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submitted 2 months ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

Tonight at 8 pm, sprung on everyone at the last minute apparently.

Trump and Elon Musk, X’s owner, are slated to have what the tech titan has termed a “live conversation” at 8 p.m. Eastern Time that will be “unscripted with no limits on subject matter, so should be highly entertaining!” Musk is soliciting X users to pose their own questions.

Will Trump DeSantis himself? I hope so.

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[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 102 points 2 months ago

A bigot nepo kid hosts a wierd sexist fascist convicted felon with tiny hands. Caveat is, that both are big fans of each other so there won't be any hardball questions, maybe they suck each others dick?

[-] themachine@lemm.ee 40 points 2 months ago
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago

No hardball questions? Maybe. How racist will they get though?

[-] Drunemeton@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Not just that. Hopefully someone watches and keeps a running score of how many times they disparage “others”!

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

I don't think I'll add to Twitter's view count, I'll just read what I am sure will be an extremely unintentionally funny summary tomorrow morning.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 months ago
[-] lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 months ago

Weird sexist fascist hosts weird sexist fascist

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago

They are even bigger fans of themselves.

If we're lucky, one insults the other and they begin a shouting match live.

[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 41 points 2 months ago

Oh boy.

Anyone know the odds the hard N-word will be spoken by these asshats.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

Right? I was thinking the same thing. Two white guys as bigoted, misogynistic and queerphobic as you can get sit down for an unscripted conversation?

I'll almost be disappointed if there are no slurs.

[-] Pantsofmagic@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

They control the platform so they'll edit them out and gaslight anyone who happened to see it

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

That won't work. They can't stop people from recording it live.

The thing about the internet is- stuff doesn't go away even if you want it to.

[-] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 months ago

The thing about the internet is- stuff doesn’t go away even if you want it to.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Excellent example!

[-] Stovetop@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Well, depends on how hard someone wants to keep it at least. Without organizations like Internet Archive backing up as much as they can, a lot of the internet would end up permanently lost when sites go down or content migrates hosts and breaks all the old links.

Something tells me Trump making an idiot of himself live on Xitter won't be quite as volatile, though. Or at least not in that way.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Every big news organization will be recording this video just in case something newsworthy happens. Along with a bunch of people who will post those clips on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, you name it.

They will just not be able to make something like this go away if it goes south.

[-] Pantsofmagic@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Doesn't seem to stop them from pretending half the time, but I hope you're right

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

As a natural pessimist, I am trying very hard lately to not give up hope on things.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago

Oh my god. This is amazing. It's only been a few minutes and it's already a complete shit show.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/08/12/us/harris-trump-election

[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 22 points 2 months ago

Lmao all the crypto-bots fucking everything up is priceless 🤣

[-] psvrh@lemmy.ca 35 points 2 months ago

This is very dangerous.

That much malignant narcissism in one place could form a singularity and an ensuing black hole.

[-] cranakis@reddthat.com 13 points 2 months ago

I've heard, when that happens; The narcissists head goes so far up their own ass, they fold in on themselves. The resultant matter is highly dense and caustic, yet still somehow capable of language. Trump and Elon have both crossed the event horizon multiple times already. Perhaps with the two feeding each other, their heads will fold into each other's asses. Scientists are eagerly observing...

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

There must be some way to harness the energy of this sort of narcissism to solve our global power needs.

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[-] bender223@lemmy.today 25 points 2 months ago

hey y'all, where can I watch this? on xvideos.com? 😏

[-] cmoney@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

It'll be difficult to fap to but I like a challenge.

[-] CaptainKickass@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

One time, as a young man, I drank so much that I threw up, a lot. Like kept throwing up and then there were the dry heaves.

Watching a moment of these two felating each other would immediately skip me straight to the dry heaves. 🤢

[-] rusticus@lemm.ee 16 points 2 months ago

A listener in Ohio wants to know if they ever shared a child on Epstein island.

[-] Hydra_Fk@reddthat.com 15 points 2 months ago
[-] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

Will the interview be full-throated?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

The real question is: are they going to take turns or will this be a 69 situation?

[-] sxan@midwest.social 6 points 2 months ago

Will it be delayed, so they can crop?

[-] MajinBlayze@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Seems desperate; can't wait

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Elon is just saying "yeah" to everything. 😂

E: Boy Elon doesn't understand shit about economics. E2: Elon's problem with CO2 is that at some point it will get uncomfortable to breathe. Somewhere around 1000 would be bad. It's not like the house is on fire. 🤦🤦‍♀️🤦‍♂️

[-] Gsus4@mander.xyz 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Every day he outs himself as more of an insufferable dumbass. These two were made for each other.

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[-] aesthelete@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Can't wait to not watch this.

[-] xc2215x@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

This could be cringeworthy.

[-] MsPenguinette@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

It could also be chargeworthy. I'd say there's at least a notable chance someone conffeses to something when you two corrupt criminal egomaniacs with invincibility complexes together live

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

No could about it.

[-] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 8 points 2 months ago

Is this a campaign finance violation?

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[-] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Is it just gonna be a video of them 69ing?

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 months ago

Man, Lonnie’s gettin’ puffy in that dough face.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago
[-] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

My money says it's scripted/pre recorded. No way they let the goblin do his thing when they own the platform

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Never underestimate two extremely stupid people.

And if Trump wants to go off-script, no one can stop him. That's been proven repeatedly.

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