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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    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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    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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    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 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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        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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        16 hours ago

        “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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      And always has been. He’s a snake oil salesman who has never built a product someone wants to buy in his life. When his creativity is given room (aka the Cybertruck) it’s overwhelmingly unsuccessful.

      His start was in PayPal where he was just a money guy with stupid ideas that kept getting shot down. It’s why he owns x.com he’d wanted to rebrand PayPal to X after the PayPal brand became well entrenched (which was an absolutely awful idea).

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        Actually he got his start selling some random website to Compaq in the middle of the “everyone throw their money at random websites” craze of the late 90s. So he was among the folks that won the dot-com lottery.

        Then he took his winnings and rolled it into x.com, which was solidly on a trajectory to fail. He also wasn’t allowed to be in charge.

        Then after the merger with the much more popular PayPal (which could have done just fine without X.com ever coming along), Elon somehow got put in charge. He wanted to run the whole thing on Windows and it was a terrible terrible decision, with Paypal only being saved by kicking Elon out. Despite his role being just briefly in charge of it taking a wildly successful product and nearly destroying it only to be kicked out, people popularly credited him as ‘the Paypal guy’.

        So a guy got lucky and got $22 million from Compaq, and then $170 million from eBay because he still had a ton of PayPal stock despite no longer allowed to make decisions about it, and was carried by his “he was in charge of PayPal!” creds into Tesla, rewriting history of that company to declare himself a visionary founder rather than an early investor after the fact.

        All the while the media sucking up to him hard, putting him in various cameos and references to portray him as a great mind of modern times, a real life Tony Stark. Feeding his ego while people close to him personally wrote about what a loser douchebag he was.

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          I’ve read most of this stuff; someone needs to do a 1.5-2 hour documentary on this guy and just what a total FRAUD he is, and how nearly everything most people think they “know” about fElon is just flat wrong.

          Know of anything like that? Even a reputable thing on Youtube would be nice if someone summarized it all.

          I’d like to point people at such resource(s) when I can. Even some lefties I know don’t really quite understand just how fraudulent fElon is; they still think “he’s a smart guy with good ideas and really pushed things forward for cars, etc.”

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          He’s also currently running both Tesla and X into the ground… and he’d probably run SpaceX into the ground if it didn’t start off with incredibly passionate and intelligent people.

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            Tesla only survives because apparently missions of assholes have no morals and keep buying them. Including at least one person that reads this comment.

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              Their cars are shit; even before I knew what a complete asshole he was I was a bit wary of the fit and finish of them…but now, might as well be driving around a car with donvict, Klan, Nazi and confederate shit all over it, for what it signals now.

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            Yeah. Was crafting a response to someone else’s comment. But yours basically sums up my thoughts. Dude is so incompetent. He either hired the right people to dodge his incompetent. Which probably takes insane genius. Lmfao or the people have such passion they work around the insane dude to achieve greatness for humanity. Which Elon tries to claim as his achievements. I’ve seen the reports from staffs at his companies. I wonder if any of them have ever baited and switched his ass with a fancy showboating meeting. Then just doing what they need to ignoring the entire showboat BS.

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    Whatever debatable intelligence he once had is gone, fried by drugs and huffing Xitter.

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      From what I have read, he’s basically always been this way, but it was more hidden. People who knew him personally would write about his nature, but the media swept all that under the rug because they wanted to relish in the concept of a hotshot tech genius billionaire, and his ego drove him to be quite eager to play that part.

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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?