Yesterday was a day of wonder, according to the New York Post’s front page:
By contrast, the word “Tesla” does not appear on the NYT’s front page as of 10:30 am. Nothing happened that anyone might have watched last night via streaming on X on in person. Elon is mentioned, but only as a pernicious political influence destroying our sacred democracy:
(I do also wonder why anyone is interested in noncitizen voting. An American whose family hasn’t worked in four generations can vote, presumably to increase government spending on the welfare that has enabled the four generations of relaxation. Why does it matter if Kilmar Abrego Garcia (still Maryland’s leading resident, if not exactly “citizen”) can vote for more pupusas and margaritas? When the U.S. was young, a man started work at age 13 and started to vote at age 21. Since there was no welfare state, essentially everyone who voted had worked for at least eight years. Today we have people voting at age 18 who might not enter the workforce or pay taxes until they’re 28+. If they don’t vote for student loan forgiveness then they’re irrational!)
Nonprofit profiteers bleeding taxpayers dry in Minnesota, according to the New York Post, in order to fill the U.S. with humans from one of the world’s most violent and dysfunctional societies (Somalia):
In the NYT, a nonprofit NGO is featured for its valuable work:
Mirjana Spoljaric, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross. … Spoljaric travels to all sides of active war zones — Gaza, Ukraine, Iran — meeting with the heads of governments and armed groups alike. [where’s her hijab?] … (We spoke before Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that the government would be live-streaming a public execution — another sign that the old rules and norms are eroding.) Many world leaders “simply don’t care anymore,” she told me. “And this lack of empathy, this lack of anger, is what I find most dangerous at the moment.”
(i.e., Pete Hegseth is far more dangerous and destructive to American interests than anyone in Gaza or Iran.)
The real problem, from the ICRC’s point of view, is not that the Gazans killed civilians across the border into what they call “the Zionist entity” and took, held, and sometimes laster killed hostages from Thailand, Eritrea, Israel, the U.S., etc. It is that a
What happened to Gaza and in Gaza to Palestinians and Israelis supersedes every legal, moral and humane standard. There are so many people complicit in what happened there and continues to happen. The worst now is the fact that people are deprived of human dignity. The perception created that if there’s enough food, that’s good enough — for some people it’s good enough to just barely survive in rubble, and for other people it is only good enough if they can return to normalcy and bring their children back to a normal school.
Safe to say that by “There are so many people complicit in what happened there” she doesn’t mean the overwhelming majority of Gazans polled who supported the October 7, 2023 attack and who continue to support the Islamic Resistance Movement (“Hamas”) and Palestinian Islamic Jihad? (And why didn’t this heroic female travel to Cornell where the real genocide happened?)
Let’s turn back to matters purely domestic… In the New York Post, it was a private citizen with a no-doubt-illegal-to-bring-into-the-school gun (which common sense tells us a private citizen shouldn’t have been allowed to own).
In the New York Times, the real heroes are police who investigate after all of the shooting has stopped (The Other Guys whereas the dad featured in the New York Post was either Danson or Highsmith?).
Speaking of Danson and Highsmith, how awesome would it be for a sequel to The Other Guys to feature resurrected Danson and Highsmith pursuing criminals in a rocket-equipped Tesla Roadster? Maybe they would bust into a Cornell fraternity party 2nd floor bedroom window balcony with the car/aircraft?
As long as we’re talking about demure college gals and The Other Guys….
And since we’re talking about “Gator” and the Tesla Roadster, here are some Floridians who are passionate about both:
This Roadster is another example of Elon losing his mind. It’s like the Cybertruck, but different.
The Cybertruck can actually carry things, which is useful, for some people.
How many seconds of lift will the Roadster support?
Which state will allow you to occasionally shoot your 5000 pound car 20 feet into the air for 10 seconds?
Who was asking for “Like a Ferrari, but one that can hop into the air?”
The Roadster is both more impressive and far worse than I expected.
David: I agree that using the thrusters on the way to Publix might not make the Jupiter Police Dept too happy. The trend, though, is for rich people to own condos directly on private race tracks. When I was hanging out with Hunter Biden in Pahrump, Nevada I stopped by one of these (see https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2022/12/21/corvette-driving-school-report-ron-fellows-near-las-vegas/ ). Here’s one reasonably close to our house in Florida: https://p1motorclub.com/real-estate/ (it towers 25′ above sea level!)
Another one near Orlando: https://circuitflorida.com/
One literally on a Gulfstream airport in Miami: https://theconcoursclub.com/club/ (Jeff Bezos can build himself a private garage there, but not a house)
This is one reason why rich people don’t mind the flood of low-skill immigrants. The elite can ride in a helicopter to their racetrack home, drive on an uncongested segment of asphalt, and helicopter back to the waterfront mansion after a day or two.
Now getting a firehose of nothing but AI generated & higher revenue generating roadster videos, after all the effort they put into creating a physical roadster. All record of the real thing has been lost to the search engines. Wonder how the insurance is going to be divided. Are we all getting another 40% bump to subsidize the rich neighbor’s roadster flips?