Noted deep thinker Elon Musk suffered a cerebral blue screen of death when he was asked to explain why he thought Zohran Mamdani was a liar.
On an episode of the Joe Rogan Experience uploaded days before Mumdani’s victory, Musk launched into a snippy rant about the newly elected mayor of New York City after complaining about the glowing press coverage he received. In Musk’s view, Mamdani was nothing more than a “charismatic swindler.”
“You got to hand it to him, he does — he can light up a stage,” Musk said of Mamdani. “But he’s just been a swindler his entire life.”
But after a lengthy aside on the evils of socialism, the centibillionaire’s gloating got derailed when Rogan sucker-punched Musk with a tough question: what has Mamdani actually done that makes him a swindler?
“Ummm,” Musk ponders, before stuttering into a series of words seemingly intended as an answer. “Well I guess if you say — uh, what, I mean, if you say, if you say to any audience whatever that audience wants to hear, uh, instead of, what, instead of having a consistent message, I would say that is a swindling thing to do.”
“Umm, and uhh, yeah,” he adds, nodding his head. “Umm…”
He takes a sagacious pause.
“Yeah,” he finishes.
ROGAN: “What makes Mamdani a swindler?”
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