Showing posts with label Chamath Palihapitiya. Show all posts
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Wednesday, September 16, 2026

The ‘golden age’, deferred

An elaborate fantasy illustration depicts a platinum-blonde woman crowned as a regal embodiment of liberty, striding through a monumental circular chamber in an emerald-and-gold gown, white stockings and towering heels. She bears a blazing torch and closed book while two attendants kneel at her feet. Around her, rival assemblies of richly dressed women occupy opposing crimson and blue realms. A colossal golden hourglass dominates one side, countered by a distorted blue hourglass on the other; masks, papers, instruments and architectural models suggest political theatre, institutional fracture and time running perilously short.
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Vance, apparently with nothing better to do than make an appearance on a venture capitalist’s podcast: ‘Give us another chance’. {Mediaite 16 September}

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/jd-vance-asks-americans-to-give-us-another-chance-in-candid-podcast-moment/

How, then, about a resounding ‘no’, you arsehole? —

FTA: JD Vance joined the All-In podcast this week and was asked by Canadian-American venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya for his closing message ahead of the midterm elections.

“It’s very complicated. But can you just give us some insight into what’s actually happening on the ground and what is the message that needs to be delivered so that folks can come to the right conclusion in November?” Palihapitiya asked.

“I guess I have two basic messages. There’s a lot of good that we’ve done over the past 18 months. We cut taxes bigly. We cut taxes on overtime, Social Security, and tips,” Vance said, adding:

Those are tax cuts for middle American workers, not just for the elites in Washington and New York City. We’ve had an amazing success with the border, with immigration. We’ve pursued H1B reform that prioritizes American workers over foreign nationals.

There’s a lot of good that’s been done, but there’s a lot of work left to do. Don’t give power to the people who cause the problems that we’re fixing. Give us another chance, or give us another couple of years, to continue to work on the amazing things that we’ve been doing for the past two years.

Vance’s request for Americans to “give us another chance” quickly went viral online as critics viewed it as a tacit acknowledgement of the administration’s perceived failures.

“The second argument I’d make is, even if you don’t agree with us on every issue, the other party is consumed by craziness. They’re consumed by people who want to steal everything, who want to give the country over to illegal aliens and criminals. They actively brag about it,”

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