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Elon Musk has mastered the art of trolling on Twitter and, in particular, trolling the far left.
On Friday New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made a comment that he believed was directed to him and he smoked her with one sentence.
“Tired 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,” she said.
Tired 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
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 29, 2022
With a war between Russia and Ukraine, inflation hitting records and people struggling to make ends meet this is an interesting thing to be stressed about.
But Musk had the perfect response to her.
“Stop hitting on me, I’m really shy,” he said with a blushing emoji.
Stop hitting on me, I’m really shy ☺️
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 29, 2022
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez initially responded to his tweet with “I was talking about Zuckerberg but ok,” but then she deleted the tweet.
So @AOC thinks Tucker and Theil took Zuckerberg out to dinner? I guess not, she deleted it her lying tweet. pic.twitter.com/YjFOqeU02Z
— Don't Tread On MAGA (@Tim_Nagle) April 29, 2022
Before those tweets were other by Rep. Ocasio-Cortez that appeared to be swipes at Musk on Friday.
“Billionaires be like ‘the extreme far left is taking over’ when the ‘extreme far left’ in the US is ‘medicine shouldn’t bankrupt you,’ ‘ wages should cover rent,’ & ‘maybe it’s bad that Wall St companies profit off mass surveillance, manufactured housing crises, and caging people,’” she said.
“The number of billionaires in the US couldn’t even fill an apartment building, but the number of people they negatively impact is only growing. All the US billionaire votes combined couldn’t even come in 2nd for an NY city council election. That’s why they stay pressed,” she said.
The number of billionaires in the US couldn’t even fill an apartment building, but the number of people they negatively impact is only growing.
All the US billionaire votes combined couldn’t even come in 2nd for an NY city council election. That’s why they stay pressed
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 29, 2022
Those tweets were likely a response to tweets Musk made that shredded the far left.
“The far left hates everyone, themselves included!” he tweeted. He later followed that with another tweet giving a tepid condemnation of the “far-right.”
The far left hates everyone, themselves included!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 29, 2022
“But I’m no fan of the far right either. Let’s have less hate and more love,” he said.
But I’m no fan of the far right either.
Let’s have less hate and more love.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 29, 2022
And he sent another tweet that said “I strongly supported Obama for President, but today’s Democratic Party has been hijacked by extremists.”
I strongly supported Obama for President, but today’s Democratic Party has been hijacked by extremists
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 29, 2022
It came after a tweet he sent on Thursday where he showed himself becoming more right-leaning.
The tweet was a drawing of stick figures. One represents a liberal, another represents a conservative, and one represents Musk.
The meme shows him in 2008 being left of center and the liberal with a caption that said: “my fellow liberal.”
On the next line it shows 2012 and Musk is in the same place, but as the sides get more extreme and the center moves Musk is now only slightly to the left of the center and the liberal is now further away with the caption “my fellow liberal?” this time posed as a question.
By the line that shows 2021, it shows the center moving far to the left and Musk now being closer to the conservative and on the right of center with the liberal now labeled as a “’ woke’ progressive’ and calling him a “bigot.”
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 28, 2022
But his tweet to Rep. Ocasio-Cortez was likely a reference to when she accused conservatives of wanting to date her after they criticized her for going to Florida and not wearing a mask in some photos.
“1. If Leftists like AOC actually thought mandates and masking worked, they wouldn’t be frolicking in free FL. 2. Her guy is showing his gross pale male feet in public (not at a pool/beach) with hideous sandals. O for 2…,” Steve Cortes said with a photo of the representative and her boyfriend, which drew the ire of Rep. Ocasio-Cortez in December.
“If Republicans are mad they can’t date me they can just say that instead of projecting their sexual frustrations onto my boyfriend’s feet. Ya creepy weirdos,” she said in response to his tweet.
It’s starting to get old ignoring the very obvious, strange, and deranged sexual frustrations that underpin the Republican fixation on me, women,& LGBT+ people in general.
These people clearly need therapy, won’t do it, and use politics as their outlet instead. It’s really weird
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) December 31, 2021
“It’s starting to get old ignoring the very obvious, strange, and deranged sexual frustrations that underpin the Republican fixation on me, women,& LGBT+ people in general. These people clearly need therapy, won’t do it, and use politics as their outlet instead. It’s really weird,” she said.
