Trace Gallagher: AOC Appears to Be Losing Badly in Twitter Feud with Elon Musk

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GALLAGHER: "Hey, Tucker. The back-and-forth here really is priceless, and it's kind of one-sided. First Elon Musk said that he would charge $8 a month for a variety of features on Twitter, so AOC shot back — quoting here — 'Laugh my a-- off at a billionaire earnestly trying to sell people the idea that free speech is actually 8 bucks a month.' Okay, pretty good banter — until Musk responded saying, 'Your feedback is appreciated, now pay $8.' Musk went further, posting a screenshot of a hoodie that AOC sells online for $58. They appear to be, by the way, hot sellers. Then AOC got hit again, this time she got hit from a venture capitalist named David Sachs who tweeted, 'Boy, why aren’t 'The New York Times,' 'Washington Post' and 'Atlantic' free? Their billionaires owner should stop being greedy and give us these products for free.' And AOC likely thought she was going to one-up the venture capitalist with this: 'Legacy newspapers actually care about verifying newsworthy sources and they don’t charge their journalists with priority placement.' Apparently she hasn’t seen 'The New York Times' or 'Washington Post' as of late. The whole thing started, of course, back in April when AOC went after Musk after he announced he wanted to buy Twitter. She wrote, quoting, 'Tired of having to collectively stress about what explosion of hate crimes is happening because some billionaire with an ego problem unilaterally controls a massive communication platform and skews it because Tucker Carlson and Peter Thiel took him to dinner and made him feel special.' Musk responded, 'Stop hitting on me. I'm really shy.' The battle, of course, goes on, but it’s late in the game, AOC appears to be losing badly.”