Ocasio-Cortez: Musk ‘one of the most unintelligent billionaires I have ever met’
Ocasio-Cortez: Musk ‘one of the most unintelligent billionaires I have ever met’
Summary
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called Elon Musk “one of the most unintelligent billionaires” she has ever met.
She criticized DOGE for placing unqualified 19-year-olds in Treasury positions and failing to do “their homework.”
Musk’s team has accessed the Treasury’s $6 trillion payment system, raising security concerns. Ocasio-Cortez warned of his “lack of intelligence and expertise,” calling him “morally vacant.”
DOGE has also shut down USAID and moved it under the State Department.
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Can AOC run for president in the next election? Or is there some DNC blood oath that only shitty candidates can run?
According to an interview with her, the DNC runs strictly on seniority, so no
Wouldn't that make Bernie in charge at this point?
Only neoliberals can run
Yeah, Americans are notoriously love intelligent women, especially if they're not white.
I honestly think she has a real chance, TBH, although I can see the two cases where misogyny helped donvict into office....
I'm sure the cons and "liberal media" would do everything possible to paint her as the second coming of Karl Marx, though...even if most Americans actually agree with her policy positions on nearly everything, when you poll people on the issues.
But many Americans still think that Hillary (!) is some kind of radical leftist. Or that Obama is. Or that Biden is, or Kamala....after a while, trying to paint every single candidate as a Deep State radical Marxist fascist Communist socialist globalist (and every other stupid term they use with zero understanding of words) is going to wear off but still she has a HOOHAA is not white, so....
Hilary Clinton was the victim of a twenty plus year campaign to paint her as a bad choice for POTUS despite being one of the most qualified candidates in history.
The argument that the Butcher of Libya would have run the machinery of empire much more competently than Trump isn't an argument in her favor. I still wouldn't be able to bring myself to vote for Trump for harm reduction, but calling her qualified to hold a position which every holder in modern history has done things we hanged nazis for isn't the argument you think it is.
In a slightly saner world she would be nobrainer. Smart, young, active, has enormous support base. In current US political climate being smart and young is a disadvantage and being a woman is a political suicide, unless you're very, very conservative.
being smart and young is a disadvantage
I'm not so sure, Obama overcame being Bla, 2x, and part of that was due to him being smart (and young), I'm sure.
He.
Let's run another old white moderate
Dems won the election last time they did that.
Oh my god.
If they can actually win, then: fuck yeah.
I for some inexplicable reason feel optimistic about this. I think large majority wouldn't mind as long as she had popular platform.
If she had polulist conservative platform, sure, they will vote conservative anyway, and non-sexist part of the undecided could be swayed. With left leaning however, no chance. Her core base don't vote so they will fall off, a bunch of left leaning people prefer to be outraged to solutions so they will not vote because she will check 99 boxes out of 100 and for those people it might as well be satan incarnate, and a bunch of centrists will not vote for no woman something something sandwich. The rest are racists and will be outraged that a minority has an audacity to talk.
The democrats get beat the fuck out every time they run conservative. They plummet in popularity if they get elected and then betray their constituents by doing what the republicans want. Republicans will never elect a republican-lite when the real thing is right there.
Meanwhile left policy polls overwhelmingly well among everyone, especially people who actually might vote democrat, and it's even more popular once people start feeling its effects, as you can observe in any country that has free or near-free healthcare and public housing.
If her core base doesn't vote, how does she keep getting elected?
Mhmmm. Unfortunately most of these Americans aren’t USianb.
Yea she could, but pelosi will never let her pass. As long as pelosi and her "democrats" friends are around the dnc you won't see any bernie or aoc in control or any action leaning left.
The bitch is swimming in money since trump got elected.
https://finbold.com/nancy-pelosi-is-up-90-already-on-her-newest-stock-bet/
Pelosi etf is better than the sp500 🤣🤣
Its not a blood oath. They're a party on the center right. She's too far left for them.
"Too far left" for the Dems, yet popular with the so called "centrists". There is a lesson in there somewhere.
Someone left of someone on the right isn't necessarily left of center.