> Why do they always feel like they need to pull stuff out of their butts to make themselves sound like they know what is going on?

Massive, unconstrained egos? They think they're hot shit, because they surround themselves with yes men.

I'm reminded of this:

> Beneath the grand narrative Musk tells, when he takes things over, what does he actually have the people under him do? What is the theory of action?

> He has people around him who are just enablers. All these Silicon Valley people do. All his minions. And they are minions — they’re all lesser than he is in some fashion, and they all look up to him. They’re typically younger. They laugh at his jokes. Sometimes when he apologizes for a joke, which is not very often, he’ll say that the people around him thought it was funny.

> When he was being interviewed at Code Conference once, he had a couple of them there. He told a really bad joke, and they all went like: Ha-ha-ha-ha. And I was like: That’s not funny — I’m sorry, did I miss the joke? And they looked at me like I had three heads. (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas...)