George Packer
speaker
697 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 6 May
George Packer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Who's on that commission?
Jensen Wang of NVIDIA, Sergey Brin of Google, Mark Zuckerberg.
Mark Andreessen of Andreessen Horowitz Venture Capital, Michael Dell of Dell Computers, one of Sachs' fellow co-hosts on the All In podcast, who's a billionaire investor, a crypto CEO, and Larry Ellison of Oracle, whose son now has a huge role in controlling media.
It was as if they were saying, we're not going to even try to pretend that there is anything
daylight between billionaire industrialists and the White House.
They're practically one and the same.
I think there's one academic scientist on that 15-person commission, which you would expect to be more the norm for a commission on science and technology.
That means the public interest is not represented.
What's represented is the interest of one part of American business.
And that is a kind of corruption in itself.
It may be legal corruption, but it's institutional corruption because it is perverting, skewing a public trust toward private ends.
And that has been –
what we've seen Trump and Sachs doing throughout the year.
And it's shown that Trump, for all of his connection to a base that is largely working class and that has put him into office twice now, Trump's real affinity is with plutocrats.
And I think Sachs knows that and used it, exploited it.
And I hope we'll talk about why this might not be good for Trump and for his movement.
Because I think it's actually leading to a real fault line that's opening up between Trump and his mass base.
Yeah, we had a nice chat, Steve Bannon and I, and he said some typically incendiary things.
And one of them was that David Sachs, whom he is on record as really disliking, if not hating, has been the best thing that could have happened to MAGA.
Because as Bannon sees it, Sachs is maneuvering in favor of –
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