Category Archives: Media Criticism

Law, Media Criticism, Political Commentary

Elon Musk

January 23, 2025 Rand Simberg 10 Comments

…needs to sue everybody.

They won’t stop this nonsense until it becomes very painful.

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Silicon Valley

January 23, 2025 Rand Simberg 3 Comments

How Democrats drove it into Trump’s arms. A long, but fascinating interview with Marc Andreesen.

[Update a few minutes later]

NEW PIECE from Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar on Pirate Wires: Trump will get America out of “manager mode”

• While SpaceX put more than 300 rockets into orbit for less than $10 billion, California has built 1,600 feet of elevated rail for $11 billion, and now projects its high… pic.twitter.com/4JdIuWBIsl
— Pirate Wires (@PirateWires) January 22, 2025

For now, I think, salvation.

[Mid-morning update]

Contra Matt Yglesias' newsletter, I really don't think it's all that hard to understand why the kids are shifting rightward, or what cultural + policy preferences this amounts to. When you've been fed an original sin gospel by nature of your status as a white male, you at a… pic.twitter.com/3rk6s5dvLG
— Liz Wolfe (@LizWolfeReason) January 23, 2025

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The Final Corruption Of Joe Biden

January 21, 2025 Rand Simberg 6 Comments

Jonathan Turley on Joe’s ignominious exit.

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A Civilizational Fork In The Road

January 21, 2025 Rand Simberg 9 Comments

Glenn Reynolds says seize the day.

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Happy DJT Day!

January 20, 2025 Rand Simberg 26 Comments

Thoughts on the upcoming celebrations. I hadn’t thought about the parallels between Trump and King.

[Inauguration Day update]

Well, he didn’t pull any punches. Well, actually he did in the speech, but not afterward, because he could have talked about January 6th, but didn’t. He probably didn’t know about the pardons because Biden did them just before, or he might have.

I wonder if a pardon that doesn’t say what the pardon is for is valid? In any event, pardoning them won’t prevent an investigation into what really happened, and the truth coming out. And I doubt that the pardons will apply to perjury, and pardoned people who are subpoenaed won’t be able to plead the 5th, because they won’t be in legal jeopardy.

[Bumped]