It doesn’t seem like Chelsea Handler’s horizontal life will ever embrace Elon Musk.
Over the weekend, New York journal contributing editor Kara Swisher interviewed Handler at South by Southwest (SXSW) for her podcast, “On With Kara Swisher.”
Though their interview hasn’t aired on Swisher’s podcast as of Monday, the journalist did add a few clips to her Instagram Story, together with one wherein Swisher revealed a suggestion she made to the comic earlier than their interview.
“I told her to take one from the team and date Elon Musk,” Swisher admitted to a laughing viewers.
“Yeah, I’m not that much of a teammate,” Handler replied.
“He has the money,” Swisher interjected with a giggle.
“I don’t think I can do it. I mean, there’s a lot I would do for this country,” Handler mentioned. “But having sex with Elon Musk is not one of them. I can’t. I can’t.”
This wasn’t all Handler needed to say in regards to the tech billionaire, who has been given a nonelected “special government employee” place in President Donald Trump’s administration.
Handler appeared to be simply as bewildered and dismayed as many Individuals by Musk’s position because the “de facto” head of the newly created Division of Authorities Effectivity, which up to now has proved to be something however environment friendly. The one factor Musk’s DOGE appears to have completed up to now is inflicting chaos at authorities businesses and hiring again nonpartisan federal workers who had been illegally fired in a large layoff spree the White Home has mentioned is supposed to chop “waste, fraud and abuse.”
Many Democratic leaders imagine DOGE spending cuts are merely a thinly veiled automobile to protect a 2017 tax lower for the rich that’s about to run out.
“When they cut the government to smithereens or fire people or break the law, it’s all in service of tax breaks for their billionaire buddies,” Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) instructed HuffPost in February.
Handler appeared to agree with Schumer’s take, at the least in line with one other clip that was uploaded to Swisher’s Instagram Story.
“I mean did anyone vote for Elon Musk to be the president?” Handler requested the SXSW viewers within the second clip. “I mean, can’t we come together — Republicans and Democrats — and say we don’t want that. Can’t we agree on that at least?”
The Day by day Beast, which appears to have obtained a bigger portion of Handler’s interview with Swisher, reported that, at one level within the dialog, Handler admitted she doesn’t “have answers” on how Democrats ought to push again in opposition to Trump’s extra egregious coverage selections. However she did point out one efficient manner voters may convey their disapproval.
“Trump is not out for anybody but rich people, as we all know,” Handler mentioned, per the Day by day Beast. “Everyone who voted for him in the hopes of something else or some aspirational hope of a better life, a better economy, they’re wrong. That’s not going to happen.”
Handler then reportedly added: “People aren’t going to be pleased with this when the next midterms come around.”
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At one level, Swisher famous that Handler is among the many people who find themselves prone to profit from Trump’s tax cuts. “Yeah, I don’t need the help,” the comic mentioned, per the Day by day Beast. “I’m happy to give my money to the people.”
