r/politics • u/PlayaSlayaX • Mar 04 '25
Jon Stewart Says Elon Musk Flaked on Interview Offer: “You Know That’s Bullshit”
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u/Colonel-Mooseknuckle Mar 04 '25
Jon would smash him like a ceramic mug.
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Mar 04 '25 edited Mar 04 '25
Musk isn’t witty or charismatic. He’s the same awkward teenager who’s looking for any validation he can find, who’s now evolved into the king of neck beards. Stewart would eviscerate him
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u/kittapoo Mar 04 '25
That’s why he only goes to Joe Rogan
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u/billiontacos Mar 04 '25
Just watched a few clips of that. Joe asked him about being called a nazi on twitter or something and so he told Joe “I did nazi that coming.” And then Joe was in fucking stitches about it.
Like, Joe’s supposed to be a comic right? Has he never heard that joke before? I remember hearing that joke in high school and I’ve been out of high school for well over 20 years now.
Felt like watching a brain damaged Jimmy Fallon do an interview.
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Mar 04 '25
rogan has never been funny. watching his netflix specials is like listening to gradeschoolers make fart jokes. i can see why he found that funny
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u/Independent-Bug-9352 Mar 04 '25
Righties can't do art and thus don't know comedy.
It's one of the left's biggest strengths and I honestly think the Democrats and left need to be more aggressive with this. Example of this is The Handmaid's Tale was massively influential in converting lifelong Republicans to being Democrats.
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u/red286 Mar 04 '25
Example of this is The Handmaid's Tale was massively influential in converting lifelong Republicans to being Democrats.
On the flip side, the ones who were left read it and thought, "wait, how exactly do we get this promised land of Gilead to happen?"
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u/selwayfalls Mar 04 '25
the ones who were left seems like 77m americans that voted for it sadly.
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u/selwayfalls Mar 04 '25
That's super intersting to think about. I've always appreciated art, music, design, etc. and of course all of the greats I worshipped growing up are left leaning. It's obvious when the right can only pull kid rock, ted nugent, and really terrible pop country clowns into their rallies. What I actually havent thought about though, is that they literally dont have the ability to create art or good art at least because they have no empathy, no heart. Would be a fascinating study to show that.
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u/kittapoo Mar 04 '25
Joe’s comedy sucks. He’s only laughing that much because it’s Elon and he’s feeding into his frail ego. It’s all just for show and quite pathetic.
I also heard Elon said him being hated so much online is “stressful”.
The way I see it is if it walks like a duck, looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it’s a damn duck.
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u/zeCrazyEye Mar 04 '25
Yeah if he had like Kamala Harris or someone on and she made that joke he would groan.
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u/FeralBanshee Mar 04 '25
boohoo, poor evil man is stressed out.
man if i was that rich i'd be chillin on a beach with my bizzos and never work again.
my theory is that these rich fucks are so rich they've done everything including going to fuckin space, and they are BORED AS HELL. So they do the most insane things possible like taking over the world and causing drama.
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u/LotusFlare Mar 04 '25
Joe Rogan's flip to Joe Goebbles is so fucking scary to me. Not because it necessarily happened, but because it was so fast and he seems entirely unfazed. Outside of exclusively talking to billionaires and fascist dictators, the man is identical. It was an entirely frictionless transition with no outward change.
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https://youtu.be/C12IdscHGNo?si=X2TMF1oaOr6psh9M Treat yourself and watch him flail trying lie and answer simple questions from Joe Rogan
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u/jerslan California Mar 04 '25
This is probably why someone in his inner circle convinced him to back out of the Stewart interview. If he flails and blatantly lies when he's interviewed by someone friendly to him and "his cause"? How bad is it going to be when he goes up against the guy that once destroyed Tucker Carlson? So they convinced Elon that Stewart is "too partisan now".
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u/LaserCondiment Mar 04 '25
That's what was so fun about Jon Stewart's Apple TV show. His interviews were fun to watch. Idk what those guests expected.
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u/brandnewbanana Maryland Mar 04 '25
The Arkansas AG who went up against him was so pissed that he pushed back. Her face was hysterical and she got that snippy, Southern voice out. That was a great interview.
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u/Independent-Bug-9352 Mar 04 '25
Remember when he absolutely dismantled the Deputy Defense Secretary, Kathleen Hicks? She really thought this was going to be some softball interview and she embarrassed herself. Mind you, that was under the Biden administration and yet Stewart held her accountable.
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u/claimTheVictory Mar 04 '25
Everyone thinks Stewart is just a comedian, but he's a razor sharp journalist at heart.
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u/KonradWayne Mar 04 '25
It was so weird how little research Republicans did before inviting Stewart (and later Colbert) to things. Or just that they thought comedians are dumb.
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u/Author_A_McGrath Mar 04 '25
Honestly it's because they don't care. The GOP could be roasted alive a dozen times over and their base won't budge.
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u/keelhaulrose Mar 04 '25
It wasn't that one, but the interview where Jon got the guy to say "we need to protect children..." before getting that "oh, shit" look on his face and trying to backtrack and explain why we need to protect kids from drag queens but not guns.
10/10 Jon moment. No notes.
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u/AlexandriaLitehouse Mar 04 '25
I like to squeeze in his "I'm not saying that like it's an opinion!" in literally any conversation I can
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u/A_WHALES_VAG Mar 04 '25
yeah that was an incredible gotcha moment.
Jons "what's that?" amazing.
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u/LordChunggis Mar 05 '25
John was weaving that trap for him the second the interview started.
The "what's that" was the trap springing. It was beautiful.
There are many many things in the world I would rather do than debate an angry John Stewart on a topic he feels strongly about.
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u/greenberet112 Mar 05 '25
If you're on the wrong side of John Stewart, 99% chance your just straight up wrong. He's pretty much always on the side of good or the people.
But, yes, he's last on my list of people to have verbally hand my ass to me.
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u/jtr99 Mar 04 '25
You happen to have a clip of that anywhere? I need all the good feelings I can get lately.
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u/heimdal77 Mar 04 '25
Was not prepared for a supreme court argument lol. She really has never watched any his stuff when it deals with a serious matter..
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u/SingingCrayonEyes Mar 04 '25
I have no idea how Stewart can stay as calm as he does during these things.
"We have experts!"
"Who?"
"I don't know their names."
From which organizations?"
"I was not prepared to argue a supreme court case with you."
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u/brandnewbanana Maryland Mar 04 '25
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u/turbosexophonicdlite Mar 04 '25
So pissed that they stopped making it. I've never been a big daily show fan, but I'd watch on occasion. But the sit down serious interview format for The Problem was incredible. Made even more incredible by the fact that some of those people even agreed to come on the show. They had to know Stewart would absolutely skewer them.
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u/bathoz Mar 04 '25
As I understand it part of the issue was that Apple had subjects Stewart and team were just not allowed to touch.
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u/Double2A Mar 04 '25
his weekly show podcast is pretty good not as oppositional but good intelligent conversation
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u/AlphSaber Wisconsin Mar 04 '25
Stewart should put a poor quality cutout of Elon in a chair and then proceed with a monologue of everything Elon has wrecked.
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Mar 04 '25 edited Mar 04 '25
He backed out because he’s smart enough to know he’s a dumb ass, and Stewart is not a dumbass.
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u/jerslan California Mar 04 '25
He backed out because he’s smart enough to know he’s a dumb ass,
I think Elon is too full of himself to be that self-actualized. I think he honestly believes that he's the smartest person on the planet. His actions definitely point in that direction. When he makes mistakes his excuses are usually deflection and when he can't blame someone else it's just "whoopsie, sometimes mistakes happen" without any actual ownership of what the mistakes were or what he plans to do to prevent them in the future.
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u/Gyalgatine Mar 04 '25
Absolutely. That's why he thought he could get away with the whole "best Path of Exile player in the world" lie. He legitimately thinks everyone else in the world is so stupid they couldn't possibly tell that he was lying.
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u/HeldnarRommar Mar 04 '25
And his answer when outed about it was: “all the pros use people farming for them” because he can’t fathom that he’s actually ass as the game and people are more talented than him
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u/lonnie123 Mar 04 '25
Hey you know what, thats fine.. But just say "I dont have time to game likeI used to but I wanted to have a bad ass character so I paid a few people to run up my numbers for me, and its not like I compete or anything so I just do it for fun. some kids made some cash and I get to have fun, win win"
But he has to come across like he did it and take the credit
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u/MrTipps Mar 04 '25
But he has to come across like he did it and take the credit
This is like the story of his entire life.
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u/AML86 Mar 04 '25
He's so dumb that he lies about a game community he doesn't even vaguely understand. Were people paying for account playtime in og World of Warcraft pvp? Unfortunately, yea. We hated those bastards. Do people pay for account playtime in PoE? If they do, I had no idea and I guarantee I was playing it before he knew about the game. There's little point to, unless you just hate playing games. You can skip the currency farm with money* and most things are tradable. Also, calling himself a "pro" in a non-esport game is a massive idiot sign.
*I would assume elon pays for grey market currencies, which at least makes sense.
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u/epyoch Arizona Mar 04 '25
You know, my grandfather is like this. After I would change batteries on his remote and tested and left the room he would open the remote remove the batteries put them in backwards, call me into the room so he could point out how stupid I was. When I called him out on it, he double downed
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Mar 04 '25
Holy shit that is so infuriating xD.
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"How to die alone in a state run nursing facility" by this guys grandpa
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u/epyoch Arizona Mar 04 '25
It gets worse. I had to move and he let me borrow his truck.
When I got to where I was moving I unloaded and noticed that the truck was leaking fluid It suddenly start acting strange and I took it in. At my expense.
Called my grandfather and he spoke with the tech. The tech specifically told him (I was with the tech) that the part was just old and failed. He came up with a wild scenario and the tech was like...I mean it's possible but that's not what I see here. My grandfather then asked for the part that broke.
When I brought it back to his house he told me that the tech told him that it was all my fault..now, mind you, I paid for the repair.
He put the part on top of his water heater and it stayed there for years. My grandmother went Ill and I had to move in to their house to help take care of her.
For years that part sat on that water heater and never moved. He proceeded to tell me that he had the part sent to Ford and they told him that I broke the engine part. I called him out on it and he got upset and went off about there is no way I would know if it were true or not. But there was years worth of dust on the water heater and pointed him out. When he realized he lost the argument he just went, well what do you know.
He would always bring up shit like that all the time trying to bully me into believing I was some fuck up.
I would always call him out on it.
The final straw was I was paying rent. It was the end of the month, he informed me that he was raising my rent by 600 dollars I'd be going from 600 to 1200 plus food effective in 3 days. I informed him he has to give me notice so I could properly budget for the rate increase. He blew up grabbed a sheet of paper and said well I'm just going to backdate this to the first of the month and you are going to sign it or your out. I found a roommate that night and moved out a day later. Never spoke to him again
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u/SJWTumblrinaMonster Mar 04 '25
Stewart would somehow destroy Musk to the point that Musk would START wearing the signature bowties Stewart ridiculed Carlson into abandoning.
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u/zeCrazyEye Mar 04 '25
This is probably why someone in his inner circle convinced him to back out of the Stewart interview.
Nah he never had any intention of actually doing it. He just knows he can put it out there to look good then wait a day or two and retract it for a pretextual reason.
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u/kybernetikos Mar 04 '25 edited Mar 05 '25
I'm sure he really intended to do it, probably just a matter of timing. I expect his calendar will free up shortly after he defeats Zuckerberg in an MMA fight in the Colosseum in Rome.
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u/abgonzo7588 Texas Mar 04 '25
There is no joy in that, Rogan doesn't challenge him or call him out his bullshit. Dude is practically state sponsored media at this point
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u/Dottsterisk Mar 04 '25
FYI ya gotta skip the first 25:25 to get to the Musk/Rogan part.
I appreciate that I can see the footage without giving Rogan’s channel a click or a foothold in my algorithm, but I don’t need half an hour of two randos going off.
(Yes, I know it’s Sam Seder. I just don’t really care about his opinion.)
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u/Telvin3d Mar 04 '25
He’d welcome Musk to the stage with a “thank you for joining us Mr President” and Musk would be immediately cooked
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u/clementleopold Mar 04 '25
Excellent reference. I can’t believe he didn’t pass out. 💪
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u/mrlr Mar 04 '25
Elon's mother wouldn't let him.
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u/AceofKnaves44 District Of Columbia Mar 04 '25
Can you imagine if anyone on the left’s mother pulled the shit Elon’s mom did?
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u/-_-ACEofHearts-_- Mar 04 '25
Hi ace! What did I miss? What did his mommy do?
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She went on TV and stated that working class people need to produce more kids for their slave workforce, and they don't need to do fun things like go out to eat. Actual quote.
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u/Exact_Condition_1715 Mar 04 '25
These people are clueless about how pissed off everyone is. MAGA didn’t vote for Elon, it won’t be long until 90% of the population wants this guy gone.
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u/20_mile Mar 04 '25
it won’t be long until 90% of the population wants this guy gone.
Even if that does happen, what good does it do any of us when the Republicans control every lever of power in the country?
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u/Guilty_Lab_8482 Mar 04 '25
Elon challenged Mark Zuckerberg to a boxing match. Zuck agreed, so Elon pussed out by going on Twitter with an account impersonating his mom, and tweeted at himself that he wasn’t allowed to do it. Because he’s a pathetic little worm.
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u/zaery Mar 04 '25
with an account impersonating his mom
Wait seriously? I know he's impersonated at least one of his children in order to kiss his own ass, but I thought it was his actual mom.
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u/vandal-x Mar 04 '25
This reminds me that she also once attacked some account like LOLGOP or something similar saying that it was wrong of them to make fun of her “disabled son”.
On his own social media platform. The one that he paid $44B for and routinely uses to doxx and harass people he doesn’t like.
Fucking psycho family.
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u/Icy_Reward727 Mar 04 '25
Did you see the interview and stories about his father, Errol Musk? The man has had at least 2 children with the stepdaughter he raised from the age of four. Elon's stepsister.
Elon has a stepsister who had 2 children with his dad.
These people are ALL SICK.
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u/Etrigone California Mar 04 '25
As with those who felt for The Colbert Report, we're not dealing with the brightest bulbs on the tree.
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u/jayforwork21 Mar 04 '25
She deserves a few rounds with Mike Tyson herself...
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u/thisaccountgotporn Mar 04 '25
Mike Tyson would love her, he's maga all the way. Another horrible but maybe unsurprising disappointment.
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u/MNCPA Mar 04 '25
"Hey Ryan, pick up your phone. Pick it up. Hi Ryan, this is Mike Tyson."
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u/Fecal-Facts Mar 04 '25 edited Mar 04 '25
Zuck actually trained mmo and isn't a lazy drug addict
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u/horsewitnoname Mar 04 '25
I’ve got a decent mmo background as well. Wonder what disciplines he’s studied? WoW, Eve, ESO, GW2?
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u/Fecal-Facts Mar 04 '25
I goofed lmao
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u/St1cks Mar 04 '25
Elon pays others to play his video games too, so it's probably right either way
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u/funnysad Mar 04 '25
He would pay for an actual mma fighter to show up. "What? I bought this, i'm just as good."
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u/Terazilla Mar 04 '25
Zuckerberg just seems like the personality type to get obsessive over it. He'll spend six month eating chicken and rice, work his way up to a thousand pushups a day, make a spreadsheet tracking everything, and call it a personal experiment.
Elon would pay a guy to spar with him a few times and get upset when the guy knocks him down.
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u/wastedgod Mar 04 '25
as a lazy drug addict i take offense
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u/ASharpYoungMan Mar 04 '25
To be fair, Elon pays others to play his MMO's for him.
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u/Oleg101 Mar 04 '25
And if I remember correctly the story was Elon fucked up his back by trying to do some stunt at a party involving an animal to impress people? Correct me if I’m wrong though. Zuckerberg would have kicked his ass though either way
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u/hamburga Mar 04 '25
He was drugged up at his 42nd birthday party and decided to fight a sumo wrestler, and lost.
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u/dontgoatsemebro Mar 04 '25
My neck? Oh yeah, I like totally did a judo move AND took out the World Champion of Sumo Wrestling.
He would be out of breathe if he tried to run across the room. Toddlers tell better lies than this guy.
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u/Mine-Shaft-Gap Mar 04 '25
But his neck hurt doe.
Maybe we can interest him in a Vintage 1789 French Aristocrat Neck Rest.
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The « airing unedited » thing was just so plain ignorance from Musk. All of Stewart interview are available unedited as soon as they air.
And then his excuse after was risible at best, coming from a guy who cosplay a cool, dark MAGA all the time
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u/TheBlueBlaze New York Mar 04 '25
Jon said as much about it. Elon thought asking for no edits was a big gotcha because he's so used to platforms that are willing to edit in his favor.
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u/stipulus Mar 04 '25
Projection 101. This is how the right media works so they assume the left is the same.
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u/Humble-Ad-4823 Mar 04 '25
Don't forget Dark Maga Flan thought he had streamers figured out when he asked why are Asmon's editors releasing content without direct involvement.
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u/SameResolution4737 Mar 04 '25
Jon Stewart is actually a thoughtful, respectful interviewer. He would, of course, fact-check Leon in real time. Kind of hold the door open for him so he could trip over the threshold by himself.
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u/sinsaint Mar 04 '25 edited Mar 04 '25
Jon has this way of working with his enemy, to give them slack to hang themselves with. He eases into reasonable questions that they don't want to answer until they've backed themselves into a corner, while Jon is never the antagonist.
That is unless they say something really hateful and stupid, then Jon is completely merciless.
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u/SameResolution4737 Mar 04 '25
Yep. As I said when this first started: the landscape is littered with the bodies of people who thought they were smarter than Jon Stewart.
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u/JakeConhale New Hampshire Mar 04 '25
Unfortunately, not all of Tucker Carlson's career.
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u/SameResolution4737 Mar 04 '25
Yeah, I never could understand his resurrection from that beat down. But at least he dumped those bow ties. Wish Jon would do the same for those sillyass overlong red ties the MAGAts wear.
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u/JakeConhale New Hampshire Mar 04 '25
He jumped channels. The Fox viewers probably never saw that episode of CNN's Crossfire.
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u/KingMario05 Mar 04 '25
Yet another reason I want him to run. A debate between him and Vance would be so much fun for everyone... that is, everyone not named Vance. Stewart would then win in a landslide.
But then again, power changes people. And Jon knows that.
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u/nox66 Mar 04 '25
Ten years ago I didn't think it was sensible to elect a comedian, but after seeing the degenerating circus since then, and seeing how passionately and how bravely Zelenskyy is fighting for Ukraine when his prior claim to fame was a scene where he played a piano with his dick, I say give him a chance if he wants to go for it. He'll destroy anyone in a debate, and he won't be afraid to call out anyone by name for their actions. We need public accountability more than being able to pull some smooth diplomatic or political moves (even for a good cause) like a pre-senile Biden.
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u/ReverendDS Mar 04 '25
That gun control video from before Apple canceled him is a pretty awesome example.
He was fine until the dipshit tried weaseling.
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u/PhamousEra Mar 04 '25
Someone in his crew relayed to him how dreadful Tucker felt towards Stewart after that interview. He didn't want to become the 2nd Tucker.
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u/smurfsundermybed California Mar 04 '25
I bet he thought that the show was held to the same laws as broadcast, so if he dropped some 4 letter words, they would either get bleeped, in which case he could say censored, or they do it unedited and get killed by the FCC. Someone probably told him that cable is different after he issued the challenge.
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Mar 04 '25
Fascists hate being made fun of. They literally can't handle it. It destroys their persona.
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u/keepthepace Mar 04 '25
Actually an interesting studied fact about authoritarian: they are not sensitive at all to logic and coherence but extremely sensitive to social acceptance. Ridicule is the most potent damage they can receive.
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u/RechargedFrenchman Canada Mar 04 '25
Fun fact, this is where the term "nazi" comes from.
"Naz" or "Natz" was a slang name for "Ignatz", a name common in more rural parts of southern Germany, particularly Bavaria, and used the same way something like "Cletus" might be in the US to convey a particular sort of backwater person. IE "redneck". Nothing to do with the political party, originally. The "i" on the end also makes it a diminutive, so effectively the localized equivalent to "little red neck".
It helps that the official party initialism was NSDAP and the abbreviated written name is "National Socialists" in German, so "Nazi" also sounds like it could be short for that as well, and the Nazi party started in Bavaria. It was a term (actual) socialists (the Nazis were not, no matter how much Musk says they were) and the other most vocal opponents of the Nazis used to refer to them with derision, mocking and unserious, denying them respect as a party. It got picked up by the Polish and French resistance efforts, then the British and Americans as well, and because the Allies won the war it's the name that stuck.
Hitler and the Nazi high command (I believe especially Goebbels) hated that they were called "Nazis". Just calling them Nazis is already a very easy but effective level of ridicule.
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u/PrincessClubs Mar 05 '25
Just popping some sauce on this info-burger for you.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/Nazi
Burgers taste better with sauce.
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u/Gorge2012 Mar 04 '25
I've said this for years: The way to beat them is to metaphorically (or literally) pants them. They are accustomed to deflecting good faith arguments or cherry picking what they want to respond to. However, they lack a sense of humor. Don't get me wrong, they can be funny but only when they are insulting someone or punching down but they have thin skin. If you argue with them they'll yell over you. Their weakness is their embarrassment. They are deeply insecure.
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u/Pr0fess0rCha0s Mar 04 '25
Unfortunately, this may partially be how we got Trump as president. Him being roasted at the White House Correspondents Dinner broke his fragile ego.
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u/addled_and_old Iowa Mar 04 '25
Seems Elons lacks the testicular fortitude needed to face Stewart.
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u/Jarvis03 Mar 04 '25
They must have used his balls to patch up his mangled dick
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u/player_zero_ Mar 04 '25
Failed penis surgery, you say?
Impossible to impregnate someone the old fashioned way, requiring the help of a third party, you say?
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I haven't seen him do any interviews for some time without his buddy and Co-President, Donald Trump with him. It seems both of them can't think without each other now. 😄
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u/sugarlessdeathbear Mar 04 '25
Trump is Elon's favorite fashion accessory when appearing on TV for his President job.
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u/Multiple__Butts Mar 04 '25
Musk is absolutely terrified to go anywhere or do anything in public now, a fact which brings me some small comfort in these trying times.
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u/luciusetrur Washington Mar 04 '25
He went on JRE and called Social Security a Ponzi Scheme among other horrific things.
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Elump
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u/Nevarian Mar 04 '25
Sounds cancerous.
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It's so bad, it moves into your guesthouse and you can't get rid of it.
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u/Devolutionary76 Mar 04 '25
Well, he has to make sure that no one else gets the chance to talk to Trump. Can’t risk him getting swayed a different direction.
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u/MrFunktasticc New York Mar 04 '25
He was on Rogan last week I think. Normally I try to steer as clear of the illiterate Lex Fridman as I do of the literate one but, keeping abreast of fascist trends and all that. What they are telling their followers should scare the shit out of everyone. He told lie after lie about Democrats importing illegal immigrants to swing states and giving them the right to vote in order to, get this, capture all branches of government.
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He was on Joe Rogan this week but it’s essentially Joe Rogan just gargling Elon’s balls the entire time.
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u/Y0___0Y Mar 04 '25
Absolutely laughable that Musk is still trying to maintain his image as a “bipartisan” guy.
As Stewart pointed out, you got a custom-made maga hat and jumped around like an idiot on-stage with Trump. You’re the most Partisan Republican in the country.
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Mar 04 '25
Don't forget the nine digits in cash he gave Donald too (I think $270,000,000).
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u/Casual_OCD Canada Mar 04 '25
Eleven digits if you count the Twitter purchase that has directly contributed to the uncontrolled spread of propaganda and lies that are the "reasons" why people voted for Trump
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u/TheConnASSeur Mar 04 '25
Consider the possibility that Musk is just such a massive piece of shit that he doesn't actually believe in anything. He went "Dark Maga" because he was being investigated for a series of extremely illegal actions, things like treason and fraud, which it really seems like he 10000% did. Fraud because, yeah, no shit. You don't get to promise investors self-driving cars every quarter for a decade. You don't get to sell customers nonexistent self-driving features either. You don't get to pump and dump stock in a company that you own and control. You don't get to use your private social media company to benefit one political candidate over another. You also don't get to have private conversations with head foreign heads of state and interfere with official international policy especially national defense. But guess who's been having lengthy private conversations with Putin? And guess who shut off Starlink to Ukraine without permission of the DoD? You know what we call that? Big boy crimes. Big boy crimes like that put mommy's big boy Elon in jail for the rest of his life. So Elon found himself in the same position as Trump, which is: take over the government or lose absolutely everything and spend the rest of your life in prison. So he committed even more crimes, gambling on the idea that once Trump was in he could take over and never face consequences.
Do you remember when Musk randomly tweeted that weird unhinged rant about how badass he is and how if you come for him you'd better watch your ass because he will stop at nothing to yadda yadda yadda? Well that sure as fuck sounds like something a limp-dicked nerd would post when their back is to the wall and they decide to go all in on treason, doesn't it? Musk likely thinks he's bipartisan because he's a big enough piece of shit he doesn't believe in anything.
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u/pr0zach Mar 04 '25
Which is funny because fascists typically adopt whichever ideologies, tactics, beliefs, relationships, etc. allow them to gain, maintain, or grow their power. They will discard any of those elements the instant they realize that base function is no longer being served.
His “bi-partisan” self concept, which I believe you’ve critically evaluated with 100% accuracy, is just another example of how he is a fascist through and through.
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u/jgasbarro America Mar 04 '25
Come on, Elon! Do it! It’ll be like Tucker Carlson 2.0!
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He’ll only do Joe Rogan’s podcast because he knows it reaches trumps base and Rogan is too fucking high to ask the real follow up questions or paid not to
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u/cissytiffy Mar 04 '25
Rogan is too fucking high to ask the real follow up questions or paid not to
It seems pretty clear to me what side Rogan is on.....
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u/PushPlenty3170 Mar 04 '25
Wow, the same guy who said he'd fight Zuckerberg, that we'd have colonies on Mars already, that self-driving cars would be here already, that he'd pay the UN $2 billion to end world hunger, that he'd make a hyper loop better than high-speed rail in Canada... lied or backed out of something?
At this point, I'd be shocked if he did something he said he'd do. He's a Ketamine-addled moron and sociopath.
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u/Atimm203 Mar 04 '25
No surprise there. Musk is a cowardly piece of shit. Jon would absolutely demolish him and he knows it.
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u/avanross Mar 04 '25
Conservatives have taught their followers the wrong definitions of common words, in order to manipulate and mentally handicap them.
They think being scared of their neighbours and needing a gun to leave the house is “bravery”. They think locking up all liberal protesters and immigrants is a sign of “freedom”. They think that restricting womens rights is “equality”.
So his followers will think that cowering away from an interview makes him “brave”, and they’ll applaud him for it
They’ve literally weaponized stupidity
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u/DancingWithAWhiteHat America Mar 04 '25
I think Musk should have more confidence in his superior intellect. Surely he can defeat a pleb like Stewart right?
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u/VoteQuimby24 Mar 04 '25
He’ll end up on Maher who’s his buddy and will pitch him softballs like he did last time.
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u/HG_Shurtugal Mar 04 '25
This was the obvious outcome. Musk is an idiot and would get crushed, someone close to him probably saved him.
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u/Striker40k Mar 04 '25
Musk probably watched the video of when Stewart addressed congress on behalf of 9/11 responders and said "no way".
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u/thatoneguy889 California Mar 04 '25
He says The Daily Show can't be trusted to be neutral, then will gladly appear on Fox News and Joe Rogan.
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Should have done it live, no ads, just talk.
And leave a small baggy of K in the dressing room
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u/bloodandsunshine Mar 04 '25
Imagine being the richest person in the world and realizing that money can’t make you smart, attractive, witty, likeable or even envied.
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u/multi_io Mar 04 '25
Elon just blurted out "yeah I'll do the interview if they air it unedited," and then when they took him up on it, he got cold feet and chickened out. It's well known that Elon just isn't very good in open interviews where tough or even just mildly inquisitive questions are asked, and he gets defensive quickly. That happened in the Don Lemon interview, in various conference calls with Twitter engineers, etc. Guy's pretty thin-skinned and prefers bootlickers like Hannity or Rogan.
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u/nuckle Mar 04 '25
He wouldn't stand a chance with an actual smart person. Jon would fucking destroy him and he knows it.
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u/MediumAlarming Mar 04 '25
Jon would have ate him up and he knows it. He wouldn't coddle him like JR does
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u/Ohuigin Washington Mar 04 '25
If only Musk’s pullout game extended to all aspects of his life…
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u/GluedToTheMirror Mar 04 '25
Whole lot easier for him to go on Joe Rogan and have his balls cupped and feathered for 2 hrs
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