Democratic leaders go after Musk in public but continue to invest in Tesla. This is one example why people can’t stand Dem leadership. They talk out both sides of their mouths. My question is can you still invest in Tesla while also thinking what you think about Musk and not look hypocritical? Also, is this an example of fake outrage against Musk?
https://www.businessinsider.com/democrats-invested-elon-musk-tesla-stock-2025-3
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Democratic leaders go after Musk in public but continue to invest in Tesla. This is one example why people can’t stand Dem leadership. They talk out both sides of their mouths. My question is can you still invest in Tesla while also thinking what you think about Musk and not look hypocritical? Also, is this an example of fake outrage against Musk?
https://www.businessinsider.com/democrats-invested-elon-musk-tesla-stock-2025-3
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tesla-hypocrisy-dems-continue-investing-elon-musk-company-despite-painting-him-villain
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Politicians are always hypocrites
The politicians yes, fuck anyone that did this.
Vilification is a time proven approach to vote harvesting. Luckily for us not all Democrats do this.
I don’t get it man. If we buy Tesla shares, we’re hypocrites. But if we sell them it’s cancel culture. I really don’t give a fuck what Conservatives think. They spend all day lying about us and what we think and believe so I really don’t care about what you people have to say anymore.
Sure is. These people should be primaried.
Is this like the fake con outrage when they went against the beer company then kept buying the company’s beer?
Or the con hypocrisy when they said respect the judiciary and now they’re attacking the independent judiciary?
Or the “back the blue” but defend the murder of capitol police?
mikeys327
A small number of democratic congressmen, none of whom I know by name, or have made any other significant nationwide news, have bought Tesla stock since Trumps inauguration?
That’s it? That’s the story?
Wooow, some people bought some stocks while some people sold stocks!?
I bought a chicken salad yesterday while supporting laws to regulate and prevent slave labor. Am I a hypocrite too?
So let’s look at how this is structured.
They start by quoting AOC, then provide a list of other democrats who are invested in Tesla.
> Democrats have largely ignored these attacks and continued to hit Musk with personal attacks such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, D-N.Y., calling him “sympathetic to Nazis” and “one of the most unintelligent billionaires I have ever met.”
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>Despite their rhetoric, some Democrats are investors in the company currently bearing the brunt of the Musk hatred. Reps. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., Vicente Gonzalez, D-Texas, Gil Cisneros, D-Calif., and Ro Khanna, D-Calif., have all purchased Tesla shares since President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
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> As of March 2025, several other House Democrats, including Reps. Pat Ryan, D-N.Y., Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., Adam Smith, D-Wash., and Dwight Evans, D-Pa., also remain invested in Tesla.
Note that at no time is AOC accused of holding Tesla stock.
So how does that make AOC a hypocrite, exactly?
Just because some liberals have done something stupid does not invalidate the opinion of all liberals. Trust me, as a conservative, you don’t want that rule applied. If it applied, you’d be responsible for everything that QAnon does. As it stands, I can’t get conservatives to take responsibility for things that Greene, Boebert, or even Trump do.
I can’t possibly think of something I care about less.
Is it hypocritical? Yes
Is it a “dem” thing? No, republicans are arguably much worse offenders of this type of behaviour
Is the outrage against musk fake? No
If the purpose of this question is to see if liberals are going to die on a hill defending Democratic leadership, then you came here at the wrong time.
Democrats are a center-right party. They support the status quo and capital interests, they are all products of privilege and power. They are also the only option anyone left of center has. So they play us up as if they support us. But they don’t. While liberal constituents are outraged by right wing hypocrisy and cruelty there’s really nothing we can do unless we all start running for political positions too.
What makes you think we like these democrats? In a general election I will always vote for the less worse candidate. (I’ve never voted one of these milquetoast fakes in a primary.)
And when it comes to fake outrage, conservatives consistently outdo democrats. Outrage over the debt, yet they keep raising it. Outrage over freedom of speech yet they disappear students from peaceful protests. Outrage over CRT when the obscure academic idea isn’t even taught in college undergrad, much less elementary school. I could go on.
“dUh HyPoCrIsY” lmaooooooooooo
Oh my god, you found four selfish bastards???
Better blame them all. Absolutely conservative logic.
A lot of hypocrisy hunting is dumb, but this one is particularly silly.
Your article points out that one of those people didn’t even make an active decision because their money is under management.
Want to be hopper sake you’d have to point it someone who specifically said that a good thing for Americans to do and then subsequently buying shares.
Even if you found that specific person, that would be an indictment of them specifically and not liberals in general and not even elected Democrats in general.
Although I don’t know why everyone of these people didn’t do what my wife did and take a quick short position. Awfully nice of Elon to provide us a big chunk of quick cash that we can spend on a summer vacation to Europe this year. Though maybe we should instead spend it on a trip to Canada.
> Also, is this an example of fake outrage against Musk?
This is a common thing right wingers seems to imagine that there’s a lot of “fake outrage” on the left. No. The vast majority of people from the center to left wing have extremely reasonable reasons to be furious about all this shit going on due to Musk. Just because some random dem elected still owns tesla stocks and has not self-flagellated themselves/their portfolio in a fit of rage does not change that. I own VOO which contains TESLA stock, that doesn’t detract at all from me being outraged/wanting the stock to plummet into the earth and Musk’s power with it.
First off, Elon Musk didn’t found Tesla, and last I checked the company has over 100,000 employees.
Equating Tesla with Musk is a bit like equating the state of California with Gavin Newsom.
Sure, you could boycott California to make a stand or whatever. Or, you could be angry with people investing in California. But, in the larger scheme of things, people invest in what they think is a good investment, and it doesn’t really have much to do with Gavin Newsom.
Would I personally invest in Tesla? Maybe not, but I don’t see why I’d care if someone else does.
They don’t like what he’s doing with DOGE. It truly doesn’t have anything to do with Tesla even though a lot of people are taking it out on Tesla. And I don’t think it’s fake outrage against at all. People are legitimately outraged with him.
None nearly as extreme or numerous as fake MAGA outrage.
I literally cannot not imagine caring less that these random Congress people invested in Tesla.
not sure if this is asked in good faith, if it is — obviously tesla is part of the s&p500, any investment tracking the index (i.e. 401k) will include tesla stock. 401k equivalent for congressmen (‘thrift savings plan’) doesn’t allow to buy or sell individual stocks.
Hi,
It kinda feels like you’re going for a “gotcha!” moment here, but…
We don’t worship leadership like y’all do. If our leadership does something stupid/bad/etc… Fuck ’em!
We’re well aware that some Dem politicians are lying sacks of shit, and we’re not afraid to SAY that they’re lying sacks of shit, and we’ll try to get rid of them.
If they invested in Tesla? I hope they lost a SHIT TON of money. Serves ’em right. Fuck ’em!
Now, at the same time, you trying to paint this as if ALL Dems are doing this? That’s kind of shitty. The Dem party is a big tent. We have Progressives and we have Blue Dog Democrats.
You’re not exposing anything here that we don’t know about. There’s no “gotcha”. We’re well aware that some of the Dems are pieces of shit, and we’ll do what we can.