Joe Rogan hails Elon Musk as ‘a movie star type of superhero’ after Twitter takeover

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Tesla head’s divisive $44 billion takeover of Twitter Monday. Rogan heaped praise on the billionaire during a Tuesday episode of the “Joe Rogan Experience” with guest Jessica Kirston.“Oh s–t, oh s–t, Elon Musk just bought Twitter,” gushed the former “Fear Factor” host, who has received fierce backlash over his alleged anti-vaxxer comments, among other controversies. “We got a movie star cut type of a superhero.

Like a movie and there was a guy who was like a hero in the movie who happens to be a billionaire who does wild s–t.”He added, “Like makes his own rockets and drills under the city with electric cars and then buys Twitter.”The comic, who has had Musk on his show a whopping three times, was reacting to news that Twitter’s board of directors had accepted the entrepreneur’s massive offer to buy and privatize the company.

The 50-year-old SpaceX visionary, who will pay $54.20 per share for the firm, has long stated that he wanted to acquire Twitter in order to restore the platform’s status as a bastion of free speech. “Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated,” Musk said in a statement.However, the power play split Twitter users with right-wing personalities lavishing praise upon the supposed free speech crusader.

Meanwhile, pearl-clutching leftist celebrities threatened to depart the platform, citing fears that the regime change would turn it into a haven for hate — although as of Wednesday morning, the majority of the “Twitter quitter’s” accounts were still up and running.