After being let go from CNN, Don Lemon cut a deal with Elon Musk for a show on Twitter. Lemon's first episode was an interview with Musk, after which the deal was abruptly canceled. Why?
His approach was basically just “CNN, but on social media”, which doesn’t work, as evidenced by the fact that CNN is dying.
And, instead of it being the real Don Lemon, it was really just Jeff Zucker talking through Don, so lacked authenticity.
All this said, Lemon/Zucker are…
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 13, 2024
I don't really care whether Twitter hosts a Don Lemon show. But what a weird excuse for killing a deal. There's something wrong with Elon's brain.
Musk didn't like the questions that Lemon asked him. Especially about his ketamine usage. Musk is all for free speech, but it has to be reasonable. And he decides what's reasonable.
"It's good to be the king"
elon's k-hole entrance is in trump's tighty whities
"Reasonable"
Everything in life is a conspiracy to silence conservative thought (see also conservative legal reactions to restrictions on forum shopping).
It's clear that Elon peaked several years back. From now on, it'll just be the long goodbye, a la Howard Hughes.
I have found that, for every relationship, there is a limit on how much a person can know about you before they start disliking you.
This limit is different for different people. For those people towards whom you form an instant dislike, that limit is pretty low. For your best friend, that limit is much, much higher.
Elon exceeded his limits for most of the population long ago.
Elon still hasn't recovered from Grimes leaving him for Chelsea Manning
The problem with Elon's brain is that he's a megalomaniacal dick.
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This thread is done, we can go home now ha ha
Thumbs up. This blog needs a thumbs up/down feature.
He was brought up in a racist South African family. Plus what you said.
Merriam Webster:
megalomaniacal
2. a delusional mental illness that is marked by feelings of personal omnipotence and grandeur
So, egoist on steroids.
I find it offensive that you directly link to Musk's post, giving him the traffic/attention he craves. You should just post screen captured images. You don't post direct links to Trump's Social Media posts, do you?
Seconded. Another political forum I go to has directly banned posting any direct links to Twitter for just this reason.
I disagree.
There are Doubting Thomases among us who appreciate the opportunity to confirm that, in fact, Elon is as big of a dick as the post states.
We’re not possessed of the silly notion that our lone fact-checking click makes any difference at all.
If there’s no link, we’re still going to Google it, so what’s the dif?
(Plus, reading the reactions to the inane post is hilarious.)
Remember the time Don Lemon was so bombed out of his skull on New Year's Eve he sat on the edge of a pool and stared blankly into space while some guy floated face down in the pool in front of him for like three minutes while his co-host tried her best to keep things moving along with imaginary chit-chat? It was hypnotic.
The richest man on Planet Earth signed a contract with him?
Wowza
Sorry, you lost me after Elon Musk says . . .
Musk has IQ but little or no EQ …
I'm not sure that's an apt description. Elon seems to overlook a tremendous amount of tremendously obvious connections which suggests a significant lack of intelligence as well. Eg his instantaneous caves to Turkey on throttling speech
@Reverent:
The boundaries of IQ and EQ may be a bit porous, and may therefore mean somewhat different things to different people.
My own understanding of these terms allows for the example that you provide.
I’ve watched Musk in interviews, and when he speaks about technology, he usually comes across as well-informed if not brilliant. He knows facts. He can follow processes. He can draw conclusions based on logic. That’s what I see as belonging primarily to the realm of IQ, and Elon has it. After all, no one is going to get as far as him without some considerable skill and intelligence.
But then if the topic changes (in interviews or online) to issues that deal primarily with actual human beings and require empathy to adequately understand, he turns into a toddler tweeting poo emojis. Such issues require EQ, and Elon doesn’t have it.
So the issue with Turkey (which I do not recall in any great detail) sounds like it lies largely outside of Elon’s ballpark, so to speak.
Give him some equations that might help him and his teams to streamline an EV or a satellite and I think he’ll basically be fine; but ask him to weigh in on complex interpersonal or sociopolitical problems (like free speech) that require an adequate sympathy for and insight into the human heart and mind, and he seems clueless.
After all, no one is going to get as far as him without some considerable skill and intelligence.
One-word counterexample: Trump. Fookin' idiot.
@ScentOfViolets:
Trump is a talented and committed conman. And without that considerable skill, he would’ve never been president.
Like all successful conmen, Trump is an entertainer. And like the best of them, he never, ever gives up the con.
You think Trump has high intelligence. Oh, my.
From what I hear about how he runs his companies, it's the underlings that do the work. Does the move fast and break things apply to people?
Though he does have a singular ability to turn tech into money.
The issues with the Cybertruck does seem to be due to problems of not dealing with reality.
Musk got lucky being born into wealth and has gotten lucky with it (compared to people like say Trump who only had the one layer of luck). He's no more smart than we are probably, and the sense of entitlement from all that luck makes him stupider.
BIG IQ, ha. Elon doesn't even have an earned degree to speak of. Yes, I'm talking about undergrad as welll as graduate degrees.
You should feel free to dislike Musk as much as you want.
But I would like to push back, quite hard, on the notion that no degrees equals low IQ.
Pushing back very hard.
And I completely agree; my apologies if implied differently. But the fact is (and I should have stipulated), Musk dropped out because he couldn't handle the coursework, not because he was on some vision quest that ended up SpaceX. Musk desperately wanted a degree -- several, in fact -- to validate his own good opinion of himself.
ON EDIT: Guess who got him his precious, precious physics degree. Yep, that's right: Fucking Peter Fucking Thiel.
Intelligence, like a hammer, is a tool. Wisdom is knowing what to do with the tool. Some people use their tools to make something of value. Elon's likes to hit people over the head.
Oh come on! You believe that is the actual answer? Lemon asked Musk about his drug use, like any journalist would, and Musk, who is currently 100% id, took revenge. Lemon never understood that the one and only purpose of TwiX is to boost Musk's ego through continuous praise.
What a fucking man baby.
@pjcamp1905, "man baby" is an apt description of Elon.
Babies start out as little self-interested sociopaths, and it is only through their being constantly corrected that they (usually) become empathetic, responsible adults.
Being a billionaire can definitely wreck that socialization process, especially if a person hasn't internalized it first.
Excellent argument for why billionaires should be illegal, it's a threat to their health and the health and well-being of everyone around them.
Excellent argument for why people who vote for billionaires by purchasing their goods and services should think about whether the billionaire is a threat to the health and well-being of everyone around them before voting.
Yet another poor deprived billionaire like some others is a sociopath maybe psychopath. He knows no shame and has never been held accountable for his racism, elitism, or his social inadequacy.
And here I thought X had a real live CEO because the board of Tesla insisted Musk pay attention to them.