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Senators John Fetterman and Dave McCormick: Bipartisanship, Money in DC, Datacenters, Graham Platner
- ▶ 20:29 John Fetterman Um, and now this is a guy that just a couple of years ago described an American soldier in a firefight with the Taliban.
“This is Bibi’s War” - Harvard’s Graham Allison on the Influences and Endgame of the Iran War
- ▶ 4:14 Graham Allison And spent more than a billion dollars of many, many thousands of American lives, and when we went to Afghanistan, the Taliban were ruling. 2 times in the scene
Trump Rally or Bessent Put? Elon Back at Tesla, Google's Gemini Problem, China's Thorium Discovery
- ▶ 42:13 David Friedberg After a trillion dollars in Afghanistan, the Taliban is back in charge doing awful, brutal things.
Kamala surges, Trump at NABJ, recession fears, Middle East escalation, Ackman postpones IPO
- ▶ 56:50 David Friedberg It's like the Russians and the Americans trying to chase the Taliban in Afghanistan forever.
E149: Hamas terror attacks in Israel: fallout, reaction, next steps
- ▶ 9:50 David Sacks It should have been a quick surgical strike to take out Al Qaeda and their Taliban hosts, and then we should have gotten out.
E74: Market update, inverted yield curve, immigration, new SPAC rules, $FB smears TikTok and more
- ▶ 1:29:38 David Sacks Whacked the Taliban.
E72: Impact of sanctions, deglobalization, food shortage risks, macroeconomic outlook and more
- ▶ 59:50 David Sacks The Taliban are back in power.
E64: Antitrust standards & enforcement, tech repricing, lab leak obfuscation, E63 reactions & more
- ▶ 17:19 David Friedberg And for years we were talking about how evil the Taliban and their social system was, and then we just handed Afghanistan back to them a few weeks ago. 2 times in the scene
E46: False Ivermectin narratives, regulatory grift, wartime mentality in solving issues & more
- ▶ 41:25 David Sacks The Chinese are about to take up residence in Bagram, in our splendid Air Force base, and, uh, the Taliban are one of the best equipped armies in the world. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:02 David Sacks It was the Taliban, it was China, you know, um, it was crime.
E44: USA's Afghanistan embarrassment, China's new algo laws, future of robots + Italy recap!
- ▶ 13:45 David Sacks I think I was in France at the time the Taliban overrun over in Kabul. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:37 Jason Calacanis If Biden had run an orderly exit, and then it spiraled into Taliban and reverted back to what it was. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:43 David Sacks China is going to Afghanistan right now and cutting deals with the Taliban to build a highway so they can get to the rare earth minerals, which, uh, Afghanistan is rich in, and they're going to use the super highway.