Jon Stewart on Thursday invited Elon Musk to affix his “Weekly Present” podcast, however solely after torching the tech billionaire over his rhetoric on alleged voter fraud from undocumented employees — and the supposed hazard they pose to U.S. elections.
Stewart made microscopic mincemeat of Musk throughout this week’s episode.
“Let’s speak concerning the artist previously generally known as Twitter,” Stewart mentioned. “And this will get us to the crux of the irony. Elon Musk, for a very long time and actually extremely constantly and vehemently, has pushed this concept that undocumented noncitizen voting is rampant.”
He added, “He’s tweeted about it, I believe 1,300 instances or interacted with tales about it. The irony of all of it is that this man’s platform, this man’s algorithm, which he’s answerable for, I see his shit on my feed on a regular basis, I don’t ever work together with it, there’s no purpose for it to be there.”
Stewart went on to argue that the billionaire X proprietor has impacted U.S. politics greater than “undocumented noncitizen voting” ever will, arguing that Musk continues the “warping of our democracy” by modifying the X algorithm and utilizing his unparalleled wealth to his profit.
Musk donated greater than 1 / 4 billion {dollars} to assist elect President Donald Trump in 2024 and bought Twitter, now X, for $44 billion in 2022. He has since regularly tinkered with its algorithm, affecting what customers see of their feeds, to many curious outcomes.
The world’s richest man nonetheless took umbrage Thursday after recognizing a clip on his personal platform of Stewart’s feedback, writing, “Jon Stewart is an especially expert propagandist disguised as a truth-teller.” Musk later added, “He is a superb comic too.”
The duo went on to commerce some passive-aggressive barbs.
Stewart returned the insult by quoting his publish and writing, “Elon Musk is an especially expert propagandist.” He stopped there, suggesting Musk isn’t disguised as something, which the disgruntled billionaire didn’t appear to catch.
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“Not so good as you!” Musk replied. “Cease being so humble.”
Musk has lengthy amplified a conspiracy idea about Democrats “importing” undocumented employees to win elections and to interchange white individuals. Whether or not he’ll debate this with somebody aside from a sycophant is unlikely, although Stewart would definitely like to.
He wrote, “Come on the present!! We’ll discuss how self deprecating we each are!!”