Summary
“I have been in the same room with Elon, and he always tries to be funny. And he’s not funny. Like, at all,” a senior Trump administration official told Rolling Stone. “He makes these jokes and little asides and smiles and then looks almost hurt if you don’t lap up his humor. I keep using the word ‘annoying’; a lot of people who have to deal with him do.”
Musk’s insufferable behavior has caused several high-ranking officials to walk out of important meetings and sincerely question if he was high on drugs, the publication reports, while Secretary of State Marco Rubio is said to be barely able to hide his immense dislike of the DOGE chief and State Department officials routinely call him “Crazy Uncle Elon” behind his back.
Other officials have suggested subjecting Musk to a mandatory drug test, which he has said is a “great idea” for federal employees, as a way to push him out of the door. The Tesla CEO has denied taking any illegal drugs, although numerous people claim to have witnessed him use LSD, cocaine, Ecstasy, and mushrooms behind closed doors, the Wall Street Journal reports.
numerous people claim to have witnessed him use LSD, cocaine, Ecstasy, and mushrooms behind closed doors
It’s amazing that he can do LSD, mushrooms, and ex and still have zero empathy.
Those substances are empathy multipliers, unfortunately multiplying 0 always yields 0…
If his brain doesn’t possess the ability to empathize, there’s nothing for those substances to enhance.
Yeah but 0^0 = 1, maybe we just need to inject him with heaps of meth first or something. It’s not like we could make the situation worse
Yeah, that was my first thought that he really hadn’t because unless he micro-microdosed or just said he did to be “cool”, which is on brand for him, there’s no way he did hallucinogins and still came out the other side like that.
From my understanding he’s a big proponent of the simulation theory, so he’s probably cool with being a shit person because it’s all a simulation anyways. I’d wager that he sees himself as a player in a video game and he’s going for high scores.
Who the fuck can take simulation theory seriously?
gestures generally around
But his idea of simulation theory and most of our ideas of simulation theory are not the same.
He thinks it means there are no consequences.
We all know it’s means the consequences might be simulated but they still suck.
Which is asinine. As currently, there is no way out of the simulation if that is even true, so you’re stuck with the simulation consequences no matter what. Which means you might as well treat them as real because they are to you. We should have cleaned up better after WW2 somehow.
Yeah. I think it would have involved nuclear annihilation at some point, and not because of USA vs Russia, but because the USA was pro nationalism-racism-authorotarianism-eugeniscm long before WW2.
Why do you think they happily looked the other way for so many scientists.
Someone on a lot of drugs?
It’s getting hard to take even reality seriously these days.
I’m surprised Ketamine isn’t in this list, I thought it was his drug of choice this past year?
I really doubt Elon is who he is and uses acid or shrooms. That just sounds like reefer madness nonsense to me.
To be fair, this said behind closed doors. He does the ketamine out in the open, claiming it was prescribed to him.
Someone please go spike his coffee with whatever dosage is needed to trigger ego death
He also smoked weed in public on the Joe Rogan show. He clearly likes drugs.
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.
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.
And yet he went with a full, big, heavy prop for a tired pun.
Never go full Carrot Top.
Even Carrot Top knew that prop comedy only works if you have a lot of small, light props that you go through quickly. Walking around with a heavy sink might get you as jacked as Carrot Top, but you’re not going to get the laughs.
True. Say what you will about prop comedy but Carrot Top didn’t get famous because he was bad at it.
I once saw some clip of a carrot top show and he did admittedly make me laugh. I do like puns though
Hey, I like puns! I think this one could have been very funny if the thing we were letting sink in was harmless, and not his acquisition of the world’s largest microblogging platform for the purpose of controlling public discourse.
It’s my eternal hope that the reddit puns never make their way to Lemmy. They’re always so bad.
It’s not even a thing he thought of spontaneously. I remember around that time or a half year i. Advance a lot of his tweets were: contained let that sink in. He just couldn’t wait
The article’s hero image is him wearing a cheese shaped hat. I’m afraid to even ask the context behind that one…
They were in Wisconsin and he was pandering to the locals by wearing a cheese hat and giving away millions of dollars to bribe voters. It didn’t work - the candidate he was supporting lost.
Captain soft hands almost dropped that thing. It’s hilarious how weak he is for such an alpha
What is he doing there?
Carrying a sink into Twitter headquarters after he bought it. I honestly don’t even understand the joke. I assume he’s saying he was going to cut everything including the kitchen sink, or let this sink in, but neither is very funny.
The joke was “I just bought twitter, let that sink in.”
But it wasn’t even his joke, people on then-twitter were repeatedly sending that joke to him
He’s just the worst.
Wasn’t he carrying it out? Like after he fired a bunch of people so he could make the joke: “Throwing everything out, even the kitchen sink.”
That’s how I remember it. I don’t really want to look it up since I am already sick of knowing so much about this guy.
He walked in with it.
I’ll take your word on it.
Oh, wow, that’s really not funny.
If it was funny, would space Karen have done it?
The fact that we are having to discuss the brain dead mechanics to even understand his “joke” tells you how fucking stupid and unfunny he is, jokes have a certain flow of logic even “lol so random” jokes function on subvertting ones expectations and breaking the logical followup.
Now story time, when I was 3 or 4 I was trying to figure out how jokes worked because I am just that autistic. As a result of this I was given the overly simple answer of set up and punchline, this resulted in me creating the oh so glorious “What’s a ponytail in a dress? A joke” which only makes sense to my younger self. That is still funnier than any joke Musk has ever made.
Also on a vaguely related note when I was trying to figure out slapstick I apparently slammed a metal folding chair into my uncle’s back and then poured a bottle of water onto his face, I do not remember this unlike the verbal “joke” all the male boomers that were present at said event remember it though. The wonders of alcohol and heatstroke, which I was suffering from the effects of cause I thought a bottle of hard cider was apple juice.
I’m a simple person. Let this sink in would be a good enough dad joke for me.
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.
BREAKING NEWS…
President Musk issues EO declaring he’s funny.
First Buddy Trump agrees.Anyone who doesn’t laugh at Elon’s superior comedic talents and antics will be sent to a humor retraining camp
Not laughing about his jokes will be considered terrorism and be punishable by deportation to a Salvadoran concentration camp.
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.
He’s truly a very sad pathetic human being.
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.
Ugh.
Fucking child.
apologies. the other commenter was helpful but the article doesn’t do justice to the way he tells the story.
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.
His reaction to the dead deer in the pewdiepie episode all those years ago was what first caught my eye about this lol
The richest man in the world isn’t trying to help you. He’s helping himself to whatever he wants. Super bad idea.
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.
One can argue what intoxication means there.
But sure, what Kneelon musk does is not unlike drunk driving.
“behavior has caused several high-ranking officials to walk out of important meetings and sincerely question if he was high on drugs”
Bet you dollars to donuts that he is, so, yes.
Despite fitting right in. Weird.
I guess that’s what happens when you’re rich enough to spend your life surrounded by sycophantic yes men who’ll lap whatever you say up for proximity to money and influence.
Man has insulated himself from ever experiencing the sincere social cues you need to develop and refine your communication skills.
DEPORT Them! Not the Illegal Immigrant Stealing EVERYONES jobs and Tax Dollars, the ones HURTING his FEELINGS!
Too late now, even if he gets pushed out all his minions have their crusty fingers in everything
