In a video as interesting as it was pearl-clutchingly hysteric, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortes (AOC) freaked out over the idea that X (formerly Twitter) owner Elon Musk, incredibly wealthy thanks to his Tesla and Space X holdings, can control the public narrative through the algorithm on X. She declared that “reading” is the solution.
As background, her freakout appears to have stemmed, at least in part, from Elon Musk’s involvement in ending the House’s attempt to ram through a 1500-page spending bill that included a voluminous amount of leftist pork and spending irrelevant to the stated goal of emergency disaster relief for the communities hammered by the hurricanes.
For example, at one point, she tweeted, hilariously using Elon’s platform despite detesting him and his ownership of it, “How about the House add campaign finance reform to the CR so Republicans and Democrats alike can stop being so scared about what a billionaire man-child thinks before they vote on anything around here.”
At another point, she angrily posted about the slimmed-down bill not including a pediatric cancer research spending provision, declaring, without evidence, that Elon is corruptly shielding the defense budget from criticism. She posted, “They’re cutting healthcare to kids because Elon gets his money from Defense contracts so they’ll never touch the military budget.”
And in still another post, AOC declared, again without evidence, “Republicans are trying to shut down the government because they want to set up massive tax cuts for the rich next year while cutting Social Security and Medicare. They know Americans don’t support that, so they’re holding the entire government hostage to try to force it. No.”
In any case, in her video post about Elon Musk, AOC declared that reading is how leftist can resist Elon’s algorithm, saying, “Real power is in everyday people. And if you can control the algorithms of what they see, if you can control the narratives of what they believe through propaganda, through artificial amplification, which is what Elon does he like, sets his tweets to be the most retweeted, etc, then you can control them, so we’re gonna have to read a lot.” Watch her here:
Commenting on a post from End Wokeness about her video, one commenter said, “AOC just confirmed that this was what the Democrats have been doing for years. She’s panicking because they no longer have that stronghold on us.” Another commenter wrote, “AOC is big mad that we are beating democrats at their own game which they’ve been doing for decades.”
In another X freakout moment, AOC angrily claimed that Republicans are taking healthcare away from veterans in response to a post from Elon in which he said “Defund the ACLU.” AOC, freaking out about that, posted, “They receive $0 in taxpayer funds. Meanwhile, y’all are proposing defunding Veteran’s healthcare, Medicare, and Social Security when you think no one is watching. Doesn’t get lower than gutting some of the only lifelines left for veterans, seniors, widows, and the disabled.”
Featured image credit: screengrab from the embedded video
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