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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    He is legit a complete fuckfing moron. You want 1 reason, and 1 reason only? He just got access to medicare and medicaid data, HIPAA is not something you fuck with, the fines alone could literally bankrupt musk at his all time richest point, which I think is now, the largest HIPAA breach I could quickly find was 113 thousand people. Cost 5.5 million in fines alone, and was sent to the DOJ for possible criminal charges… How many peoples information is in Medicare and Medicaid? All of them? Oh dear, musk can’t afford what he is doing…

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      I love your optimism here but what makes you so confident the DOJ are going to be able to do anything? I sadly think we’re way past the point of expecting normal laws to apply to these assholes

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      You are assuming he will face any consequences. He is completely shielded by Trump and has been granted authority to do whatever he wants. And even if he is breaking the law - the law literally means nothing if it is not enforced. The US government has been effectively coup’d from within and cannot and will not regulate or stop itself.

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      I don’t think you realize how rich musk is.

      If you scaled the numbers above to the whole US population, the fine would be something around $17 Billion.

      Musk’s net worth is over 20x that!

      Extreme inequality causes extreme instability

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    Musk is pretty normal for billionaires. Completely detached from reality, drunk on power and his own ego, convinced his every idea is divine inspiration, except the god is him.

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    A lot of people have this misconception that rich people are “good with money”. They’re good at taking money from other people.

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    This is the way. Elon Musk loves to lie about his IQ and pretend he’s smarter than he is. Trump’s favorite insult is ‘low IQ’. Find something that digs into their skin and make them throw a tantrum.

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      IQ measures whether you need more education for schooling it does not test your overall ability to think. You can have a high IQ and do a lot of stupid shit.

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        That’s true! But I don’t think Trump or Elon understand that. They find it offensive.

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    I bet that on top of wanting to be sure nothing that fElon is doing is disrupted or slowed down in any way, the qons didn’t allow fElon to be brought in for questioning, because they don’t want everyone to realize just how fucking stupid he really is.

    fElon is a weird guy, but also not even half as intelligent as the carefully crafted myth he’s made for himself.

    Can you imagine the dipshit being grilled by members of Congress? The asshat wouldn’t be able to play edgy edgelord dooooosssshbro in that venue. He’d just look like the childish idiot that he totally is. And the cons don’t want to see the spell broken when it comes to the ridiculous myth of fElon.

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    The summary provided by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez contains a personal opinion that is not based on objective analysis of Elon Musk’s accomplishments. Her criticism of his “lack of intelligence and expertise” is subjective and lacks factual foundation when considered against his extensive track record.

    Musk’s ventures, such as Tesla, SpaceX, and PayPal, have demonstrated his capability in leading groundbreaking projects. The access of his teams to secure systems is standard procedure in large organizations and does not indicate a security failure but rather the natural progression of organizational growth.

    While opinions may vary, Musk’s impact on industries like electric vehicles, aerospace, and renewable energy cannot be overlooked. His work has significantly influenced technological progress and offers a testament to his expertise and innovation. Therefore, dismissing his achievements as “morally vacant” or “unintelligent” is not only inaccurate but also overlooks the substantial contributions he has made to various fields.

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      This definitely reads like chat-gpt right? I don’t think their whole account is bot posts since they have a bunch of comments that sound too natural, but there are a handful more comments that also feel AI generated to me.

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      He hasn’t innovated for shit. He buys other people’s stuff, renames it and takes credit for it. Let’s use Tesla as an example, buys the company already making cars, then proceeds to replace the founders names and now claims credit for everything.

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        Totally not true, my friends. Let me break it down for y’all.

        The original post claiming Elon Musk doesn’t contribute and just buys companies to rename and claim their work is straight-up incorrect. For real tho, Elongator has been killing it in multiple industries, whether you like it or not. Let’s dive in:

        Tesla: While he didn’t start the company, he sure did make some major moves. In 2004, he invested $6.35 million to become Tesla’s biggest shareholder and chairman. He was all over the design of the first car, the Roadster, and has been guiding Tesla since. Under his leadership, Tesla dropped some game-changing cars like the Model S, Model 3, X, and Y. Not just electric cars, but innovation in the industry. Can’t deny that.

        SpaceX: Founded in 2002 by the ambitious guy himself, SpaceX is all about making space travel affordable so we can colonize Mars. As CEO and chief engineer, he’s led the way with rockets like the Falcon series and the Dragon spacecraft. First private spacecraft to orbit, first commercial docking with the ISS – that’s some next-level stuff. Reusable rockets? Yeah, that’s changing the game big time.

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            This is the new ad-hominem of 2025. Can’t refute someone’s points? It must be evil AI.

            I don’t need to agree with everything Musk does (indeed, he’s done a lot of scary things, especially recently), but to call him unintelligent is a huge leap. For what he has done for space travel ALONE he deserves a lot of credit. Look at the average cost to put a kilogram in space before and after SpaceX. Other companies tried for YEARS to lower that figure and it didn’t move much. But sure, go ahead and dunk on him if you like. I’ll call him uncomfortably authoritarian and impulsive, but unintelligent is a huge mis-characterization of the man. Not everyone that makes choices you don’t agree with are unintelligent…

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              Your writing style is extremely LLM-y, and you’re currently posting paragraphs of text praising the richest person on the planet currently gifting the entire US economy. So forgive me for accusing you of being a pro-Musk LLM. I guess you’re just a pro-Musk moron instead.

              Here’s a hint - when someone you admire does stuff like Nazi salutes and pose genuine threats to the US constitution, you’re allowed to stop admiring that person.

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          Lmao, “all over it”

          Tesla and SpaceX both have entire teams of people dedicated to making sure Musk has as little impact on the companies as possible because he’s such a fuckin’ buffoon. Take a look at Twitter, the company he bought and wasn’t prepared to keep him off the reins. It absolutely shit tanked. Same thing with his time at PayPal. Everything he touches turns to absolute shit. The only things he has that are successful, Tesla and SpaceX, are successful literally actually because the people in those companies that do the real work male sure he can’t fuck it up.

          The piece of Tesla he’s had the most impact on is the Cybertruck and its universally hailed as an absolute and utter failure. Put your tongue away, Musk ain’t gonna share his money with you dude.

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        What are you, an AI? No real person would love Boris!

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        As if building Zip2, PayPal, Tesla and SpaceX from scratch had no hurdles

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          He didn’t build Tesla from scratch.

          This guy is so fucking allergic to hurdles he pays other people to play video games for him so he can claim he’s in the top skill brackets.

          Being rich does not make you smart, it just insulates you from the consequences of failure. A lot of really fucking stupid people also happen to be filthy rich. Elon Musk is no exception, regardless of the mythology people have built around him.

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        I like how you say that like you know what they are lol

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          They aren’t particularly difficult to understand but it seems you might have some trouble figuring it out… Good luck out there little guy.

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    “The enemy is a helpless mind bogglingly stupid moron and, at the same time, a genius of cunning, destruction and evil strategy, capable of undermining every one of our moves and vigilant of our every step”

    The stunlock continues at pace

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    She’s outside the Overton Window. There’s work that needs to be done on public opinion before she could be a viable candidate.

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        And Fox News engaged in a multi-decade Overton Window moving effort to make someone like him a viable candidate.

        Progressives want to shortcut the work, and just swing for the fences every four years. Trump is the product of a decades long campaign to make conservative ideas not sound crazy.

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          OTOH, there’s a lot of Bernie-Trump voters. People don’t want business as usual, and that’s all the democrats really want to offer.

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      You don’t move the Overton from the inside, you pull from the extremes so compromise still lands in your favor.

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        Didn’t say how you move it: but you have to move it before AOC is a candidate. You don’t move it (and also win) by just starting with her as a candidate.

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        Yep. Weirdly, they thought EVs were going to make them gay, but now they loooooove fElon. Probably because they now realize he’s maybe just as stupid as donvict.

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      In my job I’ve dealt with a number of multi-millionaires and I’m usually struck by just how dumb and incompetent they are.

      The economy does not reward hard work or intelligence, it rewards hubris and megalomania.

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        Those qualities occasionally help people break through to wealth, but mostly the economy rewards already being rich. Having rich parents is how you become rich.

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        “But I have no intelligence but plenty of hubris with aspirations of megalomania” - The Average American.

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          The funny thing is that as much hubris as some folks show, they have nothing on those that have it in them to get to multi-millionaire status.

          You’ll see someone so full of hubris and just talking out of their ass, but faced with a question or statement that derails their talk, even those people will kind of pause while their brain struggles with what the hell just happened, before carrying on generally still out of their ass, but they stammered for a bit to get back to that hubris.

          Those that have the real hubris in them, don’t even bat an eye. They don’t even consider for a millisecond that information inconsistent with their world view is worth processing.

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    His dock doesn’t float, his wonder fuel is a disaster, his grasp of disruption theory is remedial at best, he didn’t design the puzzle boxes, he didn’t write the mystery and voila, it all adds up, the key to this entire case, and it was staring me right in the face. Like everyone in the world I assumed that Elon Musk was a complicated genius. But why?