is well-known as the voice of the financial establishment.

I wouldn’t even say that the WSJ is specifically the voice of the “financial elite” but I think it has been for a while the “respectable” organ of the republican media empire. When the Hunter Biden laptop story ‘broke’, the first place the Republicans attempted to run it was in the WSJ, as they do with their other most important stories, letters, and opinions.

I think something is changing at the WSJ, and Alito pre-buttal is just the most public sign that the paper is beginning to drop pretenses and give into being a more active and explicitly partisan paper, probably because the legitimacy of other conservative news outfits has been bled dry, and going into the election, the party is more willing to sacrifice more sacred cows to shore up weaknesses.

Just be aware of the publication date for those wandering in:

4 November 2020

It’s not surprising. A lot of these CEOs run around in cliques. They have forums, news letters, Chatrooms, and social events. When Silicon Valley Bank went down, the CEO of the company I work for was giving us news from other CEOs he was talking to from a shared Chatroom they set up, basically a discord for CEOs.

The other point is that many CEOs are slaves to trend and have a deep fear of missing out.

In a way, they’re organized, and combined with the above, that’s part of why when one big company hops everyone leaps behind them as if they’re moving as one (it’s all a dick-measuring Highschool clique contest though, which is why I don’t use the word conspiracy). I would not be surprised if Huffman and Musk both repeated their rhetoric to an adoring crowd of fellows before they took it to their feeds. It’s maybe why they speak so brazenly, because there is a little echo chamber of people who worship at the altar of Survivorship bias in the hope that heaven will send them more bigger-dick pills.