Elon Musk
March 22, 2025 — John Hinderaker
The Democrats are engaged in an odd “anti-oligarchy” tour. Odd, because the Democrats are the party of the rich and the establishment. It would more accurately be called an “anti-populism” tour. Also, I don’t know how many Americans know the meaning of the word “oligarchy.” I think what the Democrats mean by “oligarchy” is Elon Musk. But in modern times, individual rich people have generally not been unpopular in America.
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March 20, 2025 — Scott Johnson
When Minnesota Governor Tim Walz needs a pick-me-up, he checks the current decline in Tesla’s stock price. That’s somewhat weird, but he’s just pandering to the hatred of Elon Musk that anyone with half a brain ca see all around us. Does Walz celebrate the war now being waged on Tesla dealerships too? It can’t be good for Tesla’s stock. I doubt that’s a question he’ll field from the local
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March 18, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Today another federal judge threw sand in the Trump administration’s gears, in an order that is more important than the others that we have seen so far. Plaintiffs in the case are unnamed employees of USAID. Defendants are Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency. The judge is Theodore Chuang of the District of Maryland. Judge Chuang granted the plaintiffs’ motion for a temporary restraining order, finding that their
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March 17, 2025 — John Hinderaker
The story of stranded NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore deserves to be much better known. Williams and Wilmore have been stuck in the International Space Station since June 2024, nine months ago. They were scheduled to be in the space station for just eight days. One can only imagine the horror of being stranded in space for nine months, with no imminent hope of rescue. Boeing equipment that
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March 15, 2025 — John Hinderaker
That was one of the battle cries of the Gingrich rebellion of 1994, but unfortunately, it didn’t happen. While the grass roots movement of that era succeeded in many ways, it completely failed to defund the Left. On the contrary. Today, the Left is rolling in dough. This is partly because most rich people who are active in politics are on the Left, but probably more importantly, because government continues
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March 10, 2025 — John Hinderaker
On the American Left, the fascist impulse is never far below the surface. At the moment, the leftists’ number one target is Elon Musk. They are invading Tesla showrooms, vandalizing Teslas, selling bumper stickers denouncing Musk–ironically!–as a fascist, because he wants to shrink the size of government and reduce its power. You can’t make this stuff up. BREAKING: HUNDREDS of New Yorkers have swarmed and shut down the Tesla dealer
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February 21, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Democrats have long operated with a sense of impunity. They can use the levers of power, including the criminal law, against their enemies, but it seems never to have occurred to them that the tables might be turned. Thus, Democrats are surprised that President Trump’s Department of Justice is taking threats of violence against federal officials seriously. Democratic Congressman Robert Garcia, while being interviewed on CNN, was asked what Democrats
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February 13, 2025 — Steven Hayward
In today’s science news, scientists have announced the discovery of the most energetic neutrino ever: Astrophysicists have observed the most energetic neutrino ever. The particle — which probably came from a distant galaxy — was spotted by the Cubic Kilometre Neutrino Telescope (KM3NeT), a collection of light-detecting glass spheres on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea, on 13 February 2023. Researchers monitoring the telescope did not notice the detection until
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January 9, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Elon Musk has created a furor in Germany by endorsing the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in that country’s upcoming election. Musk says that AfD is Germany’s last hope; naturally, the other parties are accusing him of “election interference.” Earlier today, Musk interviewed AfD leader Alice Weidel, that party’s candidate for Chancellor, on Twitter: Here's the full conversation from earlier today between Elon Musk and Alice Weidel, co-chairwoman of Germany's
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January 4, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Elon Musk ignited a firestorm of controversy in Germany by penning a column in Die Welt in which he supported the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the election scheduled for next month. AfD is a “far right” European party, which means that it doubts the wisdom of mass third-world immigration. Given their experience in recent years, most Germans share that skepticism; hence the fear in establishment circles that AfD
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January 2, 2025 — Steven Hayward
Elon Musk has raised eyebrows to DefCon1 with his recent endorsement of the insurgent AfD (“Alternative for Germany”) Party in Germany’s snap election next month, in the pages of DieWelt, one of Germany’s leading newspapers. AfD has a checkered character, to put it mildly, but like Marine le Pen in France, it seems the unified front of the established political parties against considering AfD as part of any governing coalition
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January 2, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Following up on John’s post regarding the terrorist attack outside the Trump International Hotel yesterday in Las Vegas, I want to note that police now say camp-fuel canisters and large firework mortars were stuffed into the back of a Tesla Cybertruck. These materials caused the explosion that killed the driver and inflicted minor injuries on seven others. Elon Musk and Tesla immediately provided assistance to law enforcement in the investigation.
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December 28, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Liberal news outlets are gleefully reporting that the MAGA coalition is falling apart over–surprisingly–immigration. Thus, Axios writes: A virtual right-wing civil war has broken out over race, class, immigration and the future of President-elect Trump’s movement, and [Elon] Musk is increasingly at odds with Trump’s historic base. The schism may force Trump to ultimately take sides between the largely white, working-class supporters who first made MAGA succeed, and the techno-libertarian
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December 18, 2024 — John Hinderaker
GOP House leadership negotiated what appears to be a lousy continuing resolution with the Democrats. It is 1,500 pages long and dropped with barely enough time for legislators to review it, which should alone be reason to vote No. What is the worst that could happen? A “government shutdown,” in which the government unfortunately does not shut down. I would welcome that outcome. Enter DOGE, in the form of Elon
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November 24, 2024 — John Hinderaker
My organization conducts a quarterly poll of registered voters in Minnesota, the results of which are published in our magazine. The polling is done by Meeting Street Insights. Our pollster was in the field last week, and the results will be published in the January issue of Thinking Minnesota. We asked questions that were intended to help explain why people voted the way they did in this year’s presidential election.
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October 29, 2024 — Scott Johnson
They’ve got the condescending blather of the Obamas. They have other showbiz celebrities. We’ve got Elon Musk. Now he is out stumping Pennsylvania for Trump. I haven’t seen or read much about it before Salena Zito caught up with him campaigning in Roxian. The long video below captures him speaking on stage in Lancaster County this past Monday in front of an American flag. It is a scene that visually
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October 27, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
“I’m with Elon,” claimed California Gov. Gavin Newsom in the wake of Musk’s lawsuit against the California Coastal Commission, but the Coiffed One was quick to clarify. “Look, I’m not helping the legal case,” the governor explained. “You can’t bring up that explicit level of politics.” In his view, the Commission should have confined its debate to the merits of the permit but that’s as far as it goes. “These
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