California

“And the thing about tech that's interesting is, is it doesn't matter, like, a lot of the most successful people in tech were born far from the golden land of California, and totally made the effort to move here. And so, it doesn't, you know, being born here, m…”

“So California had a ninety seven billion dollar surplus in a single year. There was money to be proactive on these problems, particularly given the large fires in California in the same timeframe as the surplus.”

“And there's this conservation mindset, but the flip side of that is that if you don't have a lot of groundwater everywhere, and the land around, around Los Angeles and in California is not just moist all the time, well then, it's prone to fire.”

“If the laws hold over the next few years, I mean, the Palisades is going to be empty for a decade. Like it's just going to take forever to rebuild anything.”

“Policies in California were only 30 dollars higher than the national average home insurance policies in Florida. They're 2000 dollars higher.”

“I reached out to kin.com just to, just as like a market research thing. And they called me like six times in the last few days. I finally picked up while we were at the grocery store earlier. And they were like, yeah, we're issuing new policies in California. …”

“In California, for example, it costs like 20,000 dollars a year to put a kid through the public school system, which is just like an extreme amount of money. And that's a little bit higher than the national average, but not by much.”

“Forestry management is a solved problem, right? Let these guys get out there. The Europeans laugh at us. The president talks about this all the time, but it is literally true. They don't have these types of catastrophic forest fires because they have good fore…”

“The California State Water Supply Strategy, like, from the Department of Natural Resources, says that half a million acres of farmland have to turn into desert by 2030 in California. In order to like maintain water supply for the cities.”

“I'm going to wait until Q one or Q two, 26 to do this, but we're just going to stand up a land fund and we're just going to start buying up the land that currently isn't arable, primarily in Arizona and California, because the same acre of land that's worth li…”

“California. I live there. I love it. It's great. It's a great state, but it's not the state that anyone wants to be like right now. And that's a real problem for the future of the progressive movement.”

“And so if California tomorrow says, look, We're passing a European-style bill to severely curtail, which I think would be a disaster, to severely curtail AI development. That would, in effect, be a national bill.”

“Jensen came out yesterday and said he doesn't care about California's proposed billionaire tax. Jensen Huang said he wasn't worried about a potential tax on billionaires in California breaking from a cadre of ultra wealthy residents who have spoken out against…”

“And if you suspend the Jones act, then you can get more efficient transportation, which means we can at least have lower prices here. And we can have less of a price shock”

“They were also sued in a class action lawsuit last month for violating California's anti-spam law.”

“The wealth tax will be defeated. We will pass the retirement And personal asset protection act as a referendum in California, which will prohibit people from stealing your retirement money or your personal assets that will get passed.”

“Paramount is weighing whether to shift major operations out of California after Attorney General Rob Bonta and 11 other state attorneys general, I always get that wrong, filed today to block its one hundred and ten billion dollar acquisition of Warner Brothers…”

“I hope the billionaire tax fails. It will wreck California. If it passes, it's already harmed California.”

“Ellison reportedly told his leadership team last week that the Paramount Skydance Board has already approved the relocation plans if negotiations with Bonta haven't begun by August first.”