Just a quickie.
I know that you can’t ever be Elon Musk, Thomas Edison, David Sacks, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, or even Donald Trump unless you are okay with occasional failure.
Musk had to be okay with failure to launch a rocket that exploded upon launch. He has to be okay with a thousand explosions. He also has to be okay with an inventive launch of a political candidate using Twitter that might be glitchy and might break the site. The first time I used Twitter Spaces I had the exact same thing happen and worse. And so?
All that tells me is that Musk and Sacks are comfortable taking risks, and now I can add Ron DeSantis’ name to that list. Do I think the media will be fair-minded about it? Of course not. They are a propaganda arm for the Democratic Party, and they are shaped by the same failure.
Joe Biden sat in a basement and was installed by very rich and powerful people. His exit from Afghanistan should be enough to take him out after one term. He is advocating for “gender-affirming care” of minors, many of whom who will be infertile for life. Do you think his legacy will survive that? Guess again.
MSNBC, CNN, the New York Times, The Washington Post, and the now-defunct blue-check army on Twitter (thank you, Elon) are the ones who sit atop a house of cards. Their empire will collapse like Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme any minute now. Naturally, they want to do what they always do - shape the narrative they want rather than tell the public the truth.
Trump going after DeSantis makes me think he isn’t serious about saving this country from the fanatics on the Left. He should support any candidate who can take them out of power. The Democrats were never serious about the “threat to Democracy itself” and “Extreme MAGA Republicans” because they spent over $60 million boosting them in primaries to push their feckless, zero-charisma candidates instead.
I built my own website in 1999. I had to fail thousands of times to get a working site up and running. I know what it is to fail. I also know that without failure you can’t ever achieve things in life. No one out there right now criticizing or mocking DeSantis, Musk, or anyone else at Twitter has even a single drop of whatever it is they have to take such a big risk as they did yesterday.
The members of the media, and their Democratic bosses, are not invested in telling the public the truth about anything. They are stuck inside their Royal Court worried about the working class majority they abandoned long ago. Most of them probably aren’t using Twitter. But Musk’s idea is still the right one. It shouldn’t matter that it crashed on takeoff. All that should matter is that it launched at all.
Charleston, WV, high noon.
Disney, of all sources, actually delivered a brilliant lesson on the value of creativity vs critique.
At the end of “Ratatouille” as evil food critic Anton Ego (voiced by Peter O’Toole) experiences an epiphany while writing a review (and I paraphrase.)
“We critics risk very little. The sad truth is, the average piece of junk is worth far more than our words declaring it such.”
It takes nothing to be a critic.
It takes courage to be a creator.
As Scott Adams noted: When tech breaks because too many people want to hear what you have to say that's a win.