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“I like doing a joke land acknowledgement that thank goodness that, you know, we took this place over from the Comanche Indians that were like a 10, 10 X Nazi death cult of murderers and rapists, and people don't realize that.”

“And of course, Clyde and Gay, who at the time wasn't even president yet, but she was like a big internal African-American woman activists at Harvard. She went after him and she found a former student who, and she got the former student from like 10 years ago t…”

“If they want to go to attack Elon to punish him for speaking up, they will, and they do.”

“So UCLA recently, we saw that school's really been taken over by ideologues, and they're graduating a lot of people who are not competent doctors. They're bringing the wrong people in.”

“The way it stands now is, is we're going to keep fighting. We're going to wipe out Hamas and hopefully we can work with others to have a government there. That's not, you know, does not allow terrorism.”

“I think basically what creates a generation of civilians that hate Israel is you have the schools in that area have been run by people who teach people that Jews are pigs and Jews are wrong and our religion hates Jews.”

“And there's a, the majority of Jews now are reformed Jews, and the reformed Jewish synagogues have been conquered. They're basically more arms of the Democratic Party on the left than they are places of worship.”

“And now in 19 to 25 year olds, majority of them don't like Jews because we're successful.”

“As far as I could tell, people saw that this was a lab-made virus, they spoke out about it, Fauci gave them a call, they changed their mind in public, then they got a big grant. Like, it's very clear this guy was bribing, as far as I could tell, these research…”

“One of the funny things, which I probably shouldn't say, but I will, is that we have consumer stuff we do sometimes, and a lot of the consumer companies I see around are starting to put, like, very obese people as their models, and I asked our partners who kno…”

“There's a lot of truth and positive parts of the BLM movement the last couple years, but it's actually led to thousands more deaths in the black community because of the things that it was pushing. Because of the bad ideas.”

“China, China clearly Knew this and covered it up and made sure it spread internationally because otherwise it would have hurt them more than everyone else.”

“Men don't need to heal the same way women do. They don't always need as much time as women off. A great woman leader is just as important to get back to work, but she may need to heal. The man doesn't need to heal. He shouldn't be pretending he needs the same …”

“What's really happened here is there's like five or 10% of people who are on one political extreme who've really hijacked the conversation and who've kind of pushed forward this kind of cancel culture, who have kind of pushed forward stuff that really resemble…”

“In the next couple years, robots are going to be able to do everything.”

“It's so hard to like re-engineer how some of these things work based on what's possible today. That they're just going to get crushed by new companies started by younger people who are like, maybe not even younger necessarily, but people who are just doing thi…”

“They funded the green parties, they funded the protests, and they turned off fracking in Europe because it's so good for the environment. They tricked everyone because obviously they don't want competition.”

“I think they're bad at enterprise. I think they don't have the, I think they keep trying and they're not succeeding. Maybe they'll get it though. I don't know.”

“I feel like if someone is clearly illiberal, if they're clearly an Islamist who's trying to conquer for Islam, if they're clearly a communist who's trying to You know, conquer with communism and push that, like, they probably shouldn't be running our departmen…”

“For a while, HUD, the national government was actually coming in under the Biden administration, and it was forcing people to allow people to use drugs in their treatment areas”

“He and a bunch of my friends have a school that's, like, sort of anti, anti-woke, because the school of Facebook was super woke, and so they all had to, like, build something else.”

“He's not willing to take that swing. And so he's not a guy's guy, you know? And which is a funny cause he's trying to talk about masculinity. But like being a guy's guy means that the people who fucked with you, pardon my French.”

“One fund that put a billion dollars in is my friend. Michael Thompson, who he, you know, I feel like I'm friends with both sides, but I'm kind of on the moderate right, I'm on the right, and Michael is on the right, and his partner Reid Hoffman's on the left, …”

“We'll start something here that's based on a new breakthrough, a really important new target, and because the FDA is so slow, because it takes you a decade, and China only takes four or five years, they'll literally start something a few years after taking all…”

“So I think studying SF and studying Austin, Led me to understand the NGO thing, which I then was very helpful with DC, and we actually are working with people running a lot of agencies in DC to go after the NGOs and based on things we've learned in the last se…”

“I think this third area is like the lowest IQ area of these four, which is the regulators basically responding to every challenge with rules that just stifle new things way ahead of time.”

“They won't even hire anyone who worked with Gary on any of this stuff they were doing.”

“And I have a lot of friends who in person are like, Joe, I totally agree with you. This is crazy. Like, I can't believe they're doing this. This is so wrong. But of course, I can't say that in public. I'd mess up all my fundraising with all these pension funds…”

“Well, if you look at the price gouging law that Kamala Harris and Senator Warren and all these people on the very extreme left were putting forward, it's actually something that applies to about 23,000 big companies, and it would give them a lot of arbitrary p…”

“So this was basically a form of DEI. It's like proto-DEI in the late seventies, and it was under Jimmy Carter's administration, and then eventually the courts pushed it and finalized it in the early eighties. So for 45 years, We haven't had merit-based tests i…”

“I think all of the kids coming to university should get practice being offended. I think it's actually healthy for them to You know, we call it microaggressions. I think we should have all of them experience microaggressions. They need to learn that it's okay …”

“I don't know if you saw the Illumina grill one. I wasn't personally involved in that financially, but I have friends on both sides and you probably, you know, grill is a blood test that detects cancer and Illumina was going to scale it up. And the models are t…”

“What happened to defense is all these companies consolidated the 19 nineties after the cold war spending went down. So they all merged and became like these giant primes. And these primes started acting a lot more like government agencies themselves, like not …”

“And one of my mentors ran British intelligence and was involved before the Iraq war in the U.S. And he tells me that the Iranians are very, very clever, the regime and certain people there. And he says that, that he believes from the best intelligence he saw, …”

“I think Trump's extremely imperfect. He has all sorts of issues that bother me. You know, I think it's very problematic. I wish we had other people, but I think his side Is more likely to push these things in the right direction in terms of the stuff that's re…”

“Yeah, I would force them to divest of Tik Tok. I think that, I think that's fine for Americans own Tik Tok. I think right now, China controls the Tik Tok algorithms. I don't care if the guy's based in Singapore, some of the data's here. It's very clear China c…”

“I'm very concerned about the geopolitical situation with China and Russia and the potential of war. When I was in, you know, a country in Asia, I won't say the name, seeing our ambassador there, who's on the other political side, but a very smart guy. Even he …”

“I feel like with nuclear energy and things like tunnels around our major cities and stuff to get rid of traffic entirely, cause you can have like arbitrarily, you know, large amounts of going in and out. It seems like there's no reason we couldn't have a hundr…”

“They tell me there's two different looks that Chinese get for every one of their movies. One look is things where they say before it comes out, if you have to censor these or can't go to China, but the other look is things you have to censor for American audie…”

“Now I think it's anti-American. It's against our patriotism, against our country to even invest there.”

“We have lots of U.S. Pensions, U.S. Endowments financing their military innovation right now still.”

“Yeah, we did the first AI treatment for diabetic retinopathy with the company, and it took You know, because you can scan the eye and see if the diabetes might make them go blind, which you can then treat very, very affordably with AI. And it took us years to …”

“I build a lot of defense companies, but I look at like half the defense budget and it's like welfare for like, for defense stuff. It's not even stuff that we need against our adversaries”

“I mean, to me, this is why I think healthcare is like the most woke of all the industries is because to be woke, which is like to be part of this like modern religion of what you're supposed to believe, you have to not question things. You have to go along wit…”

“I know a lot of NBA owners, and I think he's being honest. It's not one of their top 20 or 30 priorities.”

“I believe that a lot of my friends in the innovation world are actually, in many cases, brighter than the vast majority of professors at top schools, and they have very dynamic minds, and they've created lots of huge, amazing things, they're pushing things for…”

“The whole lean startup movement I thought was bullshit when it was happening in terms of the things I wanted to do. There definitely was a lean startup movement. Didn't make sense at all for the areas I wanted to work on and focus on. You couldn't have done a …”

“You cannot have healthy worth life balance and build a multi-billion dollar company.”