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Ro Khanna: Twitter and Facebook Erred in Suppressing Hunter Biden Story
“In fact, you know, in the book I write about how I thought it was a mistake for Twitter to take down some of this stuff about Hunter Biden or Facebook to do that. And I think that story was total hogwash. I think Joe Biden was unfairly attacked because of his …”
Black: Donald Trump is the most financially astute US president ever
“President Trump is so fantastic is he is the most financially astute president we've ever had, and he's really focused on how economics makes the world go round and what it means for not just the exercise of American power, but building out the next century to…”
Howard: Most Environmental Groups Have Become Insidious Forces
“And I mean, not all environmental groups, but most of them are really have become insidious forces and In our society.”
Lonsdale: The Comanche were like a '10X Nazi death cult'
“I like doing a joke land acknowledgement that thank goodness that, you know, we took this place over from the Comanche Indians that were like a 10, 10 X Nazi death cult of murderers and rapists, and people don't realize that.”
Schmitt: Biden's censorship enterprise is the greatest First Amendment affront
“And a censorship enterprise that they created that was so vast. It's the biggest affront to the first event we've ever seen.”
Hoffman: Israel Is Not Committing Genocide in Palestine
“I gone and argued against a lot of kind of lefties who are like saying, look, the only, like, for example, they say, you know, Israel is committing genocide against Palestine. You're like, no, it's not. Genocide is something different. You could say there's ci…”
Vought Calls State Medicaid Provider Taxes a Money Laundering Scam
“There's substantial reforms to Medicaid that protect the program, but also allow us to get illegals off the program to deal with what is essentially a money laundering scam where a state will have Almost a fake tax on a healthcare provider, use that to cause t…”
Rubin: Tucker Carlson goes out of his way to promote antisemitic narratives
“Like, he's bringing on people always to kind of further, yeah, it's the Jews. Like, it's just one thing after another. He goes out of his way to do it.”
Thiel: Left-Wing Philanthropy Is Often Cover for Criminal Activities
“So much of this left wing philanthropy nonprofit world, I think was, you know, it was just a cover for, you know, borderline criminal activities.”
Lonsdale: UCLA Medical School Is Graduating Incompetent Doctors Due to Ideology
“So UCLA recently, we saw that school's really been taken over by ideologues, and they're graduating a lot of people who are not competent doctors. They're bringing the wrong people in.”
Winston: Practicing law should require zero mandatory licensing or credentials
“The legal profession can be free to provide credentialing all they want, but my sense is, you don't, you shouldn't have to have anything to be a lawyer. Compete on your own”
Lonsdale: Reform Jewish Synagogues Function as Arms of Democratic Party
“And there's a, the majority of Jews now are reformed Jews, and the reformed Jewish synagogues have been conquered. They're basically more arms of the Democratic Party on the left than they are places of worship.”
Gallagher: The Lancet covered up COVID origins, aiding the CCP
“You've had basic, you know, So-called scientific journals, peer-reviewed scientific journals like Lancet completely beclown themselves during the pandemic and continue to beclown themselves in large part by covering up for the origins of COVID and thereby witt…”
Lonsdale: Fauci effectively bribed researchers to reject lab-made virus theory
“As far as I could tell, people saw that this was a lab-made virus, they spoke out about it, Fauci gave them a call, they changed their mind in public, then they got a big grant. Like, it's very clear this guy was bribing, as far as I could tell, these research…”
Pompeo: Federal government unions should be eliminated and workers made at-will
“There should be no government unions. It's just not, it's a non sequitur. They should have rules there where they work at will, just like every other employee, they should be terminable.”
Aboyeji: The American liberal system emasculates Black men
“Look, I'm gonna be honest, and maybe it's a little bit of a controversial point of view, but it's the emasculation of black men. That is just a fact, right? It is a big topic. It is something that, that we talk about. Black men simply have not been empowered b…”
Lonsdale: China deliberately let COVID spread internationally to share economic harm
“China, China clearly Knew this and covered it up and made sure it spread internationally because otherwise it would have hurt them more than everyone else.”
Lonsdale: Male Leaders Do Not Need Same Paternity Leave as Women
“Men don't need to heal the same way women do. They don't always need as much time as women off. A great woman leader is just as important to get back to work, but she may need to heal. The man doesn't need to heal. He shouldn't be pretending he needs the same …”
Ferguson: US Education System Is Captured by Ideology Hostile to Science
“All of that's become much harder, because our educational system has been captured, now almost from the very bottom, from kindergarten to grad school, by an ideology which is profoundly hostile to the scientific method, and increasingly regards science itself …”
Jaswa: Race-Conscious UC Admissions Policy Feels Strictly Anti-Asian
“I mean, to me, it just feels, you know, strictly anti-Asian, actually.”
Kutcher warns China could use TikTok to undermine US naval support.
“If I'm China and I want to create a problem in in in that area of the world specifically a Naval problem in that area of the world. I, in the South China sea, I would probably want to utilize TikTok in order to influence the minds of Americans in a anti-US pro…”
Technologists unilaterally deciding global policy is 'tyranny by tech bro'
“You know, cause the alternative, you could say Theodore Hall was essentially tyranny by tech bro. You know, he decided global policy and it had huge consequences. On the other end, there's a true deep commitment to democracy, even when it feels uncomfortable.”
Kolicich: AI is not a bubble and is probably still under-hyped
“And I think it's an emphatic, no, it's not a bubble. Probably it's still a little under hyped.”
Lonsdale: OpenAI Keeps Failing in Attempts to Capture the Enterprise Market
“I think they're bad at enterprise. I think they don't have the, I think they keep trying and they're not succeeding. Maybe they'll get it though. I don't know.”
Kolicich: AI is not a bubble and remains underhyped
“And I think it's an emphatic, no, it's not a bubble. Probably it's still a little underhyped.”
Mandia: AI-native software developers are over 100 times more productive.
“It's not 10 X. It's more than a hundred X productivity with an AI native developer working on software.”
Atkins: Prior SEC pursued crypto regulation through enforcement with antiquated rules
“Unfortunately the SEC started by looking at crypto as maybe the ostrich with the head in the sand, as was their attitude. Like maybe this stuff will go away by the time we lift our head out of the sand. That obviously didn't happen. And then came the very basi…”
Atkins: Past SEC practices drove crypto asset trading offshore
“The trouble with the past practices of the, Commission is that it drove trading of crypto assets offshore.”
Atkins: Politicized activists with minimal shares weaponize shareholder proposals
“So unfortunately, these have been weaponized to push particular views or issues by certain I call them politicized shareholder activists. So they, yes, they own shares, but a very, usually a very minimal number of things.”
Ridley: The idea that China will overtake the US is outdated
“I think the idea that China is about to overtake the U.S. Is looking out of date, actually.”
Liemandt: Two decades of VC-backed EdTech have completely failed
“Lots of VCs has funded lots of ed tech. None of it works. Right? There's our ed tech investment goes like this, test scores keep going down.”
Liemandt: 90% of Students Use ChatGPT to Cheat
“If you deploy ChatGPT to students,
90% of them use it to cheat.”
Carvalho: American elites failed in recent crises and need a reset
“We saw through many examples in the past few years that our elites are, in some ways, failing us. We're talking, if we think about COVID, the summer of 2020, if we think about October seventh, and we think about what happened in the past few weeks these are ex…”
Lonsdale: Explicitly illiberal ideologues should not run university departments
“I feel like if someone is clearly illiberal, if they're clearly an Islamist who's trying to conquer for Islam, if they're clearly a communist who's trying to You know, conquer with communism and push that, like, they probably shouldn't be running our departmen…”
Carvalho: University presidents speak out of both sides of their mouths
“Presidents doing exactly what you said, right? They speak with both sides of their mouths. Inside, they do one thing to the donors and boards that are coming with a particularly different worldview. They speak in a different way.”
Carvalho: 1960s Brazilian military intervention prevented a harsh communist regime
“The military had to intervene in order to protect Brazil from going into a totalitarian regime. So you saw this paradox of, you know, an illiberal intervention was needed to provide, to protect against a much harder, more strong illiberal intervention.”
Carvalho: State University Civics Centers Are One Election Away from Destruction
“I think that they are good efforts, but the reality is that they are very tiny little things inside of a, they are a little, you know, virus inside of a host that's rejecting it strongly. And they got forced upon the university by the political system outside,…”
Stitt claims homeless nonprofits raise more money when crises worsen
“Nonprofits, the way they make money, Is not by solving these problems. They can make, they can raise more money if they keep, if it gets worse and they keep talking about it. And so when you create all these services, you're going to be attracting more and mor…”
Hoffman: Slashing university funding and barring foreign students would be catastrophic
“So, for example, you could do the current way of how you're attacking Harvard and say, I'm gonna withdraw funding, I'm going to disallow international students for coming, I'm gonna, like, do a whole bunch of other things which are gonna cause a lot of damage,…”
Vought: Trump Budget Cuts and Tariffs Cover One-Third of Deficit Gap
“The president just secured one and a half trillion dollars consistent with the fiscal framework in our first six months that I would, I think tariffs included is, is, is heading us dealing with a third. Of what's necessary to get to a balanced budget.”
Sofman: Autonomous construction machinery expands net jobs
“And in fact it's expansionary because you're actually creating jobs that wouldn't be done otherwise, but you have an ability to kind of move higher and higher level and create almost like a operating system for a general contractor to, Define the work they wan…”
Andreessen: US explicitly chose de-industrialization by making industrial activity illegal
“We chose to de-industrialize through a set of explicit policy choices, you know, not, not least of which is You know, we made a lot of industrial activity illegal over time.”
Andreessen: European regulation has made AI effectively illegal, causing brain drain
“And then, by the way, the US is benefiting a lot, because Europe has basically made AI illegal. Like, they're regulating themselves to death. And so, the smart AI people in Europe are moving to the US.”
Andreessen: Smart kids from rural America cannot get into elite universities
“If you're a family, you know, if you, if you're a family, if you're parents of a kid where I grew up and you've got a smart kid and you think you're gonna get them into, you know, a top university in this country, like, you are fooling yourself. Like, there is…”
Lonsdale: Zuckerberg Talks Masculinity but Lacks the Courage to Fight Back
“He's not willing to take that swing. And so he's not a guy's guy, you know? And which is a funny cause he's trying to talk about masculinity. But like being a guy's guy means that the people who fucked with you, pardon my French.”
Thiel: Tech has been society's only vector of progress for decades
“For the last 25, 30 years Tech meaning broadly, you know, computer science, software, internet, mobile internet now, now crypto and AI in the last few years, this has been, this, there's been, this has been sort of this one vector of progress in our society. T…”