Scott Galloway

Surrender!

I'm sensitive or empathetic to the notion that if the government...

I think our tech platforms should cooperate with the government.

Yes, me too.

But at the same time, I find of all the ugliness, I think the thing that used to bother me the most was just the out of control corruption around this crypto stuff.

I think that has been vested by the fact that we have a secret police

essentially terrorizing Americans.

Because it's not only the terror and the trauma these people have to go through, what it says is that America is devoting its energy to fascism, which is believing that the enemy is within, and it's just a false flag.

We're not that divided, but we have the most powerful companies at the behest of the president dividing us.

This is an autocracy.

Putin has nothing on Trump.

Reward your allies, carve up TikTok, give it to your Republican donors, give somebody a tip that you're about to announce ridiculous tariffs again last Friday on China, and this person goes out, buys several hundred million dollars notionally

in puts against the crypto market, and by the way, closes out the trade at $120 million gain later that day, again, unless somebody knew what was coming here, this was the luckiest trade in history, reward your allies and punish your enemies.

And at some point, you and me are gonna end up on some list and the IRS is gonna come for us.

And when the IRS comes for you, even if you've done nothing wrong, if they're aggressive enough, you're just going to pay a lot of money.

It's going to send a chill and you're going to decide, oh, maybe on our podcast, we shouldn't speak.

We shouldn't be so negative on Trump or whatever.

This is you don't weaponize

Americans pay for these institutions.

The IRS is there to make sure that people pay their taxes.