Ask A Genius 889: Elon Musk
Author(s): Rick Rosner and Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Ask A Genius
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2024/02/04
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Rick Rosner: So, as you may know, Elon Musk bought Twitter more than a year ago now and has presided over making it a haven for right-wing lunatics and assholes relaxing a lot of the quality control that got people in trouble for saying heinous bullshit. So, many good people have left, and that’s increased the concentration, aggressiveness and glee of the a-holes. In the case of me, it made me more of an a-hole in reaction to all those fucking a-holes. That’s thing one. Thing two is Jeffrey Epstein, as you know, is a now-dead social climber who knew the very highest echelons of celebrities in America and also coerced a lot of young women, many of them underage, into sex, which is rape. Somebody underage cannot consent to sex, so manipulating them into sex um is rape which he did. He became wealthy and liked to fly people to his private Island on his jet. When you go on a plane, your flight record is kept. There’s a flight manifest that lists everybody who’s on the flight, and I guess a lot of the creepy sex shit happened on his Island. So, it’s a big deal to be listed on one of his flight manifests. They released some of his flight manifests in 2021. Bill Clinton was listed, and Trump was listed quite a few times. There are a lot of pictures of Trump and Epstein together. They have a lot of images of Epstein with many people, but Epstein and Trump seem to share the same creepiness, maybe.
A new list: some more flight manifests were supposed to be released today, though I guess it’s now been delayed until the 22nd. Aaron Rodgers, the injured New York Jets quarterback, a great quarterback for the Green Bay Packers, has drifted into right-wing lunacy was on some sports show and said that when the list comes out, he’s looking forward to it because Jimmy Kimmel’s name is going to be on the list which is bullshit. I don’t know why he doesn’t like Jimmy Kimmel; maybe Jimmy told jokes about him, I don’t know. Jimmy Kimmel went on Twitter, X as it’s now called, and said, when you say stuff like that, you put my family at risk, and if you keep saying it, I’m going to sue you. So, Kimmel has been trending, and when I saw all this, I stepped in to retweet Kimmel and then add my own comments, which were scathing about the people who believe that Kimmel had anything to do with Epstein, which is just ridiculous bullshit.
I worked for Jimmy off and on for nearly two decades, and I know that he’s a good guy, a good Catholic, very charitable, very moral in a business with a lot of sleazy people in it. Still, he’s pretty unsleazy and very generous. He has never, to my knowledge, sexually exploited people. He’s a guy who played the clarinet in his high school marching band; he’s not a slick guy. Neither he nor Corolla operated that way. They did do The Man Show, which could give idiots, and there are just a ton of idiots going wild on Twitter tonight, the impression that they were somehow sex guys, which they aren’t. As much as it had pretty ladies jumping on trampolines, The Man Show made fun of guys for liking stuff like that, and Jimmy has never been a slick guy. He was never creepy and never did anything like that, and the kind of creepiness that Trump has shown is an idiot’s game. It’s just that it just never fucking happened.
So, I waited into it, and then this lady who’s an anti-vaxxer quack threatened to sue me, so I deleted one of my tweets to avoid a libel suit even though she’s like a complete charlatan. Some Charlatans make enough money from their scams or are rich enough. They have the money to sick lawyers on everybody. So, I’ve been like poking at this bullshit for the last couple of hours, and I should go away from it. Still, it’s very frustrating because I used to love Twitter, and now it’s turned into a world of assholes, and it’s attacking based on a scarless lie about a guy I know to be a good person.
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