Tom

Hey, we hunted down this guy, El Mencho, because we used Palantir to kind of track down his girlfriend, figure out where she was going and cell phone and this other thing.

And Palantir helped us find and get him.

Oh, that's kind of cool.

We got a bad guy?

THEY WANTED TO CREATE A SURVEILLANCE STATE ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

BUT THEN FIVE MINUTES LATER, THEY ARE LIKE, WAIT A MINUTE, YOU CAN'T USE THIS TO CREATE

You know, if you provide it to the government, the government's going to do whatever they want with it.

You give gunpowder to the government, they're just going to use it to make as big and as many and as complex bombs as possible.

You can't say, oh, don't use that to make this kind of bomb.

That's not going to happen.

The minute you're providing this as a defense contractor, that utility, it's going to get used by all of the three-letter agencies.

Protect America.

Terrorists.

So...

YOU KNOW, PEOPLE LIKE TO SAY, OH, THE TARIFFS WERE ILLEGAL.

THE TARIFFS THEMSELVES WERE NOT ILLEGAL.

AND CBS IS CALLING THE TARIFFS ILLEGAL.

WHAT THE SUPREME COURT SAID VERY NARROWLY, KEEP ME HONEST HERE, WAS THE PRESIDENT DID NOT HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO PUT THOSE THINGS IN PLACE BECAUSE HE NEEDED TO GET PERMISSION FROM CONGRESS.

These were not like illegal or backdoor extortion.

This was normal negotiation the way tariffs have been used for 100 years.