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‘He’s Incompetent, He’s a Thief, He’s a Nazi’: Rep Jamaal Bowman Goes There in Fiery CNN Segment on Elon Musk (www.mediaite.com)

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Former Democratic congressman Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) called Elon Musk a “thief” and a “Nazi” during a fiery CNN segment Thursday night.

After Joe Borelli, the ex-Republican leader on the New York City Council, argued that much of the discontent at Republican congressmen’s town hall events were protests organized by Democrats, Bowman interrupted to insist that “that’s not true.”

“That’s not true. And this shows, again, the American people do not trust Elon Musk,” began Bowman. “And Elon Musk is incompetent in his position. And how do we know? Because they fired tens of thousands of people, it was challenged in court. The court said the people have to go back, and now the people are coming back. He’s incompetent, he’s a thief, he’s a Nazi, and people don’t trust him, period.”

Followup - Musk is threatening to sue

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (3 children)

One of my favorite things about Democrats is how progressive they pretend to be when they have little power to do anything, and then the one area where they had leverage they simply complied with Republican demands.

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

I agree with your sentiment but Bowman was a member of the squad and seriously progressive.

He lost his reelection because AIPAC (a lobbying group for the genocidal Israeli apartheid regime) spent more than 14.5 million dollars in his district during the campaign to unseat him, a record for the group.

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

Interesting info. Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

He wasn’t a senator, so this is 14.5 million dollars they spent in one congressional district in one state for one seat of congress…. They did a similar for another member of the squad, I believe Katie Porter maybe? I’m forgetting her name…

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

Cori Bush.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Thanks I think Katie porter was the one where Schumer or someone donated to the republican primary so she would loose the primary…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

It's a box you check. For the most part people check it so they have access to vote in the primaries and have more of a say in who their representative might be. Just because someone checked that box doesn't mean they all believe in the same things. A good example is Donald Trump was a Democrat because he said their policies were better for the economy. That doesn't mean he was a better person when he had that box checked, he was still sexually assaulting women left and right and taking flights with Epstein. That said, a Democrat from Kentucky, is probably a lot further right leaning than a Democrat from California. Democrats don't have a set of beliefs they all believe in. It just means they are left of wanting a dictatorship at this point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Former Democratic congressman

Yeah.