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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.
Trump officials deserve everything that is coming to them, and that includes dealing with an attention-seeking narcissistic billionaire who owns their boss.
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.
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'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.
It’s my eternal hope that the reddit puns never make their way to Lemmy. They’re always so bad.
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.
apologies. the other commenter was helpful but the article doesn't do justice to the way he tells the story.
You're absolutely right - the article did this no justice. The text is quite cringey on its own, but this is... Even more yikes.
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.
BREAKING NEWS...
President Musk issues EO declaring he's funny.
First Buddy Trump agrees.
Probably, it's an unconventional opinion, but I believe one may on their own will take any drug as long as they are responsible about it.
There's the case of already awful person who doesn't understand anything, futher exaggerated by their keta binge, who doesn't even care about how they affect people's lives. All red flags, like it's a red corner in a soviet school. They shouldn't be judged on their drug abuse first, but by how they are careless and stupid by default.
Being intoxicated while making important decisions that affect the future of the country doesn't count as "responsible," IMO.