Katherine Mangu-Ward

And I think, you know, easily gameable markets or bets,

hurt your reputation as a company.

And again, it doesn't happen instantly.

People are going to lose money.

People are going to make money for sure.

So if your goal is that can't happen even once, you know, you're going to have a very heavy regulatory hand.

But I think I think that's not the way if we want again, you know, libertarians were very early in and kind of pro market types in general were very early in saying we are under utilizing prediction markets.

in all areas of life.

And that's turned out to be true.

There are tons of places in life where we are now using what are functionally little micro-prediction markets or betting markets to help us figure out how to do things.

And to cut that off because some of the markets are inappropriately structured or gameable doesn't seem like the right trade-off to me.

I don't know.

I can't.

It make me too sad to even think about this.

No, I mean, obviously, I would like to see some of the folks that I named in the Times article reelected at the very least.

You know, we have a pretty short list, but, you know, the gentleman from Kentucky I mentioned, Jared Polis, you're quite right.

If he's up now.

But the

You know, there are there are some folks that are already on their way out.

Ron Wyden, you know, we've got, you know, the already small numbers are even smaller.