musk on X with their resumes, after which he assembled his elite team of geniuses and unleashed them on the U.S. government in the early days of the second Trump administration. Musk’s army of brainiacs includes a 24-year-old former Meta intern and a 19-year-old Northeastern University student who used to go by the online handle “Big Balls” and, despite his short “career,” has already managed to get fired from an internship for leaking company secrets.
Another of these mental giants was dismissed from government service after he was found to have tweeted “Normalize Indian hate” and “I was racist before it was cool.” Luckily, JD Vance and Musk raced to this 25-year-old “kid’s” defense and pledged to rehire him as long as he’s not a “bad dude” (let’s pause for a moment to reflect on the fact that being openly racist does not, in the mind of the Vice President of the United States, necessarily make you a “bad dude”).
Though reports are still sketchy, the scene has been the same across many government agencies over the last few weeks. A bunch of twenty-something operatives…
