Elon Musk Gets Publicly Humiliated Yet Again As Crowd Hurls Boos

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The crowd at a weekend show by comedian Dave Chappelle at an arena in San Francisco intensely booed billionaire Elon Musk when the controversial comic welcomed the man on stage.

Musk, who often sounds like how one might imagine an artificial intelligence desperately trying to seem human — but specifically in a way that would make them at home on the far-right, has recently delved only further into right-wing nonsense, from a call to prosecute Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health for supposed involvement in research that led to the COVID-19 pandemic to complaints about pronouns. Musk is also among those who like to complain about individuals and various corporate interests supposedly going “woke” — a word seemingly used far more by those complaining about whatever it actually represents than those who it supposedly describes.

On stage in San Francisco, Musk asked Chappelle about what he should say, to which the comedian replied by quipping — with an accompanying bit of logic behind the remark — that Musk should keep quiet. Musk just kind of awkwardly walked around like someone at the roll-out for a new tech product who’s somehow gotten lost on stage.

There were also cheers in the crowd, but a later assertion on Twitter from Musk that an overwhelming majority of the crowd response was supportive is contradicted by how mad Chappelle sounded in footage from the show at the crowd’s reaction. Chappelle mocked some of those booing as potentially among those who Musk has fired from Twitter in his still comparatively brief time at the top of the company. The comedian also quipped that those jeering Musk were in lower-quality seats and offered general praise for Musk’s business ambitions in space travel. Musk, doing some kind of odd dance thing, eventually also belted out: “I’m rich, bitch!” which is a piece of dialogue from a past show helmed by Chappelle. None of it was particularly compelling or met with an unequivocal outpouring of support from the crowd, according to available video footage.

Musk has garnered scrutiny for issues ranging from the delay in revealing the scope of his investments in Twitter he made before his acquisition of the company was finalized to the involvement of Saudi money in the biggest investments into the company and the lax standards for basic policy, like how users could at least previously secure verified accounts in the names of public figures. Verification is generally meant to indicate the claimed owner of an account is, in fact, its actual owner, and with governmental entities and officials using social media sites like Twitter, verification can have a potential importance for national security policy.

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