Elon's Big Loss, Trump's Stock Trades, and OpenAI vs. Apple

“I think the jury can't possibly side with him. I mean, ultimately, I don't think they proved anything. And it's a sort of he said, he said kind of thing. And Elon's the most loathsome of the pair, right? By far, by a country mile.”

“I think we now need alternative minimum taxes of 60 or 70% on anything over a billion dollars for an individual because these individuals are under the impression that they are not subject to the standards of Western society, decency or any or the law.”

“Americans see their prices going up and they're not participating in the wealth creation of AI. And it's just a proxy for income inequality that, okay, I hear about you know, Anthropic is worth a trillion dollars. San Francisco real estate prices are booming, jet sales are booming. There are 28-year-olds who are lucky enough to get a job in coding at OpenAI who are selling 7, 10, 15 million dollars in stock. And I can't afford detergent.”

“Trump bought $500,000 in Nvidia stock one week before his Commerce Department approved Nvidia chip sales to China. He bought somewhere between 1 and 5 million the week before they announced a major deal with Meta. He's He bought Dell stock before he started carving up TikTok and giving it to, wait for it, Michael Dell.”

“This is like there's a I literally feel like he's going to start taking milk money from kids like at some point if you remember that that expression. I just This is like Is there anywhere he doesn't cheat and advantage himself in a way that's like really obvious grift, like obvious and really kind of upsetting grift?”