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Summary
“I have been in the same room with Elon, and he always tries to be funny. And he’s not funny. Like, at all,” a senior Trump administration official told Rolling Stone. “He makes these jokes and little asides and smiles and then looks almost hurt if you don’t lap up his humor. I keep using the word ‘annoying’; a lot of people who have to deal with him do.”
Musk’s insufferable behavior has caused several high-ranking officials to walk out of important meetings and sincerely question if he was high on drugs, the publication reports, while Secretary of State Marco Rubio is said to be barely able to hide his immense dislike of the DOGE chief and State Department officials routinely call him “Crazy Uncle Elon” behind his back.
Other officials have suggested subjecting Musk to a mandatory drug test, which he has said is a “great idea” for federal employees, as a way to push him out of the door. The Tesla CEO has denied taking any illegal drugs, although numerous people claim to have witnessed him use LSD, cocaine, Ecstasy, and mushrooms behind closed doors, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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Oh you’re tired? You’re enabling fascism and you’re fucking tired? You’re endorsing human trafficking and all you are is tired? You’re profiting off of the complete dismantling of our fucking country and the best reaction you can muster is walking out of a meeting beacause you’re TIRED???
Go suck a fucking barrel.
Musk is so poor all he has is money.
He thought having more money would make him powerful and therefore likable, and he’s in the FA stage.
If he decided to do something like solve world hunger instead of buying Twitter a lot of people would begrudgingly give him some respect at least.
He’s a narcissist. He psychologically is unable to think that way. For him power comes from mone, so he cannot give it away. If he’s not rich, then he’s not special. He’s no one.
You’re telling me the guy who thought this was hilarious, isn’t funny?
Yeah, that tracks.
Edit: For anyone OOTL he walked into Twitter HQ with a sink and tweeted “Entering Twitter HQ - let that sink in!”
Keep in mind this is the absolute funniest he has ever been. A pun with a punchline and no setup.
The best he has ever done is get 50% of the way to a mildly funny joke. With his trademark inability to read the room on top !
(and don’t tell me that’s because he’s autistic. I’m autistic, we’re disadvantaged in this domain but we can learn to do it all the same. He either doesn’t know or doesn’t care, most likely the latter.)
Fellow autist here, here’s my funniest Elon moment:
The cybertruck reveal, softball pitch into the window.
Musk audibly gasps and says ‘O-oh myfuckinggod.’
Comedy gold.
That moment, right there, that was the high water mark.
Then, the window cracks, and shortly afterward, his entire general public facade and reputation begin to crack and shattet as well.
I do appreciate a visual metaphor.
I don’t know.
He did just recently get bullied off a livestream because he bought an account, claimed to be a world class PoE 2 player, and then died to a tutorial boss.
All that money and still no respect lmao
I’m autistic, which results in me deconstructing and analysing jokes instead of laughing (often to the displeasure of the people who think I didn’t find their joke funny – I promise, if I’m taking the time to disassemble your joke that means I found it funny and want to understand why).
The flipside is that I occasionally crack out carefully engineered bangers, because I understand the importance of a setup, building expectations and putting the brain on one track of thought, then capping it off with the “derailing” of those expectations. The shorter you can get it, the less time the brain has to get off track on its own, diminishing that derailing effect.
Of course, getting the inspiration and figuring out a way to put that into practice is it’s own unpredictable beast, and some jokes just fall flat despite my effort. Sometimes I misread the room or the audience too. I’m not a particularly talented comedian.
But at least I’m not a setup without a punchline.
I’ve never seen anybody put that much effort into a pun.
Puns are never very funny. The best you can normally hope for is a small chuckle. And yet he went with a full, big, heavy prop for a tired pun.
And yet he went with a full, big, heavy prop for a tired pun.
Never go full Carrot Top.
Even Carrot Top knew that prop comedy only works if you have a lot of small, light props that you go through quickly. Walking around with a heavy sink might get you as jacked as Carrot Top, but you’re not going to get the laughs.
True. Say what you will about prop comedy but Carrot Top didn’t get famous because he was bad at it.
I’m still amazed he became a Vegas resident comic. Like, he wasn’t that unfunny but he was never anybody’s favorite comic.
I once saw some clip of a carrot top show and he did admittedly make me laugh. I do like puns though
Yeah I laughed when I first saw him too. I didn’t know we were supposed to dislike prop comedy at the time. I don’t hate the guy, I wish him continued success.
I remember seeing him for the first time a couple decades after having seen him during his '80s heyday. I was laughing my ass off at these hilarious Incredible Hulk fake arms he was wearing - and then I gradually started realizing that those were his real arms.
It’s my eternal hope that the reddit puns never make their way to Lemmy. They’re always so bad.
Someone posted a scene from Galaxy quest where the cast is experiencing turbulence.
Everyone except Sam Rockwell. He is at a muuuch lower intensity level than the whole cast. Someone points it out.
Someone dunks on the layup and says, “I guess Sam doesn’t rock well.”
Also made me wonder if Sam did it on purpose. To set up a pun with his name.
Hey, I like puns! I think this one could have been very funny if the thing we were letting sink in was harmless, and not his acquisition of the world’s largest microblogging platform for the purpose of controlling public discourse.
Some people, a very very very very small subsection of the populace, have a talent for puns. The problem is, they make it look easy, and that makes EVERYONE think they can do it…
It’s not even a thing he thought of spontaneously. I remember around that time or a half year i. Advance a lot of his tweets were: contained let that sink in. He just couldn’t wait
Captain soft hands almost dropped that thing. It’s hilarious how weak he is for such an alpha
The article’s hero image is him wearing a cheese shaped hat. I’m afraid to even ask the context behind that one…
They were in Wisconsin and he was pandering to the locals by wearing a cheese hat and giving away millions of dollars to bribe voters. It didn’t work - the candidate he was supporting lost.
Cheese for brains, especially with the holes
A shy guy who desperately wants to be a nerd’s nerd somehow gets tangled with the party of RAM truck buying adult frat bros who see themselves as “alpha”. I just can’t figure out the culture fit, and articles like this don’t surprise me at all. Like, isn’t Trump the kind of guy who would endlessly bully someone for saying they play videogames at all?
There are two main types of “conservative” now. The old school big truck lovin’, god-fearin’, beer guzzling, anti-environmentalist yeehaw types, and the “newer” 4chan-posting, edgelording, neckbearded, gamergatin’, crypto-lovin’ internet troll types that have arose in the last twenty-five years with the proliferation of the Internet. Elon is trying to fit in with the latter.
“newer” 4chan-posting, edgelording,
You mean asmongold grandpa?
^ This. Never forget, Trump’s first term was pushed to success by 4 chan. He is and always has been a 4chan president. He is the emolbodiement of everything /b/
Im tired of pig fucking fascists regardless if they’re funny or not.
BREAKING NEWS…
President Musk issues EO declaring he’s funny.
First Buddy Trump agrees.Anyone who doesn’t laugh at Elon’s superior comedic talents and antics will be sent to a humor retraining camp
Not laughing about his jokes will be considered terrorism and be punishable by deportation to a Salvadoran concentration camp.
Elon is going to whisper in Trump’s ear to get rid of these officials
I’m a killjoy: I doubt that this article is accurate, or if it even matters. I think articles like this exist to placate. I wouldn’t trust anything that a “senior administration official” tells Rolling Stone.
I’m a bit confused, cause Trump isn’t funny. It must be awful to be in a room with either of them.
Trump is funny to conservatives. The kind who laugh at the attack helicopter joke. Elon isn’t even funny to conservatives, which is kind of impressive.
Trump is best viewed as an insult comic
He’s so used to being the boss and having everyone always laugh at his shitty jokes that he thinks he’s funny.
He’s not a politician and has no charisma or any way of getting people to do what he wants outside of ordering them to, which is why he’ll never do well in politics where building and maintaining relationships in your coalition is one of your main jobs.
He probably thinks “lolrandom” humor is the peak of comedy.
he already revealed what he thinks is comedy when he talked about his pitch to SNL. it’s unbelievable.
very curious what he pitched
I couldn’t take the suspense and I had to look it up.
Musk also told the crowd that he didn’t like the ideas he was presented with early in the week. “I was a bit worried at the beginning there,” he said, “because frankly nothing was funny.”
He then went on to reveal his idea of funny, describing one pitch in particular that did not go over well.
“One of the things that everyone’s been wondering this whole time is: Is Saturday Night Live actually live… or do they have a delay just in case there’s a wardrobe malfunction or something like that?,” Musk said to set up the pitch. “But there’s a way to test this.” (SNL does, in fact, air without a tape delay.)
In Musk’s vision, he’d tell the audience he was going to put this to the test by taking “his cock out.”
“So I’m going to reach down into my pants… and then I pull out a baby rooster,” Musk explained. “Like, ‘This is my tiny cock.’”
Unfortunately, the joke didn’t end there.
“And then Kate McKinnon walks out,” added Jason Calacanis, co-host of the All-In Podcast, who was also present in the pitch meeting. “And she says, ‘Elon, I expected you would have a bigger cock.’”
McKinnon, meanwhile, would have been holding a cat.
“You can see where this is going,” Musk told the crowd
God he’s a fucking repulsive loser.
One of the richest people in the world has the humour of a 14 year old boy slipping through the cracks of the education system.
I guess it doesn’t really surprise me though, if only this money went to something good.
He’s truly a very sad pathetic human being.
Ugh.
Fucking child.
He is so advanced, he completed mental development at 10.
And that’s what didn’t get in.
His episode ranks up among the worst examples of episodes ruined by the host (another famously bad one was Steven Seagal).
SNL lets the host drive much of the theme of an episode, and his was a particularly bad stinker.
apologies. the other commenter was helpful but the article doesn’t do justice to the way he tells the story.
Yuck. All those people laughing in that over-the-top way at his desperate attempt at humor, delivered so smugly.
dude maybe you didn’t get it. see a rooster is called a cock, which is also slang for penis. get it? but that’s not all! a cat is also called a pussy, which is slang for vagina! get it? do you get it now? isn’t it funny? it’s very subtle but they’re talking about animals but it sounds like they’re talking about genitals… oh man that’s why they call him genius, who can even think of that‽
you know, except literally everyone when they were about 12 years old.
He would be the one asking all those sex questions on askreddit, it’s almost always a 12 would askg those, since his penis is permanently managed from a botched surgery, by a questionable surgeon
You’re absolutely right - the article did this no justice. The text is quite cringey on its own, but this is… Even more yikes.
His reaction to the dead deer in the pewdiepie episode all those years ago was what first caught my eye about this lol
They are definitely NOT “tired” of his money though.
“behavior has caused several high-ranking officials to walk out of important meetings and sincerely question if he was high on drugs”
Bet you dollars to donuts that he is, so, yes.
People are leaking to get Musk kicked out. Imagine how ill-behaved one must be to get kicked out of that room.
Emphasis on the plural DRUGS.
The richest man in the world isn’t trying to help you. He’s helping himself to whatever he wants. Super bad idea.
I don’t believe anything what this Administration says.
