Congress
18 statements across 17 episodes · 3 bullish · 7 bearish · 10 people on the record · first statement Nov 21, 2024 by John Coogan · across every show →
Everything said about Congress, oldest first
Nov 21, 2024 negative
Feb 5, 2025 neutral
Mar 9, 2025 bearish
Mar 14, 2025 positive
Asparouhov: DOGE's aggressive 'chainsaw' approach is reasonable given 2-year window
“I feel like they're taking, you know, sort of a chainsaw, which is not unreasonable when you need a scalpel because it's just like the scalpel may take too long and the, you know, admin only has two years before like Congress potentially flips. And so it's pro…”
Mar 21, 2025 positive
Apr 1, 2025 neutral
Love: Product-led growth does not exist in defense technology
“More importantly, like, you know, the crazy thing about defense tech that I think not a lot of people realize is there's really not the concept of product-led growth. Like, you can't just dog food something with a customer, and then all of a sudden the colonel…”
Apr 1, 2025
Asparouhov: Defense budget legalese matters less than warfighter and congressional interpretation
“What matters is not like the exact legal lease that is in the continuing resolution. It's like how that's going to be interpreted Both by the warfighter and by, like, Congress that ultimately is gonna, you know, sort of go, you know approve the, like, you know…”
Apr 10, 2025 negative
Apr 26, 2025 bullish
Asparouhov: Congressional reconciliation bill considers $150B to $200B defense budget boost
“There's been talk of that reconciliation bill being a 150 to 200, you know, sort of billion, which obviously gets, you know, sort of the total last year bill, you know, pretty close to that, you know, sort of trillion dollar mark.”
Jun 14, 2025 negative
Jun 26, 2025 negative
Jun 28, 2025 negative
Gallagher: Weakened Congress forces members to focus on building social media platforms
“The modern Congress has become so structurally weak that people channel their ambition into building a media platform, social media in particular, and that almost becomes their full-time job. And that's really a problem because we need Congress to focus on the…”
Jun 28, 2025 neutral
Aug 8, 2025 neutral
Aug 9, 2025 neutral
Andreessen: AI training data disputes must be solved by Congress
“In the case of training data, I think that there, I mean, there's a bunch of these copyright, you know, kind of lawsuits happening right now. There's, you know, the big New York Times opening, I won, and there's, you know, been a bunch of others. I think in th…”
Mar 2, 2026 negative
Thompson: Trusting Dario Amodei Over Congress Abandons Democratic Governance
“You could say Congress isn't gonna do anything, therefore, Amadei should. Just appreciate that is giving up on the democratic process and saying we should have unelected, unaccountable individuals making weighty decisions.”
Apr 28, 2026 neutral
Coogan: Federal in-car impairment detection mandate lacks a hard 2027 deadline
“Congress did pass a mandate directing the NHTSA to create a standard for advanced drunk driving prevention technology in new passenger vehicles. Now, the twenty-twenty-seven date that people are citing, that's not a hard deadline. The law was passed back in tw…”