Following last week’s tremendous show from Elon Musk, in which he told Bob Iger to “go fuck yourself” in response to Disney’s move away from advertising on X — emblematic of the broader, dangerous challenge from the leftist wings of America’s most powerful businesses, in their ongoing attempt to mainstream political censorship in advance of the next election — I discovered two more incredible clips from this weekend’s Reagan National Defense Forum. This, my colleague Trae Stephens explained, is sort of like “the Superbowl for defense conferences.” Everyone was there. But few brought the sparkle of our Billionaire Shitposting Gods of Tech. 

First, Anduril’s Palmer Luckey confronted the age-old truism ‘children should follow their dreams.’ Even back in the 70s and 80s, when that meant “astronaut,” the advice was probably not a winning strategy for the future. But now, with most kids dreaming of clout on Instagram, and their own well-branded lip kits, the advice is practically suicidal. Palmer unpacked the point: