Elon Musk: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

John Oliver discusses Elon Musk, the influence he has over more than just his businesses, and the perfect place for him and Mark Zuckerberg to finally have that cage match.
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[@Gouretoratto]

So does this mean we're finally acknowledging that putting billionaires and corporations above the law is a problem or too early?

[@prooveditt4839]

How is being put above the law. The law of Democrat fools.

[@infomercialwars]

Judging by the muskrat chump fanboys who responded to you, looks like it's still a bit too early.

[@spaceowl9246]

@@prooveditt4839 Ah, how unsurprising. A right wing idiot who can't form a single coherent sentence.

[@Jkjoannaki]

​@prooveditt4839 democracy is law in liberal democracies. Basically the birth of capitalism and nepo babies like Elon.

[@rolandwoltman7835]

Putting them in the law, NSA, CIA, ECT is no better. Look at Bezos or the Bush family. The CIA makes Epstein's all the time.

[@danielleuberroth1788]

I would like to personally thank the robot dancer for the penguin waddle they did on their way off-stage.

[@leftbower1023]

Same. I'm glad the camera stayed on the dancer just enough to catch it

[@kenthresh3350]

Yeah, and a one arm stand with four upward legs kicks.

[@vikteur5465]

Them cheeks made me question my heterosexuality for a bit

[@mercurialdanny]

I really hope it was the same dancer lol

[@markschaffer480]

And I would like to personally thank you for falling for that cherry picked early presentation by John that ignores the progress shown recently on the actual bot: kzbin.info/www/bejne/maHVkouXrJyXr8U

[@JPage-fj7mb]

The bomber jacket with the black T-Shirt, beer belly, thinning, unbrushed hair and cowboy boots is spot on. I swear he walked right out of a south Missouri trailer park. The drugs are really starting to show.

[@fantastikfanatic1900]

Still better than your loser life.

[@felixpeterman9303]

Looks like some Jewish guy going to a West Hollywood bar

[@Julia-lk8jn]

I thought he sounded awfully like he was high. (To be exact: _Sounds like a below average smart teenager on drugs_ )

[@evelynscott3384]

yea …. a northern Missouri trailer park resident would never do that shit.

[@Joy-rh8cg]

Yea don’t show your ignorance too much. It’s funny when your too young to remember when Elon was a hero of the left. You disagree with their crap and they run constant hit pieces that the sheep consume and repeat adnauseam.

[@shalleneholley2853]

While wearing a jacket from Ralph Lauren’s ‘Midlife Crisis Collection’ 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@conspiracybear1564]

Ya a billionaire who has more accomplishments than everyone in this comments section is having a midlife crisis.

[@TheWretchedOwl]

Oliver: “I’ve never actually revolutionized an industry myself” Um excuse me? Professional marble racing would disagree.

[@TP_Rockstar]

well, it was mostly created when he sponsored it. He only ensured it would run and that more people were watching

[@BleedingPortuguese]

​@@TP_RockstarSo. Exactly like Musk then.

[@Blutzen]

@@TP_Rockstar Actually The Marble League had been going for years before John found it.

[@GolemRising]

@@Blutzen So EXACTLY as responsible for it as Musk was for Tesla.

[@TP_Rockstar]

@@Blutzen sorry, poor phrasing (not native English speaker). I meant it was already created when he sponsored it, like you said.

[@jonstephenson9660]

“I’m probably now more impressed by what he’s doing, but more worried by the fact that he’s the one who’s been doing it.” This is the perfect description of Elon Musk.

[@ThanatosRXthana7]

my NDA is up, lol, I worked at a factory that built air conditioning units....there was no safety concern... and people walking in front of you as you are trying to move crates of packaged materials around. "unless you were the forklift driver" so basically drive at your own risk

[@deerhart5009]

"The rest of us still call it twitter" is highly accurate

[@crimsontowers]

Haha literally noone says X, seriously. I mean musk has always been a douche, he was just silly meme man and people thought he was some genius recluse until he got more airtime and everyone realized the guy was a dumb clown who bought PayPal/Tesla/space x after they were successful and didn't actually do shit

[@spectralprospectus]

I felt like "X" was a previously known but renamed platform when I first heard about it (which was roughly a month ago 🙄) but I didn't know it was Twitter until this video 😜🤣😂

[@user-yy7wt6sp6e]

no😅

[@JOHNWICK-do6ub]

All I heard was CRY7 cryy n Tears From a 50 year old man wearing glasses ... Saying a MILLONAIRE IS FAILIN .. THAT'S WHAT SUCCESS IS U FAIL UNTIL U SUCCEED... THAT'S WHY HE'S STILL JUST YAPPIN ON A TV SHOW GETTIN PAID 600 A WEEK 🤣🤣😂 .... AND ELON MUSK IS A BILLIONAIRE

[@chrisparnell2806]

ALSO why are you all still using twitter? Don’t be weak and needy.

[@jonesguys]

“One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with Zaphod was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard, pretending to be stupid because he couldn't be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him, pretending to be outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn’t understand what was going on, and really being genuinely stupid. He was renowned for being amazingly clever and quite clearly was so-but not all the time, which obviously worried him, hence, the act. He preferred people to be puzzled rather than contemptuous.” ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[@Thurthof5]

spot on! RIP Douglas Adams

[@grubbs517]

Douglas Adams. That was a frood who knew where his towel was.

[@BaldingClamydia]

Adams was brilliant and hilarious. All of his stuff is great. Check out "Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul" if you've never read it. It's not dark

[@mikekelly5869]

​@@grubbs517A truly hoopy frood

[@mikekelly5869]

Well done on remembering that passage

[@Azure_Fire]

To be fair, Elon Musk changed my life. Thanks to him I left Twitter. I've never been happier.

[@mohann2289]

That doesn't mean musk cared you

[@Azure_Fire]

@@mohann2289 I think you’re missing a word

[@ruthwhall3020]

I don't understand why more people don't leave it there are plenty better than x

[@michalandrejmolnar3715]

Yeah use Threads instead!

[@tonysmits9535]

Stay away

[@HauntingBull]

Elon didn't start Tesla, he bought it

[@claricehenderson1937]

THIS!!

[@kungfoochicken08]

He bought a majority share when the company was 6 months old, had one salary employee, and no idea what it was going to make. All of the “real founders” left before the first car was ever delivered. If this is your best criticism of Musk, then he’s doing quite alright.

[@HauntingBull]

@@kungfoochicken08 tell me how that isn't buying it? Also, he bought every innovation he takes credit for. The man himself hasn't done a damn thing. He's an idiot with money.

[@kurtlee3198]

he pretty much just bought a name, tesla is his own thing really

[@chunkycheesemonkey99]

​@@kungfoochicken08if you have done 0 hours of research on musk you may actually hold this opinion lmao

[@LiminalStatesPhotography]

I lost all respect, what little I already had, when he falsely accused that man who rescued the Thai boys diving team of being a pedophile simply because he beat Elon musk to rescuing those boys because Elon was too busy stroking his ego talking about his plans for some Futuristic submarine to save them when that wasn’t even necessary as proven by the man who actually saved them. Calling somebody a pedophile just because your ego got bruised is so disgusting.

[@commenter4898]

He couldn't imagine any other reason why anyone would want to save boys from a developing country.

[@redbullwife1]

That was particularly fucked up.

[@juliahello6673]

Go back and learn what actually happened. Watch the video of the caver (not diver). The diver attacked Elon first. Plus Elon had evidence that this guy, who had moved to the child prostitution capital of the world to retire, was indeed a pedophile, but chose to drop it.

[@sydneymomma11]

One word: PROJECTION!

[@orlandiskobulla]

Yes omg a human making mistakes 😢

[@prettyevil6662000]

The fact that billionaires can apparently just deny access to safety inspections for their businesses kinda makes it seem like the billionaire has more power than the safety inspectors. And that should definitely be the other way around. They shouldn't need permission. They should be able to get police to accompany them and force their way in if necessary. But that would require police to be protecting the people in the business instead of the business property so I can see why we don't do that in America.

[@davidbeppler3032]

You know all companies do that? Right? Safety inspectors are not police with a warrant. Have you ever seen an OSHA inspector turned away? I have. It was unsafe for him to be there.

[@na3rial]

America is a corporatocracy not a democracy 🫠

[@adora_was_taken]

@@davidbeppler3032 dude are you ok? you're responding to every comment here.

[@marvinmartin4692]

Well monarchies did create the corporate model!

[@nataliaofthenightlords]

@@davidbeppler3032 yeah we know...thats why they said its a problem

[@katiekraning7248]

Anyone else see an IUD every time you see the Tesla logo? Just me?

[@cynthiawilson4500]

His mother should have swallowed..apparently he has a half brother whose mother is his step sister.

[@sachadee.6104]

LOL. Indeed. But actually it's not the IUD I see but the cross-section image of the organ that embeds said IUD.

[@marteinnbreki3512]

I didn’t see it. Now I can’t not see it.

[@myflippinggoodness8821]

This just stinks of deliberate intent lol

[@ninoska.noe.]

@@sachadee.6104uterus ?

[@IljaAlbrecht]

It is, as always, absolutely stunning how John nails it to the point where we choke on our laughter and realise just how serious things are getting...

[@420mralucard]

You know if one person can be the CEO of 5 companies maybe the job isn’t as hard as they claim.

[@Delete_85]

If I had 500 billion dollars I could lose 300 billion of it 🤷‍♂️

[@dyxifltline]

And nobody is talking about that part.🤔

[@Delete_85]

@@dyxifltline john didn't talk about elon calling a professional cave diver a pedophile. although did bring up that he wants the day to be saved "only if he's the one saving it." just wanted to remind you, cheerio!

[@timsullivan7004]

what have you accomplished that comes close?

[@420mralucard]

@@timsullivan7004 Not being a ketamine addicted absentee father.

[@MoebiusChungus]

This is arguably the nicest breakdown of Elon Musk that John Oliver could’ve done. John completely skipped over how Elon proposed the hyper loop, which was suppose to “replace highways”. Originally conveyed as the future of public transport, the project ultimately produce a small underground tunnel that people would take a Tesla Uber through. It was a thinly veiled distraction from a proposed high speed train in California that would have provided both a cheap and environmentally friendly option. I think that example ultimately encompasses what Musk has always been. A guy who is constantly spoke about as an innovator trying to save humanity, but always doing it by the most costly means to society that only benefit a few people and distract from the wider more effective sweeping changes.

[@squidsbizarreadventure]

I do feel like that warrants another half an hour on its own... This is barely scratching the surface on everything Elon did.

[@lynxminx4]

He's also proposing to 'save humanity' by replacing current transit systems with inter-city travel by rocket- a solution that promises exponential increases to the environmental impact of jet travel, and firey death to approximately 1 in 10 passengers.

[@plainText384]

He also ignored that Elon didn't start Tesla, but merely invested and took over from the original creators.

[@lynxminx4]

@@plainText384 While SpaceX might be worse off without his influence; Tesla would almost certainly be better off.

[@trowawayacc]

Looks like he had to hold back due to how powerfull musk lawyers are. Its like voldemort if voldemort was a very rich racist muggle.

[@DhooomKetu]

" wearing a jacket from Ralph Lauren's mid life crisis collection" ... writers on the show are doing a good job😂😂

[@detectivemarkseven]

Yeah, its like they are determined to "slander" him lol

[@geirmyrvagnes8718]

"Your jacket brand is stupid". Is that what they've got? John's writers usually do better.

[@lisarozzz]

Naw it was brilliant 🎉

[@2011hwalker]

yeah it was a bit lame @@geirmyrvagnes8718

[@janeydoe7417]

😈⚠️😈⚠️ There is more evil behind Elon and Grimes. r/enoughmuskspam r/grimeZs WARNING ⚠️ Elon and Grimes lurk on those subreddits!

[@meerapatankar7275]

"Tell it to Earth"?? Is Earth one of his progeny? 😂😂

[@vincentproud6589]

How is it possible that a company can deny access to state inspectors? That's insane.

[@pamelacass9642]

Reason why he wants to get off Earth before people start to hunt him down.

[@louisquatorze9280]

$

[@CMDKeenCZ]

When your company is this big, fines are just the cost of doing business.

[@Shaif.S]

Wh$t y$o m$$n?

[@traveller23e]

@@CMDKeenCZ Except they aren't, because you deny access to your factory by the inspectors and the government more or less just shrugs.

[@Korzacks2nd]

Love that John posed that the fight between Zuck and Elon be in a volcano, and Zuck is currently building a supervillain base in one. Perfect.

[@telavivjake]

I think the fight should be on Last Week Tonight

[@OGimouse1]

​@@telavivjakeThe only way that would happen is if it was the Last Night: This Week 😢

[@coolioso808]

I would be all for the richest men in the world doing a Mortal Kombat-like tournament at a Volcano base site presented on Last Week Tonight, with John Oliver. Better than WrestleMania could ever be.

[@littleripper312]

Zuckerberg is scum but hes no where near as moronic as Musk.

[@definitelynottommywiseau3037]

It better be like the ending of The Northman: both are nude and the fight ended with a draw.

[@michaeltrimble7680]

“And even then, it could have been a text 🏡 🔥 “ 😂

[@jamesgraham5692]

Didn't mention that Elon didn't even found Tesla, he just took it over and then put a lot of marketing spin on the story.

[@kungfoochicken08]

He bought a majority share when it was 6 months old, had one employee, and no idea what it was going to make. He was chairman of the board and chief engineer on the first car. All the “real founders” left the company before a single vehicle was shipped. You’re splitting hairs a bit.

[@annamartin5923]

I like that John Oliver is saying he's never revolutionized despite the fact that the media has a term for the changes he has caused and named it "The John Oliver Effect"

[@edgeredux]

Elon you sneaky devil. You on KZbin kicking the tires?

[@thatsoutstanding4331]

Elon burner account

[@shaec3405]

John Oliver should be happy that Elon IS TRYING TO PROTECT FREE SPEECH. and I don't even like the guy.

[@uniraffesaur]

Recently the Facebook algorithm served me with an article about how the new-old CEO of Dollar General announced the company will be “making big changes”, and the first thought that came to mind was “The John Oliver Effect strikes again”. Going through the comments of that article, I was very much not the only one to notice lol

[@williamdavidm.l6665]

​@@shaec3405 By allowing racists, holocaust deniers and antisemitic bigots to speak freely their hateful ideas on his platform.

[@moent00]

This video is half an hour long yet it feels like it barely scratches the surface of who Elon Musk is and what he has done.

[@LunaCidnie]

That robot dancer really nailed it

[@theanthill22]

Knowing Elon watched this and got upset really makes the replayability of this video sky rocket.

[@CloudsGirl7]

I admit, that does bring a smile to my face. 😁

[@Brandon_388]

Elon is a legend

[@theanthill22]

Oh he's going to be legendary, alright. Not sure that legacy will be one his ego can handle, though. @@Brandon_388

[@aboxofbeans]

​@@Brandon_388 yeah LEGENDary crybaby lmao

[@gregraj]

​@@pentu7738the LWTWJO research team fact checks *everything* before they say it on air because his lawyers don't want HBO to be sued. I doubt your comments wouldn't hold up to scrutiny if fact-checked. It's just a hunch. 😉

[@cillyhoney1892]

Wow, that dancer was really good. I look forward to our new John Oliver Robot Overlords.

[@sinswept]

I saw no dancer, only a really impressive robot 🦾😂

[@Zero_Ninety]

@@sinswept Amazing that John Oliver designed and built a robot just for a joke on his show.

[@sinswept]

@@Zero_Ninety engineering genius! 👏👏

[@alexrogan6563]

Oliverlords

[@stephaniewaters1777]

Really, really good

[@anirishman6217]

Musky needed to be called out. Who else but John Oliver?😂😂

[@lxndyn767]

Thank you, John Oliver for your Great Show.! We love your frankness and honesty!

[@capt.bart.roberts4975]

Phoning me at three in the morning, someone better be bleeding. I was a trauma tech.

[@randomrandom450]

Phone me at three in the morning ? Someone better be on their way to murder me, otherwise just call an ambulance, not me.

[@ts25679]

WAS. What happened 😆 (p.s. thank you for your service)

[@Rowancat11]

​@WiseAcres-iz1mu Someone called them at 3am. 😁

[@nichenetwork9817]

@@WiseAcres-iz1mutrauma happens in daytime too 😂😂😂😂

[@black.phoenix.]

I was a telecom service engineer. Calls around that time when a equipment crapped out and put half of a region out of service was rare but sweat inducing... But the pay was not bad to be honest!

[@rajidahae4220]

Dunking on Elon by having a better dancing "robot" was just the cherry on the top! 😄

[@timw4369]

The problem with Elon is he likes to stretch the truth. He's been doing it for years. He's a good salesman and a bit of a con artist all in one.

[@blaynestaleypro]

Elon is a champion of free speech and anti-woke. How is that not a good thing? You don't realize how dangerous woke ideology is. You muppets.

[@roxaskinghearts]

Amen

[@SamsTopBarBees]

I'm loving this so much, that robot segment was gold, pure, refined, unadulterated gold.

[@raulserna3109]

It´s actually amazing how funny the humor in this show is.

[@tuliashuliva2646]

Can we talk about how John's robot dancer was more talented, had more control, and the costume design was better?

[@creativemindplay]

Had a nicer 🍑

[@BioluminescentOne]

We can, even though it is the least significant thing we just saw. He was a much better dancer.

[@cnj67]

I am not happy to take it out on some anonymous, hopeful dancer, but still ... can we talk about the fact that Elon's robot dancer was doing something that looked a lot like minstrel? Am I wrong?

[@flackstar007]

@@cnj67 There may be similarities and considering Musk has strong roots with apartheid and has shown clear racist elements himself, I would not be surprised if he was promoting the robot as a future replacement for slave labour of a people that he simply does not respect.

[@utaka78]

And a better anatomy😏

[@sigmascrub]

Roman generals coming home from a victorious campaign used to have someone to constantly remind them that in the grand scheme, they are no different than the commoners cheering for them. We need that for billionaires.

[@Nonsense010688]

"remember that your are mortal"

[@cristianmunozlevill1265]

We don't need billionaires.

[@urkcan]

When everyone around you depends on you for their livelihood, few of them will tell you what you need to hear, only what you want to hear.

[@BWreSlippySlope]

Now the best among us have the total propaganda media and any sleaze who wants to make a buck in media after anything that might make a positive change against the dumbing down of Americans, or controlling the sheep population. CIA and PR firms ensure there are no trusted opinion leaders unless they can be controlled and most key enough blackmailed and have plenty of leverage to destroy if they ever think for themselves or reveal behind the curtain.

[@polydex108]

​@@cristianmunozlevill1265you nailed it.

[@thefloop2813]

Im in the ignore him camp, but then i noticed john Oliver did a spot on him. And i clicked, and i was not disappointed. You're doing god's work John. P.S. That monster turtle meme is pretty fire, just saying. I say this outside the context of elon Musk though

[@sarah_thibault]

I saw that cyber truck on the 210 this week and wondered wth it was. Question answered 😂

[@Kwisatzhaderachgiveadogabone]

The Cyber Truck stainless steel is rusting if it gets wet, you can’t make this shit up! 🤣

[@jasonclark9662]

Chinese stainless must translate different ugh

[@troybonner91]

The fact that a company can just tell inspectors to "come back later" is mind-boggling. It contradicts the point of inspections...

[@sirsmokeefortwence25]

The government (especially the conservatives) love privatization because it's harder for the American people to hold private companies accountable and the government can push blame if necessary

[@TheCosmicPony]

The fucker’s above the law.

[@Pschokid]

No wonder usa doesn't really work. It's a corporate hellhole

[@scottwarner9856]

​@@sirsmokeefortwence25 The Government doesn't love privatization. Only those getting their pockets padded by lobbyists who want privatization (read Republicans) do.

[@Shadowninja1200]

@@sirsmokeefortwence25 That and a lot of those old farts in congress don't get held accountable for what are effectively bribes to look the other way. What's even more offensive is that the money they take is so little that why wouldn't any companies do it?

[@coolcat23]

"Messiah complex" nails it on the head. Musk claimed there would be no one alive who knew more about manufacturing than he himself.

[@temptaytion]

I bet Donald Trump has something to say about that. 💀

[@nondisclosure3920]

​@@temptaytionthat's cos he something to say about EVERYTHING, none of it intelligent or correct however. And there's probably someone with tears streaming down their face involved

[@Padraigp]

I mean to be fair who among us would not be strutting like pimps if we had that amount of wealth at our fingertips. I mean your average south African white is pretty coked up to start with ..

[@JoE_Songs]

😂 what an idiotic logic. okay, so then ... what if it's the truth? is it still a messiah complex? The probability that one of the very few persons on earth to start a successful automotive manufacturing company, without going bankrupt, can actually estimate that better than a yt-commenter - is pretty high isn't it? 🤣

[@coolcat23]

@@JoE_Songs If you think Musk started Tesla, think again. He didn't. Musk has no particular technical expertise. What he is good at is inflating stock values by blatantly lying about the capabilities of products.

[@kayleelockheart8208]

Electric cars are not the answer because cars are not the answer. The answer is technology from centuries ago: Trains. They are safer, cheaper, and more effective.

[@PikaPilot]

Nah, I'd rather have trams. Maybe a few bike lanes too. Long distance trips aren't my style

[@kevinm1734]

​@@PikaPilot in either case it's still railroads

[@user1.8.2.]

HORSES.

[@ssansu]

Spoken like someone who never ventures outside cities.

[@kayleelockheart8208]

@ssansu you mean where 80% of the population lives? You mean the areas in the most demand by huge margins? I've been to rural America. There is a reason most people don't live there. But also most rural towns used to have a fucking train station! Or one fairly near by. Until the 50s.

[@NinaFelwitch]

All I can say is that I'm hearing guillotine sounds in the far distance.

[@Francklyynnnn]

I'm fairly sure I've heard more people call it _"The Platform Formerly Known as Twitter"_ than I've heard them call it _X_ and that makes me very happy

[@darksaint0124]

More people still call it Twitter, to the face of Musk and other executives of the company, than I've ever heard even contemplate calling it X.

[@mikeygraves16]

Hell Musk himself even referred to it as Twitter in the Aaron Sorkin interview 😂

[@thatunicornhastheaudacity]

Only Prince is cool enough to get away with the "formally known as" moniker. That platform is called Shitter.

[@AxeGaijin]

I just call it by it's true name: Shitter.

[@SharienGaming]

i took the liberty of examining twitter and it turns out the only reason it was sitting on its perch was that it was nailed there its not pining, its passed on. it has ceased to be. it has expired and gone to join its makers its a stiff, bereft of life - if elon hadnt nailed it to its perch it would be pushing up the daisies its metabolic processes are now history - its off the twig its kicked the bucket, shuffled off the mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleeding choir invisible it is an X-platform

[@bunkerp]

That robot went from any nerdy kid at a dance to Magic Mike, that was quite the software update.

[@MFN071965]

This is so on point about Musk! Awesome show Mr. Oliver. Thank you.

[@ZhongliArchonofSwag]

Wait what? He’s obviously real world Lex Luthor though, right? He even changed his company to X Corp. He’s not even trying to hide it.

[@krombopulos_michael]

It's kind of hilarious that Elon is doing this "you killed Twitter, not me" thing like the whole world is going to be so mad if Twitter is gone.

[@margotvirzana9943]

Or that people will blame advertisers instead of him if anyone actually laments its passing

[@Ganiscol]

Hilarious only if you ignore the deranged nature of his claim. Business genius? Really?

[@hippotek1]

why would the world care?

[@saikyostudent4509]

​@@hippotek1because... umm... he'd care; and if he cares, of course the Earth would care... ... because that's how the world works, right??? RIGHT!?!?!? /sarcasm

[@supernotnatural]

Yes. Of course. People Will be mad. Instagram goes down 3 seconds and People go mad

[@Janjust1617]

“Narcissists will destroy your life, erode your self-esteem, and do it with such stealth as to make you feel that you are the one that's letting them down.”

[@DavidDedmon-pw8jz]

You must be referring to John Oliver.

[@philtorrez4198]

Sucks when one of these people is your parent. At least through my experience I can identify these types early on nowadays.

[@anjallama4986]

​@@DavidDedmon-pw8jz Sure, let's go with that. 🙄

[@phillipphil1615]

​​@@DavidDedmon-pw8jz ooooh you're going the "I know you are but what am I ?" path.... How bold and original, perhaps you could send your resume to the Last Week Tonight HR for a writer position.

[@MWGScorp]

yea its super easy to identify people with bpd and npd after you meet one or two, they're basically all carbon copies of each other. I'm fucking glad I am not elon lmao@@philtorrez4198

[@dianadeane9233]

Loved the test for “can protect against a bear attack” 😂😂😂😂

[@celldh0825]

Sorry to be that guy, but you put “test” twice

[@dianadeane9233]

@@celldh0825 I’ll fix it, thanks

[@dianadeane9233]

@@celldh0825 thanks. I fixed it

[@1cioda]

5:15 This is literally the motivation of Lex Luthor

[@CanItAlready]

I have to disagree with one thing you said, John. The turning point moment, at least for me, wasn't the pandemic lockdowns. It was in 2018 when he called that rescue diver "pedo" on Twitter. THAT was the moment I knew what musk really was.

[@snicksabea]

I think most CEO’s and super rich ppl are usually big jerks.

[@obinator9065]

@@snicksabeaYes, basically everyone. I'll forgive Gates for the good his foundation is doing, but he really was ruthless back in the days at Microsoft as well.

[@xWood4000]

​@@obinator9065The foundation does a lot of good, but Gates is against making the covid vaccine patent licenseless so that countries outside the west could manufacture it, so he wants to keep the status quo instead of improving the world. Had we had the patents released the later strains of COVID may not have spread as much or been as early and deadly. There were of course a bunch of other rich folk of the same opinion, but they don't have an image of doing good things

[@Stinsvarning]

The "rescue diver" didn't rescue anyone. He was a dude who commented on the issue on TV because he knew the cave fairly well. It's easy to look up on Wikipedia. The man called Elon names, and Elon responded perhaps a bit harsh. Elon was sued in court and won the case.

[@michalovesanime]

​​@@obinator9065don't forgive Gates, he is partly responsible for the fact that most of the world didn't enoy a patent free Covid vaccine receptie and why copyright as a whole is so trash! He did a whole campaign to clean up his image in the '00's, that man also messed with the educations of thousands screwed it up, all these billionaires think they are good at everything. Just because they did somethings good does not make them good. Dont forgive any of them, they do the good for goodwill! With all of that untaxed money and free time they should be fixing the worlds problems after benefitting from the state of it. So yes his foundation does good. Still dislike that man heavily. Multiple things can be true at the same time

[@MangaLover-tq1zw]

Can we appreciate how fly that robot's dancing was

[@deangraves7462]

And the butt...

[@popefacto5945]

The sashay offstage was mint!

[@gabrielsantos2430]

@@deangraves7462 The robot's "metal exterior" was quite tight... And let's just say that we were able to see a lot of their "equipment"

[@brianfox771]

@@gabrielsantos2430 🤣 Yeah, John's robot definitely had more 'hardware' than Elon's. Lol.

[@victor2049_]

Pretty fly for a white guy

[@RakeshKumar_07]

No matter what you achieve in life, there will always be some haters; they never go away.

[@dasraffnix9471]

Technically, alcohol is not a solution. It is a solvent. It would only be a solution if there was an otherwise solid chemical dissolved in it.

[@SpoopySquid]

Congratulations to Elon Musk for singlehandedly disproving the myth that Elon Musk is some kind of business genius

[@slister45]

Hahahaha! Great comment!

[@chaabraaah5823]

Whats your net worth? His went up this year so I mean, still hes pushing 300B. Richest man in America still, america is a giant business where capital equals status power and respect. So you're wrong everywhere. You may not like him but hes still a genius businessman that nasa relies on for space exploration and US military needs starlink sats. YALL EAT PROPAGANDA FOR BREAKFAST lmfao

[@misterflibble6601]

Like that turmeric hued toddler, he's a "very stable genius" with a severe case of narcissistic personality disorder (Quotation marks indicate irony BTW)

[@ericthompson3982]

Well said!

[@arwyss]

He’s Miles Bron

[@user-em6ie2be7x]

Reminds me of how Elon Musk blamed former Twitter Employees of "Not having Loyalty" after he already fired them. 👨🏿‍💻

[@franklin9400]

Do people think this makes sense? 😂

[@safehouse432]

​​@@franklin9400yes have you not seen his dedicated following? He is one of the gods of alpha crypto bro that they worthship.

[@AndorranStairway]

No need to remind you, because that's not what happened. He was referring to the people who quit after he said people had to be "hardcore" after he took over.

[@ecocodex4431]

@@AndorranStairway That makes even less sense, lol

[@steemlenn8797]

@@AndorranStairway That's even worse. Because that has nothing at all to do with loyality.

[@xileets]

Winning a marathon, then very intentionally running in the wrong direction in the next race, while claiming you're winning.

[@IBleedBolts]

Classic Musk. I've known a few men like him (men only, for sure). Overpromise, underdeliver. Always looking to break the norm just to see what happens and also to constantly display he's the smartest guy in the room. Add on the clear mental/emotional disabilities and you've got a megalomaniac who can't control himself. Would love to see Musk and Kanye duke it out with a "who's got bigger balls and weirder things to say" competition.

[@TheBarbarianGamer]

Statistics joke: Just because something is a "net positive," doesn't mean that you can all of a sudden ignore the "gross."

[@Ramsey276one]

NICE

[@Mi_Pi]

Hi. You're great!

[@ICanCreateThat]

One might argue that you can do math without negative numbers and still have a net positive. Aka, he doesn't have to be such an effing tool.

[@gingertartancow4019]

*clap clap clap*

[@cristianproust]

It depends on the output. If the energy in repairing does not compensate the good, the good prevails. In this case, it is ideological nonsense that the Libs can't stand, which means that there is no negative to a common person, just to the ideological fanatics that think are in possession of the truth. That is why Musk has been able to say and do as he wanted (it happened to Conservatives last decade, and today they have no problem with gay people in FOX news)

[@thedesigner987654321]

While going on a cave trek in Asia a few years ago, my guide happened to be one of the British divers that was coordinating efforts in the Thailand soccer team rescue when the cave they were visiting was flooded. I asked him about Elon's solution at the time (that pod submarine thing), and his response was that it risked all the lives of that soccer team, because the experts told him it wouldn't work right away, but he refused to listen and brought a giant media frenzy to an extremely delicate operation anyway and ended up delaying rescue operations by crucial days.

[@eily_b]

Pure megalomania

[@sarahs2800]

He called the guy a p3do bc now when you google “Elon musk p3do” you don’t get articles about his 12 trips to Epstein island, you get articles about this event … he did it on purpose

[@Idkwhyyouresostupid]

@@eily_b yes the commentor who is lying is truly as megalomaniac

[@MrElKabano]

His actions during (and after) that soccer team rescue is the perfect example of this "he wants the world saved, but only if he's the one saving it" thing. And it's ugly.

[@user-un8tv1pp8m]

Not to mention calling the trainer who kept the boys alive and together a pedo....

[@ryanmrowka8970]

Chip and Dales Rescue Rangers most underrated show from my childhood that and Talespin

[@paulbo9033]

The bear suit tho 😂😂💀

[@crypticnomad]

I saw a meme calling him "Space Karen" and now that is all I can see when I look at him

[@alexemerson9886]

Apartheid Clyde is another apt one.

[@oriel9347]

All I see is the weird baddie in the snl girls 'Ghostbusters' movie which had to be based on him he is an emotional 2 year old.

[@nikoladd]

Yeah but he kind of evolved into "Giga Karen" since.

[@Game_Hero]

@@nikoladd A Karen is still a Karen

[@YourRealName1]

He hasn't even been to space.

[@barbadoskado2769]

please compliments to the dancer in the robot suit, as his performance is absolutely 10 / 10, especially the walk out :D

[@janeydoe7417]

And truthful jokes about Elon in the subreddit s below: r/enoughmuskspam r/grimeZs

[@aishaali8950]

well damn i guess u rlly dont like the robot man 💀@@Repent-and-believe-in-Jesus

[@PiwaiGee]

10/10 ? more like 9/11 lol

[@lemon1657]

Space X achievements: "Making space easier and more affordable to access" 🤣🤣🤣

[@Idontknow18569]

Hush and hush and hush !!! I’m giggling too much 👩🏽🤣🤣🤣 I love it !

[@omegaRST]

The issue with billionaires is exactly the same as the issue with kings, too much power on a single person that can snap at any point

[@TheGuerrCZ]

Oh, you mean the politicians, right?

[@LetoDK]

Politicians are elected. Billionaires are NOT. Both monarchy and extraordinary wealth is inherently undemocratic. And democracy, with all its flaws, is the best invention since the dawn of civilization.

[@basileerla]

I guess that's why the guillotine was invented

[@marvinmartin4692]

And kings invented the corporate model!

[@NankitaBR]

Exactly

[@legomaniac213]

"He wants to save the world, but only if he's the one saving it." Literally the primary motivation of Lex Luthor. Ol' Musky really is an IRL comic book supervillain.

[@juliebraden6911]

🤪 L I T E R A L L Y 🤪

[@SaladSentinel]

Don't give him any ideas.

[@ignisterzone5399]

With the temperament of Homelander.

[@Zomburai45]

And yet Bezos is the one who looks like Lex Luthor. Odd, that.

[@Moewenfels]

But far less competent, even without a big opponent.

[@elizabethj8510]

Elon Musk is becoming the Bill Mumy character in "It's A Good Life".

[@shalleneholley2853]

Uh, wtf. Is it legal to have these Teslas test drive on city streets?!

[@ictia7036]

I don’t think a democracy can function when so much power is able to be held by one person.

[@Helenah51]

What? Like Biden with the DOJ, FBI and CIA in his back pocket? I’d vote for Elon any day.

[@teachingthecode4651]

This is why relying on a handful of random ultra-rich individuals to head ambitious society-progressing mega projects is an idiotic idea. They are no better politically than any random, unelected individual off the street. So what would be dumb opinions of an unremarkable individual become massive problematic issues.

[@lnplum]

Almost like capitalism (private ownership of capital and its accumulation by individuals) is incompatible with democracy (everyone getting an equal say).

[@Arthera0]

democracies are flawed in general. we get to pick between people that want power but shoulnt necessarily be in power. sadly its the best system we got.

[@psycoNaughtplaysMCPC]

Man just outlined the definition of a monarchy while pointing out how the US is a failed experiment

[@WestOfEarth]

Hello, my name is WestofEarth, and I'm a recovering Musk fanboi. It was the pandemic bullsh*t he was spreading where I hit rock bottom. I've had a sober intellect for 4 years now.

[@funkaddictions]

Hi, my name is Funkaddictions, I started recovery after the Hyperloop shenanigans. Been clean ever since. I'm with you, brother. Stay strong.

[@aquafishcspeia2921]

I wouldn't be too hard on yourself, you're likely not in the minority. Look on the bright side, at least you weren't one of the 30 women he had a kid(s) with!

[@mcnamaraky]

He's still a brilliant engineer, but he's starting to go the Howard Hughes route...pretty soon he'll be surrounding himself with Mormons after yelling show me all the blueprints for hours. He definitely had me too, because again: he's a brilliant engineer. His rocket designs and car designs have advanced humanity. The problem is he's started to love the smell of this own farts too much. And conspiracy theories. Which is weird, because you'd think the richest man in the world would know those conspiracies don't exist, because I'd they DID, he wouldn't be the richest man on the planet. Unless he's in on the conspiracy I guess?

[@moonookiee]

He hasn't created anything what do you mean he's a brilliant engineer lmao. The only patent he has under his own name is the charging mechanism of tesla which makes sure you cannot use any other charger on a tesla than the tesla charger. Its an excuse to get market capture. He's just spreading conspiracy to distract people from all the real harm he's doing to the world. He's desperately searching for a group that would defend him no matter what and he found that group in paranoid conservatives and nazis. ​@@mcnamaraky

[@lunarcowboy]

​@@funkaddictionsI can totally see hyperloop being the thing that snapped people out of it lol

[@brodyharris7631]

Interior: volcano 😂😂😂😂😂

[@ananamu2248]

Elon went up in my estimation when he awarded starlink to ukraine ....and it did a nose dive when he withdrew it and became a twitter overlord holding hands with pootin

[@TomatoFettuccini]

Saving humanity begins with saving the human first. "You can't make an omelette without breaking some eggs." It's always someone else's eggs.

[@swapblue]

that is the messiah complex- "i am better than you all. just let me do my thing and you will benefit. who are you to question me!"

[@totozviara]

Rooting for Putin, spreading his BS is something humanity can't do without

[@velvetthunder3856]

1000% even the reduce the population people don't want it to be them to go

[@loschwahn723]

@@swapblue nope he thinks to be barnabas with his toys'r'us show. multicultural is genocide against human mankind

[@breadgarlichouse2265]

break deez nuts 🥜

[@xxxxFLARExxxx]

"And then it got weird." I love when someone with a sense of humor is interviewed. Thank you Kara.

[@staceybair5407]

Yoooo this 💩 is fkn terrifying 😳! I feel like I'm in a cheesy 70's action/sci-fi movie but without the hero😱. Thank you John and your phenomenal staff for keeping us informed and STILL makin' us laugh out LOUD at the ridiculousness of it all. ✊🏾👊🏾✌🏾💞

[@BatManWayneCorp]

Props to Tesla for making the broken Glas an Easter egg in the Cybertruck infotainment 😂

[@varun009]

He didn't even mention the funniest part of the Zuckerberg callout which was that Elon had his mom make a press release stating that she couldn't let her baby boy be clobbered.

[@danielfossa2567]

Did you watch the Rogan interview where Musk drove to his house? C'mon now

[@The_Horrorist80]

His OG mom or his sister mom?(elon's dad married his sister)😂

[@MrJimheeren]

@@The_Horrorist80and got a baby with her. Absolutely disgusting

[@bunnyluver2176]

Ouch, that's embarrassing 😂

[@varun009]

@@The_Horrorist80 such a weirdo wacky family.

[@ap6232]

As my daughter once said to someone else when she was 11, "you think you're edgy and cool, but you're not."

[@angiepanjie]

“You think your big but a wee shirt fits you”…same meaning from Scotland🤣.

[@JArtsChannel]

​@@angiepanjie love that😂

[@MrShnazer]

Ah, the profound wisdom of an 11-year-old, questioning the very fabric of someone's perceived edginess and coolness. How fortunate we are to have such sagacious insights from the pre-teen philosopher, whose discernment evidently transcends the ordinary.

[@ayushsharma8804]

​@@MrShnazershut up git

[@effscottfitz-gee2024]

Make things up much?

[@connorbuttsoup6242]

someone who lives in my area has a cybertruck, literally did not understand what it was till now

[@chrisbowers7661]

I saw one recently in eastern PA. So UGLY!

[@chrislive1586]

"Send Me Location" boss move.

[@TheJennyfish]

"Elon likes drama" is by far the easiest explanation for why he owns Twitter

[@bonsummers2657]

No. He owns Twitter due to the unreasonable censorship of the Democrat Party Platform type minds, such as yours.

[@Whiteythereaper]

Nah the real explanation is even funnier. He blames Twitter for making his child Transgender. He decided to buy it so he could try and stamp it out and spread anti-trans rhetoric ahead of the next election. Bro was so salty that his child chose to not conform to traditional Gender norms that he **massively overpaid for a social media company and desperately tries to make up for it by flooding it with bots and manipulates the numbers to promote his own tweets**

[@tmo4498]

seriously. why would a person actually "like" drama in such a manner. It's healthy. Twitter is unhealthy.

[@tmo4498]

seriously. why would a person actually "like" drama in such a manner. It's healthy. Twitter is unhealthy.

[@KeiPalace]

he bluffed and then they forced him to buy it

[@omarismail2424]

I live for John beefing with the richest megalomaniac in existence. The results would be hilarious.

[@snicksabea]

Elon’s gonna be pissed.

[@chezmoi42]

I'm here for the musical.

[@sparkpaul]

Oliver made jokes and Elon made history for humanity. This is fake news. Propaganda media. I expected more from Oliver.

[@Robynhoodlum]

@@snicksabeaeh. If Eat Shit Bob tells you anything, John Oliver is not afraid of a little defemation lawsuit from a petty billionaire!😂

[@MichaelWilliams85]

You don’t live for much

[@danielbutler8103]

11:17 it’s also the car from the movie Upgrade, The one that killed the driver. The Cybertruck was announced in November 2019 while Upgrade was 2018, So Elon just saw the murder car In a movie and went “Yes I want that, Make me that.”

[@lumi7065]

Never thought I'd say this, but that robot had some cakes!

[@user1.8.2.]

....right????😂😂😂😂

[@NaUGhTyTeeNBV-pr9fv]

"The hexagon: the pentagon that fucks" literally got me on the floor dying laughing lmao give that person a raise! And then...another raise!

[@notthisbutthat]

the X-agon

[@heinousanus9352]

That acrobat was great.

[@SixTough]

He did say self-driving needs only be better than a human. Which is what I would say if my software was shit.

[@MortMe0430]

That is really scary, how much of government stuff got outsourced to Musk. I honestly had no idea how bad it was.

[@alexj3709]

The real question is why is the govt outsourcing to Musk? He can't take it, they have to give it. Why didn't Oliver ask that question?

[@Lets-Go-Family]

I'm not sure I'd call it outsourcing. The government sucks at a lot of things. It's pretty easy to see that private businesses can do them better. The real miracle is how Musk wrestled some control from the government's hands.

[@anonymousperson7889]

You do realize this is a Democrat propaganda show right? If Elon Musk was a Democrat this episode wouldn't exist.

[@chillones9574]

it be ok, settle down lol.

[@andrewdeen1]

he cut starlink when Ukrainian special forces were in inflatable boats on an operation. they had to retreat and took casualties. they're doing brain surgery on chimps without anesthesia in his starlink labs. jon was WAY too kind to elon in this piece.

[@LoveyK]

I’ve always hash tagged #LexLuthor when responding to Musk. Thanx for your acknowledgment.

[@lintelle2382]

seeing more and more tesla bumper stickers saying 'I bought this before I knew how horrible he was'

[@najhoant]

Here’s another fun Musk-related story from this year. Here in Sweden, Tesla’s management got into a feud with their workers who want the company to enter a collective bargaining agreement, as is fairly standard here; they’ve been requesting it since 2018. Tesla refused, claiming they offer better terms than such an agreement. The workers disagree, and have gone on strike, with support from the union they belong to. Since then, more unions and workers in other Nordic countries have joined the strike too. It’s still ongoing as of this writing, and Musk has not been happy about it

[@MrJimheeren]

And it’s absolutely marvelous. The fact that the cleaner’s are not cleaning Tesla’s office’s in solidarity with the car builders is just peak socialist and wonderful to see

[@darraghmckenna9127]

One of Teslas latest job listings in Sweden is with public policy “significant experience with Nordic legislative and regulatory advocacy.” He clearly wants to take a hammer to unions in Sweden. The company also noted that the candidate must have “a proven track record of getting regulatory changes made in the Nordics.”

[@oerthling]

And now a group of Scandinavian institutional investors have announced that they want Tesla to get to the union negotiating table, or they have to consider getting out of Tesla.

[@Arthera0]

I didn't know that. Americans and their anti union bullshit...

[@strangnet]

Don't forget how Twitter added a warning page about malicious activity when linking to an article in Sweden's largest daily newspaper when they reported on Tesla's, and other car companies', use of resources gathered by child labour in Madagascar. So much for Elno's riding on his high horses for freedom of speech.

[@davidarchibald50]

I just loved the bit where John pulled the maps of Afghanistan and Iraq...the ooorgh from the audience was priceless. Great hit, John! So look guys ice them and the swelling will go down in a day or two!.🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@gracewsho]

8:40

[@erikasmith946]

God, what an a****** he is.

[@bastionshadowpaw]

"that's it my dudes just walk it off "

[@HRHDMKYT]

*Your* robot dancer was *much better* than old Elon’s, John! Way to be!!!😊

[@danielwarren7110]

i have watched this a few times now and Elon at the beginning 1:40 in his pauses and movements just remind me of the old Jim Henson puppets, the neck movements and bounce to the pauses in speaking

[@dusanrenat5567]

The "Twitter" name and brand is arguably one of the most valuable things Musk got when he bought Twitter the company. Changing the name was indescribably stupid.

[@Elena-er7zp]

that’s ego baby

[@ARichardP]

Yeah, who wants to post on a platform named ‘X’?

[@snicksabea]

Musk is not a smart man.

[@originalscreenname44]

"Indescribably stupid" perfectly describes Elon.

[@anacc3257]

@@ARichardP Well it's one of the biggest social media platforms for porn which elon doesn't seem to have any problem with😂

[@AlexTrusk91]

He wanted to be real life Iron Man, now he's real life Dr. Eggman

[@seanmcpherson5595]

He chose the word "pedophile". Maybe he knows something.

[@myflippinggoodness8821]

Side question: what the hell ever happened to the name Dr. Robotnik?

[@SubrosianDimitri]

​@myflippinggoodness8821 Robotnik was a name made up for the original western release, though by now it's his official name with Eggman being a nickname. Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik

[@bluegold21]

Even Eggman is a push. His inventions actually worked.

[@petergautam]

Lex Luthor?

[@NastyNateDawg]

He didn’t make any of those companies. He bought them. They’re is a very distinct difference.

[@quinnn6729]

Without Elon, none of HIS companies would be what they are today without him. Maybe you should read books, but bs news headlines