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Sacks: Over 90% of Google employees are liberal Democrats
“The fact of the matter is the vast, vast majority, well over 90% of the employees at Google are liberal Democrats, and the Google search does rely on manual actions, and the people performing those actions are, again, overwhelmingly from one side of the politi…”
Sacks: Tim Walz at a minimum exaggerated his military service and rank
“It's pretty clear that he, at a minimum, exaggerated his service and he exaggerated his rank.”
Sacks: Israel destroying Hamas in Gaza is impossible
“If Israel could actually destroy Hamas and achieve its military objective in Gaza, that'd be one thing, but I think we've seen that that's impossible. I mean, Hamas basically bleeds in with the population. It's indistinguishable, and the leadership is hidden d…”
Friedberg: A major board denied a Jewish candidate chairmanship over geopolitical climate
“There was a, an individual on the board who was supposed to be elected chairman. They went in for the vote. And in that board meeting, this individual who happens to be Jewish, there was a conversation that ensued about, you can't be the chairman at this time,…”
Sacks: Parker Conrad was the only person fined in Zenefits SEC probe
“There was only one person who was named as being aware of the misconduct, and there was only one person who was fined and held accountable by regulators. In fact, he was fined more than the company.”
Sacks: Reid Hoffman's political advisor claimed Trump shooting was staged
“Some people like Reid Hoffman's political hack was actually claiming that it was all staged, which is just unbelievably ridiculous.”
Sacks: Biden said days before shooting to put Trump in bullseye
“However, Biden himself, days before the shooting, said that it was time to put Trump in the bullseye.”
Sacks: Chuck Todd revealed a cabinet official called Biden incapacitated two years ago
“Chuck Todd just said it on a podcast that a cabinet official, okay, in the Biden White House told him two years ago that he could not get a meeting with the president because the president was effectively incapacitated and his inner circle was keeping him shie…”
Haidt: Progressive revolutions have an almost perfect record of disaster
“Progressive revolutions have an almost perfect record of disaster. I mean, it always descends into, Chaos and economic chaos and cruelty.”
Sacks claims American cluster bombs killed Russian civilians in Crimea
“American cluster bombs were used to kill Russian civilians sunbathing on the beach in Crimea.”
Chamath: Biden approved US private contractors fighting in Ukraine
“Biden actually approved Private contractors now going into Ukraine and starting to fight. Americans will be on the battlefield as of, I think this was just a few days ago.”
Sacks: Biden administration pressured social media companies to remove user speech
“And basically what that case was about was the Biden administration was engaged in attempts To influence or pressure social media companies to take down speech. It's a practice known as jawboning.”
Sacks: DOJ heavily prosecuted hundreds of nonviolent January 6 participants
“They took hundreds of people who did not engage in any violence on January six. Many of them just wandered through an open door in the capital, and they were prosecuted to the hilt.”
Chamath: Zoom has 90% of its R&D and OpEx in China
“The Zoom example is a terrible, the Zoom example is a terrible one, and the reason is that P&L would have a hole blown on the side of it if they did not have 90% of their R&D and OpEx in China.”
Trump claims Paris Accord required $1T from US while China paid nothing
“The Paris Accord was a disaster for us. We were going to pay a trillion dollars, and other countries were paying nothing. Russia was paying nothing. China was paying nothing. It didn't even kick in for China until 2030, whereas with us it kicked in immediately…”
Sacks: US job growth is driven by public sector, not private
“The government is creating jobs like crazy, not in the private sector, but in the public sector, because it is an election year.”
Sacks confronts Khosla over his legal fight to block public beach access
“You are the one who is fighting a legal battle to kick some of those people, the public. Kick the public off of the public beach in front of your beach house.”
Friedberg states high probability COVID-19 originated from a lab leak
“I think that from my point of view, there's a very high probability that there was some leak. That meant that the work that was going on to try and get in front of the next pandemic and understand what we could do to prepare ourselves and what vaccines can be …”
Furin cleavage site proves SARS-CoV-2 was engineered in a lab
“The fear and cleavage site makes it clear that this was a lab leak. That's not a naturally occurring virus. The fear and cleavage sites were engineered.”
Fauci personally reversed Obama-era gain-of-function research ban
“Moreover, Fauci was personally responsible for reversing an Obama-era decision To prohibit gain of function research because it was so risky.”
Internal NIH emails suggest COVID-19 leaked from a BSL-2 facility
“There are internal NIH emails that suggest that COVID leaked from a level two facility. They call it BSL two, which does not operate with the top level biohazard safeguards.”
Sachs: OpenAI's equity clawback clause was an intentional business decision, not an accident
“This didn't happen as an accident. Somebody made a strategic business decision to do this because they thought it'd be in the company's interest.”
Sachs claims real U.S. household net worth has declined under Biden
“If you adjust for inflation, in other words, you look at the real household net worth, you can see that household net worth during the Biden term has been flat. Actually, it's down.”
Sacks: Reserve currency status alone prevents US bankruptcy and hyperinflation
“The only reason we haven't gone broke or experienced hyperinflation is because we're the world's reserve currency.”
Sandberg: Dozens of October 7 victims suffered sexual assault
“There were 1200 people killed. And at least dozens of them were sexually brutalized, assaulted.”
Chamath claims foundational AI models hold no economic value
“There is no value in foundational models economically.”
Sacks: Russian electronic warfare and mass production outweigh Ukrainian drone usage
“It turns out that as many drones as Ukrainians have been able to put on the battlefield, the Russians have even more because they're able to mass produce them in factories. They've got Bigger drones, better drones. And I think the most important variable in th…”
Chamath: Only one 2024 U.S. presidential candidate supports confrontation with Russia
“Of the three presidential candidates, to be very clear, one is supportive, then, of some kind of confrontation, because by proxy they're supportive of admitting Ukraine into NATO, which would create a war, and two are pretty clearly anti-war.”
Friedberg: Over 100M Americans directly work for or get paid by federal government
“So when you add this all up, there's over a hundred, hundred and twenty million people in the U.S. That are directly working for or getting paid by the federal government in the U.S.”
Calacanis: Sam Altman was sole owner of OpenAI Venture Fund
“He started a venture fund to invest in companies called the OpenAI Ventures Fund, and he was the sole owner of it, which they're saying now it's a clerical mistake or something, but he's invested in a bunch of startups that have unique access to the OpenAI, yo…”
Chamath: Facebook, Google, Apple, and TikTok are all infiltrated by foreign intelligence
“Facebook is infiltrated. Google is infiltrated. Apple is infiltrated. TikTok is infiltrated. So on that dimension, I think that it should be considered a hundred percent certainty that this data is getting back to not just the Chinese, but multiple state spons…”
Sacks: 51 former intel officials published bogus letter suppressing Hunter Biden story
“Because 51 former intelligence officials who still maintain close relationships with the intelligence community published a bogus letter saying that it was Russian disinformation, which it wasn't, and then that caused our social media sites to suppress it.”
Calacanis: Google's Gemini AI refused to generate images of white people
“But earlier this week, users on X started noticing that Gemini would not generate images of white people, even when prompted.”
Chamath: Pilots unions block automated cockpit technology to protect jobs
“The reason we don't is because of how certain lobbies are able to affect rules inside the federal transportation infrastructure. And we know this because our friend has been trying to, our friend Sky Dayton, wonderful pilot, Has been trying to improve airline …”
Chamath: US excess deaths in 2023 spiked 20-26% among young adults
“158,000 more Americans died than expected, which is more than all the wars combined in Vietnam, and when you look at where those death rates are, those death rates were coming from 35 to 44 year olds, which was up 26%, and 25 to 34 year olds, which was up 20% …”
Chamath: VC funds often return less than the S&P 500
“Why take on 15 year illiquidity for oftentimes funds that return less than the S and P, which is the dirty little secret of Silicon Valley.”
Sacks: Twitter Files showed 80 FBI agents sending platform takedown requests
“Once that censorship power was created, It attracted powerful entities from our government who wanted to co-opt and use that power. That's what we saw in the Twitter files with the 80 FBI agents sending takedown requests.”
Calacanis: Tech DEI consultants ran a grift charging attacked firms for allyship
“I tweeted today about the absolute, ah, grift that was going on in tech not long ago, ah, which was call out a company, venture firm, whatever it is, for their DEI stats. Then quietly contact them after you've done this brigadooning of them and say, hey, we ca…”
Tucker Carlson claims pharmaceutical TV ads are bought to shape news coverage
“Pharma's the biggest advertiser in television, as I know you know, and so, for sure, I mean, if, you know, Pfizer's sponsoring your show, you're not going to question the vax. I mean, it's kind of that simple. So absolutely, and of course, that's why they're t…”
Four Fox News staff resigned in protest over Carlson's January 6 coverage
“A number of people, including on-air people, four that I can think of, resigned in protest over my, over me suggesting that actually it was more complicated than it looked, and there were a bunch of federal agents in the crowd.”
Carlson: Social media platforms were riddled with salaried intel officers
“They were all locked down, and they were all riddled with intel, in some cases, actual salaried intel officers. Matt Taibbi's amazing reporting has shown this. Not just American, either, from foreign countries.”
Elon Musk: Tesla has done more for environment than all companies combined
“Tesla has done more to help the environment than all other companies combined.”
Phillips: 75% of Americans agree Biden cannot continue leading the country
“But do I think that he will be in a position to continue leading this country in the future? I do not. I think I'm joined by about 75% of the country, in saying that.”
Phillips: Most in Congress expected Biden not to run in 2024
“Most members of Congress thought he was going to stand down. That's why Newsom and Pritzker and Whitmer and so many others were kind of making their plans.”