Did Wall St. Made widgets in Fantasy Land. Sold the widget company to a PE firm. A bit bored, now. Have an itchy mute finger. עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי
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I’m not sure what I did, but I’m pretty proud of myself whatever it may have been. I feel honored, Jim. Thank you.
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Hegseth didn't negotiate the MOU. Interesting who is trying to blame it on him anyway.
I’m looking forward to see Lander get primaried in <2 years for someone more left and less Jewish. That’s the recipe he used to take down Dan Goldman. Some consultant can just use the same playbook and cross out the name. I’m not sure why this guy is even unpacking his boxes.
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100% of children want ice cream for dinner
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Lost them and should never try to get them back. Podcast bros are entertainers, not serious policy people. Worse, they have zero accountability to the truth. No fact checks. No sourcing. No foundational education on the complex matters they discuss on their shows.
They aren’t the problem, however.
The problem is that too many people use entertainers as their news source. Viewers incentivize increasingly crazy podcast topics.
But policy discussions aren’t supposed to be entertaining. They’re supposed to be nuanced, informative, and frankly, boring.
When the public starts to incentivize boring intellectual policy discussions instead of click-bait entertainment, our national politics will finally be less like a political version of the Jerry Springer Show, and more like the serious political debates expected of an advanced civilization.
David Sacks reveals how the GOP alienated Joe Rogan and alternative media
SACKS: "We lost all the podcast bros. I mean, obviously, it was Tucker Carlson and Joe Rogan and Theo Von and that whole set. Megyn Kelly. So, you know, a house divided against itself cannot stand. I mean, we lost a huge part of our base. And I would say that the Republicans in particular are dependent on the podcast circuit. Let's call it alternative media. Why? Because the mainstream media hates us. Legacy media hates us. They will never give us a fair shot. And they're 90% left. So it is what it is."
"Yeah. And I think one of the reasons why Trump produced such a resounding victory in 2024 is he appealed to that whole podcasting circuit. And frankly, we should have done a better job giving them all front row seats in the White House press room. We should have stayed connected to all of them because they are our media."
"By the way, they don't work for us. They're willing to defect, obviously. They have their own opinions. But we have to pay attention. I think our side has to pay a lot of attention to them because without them, we don't have any media that supports us. So I think that losing them was a big deal. It fueled the sense. And I think that a lot of those people showed up and then did a protest vote because they wanted to send the message that they want out of this war."
1) Good for him, I guess?
2) Is “here’s a good business reason not to cheat on your wife” a few steps beyond where we need to be? Don’t cheat on your wives, scumbags. (If you can’t afford to leave, and sleep in the basement to be near your kids, that’s a longer conversation.)
I’ve never been wrong for a minute when analyzing this company. It was clear that China would be an EV dog fight, that Musk would lose, before they even built Tesla Shanghai. It’s a shame that the stock price has had no correlation with any underlying reality. So be it.
Tesla’s China Sales Sink to Lowest Since 2022 as Exports Take 87% of Output — EV $TSLA via @EV_CARBA
eletric-vehicles.com/tesla/t…
Stupid takes like this, as he admits started “at the outset of the war”, led to the self fulfilling prophecy of stalling out with @JDVance whispering this nonsense into @POTUS’s ear, while at the same time STILL being a ridiculous comparison given the fatalities from each war.
Maybe the party shouldn’t have remade itself to cater to the lowest propensity voters in history, some of whom decided to actively campaign for the opposing party to get podcast views. Just a thought … that I had in 2016 when 70-year-old first time voters were in the coalition.
Unlimited demand, secured. That’s why he’s slashing production for another product that nobody wants and Tesla is a SEVERE laggard in the market. (Totally not a fake excuse.) He might as well claim to be winding town to build private jets. A CyberFlop. cnbc.com/2026/11/06/tesla-cy…
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“Current hysteria to block all projects everywhere is a gift to China.”
It’s not a gift if they paid for it.
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Mr. Vice-President,
Please allow me to present a different perspective.
The problem was not the Iran War. It was the cease fire.
If you start a war, you need to win it and finish it – otherwise don’t start it.
This war should have been over six months ago, with the Strait of Hormuz wide open and oil flowing. The second and third tiers of Iranian leadership should have been destroyed, and we should have supported the pro-western forces who could have taken leadership. We stood on the brink of a new, more peaceful Middle East - and then we blinked. We had a chance not only to deny Iran nuclear weapons, but to get rid of the world’s biggest supporter of terrorism.
Instead, we had a cease fire, which was followed by months of will we or won’t we finish the job. Every day was a different message. There still is. Is the war over? Is it about to begin? No one knows. There is confusion and inconsistency.
In June 2025, America was not involved. This was an Israel vs Iran issue.
No one forced the United States to attack Iran then, or in February of 2026. It was a decision made by President Trump. In my opinion, it was the right decision.
Once the decision was made, we should not have stopped until the regime fell. But instead, you negotiated a cease fire that didn’t last, didn’t work and left us in no man’s land, with higher prices and our troops still deployed.
Our troops could have been home, the Navy returned to its bases, a peaceful regime in place , new alliances forged, and gas prices below $3.00 a gallon.
No, Mr. Vice President. It’s not the war. It’s the so-called cease fire.
One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.
So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us."
Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.
There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true.
But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.
Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:
1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel
Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)
In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.
The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.
If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest.
But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.
I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.
A solid take, but I disagree that Trump won’t be an issue in 2028. Even if he road off into the retirement sunset and didn’t make a new headline every day and further wade into others’ races, which he won’t, “what about Trump” will be used for a decade.
Democrats are going to make the exact same mistake Republicans made after 2024 if they think they have some broad ideological mandate to move the country to the far left.
Voters have been telling us what they want above all else -- low gas prices and economic normalcy. That's it, that's all. It's actually pretty simple.
Turning the congress into a 24/7 ideological lawfare circus will work out about as well for Democrats as the war worked out for Trump.
Voters are angry at gas prices and the perceived lack of focus on domestic issues. That's really the whole ballgame.
The best thing for everyone in both parties is to actually give people what they want and focus on a domestic affordability agenda that includes cheap gas, low-cost energy production, public safety, and job creation.
Of course, Democrats were never really interested in any of that, so voters are once again going to get none of what they thought they were promised during campaign season as the left pursues maximum ideological vengeance.
It will get very ugly. But in two more years Trump will no longer be available as the unifying hate totem the left has depended upon for solidarity, and all they'll have left is the Communist Manifesto and a total lack of accomplishments in congress or anywhere else.
'But Trump' will cease to be an excuse, and 'But Rubio' doesn't have the same ring to it.
Good luck with all that.
This is nonsense. Correlation is not causation, etc. Tariffs are definitely ONE OF the reasons, but the list is long. Do you think the drubbing of last night would’ve flipped if tariffs were killed a year ago? Of course not.
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1) The war in Iran was going great until you guys convinced the president to stop.
2) MAGA has nothing to stand on when it comes to affordability; you were pushing tariffs from the jump.
3) If voters wanted America First, why did they vote for Democrats over MAGA candidates?
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Great news and congrats to @RitchieTorres
Alec’s wife and her friends approached me (among others, I’m not special) for cash to open a yoga studio after he passed. There’s a documentary of him expecting money from others to finance some passion project. He murdered a lady, then had a woe is me interview. Pampered baby.
I’d like to offer my apologies to Congressman Hank Johnson after spending close to two decades believing that he was a complete moron for suggesting that Guam could flip. He said “tip over and capsize”, but I’m sure this is what he meant.
Yes, this moron is still in Congress.
