Ro Khanna
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There's folks like Wes Moore.
You know, whatever you think of the three people who are going to win in November, Mamdani, Abigail Spanberger, and Mikey Sherrill, you know one thing all three of those campaigns have in common?
They don't spend a lot of time talking about Donald Trump.
They're talking about their own vision, their own ideas about what they want to do for their city, their state, for the country, and the world.
and that's what politics should be about the politics should be about here's what my vision is here's my plan uh here's where i want to take the nation by the way bro you know i don't agree with roe on medicare for all i don't agree with him on where he thinks the tax rate should be i don't agree with him on having the state play some role in building modern factories in in ohio and this thing he calls economic patriotism i'm more libertarian i'm for deregulation he doesn't understand how you really grow the economy that's
That's what we should be talking about.
Instead, it's just, you know, everyone's trying to see how they can curse in terms of being authentic, as if that makes you intelligent, right?
I mean, it's actually just the expression of emotion without a thought.
And I'm hoping that we'll have a more serious politics.
You had Chamath.
I didn't know Besson.
I do joke that I think the tech industry has become the new aristocracy.
I look at the White House, there they are, Tim Cook and Satya and all the group.
And then the king of England, King Charles, there they are or something.
So it's a group that obviously has a lot of stature and respect.
I guess here was my point to the Biden administration that they didn't agree with or they ignored.
I said it.
You're making a mistake if you think that getting Silicon Valley folks on your side is about the money, because they would always say, oh, Biden's going to raise all this money.
We don't need the Valley's money.
I said, yeah, you're going to raise all the money.