Elon Musk agreed to come on "The Daily Show" after host Jon Stewart delivered a takedown of DOGE, the cost-cutting initiative he unofficially leads.
    • hansolo@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 years ago

      They said that about Rod Blagojevich, and the desperate need for attention is what pushed the truly irrational decision to do an interview.

      Still, he might get cold feet if he expects a hostile audience.

      • Wispy2891@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        Rod Blagojevich

        Why I’m not surprised that the current president pardoned someone that tried to sell a seat to the us senate

        • Syd@lemm.ee
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          2 years ago

          Well yeah, he was a contestant on the president’s reality game show.

      • pjwestin@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        Well, that’s true, but the fact that he said, “I’ll only do it if they air it unedited!” makes me think he thought they would say, “no,” and he’d be able to decline while saving face. My gut tells me he’ll make up another excuse now. I’d love to be wrong, though!

        • jj4211@lemmy.world
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          2 years ago

          I’d expect either escalating levels of demanding ways to absolutely guarantee it couldn’t be edited in hopes of unreasonable.

          Ultimately it could be like the Zuckerberg fight, where Musk just ghosted the conversation when he couldn’t figure a way to nope out of it gracefully.

        • scutiger@lemmy.world
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          2 years ago

          I would have loved to see that fight happen. Both are human garbage, but Zuckerberg is apparently a high level BJJ competitor. I think it would have been pretty one-sided.

  • mycelium underground@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    “I will do it if the show airs unedited.”

    That’s the best outcome. Therefore he will be a scaredy musk and elon his way out of the show. Hopefully it will be like his attempt to elon his way out of buying shitter and we will get a full unedited interview and at least a couple of people might realize he is so full of shit and a damned junky.

    Edit: corrected autocorrect and my own spelling.

  • meowmeowbeanz@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Unedited interviews are bold, but let’s see if Musk handles real scrutiny without edits.

    😺😺😺😺

  • punkisundead [they/them]@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    2 years ago

    So they want to platform a fascist? Giving a nazi access to their audience which he normally wouldn’t reach? This guy is part of an ongoing coup and they want to give him primetime attention?

    They must think that they are very clever.

      • punkisundead [they/them]@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        2 years ago

        That dude is on of the most embarrassing men on earth right now. Just look at his Twitter account. You cant really emberass him any more than he already did himself.

        • screaming in digital@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          2 years ago

          a top-of-his-game Jon Stewart would almost certainly make musk dance to a totally foreign (and illuminating) tune.

          remember this is the man who cancelled crossfire and sent tucker carlson packing.

          I think jon has more than enough left in the tank (backed by facts and razer sharp witt) to out musk for what he is. this is exactly why I will be shocked if musk actually shows up.

  • CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Pigs will fly and my shit will turn to gold before he sits in front of Jon Stewart live, and or unedited

      • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl
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        2 years ago

        I have only listened to the podcast for a year but holy shit i die not expect how much stewert softballs his guests and never argues anymore when they are spewing bullshit. I started getting agitated for example when the old white house press secretary came in saying “everything is fine, no crisis here, it’s really Obama’s fault that trump and musk are dismantling the government, dems need better press” and he just nods along. It’s so strange because I feel like that wasn’t the case 15 years ago or whatever.

        The only one he pushed back on recently in my memory was Chris Christie.

        I do not have high hopes for this upcoming one. It is going to be like Jake Paul vs mike Tyson, nobody wins and it is just for show.

    • peoplebeproblems@midwest.socialEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Idk. Seeing how hard he worked for the first responders in NYC, he might just shoot the guy to save the rest of us.

      I doubt Musk goes in front of a lot of people at all anymore.

      • ryper@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Musk appeared at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) last week. I assume there were a decent number of people there (but maybe not a number of decent people).

        • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 years ago

          And his appearance was so incredibly cringy. I have read through the half of that transcript on verge and omg dude literally has brain damage.

          I have a bunch of highly functioning k addicts around me and it’s exactly the same way they speak when binging on K a bit too much. Just stammering and these random bleeps of out of context thoughts constantly seep into their conversations.

          • aesthelete@lemmy.world
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            2 years ago

            Cringey doesn’t even capture it for me. Seeing him with that stupid chainsaw and especially the way he said that chainsaw for bureaucracy comment made me feel disgusted in some way I didn’t really think was possible.

            This laminated faced fucking Nazi wannabe-autist illegal immigrant piece of shit should be expelled into the sun using one of his own giant space x rocket penises.

    • lobut@lemmy.ca
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      2 years ago

      For those that don’t know … Bill Burr called out billionaires and warned them for the shit they were pulling (or to be “put down like rabid dogs”).

      Elon “Free Speech” Musk basically restricted Bill’s Twitter account which Bill found funny because he hadn’t posted in months or years or something like that.

      Bill also doesn’t hold back and will roast the shit out of anyone and is really good at it. Elon “Man of the People” Musk is a thin-skinned little bitch that is awkward as fuck but acts tough online like all his “alpha-male” friends like when he acted like a bitch when Don Lemon called him out and then Elon “I’m the smartest man alive” Musk fired Don Lemon for doing so 'cause he’s a bitch.

  • raynethackery@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Just keep his security goons away from the production facilities and equipment. In fact, they should hire three times the amount of security Musk has. Just remember, they have been deputized by the U.S. Marshall Service, so they have the power to arrest people.

  • Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca
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    2 years ago

    Elon won’t do it. He’s a pussy. He will back out and start calling Stewart a pedo on social media.

    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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      2 years ago

      He could just go and say/do something that would prevent airing

      Then if they take it out it’s been edited

      • assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        I imagine he’ll go on and start dropping hard r’s and quoting mein kampf and when the daily show wants to beep it out he’ll throw a fit and send lawyers to block its release.

      • 5too@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 years ago

        I assume they’ll have to edit for length regardless - so I imagine they’re planning to make the unedited clip available online, like they’ve done with their other extended interviews. Lot less restrictions on what can air that way, too.

      • bitjunkie@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        What is he going to do, whip his dick out? I’m confident someone would leak it even if it didn’t make it past S&P.

          • Shapillon the Skaven@lemmy.world
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            2 years ago

            I agree that “either” is more specific. And I don’t mind being reminded of it.

            Otoh “any” is defined as ∃ x and every definition I found explicitely specified that cardinality is irrelevant. Either then is a subset of any, not a separate category.

            So imho this isn’t a mistake and you’re way more unconditional than you should.

            PS: as long that everyone remains sufficiently mutually understandable we should adopt a descriptivist attitude towards languages instead of a prescriptivist one.

            PPS: Don’t get me started on language as a class marker. This is a threat. c:

  • Doug Holland@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Stewart is smart and funny, but he’s nice. He’s going to be pleasant and welcoming, smiling and cracking jokes with one of the evilest men alive. Very good comedian against a very polished, smiling Nazi.

    This is not an easy match like Stewart against two unprepared lightweights (Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala) on Crossfire. Elon Musk, for all his myriad faults, is not stupid, and will be well prepped.

    I’m not excited about it. Too much could go wrong.

    • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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      2 years ago

      What about Musk makes you think he’s polished? The time he randomly accused a diver of being a pedophile because he got his feelings hurt? Or when he told his customers to go fuck themselves? When he did a Nazi salute?

      The dude is the the most idiotic and unpolished famous person ever.

      • Doug Holland@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 years ago

        What about Musk makes you think he’s polished?

        Hmmmm. Nothing, I guess. ‘Polished’ is probably some unwanted prejudice baked into me, thinking a rich bastard must know how to present himself as businesslike to bankers and other such bastards, but sweet jeebers maybe you’re right. I’ve certainly never seen Musk be anything but an unwiped ass.

    • flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 years ago

      That was 21 years ago! And where others might expect someone to slow down, I think Jon Stewart’s spending all the time since then writing, interviewing, producing content, and fighting in Congress will suit him well. I think we’ll see a meaner, hungrier Stewart.

      I really hope we get a chance to see it.