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[–] [email protected] 20 points 18 hours ago

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

😺😺😺😺

[–] [email protected] 29 points 21 hours ago

I hope the security is light.

[–] mycelium_underground 23 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

"I will do it if the show airs unedited."

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

Edit: corrected autocorrect and my own spelling.

[–] Hiro8811 5 points 20 hours ago

Make it live to make sure everyone sees it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

I would like Stewart to do this to Musk:

[–] Furbag 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I hope the audience boos Musk when he walks out looking like the loser he is.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 22 hours ago

I wonder if it can even be a live interview or if jon will have to do an offsite recorded interview like all of the ones on his pevious show.

[–] Donebrach 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

cowardly mod censoring for “civility” over the call for a righteous fight against fascists.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

Stewart is training his wordplay right now like a Rocky montage.

[–] Sarcophagus 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The chances of him being sober for this are next to 0

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Chances of him not attending are also close to 0.

[–] Jesusaurus 5 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Think you mean 100, as a chance of not attending being 0 would mean he would be attending.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago
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[–] pjwestin 104 points 1 day ago (2 children)

He'll find a way to back out. Musk is stupid, but not that stupid.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 day ago (2 children)

He's also extremely overconfident and narcissistic

[–] jj4211 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Remember when he challenged Zuckerberg to a fight? There are limits.

[–] scutiger 5 points 1 day ago

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

[–] pjwestin 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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!

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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

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

[–] Wispy2891 5 points 21 hours ago

Rod Blagojevich

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

[–] bitjunkie 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Holy shit, I just realized that Trump commuted his sentence

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 166 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (16 children)

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

[–] AnUnusualRelic 7 points 1 day ago

He might convince Trump to add tariffs on the Daily Show.

[–] bitchkat 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Retarded is his new favorite word.

[–] teamevil 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Every accusation by musk is an admission

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

As pc as using pussy as an insult.

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[–] OhStopYellingAtMe 269 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (10 children)

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.
[–] [email protected] 105 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (11 children)

You forgot

  • musk buys wherever the Daily Show is produced
  • musk fires Jon
  • "The Daily Show, with Sean Hannity"
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[–] Bahnd 288 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Place your bets on muskrat chickening out.

Stewart is going to rip him a structurely superfluous behind.

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[–] DrFistington 61 points 1 day ago (15 children)

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...

[–] Freefall 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe Jon can tucker carlson elon.

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[–] Scott_of_the_Arctic 109 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Wouldn't it be funny if they had 2 guests. Elon Musk and Bill Burr.

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[–] CMDR_Horn 146 points 1 day ago (9 children)

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

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