I hope the audience boos Musk when he walks out looking like the loser he is.
cowardly mod censoring for “civility” over the call for a righteous fight against fascists.
Stewart is training his wordplay right now like a Rocky montage.
The chances of him being sober for this are next to 0
Chances of him not attending are also close to 0.
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“So we wanted to start this interview off with a bang.”
That would be the single greatest moment of televisual history
Trump too. Hell let’s not stop there. All 1% needs to gtfo
He’ll find a way to back out. Musk is stupid, but not that stupid.
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.
Holy shit, I just realized that Trump commuted his sentence
Well yeah, he was a contestant on the president’s reality game show.
He’s also extremely overconfident and narcissistic
Remember when he challenged Zuckerberg to a fight? There are limits.
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.
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!
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.
Elon won’t do it. He’s a pussy. He will back out and start calling Stewart a pedo on social media.
He might convince Trump to add tariffs on the Daily Show.
Retarded is his new favorite word.
As pc as using pussy as an insult.
Every accusation by musk is an admission
He could just go and say/do something that would prevent airing
Then if they take it out it’s been edited
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.
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.
I imagine he’ll go one 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.
Just like when he backed out of that fight with zuck
As much as I hate Musk, that would have been so beautiful.
It should’ve been some kind of extreme badass death match deluxe: nobody gets out of the cage while any one of them is still breathing.
The live-action reality remake the American public deserves
It would even deserve to be some kind of royal rumble format!
Either. Either one of them.
I agree that “either” is more specific. And I don’t mind being reminded of it.
Otoh “any” is defined as
∃ xand 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:
Oh, no language policing intended. I was just doubling down on the bloodlust.
No he won’t! He’s not a huge pussy! What about that time he fought mark zuckerberg?
If anyone can do this it’s Jon Stewart. I know he’s mentioned on several occasions that he doesn’t have any political ambitions whatsoever, and he’s been true to his word. But sometimes circumstances allow great men to take great leaps, and on rare occasions, do great things.
The fact that The Hill is already running a piece trying to play him off as a comedy star from an era that has all but vanished due to the corporate landscape, is all I need to know to believe what he has to say. They’re already trying to downplay and dismiss the results before they’ve occurred.
What are the terms of the interview? Will it be in person in front of an audience, via webcast, in front of the burning reichstag, etc…
Maybe Jon can tucker carlson elon.
I rewatch that crossfire clip regularly. It’s my happy place.
Zelenskyy was also a comedian first.
People forget that popular comedians are usually incredibly intelligent. Conan graduated MCL from Harvard.
Yeah, frankly, its hard to be a great comedian, while also an idiot.
Which is why conservative “comedy” is just a bunch of slurs. They can’t come up with actual jokes.
To be fair, Conan is not typical, and his brain needs to be studied by scientists after he dies lol
Damn I didn’t know Harvard issued medial cruciate ligaments
What are the terms of the interview?
Musk just wants it to air unedited. Which means no matter what they do, he would be able to claim it was edited if things don’t go his way and he ends up looking like (an even bigger) fool.
Just shows how stupid Elon is. Stewart is an accomplished interviewer, with the backup of being a comedian. Watch Stewart keep his composure after smashing his coffee cup the other night. He assessed the cut, laughed it off, and finished the monologue instantly. Elmo doesn’t have the composure to handle a problem like that.
Was that a trick cup and fake blood, or the real deal?
Was real, they taped him up during the commercial to finish the interview. Probably just a minor cut, but at his age he’s probably on blood pressure, or heart meds, so small cuts bleed like crazy.
So do a single camera and air it live.
Do multiple cameras, but display them all continuously, and then do all the tricks people use to try to make it obvious no editing was done and put them in the foreground and background of all the angles.
Nah…He’d still play the it was edited bullshit. The only thing that is nearly impossible to defend is “it was edited while being played live”. There, his embarrassments are his own, and they’re very very hard to downplay to any other causes.
Attach a scope to that “camera.”
Here’s how it’s going to go down:
- Jon will ask pointed questions.
- Elmo will respond with rhetoric, lies, half-truths, incendiary nonsense, &/or dumb jokes.
- Jon will call him out on his bullshit.
- Elmo will respond with more rhetoric, lies, half-truths, incendiary nonsense, &/or dumb jokes.
- Jon will be appalled at Musk’s lack of integrity, ethics, intelligence, or humility.
- The next day, right-wing pundits will spin it as a victory for Musk - saying he made Stewart “speechless and dumbfounded” with his amazing performance.
Have you seen the current speaking ability of Musk? I’d be surprised if he produces a single coherent sentence.
I hope Jon Stewart really pushes him through his filler speech and reveals Musk as stupid as he actually is.
Tho I still dont think this will happen. Musk would have to be incredibly stupid to accept this, like even more stupid than he actually is.
Replace Elon’s rhetoric/lies/dumb joke non-responses with incoherent babbling and the right-wing will still say he “owned that lib”.
We know how Jon handles this exact situation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCuIxIJBfCY
Musk will be roasted and embarrassed.
Oh holy shit what a take down. That ending was incredible. I’d be terrified of one day meeting Jon Stewart and accidentally voicing an opinion within earshot just in case he takes issue with it.
God damn, thanks for this link. I’m not sure how I missed this year old video. I wish I could keep my cool as successfully as Stewart does in situations like this.
It’s amazing how surgical he is while you can see he is literally shaking from anger. It’s like the anger just adds fuel to the fire of his rhetorical wit.
You forgot
- musk buys wherever the Daily Show is produced
- musk fires Jon
- “The Daily Show, with Sean Hannity”
I mean, Jon Stewart and maybe some of the writers are the value there. Even if you imagined that happening, he can just go do a new show.
Something like Twitter takes a lot of doing to build; network effect favors incumbents.
Yep-- apple didn’t want Jon to talk about China (and maybe a couple of other things) on the show they were paying him for. He left, started a new show (slash podcast), and got back on the Daily Show.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/20/media/jon-stewart-apple/index.html
AI. He wasn’t supposed to say anything bad about AI.
Which is funny, because Apple itself is giving one of the best takedowns of generative AI with the flagship feature on the most recent iPhone.
I think it might depend on their contacts. There’s a high potential for a non compete clause
Those aren’t really a thing right now. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/04/ftc-announces-rule-banning-noncompetes
I promise you Jon Stewart does not have a clause in any contracts stating he can’t continue working in his field (namely comedy writing).
He’s been in the game a long time and is at the very very top of his career right now. He already retired and went into advocating for 9/11 responders healthcare and veterans benefits. He’s only back to doing a show because we need him right now.
musk fires Jon
Maybe he’ll come back and lead the resistance with Bernie and AOC
Don’t you threaten me with a good time!
Yeah we don’t want this to happen no sir! Oh please save us put our best on the case, elmo and his mutts, those Christian spooky people, the shaved gang, get your best ai and please use your competence to not make this happen!! It would be truly just awful!!
Exactly this! I mean, I will watch it, but I won’t expect anything meaningful to come out of this.
I can’t see Stewart doing a puff piece. But I’ve been wrong before and I will be again.
Wouldn’t it be funny if they had 2 guests. Elon Musk and Bill Burr.
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.
I’d prefer Luigi.
The closest we ever came…
Elon comes out without his kid and the Mario Bros theme starts playing
Lol
Fucking pay per view that shit. I’d pay $49.99 to watch that.
That one should be a public service. Why limit it’s viewing rate when a lot of the country needs to view his idiocy fumbling for answers he obviously never thought of.
Place your bets on muskrat chickening out.
Stewart is going to rip him a structurely superfluous behind.
Jon would “win” if it happened, but it won’t matter.
After seeing Trump utterly dog walked across the stage in his debate performance and still win the election, I have lost any remaining faith that some great Aaron Soorkin-esque moment will change a fucking thing in this country.
It would be entertaining though; so that’ll be fun.
If he doesn’t chicken out, he might storm out mid interview when John absolutely stomps on every misleading or false thing he says and pushes him to actually define his role in DOGE which could open him up to legal trouble (if that term meant anything anymore)
I’d be so happy if he throws a hissy fit and storms off.
Right? I’d love this. I have $20 that says it doesn’t happen
That term doesn’t mean anything anymore.
Yeah it’s not happening Musk will have some government looting emergecy that needs attending to. Some widow in Wisconsin might be getting her Medicaid back.
I don’t think there’s a bookie in the world who would bet against that.
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.
Just like the cage match he had with Zuck.
This’d be much much better. Even Joe Average can see muskrat is physically unfit, but his intellectual dishonesty is much easier to cover up.
Pigs will fly and my shit will turn to gold before he sits in front of Jon Stewart live, and or unedited
Hopefully it’s on the podcast where he can go into detail.
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.
You know, I was thinking the exact same thing when seeing this headline. I’d be interested in the conversation, but he’d probably just softball everything.
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.
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).
Don’t they have strict gun free things around cpac too?
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.
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.
The thing I hate though is whenever someone interviews Elon it seems like they can’t help but crawl right up his ass. If you wanna see real cringe look at Bill Maher’s interview with him. Now he criticizes Elon, but when he had him on I’m pretty sure he was what that AI video of Trump and Elon was trained on.
Maybe stew beef is different, but I figure if Elon detects he can’t get the interview he wants he’ll bail.
I am so excited to tell you this.
When Tucker Carlson (right-wing shithead) was hosting a show called ‘Crossfire,’ and still wearing a stupid bow tie, he made the mistake of agreeing to have Jon Stewart on his show. Here’s a link to the wikipedia page. There is a whole page for this one incident.
Here is a line that might appeal: “Three months after the appearance, Crossfire was cancelled and Carlson was fired; commentators differ as to how impactful it actually was, but generally agree that Stewart was at least part of the reason.”
And one thing is for sure, Tucker Carlson may have kept his incredibly stupid “man just asking questions” expression… but he stopped wearing that stupid bow tie.
Bill Maher is pretty damn conservative tbh
Bill Maher is pretty damn conservative tbh
nah, he’s just an aging narcissist cunt
Agreed. I used to agree with a fair amount he had to say, but now I think he was being disagreeable so that he could appear edgy and smart, and it allowed him to talk down to people. I got tired of him a decade ago or more.
I used to watch his show 2018-2020, but I put in on my never-watch list after he invited a bunch of antivaxx “researchers”, who were low-level PhDs (meaning recent grads, who left academia/research for blogging[!]), and said stupid things. Also, in general BM’s takes on medical issues tend to be highly misinformed, bordering the Dunning-Kruger effect.
Maher being the aging narcissist cliché, always reminded me of some of my high school teachers and some of my med school profs when they bashed my generation [they raised] for being dumb and lazy. It takes a narcissist to not realize that dissing a generation raised by yours is always self-criticism. BM is even more pathetic about this because he both manages to diss millennials (and now GenZ) about being terminally on-line, and consistently make all his young generation bad references from Twitter.
Don lemon interview was not bad
The headline makes it sound like they were in talks with each other. Musk gave his “terms” to a random Twitter user. I seriously doubt this will happen. Stew beef would completely humiliate Musk and his mediocre white guy confidence wouldn’t save him.
Too bad there’s no SEC to force him into the interview like when he offered to buy twitter.
