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Matt Bernstein

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1273 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
What I Learned From 12 Hours of DOGE Bro Depositions (with Krystal Ball)

is that, you know, they're getting ahead.

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
What I Learned From 12 Hours of DOGE Bro Depositions (with Krystal Ball)

They're getting these grants from the government.

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
What I Learned From 12 Hours of DOGE Bro Depositions (with Krystal Ball)

They're getting based on weaponizing the apparent privilege associated with having a marginalized identity.

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
What I Learned From 12 Hours of DOGE Bro Depositions (with Krystal Ball)

And we should everything should be merit based.

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
What I Learned From 12 Hours of DOGE Bro Depositions (with Krystal Ball)

That's they say this over and over and over and over again.

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
What I Learned From 12 Hours of DOGE Bro Depositions (with Krystal Ball)

When you look at this person, as we are about to do, you really get the sense that DEI policies at companies where maybe they would try to balance their hiring ratio across different demographics and stuff,

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
What I Learned From 12 Hours of DOGE Bro Depositions (with Krystal Ball)

maybe tilted the scale like 1% away from the innate privilege that young, white, privileged, wealthy men like Justin Fox have always had and continue to have.

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
What I Learned From 12 Hours of DOGE Bro Depositions (with Krystal Ball)

And to me, that's the thing that's so egregious, is that these are the ultimate privileged people.

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
What I Learned From 12 Hours of DOGE Bro Depositions (with Krystal Ball)

They are the ultimate winners of identity politics in there being straight white men.

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
What I Learned From 12 Hours of DOGE Bro Depositions (with Krystal Ball)

Couldn't have said it better myself.

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
What I Learned From 12 Hours of DOGE Bro Depositions (with Krystal Ball)

This is why we have Crystal today.

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
What I Learned From 12 Hours of DOGE Bro Depositions (with Krystal Ball)

So Justin Fox goes from his couple years in finance after UVA to work at Doge, where his salary was around $150,000.

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
What I Learned From 12 Hours of DOGE Bro Depositions (with Krystal Ball)

Did he have any relevant experience for that job?

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
What I Learned From 12 Hours of DOGE Bro Depositions (with Krystal Ball)

Let's take a listen.

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
What I Learned From 12 Hours of DOGE Bro Depositions (with Krystal Ball)

This is in 1.25 speed, by the way.

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
What I Learned From 12 Hours of DOGE Bro Depositions (with Krystal Ball)

Wow.

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
What I Learned From 12 Hours of DOGE Bro Depositions (with Krystal Ball)

This is DEI for white men.

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
What I Learned From 12 Hours of DOGE Bro Depositions (with Krystal Ball)

Justin Fox was hired to do work at Doge by a man named Anthony Armstrong, a businessman and collaborator of Elon Musk, who is now the CFO of XAI, which is Elon Musk's AI company.

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
What I Learned From 12 Hours of DOGE Bro Depositions (with Krystal Ball)

By the way...

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
What I Learned From 12 Hours of DOGE Bro Depositions (with Krystal Ball)

I will add so many of the people who make some of the most consequential decisions in our lives aren't famous.