Place your bets on muskrat chickening out.

Stewart is going to rip him a structurely superfluous behind.

If he doesn't chicken out, he might storm out mid interview when John absolutely stomps on every misleading or false thing he says and pushes him to actually define his role in DOGE which could open him up to legal trouble (if that term meant anything anymore)
- I'd be so happy if he throws a hissy fit and storms off.
- That term doesn't mean anything anymore.
Jon would "win" if it happened, but it won't matter.

After seeing Trump utterly dog walked across the stage in his debate performance and still win the election, I have lost any remaining faith that some great Aaron Soorkin-esque moment will change a fucking thing in this country.

It would be entertaining though; so that'll be fun.
- I agree, I think we are fucked. Democracy dies not with a cry, but a cheer.
Yeah it's not happening Musk will have some government looting emergecy that needs attending to. Some widow in Wisconsin might be getting her Medicaid back.
I don't think there's a bookie in the world who would bet against that.

Here’s how it’s going to go down:

Jon will ask pointed questions.
Elmo will respond with rhetoric, lies, half-truths, incendiary nonsense, &/or dumb jokes.
Jon will call him out on his bullshit.
Elmo will respond with more rhetoric, lies, half-truths, incendiary nonsense, &/or dumb jokes.
Jon will be appalled at Musk’s lack of integrity, ethics, intelligence, or humility.
The next day, right-wing pundits will spin it as a victory for Musk - saying he made Stewart “speechless and dumbfounded” with his amazing performance.

You forgot

musk buys wherever the Daily Show is produced

musk fires Jon

"The Daily Show, with Sean Hannity"
- I mean, Jon Stewart and maybe some of the writers are the value there. Even if you imagined that happening, he can just go do a new show.
  
  Something like Twitter takes a lot of doing to build; network effect favors incumbents.
- musk fires Jon
  
  Maybe he'll come back and lead the resistance with Bernie and AOC
We know how Jon handles this exact situation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCuIxIJBfCY

Musk will be roasted and embarrassed.
- God damn, thanks for this link. I’m not sure how I missed this year old video. I wish I could keep my cool as successfully as Stewart does in situations like this.
- Oh holy shit what a take down. That ending was incredible. I'd be terrified of one day meeting Jon Stewart and accidentally voicing an opinion within earshot just in case he takes issue with it.
- How the heck did I miss this entire series? I've been pining for Jon since 2015, was overjoyed that he'd taken over Monday's again, and had no idea that he'd been doing a program already. Oy.
Have you seen the current speaking ability of Musk? I'd be surprised if he produces a single coherent sentence.

I hope Jon Stewart really pushes him through his filler speech and reveals Musk as stupid as he actually is.

Tho I still dont think this will happen. Musk would have to be incredibly stupid to accept this, like even more stupid than he actually is.
- Replace Elon's rhetoric/lies/dumb joke non-responses with incoherent babbling and the right-wing will still say he "owned that lib".
Exactly this! I mean, I will watch it, but I won't expect anything meaningful to come out of this.
- I can't see Stewart doing a puff piece. But I've been wrong before and I will be again.

Elon won't do it. He's a pussy. He will back out and start calling Stewart a pedo on social media.

Just like when he backed out of that fight with zuck
- As much as I hate Musk, that would have been so beautiful.
- It should've been some kind of extreme badass death match deluxe: nobody gets out of the cage while any one of them is still breathing.
He could just go and say/do something that would prevent airing

Then if they take it out it’s been edited
- I imagine he’ll go on and start dropping hard r’s and quoting mein kampf and when the daily show wants to beep it out he’ll throw a fit and send lawyers to block its release.
- I assume they'll have to edit for length regardless - so I imagine they're planning to make the unedited clip available online, like they've done with their other extended interviews. Lot less restrictions on what can air that way, too.
- What is he going to do, whip his dick out? I'm confident someone would leak it even if it didn't make it past S&P.
No he won’t! He’s not a huge pussy! What about that time he fought mark zuckerberg?
He might convince Trump to add tariffs on the Daily Show.

Pigs will fly and my shit will turn to gold before he sits in front of Jon Stewart live, and or unedited

Hopefully it’s on the podcast where he can go into detail.
- I have only listened to the podcast for a year but holy shit i die not expect how much stewert softballs his guests and never argues anymore when they are spewing bullshit. I started getting agitated for example when the old white house press secretary came in saying "everything is fine, no crisis here, it's really Obama's fault that trump and musk are dismantling the government, dems need better press" and he just nods along. It's so strange because I feel like that wasn't the case 15 years ago or whatever.
  
  The only one he pushed back on recently in my memory was Chris Christie.
  
  I do not have high hopes for this upcoming one. It is going to be like Jake Paul vs mike Tyson, nobody wins and it is just for show.
Idk. Seeing how hard he worked for the first responders in NYC, he might just shoot the guy to save the rest of us.

I doubt Musk goes in front of a lot of people at all anymore.
- Musk appeared at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) last week. I assume there were a decent number of people there (but maybe not a number of decent people).

Wouldn't it be funny if they had 2 guests. Elon Musk and Bill Burr.

I'd prefer Luigi.
- The closest we ever came...
- It would be nice if a Luigi cosplayer was a guest star. He just walks out onto the studio floor, and glares at Musk. I bet the rat would piss himself on the spot.
Elon comes out without his kid and the Mario Bros theme starts playing
- Lol
Fucking pay per view that shit. I’d pay $49.99 to watch that.
- That one should be a public service. Why limit it's viewing rate when a lot of the country needs to view his idiocy fumbling for answers he obviously never thought of.
For those that don't know ... Bill Burr called out billionaires and warned them for the shit they were pulling (or to be "put down like rabid dogs").

Elon "Free Speech" Musk basically restricted Bill's Twitter account which Bill found funny because he hadn't posted in months or years or something like that.

Bill also doesn't hold back and will roast the shit out of anyone and is really good at it. Elon "Man of the People" Musk is a thin-skinned little removed that is awkward as fuck but acts tough online like all his "alpha-male" friends like when he acted like a removed when Don Lemon called him out and then Elon "I'm the smartest man alive" Musk fired Don Lemon for doing so 'cause he's a removed.

He'll find a way to back out. Musk is stupid, but not that stupid.

He's also extremely overconfident and narcissistic
- Well, that's true, but the fact that he said, "I'll only do it if they air it unedited!" makes me think he thought they would say, "no," and he'd be able to decline while saving face. My gut tells me he'll make up another excuse now. I'd love to be wrong, though!
- Remember when he challenged Zuckerberg to a fight? There are limits.
They said that about Rod Blagojevich, and the desperate need for attention is what pushed the truly irrational decision to do an interview.

Still, he might get cold feet if he expects a hostile audience.
- Holy shit, I just realized that Trump commuted his sentence
- Rod Blagojevich
  
  Why I'm not surprised that the current president pardoned someone that tried to sell a seat to the us senate

Just like the cage match he had with Zuck.

This'd be much much better. Even Joe Average can see muskrat is physically unfit, but his intellectual dishonesty is much easier to cover up.

Musk will never wear a bow tie again.

If anyone can do this it's Jon Stewart. I know he's mentioned on several occasions that he doesn't have any political ambitions whatsoever, and he's been true to his word. But sometimes circumstances allow great men to take great leaps, and on rare occasions, do great things.

The fact that The Hill is already running a piece trying to play him off as a comedy star from an era that has all but vanished due to the corporate landscape, is all I need to know to believe what he has to say. They're already trying to downplay and dismiss the results before they've occurred.

What are the terms of the interview? Will it be in person in front of an audience, via webcast, in front of the burning reichstag, etc...

Zelenskyy was also a comedian first.
- People forget that popular comedians are usually incredibly intelligent. Conan graduated MCL from Harvard.
What are the terms of the interview?

Musk just wants it to air unedited. Which means no matter what they do, he would be able to claim it was edited if things don't go his way and he ends up looking like (an even bigger) fool.
- So do a single camera and air it live.
- Just shows how stupid Elon is. Stewart is an accomplished interviewer, with the backup of being a comedian. Watch Stewart keep his composure after smashing his coffee cup the other night. He assessed the cut, laughed it off, and finished the monologue instantly. Elmo doesn't have the composure to handle a problem like that.
Maybe Jon can tucker carlson elon.
- I rewatch that crossfire clip regularly. It's my happy place.

The headline makes it sound like they were in talks with each other. Musk gave his "terms" to a random Twitter user. I seriously doubt this will happen. Stew beef would completely humiliate Musk and his mediocre white guy confidence wouldn't save him.

Too bad there's no SEC to force him into the interview like when he offered to buy twitter.

If this doesn’t go Musk’s way I suspect he’ll drop terms the Daily Show would censor forcing them to pull the interview.

Maybe so, but they shouldn’t. Censor it, poke the shit out of that South African fascist Nazi pig, and get him to display his true self for all the world to see. Fuck Musk, filthy Nazi.
- Relax, he might not have the mental capacity to understand you.
It's on cable and it's aired late enough that they would not have to censor anything if they didn't want to. It'd be great if Musk tried that and they just let it all go.
- It’s on cable but the advertisers are less concerned with what is legal and more concerned with not supporting programs that air objectionable language like racist terms. The censors also cate about that.
And go on YouTube, which is fine
They can bleep it...

I hope the audience boos Musk when he walks out looking like the loser he is.

I wonder if it can even be a live interview or if jon will have to do an offsite recorded interview like all of the ones on his pevious show.

From the article...

Musk appeared to accept the challenge, replying Tuesday to one user, "I will do it if the show airs unedited."

"The Daily Show" took notice, reposting the message Wednesday from its official account accepting the terms.

Unedited, streamed live.

Though this does remind me of that asshole and wife abuser Steven Crowder bailing from a debate with Sam Seder.

Seder took steps to make sure Steven was available and couldn't just say, "oh I got a thing", used Ethan from H3h3 to rope a dope him.

And then came the showdown and Steven bailed.

cowardly mod censoring for “civility” over the call for a righteous fight against fascists.

Stewart is training his wordplay right now like a Rocky montage.

I hope the security is light.

The thing I hate though is whenever someone interviews Elon it seems like they can't help but crawl right up his ass. If you wanna see real cringe look at Bill Maher's interview with him. Now he criticizes Elon, but when he had him on I'm pretty sure he was what that AI video of Trump and Elon was trained on.

Maybe stew beef is different, but I figure if Elon detects he can't get the interview he wants he'll bail.

I am so excited to tell you this.

When Tucker Carlson (right-wing shithead) was hosting a show called 'Crossfire,' and still wearing a stupid bow tie, he made the mistake of agreeing to have Jon Stewart on his show. Here's a link to the wikipedia page. There is a whole page for this one incident.

Here is a line that might appeal: "Three months after the appearance, Crossfire was cancelled and Carlson was fired; commentators differ as to how impactful it actually was, but generally agree that Stewart was at least part of the reason."

And one thing is for sure, Tucker Carlson may have kept his incredibly stupid "man just asking questions" expression... but he stopped wearing that stupid bow tie.
Bill Maher is pretty damn conservative tbh
- Bill Maher is pretty damn conservative tbh
  
  nah, he's just an aging narcissist cunt
Don lemon interview was not bad

The chances of him being sober for this are next to 0

Chances of him not attending are also close to 0.
- Think you mean 100, as a chance of not attending being 0 would mean he would be attending.

Just keep his security goons away from the production facilities and equipment. In fact, they should hire three times the amount of security Musk has. Just remember, they have been deputized by the U.S. Marshall Service, so they have the power to arrest people.

I would pay cold hard cash to see this live

They should have tapings, no?

"I will do it if the show airs unedited."

That's the best outcome. Therefore he will be a scaredy musk and elon his way out of the show. Hopefully it will be like his attempt to elon his way out of buying shitter and we will get a full unedited interview and at least a couple of people might realize he is so full of shit and a damned junky.

Edit: corrected autocorrect and my own spelling.

Make it live to make sure everyone sees it

I'm pretty sure every interview is segmented to run ads and if it goes badly then that will be his complaint. See! they cut it! They went to commercial but that's when I Said Very Smart Things™ that They Don't Want You To Hear™©® so I'm suing them to take the video down.

you best believe jon is willing and able to release raw video of the entire thing.

my money is on musk backing out - the same way he slunk off with his tail between his legs over the absolutely stupid "mma match" with that fool of a zuck(erberg)
- I wish he'd followed through. I am almost certain that even if Zuckerbot had set himself to stun, it would have been too much for Musk's potato body to handle.
Pretty sure they still upload "full interviews" to youtube

I hope he shows up blasted on ketamine and drools on himself.

Unedited interviews are bold, but let’s see if Musk handles real scrutiny without edits.

😺😺😺😺

Be sure to provide appropriate furniture.

It will never happen.

Please Lord, let this debate actually happen.

Can't give a worse interview than kanye west right?

I would like Stewart to do this to Musk:

Popcorn gif

Stewart is smart and funny, but he's nice. He's going to be pleasant and welcoming, smiling and cracking jokes with one of the evilest men alive. Very good comedian against a very polished, smiling Nazi.

This is not an easy match like Stewart against two unprepared lightweights (Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala) on Crossfire. Elon Musk, for all his myriad faults, is not stupid, and will be well prepped.

I'm not excited about it. Too much could go wrong.

What about Musk makes you think he's polished? The time he randomly accused a diver of being a pedophile because he got his feelings hurt? Or when he told his customers to go fuck themselves? When he did a Nazi salute?

The dude is the the most idiotic and unpolished famous person ever.
- What about Musk makes you think he’s polished?
  
  Hmmmm. Nothing, I guess. 'Polished' is probably some unwanted prejudice baked into me, thinking a rich bastard must know how to present himself as businesslike to bankers and other such bastards, but sweet jeebers maybe you're right. I've certainly never seen Musk be anything but an unwiped ass.
That was 21 years ago! And where others might expect someone to slow down, I think Jon Stewart's spending all the time since then writing, interviewing, producing content, and fighting in Congress will suit him well. I think we'll see a meaner, hungrier Stewart.

I really hope we get a chance to see it.
- I really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really hope you're right.
- Go listen to his recent podcast interview with Raheem Jeffries where he just let's Jeffries gaslight him for an hour. It was embarrassing.

So they want to platform a fascist? Giving a nazi access to their audience which he normally wouldn't reach? This guy is part of an ongoing coup and they want to give him primetime attention?

They must think that they are very clever.

No, no, they want to embarrass a fascist.
- That dude is on of the most embarrassing men on earth right now. Just look at his Twitter account. You cant really emberass him any more than he already did himself.
You can't platform the richest man in the world.

Jon Stewart regularly hosts chuds like Bill O'Reliy. The reason these people keep going on his show is because he hasn't held feet to fire.

Stewart is steeped in neoliberalisim and both-sidesism, don't be surprised if he pitches softballs.

yes, this is how interviewers must conduct interviews in order to have guests agree to be interviewed, to some extent

Did you see his latest interview with Bill O'Reilly though? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7qZE4C_neo

Or famously, Jon Stewart on Crossfire? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE

EDIT Also in the Crossfire one your exact concern is addressed by Jon directly

EDIT again, also his "both-sidesism" seems to be being critical of both MAGA right wing nonsense and neoliberal capitalist nonsense, but I have not seen much criticism from him of progressives. If you have some examples, I'd watch them. So I don't see how that he is "steeped in neoliberalism" because he is often critcal of it.
- I'd point at his excellent interview with AOC not even a month ago: https://youtu.be/eeheoxWzf2o
- Puppets are very serious business.
It seems pretty obvious that you're putting Stewart in the same camp as Bill Maher.

'The Daily Show' accepts Musk's terms for interview with Stewart: 'We'd be delighted'

Please Lord, let this debate actually happen.