{"id":1459042,"date":"2022-04-30T15:59:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T19:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1459042"},"modified":"2022-04-30T15:59:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T19:59:39","slug":"ocasio-cortez-suggests-elon-musk-trying-to-gain-clout-online-by-making-fun-of-her-own-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ocasio-cortez-suggests-elon-musk-trying-to-gain-clout-online-by-making-fun-of-her-own-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocasio-Cortez Suggests Elon Musk Trying To Gain Clout Online By Making Fun Of Her Own Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Focasio-cortez-suggests-elon-musk-trying-to-gain-clout-online-by-making-fun-of-her-own-words%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1459042&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/AOC1.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) suggested on Saturday that Elon Musk was trying to gain attention and clout online by using her own past sentiments to make fun of her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTired of having to collectively stress about what explosion of hate crimes is happening [because] some billionaire with an ego problem unilaterally controls a massive communication platform and skews it because Tucker Carlson or Peter Thiel took him to dinner and made him feel special,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Musk responded, \u201cStop hitting on me, I\u2019m really shy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk\u2019s response is a reference to a news story from late last year where Ocasio-Cortez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/elon-musk-mocks-ocasio-cortez-in-response-to-her-meltdown-over-billionaires\">lashed out<\/a> at critics online after she was caught hanging out in Florida without a mask on, suggesting that \u201cRepublicans are mad they can\u2019t date me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AOC initially responded to Musk by claiming that she was not talking about him, writing, \u201cI was talking about Zuckerberg but ok.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old lawmaker quickly <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.propublica.org\/politwoops\/tweet\/1520153729424576512\">deleted<\/a> the tweet, but later highlighted a screenshot of the entire exchange, including the deleted tweet, writing: \u201cLike I said, ego problems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked about why she deleted the tweet, AOC responded, \u201c<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">I try to avoid giving people with massive ego complexes like this the attention and QTs\/replies they crave and are seeking (when I can help it<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83e\udd37\ud83c\udffd\u200d\u2640\ufe0f like I said, ego problems <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IpyCkMadP8\">https:\/\/t.co\/IpyCkMadP8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1520405945628692481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 30, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I try to avoid giving people with massive ego complexes like this the attention and QTs\/replies they crave and are seeking (when I can help it \ud83d\ude09)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1520407155022704642?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 30, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSo you *were* talking about him,\u201d Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon responded.<\/p>\n<p>Breitbart News reporter Kristina Wong responded, \u201c\u2018Like I said\u2019 implies you were indeed talking about Elon, not Zuckerberg.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSounds like someone is lashing out cause they got severely ratioed,\u201d Radio host Mike Mason quipped.<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/aoc-implodes-after-elon-musk-attacks-the-far-left\">tweets<\/a> railing against billionaires come after Twitter\u2019s board of directors unanimously an acquisition by Musk earlier this week in a $44 billion sale valued at $54.20 per share.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBillionaires be like \u2018the extreme far left is taking over\u2019 when the \u2018extreme far left\u2019 in the US is \u2018medicine shouldn\u2019t bankrupt you,\u2019 \u2018wages should cover rent,\u2019 &#038; \u2018maybe it\u2019s bad that Wall St companies profit off mass surveillance, manufactured housing crises, and caging people,\u2019\u201d she tweeted. \u201cThe number of billionaires in the US couldn\u2019t even fill an apartment building, but the number of people they negatively impact is only growing. All the US billionaire votes combined couldn\u2019t even come in 2nd for an NY city council election. That\u2019s why they stay pressed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AOC\u2019s tweets came after Musk tweeted out a graphic illustrating how the political Left has moved further and further to the Left in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI strongly supported Obama for President, but today\u2019s Democratic Party has been hijacked by extremists,\u201d Musk wrote on Twitter, later adding: \u201cThe far left hates everyone, themselves included! But I\u2019m no fan of the far right either. Let\u2019s have less hate and more love.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Q9OjlJhi7f\">pic.twitter.com\/Q9OjlJhi7f<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1519735033950470144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. 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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) suggested on Saturday that Elon Musk was trying to gain attention and clout online by using her own past sentiments to make fun of her.\u201cTired of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1481097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1459042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1459042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1481097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1459042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1459042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1459042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}