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    I knew he was going to pussy out. Conservatives who are routinely in the public eye can’t survive outside of their safe spaces. That’s why Republican politicians are cancelling their town halls. They can’t handle anything other than a gentle interview on FOX or OAN with the questions sent to them ahead of time so they can get their answers from the heritage foundation.

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    Brave Sir Elon ran away. Bravely ran away away. When danger reared it’s ugly head, He bravely turned his tail and fled. Yes, brave Sir Elon turned about And gallantly he chickened out. Swiftly taking to his feet, He beat a very brave retreat. Bravest of the brave, Sir Elon!

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    He has shut down other interviews too. Its clear all he wants is people who kiss his ass and tell him his smart he is.

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    Of course he did, he was never serious about doing an interview as Jon would absolutely bury him alive

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    I’m shocked. Right up there with his cage fight with Zuck. He can’t handle pressure. He got booed at Chappelle’s standup show, and reportedly locked himself in his office to the point where people had to check on him and were worried he was self harming. He’s fucking 10 ply.

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    Musk demands unedited interviews but can’t handle unfiltered criticism—irony at its finest.

    😺😺😺😺

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    Musk probably watched Stewart’s conservative show interview appearances over on YouTube, dating back to his first stint on the daily show. They couldn’t trip Stewart. He rolled over all of them. The interviews stopped, again, surprising no one.

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      Jon Stewart single-handedly got CNN’s “Crossfire” ( featuring a not-yet-fully-crazy Tucker Carlson) cancelled just by going on the show and doing his thing.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Stewart's_2004_appearance_on_Crossfire

      In the final exchange before a commercial break, Carlson remarked that he thought Stewart was “more fun on your show, just my opinion.” Stewart responded, “You know what’s interesting, though? You’re as big a dick on your show as you are on any show.”

      (Shit, that was over 20 years ago. I’m old …)

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          Jon Stewart: “How old are you?”

          Tucker Carlson: “35.”

          Jon Stewart: “And you wear a bow tie.”

          “Look, I’m not suggesting you aren’t a smart guy, because those things are not easy to tie. But the thing is, you’re doing theatre, when you should be doing debate. It’s not honest… what you do is partisan hackery.”

          Jon Stewart on Crossfire

          And so savage was the mockery that he never wore a bowtie again.

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              To be fair, he was responsible for the deaths of 4 million people, yet is better remembered for fucking up a proverb. That’s pretty absurd.

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              There is a direct line between GWB and Trump. The lies of the Bush administration and it’s denigration of the “reality-based community” laid the groundwork for Donald Trump’s Big Lies. if Al Gore won in 2000, I doubt we would have Trump today. Ron Suskind wrote all about it in the NYT back then. This article about the article is not behind their paywall:

              https://theweek.com/articles/854892/what-karl-rove-right-about-realitybased-community

              The aide said that guys like me [Suskind] were “in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who “believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.” I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. “That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” he continued. “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors … and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”

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        Right? Makes you feel old, doesn’t it?

        Elon can’t handle it so he ducked out. In addition, Tesla probably texted him and said don’t.

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        I don’t know how my mother convinced me to watch Crossfire. I was a kid. She thought it was intellectually awesome.

        EDIT: To be clear, I don’t remember anything about Crossfire.

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        (Shit, that was over 20 years ago. I’m old …)

        i watched that crossfire interview when it first aired and i think it’s telling that stewart & the daily show et al. are still the primary vanguard of american liberalism when the rest of the world has changed; especially so when they solely focus on stoking the culture war fires and ignoring the class war that creates them.

  • Typical far-right behavior. They stay in their safe spaces and pay to artificialy amplify their unpopular messages.

    What was it, like a quarter of all the accounts on Facebook and Twitter are just AI chat bots trying to get people to engage?

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      For me the weirdest moment was when Joe Rogan - before the election - said that Musk “saved us”. Not “is going to save us”, already saved us.

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        Drumpf also alluded to “he’s got the best coders, it’s just one line of code,” fElon will hand us the win! Before the election.

        fElon also said before the election, “If he [Drumpf] doesn’t win, I’m probably going to prison,” [sic] alongside President Elect Drumpf

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          During the 2000 election, the Diebold electronic voting machines used in many states stored results in an Access database. Kids today wouldn’t understand how disastrously insecure that was (Access DBs had an audit table that was manually editable). I have zero doubt that newer machines have similar “flaws” baked in (even if they didn’t use Starlink as was reported briefly), making the results absurdly easy to rig.

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      There’s also a huge huge risk of speaking with a master debater (yw). Smart people are everywhere. People who are genuinely good at debating are terrifying to argue with. It’s a rabid animal except they have facts and logic and easy to understand, well structured arguments. It’s infuriating.