Elon Musk fancies himself equal elements comedic genius and free speech warrior. Seems he sucks at each.
Musk has by no means missed an opportunity to pat himself on the again for his free speech bona fides and for sticking it to the Large Imply Leftists, who hate free speech and made comedy unlawful. So he should have come out weapons a-blazin’ to decry ABC for suspending Jimmy Kimmel, proper?
Yeah, not a lot. All Musk may supply up was a paltry little bit of presidency suck-up on X, saying that Kimmel is “disgusting.”
Come on, man. What occurred to comedy being authorized now, because of your magnanimous buy of Twitter to be able to protect it?
Keep in mind how bleak it was when it was clear that Musk’s buy of the social media platform was imminent and everybody needed to faux that he was essentially the most absolute of free speech absolutists—which he completely shouldn’t be?
If he had been, he might need taken challenge with Ed Martin, one in every of President Donald Trump’s jack-of-all-trades bullies, who despatched a proper, threatening letter to Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia of California after he referred to as Musk a dick. An actual free speech supporter, you’d assume, would have instructed Martin to knock it off as a substitute of letting him use the total drive of the federal authorities to assault somebody for calling Musk a imply identify.
Elon Musk is seen with a chainsaw at CPAC 2025.
A part of why Musk can’t really ever be humorous is that he’s far too thin-skinned. That is the man who’s so gentle that, when individuals booed him throughout his shock look at a Dave Chappelle present, he was a helpless little child, whining, “Dave, what shall I say?”.
However Musk has a repair for all of that: pleasant audiences. Like, extraordinarily pleasant, extraordinarily unfunny audiences.
Take CPAC 2025, for instance. Within the midst of his heyday working the so-called Division of Authorities Effectivity and eviscerating the federal authorities from tip to tail, Musk confirmed up on the right-wing convention with a chainsaw—as a result of whenever you’re juiced out of your gourd on ketamine and surrounded by yes-men, that stuff most likely appears humorous. And it was there that Musk complained about how “the left” made comedy “illegal.”
Musk has principally grow to be the dwelling embodiment of one thing really humorous:
Somebody as wildly thin-skinned as Elon needs a world the place everybody has to faux that he’s humorous similar to we now have to faux that he’s defending freedom.
However in the actual world, he’s simply an unfunny, fascist hack.
