May 31 2024
- The Rainman’s court
- Sacks + Chamath hosting fund raise for Trump
- Trump leading in the polls
- He might come on the pod also
- They kinda already did pod + fund raiser for RFK Jr, Dean Phillips, Vivek
- Chris Christie came on the pod but they didn’t do official fund raiser
- They would do Biden also (at least Chamath would)
- They want to model being able to associate with friends who have different political opinions
- Chamath has donated to Democrats massively
- They are hoping to fight the preference falsification issue where people secretly support Trump and don’t want to admit it
- Jason thinks Dems will switch their candidate soon
- Sacks is skeptical about that
- House COVID-19 investigation
- Bipartisan investigation
- Focused on communication between NIH officials and Eco Health Alliance
- Peter Daszak mentioned
- Fauci mentioned
- He even pushed back against Rand Paul when asked about it some time ago
- Does the effort to try and stop the problem actually cause the problem? Post SARS efforts were well intentioned but might have gone astray
- US has cut funding to Eco Health alliance and Peter Daszak has been fired?
- Eco Health name And Kristian Andersen words/names were mis-spelled
- David Morens grilled in hearing
- About conversations with Fauci about this whole issue
- There is a “FOIA lady” at NIH teaching people to write/communicate stuff so that emails can disappear, etc
- Apparently this was Marge Moore?
- Fauci supported gain of function research
- He helped reverse Obama era ban
- He wrote op-eds about it
- Fauci might have wanted to cover up his role in the release of Covid
- Results
- We over-reacted and broke the seal on unmitigated spending
- Billions of people were made to have these immaturely developed/tested vaccines/drugs
- We empowered power-drunk elites - who believe that they know better - now the cover up is way greater than the crime
- These people went on the offensive - they were not elected by us but they attacked us
- Our kids lost 2 years of school
- Job 1 is how will you prevent it from breaking out - put it on a remote island - they didn’t even do that
- Internal NIH emails claim that Covid leaked from a level 2 facility which isn’t that locked down
- Sadly we now have to be more skeptical of experts
- What kind of government do we really have? Politicians come and go - but these bureaucrats stay forever and do what they want
- Fauci passionately committed to Gain of function research
- Victoria Nuland passionately committed to bringing Ukraine into NATO
- Maybe we need term limits for this administrative apparatchik - the deep state
- Why isn’t this the top story at the news networks?
- Maybe they were complicit?
- US youth despairs over US politics
- Most people don’t trust mainstream media
- Crypto Corner
- Halving just happened
- Price has increased following each halving
- There’s almost like a pattern 1mo, 3mo, 6mo, etc after a halving
- Crazy appreciation is possible if past trends hold true (not financial advice)
- Salesforce shares drop 20% in worst day since 2004
- Revenue up but less than Wall St expectations
- Lost ~$40B in market cap
- Macro economic slow down
- SaaS software is cheaper to make now? Using AI tools, etc
- Generative AI might not be a new product line, given all the open source tools
- Inflation
- 3.6% annualized CPI
- 1.4% GDP growth
- 4+% interest rates
- Founder CEO companies outperform any index
- Trump found guilty of all 34 charges in hush money trial
- Falsifying business records in the first degree is the charge
- Election interference was another charge
- Dell earnings also down
- Increased costs on AI
- Other tech companies could be hit too
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