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Well at least we know why trump grabbed on to him.
What a surprise.
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.
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%27s_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 ....)
Carlson never recovered from that bowtie burn
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."
And so savage was the mockery that he never wore a bowtie again.
That was Carlsons “rejected from art school” moment.
What do you think Krasnov's "rejected from Art School" moment was?
That white house correspondent's dinner where Obama joked at his expense.
From all the information I've been able to gather, all signs seem to point toward "being born"
Bro, around 10:50 Jon made a statement he would later regret:
"In terms of the absurdity of this group, they're going to be hard to top."
Regarding the Bush administration.
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."
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.
Seriously, be ruined that dudes trademark fashion statement. Lol. Tucker is a snowflake confirmed.
Bowties would become cool again six years later, but Carlson never would.
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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.
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.
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.
His cybertruck sent him a message saying "this is an uphill battle. I cannot help, you're on your own"
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He a bitch like asmongold
I stopped paying attention to asmon after he started openly supporting genocide of muslims and brown folk. Has he doubled down on that stance in the last few months?
Edit: downvotes from asmon stans on lemmy? Quick poll to the downvoters: what's your instance? I have a guess, but I want to see if I'm right.
He’s a mediocre gamer at best
Never been a fan. He shows up in my feed sometimes.
Recently someone called him Jew, prejoratively, and he not only was offended but like, really angrily corrected the record that he's German, ok? (I guess to him this is the opposite of Jewish?) and idk just the whole interaction and his demeanor in that moment was a bright red flag.
This was all in the wake of the Elon fake gamer shit. Maybe I read into that small interaction too much but my Nazi senses went 5 alarm.
I did a quick search after I made the comment, and noticed that he cut ties with otk after his genocide comments and has begun his transformation into full right wing nutjob. I'm not surprised he doubled down on being a shithead.
Asmongold looks like he smells of cum and teenage girl perfume
That seems to be his appeal, if you can believe that. He serves as validation for a specific type of degenerate lifestyle I think moreso than his views.
What a fucking coward. I was actually excited for this. I should have known better.
He has nothing to gain from talking to intelligent people. They will easily show how dumb he is.
To be honest, I'm less disappointed by this than I am with his avoiding a good ass kicking by Zuck.
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Ask yourself this, why would he do anything that makes you excited? He wouldn't. He doesn't care about anyone but himself, and it doesn't help him.
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Not surprising. Fuck you, Musk pathetic racist asshole...