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“This is Bibi’s War” - Harvard’s Graham Allison on the Influences and Endgame of the Iran War
- ▶ 12:40 Graham Allison I remember, ah, in Iraq, after Bush failed to find nuclear weapons, which was the initial, I would say, somewhat cucked up rationale for our going into Iraq, Gandhi Rice, who was the secretary,
Exiled Iranian Prince Reza Pahlavi: Transition Plan and the Fight for Iran's Freedom
- ▶ 24:01 Jason Calacanis Bush wasn't able to get this done.
Software Stocks Implode, Claude's Hit List, State of the Union Reactions, Trump's Tariff Pivot
- ▶ 55:59 Jason Calacanis So we just have a dysfunctional government where, you know, in a more functional time period, like under Clinton, let's say, or Bush, people would have gotten together, and I'm, I'm jumping ahead to the tariff discussion, and they would…
Senator Rand Paul: Tariffs, Debt, China, and a Warning for America
OpenAI's GPT-5 Flop, AI's Unlimited Market, China's Big Advantage, Rise in Socialism, Housing Crisis
- ▶ 45:31 Phil Deutsch And we had that a little bit with Bush and Clinton with some of the renewable stuff, David, like Governor Bush put in 2 times in the scene
Winning the AI Race Part 2: Vice President JD Vance
Grok 4 Wows, The Bitter Lesson, Third Party, AI Browsers, SCOTUS backs POTUS on RIFs
- ▶ 59:20 Jason Calacanis Look at Bush two during after nine-eleven.
12 Day War, Socialism Wins in NYC, Stocks All-Time High, AI Copyright, Science Corner
- ▶ 28:56 David Sacks Number one is President Trump is not George W.
- ▶ 53:49 David Sacks So remember a decade ago, the Republican party was dominated by people like Dole and McCain and Romney and various Bush retreads.
Tucker Carlson: ICE Raids, LA Riots, Strong Economic Data, Politicized Fed, War with Iran?
- ▶ 36:48 Jason Calacanis You know, around three million per, and Clinton and Bush had a ton of immigration. 3 times in the scene
Trump's Big Week: Middle East Trip, China Deal, Pharma EO, "Big, Beautiful Bill" with Ben Shapiro
- ▶ 53:35 Jason Calacanis Bush, 5.4 trillion four years.
Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture | All-In DC
- ▶ 7:54 Brooke Rollins And in Texas, George W.
Trump's First 100 Days, Tariffs Impact Trade, AI Agents, Amazon Backs Down
- ▶ 7:05 David Sacks They tend to be like more Bush era.
Trump vs Harvard, Nvidia export controls, how DEI killed Hollywood with Tim Dillon
- ▶ 1:16:52 Tim Dillon It's a very weird Manichean sense of good and evil that was instituted by George W.
The Great Tariff Debate with David Sacks, Larry Summers, and Ezra Klein
- ▶ 24:24 David Sacks George W.
- ▶ 52:45 Ezra Klein There was everybody's private war that they were projecting on to the Bush administration.
- ▶ 55:19 David Sacks And Larry, you're right that it started before the Clinton administration and the George W.
- ▶ 1:15:26 Larry Summers So the suggestion that you have been held to the same ethical standards that I was held, and that other members of previous administrations, including the Bush administration, were held, unfortunately is not right.
- ▶ 1:24:46 David Sacks That included both Bush Republicans and Clinton Democrats around these three pillars of globalism.
DOGE updates + Liberation Day Tariff Reactions with Ben Shapiro and Antonio Gracias
- ▶ 1:33:07 Ben Shapiro Uh, it was, it was true to a certain extent, uh, with, uh, with George W.
The Shocking Truth About DC Spending & Corruption - Scott Bessent
- ▶ 51:25 Scott Bessent George W. 2 times in the scene
Tariffs, Trump's Economic Endgame, Market Chaos, Bitcoin Reserve, CoreWeave IPO
- ▶ 20:25 Jason Calacanis I, I know that you're a nature guy, but here's, we're like a classic Bush nature guy.
- ▶ 1:23:33 Jason Calacanis We look at the world much differently now since we have energy independence than we did under Bush and, and these, uh, foreign wars, you know, in the Middle East.
DOGE vs USAID, Crypto Framework, Google's $75B AI Spend, US Sovereign Wealth Fund, GLP-1s
- ▶ 58:24 Jason Calacanis Is this something where we're making the government too big, and now we've got the government competing with BlackRock and Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz, and they're gonna be on the board of technology companies and energy companies and…
All-In Inauguration Day Livestream with the Besties from Washington, DC!
- ▶ 1:06:16 David Friedberg President Bush. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:00:06 Donald J. Trump Speaker Johnson, Senator Thune, Chief Justice Roberts, Justices of the United States Supreme Court, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, President Biden,
Ted Cruz: Trump's First Week, Texas vs. California, Immigration, DOGE, Greenland
- ▶ 24:30 Senator Ted Cruz Yes, and, and, and Chamath, that's actually a point, you know, I think back to, so my wife Heidi and I met on the 2000 George W. 3 times in the scene
New SEC Chair, Bitcoin, xAI Supercomputer, UnitedHealth CEO murder, with Gavin Baker & Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 20:16 Jason Calacanis Atkins was previously SE commissioner under Bush II in the early 2000.
Inflated GDP?, Google earnings, How the media lost trust, Rogan/Trump search controversy, Election!
- ▶ 1:26:24 Jason Calacanis And if you remember the hanging Chad's case, there were people who said, I voted for Gore, I voted for Bush, and my vote got counted wrong.
Mark Cuban: Love/Hate Relationship with Trump, Why He's Backing Kamala Harris
- ▶ 2:13 Mark Cuban I voted for George W. twice, then I voted for, um, Obama twice, and then I voted for, um, Clinton and Biden.
Deep State, Hegemony & U.S. Foreign Policy: John Mearsheimer vs. Jeffrey Sachs | All-In Summit
- ▶ 1:59 Jeffrey Sachs She was, uh, in the, uh, Bush administration junior, uh, with Cheney.
- ▶ 6:38 Jeffrey Sachs But that policy has been mostly in place pretty consistently for 30 years, and it didn't really matter whether it was Bush Senior, whether it was Clinton, whether it was, uh, Bush Junior, whether it was Obama, whether it was Trump.
Peter Thiel: The Coming Collapse No One Is Prepared For
- ▶ 37:31 Peter Thiel But, uh, you've had, um, well, also, I mean, if, you know, it's in 2005, uh, it was under Bush 43 that the bankruptcy laws
JD Vance | All-In Summit 2024
- ▶ 20:21 David Sacks So you now have a dynamic where the Bush Republicans are now Harris Democrats, and the Kennedy Democrats are now Trump Republicans.
In conversation with Reid Hoffman & Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- ▶ 1:06:05 David Sacks He's, he was the first Republican candidate to run opposing Bush's forever wars.
Kamala surges, Trump at NABJ, recession fears, Middle East escalation, Ackman postpones IPO
- ▶ 57:36 David Sacks Because really members of the Bush administration had a preexisting agenda, and then they, they lied us into it saying that Saddam was connected somehow to nine 11.
Biden chaos, Soft landing secured? AI sentiment turns bearish, French elections
- ▶ 15:16 Jason Calacanis And then Bush came in and all of a sudden Democrats hated Bush so much that they perceived the same economy. 2 times in the scene
Hot Swap growing, donors revolt, President Kamala? SCOTUS breakdown: Immunity, Chevron, Censorship
- ▶ 16:58 David Sacks He was supposed to inherit the mantle from W the way that W inherited from his father.
E173: Google buying HubSpot? FTX depositors not made whole, AI job fears, Ukraine joining NATO
- ▶ 21:21 David Friedberg Neither does Bush.
E161: US strikes Houthis, market instability, Q1 rate cuts in doubt, Carta's major mishap, DEI
- ▶ 11:24 Jason Calacanis But this isn't like a, you know, nine 11 situation where Bush got a lot of credibility for saying, hey, we're going to go get these terrorists.
Tucker Carlson: State of America, leaving Fox News, Media Control, Politics, and more
- ▶ 26:29 Tucker Carlson And I foolishly, uh, parroted the Bush administration's line on that.
- ▶ 1:01:51 David Sacks Is it fair to say Nikki Haley is basically an unreconstructed Bush Republican? 3 times in the scene
Jared Kushner: Israel-Hamas War, paths forward, macro picture, AI
- ▶ 49:29 Jared Kushner Again, it was, uh, you know, the, the PA at the time convinced the Bush administration to allow for Hamas, even though their chartered
- ▶ 1:12:37 David Sacks He spoke out against the forever wars, against Bush's forever wars.
- ▶ 1:14:21 Jared Kushner Bush said he wanted to fix it.
E151: WW3 risk, War with Iran?, 4.9% GDP, startup failures growing, new Speaker & more
- ▶ 8:29 David Sacks And the Bush administration's view on that was, don't worry, we're going to get them all. 2 times in the scene
All-In Summit: In conversation with Graham Allison
- ▶ 10:33 Chamath Palihapitiya What happened in the late nineties, I guess it started with Clinton, where it seemed like a good idea to admit to the WTO and then Bush kind of just, you know, put the nail in the coffin and did it and actually supported it.
In conversation with Chris Christie
- ▶ 11:08 Chris Christie Bush tried to do something about it, and the Congress rejected it, but Obama, you know, Trump and Biden have done nothing.
- ▶ 14:08 David Sacks I want to go back to the Bush era forever wars, the Iraq war. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:11 Chris Christie I do think though that United States in action, um, and, and bad signal sending to Putin going all the way back to George W.
- ▶ 1:14:21 Chris Christie I mean, we were in the Bush justice department together starting back at nine, you know, right in the media post nine, 11 period.
E144: Biden targets Elon, BRICS challenges the West, Tiger hit piece & more
- ▶ 21:24 David Sacks He was talking about Bush, Cheney, Republicans, neocons. 2 times in the scene
E143: Nvidia smashes earnings, Arm walks the plank, M&A market, Vivek dominates GOP debate & more
- ▶ 1:18:02 Chamath Palihapitiya And for Bush, what happened to Bush?
- ▶ 1:39:21 David Sacks It was George W. 2 times in the scene
In conversation with Vivek Ramaswamy
- ▶ 1:52:46 Jason Calacanis The difference being Bush never said, we're going to the Middle East for oil.
In conversation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- ▶ 13:55 Chamath Palihapitiya Just on that, could you contrast and compare just maybe the last three or four presidents on this very narrow dimension of that, of JFK's promise of what a president should be doing, Bush, Obama, Trump, and now Biden.
- ▶ 39:18 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. But, and you know, the CIA, it was George Tenet who lied to President Bush and said it's a slam dunk.
E117: Did Stripe miss its window? Plus: VC market update, AI comes for SaaS, Trump's savvy move
- ▶ 1:05:28 David Sacks He didn't go all the way on the road to Baghdad the way that his son George W.
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,
E95: Winter is Coming, Europe's energy crisis, Kim Kardashian's new PE firm & more
- ▶ 29:32 David Sacks He went along with George W. 2 times in the scene
#AIS: Opening chat with Miami Mayor Francis Suarez
- ▶ 7:40 Jason Calacanis Which George Bush was in office?
#AIS: Joe Lonsdale on the problem with higher education
- ▶ 2:52 Joe Lonsdale I think Housing First was first deployed under W.
#AIS: Glenn Greenwald & Matt Taibbi discuss the new political divide, moderated by David Sacks
- ▶ 33:53 Glenn Greenwald Bush-Cheney foreign policy in opposition to Reagan economics.
#AIS: Antonio Garcia Martinez & Glenn Greenwald debate Ukraine, moderated by David Sacks
- ▶ 22:32 Glenn Greenwald Who, in 2008, in a memo to Condoleezza Rice, when the Bush administration wanted to expand NATO up to Russian borders, warned, this is what he wrote, quote, Ukrainian entry into NATO is the brightest of all red lines for the Russian elite,…
- ▶ 31:16 Glenn Greenwald That's what George Bush said in his 2003 State of the Union speech.
E78: VC fund metrics that matter, private market update, recession, student loans, Bill Hwang arrest
- ▶ 56:46 David Sacks I don't know if you guys know that, but under George W.
E74: Market update, inverted yield curve, immigration, new SPAC rules, $FB smears TikTok and more
- ▶ 26:41 Chamath Palihapitiya Bush, Obama.
E73: Late-stage VC markdowns and mistakes, market strategy, Ukraine/Russia update with Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 1:18:45 Brad Gerstner Bush wanted regime change in Iraq, and we executed it through the Powell doctrine of overwhelming military force.
E72: Impact of sanctions, deglobalization, food shortage risks, macroeconomic outlook and more
- ▶ 4:54 David Sacks Uh, for the West, it's gonna be like the Bush doctrine and 20 years of failed policy in the Middle East never happened.
- ▶ 1:04:19 David Sacks It's all the way back to sort of Bush doctrine.
E71: Russia/Ukraine deep dive: escalation, risk factors, financial fallout, exit ramps and more
- ▶ 39:33 David Sacks And, um, he has a quote about this style of foreign diplomacy that we, that his son practiced Dick Cheney and Rumsfeld and the same people now in the Biden administration, it's all the sort of neocon foreign policy. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:31:26 David Sacks His son comes in 10 years later, and they finish the job. 2 times in the scene
E70: EMERGENCY POD! Russia invades Ukraine: Reactions, Putin's ambition, Biden's response and more
- ▶ 8:39 David Sacks So, and again, we, George W.
- ▶ 34:35 David Sacks I mean, you flip over to MSNBC, John Bolton is on MSNBC, and one of the weirdest things happening in our politics now is that all the neocons who used to be members of the Republican party who worked for George W.
E65: VC markup dynamics, Russia/US tensions over Ukraine, Altos Labs raises $3B, Stripe mafia & more
- ▶ 17:02 David Sacks When Russia invaded, uh, Georgia, uh, George W. 2 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. 2 times in the scene
E54: Spread trading big tech, capital allocation, Zillow's misfire, Progressives suffer losses
- ▶ 1:10:24 David Sacks So George W.
E38: Bestie brawl, Robinhood's $70M fine & S-1, Delta variant, next gen candidates & more
- ▶ 1:09:05 David Sacks Very similar in a way, I think, to the way that, that George W.
E31: Post-vaccination virtue signaling, pandemic lessons, immigration, Caitlyn Jenner for CA & more
- ▶ 37:07 David Friedberg By the way, you know, on immigration, I don't know if you guys saw this, you know, George, um, W.
- ▶ 50:58 Chamath Palihapitiya It was passed in Bush. 2 times in the scene
E27: The Great Inflation Debate, Amazon gets spicy on Twitter, rethinking supply chains & more
- ▶ 17:53 Chamath Palihapitiya And then the real cataclysmic change on top of all of this, which sealed the fate of that trend line happened, uh, in point number three, which is when George, George Bush, uh, in 2001 had this really seminal decision, which is he had the… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:28 Chamath Palihapitiya Guys, I think I think there's one big thing you're forgetting in 2001, which is, I think that Bush actually traded away access to the WTO so that they could guarantee China's vote when he wanted to go to war with Iraq, which happened in… 4 times in the scene
E12: Biden wins, Pfizer vaccine, markets rip, Trump's next act, COVID endgame scenarios & more
- ▶ 2:35 David Sacks Um, we can kind of compare this to, you know, uh, Bush v. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:45 Chamath Palihapitiya So Bush v. 4 times in the scene
E11: Election Night Special featuring Phil Hellmuth, Bill Gurley, Brad Gerstner & more!
- ▶ 43:12 Michael Newman Of course, they all have PTSD about what happened in 2000 when they first prematurely called Florida for Al Gore, then prematurely called it for George W.
- ▶ 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, 2 times in the scene
E6: Big Tech antitrust aftermath, potential effects of an M&A clampdown on Silicon Valley & more
- ▶ 1:27:59 David Sacks Bush type situation.