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Kratsios: Fauci Did More Disservice to Science Than Anyone in Modern History
“And I think, you know, he did more disservice to science than anyone in, in modern history.”
Emanuel: Putin and Xi view Trump as a joke, not an equal
“This president punches down and kisses up. He has this fixation about Putin and Xi admiring him as an equal, and they think he's a joke. They think he is not their equal.”
Emanuel: The DSA functions as an opposing party to Democrats
“You're not Democrats. You're a separate party. I'll see you in November. You're living, you're literally beating Democrats. Forget about it. Not interested in it.”
Friedberg: Sam Bankman-Fried would be greatest investor ever if not liquidated
“SBF pretty much would have been the greatest investor of all time if he didn't get liquidated. Same dynamic. I mean, obviously there was fraud in terms of how he was allocating capital, but his actual portfolio over the long run was absolutely correct.”
Chamath: Cultural shifts from immigration worsened UK, Germany, and France
“You can look at the UK and you can look at Germany and you can look at France and you have to ask yourself is the cultural deviation from where they were, has it been better? Or worse for those countries. And I think in general, it has been worse.”
Friedberg: California election system allows candidates to be appointed, not elected
“It has been set up and structured in a way that with the right construct, you can get an individual appointed, not elected, but appointed to a particular role in government under a, quote, free election in California.”
Friedberg: California's voting laws are a foundational destruction of democratic rights
“This is a foundational destruction of our rights to vote for people in a free democracy.”
Sacks: California election results are statistically impossible and corrupt
“We know something crooked happened. It's statistically impossible. The only thing we don't know is whether it was illegal fraud or legal fraud, meaning they've created so many loopholes and so much corruption in the law that what they did is possibly legal.”
Fetterman: Calling out antisemitism in Democratic Party has isolated him
“One of their signature view is anti-anti-Israel and borderline Just, you know, raw anti-Semitism, and from a lot of these candidates now, too, and that's exactly where, where we are and now that has isolated me in the party, and just calling that what that is.”
Sacks claims Anthropic allied politically with AI doomer and NIMBY groups
“Category number three ironically, again, is Anthropic itself. It has allied itself politically with a lot of the Doomer groups, a lot of the NIMBY groups.”
Chamath: Trump is the most consistent anti-war president in modern history
“I think Trump is and has been the most consistent anti-war president of modern history.”
Fetterman says claims of undue Israeli influence rely on anti-Semitic tropes
“Well, that, that plays into the, to the anti-Semitism and the tropes, and it's like pulling all the strings, and they're behind.”
Fetterman asserts that Israel is engaged in a just war against Hamas
“They were in a just war, you know, and now remember where it started, and remember what Hamas continued to do.”
Karp: AI will shift economic power from humanities graduates to blue-collar workers
“This technology disrupts humanities trained, largely democratic voters and makes their economic power less, and increases the power, economic power of vocationally trained, working class, often male voters,”
Tracey: Julie K. Brown fabricated quotes in Perversion of Justice
“Even though, for example, I caught her fabricating quotes in her book, Perversion of Justice, which was based on the initial Miami Herald series.”
Tracey: No credible rape allegation ever discovered on Epstein's island
“There's never been a credible allegation of rape ever discovered that that took place on that island”
Tracey: No credible evidence supports core intelligence blackmail claims on Epstein
“That's the crux of the Epstein mythology, and it's been systematically unraveled Included partially by this, the disclosure of more Epstein files, but even prior to January 30th or December 19th, the two productions, there was never any credible evidence for a…”
Sacks: Evidence shows Reid Hoffman lied about his relationship with Epstein
“The evidence shows that he's been bold faced lying. About every aspect of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.”
Chamath: Insider trading in prediction markets benefits society by revealing truth faster
“The use of inside information gets to the truth faster. And I think that has value, especially if it uncovers corruption or misdeeds. And so if people make money along the way, and that's the incentive that it takes for folks to work around what would otherwis…”
Sacks calls Al Gore's climate change push a 1990s hoax
“This whole climate change thing was Al Gore's big hoax going back to the nineties.”
Armstrong: Biden administration unlawfully tried to kill US crypto industry
“The Biden administration really tried to unlawfully kill this industry in America”
Carolla blames California overregulation on "gyno-fascism" and female leaders
“This is, what I'm starting to learn is basically what people are calling gyno-fascism, which is way too many women in positions of power with an eye on safety.”
Sacks: Stolen Minnesota fraud money is round-tripped back to politicians
“There's some round tripping here where some of the funds that are going into the pockets of the Somali community through this fraud end up back in the hands of politicians.”
Sacks: Gov. Tim Walz changed Minnesota's flag to resemble Somalia's
“And the really extreme example of this is that Tim Walts even changed the flag of Minnesota to resemble the Somali flag. I mean, he lowered the old flag and raised this new flag to that resembles the Somali flag, which shows the political clout of this communi…”
Sacks: Welfare entitlement fraud may be connected to stolen elections
“And some of this is even connected, I think, to voter fraud. So you're talking about here, stolen money, maybe leading to stolen elections.”
Shirley: 81% of Minnesota's Somali population receives state welfare
“That's why 81% of the population, Somali population side of Minnesota is on welfare”
Bessent claims a 150-year San Francisco Fed study shows tariffs are disinflationary
“There's a study from not a friend of the administration, the San Francisco fed with a 150 years of data. I would refer everyone to that. That shows that tariffs do not cause inflation, that they're actually disinflationary.”
Tucker Carlson claims sexual orientation is driven primarily by nurture, not genetics
“Clearly it's not nature, at least primarily, or we wouldn't be having an absolute rise in it, and there would be some hint of a gene responsible for it. I mean, so many different you know, genetic manifestations have been isolated from the decoding of the huma…”
Tucker Carlson calls NATO the most destructive force the US belongs to
“NATO is like the single most destructive force that we're a part of, way more than the UN.”
Tucker Carlson: What has happened in Gaza does not help the US at all
“I do think what's happened in Gaza does not help the United States at all.”
Musk: UK released violent offenders to imprison people over social media posts
“They have, in a lot of cases, released people who have committed violent crimes in order to imprison people who have simply made posts on social media.”
Sacks claims Biden's AI mandates were designed for long-term ideological indoctrination
“By the way, in my opinion, That was the end game for the Biden approach of requiring DEI values in these models.”
Sacks: Left-wing NGOs laundered over $100M of public money for Antifa
“These NGOs have laundered over a hundred million dollars of our money to fund terrorist violence in our streets.”
Sacks: Data shows 3x more people on left endorse political violence
“Last week we showed you plenty of data showing that there was three times as many people on the left who are celebrating or endorsing political violence.”
Jimmy Kimmel says MAGA tried to distance themselves from Kirk's killer
“We had some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”
Sacks: Political violence and censorship will lead to civil war
“It's the antithesis, and it's not Western civilization. It's something different and destructive, and where it will lead to is a civil war that none of us should want on either side of the political spectrum.”
Musk: Actions of the West are indistinguishable from suicide
“Let's just say that the actions of the West are indistinguishable from suicide.”
Musk: Removing religion creates destructive substitutes like the 'woke mind virus'
“And if you take away religion, then I think you actually, you get something in its place which is actually worse than what was there before. I mean, it's like destructive, basically. You get like the white work mind virus filling, filling the hole that religio…”
Karp: Elite Western universities teach 'Stalinistic bullshit' that undermines achievement
“I do think there's an issue with our lead institutions that have taken the best and brightest and most valuable things you could teach someone and have turned it into some kind of Stalinistic bullshit that is anti-correlated with everything that, that works in…”
Karp: The US military would have been more brutal than Israel
“Has Israel done something America would not have done under certain, the same circumstances? I think America would have been a lot more brutal.”
Karp: American progressives work 'day and night' to hurt poor people
“I believe progressives in this country are working day and night to hurt poor people in this country. I don't believe they're progressive.”
Karp calls Human Rights Watch an 'obvious example of fraud'
“Just take like an obvious example of like fraud, human rights watch.”
Karp: Migration is not working in the West
“I don't actually think migration's working in the West, because people don't want to change.”
Carlson claims Jeffrey Epstein was an intelligence asset involved in Iran-Contra
“Yes, well, no question. He was involved in Iran-Contra. American, French, Israeli, probably British.”
Carlson: Canada's MAID program funds suicide for non-terminal economic distress
“Native Canadians are encouraged to kill themselves at government expense for non-terminal illnesses up to and including economic distress. And that's sponsored by the government. It's called the Maids Program.”
Carlson warns the US is moving toward generational ethnic conflict
“The one thing you have to worry about in a multi-ethnic society is ethnic conflict, because it's enduring, it doesn't go away. It's generational, and we're moving toward that.”