‘She Didn’t Have the Decency’: Sulking Kamala Slinks Away From Election Loss
The Democrats’ replacement candidate has been missing in action since her Election Day loss to Donald Trump.The Democrats’ replacement candidate has been missing in action since her Election Day loss to Donald Trump.Venture capitalist admits he 'misjudged' Trump — then he exposes the 'huge gap' between media coverage and the true Trump
Billionaire venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya detailed recently how personally meeting Donald Trump changed his perception of the former president.
Earlier this month, entrepreneur David Sacks hosted a Silicon Valley fundraiser for Trump, raising $12 million. The crowd was full of wealthy tech businessmen and venture capitalists, many of whom Sacks later said were lifelong Democratic voters. Last week, Sacks and Palihapitiya recounted the event on their podcast "All-In."
'There is a huge gap between how the media tries to portray Donald Trump and what he's like when you meet him in person.'
On the podcast, Palihapitiya admitted that he had "misjudged" Trump in the past, and his view of the former president changed after meeting him.
"He is charismatic, he's intellectually sharp, and he's funny. And when you put that together, he can engage an audience for a long time and be totally extemporaneous," Palihapitiya said of Trump.
"The other thing I would say that is, that he is very polite, and he's kind in a way that was disarming and was not what I expected, and so I felt that I had misjudged him many years in the past," he explained. "So, I was very glad that I had an opportunity to sit beside him and to actually interact with him one-on-one — it was really, really engaging."
Palihapitiya explained that his interaction with Trump left a lasting impression, one that exposed the media's false depictions of him.
"I think that there is a huge gap between how the media tries to portray Donald Trump and what he's like when you meet him in person — and that gap is really wide," Palihapitiya said.
Trump, Palihapitiya said, impressed him with his "pro-American" and "pro-innovation" agenda, one that emphasizes "low regulation" and "low taxation." The platform, Palihapitiya added, "does stand very much in contrast with" the Democratic Party's agenda.
Sacks told a similar story.
"President Trump is extremely charming. He connects with people in like five seconds. I mean, he meets you and finds something interesting or funny to say, and he's hilarious," Sacks recounted.
"When he spoke in the living room, and he talked extemporaneously for an hour, he's speaking off-the-cuff. Every speech he gives is different," he explained. "People don't realize how entertaining he is."
Something that especially stood out at the fundraiser, Sacks later said, was Trump's energy level.
"He's someone who's very sharp, very on the ball, very funny, and then his energy level is incredible," Sacks said. "So, he had started his day at Mar-a-Lago at 3:30 a.m. Then, he flew to Arizona, did a Trump rally in Arizona, then he flew to San Francisco for our event. He spent four hours at our event. ... Then, he flew to Los Angeles for more events the next day there. So, think about his day and his energy level was just amazing the whole time."
Earlier this month, Sacks announced his endorsement of Trump.
Sacks explained he decided to support Trump on the basis of Trump's economy performance, his foreign policy record, the border crisis, and lawfare.
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Elon Musk had some chilling thoughts about the potential of WWIII
A few days ago, Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and David Sacks joined together for a phone conference to discuss the Israel-Hamas and Russia-Ukraine conflicts.
Musk, as usual, had some profound insight.
“In theory, it should be easy to avoid World War III because no one wants it,” said Sacks.
“I think we are sleepwalking our way into World War III with one foolish decision after another,” Musk responded. “I mean, what is the track record here? It’s not good.”
Sacks agreed, adding, “There seems to be no concept of a track record” in modern society.
“It worries me that the veterans of World War II are almost all dead,” Musk continued, “so those who remember the horrors of a world war are no longer [around].”
“Who has the visceral knowledge of what a world war is really like when people have grown up coddled in comfort? They have no concept of war,” he concluded.
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Elon Musk responds to Glenn Beck's interview with friend David Sacks on 'bronze tier' US foreign policy
Glenn Beck's interview with David Sacks caught the attention of Elon Musk Sunday, when the Twitter CEO echoed concerns about the State Department's controversial efforts to expand NATO amid the conflict in Ukraine.
"US foreign policy is bronze tier on a good day!" Elon Musk tweeted, responding to a clip from Beck's interview with Sacks that premiered Saturday on "The Glenn Beck Podcast."
"How likely do you think it is that we'd be headed towards war, and what does that mean?" Beck asked, noting that China and Russia are becoming more closely allied.
"I've been warning about this since the Ukraine situation started," PayPal's founding COO, venture capitalist, and "The Diversity Myth" author David Sacks replied, explaining that the United States has become a "co-belligerent" in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
Sacks backed up his statement about the "proxy war of choice" by noting that the United States is providing money, weapons, and intelligence.
Sacks highlighted the United States' controversial actions of "painting targets" on Russian generals' backs and bragging about providing intelligence used to sink the Moskva, a Russian flagship. Beck responded by asking listeners to imagine the reaction if Soviet political leader Leonid Brezhnev had taken similar actions during the Vietnam War.
"We engaged in a series of actions going back to 2008 that the Russians viewed as highly provocative," Sacks said, adding that Russia repeatedly warned that attempts to bring Ukraine into NATO were "categorically unacceptable."
"We have these crusaders at the State Department who just want to continue expanding NATO," Sacks said.
The United States' reaction to the Soviet Union attempting to put nuclear weapons in Cuba in 1962 is comparable to Russia's reaction today to attempts to bring Ukraine into NATO, according to Sacks. He said both moves, from the perspective of the respective countires, could be considered an "intolerable security threat."
Sacks also discussed his friendship with Musk during the interview.
"I think what he's done at Twitter with the Twitter files is incredible," Sacks said, adding that he has known the billionaire Twitter, Tesla, and SpaceX businessman for more than 20 years.
"What you see is really what you get with him," Sacks also said. Beck and Sacks later discussed Musk's musings about the possibility that we're all living in a simulation.
Musk's response to the interview with Sacks was not the first time he commented on Beck's shows.
Musk also commented on Beck's interview with "San Fransicko" author Dr. Michael Shellenberger in January. Shellenberger characterized Musk's purchase of the world's most used social media platformsocial media platform as a "major roadblock for the World Economic Forum's agenda."
"I think he's seen the dark side of that hyper-wokeism," Shellenberger said. "His purchase of Twitter is maybe the most significant thing he's done."
"He's basically said ordinary people should be on an equal platform ... and we should stop censoring ordinary folks because the elites demand it," Shellenberger told Beck.
"Citizen journalism is vital to the future of civilization," Musk responded.
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Project Veritas was among the media outlets, reporters, and consumers who expressed agreement and gratitude for Musk's tweet supporting citizen journalism.
Watch episode 178 of "The Glenn Beck Podcast" featuring Beck's complete interview with David Sacks below.
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The Silicon Valley Bank Bailout Sends Exactly The Wrong Message And Endangers The Economy
Normal people should be furious. Once again, the government changed the rules everyone lives by for a small, extremely wealthy, and politically connected group of people.Elon Musk STUNS hosts with brutally honest answer about the future of Twitter
On “The Rubin Report,” BlazeTV host Dave Rubin shared a video clip from Twitter CEO Elon Musk’s surprise appearance on the “All-In" podcast with hosts David Sacks, Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, and David Friedberg.
Asked about Dave Rubin's observation of the New York Times’ inflated follower counts on Twitter, Musk gave a brutally honest answer about what has been going on behind the scenes at the social media company, what his first six weeks as the CEO have been like, and what new features Twitter users can expect in the near future.
"It's been quite a roller coaster," Musk said. "But overall that seems to be going in a good direction, and, you know, we've got the expenses reasonably under control, so the company's not in the fast lane to bankruptcy anymore, and we're releasing features faster than ever in Twitter's history at the same time as having contained the costs, and we've reduced the cost structure by a factor of three, maybe four."
Musk went on to describe several of the new features to verify user identities and organization affiliations and to eliminate bots or inauthentic accounts. Later in the podcast, he shocked his hosts by stating that "almost every conspiracy theory that people had about Twitter turned out to be true" as they discussed the Twitter Files, a set of reports released to expose Twitter's alleged information suppression and collusion with government agencies prior to Musk's purchase of the company in October 2022.
\u201cElon Musk\n"To be totally frank, almost every conspiracy theory that people had about Twitter turned out to be true."\u201d— Gretchen \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@Gretchen \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8) 1671938456
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