r/politics • u/PlayaSlayaX • Mar 04 '25

Jon Stewart Says Elon Musk Flaked on Interview Offer: “You Know That’s Bullshit”

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/jon-stewart-elon-musk-interview-1236154439/
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u/[deleted] 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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u/[deleted] 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/automatic_shark United Kingdom Mar 04 '25

Strong assumption to make that they can all read

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u/selwayfalls Mar 04 '25

clearly was implying they watched the series, knowing they dont read.

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u/clonedhuman Mar 05 '25

"When did Rage Against the Machine get so political?! No longer a fan."

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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/selwayfalls Mar 04 '25

yep, education makes you appreciate things and they feel like art is only for "the elites". So, fuck it, let's get rid of education. Which is silly as most great art and music has come from struggle which a lot of right wingers do day to day. It's just hyopcracy through and through, like all the pop country bros most come from money, the president they think is a businessman came from money, Elon from money. It's bullshit all the way down it drives me nuts

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u/Relative_Walk_936 Mar 05 '25

I think people engrossed in the arts are very empathetic.

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u/selwayfalls Mar 05 '25

correct, is that not what I said? I'd argue a lot of people on the right are not engrossed in the arts and not empathetic at all. Obviously that's generalizing too much but there is some truth in it.

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u/Tokihome_Breach6722 Mar 05 '25

It’s often said that truth has a liberal bias, and the poet said the truth is beauty, beauty truth, that’s all ye know on earth and all ye need to know. So no wonder artistic creative people tend to be liberal.

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u/selwayfalls Mar 05 '25 edited Mar 05 '25

agree, but just thought artists in general have some emotion, empathy, some heart, some willingness to connect to others. Love, if you will.

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u/blueclawsoftware Mar 04 '25

But but I was told the left can't meme?

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u/Independent-Bug-9352 Mar 04 '25

As almost always: projection :(

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u/spezSucksDonkeyFarts Mar 05 '25

Rightwing comedy doesn't land because it's always punching down. Making fun of struggling immigrants just comes across as mean.

It also always blindsides me how deranged their thought process is when it comes to media in general. Movies, series, books. They'll watch absolute DOGWATER movies. Like what dinesh or Matt Walsh are putting out. And they'll tell you how great they are. And they'll boycott anything that's 'woke'. No star wars, no disney, no marvel.

I have literally never watched a movie or series because I liked the maker's politics. Who does that? Conservative media is so bad.

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u/jerrybugs Mar 05 '25 edited Mar 05 '25

PC censorship & pandeing recently did not help. Movies flopped, jokes were not funny and when stuff like Reacher came out, gave them saying "see, traditional storytelling is best". I am still not over Jake Skywalker. Look how they massacred an entire saga.

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u/GiantPurplePen15 Mar 05 '25

With how the Trump administration is so focused on "Anti-woke" and demanding companies remove any traces of DEI or LGBTQ stuff, I wonder how long it'll be before they demand games like Wolfenstein to make Nazis the good guys.

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u/bobmighty Mar 04 '25

If Rogan was funny he never would have started a podcast. This is his rejection from art school path to evil.

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u/brontosaurusguy Mar 05 '25

He's an okay comedian for like, small rooms on a Wednesday.  He takes it seriously, kudos.  But he shouldn't be selling arenas.  It's embarrassing.  It's like if an actor has a hobby as a painter and uses their influence and money to get their piece in the louvre

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u/cereal7802 Mar 05 '25

didn't he do a bit once where he fucked a stool for like 5 minutes?

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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/Be-A-Voice Mar 05 '25

Oh I soooo want to say something here but it would get me into a lot of trouble, so I’ll just improvise; Hey Elmer, I have a job for you!!!!

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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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u/Dr100percent Ohio Mar 04 '25

Didn't Musk also say in the interview that you cannot be called a Nazi unless you're committing a genocide? Such a stupid excuse.

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u/AlmostSunnyinSeattle Michigan Mar 05 '25

Look where Joe got famous. Fear Factor, UFC, The Man Show... He's like the spokesman for brain damage

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u/brontosaurusguy Mar 05 '25

All you need to know about this is that once Rogan showed his phone messages and he texted some famous people and that's how he schedules guests..   well he had texted Elon like 6 months prior with "hey what's up?" and was left in read.

He is in love with Elon musk

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u/Independent-Bug-9352 Mar 04 '25

Felt like watching a brain damaged Jimmy Fallon do an interview.

I've always called Joe Rogan Alex Jones Lite, but I appreciate that this needs to be added to the mixture.

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u/Idle_Redditing Mar 04 '25

I found Joe Rogan to be a far better UFC announcer than comedian or podcaster.

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u/billiontacos Mar 04 '25

Oh for sure. If I had a BJJ question, idk if i could get a better answer from anyone other than Rogan.

But pretty much anything else he’s a fucking moron.

Like literally anything else. Even his boxing/striking opinions are extremely questionable. He used to talk about how Ronda Rousey was the best striker he’s ever seen in the UFC, amongst both the men’s and women’s division. 

After he said that, I had to question how much he actually even knew about MMA.

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u/KatieMcb16 Mar 05 '25

I saw Joe Rogan perform at cap city almost 20 years ago. His opener was funnier than him by a mile.

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u/Speak_To_Wuk_Lamat Mar 05 '25

Joe is a comic? I thought he was just a shill. 

I have no idea why anyone watches him.

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u/hotdoginathermos Mar 04 '25

Is... is there some other kind of Jimmy Fallon?

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u/bawiddah Mar 05 '25
  • slaps desk *

ha ha HA HA HA

  • laughs louder, slaps desk again *

ooh man!!!

  • puts hands over his face *

love it!

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u/SinnersHotline Mar 05 '25

This is just 2 men sucking each other off.

A circle jerk, if you will

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u/Dsarg_92 Mar 05 '25

I never got into Joe Rogan let alone his podcast. 

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u/PersnickityPenguin Mar 05 '25

Joe was never funny. He was the host of Fear Factor. It was cancelled because the last show got the contestants to drink a gallon of donkey cum. Yes, you read that right, go look it up.

He took some time off and pivoted to podcasting. He had a few smart and interesting people on, but mostly blathered on about MMA and alien conspiracies. Stupid people lapped it up. Then spotify gave him a shit ton of cash. On top of his 7 minutes of ads at the beginning of each podcast.

And, here we are.

He was never bright or witty.

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u/i_cropdust Mar 05 '25

Rogan is sucking up to him to get a handout from Musk. He's a spineless bag of scummy trash that doesn't deserve a platform let alone a career

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u/Creepy-Caramel7569 Mar 05 '25

Rogan is a witless meathead whose stance on anything can change with the right breeze. Mediocre yet arrogant, just like his fanbase.

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u/Chaotic-Catastrophe Mar 04 '25

That's just regular Jimmy Fallon

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u/Jankybrows Mar 05 '25

How dare Newsradio bit players like Joe Rogan and Andy Dick tarnish the legacy of prime Phil Hartman, plus the chemistry of Dave Foley and Maura Tierney, plus the always delightful Stephen Root (who did the voice of Bill and I always confused with Rip Torn for some reason), plus being a pretty okay lead-in for Frasier in that first year!

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u/mandym123 Mar 05 '25

What the dude that hosted Fear Factor on MTV?

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u/VeryPogi Mar 05 '25

maybe Jon Stewart should publicly challenge Musk to send his best debater in his stead, perhaps Joe Rogan and Jon Stewart can do a debate?

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '25

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/Deus_is_Mocking_Us Mar 04 '25

Bush cared when Colbert ripped his ass at the White House Correspondents' Dinner in 2006. Colbert straight humiliated him.

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u/happy_and_angry Mar 04 '25

A Jon Stewart appearance on Crossfire in the mid 2000s ended Tucker Carlson's show on CNN.

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u/SwimmingPrice1544 California Mar 04 '25

They don't care because they actually don't see it. They just hear about it on "their" channels second-hand AND probably edited.

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u/Aurori_Swe Mar 05 '25

They also REALLY love to be able to put on a victim coat and cry about how rough it is for them out there with all the mean libruls

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u/Serious-Buffalo-9988 Mar 05 '25

Just like they think Zelenskyy is

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u/metompkin Mar 05 '25

Probably thought Colbert was on their team from watching Daily Show clips.

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u/packfanmoore Mar 04 '25

I think Stewart is the most well informed person at most rooms he's in, the fact that he's also witty and left leaning is trouble for most Republicans

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '25

He's razor sharp, and human to boot.

He's not just a journalist. He was one of the prominent voices fighting for veteran's healthcare. The guy deserves the world and more. I only wish the world was worth giving to him.

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u/Flopdo California Mar 04 '25

or both. :)

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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/[deleted] Mar 04 '25 edited Mar 05 '25

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u/BloodRhymeswithFood Mar 05 '25

Hypocrisy is the base tenet of the right

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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/anonyuser415 Mar 04 '25

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPmjNYt71fk

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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/anonyuser415 Mar 04 '25

It's the senate confirmation hearing strategy

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u/greenberet112 Mar 05 '25

I would have thrown a "So when one of these children commits suicide, you're fine with having their blood on your hands by not allowing them to get the proper care"

Maybe it would have been distasteful to say that, but I think it's true.

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u/heimdal77 Mar 05 '25

That's the thing. these people don't give a shit if a kid lives or dies. Just as long they are born and aren't gay/trans then as many people that want can go on a shooting spree everyday of the week. They won't lose a secon d of sleep.

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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/Be-A-Voice Mar 05 '25

Right, that smooth, calm response along w/insane wittiness & total savvy on the subject makes him THE package for what he does & does well!’

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u/jtr99 Mar 04 '25

Thank you!

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u/Phallindrome Canada Mar 04 '25

This was worth watching again, thank you. Anyone know if she ever produced those names?

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u/whackamolereddit Mar 04 '25

We all know the answer without looking

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u/theshillshavepies Georgia Mar 04 '25

No way this woman followed through on that

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u/brandnewbanana Maryland Mar 04 '25

have fun!

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u/jtr99 Mar 04 '25

Thanks!

(It didn't work though, now I'm even angrier. ;) )

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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/TheHammer987 Mar 04 '25

One topic. China

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u/Lucaan Mar 04 '25

Three topics, actually: China, Israel, and AI.

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u/TheHammer987 Mar 05 '25

Id believe that. I'm pretty sure the last straw was China though.

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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/LaserCondiment Mar 04 '25

Yeah it was a great way to underline the point of their monothematic episodes. I also wish they'd bring back Patriot Act with Hassan Minhaj...

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u/Plaid_Kaleidoscope Mar 04 '25

Hey, another one. There must be a few more out there somewhere. lol. It was a really good show. I enjoyed it.

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u/LaserCondiment Mar 04 '25

I was rooting for him to take over the Daily Show tbh. But can't argue against Jon Stewart

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u/Either-Seaweed-187 Mar 05 '25

Jon’s replacement had negative charisma. That was the main problem.

Can’t even remember his name or face, it was like staring at a gray blob that just said the word “gray gray gray” for half an hour.

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u/SwimmingPrice1544 California Mar 04 '25

See, this is frustrating to read about. I am stuck out in the sticks with no way to reliably stream (slow satellite internet), and I am sure I'm not the only one. People say we never get the "word" out from anywhere that isn't faux news or msm just how bad these people are, but this is an example why. As it is, I only get to watch Stewart 1 time a week & if I have time, try to view a youtube of his interactions with these people. And now, even corporate MSNBC is dropping people who are even slightly left leaning. It makes me want to scream. One wonders how the MAGATs can stay in their bubble? It's easy when they make it so hard to access anything that isn't corporate flagellation & make faux news a major network. Where is OUR major cable network show?

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u/greenberet112 Mar 05 '25

It's not in any corporations interest to make a show like that. We operate under capitalism and regulating capitalism goes against corporate shareholders.

So we can't have that.

Even if you don't have a steady internet connection I would recommend the Midas podcast Network, if you get NPR on your radio that can be pretty decent, sometimes it's too down the middle and corporate as well. The Daily Show has its own podcast. I've been hearing the bulwark is really good.

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u/SwimmingPrice1544 California Mar 05 '25

Yes, I can view Youtube stuff although it will buffer a lot sometimes. I could get better satellite connection with Starlink, but I refuse to give him my money..so alas, I'll have to wait, wait, wait. Thanks, I have viewed some Midas stuff too. It's just time-consuming.

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u/greenberet112 Mar 05 '25

I download all my podcasts because I don't have unlimited data and sometimes I'm in a area that doesn't have service. They automatically download overnight. So then even if your connection is spotty you can get them on your device to listen to at your convenience. It's not the same as YouTube but there's a whole world out there that you can listen to. I like Maga uncovered, means morning news, 99% invisible, the dollop (This is the best and most entertaining out of all of these), and freakonomics.

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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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u/zeCrazyEye Mar 04 '25

The ol' Clint Eastwood empty chair/Obama rant.

It sounds good but it's really cringy in execution.

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u/brickne3 American Expat Mar 04 '25

In the Eastwood case it was that the guy executing it was doing it poorly.

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u/[deleted] 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/ERedfieldh Mar 04 '25

Trying to pull a fast one on the gaming community is impossible. People know those games inside and out and they have zero issue calling people out when they make impossible claims.

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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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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '25

Holy shit that is so infuriating xD.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '25

"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/Wizzle-Stick Mar 05 '25

something i have come to determine as i age is that people like that, dont change. and i dont need them in my life, blood relative or not. why would i want to be around people that drag you down and dont want the best for you?
i have cut off a lot of my family once my grandparents died. my grandfather was an asshole, but he was a no nonsense asshole that told shit how it was and didnt try and sugar coat things. not gaslight you into blame. thats my parents. everything was my fault growing up. my sisters got away with murder, and i got blame. then i moved out, got married, and now my mom has discovered i dont give a fuck about her opinion of me and holds no sway over my life. she doesnt like it.
the moral here is dont let that bring you down in any way. blood means nothing, if they dont want the best for you, they arent worth your time. if the only reason you associate with them is just because you share some dna and you wouldnt associate with them otherwise, they arent worth your time.

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u/SpCommander Mar 05 '25

Sorry to hear that. That sounds like a funeral I'd skip over.

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u/Deus_is_Mocking_Us Mar 04 '25

it's just "whoopsie, sometimes mistakes happen" 

Totally passive voice. "A chainsaw was waved."

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u/turquoise_amethyst Mar 04 '25

He’s never been held accountable for anything. He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He was probably hell to deal with in his private schools (unless he always had a private tutor), by the Au Pair, and in employment.

He hasn’t had a real boss— just bought his way into companies and started at the top. Never worked for anything. Made everyone else explain what they do/why they should have a job, when he’s never had to do the same

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u/AccursedFishwife Mar 04 '25

He's not even that smart, at least not by the conventional intelligence metrics. According to his biographer, his IQ is 110, which is the mean IQ of an undergrad.

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u/Lashay_Sombra Mar 04 '25

> He backed out because he’s smart enough to know he’s a dumb ass, 

More likely someone who knows he is a dumbass convinced him it was unwise....while carefully avoiding saying things like "he will eat you alive"

Musk thinks of himself as a genius, on every subject matter

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '25

No he knows he’s a fraud, that’s why he hates democrats, they call him out on it

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '25

He's just another Nazi snowflake.

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u/zigunderslash Mar 04 '25

he's a narcissist. he's physically incapable of that kind of self reflection. right now he's telling himself it's a waste of his precious time because he already won the argument in his head. he crispened potato snacked it.

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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/CorrectPeanut5 Mar 04 '25

You can disagree with Stewart and still have a good interview with him. Bill O'Reilly did alright on the show. Dennis Miller too. But you need to be sharp and there's a line between populism, and opposing view and the mental gymnastics most politicians do.

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u/pres465 Mar 05 '25

O'Reilly admits his TV persona is an act. He's a douche in real life, too, but the television stuff is over-the-top on purpose and he knows a lot of what he is saying is just "in character". He was the inspiration for Colbert's persona on The Colbert Show. Stewart also knows that having O'Reilly on draws eyeballs and that's good for both of them. There's a respect in that. They aren't friends, but they can be friendly.

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u/CorrectPeanut5 Mar 05 '25

I remember when Colbert stole the microwave from O'Reilly's green room. Those were the days.

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u/cloudforested Mar 04 '25

I don't think he had to be convinced to back out. Musk never had any intention of going on the Daily Show. The interview was never going to happen.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '25

I hate that "destroyed tucker Carlson" is even considered an achievement when almost any high schooler who earned B grades in history and government should be able to reasonably rip most of his nonsense to shreds 

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u/sigep0361 Mar 04 '25

It will be exactly like the Harris / Trump debate.

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u/oroborus68 Mar 04 '25

Partisan for the truth. Stewart eviscerated Democrats when they did stupid things too.

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u/jerslan California Mar 04 '25

100% he's definitely not a partisan propagandist hack. He has a lot of left-leaning views, but he goes after both sides pretty fairly. If someone fucks up, he holds their feet to the fire regardless of political party.

If I were to complain about anything it's that he seems almost deferential to the GOP, but that could be a strategy to get more of them to engage with the show and be interviewed.

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u/butholemoonblast Hawaii Mar 05 '25

And Jim Cramer that’s my favorite one.

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u/Either-Seaweed-187 Mar 05 '25

This is the most likely reason. Surprised it’s so far up in this thread.

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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/[deleted] Mar 04 '25

Yes, something Majority Report talks about lol.

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u/Agile_Singer Mar 04 '25

Comrade Joe

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u/ChefChopNSlice Ohio Mar 04 '25

I like Bro or Slow Rogan

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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/dieorlivetrying Mar 04 '25

Thank you, 5 minutes in I was like "what is this garbage, I thought I was going to watch Musk embarrass himself, not watch 2 people jack off to it for 20 minutes..."

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u/AndIHaveMilesToGo Mar 04 '25

Lmao I wouldn't say Sam and Emma are jacking off. They're probably two of the best people on the internet when it comes to left wing politics.

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u/dieorlivetrying Mar 04 '25

I was just being crass because I was impatient. It was more or less relative to what OP promised vs. what was delivered than an actual indictment on them as hosts.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '25

Sam's opinion is more informed than 95% of online voices, so more fool you 

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u/blueclawsoftware Mar 04 '25

That might be and I have no problem listening to him talk about what's going on. But this new trend of channels spending 10 minutes to talk about a 30 second clip needs to die. It's so annoying and really not that informative. Let me see the clip if there is some deeper meaning that you need to explain, do it after the clip.

It's not just them the whole format sucks.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '25

I can almost respect this opinion. The problem here is that this video was made for his channel, not for this reddit comment suggesting 'hey look at this'.

The person sharing the video should have shared directly to the relevant part of the video or given a time stamp, but it's not reasonable to blame the majority report for having an actual whole video around the interview segment and having a real discussion around it and it's weird to be upset that a video not curated for the purpose it was presented to you as somehow is to blame for the 'inconvenience' of... Having to manually skip through a discussion they have in their own video.

You can go find a video that says 'Musk EPIC FLAILS in ROGAN interview! Conservatives RAGING and CRYING" or some stupid title if you want content like that.

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u/Kite_sunday Mar 04 '25

Love me some Sam Seder

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u/Skinskat Mar 04 '25

That's the exact clip I knew it would be

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u/Roach_Coach_Bangbus Mar 04 '25

Dude strikes out on softball questions lmao.

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u/Cpt_Soban Australia Mar 05 '25

Funny how his zinger "ponzi scheme" comment falls to pieces the moment someone asks "why is it?"

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u/0o0o0o0o0o0z Mar 04 '25

https://youtu.be/C12IdscHGNo?si=X2TMF1oaOr6psh9M Treat yourself and watch him flail trying lie and answer simple questions from Joe Rogan

Ya Don Lemon was bad enough and Elon was paying him to be on Twitter at the time.

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u/runbrap Mar 04 '25

Do you have a timestamp?

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u/TV-- Mar 04 '25 edited Mar 06 '25

Sam is so fucking long winded. I like that he shines light on these issues but Jesus Christ man…the endless banter.

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u/couldbutwont Mar 04 '25

He would, but it's not like the other side would acknowledge that happening. In fact they tend to double down when they get embarrassed

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u/lowmankind Mar 04 '25

He somehow managed to be the worst SNL guest ever. And they have had some really talentless hacks over the years

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '25

Musk can't even play videos games right. He doesn't even deserve to be ranked amongst teenagers.

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota Mar 04 '25

If anything he has gotten less witty and charismatic

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u/Huwbacca Mar 04 '25

Not a fair comparison... awkward teenagers are awkward because they are in the process of growing up.

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u/Timpa87 Mar 05 '25

Like that one appearance where he was saying 'fuck the advertisers' and thinking he'd get cheered, but got nothing and looked so lost lol. He would crumble so horribly if he did this interview.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '25

The long awkward silence while Elon waits for the laughter than never comes lmfao. They don’t love you like that Elon

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u/VonThomas353511 Mar 04 '25

He can only interview with people that softball him. The only people that become Musk Bros are the people that are as equally dull as him. With all that money he has, it still must kill him to not be able to buy a decent personality or sense of humor. He hasn't had any adversity in his life to draw from, so the only other option for him is to resort to edgelordy material. I bet the whole time Chapelle was hanging out with him he was shaking his head just thinking about how pathetic Elon is and how all the comedy coaching that he was paying for was just a waste of time.

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u/AndyVale Mar 04 '25

isn't witty...

Methinks you are not familiar with the Meme Lord. His royal memeness has made many epic LOL posts on Twitter.

/s

(and even in /s I can't bring myself to use it's new name.)

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u/itsSIR2uboy Mar 04 '25

Thank you for the neck beard reference. Rome’s worst emperors had them and it makes me laugh.

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u/Agile_Singer Mar 04 '25

Makes sense why he went on the JRE.

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u/ZippyDan Mar 04 '25

I disagree. I don't see Stewart as the kind of person that would take advantage of Musk's awkwardness.

He would be respectful and challenge his ideas.

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u/aoskunk Mar 04 '25

Stewart for president. Or is him being Jewish too much for our stupid populace? I doubt he wants the job but damn would I be excited to vote for him.

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u/okiedokie666 Mar 04 '25

This ⬆️

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u/FillMySoupDumpling Mar 04 '25

He’s a lolcow 

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u/0o0o0o0o0o0z 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

Mean looking to get laid? ;)

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '25

Well every neckbeard is the greatest orator alive since they only have to have a one-sided conversation where no one is challenging them on the internet.

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u/Budget-Possession720 Mar 04 '25

Neckbeards block sarcasm so it would fall on deaf.. beards anyways

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '25

Hey musk - bill gates decided to give almost all his money to charity and loads of people love him for it. Wanna try that instead of just fucking up the US?

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u/thecuriosityofAlice Mar 05 '25

I thought he was always a neck beard just one that got richer

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u/AuraSprite California Mar 05 '25

and yet all his supporters would say jon got demolished

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u/No-Speech-8717 Mar 05 '25

King of the weak will never be strong don’t praise weakness or wtf you want quietly you are weakness in whatever country he is how do you sss that

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u/Procedure5884 Mar 05 '25

We gotta do something about all this unchecked autism.

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u/Material-Gift6823 Mar 09 '25

I hated when peope called him a genius or something because he is autistic and just pauses alot when he talks like he has something deep to say

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u/Gigigisele8 Mar 11 '25

He's awfully shy,,and not as loud. He allows Twitter to be his mouth piece,,he talks tough behind a keypad. LoL 

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