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hing up. Right? We are way beyond the point where questioning whether coronavirus deaths are real is a rational opinion. It used to be. It used to be a rational opinion which I think time has shown us did not hold up. But you are not being rational today if you think that the issue is miscounting. We're not even close to that being a reasonable hypothesis. But it was. It was at one point. So I thi…
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All right, let's talk about something else. So fact checkers, check me on that Sweden death thing.
Elon Musk continues to be the most interesting of the billionaires, maybe just the most interesting person in the country right now while Trump is taking a little break. And I guess he was asked to comment on a Washington Post story that was critical of Tesla. And as you know the Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos who you could consider a competitor to Elon Musk because they're both trying to conquer space if you will. And they're trading places as the richest person in America ever. It goes back and forth.
And here was Elon Musk's reply to the Washington Post hit piece on Tesla when asked. He said, quote, "Give my regards to your puppet master." Musk replied to the paper's request for a story. "Give my regards to your puppet master."
Now could there be a more perfect response? If you put together like a team of experts in communication, all right team of experts we're gonna have to respond to this, what are you gonna do? And the team of experts would have said, well we'll put out this statement. It'll be hundreds of words and it will say Tesla denies the allegations and we make good cars.
Right? Elon Musk in one, how many words? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. And seven words just annihilated this thing. "Give my regards to your puppet master."
Now what's beautiful about it is not just the comment that there could be some bias in the story. And by the way I don't know that the story has any bias. I mean I'm not alleging that. But as a comment about the story is golden. It's just perfect. It's the smallest comment you can make that packs the most powerful punch because you can't really think of anything but what Elon said. Right? You've already forgotten what the story was. I didn't read the story but if I had I would have forgotten it already because all I'd be thinking is that Elon Musk says the Washington Post is puppets to Bezos. It's just more interesting, right?
So what Elon Musk does is he simply does things more interestingly than other people. Fact check me on this. Tesla doesn't do standard marketing, does it, in advertising? Can somebody fact check me on that? I thought that was true that they don't do regular ads because they don't need it. All you have to do is put a bio weapon defense in your car and you don't need advertisements. You have something to talk about, right? Yeah, I'm seeing people confirm it. I think that's true.
So what Elon Musk does is brilliant. He just acts more interesting than other people and he doesn't need to advertise. Now you have to be able to pull that off, right? Because this comment from Musk was probably just off the top of his head. So you can't do that, right? You could try but being this interesting spontaneously so that the headlines just go with your interesting comment instead of the thing you're commenting about, that's skill. And maybe you don't have it.
All right. Stephen Crowder, you know him from Louder with Crowder. I have a question about the story. He said the story this morning was that he had been suspended from Twitter after saying that he can confirm that some people voted addresses that do not exist. That's his claim. Don't cancel me please. Please, please, please don't cancel me. It's not eve
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n my opinion. It's his opinion. I'm just talking about it. Please, please give me another minute of social media. All right. But when I was commenting about the story Stephen Crowder replied to me on Twitter. So I don't know how banned he was if he's already replying to me on Twitter the same day that I heard the story. So I don't know if he's back or I got the story wrong. Did he get banned from…
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