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“So, yeah, I mean, I think that eventually it translates into inflation, but I think it translates into something even worse, which is at some point people become skeptical about loaning money to the US government and the, because they don't want the US to be a…”

“If interest rates ever go back up, say because of inflation, like the debt service will be one of the biggest chunks of federal spending.”

“Of that six, 20, how much will actually get into the hands of people in a thoughtful way? Probably like 300. How much of it will go into like lining the pockets of shareholders and folks in very specific companies who just Print an enormous amount of profit ov…”

“Our government says there are crafts that outtrip our arsenal by at least a hundred years to a thousand years at the moment, and we're like, meh.”

“But the US government gaining more control over Facebook is not a solution to Facebook's real problems. It's just going to mean backdoor surveillance of everything.”

“The US government is today in 2021, not the 1950 US government, the 2020 US government is like this shambolic, chaotic mess that can't really do anything, and is optimized for PR and yelling online.”

“Look, the bottom line is that we had a massive government overreaction to COVID in which we printed and spent way too much money, something like 10 trillion plus.”

“When the government instructs a private company to censor a press story that the government itself does not have the authority to censor, that is a violation of the First Amendment.”

“The biggest buyers are the US government and these ultra high frequency trading organizations.”

“If I were the US government, I would have actually focused on search because search is a monopoly for Google.”

“I guarantee you, the US government could get some warrants on those companies or warrants and ownership in Silicon Valley Bank and make at least 50 cents on the dollar, maybe even double, and that's the way this bailout should be structured, and it has to be d…”

“I know the spending run rate of this war is actually greater than what we did in Afghanistan and Afghanistan ended up being a. 20 year multi-trillion dollar operation that just flushed all that money down the drain.”

“We'll have probably two to three trillion dollars of federal money, you know, spent to Backstop and support the asset.”

“We're not going to allow, given the civil unrest and social unrest risk, and obviously as a democracy, we're not going to allow that all to go. To zero, and we're not going to let pensioners not get paid.”

“In this case, all the bare metal providers, all the people that provide GPUs will be forced by the government, in my opinion, to implement something.”

“There have been over 300,000. This is something that the U.S. Government and the Ukrainian government have worked hard to hide. The number of casualties, which has been catastrophic. This is the most violent conflict since World War II that's taken place proba…”

“So take Ukraine. We've appropriated, what, a hundred and thirty billion. That's not part of the defense budget. We have eight or a billion in the defense budget, but then we just stacked a hundred billion or so for Ukraine on top of that, and it's off book.”

“The inflation is here and the crowding out of private investment and private borrowing is now occurring because the government borrowing is so big.”

“I think at the end of the day, the market's probably going to impose discipline on us. Yeah, you're right. The cost of borrowing will become so painful.”

“At exactly the moment when native-born Americans' birth rates are tanking, over a 100,000 people die of fentanyl ODs, and we're pushing euthanasia on the population, which we are, you're, you basically, you're saying, I've given up on the people who live here,…”

“Everything that's gone up in price is something that the US government has a role in buying or paying for.”

“Every day that interest rates are off, are one percent higher based on the current federal debt level, we're paying an incremental billion dollars in interest payments per day.”

“They're going to absolutely go after your retirement accounts because that's the only way they're going to pay off these liabilities.”

“The government is creating jobs like crazy, not in the private sector, but in the public sector, because it is an election year.”

“And so therefore, tying up this very valuable spectrum by giving it for free to the broadcast networks just doesn't really make sense in the same way. And what we should do is just auction off the spectrum, use the money to pay down the national debt, And in t…”

“And after January, we're going to find out some interesting stuff and we'll get to the bottom of, you know, how did the government pressure him to censor things? And I think he's getting in front of that because it is going to come out. And I think that is a h…”

“My prediction is that this becomes more of a template for the future. It'll be less about permitting. It'll be more about creating incentives and allocating those incentives for a share of the upside.”

“The government wanted to, and actually did, deliver a lot more money to people, companies, than there was a loss of income.”

“There is no control. There is no controller. There's no reconciliation. The reason they can't pass audits.”

“I'm an unpaid consultant to the government.”

“We have 10 trillion dollars we need to go out and borrow in the next nine months.”

“35,855, according to Doge, breaking news, ServiceNow licenses on three products only being used by 84 people in our government. 11,000 Acrobat licenses with zero point zero users.”

“And so what we're going to have is we're going to have security evaluation. Let's say if the security evaluation model says that this is a good model, then people can download it. But it's got to go through the industry.”

“So the defense of it is called post quantum cryptography. Right. We know how to do it. And we'll come out with a rule that says America's got to protect itself.”

“I go to the heads of Google and Microsoft and Amazon. They're all For America. Building for us. Right. For free. Right. To make America better.”

“The government can actually accept four free contracts, these gratis contracts, and you don't need to go get approval to do it, so they can operate in the executive branch.”

“Sixty five billion dollars is paid out to consulting organizations beyond just that one in these time materials cost plus contracts.”

“I think that the second consequence is going to be that there is going to need to be financial support, which means increased government spending if we intend to keep the tariffs in place, and the global market stops buying American exports.”

“The exit of the dollar as the world's global reserve currency is going to have some pretty nasty spillover effects, and it's going to require the government to start sucking in more dollars from the American population in order to pay off all of these debts th…”

“Since I'm in the government, I can't be an owner, but I told him I'd be happy to be member number one.”

“So if Twitter was like the JV league, this is like the NBA. It's the most complex thing I've ever seen. I have in, ah, our office in DC, I have a, I've mapped now, as an example, the entire system of, like, basically from the border to the benefits programs. I…”

“I think there should be a third type, which is what you're talking about. People that are doing public service for a short duration, shorter duration, whether it's me, one-thirty as a SGE, or, you know, it's a couple of years as an engineer or something. I thi…”

“First will go private industry. And then the second will be the repricing of the risk for the U S government.”

“If you have those five, you are in control of your own destiny in the sense that you can keep your citizens healthy, And you can make all the stuff for the future. So I think if the president is creating a more expansive idea beyond US deal with this idea of U…”

“We spend a lot more than 20 grand a person right now in subsidies to people who aren't even allowed to be here.”

“If the government had gotten just 10% of that in equity, that would have paid for a hundred cylinders and mistakes.”

“I think it makes sense in situations where the government was going to do a bailout anyway, because there's a national security priority or some other kind of priority. That the government's determined we have to do. You want to get equity for it.”

“Clearly, we're on, sort of like, or were, up until Trump's election, sort of at one end, where there's no demonstrable effort by the government to meet, like, the basic desires of the population, doing just the opposite.”

“We stood up for the U.S. Government even when it was really, really unpopular.”

“I mean, the seven percent debt to GDP in peacetime with an expanding economy, never seen that before.”

“And the brilliant thing to do is to take the 100,000 and make it an auction. I would auction off half of these to the highest bidder.”

“The next year you're going to see this government attack fraud. And the fraud is probably a trillion dollars a year of people who just have figured out how to rip off the system.”

“And then a week before that is when both sides submit their requests, the government requests for 36 months, which is twice the maximum sentencing guideline for the worst case scenario for me.”

“People knew SpaceX. They were watching these rockets launch for a long time, and they would have placed that bet 10 years ago when the company was worth a hundred billion or ten billion or You know, five hundred billion, but they weren't allowed to because we …”

“I think the US government is going to take steps against distillation, which they should do.”

“To me, I think that scientific community has lost its way over, over the last few decades... And to be honest, I think over the last, you know, 15 or 20 years, I think science has been deeply and deeply politicized, and we no longer are asking sort of the very…”

“For every one percent change in the interest rate, the U.S. Government has to pay 1.25% of GDP in excess interest each year.”