Shamath Palihapitiya
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50 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jul 2024
last heard Jul 2024
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I like Puppet Master.
We should call Sachs Geppetto.
It's absolute insanity. I actually just, I had just woken up because I was flying back to the United States for a board meeting. And so as I was boarding and on the way, I was just on my way to the airport reading it, mostly from our group chat. And I couldn't believe it, to be totally honest with you. I thought this is not possible in this day and age.
Part of why I thought it was not possible was because I had elevated in my mind who the Secret Service were and that the job they did or that they're supposed to be doing is just so sacrosanct to the well-functioning of America that you only have the absolute best people doing that job.
And that job is to protect these handful of individuals in America, most importantly being the president of the United States, who are just critical to the functioning of the most important country in the world. And when you see the level of negligence and incompetence, my mind started racing. How is it even possible?
I guess the only thing that I can come up with is that we need to figure out where incompetence ended and negligence began in all of this, because I think that's what's going to be the most critical. And we need to figure out the totality of what happened You know, if there were other people that supported this guy trying to do this.
And then the second I'll just say is Trump is an absolute legend. What a boss.
I think it's more precise than that. I think it's way more precise than this. I don't think that this is like years of Donald Trump using violent rhetoric. I think this is years of mis... No, I don't. You cannot both sides this. I think this is years... Of course you can. I just gave you examples of it. I think what it is is that we have gone through years and years of...
literally the words that the former president has said being perverted and misconstrued and chopped up into soundbites that advance a mainstream media's agenda to try to vilify a person. And I think that that's an important thing to take a step back.
I think we have to understand that the mainstream media has really gone out of their way to amplify violent rhetoric and to actually associate violent rhetoric with as a tolerable reaction. And I think that that is the thing that we need to now completely get rid of in our society.
I saw so many reactions to the former and probably future president of the United States getting shot, which was along the lines of basically hoping that that person hadn't missed and or justifying that violence on Donald Trump was somehow justified. That's insane. Now, that person could only have gotten that idea because the media fed them that language and that idea.
And I think that that's extremely scary because I don't think you actually see Republicans necessarily saying that about Joe Biden. They may think that Joe Biden is feeble and mentally incompetent, but nobody's calling for the death of Joe Biden. So I think that that's a very scary place where you have one group of people who are being fed this extremely toxic narrative.
And I think that that part of what you're saying, Jason, I agree with. But I really disagree with the other part, which is, and this is someone, again, as someone who was a former Democrat, I can observe this and be relatively rational here. I don't see that from the other side.
I think like one thing that when the investigation happens into what happened here, and we really figure out what happened in the Secret Service, how many examples do we need of institutions where we put in our trust, just like letting us down? and they just seem to be piling up and it's independent of administration.
And at some point, I think we have to like really check ourselves and say, what has happened here? Like, how do we objectively measure the quality of the people that are supposed to be working in these organizations?
Is it an acceptance of mediocrity or is it that they just got completely distracted on things that are not germane to doing your job. So if it was, we need... a diverse Secret Service, or we need to have inclusion, all of those things have nothing to do in my mind about protecting somebody.
There are characteristics, and I suspect that there are women that embody these characteristics as much as men that embody these characteristics, but why isn't there a psychographic way of determining who the best people are that have the protective instinct to protect the most important people that run our country?
I don't know if you guys saw, but there was like a thing where, and I feel bad for this woman who's being derided as being totally incompetent, the one in the field, but there was a David Attenborough voiceover.
Did you see the picture of Secret Service on top of the White House roof, which is extremely sloped, even more sloped than the... I mean, it's just ridiculous.
No, no, say that again.
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