Elon Musk's Crazy, Side-Splitting Shark Story Showcases Gov't Inefficiency at Its Worst

Elon Musk has been going all-in to stump for former President Donald Trump.

He was in Pennsylvania this weekend doing a town hall in Harrisburg. He covered a lot of topics including one not touched upon enough: that there's too much focus on a college education as a path to success.

🚨ELON MUSK: "I think the value of a college education is somewhat overweighted. Too many people spend four years, accumulate a ton of debt and often don't have useful skills that they can apply afterwards.

I have a lot of respect for people who work with their hands and we… pic.twitter.com/rGmxj4S3xC
— Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) October 20, 2024

I think the value of a college education is somewhat overweighted. Too many people spend four years, accumulate a ton of debt and often don't have useful skills that they can apply afterwards.
I have a lot of respect for people who work with their hands and we need electricians and plumbers and carpenters and that's a lot more important than having incremental political science majors.
I think we should not have this idea that in order to be successful you need a four year college degree.

He also spoke about the problems presented by "the Machine" that we must defeat.

🚨ELON MUSK: "Kamala is just a puppet, if the teleprompter breaks, she doesn't know what to say. I just call it 'The Machine'. When the Biden puppet was not working out, they got a new puppet. It's all the same machine. It's undemocratic what was done to Biden. It's bizarre to… pic.twitter.com/nBcwC6zT7Y
— Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) October 20, 2024

Kamala is just a puppet, if the teleprompter breaks, she doesn't know what to say. I just call it "The Machine'" When the Biden puppet was not working out, they got a new puppet. It's all the same machine. It's undemocratic what was done to Biden. It's bizarre to claim Trump is a danger to democracy when what happened to Biden was entirely undemocratic. Yeah, so, it doesn't make sense.

Then he also covered some of the real meat of what he wants to work on with President Donald Trump: government waste.

Musk went into how the Biden-Harris team had gotten $42 billion for broadband, but hadn't connected anyone so far. And that they revoked an award which would have helped connect people up with his Starlink. He termed that a big example of "waste" or government inefficiency.

🚨ELON MUSK: "SpaceX competed and won for a $42B award to deliver rural broadband. They revoked the award. We would have been able to provide Starlink terminals and rural broadband and they revoked the award.

To date out of that $42 billion allocation the amount of people who… pic.twitter.com/cuA7Ov0MC0
— Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) October 20, 2024

If that had been in place during Hurricane Helene that could have helped save more lives. As it was Musk rushed in what he could and helped people out.

He also explained how there had been a nationwide initiative for superchargers and "they made like 10." There are so many examples of wastes of money, but said the money goes to bureaucrats and consultants while nothing gets done. "The opportunity to reduce government waste is easy, because there's so much of it," he declared, saying that there was a lot that could be done with a "Department of Government Efficiency."

He explained that deregulation could bring in a whole new era of prosperity. Then he told a hilarious story about the ridiculous regulations that his SpaceX company had to deal with.

🚨ELON MUSK ON RIDICULOUS REGULATIONS 😂😂

"SpaceX had to do a study to see if Starship would hit a shark. I'm like "It's a big ocean, there's a lot of sharks. It's not impossible, but it's very unlikely." OK fine, we'll do it, but we need the data, can you give us the Shark… pic.twitter.com/hFm9KYCMgN
— Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) October 20, 2024

He said they told him SpaceX had to do a study to see if Starship would hit a shark. I'm like "It's a big ocean, there's a lot of sharks. It's not impossible, but it's very unlikely."

But then they didn't want to give him the shark data. Eventually, they got the data, and SpaceX was able to assure the government that the sharks were going to be fine.

But then the government asked, "What about whales?" The crowd roared at that one.

As Elon noted in all the Pacific, areas in which you would find whales would be relatively limited.

"And honestly, if the ship hit a whale, the whale had it coming, because the odds are so low...It's like 'Final Destination, the Whale Edition,'" he laughed. "It's like fate had it in for that whale, I don't know."

"Anyway we gotta stop this madness, or we won't be able to get anything done," he finished.

But if that wasn't enough, he had a bit of a coda.

Tomorrow, I will tell the story of how SpaceX was forced by the government to kidnap seals, put earphones on them and play sonic boom sounds to see if they seemed upset https://t.co/e8VsQpTOOa
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 20, 2024

Tomorrow, I will tell the story of how SpaceX was forced by the government to kidnap seals, put earphones on them and play sonic boom sounds to see if they seemed upset

Here it was.: