Musk Slams Biden: 'The real president is whoever controls the teleprompter'

Musk is projecting his own insecurities onto Biden, because he understands the frightening, dichotomous utility of the teleprompter.

It's also related to his desire for platforming any-speech as a way of covering for his personal dragon, the pouty underdog bad boy who does bad things and you can't stop him. This is a position of emotional strength for Musk and his underlying hidden agenda is to build support for its continuance, which he doesn't really know how to manage, or even separate from its at times inappropriate nature.

Teleprompters are very troubling to people like this. On the one hand they are really good at helping humans--who at times enjoy the thrill of improvising like a paid stage comic--rather stick to the job they need to do and then walk away. They help you execute to a broader plan in that way without getting derailed.

But they also stifle what can feel like very authentic speech, driven by moment-to-moment opportunistic expression.

I believe Musk is subconsciously troubled by this dichotomy. He is not sure what to do about it, which creates stress as he experiences a background drop in perceived execution control (I can get buy-in, but only if society is in partial control of my words! Eek) vs. expression control.

In these little speech-complaint episodes, Musk is attempting to couch his personal need for buy-in to his entire, known-flawed persona as others' issue with boxy, restrictive discourse. In this way he only has to own half of the dichotomy. But I think he really believes in both sides and isn't sure how they reconcile.

Sorry, Elon, but it was funnier when Mel Brooks said, "You gotta help me. I can't make decisions. I'm a President."

Whatever your political leaning might be, it is obvious to anyone watching that Biden has been doing his best to read off a teleprompter. That’s all we ever see him doing.

It’s so alarming it’s become kind of funny.