{"id":1495148,"date":"2022-05-27T17:14:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T21:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1495148"},"modified":"2022-05-27T17:14:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T21:14:42","slug":"elon-musk-issues-dare-to-ocasio-cortez-after-she-attacked-billionaires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-issues-dare-to-ocasio-cortez-after-she-attacked-billionaires\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Issues \u2018Dare\u2019 To Ocasio-Cortez After She Attacked Billionaires"},"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\">20<\/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%2Felon-musk-issues-dare-to-ocasio-cortez-after-she-attacked-billionaires%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=1495148&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--><p>Elon Musk challenged Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY) this week to poll her followers on Twitter to see who they trusted less, billionaires or politicians.<\/p>\n<p>Musk polled his nearly 100 million Twitter followers on Thursday, asking them, \u201cWho do you trust less? Real question.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More than 3 million people responded to the poll, with approximately 75% saying that they trusted politicians less.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAOC I dare you to run the same poll with your followers,\u201d Musk later added.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@aoc<\/a> I dare you to run the same poll with your followers<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1529975997356990464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Musk\u2019s challenge to Ocasio-Cortez comes after she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/elon-musk-mocks-ocasio-cortez-in-response-to-her-meltdown-over-billionaires\">attacked<\/a> billionaires late last month after Musk purchased Twitter for $44 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez tweeted, \u201cTired of having to collectively stress about what explosion of hate crimes is happening bc 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<\/p>\n<p>AOC\u2019s rant against billionaires continued on Twitter with her writing: \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<\/p>\n<p>\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,\u201d she added. \u201cAll 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>Musk mocked Ocasio-Cortez in response, writing, \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 lashed out at critics online after she was caught hanging out in Florida without a mask on.<\/p>\n<p>National Review\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/aoc-spotted-in-miami-beach-as-nyc-reports-record-covid-cases\/\">reported<\/a>\u00a0that, according to photographs obtained by the publication, Ocasio-Cortez was \u201cseated outside Doraku Sushi and Izakaya in Miami Beach Thursday afternoon, raising a cocktail in one hand and checking her phone in another.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Republicans are mad they can\u2019t date me they can just say that instead of projecting their sexual frustrations onto my boyfriend\u2019s feet,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez responded to one of the critics calling her out. \u201cYa creepy weirdos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk\u2019s challenge to AOC this week comes after AOC said that she would \u201clove to switch\u201d her Tesla for something else after Musk teased her on Twitter. Musk is the CEO and co-founder of Tesla.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the time, it was the only EV that could get me from New York to Washington on like one, or one-and-a-half charges,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-05-24\/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-is-voting-republican-but-democrats-still-like-electric-cars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told Bloomberg News<\/a>. \u201cI would love to switch.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk challenged Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY) this week to poll her followers on Twitter to see who they trusted less, billionaires or politicians. Musk polled his nearly 100 million Twitter followers on Thursday, asking them, \u201cWho do you trust less? Real question.\u201d More than 3 million people responded to the poll, with approximately &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1481046,"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-1495148","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\/1495148","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=1495148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1481046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1495148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1495148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1495148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}