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]

That’s the “Talking Head” resume!

[PLMerite]

“They have never built anything heavier than a Word document.”

Brilliant.

[suthener]

“If they would drop the price down a bit, say to $185k and restrictions such as cats only as pets and no children allowed, I might consider it.”

I like to think the old time journalists at least had some life experience in which to get perspective on their stories. The new ones don’t. Their life experience is journalism school. My favorite is every time we have a hurricane, some 20 year old reporter will discover “ant balls”, where ants will form a ball and float on the water. Everybody knows this, but a young journalist will inevitably report it like they discovered it.

[Who is John Galt?]

...Journalists can type fast and churn out words. This is their only skill.

They are very similar to traditional politicians in that sense (although politicians don't often have to type fast). That's why journos & hack politicians get along so well - their lives are based on spewing BS...

;^)

[Alas Babylon!]

I’d like to read the article the dum bass wrote or see him say whatever he said. Who was this Wall Street Journal “Einstein”?

Anyone know?

[kosciusko51]

Thank you. That was my first thought as well.

[citizen]

Spot on, except for his comment regarding EVs displacing ICE autos.

[ridesthemiles]

THANK YOU, LARRY ELLISON

[x]

I figured that must be Harlan Ellison, but he died in 2018.

[poconopundit]

Ha ha! Outstanding positive “comment” to a terrific Larry Ellison interview.

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

"If you don't read the newspapers, you are uninformed.
If you do read the newspapers, you are misinformed."

- - - Mark Twain, who was a newspaperman for many years before becoming famous as an author.

[tired&retired]

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

Studies and surveys have indicated a correlation between Mac usage and liberal political leanings, with “Mac people” often identified as being more likely to hold liberal, open-minded views compared to PC users.

According to Mindset Media, people who purchase Macs fall into what the branding company calls the “Openness 5” personality category — which means they are more liberal, less modest and more assured of their own superiority than the population at large.

I’ve disliked Apple products from their Apple I on. I bought the Zenith 8 bit CPM, 16 Bit DOS dual operating system Z-100 when they fist came out.

[paudio]

I think Musk is unintelligent!
- AOC 2025

[wally_bert]

I have a Mac that I mostly use for Final Cut editing.

Here is split between Linux and Windows otherwise.

[Inyo-Mono]

Journalists in general have NO areas of expertise. They do not understand history, literature, music, art, science, engineering, economics, political theory, or anything else.

I can attest to the truth of that, I worked at both small newspapers and radio stations with news people for the past 50 years

[Inyo-Mono]

I have a Mac that I mostly use for Final Cut editing.

Same here, I recently bought a Mac for video editing because I refuse to move from my 15 year old Windows 7 video editing machine to a new computer with the intrusive Windows 11.

[wally_bert]

I have Magix studio on my W11 laptop that I use once in a while since I bought the license.

My Mac mini while a solid system struggles with 5K and some 4K now. But in the past 18 or so months, I can think of maybe three times FCP crashed.

I’m going to need a bigger Mac.

[Blurb2350]

I worked for several decades at a weekly mag, and I can confirm you’re right on every count. What’s worse, the profession has been growing steadily more feminine. The newsroom used to be populated by no-nonsense, plain-spoken men with no formal “journalism” education. They’ve been replaced by girrrrrls and woke men (at least they pretend to be woke while in the office) with obligatory MAs from “journalism” schools. Same for the editorial staff.

[7thson]

Some years ago, Wolf Blitzer and other “journalists” were on Jeopardy. The got nearly every question wrong.

[sauropod]

+1