Elon Musk
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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October 22, 2024 — John Hinderaker
This ties in directly with the post immediately below about the Democrats’ attempt to punish McDonalds, because a McDonalds restaurant allowed Donald Trump to do a campaign stop there. Elon Musk has emerged as our most important champion of free speech, a concept that is anathema to the Democratic Party. Not only that, he has actually endorsed Donald Trump for president, and has brought his considerable skills and resources to
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October 22, 2024 — John Hinderaker
President Trump is proposing to put Elon Musk in charge of improving government efficiency, perhaps the most Herculean task ever undertaken by anyone. But Elon may be up to it, based on his own encounters with government regulators. Here, he hilariously recounts his efforts to convince federal regulators that the risk of his rocket landing on a shark or a whale, upon re-entry, is not a serious one: This story
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October 17, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
Elon Musk is suing California’s Coastal Commission (CCC), which recently voted to block more SpaceX launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County. As commissioner Gretchen Newsom (no relation to Gavin) put it, “Elon Musk is hopping about the country, spewing and tweeting political falsehoods and attacking FEMA while claiming his desire to help the hurricane victims with free Starlink access to the internet,” and so forth. “You
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October 8, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
On Sunday night, fans saw the Dallas Cowboys defeat the Pittsburgh Steelers 20-17. What they didn’t see was Elon Musk in the stands, fresh off his appearance with Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, to commemorate the July 13 assassination attempt. “NBC choose not to show Elon Musk at the Cowboys vs Steelers game,” posted former Steeler Antonio Brown, noting that “Taylor Swift gets shown every game she’s at.” Brown, a Super
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October 6, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Elon Musk took the stage when President Trump returned to Butler, Pennsylvania last night. I have posted video of his remarks below. As I write this morning, YouTube records that the video has received more than 2,000,000 views. Elon is a great American. Thus the hatred of the left directed at him. Among other things, he has performed invaluable service to the cause of free speech. He commented last night,
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August 12, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Tonight Elon Musk is doing a live event with Donald Trump, and the censors of the left are in a panic. The European Union this morning sent the following letter to Musk, which, once you pierce through the bureaucratic gobbledygook, essentially says “You must bow down to our censorship!” (Click to embiggen.) Time to start exporting tar and feathers to Brussels.
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April 21, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Does this quote sound familiar? “The electric automobile will quickly and easily take precedence over all other kinds of motor carriages as soon as an effective battery of light weight is discovered.” That’s the Los Angeles Times in 1901. How about this one? “Prices on electric cars will continue to drop until they are within reach of the average family.” That’s the Washington Post, 1915. At Substack, Robert Bryce headlines:
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November 18, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Controversy has been swirling around Elon Musk and Twitter. Musk issued a tweet that was at best stupid and at worst anti-Semitic: You have said the actual truth — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 15, 2023 Musk’s tweet apparently was part of his running battle with the Anti-Defamation League, which you can read about here. A number of companies, including IBM and Apple, have suspended advertising on Twitter, and the Biden
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April 17, 2023 — Elizabeth Stauffer
At a private Manhattan fundraiser in 2016, then-candidate Hillary Clinton famously described Donald Trump supporters as “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it.” This was Clinton’s updated version of former President Barack Obama’s snide remark in 2008 about the people living in small-town Pennsylvania, whom he depicted as bitter folks who “cling to guns or religion or antipathy.” Liberals are fond of making these blanket statements about Republicans
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March 9, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Today the House’s Weaponization Committee held a hearing in which Democrats attacked Twitter and the “so-called journalists” who revealed the Twitter Files: “Twitter Files” reporters Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger held firm Thursday against an onslaught of attacks from Democrats who referred to them as “so-called journalists” and demanded they give up their sources during a tense House subcommittee hearing. “The Republicans have brought in two of [Twitter CEO] Elon
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January 5, 2023 — Scott Johnson
I have followed the Twitter Files as posted by Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, Bari Weiss, and David Zweig in a series of Notes on the Twitter Files. Taibbi has now posted a set of capsule summaries of each of the 12 installments posted on Twitter so far at his TK News site on Substack. It is posted here in accessible form. Most of Taibbi’s posts at TK News are behind
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December 16, 2022 — John Hinderaker
Elon Musk has suspended the Twitter accounts of six Democratic Party operatives from CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post, etc. They violated Twitter’s terms of service by linking to a site that tracks the location of Musk’s private jet. The rationale is strong: the whereabouts of the jet is not public information, but someone apparently has software that is nevertheless able to track it, and these operatives apparently
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December 16, 2022 — Scott Johnson
The Twitter Files reveal the suppression of the New York Post’s reporting on Biden family corruption at the behest of the deep state authorities with whom Twitter was collaborating. The absurd letter by 51 former intelligence officials reported by Natasha Bertrand and published by Politico was a key piece of the puzzle (to the extent it was a puzzle). Holman Jenkins takes it up in his Wall Street Journal column
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December 15, 2022 — Scott Johnson
At her Free Press site Bari Weiss has posted background on the reporting behind the Twitter Files I have noted so far. She calls her backgrounder “Our reporting at Twitter.” (The URL suggests she might have called it “Why we went to Twitter.”) It answers certain of the questions I raised in my previous “Notes on the Twitter Files.” She writes (links omitted): [W]e—the journalist Matt Taibbi; investigative reporters connected
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