Biden

“Biden definitely misused it, so they used it to basically have lower gasoline prices during midterm elections, even though parenthetically their entire policy goal was get rid of fossil fuels, which means you want the price to go up so people can't afford it.”

“This is Bibi's war. If your reader or your listeners don't remember Moby Dick, they should go look at it again. Ahab had this fixation, obsession, with the white whale, and tried to find a way to kill the white whale whenever he could. For the last two decades…”

“I think that we had some really idiotic legislation under Biden that President Trump and David Sachs have largely unwound.”

“The reason why it was likely under Biden is because it was so difficult to actually talk to him, he wouldn't talk to anybody. The difference with Trump, just so it's clear, is that he'll talk to everybody, he'll make his own decision, but he gets the broad tap…”

“Court-ordered removals and deportations average 200,000 per year, 1997 to 2000. That's under Clinton. 200,000 a year. They averaged 300,000 a year, peaking at 400,000 under Obama. Right? Deportations plummeted under Biden.”

“And if we compare that to Biden and Kamala, like, they weren't even letting people come to the White House.”

“I mean, there's, there are a lot of people that worked in the White House under Biden who used to work at Instagram. Like they were recruited straight from Meta.”

“When Biden came into office, there were large pieces of the wall that were still on the ground, just waiting to be erected. And Biden sold them off as scrap metal for two cents on the dollar.”

“Biden, ten million net immigrants, and Trump, three million, which sounds like a lot, but it's actually the lowest in like 10 administrations, the lowest since Reagan.”

“Obama, his average, he averaged about nine hundred billion dollars a year deficit. Trump, before the pandemic, is about eight hundred billion. You know, but Biden's up to almost two trillion, it's 1.9 trillion dollars average deficit.”

“I think we've just seen more injunctions In the first few months of Trump's second term than the entire Biden presidency.”

“We think about Biden closed six hundred and thirty five million acres.”

“Yes, I do believe we are in the financial context, because in terms of profitability and the likelihood of cutting, I think the Republicans are probably more likely to make these moves than the Democrats, but you also have to take into consideration the impact…”

“Ironically, Biden has done nothing with the First Step Act. They have not implemented it the way that it should be,”

“They would never meet with us. You know, the SEC won't meet with us. The CFPB won't meet with us. The Biden you know, Biden won't meet with us.”

“Biden won the Democratic primary. He got fourteen million votes, and then they threw out that result and put in Kamala Harris because they didn't like his debate performance.”

“Obama was the deporter-in-chief. He deported more people than Trump or Biden, over three million people, but he had a specific process in place that everybody could understand.”

“I think it's obvious there's basically one deep state party, and that is the party of Cheney, Harris, Biden, Victoria Nuland, my colleague at Columbia University now.”

“The election where today it would be Trump, and if Biden remains on the ticket, I think it will be Trump. If they swap him out, it'll be a horse race.”

“Look, I've had a two hour lunch with Biden. He was asking me questions about AI. He was explaining stuff that was going on in nuanced detail in Israel.”

“Vinod went and did a fundraiser. It's public, but he did a fundraiser for Biden a few weeks ago”

“I don't think Trump's going to raise taxes, but Biden will if he has the trifecta.”

“Trump, just to give facts, Trump will have spent 7.8 trillion, Biden will spend slightly less, like six point X trillion.”

“This is like the number one thing you can do to stop innovation and investment in the country, which we desperately need.”

“So what's gonna happen after Biden signs this is ByteDance or TikTok is gonna sue to block it on the grounds that it's infringing on the First Amendment.”

“If we see a rate hike before the election, I think Biden is toast.”

“Normally we talk about how empowered VCs and especially tech leaders are to speak their mind and the truth and how hemmed in politicians are. But in this instance, with this situation, we're seeing the opposite, which is, you know, Biden can say the right thin…”

“Trump added a trillion to the deficit. Biden already four trillion.”

“Trump added almost eight trillion. Biden's added four trillion.”

“I'm sorry, but Biden has had the most hawkish policy on Ukraine that any president's ever had.”

“I think right now it looks like we're on track to have a Biden-Trump rematch, and right now Biden probably looks like he's gonna win, barring a recession happening or the Ukrainian side collapsing in, in the war.”

“I prefer RFK to Biden.”

“And I think this is how Biden gets reelected.”

“I think there's a non-zero chance Biden actually doesn't run for re-election at this point.”

“So Nikki Haley's in, and then Trump will do it, and then Biden will not.”

“If it's Biden, Trump, I think Trump wins.”

“My prediction or most contrarian belief is that the bromance between Biden and Zelensky comes to an end at some point in 20, 23.”

“I think Biden and Blinken have done a good job. They've done a good job on this right now. They've, played it well.”

“First of all, I think Biden and Lincoln did a horrible job.”

“And don't forget, Biden canceled our energy independence the first day he was in office.”

“Biden wanted an extra four trillion of spending On this whole Build Back Better on top of the four trillion he had.”

“Three million people have come in just under Biden and illegal migration.”

“I thought Biden with the Democratic Congress would do more bad things than what they actually will do. There's a lot they're doing I don't like, but it could have been much worse, and things like the wealth tax, I mean, that failed.”

“And, you know, I think Biden sort of is caught in the middle of this, and I think he's running out of time to try and reestablish that he's going to have a centrist presidency that does not completely kowtow and defer to the left of his party, to this sort of …”

“Do you really, if you're the leader of that union, do you really believe that Biden's gonna break your strike? No way.”

“I think that, that Biden has not shown strength as the president that I served. We would have never been gone this far.”

“If you remember when Biden came into office, so we ended the Keystone. We allowed, we took the sanctions off of the Gazprom construction project.”

“At the same time that this mob was forming against Chamath, we had a two-hour Biden press conference in which Biden never mentioned the Uyghurs once. The press corps never mentioned the Uyghurs once.”

“So I am glad I voted for Biden, but I am unhappy that he cannot build consensus down the middle and get the far left to just, you know, pump the brakes.”

“If Trump's mistake was not wearing a mask in April of twenty-twenty, I think Biden's mistake is not taking it off in April of twenty-twenty-one.”

“It would have been nice to see Biden not just say let's unite, but actually step over the line and declare some of the policies and points of view of the other side as being valid and engaging more directly on those points versus saying we'll all work together…”

“And so you're not going to see Biden kind of turn around and say, we want to be friends with China and pretend none of this happened.”

“You know, if people aren't, if people in tech aren't explicitly endorsing Biden on Twitter, they're probably closet Trump voters.”

“Looks like Arizona is going to Biden.”

“Atlanta, Atlanta should go 70% Biden.”

“There's a very high chance that this VP pick will become the president, given Biden's age and everything going on in the world. And we've just seen crisis after crisis this year. I think there's gonna be more shoes to drop. And this person that we don't even k…”