Name: Joe on Elon Musk Taking Over Twitter
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe on Elon Musk Taking Over Twitter' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-10-29. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe on Elon Musk Taking Over Twitter' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-10-29. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan Experience.
- How much are you worried about an actual situation
like that happening?
- I mean, I don't know.
Everything's so weird.
Elon took over Twitter today.
- Yeah.
- Like, we live in a simulation.
- No, that's the best.
- That crazy bastard did it.
- How about when he walked into Twitter's headquarters
with a sink and said, "Let that sink in."
- I know, it's like a dad joke.
- Yes, that's him.
- I know.
- He's funny.
- We have like this ongoing bet on Dumpster Fire
that he's my nemesis.
And it started because of my husband,
who we were doing one of these dumb books someone got us
that's like, "Oh, you can like connect as a couple."
And we were jokingly, kind of ironically
in our Gen X way doing it.
And it was like, what's something you would like
always wanna do or something like that?
He was like, "Have dinner with Elon Musk."
And I was like, it was supposed to be something about me.
And I was like, "Fuck you, you're gonna have dinner
with Elon, not have dinner with me."
And so it became this ongoing joke,
because of him being my nemesis, but it's really just--
- Why is he, what made him a nemesis?
- He can't be my, A, because it's hilarious,
'cause I'm a nobody, and he's a genius buying Twitter,
and sending rockets to space, and trying to get to Mars,
and I'm screaming in a garage on Dumpster Fire.
So there's that hilarious aspect.
But it's mostly just because he's my,
it became this ongoing joke, 'cause my husband started joking,
about his like, you know, enamored,
being enamored with Elon Musk.
And so I was just jealous.
So he became like, it's just become this ongoing,
and then somebody sent us an Elon cutout for the set.
And so whenever we do an Elon is my nemesis,
I'm like, my nemesis is up to, what's he up to now?
And we like bring the cutout on for the bit.
- Well, we're hoping we can get our girl Megan re-established.
- Free Megan!
- Yeah, free Megan Murphy.
- Free Megan, there's so many.
- Yeah.
- People were like--
- There's so many people that need to be re-established.
- So, I mean, James Lindsay got booted, I think.
- Yes.
- And somebody was like, this is like,
when the Joker let all the prisoners out.
- Yeah, but it's not.
It's not, 'cause it's not the Joker.
- Well, if you see them as like, political prisoners,
it might be.
- It's, those are crazy paranoid people that have been--
- I know.
- Also, they've been enjoying the fact
that it's an ideological thought bubble.
- Right.
- That Twitter has only enforced left-wing ideologies,
and they've suppressed any conservative ideologies,
even amongst reasonable, kind people
that don't share the same ideology.
That's fucking bad for our society.
- Yeah, it is. - It's bad.
- I'm not a huge proponent of like,
the parallel economies either.
You know, I just, I don't know that it's good.
You know, you--
- What do you mean by parallel economies?
- This is like the term that everybody's using,
particularly on the right, because,
and it's valid, as these places like PayPal
and financial institutions are saying,
you can't, you know, if you say this
or step out of line, we're gonna fine you.
There's this idea that you're gonna have to create
a parallel economy in order to function, essentially.
So don't give your money to, I mean,
I think the Daily Wire did it with the razors.
They had like, Harry--
- Harry's razors, yeah.
- Yeah, they did, and Jeremy did some razors.
So it's like, oh, don't give your money
to people who hate you, give your money
to people who share your ideology.
But then you have these, you know,
the silos are forming where it's like,
then everyone's over here,
and everyone who agrees is over here,
and no one's forced to actually articulate
their ideas or disagree with one another.
It's just everyone, like, smelling their own farts.
It is, though, it is.
- Yeah, that's not healthy.
- No!
- Well, that's what Elon wants to bring back
to Twitter is reasonable exchange of ideas.
That's, like, he really thinks it's important.
- It is important, it is.
- I think it's important, too,
but it's just rare that someone is that wealthy--
- That they can do that.
- That can do that, and also,
he was very left-leaning for most of his life,
until really recently, the pandemic in particular,
and the way people have sort of enforced
these ideologies, regardless of whether or not
the science supports it, and he thinks it's bad,
and I think it's true.
I think we have a real problem with discourse,
particularly, like, discourse on Twitter, right?
Like, if you post something, and then someone
posts something that opposes what you say,
you're like, ah, and then you gotta, like, formulate it.
Like, some people don't want that,
so what they would like to do is silence the people
that have opposing viewpoints,
and then you get all this positive feedback
from all the people that agree with you,
and you're like, yes, I wanna amplify that,
'cause that feels good.
I did the right, I said the right thing.
- I said the right thing.
- And then when someone comes in with facts or opinion,
"Fuck you, you Nazi fascist."
And it's like, that's what people are doing now,
because it's a shit way to communicate.
Communicating like that, it's a good way
to get out information and ideas really quickly,
but it's a bad way to exchange ideas,
and to dialogue about stuff,
because it's, the way people are supposed
to really communicate is like how we're doing.
Two people looking at each other, talking.
That's how we're designed.
We're not really designed to read text.
- No.