Bernie Sanders

person on 18 shows · 29 statements across 29 episodes · said 392 times in 158 episodes since 2016

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2026 115 mentions in 41 episodes 3 per episode
2025 106 mentions in 34 episodes 3 per episode
2024 34 mentions in 17 episodes 2 per episode
2023 14 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
2022 26 mentions in 15 episodes 2 per episode
2021 35 mentions in 13 episodes 3 per episode
2020 37 mentions in 14 episodes 3 per episode
2019 4 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
2018 1 mention in 1 episode
2017 6 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
2016 14 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode

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29 statements about Bernie Sanders, every show

ALL-IN Opinion
Sacks: Anthropic embraces AI doomer warnings to advance regulatory capture strategy
“Fundamentally, They agree with him, and their employees are saying they agree with him, and he's amplifying their message, and frankly, whether they plan this or not, they are happy that he's doing this. Why? Because they like the political outcome that he is …”
David Sacks Sep 12, 2026 ▶ 51:58 AI Kills Everybody or Doomer Psyop? OpenAI’s Math Breakthrough, Nike’s $200B Collapse
TBPN Assertion Not checkable as stated
Coogan: Sanders' definition of superintelligence matches goals of 17 AI companies
“It sounds like the mission statement. It sounds like the explicit goal of like, 17 different companies right now.”
John Coogan Sep 12, 2026 ▶ 16:34 Washington Hones in on AI Safety, What Are AI Doomers Proposing | Diet TBPN
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Sacks: Bernie Sanders is demanding a total pause on AI development
“Bernie Sanders is now picking up on this, and he's demanding a total pause on AI development.”
David Sacks Sep 4, 2026 ▶ 29:44 GPT-6 Hits AGI? Tech Euphoria 2.0, SF Mansion Shortage, NYC Bans AI in Schools & Venezuela Oil Deal
ALL-IN Opinion
Friedberg: Warren, Sanders, and Khanna are the true oligarchs
“They are the true oligarchs, and this is Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Ro Khanna, This is the group that is trying to coalesce power and create for themselves a system whereby they have greater influence, greater control over aspects of the economy.”
David Friedberg Jun 19, 2026 ▶ 3:37 World's First Trillionaire, Anthropic Fable Banned, The New Oligarchs, Iran Peace Deal
TBPN Opinion
Karp: Blaming competitive layoffs on AI invites extreme political backlash
“Like if you run around saying AI allowed you to fire two thirds of your workforce and you did it because maybe your competitors kicking your ass. That could, that is a really like, you might as well just go sign up for Bernie Sanders manifest.”
Alex Karp Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 22:03 Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Tokenmaxxing & Taste
TBPN Assertion Supported
Coogan: Sanders and AOC introduced bill pausing AI data centers
“The big news today is, of course Bernie Sanders and AOC introduced a bill to pause all AI data center construction.”
John Coogan May 15, 2026 ▶ 11:26 SpaceX IPO Date, ChatGPT x Personal Finance, Sanders & AOC vs. Data Centers | Diet TBPN
ALL-IN What-if
Gerstner: Data center moratorium would trigger negative GDP and 15-20% market drop
“Bernie Sanders calling for a moratorium, shutting out all data centers. We'd have negative GDP growth this year. The stock market would be down 15 to 20%. Unemployment would be on the rise.”
Brad Gerstner May 8, 2026 ▶ 57:29 Elon’s Anthropic Deal, The Next AI Monopoly?, “FDA for AI” Panic, Trading the AI Boom
BIG TECHNOLOGY Prediction Open · timeframe Jan 2027
Kantrowitz: Federal data center moratorium bill has no chance of passing
“And of course, there's this bill that Bernie and AOC introduced about a data center moratorium to, you know, be national and, you know, there's no chance of that passing”
Alex Kantrowitz Apr 13, 2026 ▶ 40:20 Anthropic’s Mythos Dilemma, Violence Against AI, Tokenmaxxing at Meta
TBPN Assertion Supported
Hays: Sanders and AOC Introduce AI Data Center Moratorium Act
“Yesterday, Senator Bernie Sanders and AOC introduced a new bill, the AI data center moratorium act of 2026, that if enacted would require all current and planned data centers to halt Construction slash production. It even, it would even block upgrading existin…”
Jordi Hays Mar 27, 2026 ▶ 10:47 Arm’s $15B Chip Bet, Sanders & AOC vs Datacenters, Meta & YouTube Lose Trial | Diet TBPN
ALL-IN Assertion Partly supported
Fetterman notes Bernie Sanders has never won a competitive state election
“Senator Sanders has never represented more than a very small, you know, state, you know, like, win, win a competitive state”
John Fetterman Mar 18, 2026 ▶ 40:01 John Fetterman: 'I'm the Only Democrat in Congress Saying This'
ALL-IN Prediction Not checkable as stated
Chamath: Anti-AI political rhetoric will escalate if tech doesn't act
“Otherwise, this thing is going to build and you'll see crazier and crazier versions of this Bernie Sanders video.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Dec 19, 2025 ▶ 12:26 Bernie Sanders Says Stop All AI, China's Breakthrough, Inflation Down, Golden Age in 2026?
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Manchin claims Democrats lost 100,000 registered voters to progressive crusades
“They lost registration of over a hundred thousand people who've left the Democratic Party since they've started that crusade.”
Joe Manchin Oct 23, 2025 ▶ 1:06:06 Joe Manchin Exposes The Chaos Inside Biden’s White House
ALL-IN Disclosure
Paul: I introduced a bill with Bernie Sanders to end Fed interest
“I've got a bill to eliminate that right now and that bill's co-sponsored by Bernie Sanders.”
Rand Paul Sep 5, 2025 ▶ 32:32 Senator Rand Paul: Tariffs, Debt, China, and a Warning for America
TBPN Opinion
Cuban: Trump is executing Bernie Sanders-style economic policies better than Democrats
“He's turned into Bernie Sanders. He literally has, you know, only he's a better salesperson. This is fantastic. I give him credit though. I'm not knocking him, right? I am giving Donald Trump all his flowers because he is doing things in a way that the Democra…”
Mark Cuban Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 29:55 Mark Cuban on AI, Career Advice, and Running for President.
ALL-IN Opinion
Sacks: Warren and Sanders lead a left-wing populist Democratic Party
“Elizabeth Warren And Bernie Sanders are now the thought leaders and really the beating heart of the Democrat party. I think what's happened is the Republican party has moved to right-wing populism and the Democrats in response to that have concluded that they …”
David Sacks Aug 23, 2024 ▶ 1:04:30 Massive jobs revision, Kamala wealth tax, polls vs prediction markets, end of race-based admissions
BIGDEAL Disclosure
Gabbard: Resigned DNC post to endorse Sanders over foreign policy stance
“I made that decision to resign as vice chair of the DNC and endorse Bernie Sanders around that single issue of war and peace. He was largely at that time more of non-interventionist view of the world, not an isolationist, but more, ah, exercising restraint. Ve…”
Tulsi Gabbard Jul 16, 2024 ▶ 15:17 Tulsi Gabbard: Who Actually Runs the U.S. Government (And What We Should do About it)
ALL-IN Prediction Held up
Tucker Carlson predicts Joe Biden will not be the 2024 Democratic nominee
“I don't think Biden can be the nominee. His only point was to You know, stop Bernie Sanders, basically, and he's outlifted his usefulness, so I think he'll be, I'm pretty sure he'll be replaced”
Tucker Carlson Dec 1, 2023 ▶ 1:00:09 Tucker Carlson: State of America, leaving Fox News, Media Control, Politics, and more
ALL-IN Opinion
Phillips agrees with Bernie Sanders that the Democratic primary system is rigged
“Bernie Sanders was absolutely right about a rigged system that is keeping people out of the process, keeping candidates out of the process, and keeping debate out of the process.”
Dean Phillips Nov 17, 2023 ▶ 1:18:28 In conversation with Dean Phillips
ACQUIRED Opinion
Calacanis: Bezos dunked on Sanders and Warren via Amazon's internal policies
“He took the platform that you could never actually enact. And he enacted it inside of Amazon. If it's not perfectly clear what just happened, literally he's dunking on you. You wanted free college and couldn't get it done, he gave it to Amazon employees. You w…”
Jason Calacanis Oct 4, 2022 ▶ 54:45 ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis · Acquired
ALL-IN Assertion Not checkable as stated
Silver: Polling affects voter behavior in multi-candidate races, not two-way elections
“In two-way races, it's not clear if there's any impact either way, where canon effect is when you're having a multiple candidate race, right? In twenty-twenty, when Elizabeth Warren started to fall behind Bernie Sanders in the polls, right, if you're a left-wi…”
Nate Silver May 30, 2022 ▶ 25:17 #AIS: FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver on how gamblers think
ALL-IN Assertion Partly supported
Greenwald: Rogan named Bernie Sanders his favorite candidate 18 months ago
“Joe Rogan, who just 18 months ago said to millions of people that his favorite candidate running for president was Bernie Sanders, the socialist left-wing candidate.”
Glenn Greenwald May 28, 2022 ▶ 2:56 #AIS: Glenn Greenwald & Matt Taibbi discuss the new political divide, moderated by David Sacks
ALL-IN Opinion
Calacanis: Jeff Bezos has done more for Bernie Sanders than anybody
“Bezos has done more for Bernie's platform than anybody.”
Jason Calacanis Nov 20, 2021 ▶ 1:00:39 E56: Constitution DAO, Rittenhouse trial coverage, private sector efficiency vs the government
ALL-IN What-if
Gerstner: Institutional checks would have slowed Bernie Sanders' economic agenda
“I would have bet that the system that we have would have been slow enough in moving that, that Bernie would not have been”
Brad Gerstner Nov 4, 2020 ▶ 2:33:39 E11: Election Night Special featuring Phil Hellmuth, Bill Gurley, Brad Gerstner & more!
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Supported
Latka: Harris, Sanders, and Markey Proposed $2,000 Monthly Crisis Support Act
“We just saw essentially a 2000 dollar per person plus 2000 dollar per child, essentially stimulus proposed by a group of senators, senators Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, and Ed Markey from Massachusetts calling it the Monthly Economic Crisis Support Act.”
Nathan Latka May 20, 2020 ▶ 1:21 Scott Santens on UBI vs Stimulus Checks
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Herzog: Yang's Digital Campaign Was Highly Decentralized Like Trump's
“And then, in, in our case, what was different, and this is actually more paralleling the Trump campaign's kind of digital approach, which was, it was highly, highly decentralized.”
Jonathan Herzog May 18, 2020 ▶ 14:00 Jonathan Herzog: His Plan To Get 30k Votes to Beat Jerry Nadler for NY Congressional Seat, YangGang Strategy and Freedom Dividend
Puri: Sanders' tax on vested options would disrupt the startup ecosystem
“This will really screw up the way the startups ecosystem works, but it can also adapt.”
Shaan Puri Mar 12, 2020 ▶ 8:44 Nicotine Gum, Dating Apps for the Elderly & Vested Shares Tax | My First Million Podcast 03-03-2020
a16z Opinion
Andreessen: Preference falsification explains both the Trump and Bernie phenomena
“This book about 20 years ago is called, ah, Private Truths, Public Lies. And it basically tells the story, the theory that he basically has, he calls preference falsification... It so happens to be, I think, highly relevant to what's happening both on the left…”
Marc Andreessen Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 36:05 a16z Podcast | Talent, Tech Trends, and Culture -- with Ben, Marc, and Tyler Cowen
A Bernie Sanders-style tax plan would barely dent the U.S. entitlement ratio
“And secondly, even if you do a Bernie Sanders level tax plan, which is basically taxing everything that moves, it only brings that ratio from five to one back to baby three and a half or 3.8 to one.”
Michael Cembalest Apr 23, 2018 ▶ 50:03 Michael Cembalest – Eye on the Market (Capital Allocators, EP.49)
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
iSideWith prioritizes self-serve campaign tools over direct ad sales
“We're going to build out tools for candidates like Hillary or Bernie or Rand or Marco Rubio to log on and kind of run that themselves. So that's, we've been, we kind of focused more on that as opposed to focusing more on the kind of getting Ad sales right now.”
Taylor Peck Jan 30, 2016 ▶ 13:05 Weird Way To Capture 25m Leads Free with Taylor Peck of iSideWith.com

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