I mean, I can see myself doing that and even sillier stuff for no reason - in the privacy of my home. Making a sculpture out of forks is cool. Doing it 3 feet from the President of the United States, isn’t.
It’s kind of worse if he’s not on drugs. At least with drugs, there’s an explanation as to why he’s acting so inappropriately in that situation. He reminds me of Steve Martin in the dinner scene of “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”:
But it is the other guy, not even asking for permission to go to the bathroom.
No, not that weird. If the CEO of Tesla is as high as a kite, that exposes the company to securities fraud lawsuits. In the past the board of directors have navigated this by asking Musk’s associates the coded question, “Is he getting enough sleep?” One board member simply resigned. As Musk pivots back to the private sector, he probably felt obligated to issue some sort of denial about his probable rampant drug use, to protect the board. His buddy Graham provided an awkward assist.
Also, the Daily Beast is sensationalist: the tweet exchange had a very very moderate number of likes and retweets.
Along with @Alessan, I endorse cutlery sculptures in the privacy of one’s home. While I haven’t yet started such a hobby, I plan to. Someday. For maybe 5 minutes.
I’m confused… Are you arguing with yourself?
My thoughts on the matter evolved after I typed the addendum.
Ah! Okay.
I do that all the time actually. And I actually will argue with my past self sometimes. No judgement. I was just seeking clarity. 
One evening I looked at all that had to be done before I could go home and thought, if only I had two or three more of me – then I realized how chaotic that would be. I doubt I could get along with one more of me. Man, I must be the paragon of antisocial.
I think that’s pretty normal. There’s a reason there’s only one of all of us.
Only one of each of us, I hope—I don’t want to be QUITE that alone.
That’s what I meant.
Not
Although,
the prophet Jim is not to be ignored
You all are just figments of my imagination.
It gets lonely sometimes.
That is all.
So if we talk shit about you, that’s just coming from your own subconscious.
Twins generally get along OK. I don’t know how well that generalizes to triplets or quads.
This is helpful: Musk instructs his followers to call their representatives to, “Kill the Bill”.
The reconciliation package would add $2.4 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years according to the recent CBO report. That’s $240 billion per year or about 8/10ths of a percentage point of GDP. The current deficit is 6.4% of GDP, which is very high for a country neither in recession nor at war. 6.4+.8 = 7.2%
Musk is not calling for tax increases, his DOGE efforts were not directed at government waste or even spending to a large extent, and he isn’t even calling for any bipartisan solutions. So Musk’s tweet isn’t a profile in courage. It is however helpful, even if it’s warmed over Freedom Caucus positioning.
Reference:
We should be emulating the Clinton prosperity era, when deficits peaked at 4.5%, before dropping to zero. We even had surpluses of 2.3% of GDP, before GW Bush passed our wealth over to the 1%.
Elon Musk is digging up old Trump tweets and mocking him at this moment.
Pinned Tweet:
It is times like this that I wish the Internet remained a military app.
Counterpoint, if I found myself forced to a formal dinner with President TRUMP I may well find myself assembling a tower of silverware in a desperate effort to distract myself from his voice, presence and odor, all of which would be grinding away at my last nerve from a distance of three feet! Or to distract myself from dark (?) internal temptations…
I agree with both @eschereal’s quoted point, and @Measure_for_Measure’s qualification, but want to note that the vast majority of the time, people snipping out graphs from a professional document are presenting it to people who AREN’T a learned audience who can accurately assess the many complexities that are simplified in a graph. So in general, while not always intentionally misleading, far too often they’re posted or quoted (well not so much HERE 
) to sell an argument with the weight of “experts”.
I just read that Musk has claimed Trump won’t release the Epstein files because he’s implicated in them.
Did that really just happen? I mean, I know Musk might lie, but it’s a big accusation…