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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Bill Clinton comes up
E140: LK-99, Sclerotic establishments, Fitch downgrades US debt, Trump indicted... again
- ▶ 56:49 Chamath Palihapitiya It happened almost as an accident and an aberration during the Clinton administration.
- ▶ 1:12:20 David Sacks Sandy Berger, who worked for Clinton, who was a national security advisor, stuffed his pants.
In conversation with Vivek Ramaswamy
- ▶ 26:44 Vivek Ramaswamy Is, in the 19 nineties, workfare under Clinton was actually far more aggressive than the work environment, work requirements that were put into this supposed Republican-led debt deal where, like, what did they say? 2 times in the scene
E131: 2024 Fantasy President picks, debt ceiling agreement, Dollar dominance & more
- ▶ 23:59 Jason Calacanis He hit twenty million votes to Bush's forty million and Clinton's 44.
- ▶ 32:06 Jason Calacanis I think those are the democratic.com Clinton years. 2 times in the scene
E130: DeSantis's Twitter Spaces, debt ceiling, Nvidia rips, state of VC, startup failure & more
- ▶ 46:51 David Sacks So the Clinton era from, was it 92 to 2000 was an economic boom, and we got up to almost 20%, but we've never ever been able to get more than 20% of GDP in federal tax receipts, even during the 19 seventies when the top marginal rate was…
E128: Google enters AI wars, Druck’s warning, Trump crushes CNN & more
- ▶ 26:59 David Friedberg I would love to see a Clinton-esque, Bill Clinton-esque slide deck, where he would come up with a poster and show everyone, here's the economy, folks. 2 times in the scene
E123: Trump indictment, de-dollarization, should VCs back Chinese AI? RIP Bob Lee
- ▶ 51:59 David Sacks I mean, when, when Bill Clinton left office, and I, I think Reagan through Clinton was the biggest 25 year period of economic boom 2 times in the scene
E115: The AI Search Wars: Google vs. Microsoft, Nordstream report, State of the Union
- ▶ 1:35:33 David Sacks Let me tell you what happened to the union is that Biden was basically trying to take a page out of Bill Clinton's playbook. 2 times in the scene
E110: 2023 Bestie Predictions!
- ▶ 11:26 Chamath Palihapitiya Things emerge, people attack him because he's the clear front runner, and the opportunity, just like it was for Trump in 16, or for Clinton, or for George Bush,
E105: Tech culture wars: Elon vs. SBF, Sabotaging Republicans with Trump
- ▶ 33:45 David Friedberg So if someone wants my vote, and they're going to run for president, they would put up a simple chart like Bill Clinton used to do, and show me a 10 to 30 year plan and just say here's where we're headed.
- ▶ 41:19 David Sacks And it really, it doesn't matter whether Reagan was president or Bill Clinton and so on.
E100: Reflecting on the first 100 shows, fan questions, nuclear threat, markets, Amazon & more
- ▶ 24:27 David Sacks Perry was Bill Clinton's defense secretary.
E95: Winter is Coming, Europe's energy crisis, Kim Kardashian's new PE firm & more
- ▶ 29:17 David Sacks Tony Blair was the Bill Clinton of the UK.
- ▶ 39:16 David Sacks And, you know, the American media and the British media, they basically act as if this whole thing began on February, for a good example of this, there was an excellent piece by William Perry, who is Bill Clinton's 2 times in the scene
E94: NFT volume plummets, California's overreach, FBI meddling, climate change & national security
- ▶ 1:21:11 Jason Calacanis I mean, I, I guess one would say Bill Clinton, you know, would be the closest, you know, great president of our lifetimes, right? 4 times in the scene
E85: SBF's crypto bailout, Zendesk sells for ~$10B, buyout targets, US diplomacy, AlphaFold & more
- ▶ 1:19:41 David Sacks Every, every president from Bill Clinton to Obama, who has dealt with Putin has written largely the same account of him in their memoirs, which is look,
E84: Markets update, crypto collapse, Russia/Ukraine endgame, state of the podcast
- ▶ 1:36:11 David Sacks So if you remember, when, when Bill Clinton pulled the Democratic Party back to the center in 1992, and you had the whole Democratic Leadership Council, and they really remade the Democratic Party at that time as a more centrist party.
#AIS: Glenn Greenwald & Matt Taibbi discuss the new political divide, moderated by David Sacks
- ▶ 27:44 Matt Taibbi Nobody likes to talk about this because it speaks to a transformation that happened in the, in the Democratic Party that began, I think, with Clinton when, you know, they went away from relying on unions for financial support.
E80: Recession deep dive: VC psychology, macro risks, Tiger Global, predictions and more
- ▶ 1:38:02 Jason Calacanis I mean, we do need to get back to the Clinton, you know, moderate, like balance the budget, stop spending some austerity measures.
E79: Analyzing the leaked draft overturning Roe v. Wade with Amy Howe and Tom Goldstein
- ▶ 1:18:52 David Sacks So what happened then is Congress passed DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act, which was huge majorities in both parties, and Bill Clinton signed it.
E74: Market update, inverted yield curve, immigration, new SPAC rules, $FB smears TikTok and more
- ▶ 46:34 David Sacks Bill Clinton comes along. 2 times in the scene
E68: Trudeau invokes emergency powers, Bitcoin vs. government, Tiger Global's new strategy and more
- ▶ 22:06 Jason Calacanis You know, Clinton, Obama, a lot of people previously were trying to defuse these situations.
E66: $FB's big drop, Rogan/Spotify mess, Xi/Putin meetup & supply chain issues with Ryan Petersen
- ▶ 1:19:50 Jason Calacanis You love Clinton.
E63: Insurrection indictments, human rights in the US and abroad, groundbreaking MS study and more
- ▶ 13:49 Jason Calacanis But I don't know if you remember two or three episodes ago, sacks said, Hey, listen, there's gonna be a new appreciation for Clinton. 3 times in the scene
E61: 2022 Predictions! Business, politics, science, tech, crypto, & more
- ▶ 16:36 David Sacks Yeah, he needs to pull up Bill Clinton and triangulate. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:08 David Sacks Um, in, in a similar way, I predict that there will be a strange new respect for Bill Clinton in the Democratic Party by the end of next year. 5 times in the scene
E59: Twitter's content warning algo, equity audits, politicians trading stocks, Fed's next move
- ▶ 1:04:53 Jason Calacanis The Obamas are doing it, the Clintons are doing it, and the Trumps are doing it. 3 times in the scene
E58: November's CPI, preparing for a downturn, macro outlook, Better.com's botched layoffs & more
- ▶ 40:33 Jason Calacanis President Bill Clinton, a one percent decrease, the first time we've had a stimulus, I'm sorry, a surplus in a long time, and then, uh, Bush the second, 57% increase. 4 times in the scene
E54: Spread trading big tech, capital allocation, Zillow's misfire, Progressives suffer losses
- ▶ 1:04:55 David Sacks Um, he, he actually advised Biden to start triangulating against the woke left in the way that Bill Clinton did. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:02 David Sacks In 1994, when Bill Clinton was president, the Democratic Party, the center of it was smack dab as five. 4 times in the scene
E53: Wealth tax, inflation as a capital allocator, big tech earnings, paternity leave & more
- ▶ 30:13 Jason Calacanis Go back to the way it was moderate Dems like Clinton and like Obama.
- ▶ 48:38 David Sacks Um, so you had, it, it set the stage for the boom in the Reagan era and beyond, and, and the Clinton era as well.
E49: Coinbase CEO reflects on controversial blog, state of the markets, 1000 unicorns & more
- ▶ 47:29 David Sacks When Bill Clinton left office, he bros boasted about the fact that government spending was only 18 and a half percent of GDP.
E47: Facebook's week from hell, Ellen Pao on sexism in Elizabeth Holmes coverage, Newsom wins & more
- ▶ 16:12 David Sacks We've, we've somehow moved away from a political consensus we had in the 19 nineties that I think made a lot of sense when Bill Clinton passed welfare reform with, you know, a lot of Republican support is, so look, we need to have a…
- ▶ 26:30 Jason Calacanis I think he was pro-gay marriage before the Clintons.
E32: Behind the scenes of Elon hosting SNL, CDC failures, America's real-time UBI experiment & more
- ▶ 52:52 David Sacks Um, you know, and I think that, you know, during the Clinton years, just to take, uh, just to take a contrast,
E31: Post-vaccination virtue signaling, pandemic lessons, immigration, Caitlyn Jenner for CA & more
- ▶ 49:38 David Friedberg Um, I think Sachs, correct me if I'm wrong, but a lot of this, um, originated during the Clinton era, uh, which was, uh, you know, a democratic president 3 times in the scene
E30: Ramifications of Biden's proposed capital gains tax hike, founder psychology & more
- ▶ 6:34 David Sacks It got to 20% because Bill Clinton lowered it from 28 to 20 as part of an overall package of, um, of, of tax reforms that he did in the, in the sort of the, the mid nineties. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:30 David Sacks I think it's the, the, the right solution is somewhere between what, what Reagan and, and Bill Clinton did. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:37 David Sacks By the way, you know, again, when Bill Clinton left office, I remember, you know, you can go to the, the, the time machine for whitehouse.gov when he left in 2000, and he bragged about how under his terms, under his eight years as…
- ▶ 37:33 David Sacks Remember, Biden was Clinton's floor manager in the Senate when he passed all this legislation, and so now Biden is very far to the left of where Biden was,
E27: The Great Inflation Debate, Amazon gets spicy on Twitter, rethinking supply chains & more
- ▶ 1:16 David Sacks Kennedy, who said a rising, who said a rising tide lifts all boat, and maybe even some Bill Clinton too. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:10 Chamath Palihapitiya Well, welfare was away until Clinton disassembled that. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:16 David Sacks And by the same token, I think the Clinton years were, were generally great years in America.
- ▶ 29:40 David Sacks I call this the Reagan Clinton boom. 3 times in the scene
E12: Biden wins, Pfizer vaccine, markets rip, Trump's next act, COVID endgame scenarios & more
- ▶ 29:25 David Sacks Um, but both when, uh, Bill Clinton was president with a Republican house and when Obama was president and there was a Republican house
E11: Election Night Special featuring Phil Hellmuth, Bill Gurley, Brad Gerstner & more!
- ▶ 46:33 David Sacks Well, we had a bipartisan consensus in this country for 30 or 40 years on the part of both Clintons and both Bushes that we should, you know, open them, we should welcome them with open arms, and we opened up our market to Chinese products.
- ▶ 1:09:38 Jason Calacanis I'm not saying people looting stores are correct, but what I'm saying is George Bush and Ronald Reagan, your heroes, Bill Clinton, Obama, other people's heroes on this call,
- ▶ 1:58:45 Brad Gerstner I mean, I think that's the Clinton formula. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:59:22 David Sacks Remember the Democrat leadership committee that Bill Clinton formed. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:28:15 Phil Hellmuth There was a lot of excitement about Clinton.
E9: Trump has COVID, First debate reactions, Coinbase letter response & more
- ▶ 34:23 David Sacks You know, Bill Clinton to, you know, Obama type centrism or, you know, center leftism, I guess you could say, as opposed to this sort of like crazy, you know, woke Marxism or Maoism, whatever you want to call it.
E8: TikTok + Oracle, how privacy loss will impact society, economy & COVID outlooks for 2021
- ▶ 1:21:52 David Sacks I, I totally, I totally agree with Jamath that if Trump wins the election, this will be the reason, um, that the same thing happened when the Republicans overplayed their hand with Bill Clinton. 2 times in the scene
E7: California's collapse, how SPACs are opening the markets for growth stocks & more
- ▶ 1:04:27 David Sacks Um, I think, you know, somebody like Bill Clinton would know exactly how to respond.
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