Elon Musk
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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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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