So I've officially done it, we've done it, we've found a very early competitor to, for

the title of Stupidest Article of the Year and it's in the Washington Post and you might

not be surprised about that. Don't mind me while I make my tea. Today is going to be

a very, a very healthy tea which is basically just garlic ginger, manuka honey, lemon, apple

cider vinegar and maybe some turmeric, I guess some turmeric. Anyway, so this article is in

the Washington Post. It's titled Six Things People Believe About Politics that are totally

wrong and this is by somebody called Paul Waldemann. It was published on January the 16th and

it begins like this. It says like many billionaires Elon Musk apparently sees himself as a genius,

not only in areas where he has real experience but in all things including politics and government

which is why he tweeted this about the omnibus spending bill congress passed last month and

then he goes on to quit, to quote and Elon Musk to tweet a whole lot of it. I mean it's

a pretty good portman toes isn't it? A quote to eat is a quit. It does sound a little

too close to something else. The quit says guaranteed not one person voting for it has read

the whole thing if we added that basic requirement legislation would improve dramatically in favor

of the people and quit. This guy ends up, I mean you've got to read this or I'll just read

it to you. But it goes on talking about for the rest of the article the six reasons why

we're all so stupid, it would help if I boiled the kettle, you know talking about stupid,

why we're also stupid and we don't understand actually government needs to be bad in order

to exist. So I thought I'd go through them with you. If you have a moment it says this

is a common type of misinformation one that swirled about one that swirled about with

particular intensity regarding the omnibus bill not that Musk doesn't believe it I'm sure

he does. His tweet shows how easy it is to be seduced by ideas that have intuitive appeal

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