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“That means there's going to be less production over the next year. That means famine hits us in a year.”

“That are not just about sanctions, but also about export controls by Russia that are creating swings in food markets like we've never seen, and will almost certainly lead to widespread famine by the end of this year at this point.”

“New York is going to be fucked for a little while, but I do think that the west coast and with some travel restrictions is going to be able to reopen for business probably around April seventh or eighth, because we're going to see a dramatic decline at that po…”

“My early prediction for 20, 26 is Huawei where I think that there's a lithography technology that exists in China that is not publicly discussed. That is going to be deployed in Huawei and all these fabs that they're building in mainland China. And Huawei can …”

“Five million dollars per year out of the San Francisco city budget is spent on this program where you can walk into a hotel. They have free beer.”

“China, one thing that's not talked about, which I'll add in, seems to have developed three nanometer semiconductor manufacturing technology, which is going to go into production in Q three of 20, 25, and will end up being in full production in 20, 26.”

“I will comment on the California Coastal Commission ruling that was based on Elon's political tweets, which is why they stopped additional launches out of Vandenberg.”

“I think the first thing I thought after I saw the video and saw that he was okay and that his ear was bleeding was that's it. It's over. Trump's won.”

“So when you add this all up, there's over a hundred, hundred and twenty million people in the U.S. That are directly working for or getting paid by the federal government in the U.S.”

“I think there's a risk that Turkey gets challenged to leave NATO. That a lot of what's going on right now where Turkey is siding with Hamas, this has obviously been talked about and rumored about for a long time. There's no real mechanism, by the way, for kick…”

“And what disturbed me the most was that in the three years after he was elected, every TED conference had plenty of subjects, plenty of talks, and plenty of conversations about why society is falling apart, why Donald Trump is a key root cause of that, why so …”

“My prediction is the federal government is going to help to monetize that debt, and they're going to help to support that commercial real estate sector through some sort of structured lending program.”

“The incidence rate is still typically less than two out of every 100,000 people that get the vaccine. But as you saw in the paper you just shared and others have validated it can be as high as 30 times more likely to happen in young people that take the Modern…”

“If there isn't a resolution in the next few weeks, there will be civil unrest. There will be a really cataclysmic concerning economic effect.”

“The government started shooting at them. They got shot.”

“A recent paper showed that lockdowns had no effect. On the reproduction rate in the United States”

“There are enough people, people vaccinated in the United States at this point that this Delta variant is not going to crush our hospital system. It's not going to cause massive amount of fatalities, which is the reason we went into lockdowns in the first place…”

“Besides the statistics on this you know, there is no documented proof that someone was fully vaccinated and transmitted COVID to someone else out of four hundred million total vaccinations globally.”

“There was a hundred million dollars spent on Accenture to build the vaccination website. No bid contract.”

“There's a hundred and fourteen billion dollars in unemployment claims paid since COVID. This is an insane statistic, but it looks like roughly 27% or thirty billion dollars of fraudulent claims were paid by the EDD.”

“A lot of scientific membership organizations very definitively and clearly show that glyphosate is non-carcinogenic.”

“If you take that high level, you take that low level, call it somewhere between 25 and 86%, maybe even as high as 86% of patients are asymptomatic, which means that the actual fatality rate is much, much lower even in a large cohort that gets infected here.”

“Al Gore published a movie called Inconvenient Truth. And he used these IPCC forecasts that as of now have been disproven, and many of the assumptions in those forecasts were not correct.”

“There are technologies now that are reducing the cost of power per token of output by 10,000 X.”

“You can pay someone 50,000 dollars to do this for you today. There's a lot of clinics that'll do it, and it's not a special FDA-approved drug. To your point, J. Cal, it's a process. The process is, take the DNA sequence from my cancer, make a protein, put it b…”

“53% of self-identified conservatives under 40 support government-run grocery stores.”

“The total net worth of all people that are worth over fifty million dollars is only 23 trillion. You could take 10% of their net worth and it would only cover three months of fiscal spending, today's fiscal spending.”

“The average rate of inflation in the last 30 years has been two and a half percent, but housing's gone up by at least five percent a year on average compounding, education over six percent, healthcare five and a half percent.”

“We've seen administrative staff grow from 10% to 60% in the last 30 years.”

“We have five years till Social Security is bankrupt. That's not my assessment. That's the CBO score. Like, that's what the CBO says is gonna happen. Congressional Budget Office. When you look at how much is going to get paid out and what the pay in rate is, so…”

“And I was surprised that the billionaires had eight trillion dollars of the 183, and the bottom 50% have four trillion. That's a bad statistic. But it's not as crazy as you would think. And even if you make it a fifty million dollar net worth, it's 23 trillion…”

“Since 2019, at least 15 Fortune 500 companies have moved out of California, moved their headquarters out, not to mention all the local franchises and everything that moved out. 2100 companies that are mid or large size have moved out of California since 2019.”

“Open AI, even if they're not at a billion, they're still at nine hundred million weekly users, which is well ahead of whatever Claude is at.”

“The odds ratio is like three X. It's very strong.”

“Ro Khanna has traded six hundred million dollars of stock.”

“So there's a group of people trying to raise five hundred million dollars to create like a tech slash business coalition to go to Sacramento, which arguably is something that everyone's left and avoided doing forever because no one wants to spend time in freak…”

“I will also say that it's only going to take 90 days for Google to flip on a virtual version of co-work.”

“You can see that the stock markets in the United States over the past years, so this is about seven and a half years going back to the pre-COVID era, is actually down, down pretty substantively. From the pre-COVID era.”

“I don't think it's gonna make the ballot. I mean, look, I think it's not, I'm not saying a hundred percent, I'm saying slight overweight, but it's not gonna get there.”

“In California we're looking at a thirty billion a year deficit, we've got five hundred billion of debt, and we have a nearly one trillion dollar pension obligation that is not funded.”

“In France in 1988, 1989, they passed this millionaire tax. Anyone with 1.3 million euro or greater net worth had to pay a tax of like one percent a year, one and a half percent a year of their total assets. And it raised four to five billion euro a year in new…”

“I think the majority of Americans today live on checks from the government, through the government”

“My early prediction for twenty-twenty-six is Huawei, where I think that there's lithography technology, that exists in China that is not publicly discussed, that is going to be deployed in Huawei and all these fabs that they're building in mainland China.”

“The California pension fund system is underfunded by roughly a trillion dollars.”

“Norway, 20, 22 passed a wealth tax. The wealth tax was supposed to raise one hundred and forty six million dollars of incremental revenue per year. Instead, what happened? Fifty four billion dollars of net worth left the country and they actually had a four hu…”

“And I think that some folks will see people go from being billionaires to hundred billionaires to the world's first trillionaire.”

“The city's publication shows crime down 30% citywide and down 40% downtown.”

“If you look at papers being published across mainstream scientific journals, the majority of papers today across nearly every scientific domain are being published out of China, and this ranges from physics to chemistry to material science to biotech”