Jon Stewart on Thursday invited Elon Musk to join his “Weekly Show” podcast, but only after torching the tech billionaire over his rhetoric on alleged voter fraud from undocumented workers — and the supposed danger they pose to U.S. elections.
Stewart made microscopic mincemeat of Musk during this week’s episode.
“Let’s talk about the artist formerly known as Twitter,” Stewart said. “And this gets us to the crux of the irony. Elon Musk, for a long time and really incredibly consistently and vehemently, has pushed this idea that undocumented noncitizen voting is rampant.”
He added, “He’s tweeted about it, I think 1,300 times or interacted with stories about it. The irony of it all is that this guy’s platform, this guy’s algorithm, which he is in charge of, I see his shit on my feed all the time, I don’t ever interact with it, there’s no reason for it to be there.”
Stewart went on to argue that the billionaire X owner has impacted U.S. politics more than “undocumented noncitizen voting” ever will, arguing that Musk continues the “warping of our democracy” by modifying the X algorithm and using his unparalleled wealth to his benefit.
