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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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[–] [email protected] -4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

"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

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's because the guy is a total fraud.

[–] xmunk 42 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Don't forget he almost ran it into the ground twice.

[–] xmunk 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

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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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The real answer is he oaid really good publicists to craft his image. The reality set in when he fired that team.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just watched this movie. Not a great one, but the critique on musk was spot on

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm lost, what movie are we talking about here?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago

Glass Onion

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I read somewhere that he was singing praises about the high from Jenkem back in the day.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Oh wow, this part of the wiki is either just a perfect match or a sign of trolling:

Fumito Ichinose and Shesa Jobisnifa, both anesthesia specialists from Boston who conducted a study on the effects of hydrogen sulfide gas, or "sewer gas," on mice…

Fumito and Jobisnifa working with fumes, sniffing

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Little Fume Itchy-Nose and She’s a Jobby-Sniffer

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Oh my godddd 🗿

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[–] __nobodynowhere 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No wonder he thinks education is redundant.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

His certainly was.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

How many has she met, and why is she meeting them outside of hearings?

Edit: looks like the quote was cut off for no reason:

“This dude is probably one of the most unintelligent billionaires I have ever met or seen or witnessed,” she said

Definitely a better way of phrasing it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

She's a member of Congress from NYC. She should meet a few. I would run into Jerry Spyre in Rockefeller Center all the damn time (he owns it) and obviously she would know Mike Bloomberg.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

...while I do several bumps of k.

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