AOC accuses Elon Musk of being insecure and of having 'an ego problem'



Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has accused Elon Musk of being insecure and having "an ego problem."

Musk, who recently acquired Twitter, announced on Tuesday that he plans to offer an $8 monthly subscription for users to get verified and access certain site features — he blasted the social media platform's present "lords & peasants system" for determining who gets a verification badge as "bulls**t."

"Lmao at a billionaire earnestly trying to sell people on the idea that 'free speech' is actually a $8/mo subscription plan," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted.

Musk then mocked the left-wing lawmaker by replying, "Your feedback is appreciated, now pay $8." In another tweet, Musk highlighted that the lawmaker's campaign is selling $58 sweatshirts.

"My workers are union, have full healthcare + benefits like childcare help, and every one is paid a living wage. Proceeds go to community acts like tutoring underserved kids. You're a union buster with an ego problem who pockets the change from underpaying and mistreating people," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted.

\u201c@elonmusk My workers are union, have full healthcare + benefits like childcare help, and every one is paid a living wage. Proceeds go to community acts like tutoring underserved kids.\n\nYou\u2019re a union buster with an ego problem who pockets the change from underpaying and mistreating people.\u201d
— Elon Musk (@Elon Musk) 1667425439

"Also my twitter mentions/notifications conveniently aren’t working tonight, so I was informed via text that I seem to have gotten under a certain billionaire’s skin," the lawmaker tweeted. "Just a reminder that money will never by your way out of insecurity, folks."

Musk has indicated that it will be weeks before users who were ousted from the platform will be reinstated. "Twitter will not allow anyone who was de-platformed for violating Twitter rules back on platform until we have a clear process for doing so, which will take at least a few more weeks," he noted. "Twitter's content moderation council will include representatives with widely divergent views, which will certainly include the civil rights community and groups who face hate-fueled violence," he tweeted.

\u201c@yoyoel @JGreenblattADL @YaelEisenstat @rashadrobinson @JGo4Justice @normanlschen @DerrickNAACP @TheBushCenter @SindyBenavides Twitter's content moderation council will include representatives with widely divergent views, which will certainly include the civil rights community and groups who face hate-fueled violence\u201d
— Yoel Roth (@Yoel Roth) 1667352293

Climate alarmist declares that, 'There's no way to solve the climate crisis without ending capitalism'



People around the globe continue to promote climate alarmism, warning that the world must act to avert a supposed crisis. And in some cases, proponents of this ideology openly advocate for the redistribution of wealth and the end of capitalism.

"There's no way to solve the climate crisis without ending capitalism," Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis tweeted on Friday. "Constant economic growth cannot exist on a planet with finite resources."

"The good news is that moving towards sharing economies, local control, low-carbon work like art & care, and dismantling colonialism is the world God longs for us to enjoy. The work to save a habitable planet is the future we deserve," Lewis tweeted.

Constant economic growth cannot exist on a planet with finite resources.
— Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis (@Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis) 1650634801

NASA climate scientist Peter Kalmus tweeted, "As I often say, we can't solve Earth breakdown without a redistribution of wealth from the rich to the poor and justice for most affected peoples, and we need to raise up their voices. My message shouldn't really be "polarizing" to anyone but the rich and fossil fuel executives."

"The reason I'm not a fan of Earth Day is that it's so mismatched from what we're facing. It's almost insulting. Earth is our mother, we owe everything we have to her, and she needs to be priority #1. Taking care of her necessarily means a just distribution of resources as well," Kalmus has also tweeted.

The European Commission and the International Energy Agency are suggesting that people cut down on energy usage by taking actions such as driving slower on highways and changing the temperature to which they set the thermostat: "Using less energy is a concrete way for Europeans to reduce their bills, cut reliance on Russian fossil fuels, demonstrate solidarity with the Ukrainian people, and support climate action," a report declares.

Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York said during a town hall event on Wednesday that there has been discussion about a need for affluent countries to commit to transferring wealth so other nations can shift toward using renewable energy.

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AOC inaccurately claims that she represents 'as many or more people than Joe Manchin'



Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York said during a Monday interview on MSNBC that she represents as many or possibly even more people than Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), a claim which appears to be inaccurate.

Manchin, who has long voiced concerns about the massive Build Back Better spending legislation being pushed by the Biden administration and Democratic lawmakers, said during an interview on "Fox News Sunday" that he will not vote to pass the plan.

Manchin told Brett Baier of Fox News, "I've always said this Brett, if I can't ... explain it to the people of West Virginia, I can't vote for it. And I cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation, I just can't. I've tried everything humanly possible. I can't get there," Manchin said.

During an interview on "Morning Joe," Ocasio-Cortez pushed back against Manchin's comment.

"So, the idea that Joe Manchin says he can't explain this back home to his people, is a farce," she said. The congresswoman said that it represents a "farce" when it comes to the issue of "democracy, because I represent more, or just, just as many or more people than Joe Manchin does. Perhaps more."

The congresswoman's suggestion appears to be factually inaccurate.

New York's 14th Congressional District has an estimated population of 696,664, based on the 2019 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The total population of West Virginia was 1,793,716, the 2020 census found, according to bureau.

Manchin, who as a senator represents the entire state of West Virginia, earned more than 290,000 votes during his 2018 re-election bid, while Ocasio-Cortez earned more than 152,000 votes when she won her 2020 re-election contest.

"God forbid, that, that they might actually have to show up and stand or, or sit and actually have to talk and actually live out the threat of their filibuster. I mean, it is, it is unconscionable, the way that the Senate operates. It's fundamentally undemocratic," Ocasio-Cortez said during the interview on MSNBC.

The progressive congresswoman said "what we really need to do is crackdown on the Senate" and "implement some institutional discipline."

She said that lawmakers who "want to threaten dysfunction" should have to make their stand inperson and engage in a "talking filibuster," though she said "that is the compromise because there shouldn't even be a filibuster in the first place."

"And we cannot allow, we cannot allow the climate crisis to become a catastrophe ... which is what is represented right now with this bill going by the wayside or being trimmed down any further. Because as I've said in the House Democratic caucus, some of us are actually gonna have to live on this planet in 50 years. And right now, what happens right now determines how bad it's going to be," she said.

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House votes to censure GOP Rep. Paul Gosar and strip him of committee assignments over doctored anime clip



The U.S. House of Representatives voted 223-207 on Wednesday to censure Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) and remove him from committee assignments for posting to his social media an edited video which depicts cartoon violence, but which Gosar insists was not meant as any sort of threat.

The video includes a portion in which Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez's (D-N.Y.) face is superimposed over a cartoon figure that gets attacked by a character that has Gosar's face superimposed on it.

It also includes a section in which a figure with Gosar's face leaps to attack President Joe Biden, though the video pauses in midair and the attack is not shown.

During remarks on Wednesday, Gosar said that he rejected the notion "that the cartoon from my office is dangerous or threatening. It was not. And I reject the false narrative categorically. I do not espouse violence towards anyone. I never have," he said.

"I voluntarily took the cartoon down, not because it was itself a threat, but because some thought it was," Gosar said.

While Gosar deleted the video from his social media accounts, it is still viewable on his personal Twitter feed because he recently re-tweeted a post that includes the video. Gosar re-tweeted Blaze Media's Elijah Schaffer, who had re-tweeted a post that included the video.

Content warning: The bare backside of the figure that gets attacked appears to be briefly visible:

Really well done. We love @DrPaulGosar, don\u2019t we folks?https://twitter.com/nuancebro/status/1461092714154500105\u00a0\u2026

— ELIJAH (@ElijahSchaffer) 1637189169

Two Republican lawmakers — Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois — voted with Democrats in favor of censuring Gosar and removing him from serving on the House Committee on Natural Resources and the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. Another GOP lawmaker voted present.

Cheney and Kinzinger are the only GOP lawmakers serving on the House select committee tasked with probing the Jan. 6 episode at the U.S. Capitol.

The two GOP lawmakers were also among the ten House Republicans to vote in favor of impeaching then-President Donald Trump earlier this year in the wake of the Capitol breach. The Senate did not vote on the issue until Trump had already departed from office, and while multiple Republicans joined Democrats in voting to convict, the chamber failed to reach the threshold necessary to convict.