Ellison: “This guy is landing rockets on robot drone rafts in the ocean, and you’re saying he doesn’t know what he’s doing. You ever land a rocket?” “Who are you? Why should I believe you as opposed to my friend Elon?”

X.com ^ | Apr 19, 2026 | Dustin @r0ck3t23

[ransomnote]

Dustin

@r0ck3t23

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Apr 19

Larry Ellison just asked the one question no journalist on Earth can answer.

A Wall Street Journal writer told Ellison to his face that Elon Musk doesn’t know what he’s doing.

Ellison didn’t argue. Didn’t get emotional. He just asked a question.

Ellison: “This guy is landing rockets on robot drone rafts in the ocean, and you’re saying he doesn’t know what he’s doing. You ever land a rocket?”

One question. No recovery.

Ellison: “Who are you? Why should I believe you as opposed to my friend Elon?”

This is the question the entire media class has been dodging for a decade. Who are you to judge? What have you built? What have you shipped? What problem have you solved that didn’t involve a keyboard and a deadline?

Ellison: “You’re there in front of your Apple Macintosh typing up an article saying Elon’s an idiot.”

They sit behind a laptop they did not engineer. Using a network they did not build. Running on silicon they cannot explain. To tell the world that the man sending humans to space doesn’t know what he’s doing.

They have never built anything heavier than a Word document.

And they publish it with absolute certainty.

That’s the part that should disturb you. Not the criticism. The confidence behind it. The total absence of self-awareness it takes to judge disciplines you wouldn’t last a single semester in.

Musk does not operate in opinion. He operates in the physical layer of the universe where the math closes or the rocket does not come home.

His critics operate in a text editor.

He built the vehicle that carries NASA astronauts to the International Space Station. The satellite constellation delivering internet to active war zones. The EV that forced every automaker on Earth to abandon their combustion roadmap.

His loudest critics built a byline.

So why the coordinated hatred?

Because they lost the leash.

The attacks didn’t escalate because Musk got worse at engineering. They escalated because he bought X. He cracked open the algorithm. He handed the public square back to the people. And he shattered their ability to control what you’re allowed to think.

They don’t hate the engineer.

They hate that the engineer took their monopoly.

You cannot cancel a rocket. You cannot publish a hit piece on gravity. You cannot edit the laws of physics.

They own the syntax.

He owns the physics.

One of them is going to Mars.

 

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: elonmusk; falcon9; larryellison; mars; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; spacex; starship; wallstreeturinal

[Reily]

Typo

TB = TV

[Terry L Smith]

I am a retired first gen geek, with NASA certificates in hand.
I am a long time reader of elder scifi, with Mssr Robert A. Heinlein at the Pinnacle. A universe where private enterprise builds all the hardware, tools, weapons, and vehicles that inhabit those stories. And that hardware is always not right off the shelf, yet not falling apart, like a 1911 pistol made during WW2, and had been on a GI’s hipin the Pacific island hopping campaigns. Not new, but still deadly.

Mssr. Elon has my support, my standing with him

Since watching Mssr. Shephard:s flight in class, the dream of “space” has been one of many dreams of spaceflight, and not mangled via government.

[eyeamok]

My Starlink is the best internet I have ever had since compuserve days

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Seems that you misspelled “arrogance”.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

I just assumed an Ebonics translation.

[FlipWilson]

You don’t hate the media enough.

Snoddy schmucks who have zero accomplishment to their name and simply sit in their pajamas and write an article or, even when not in their PJ’s, lie about what they did or didn’t experience.

[Red Badger]

What I hate most of all is their smug attitude..................

[kosciusko51]

I think the point is that Musk’s critics in the media criticize him not because of what he does, but because he doesn’t conform to their way of thinking.

It’s lazy thinking on their part.

[bert]

Except when it comes to Elon Musk, those who criticize are to ignorant to recognize what his genius is all about

Critics measuring -5 on the intellect scale are whining about Musk who is at least 100 on the same scale

Many here are just jealous. They covet his ability and wealth

[minnesota_bound]

They never mention that he is a “African American”...
A real one.