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

[rlmorel]

[ClearCase_guy]

I worked at a (somewhat small) newspaper for some years. I can say the following:

1) Journalists think that they are very, very smart.
2) Journalists in general have NO areas of expertise. They do not understand history, literature, music, art, science, engineering, economics, political theory, or anything else.
3) Journalists can type fast and churn out words. This is their only skill.

[Lurker]

Brilliant.

L

[rlmorel]

"...“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”..." (Theodore Roosevelt)

[Flaming Conservative]

Someone just got their clock cleaned.

[Son-Joshua]

Elon was a darling of the left before he decided that the right was smarter. Just like the president who was once a democrat. What we need to understand, these “journalists” are hacks for the left - period. They are driven by their warped perception of reality with massive egos that blind them.

[Tench_Coxe]

"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?"

That question could be asked of a large chunk of the Left who spout off, including the self styled geniuses in Hollywood.

[Romulus]

This. The ignorance of American journalists is staggering.

[Obadiah]

I remain convinced that people who go into journalism are among the least talented and dumbest among the general population. They use smugness and false arrogance to mask their shortcomings.

[Shady]

Well, that’s one Presstitute that didn’t finish the job...

[maro]

On topics like this, I would ask one kind of question. Did you take math and science classes in college? What did you take?

[Reily]

Well said!

The TV journalists have to have one other skill - look and sound good on TB!

[NorthMountain]

The ignorance of American journalists is staggering.

Journalists in other countries aren't any better. Don't let the posh "foreign" accents fool you.

[escapefromboston]

No one is above criticism.
Not journalsits
not elon

[ClearCase_guy]

“Hello. I’m pretty. I do not have a speech impediment. I expect to be paid $3M a year.”

[marktwain]

Note to riverrunner: Here is the Roosevelt quote you liked.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Well written. Thank you.

[null and void]

Not Baba Walters, eh?

[rlmorel]

Heh, how I wish I could take credit for that quote! Many conservatives don’t really like Theodore Roosevelt, and I understand it completely. He did things that were anathema to conservatism, but...damn.

There are qualities about him personally I do appreciate. The guy had real physical courage, I give him that.