Yet the MSM is relentless in degrading SpaceX; actively rooting for failure because they decided that Musk is some sort of Bond villain because he’s slightly - only slightly -right of center of some issues. Their Elon Musk Derangement Syndrome is nearly equal to their TDS. Trump I can understand to a point; but the Musk hate? The electric car guy? The solar guy? The internet satellite guy? The revitalize American space travel guy? He’s your object of paranoia, hate, fear, and hysteria? Meanwhile they subscribe to the WaPo, have no problem with Amazon owning more than half the servers powering the internet and the cloud, and they literally pay to let Bezos/Amazon out a microphone in their homes but because it has a girl’s name they think it’s fine. It’s so weird. SpaceX is American greatness, as is Elon Musk (and I know he’s an immigrant - also a very American phenomenon).
An immigrant he may be, but he could have achieved none of this anywhere in the world except in America. This is as much America's triumph as it is Musk's. It is also proof, once again, that only capitalism can truly propel humanity forward, as opposed to Marxism which only holds us back while promising progression.
Its NOT just Elon, it's everyone who doesn't adhere to The Narrative. Elon was The Golden Boy until he bought Twitter and exposed it is changing it.
Space X seems to me to be NASA in 1963 (lets be honest it was a bunch of younger under 40 cigarette smoking, coffee drinking white guys who went to The Moon). Today NASA is the Dept. of Agriculture. Just another big bloated bureaucracy.
Elon inspires us all to reach for the stars. He has scaled multiple world class companies that have created many thousands of jobs and many billions in wealth. Yet the Biden regime is attacking this African American immigrant for daring to criticize them and protect free speech. They are seeking to destroy what he has built through lawfare, stealing his compensation package and imposing capricious diversity or regulatory requirements. DIE must die in order for our species to thrive on this planet and others.
Fantastic writing by Max. Jealous I didn't get to see the launch live, but he made it feel like we were all cheering together on the beach. Time to rewatch GATTACA and bask in its gorgeous soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwsLDBsizwM
John Glenn orbited the earth on my 7th birthday. It was in my words today sublime! America radiated confidence and just the shear will that our grandparents and parents exhibited in wiping out not 1 but 2 global powers that had pulled a dark curtain across the world. Now? A bunch of super rich blood sucking squid and their bought and paid for politicians and media (the media are NOT journalists) want to tear down everything around them, hoard their money and build compounds, mega yachts to hide on, fly higher and faster in super private jets, have the populations of the world minimized by eating bugs, taking vaccines that kill, so as to depopulate the earth, AND attack a guy with dreams. Dreams that are made into reality. Elon is going to Mars. My disappointment is I may not be alive long enough to go with him. But if there is a free spot in the cargo bay I am going..and in other news, the American Messiah was at 10 Downing this week…nothing to see here folks, move along….
Yeah, GATTACA was a good movie. It examined serious issues like the pros and cons of genetic profiling and the importance of nature vs nurture, but I also liked the "retrofuturistic" style and atmosphere.
Thank you, Max. This is the kind of reporting and writing we need more of now. I used to read articles like this in the NYT a decade or more ago. This is why I subscribe to The Free Press now.
A private company can outperform a government agency?
Maybe the people at the Democratic Party Rehabilitation Project (aka The Free Press) should take the template for this article and look at education in the United States...
It's not just outperforming the government. We installed Starlink in our rural home two months ago. It is so far superior to our existing satellite service that it seems like a different product (and at the same price). The competitors are going to quickly cease to exist.
Let's be clear: those who make fun of SpaceX's temporary setbacks are a bunch of chortling imbeciles who have never attempted anything difficult and never will. If Musk was a leftist they'd be cheering him on, but their spoon-fed ideology has poisoned their minds and turned them into mean little babies.
The irony is that Musk has said he has voted Dem in the past. It’s this crazy fringe left that abhors excellence and meritocracy in favor of DEI that he abhors,and all the ills that are flowing from their ideology.
I am an Engineer and I marvel at the pace that SpaceX is able to design and build new stuff! I am keenly aware that we have a front row seat to witness greatness emanating from a mind that only comes along in 100 human generations. I watch almost every launch, Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy or Starship, I'm glued to my screen.
I was reading the headline article on CNN today, condemning Musk as a right-wing nutcase. And what did he say that was so terrible? Nothing that is not a view that might be held by a reasonable person. He certainly doesn't hew to the received wisdom or groupthink of the wokerati, but then again, which intelligent person would? Anyway, aren't these people supposed to be against criticising others with conditions like Asperger's syndrome? Or is this yet another case of "it's alright when we do it"?
The MSM is utterly and pathetically moronic. I know that's hardly a revelation, but I should stop being surprised at the depths into which it continues to sink. Thank you Free Press, again, for restoring my faith in what remains of journalism.
As someone else who has watched space laughs from the very beginning through the 3rd Starship launch I find it utterly amazing what we have achieved. Elon is living and building the AMERICAN dream! Watching the latest launch I was thrilled to listen to the clear and concise explanation of the developmental processes, the failures and successes built upon those failures. I found the MSM put down of the launch disgusting. I'm so very happy to read Max's article here!
NASA's Artemis program has managed to spend nearly $50B of our money over the last twenty years to launch zero astronauts into space. Musk is on to something with SpaceX's approach to developing complex technology. For NASA, a launch event like that first Starship flight would have set them back by years as they went into a bureaucratic analysis paralysis. NASA lost its can do attitude 50 years ago so we need people like Elon Musk.
Elon is such an inspiration. In the face of some pretty insurmountable odds and immense personal cost (remember that he pretty much single handedly funded SpaceX himself with his PayPal money until that ran out and he had to find investors), he was driven by a purpose (and still is). That unquestioning drive, unwavering in the face of a lot of high profile detractors, is truly admirable. It's how he also approaches his management of X and his fundamental belief in free speech. I'm grateful for everything he's done with SpaceX and with X. Oh, and he's done the impossible task of succeeding with a start-up car company and making electric cars the path forward. As a long time Florida resident who grew up watching launches from my back yard, I was ecstatic to see SpaceX succeed and bring regular launches back to the Space Coast.
I know it has been written before now, but he is our Edison… I would like to know more about his back story. Was his mother supportive or harsh. I have read that his father admires his brother more than he admires Elon. Huh?! I know enough about news to know that I have not learned the real story… but what if America can grow, or attract, more Elons?
Issa son was a fellow of The Aspen Institute a leftist “ think tank”;that is involved in the government’s censorship and surveillance activities on we the people. Weird that he undertook Musk’s biography right after he left the Aspen Institute
What Max writes about is the spirit in Space X that made America the most exceptional place it is. Let’s pray there are more Elon Musk’s and his team mates in our future. David
If he was a Good Liberal he would be unable to think independently. That is why they hate him, because he has the money and talent to think and act independently. They need to destroy him now and they are doing everything they can. Democrats I know rave about him the same way they rave about Trump, including calling Musk "an idiot" and saying they would never buy a Tesla because he is "such a disgusting person."
Yet the MSM is relentless in degrading SpaceX; actively rooting for failure because they decided that Musk is some sort of Bond villain because he’s slightly - only slightly -right of center of some issues. Their Elon Musk Derangement Syndrome is nearly equal to their TDS. Trump I can understand to a point; but the Musk hate? The electric car guy? The solar guy? The internet satellite guy? The revitalize American space travel guy? He’s your object of paranoia, hate, fear, and hysteria? Meanwhile they subscribe to the WaPo, have no problem with Amazon owning more than half the servers powering the internet and the cloud, and they literally pay to let Bezos/Amazon out a microphone in their homes but because it has a girl’s name they think it’s fine. It’s so weird. SpaceX is American greatness, as is Elon Musk (and I know he’s an immigrant - also a very American phenomenon).
An immigrant he may be, but he could have achieved none of this anywhere in the world except in America. This is as much America's triumph as it is Musk's. It is also proof, once again, that only capitalism can truly propel humanity forward, as opposed to Marxism which only holds us back while promising progression.
#1 He's a he #2 He's white and the big #3 he doesn't toe the line. They used to love him. But over time that changes as he wouldn't bend the knee.
Its NOT just Elon, it's everyone who doesn't adhere to The Narrative. Elon was The Golden Boy until he bought Twitter and exposed it is changing it.
Space X seems to me to be NASA in 1963 (lets be honest it was a bunch of younger under 40 cigarette smoking, coffee drinking white guys who went to The Moon). Today NASA is the Dept. of Agriculture. Just another big bloated bureaucracy.
Extremely well said !!!
Elon inspires us all to reach for the stars. He has scaled multiple world class companies that have created many thousands of jobs and many billions in wealth. Yet the Biden regime is attacking this African American immigrant for daring to criticize them and protect free speech. They are seeking to destroy what he has built through lawfare, stealing his compensation package and imposing capricious diversity or regulatory requirements. DIE must die in order for our species to thrive on this planet and others.
Fantastic writing by Max. Jealous I didn't get to see the launch live, but he made it feel like we were all cheering together on the beach. Time to rewatch GATTACA and bask in its gorgeous soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwsLDBsizwM
John Glenn orbited the earth on my 7th birthday. It was in my words today sublime! America radiated confidence and just the shear will that our grandparents and parents exhibited in wiping out not 1 but 2 global powers that had pulled a dark curtain across the world. Now? A bunch of super rich blood sucking squid and their bought and paid for politicians and media (the media are NOT journalists) want to tear down everything around them, hoard their money and build compounds, mega yachts to hide on, fly higher and faster in super private jets, have the populations of the world minimized by eating bugs, taking vaccines that kill, so as to depopulate the earth, AND attack a guy with dreams. Dreams that are made into reality. Elon is going to Mars. My disappointment is I may not be alive long enough to go with him. But if there is a free spot in the cargo bay I am going..and in other news, the American Messiah was at 10 Downing this week…nothing to see here folks, move along….
roger that !
Yeah, GATTACA was a good movie. It examined serious issues like the pros and cons of genetic profiling and the importance of nature vs nurture, but I also liked the "retrofuturistic" style and atmosphere.
Thank you, Max. This is the kind of reporting and writing we need more of now. I used to read articles like this in the NYT a decade or more ago. This is why I subscribe to The Free Press now.
So let me get this straight...
A private company can outperform a government agency?
Maybe the people at the Democratic Party Rehabilitation Project (aka The Free Press) should take the template for this article and look at education in the United States...
The education “sacred cow”.
Of course they would never consider privatizing education.
First to go, that union that pays dues and supports the democrat party.
Beyond that is the wholesale generational long indoctrination of youth to the leftist way.
It's not just outperforming the government. We installed Starlink in our rural home two months ago. It is so far superior to our existing satellite service that it seems like a different product (and at the same price). The competitors are going to quickly cease to exist.
Let's be clear: those who make fun of SpaceX's temporary setbacks are a bunch of chortling imbeciles who have never attempted anything difficult and never will. If Musk was a leftist they'd be cheering him on, but their spoon-fed ideology has poisoned their minds and turned them into mean little babies.
The irony is that Musk has said he has voted Dem in the past. It’s this crazy fringe left that abhors excellence and meritocracy in favor of DEI that he abhors,and all the ills that are flowing from their ideology.
They used to love him. I remember everyone crowing about Teslas when they first launched.
I am an Engineer and I marvel at the pace that SpaceX is able to design and build new stuff! I am keenly aware that we have a front row seat to witness greatness emanating from a mind that only comes along in 100 human generations. I watch almost every launch, Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy or Starship, I'm glued to my screen.
I was reading the headline article on CNN today, condemning Musk as a right-wing nutcase. And what did he say that was so terrible? Nothing that is not a view that might be held by a reasonable person. He certainly doesn't hew to the received wisdom or groupthink of the wokerati, but then again, which intelligent person would? Anyway, aren't these people supposed to be against criticising others with conditions like Asperger's syndrome? Or is this yet another case of "it's alright when we do it"?
The MSM is utterly and pathetically moronic. I know that's hardly a revelation, but I should stop being surprised at the depths into which it continues to sink. Thank you Free Press, again, for restoring my faith in what remains of journalism.
As someone else who has watched space laughs from the very beginning through the 3rd Starship launch I find it utterly amazing what we have achieved. Elon is living and building the AMERICAN dream! Watching the latest launch I was thrilled to listen to the clear and concise explanation of the developmental processes, the failures and successes built upon those failures. I found the MSM put down of the launch disgusting. I'm so very happy to read Max's article here!
Space launches, not laughed. My apologies
NASA's Artemis program has managed to spend nearly $50B of our money over the last twenty years to launch zero astronauts into space. Musk is on to something with SpaceX's approach to developing complex technology. For NASA, a launch event like that first Starship flight would have set them back by years as they went into a bureaucratic analysis paralysis. NASA lost its can do attitude 50 years ago so we need people like Elon Musk.
Elon is such an inspiration. In the face of some pretty insurmountable odds and immense personal cost (remember that he pretty much single handedly funded SpaceX himself with his PayPal money until that ran out and he had to find investors), he was driven by a purpose (and still is). That unquestioning drive, unwavering in the face of a lot of high profile detractors, is truly admirable. It's how he also approaches his management of X and his fundamental belief in free speech. I'm grateful for everything he's done with SpaceX and with X. Oh, and he's done the impossible task of succeeding with a start-up car company and making electric cars the path forward. As a long time Florida resident who grew up watching launches from my back yard, I was ecstatic to see SpaceX succeed and bring regular launches back to the Space Coast.
I know it has been written before now, but he is our Edison… I would like to know more about his back story. Was his mother supportive or harsh. I have read that his father admires his brother more than he admires Elon. Huh?! I know enough about news to know that I have not learned the real story… but what if America can grow, or attract, more Elons?
The Isaacson book is excellent.
I’m probably about as conservative as it gets in this platform and I thought the Isaacson biography of Musk was very fair.
Pretty sure walter Isaacson wrote a biography on Elon just a year or two ago.
Issa son was a fellow of The Aspen Institute a leftist “ think tank”;that is involved in the government’s censorship and surveillance activities on we the people. Weird that he undertook Musk’s biography right after he left the Aspen Institute
What a switch to read something so positive this morning. Thanks for this!
What Max writes about is the spirit in Space X that made America the most exceptional place it is. Let’s pray there are more Elon Musk’s and his team mates in our future. David
We all know the MSM narrative would've been so different if Elon was a Good Liberal.
If he was a Good Liberal he would be unable to think independently. That is why they hate him, because he has the money and talent to think and act independently. They need to destroy him now and they are doing everything they can. Democrats I know rave about him the same way they rave about Trump, including calling Musk "an idiot" and saying they would never buy a Tesla because he is "such a disgusting person."
He was a darling until he became a wrongthinker and took away their favorite toy.
Outstanding and inspirational article. Everything described in the article is the result of one amazing man's intelligence and persistence. Amazing.