Chamath Palihapitiya

Well, AI is the new lightning rod.

for fear and for divisiveness that ultimately breeds compliance and control, which is where these politicians are trying to drive the populace and the voting conditions in the United States.

And that's what's going on right now.

There's a lot of fear about, oh, putting this data center in my town is gonna do X or Y or Z with no real conversation about the truth of that matter.

There's a lot of fear about wealth creation being aggregated in the hand of a few when, as we saw with the internet, it benefited the many.

And that fear mongering is a very similar tactic that we've seen in the prior generations, where policies were misstated, fear was used, and then voting control

allowed folks to come to power that were looking for power.

So I think it's just the lightning rod at the moment.

I do remember the economic target was 3, 3, and 3.

3% GDP growth, 3% deficit to GDP, and 3% inflation.

They're below 3% inflation.

They're above 3% GDP growth.

And the deficit to GDP is not where it needs to be.

So cutting is still ahead.

But I looked at the budget for 2026 for a number of the departments in the cabinet over the last couple days, and they do have big cuts that they're trying to implement.

across the federal government.

We're going to be interviewing Scott Besant tomorrow morning.

That'll come out shortly after this episode airs.

But this is the catch-up conversation with Scott on how's the 3-3-3 plan going.

But on two of the three metrics, J-Cal, it does appear like things are good.