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Well at least we know why trump grabbed on to him.
Brave Sir Elon ran away. Bravely ran away away. When danger reared it's ugly head, He bravely turned his tail and fled. Yes, brave Sir Elon turned about And gallantly he chickened out. Swiftly taking to his feet, He beat a very brave retreat. Bravest of the brave, Sir Elon!
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Musk probably watched Stewart’s conservative show interview appearances over on YouTube, dating back to his first stint on the daily show. They couldn’t trip Stewart. He rolled over all of them. The interviews stopped, again, surprising no one.
Jon Stewart single-handedly got CNN's "Crossfire" ( featuring a not-yet-fully-crazy Tucker Carlson) cancelled just by going on the show and doing his thing.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Stewart%27s_2004_appearance_on_Crossfire
In the final exchange before a commercial break, Carlson remarked that he thought Stewart was "more fun on your show, just my opinion." Stewart responded, "You know what's interesting, though? You're as big a dick on your show as you are on any show."
(Shit, that was over 20 years ago. I'm old ....)
Carlson never recovered from that bowtie burn
Jon Stewart: "How old are you?"
Tucker Carlson: "35."
Jon Stewart: "And you wear a bow tie."
"Look, I'm not suggesting you aren't a smart guy, because those things are not easy to tie. But the thing is, you're doing theatre, when you should be doing debate. It's not honest... what you do is partisan hackery."
And so savage was the mockery that he never wore a bowtie again.
Bro, around 10:50 Jon made a statement he would later regret:
"In terms of the absurdity of this group, they're going to be hard to top."
Regarding the Bush administration.
To be fair, he was responsible for the deaths of 4 million people, yet is better remembered for fucking up a proverb. That’s pretty absurd.
There is a direct line between GWB and Trump. The lies of the Bush administration and it's denigration of the "reality-based community" laid the groundwork for Donald Trump's Big Lies. if Al Gore won in 2000, I doubt we would have Trump today. Ron Suskind wrote all about it in the NYT back then. This article about the article is not behind their paywall:
https://theweek.com/articles/854892/what-karl-rove-right-about-realitybased-community
The aide said that guys like me [Suskind] were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors ... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."
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Right? Makes you feel old, doesn’t it?
Elon can’t handle it so he ducked out. In addition, Tesla probably texted him and said don’t.
I suspect everyone knows better than to tell him not to do it. That's likely as anything to make him decide he will do it.
But they also know if they don't press the issue, Musk will always flake on any thing like this.
His cybertruck sent him a message saying "this is an uphill battle. I cannot help, you're on your own"
I don’t know how my mother convinced me to watch Crossfire. I was a kid. She thought it was intellectually awesome.
EDIT: To be clear, I don’t remember anything about Crossfire.
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I'm shocked. Right up there with his cage fight with Zuck. He can't handle pressure. He got booed at Chappelle's standup show, and reportedly locked himself in his office to the point where people had to check on him and were worried he was self harming. He's fucking 10 ply.
He's spare parts.
Not at the rate of his drug usage... His parts wont even be usable.
His fucking parts have been trash since the original unboxing.
He’s fucking 10 ply.
Okay, I almost did a literal spit-take when reading that. I had just taken a sip of coffee.
Well done. 🤣
That's a Texas-sized 10-4 good buddy
You knows, I'd normally not be okays withs callin a guys soft. As my women studies teacher says it's only the performance of the's masculinities and the threats of takins its away that keeps the cycles of the patriarchies going. That's beings saids, Elon's nots exactly what's the kids today's are calling woke.
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What a fucking coward. I was actually excited for this. I should have known better.
He has nothing to gain from talking to intelligent people. They will easily show how dumb he is.
I also still want him to fight Mark Zuckerbutg.
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I knew he was going to pussy out. Conservatives who are routinely in the public eye can't survive outside of their safe spaces. That's why Republican politicians are cancelling their town halls. They can't handle anything other than a gentle interview on FOX or OAN with the questions sent to them ahead of time so they can get their answers from the heritage foundation.
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I’m sure he’ll be on Joe rogan again getting verbally fellated and reassured that he dodged a bullet not going on the violent left wing propaganda deep state media show
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Hey Elon!
Typical far-right behavior. They stay in their safe spaces and pay to artificialy amplify their unpopular messages.
What was it, like a quarter of all the accounts on Facebook and Twitter are just AI chat bots trying to get people to engage?
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Did his mom tell him no? Like with the Zuckerberg fight?
Not surprising. Fuck you, Musk pathetic racist asshole...
I don't think that man wants to be in a room with someone smarter than him on live TV
someone smarter than him
...and that's a LOT of the population.
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Ya'll need to watch the clip that goes along with the article.
Funny and fucking terrifying.
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Elon is a punk ass bitch.
He a bitch like asmongold
I stopped paying attention to asmon after he started openly supporting genocide of muslims and brown folk. Has he doubled down on that stance in the last few months?
Edit: downvotes from asmon stans on lemmy? Quick poll to the downvoters: what's your instance? I have a guess, but I want to see if I'm right.
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Just like he backed down from fighting Zuckerberg... Chicken-shit Nazi
Figured Elon would wait until the day off to back out, not immediately after Jon announced it was on
Let me tell you all how surprised I am.
Ok, I'm done.