Molly O’Shea(@MollySOShea):David @friedberg explains the rise of socialism and the hypocrisy of @RoKhanna: "It's a lot easier to claim an enemy and get elected, than it is to fix a difficult policy problem." "Ro Khanna is the perfect example of this." "This is some dude who has a $300M net worth. His children have memberships at 3 country clubs." "The dude lives in a $10M house in Washington, DC." "And he used to be the moderate Silicon Valley guy who would go around to all the tech CEOs and founders and VCs and be like, 'Give me your money. I'm a moderate. We're going to make the Democratic Party work for you.'" "Then he saw the tides change, and he's like, 'Oh, this is yum, yum. I'm going to run for president in 2028.'" "Just to be clear on this, he is so unlikable, I think he'll likely end up being Secretary of Housing and Urban Development if AOC is elected president." "I do not disagree with him or Gavin or anyone else that tax policy in America is fucked up." "When billionaires borrow against their unrealized capital gains, they should pay capital gains tax. Capital gains tax should be 40%, not 15% or 18% or 20%. In fact, labor should pay less. Income tax should be much lower. Capital gains should be much higher. That would be a fair tax policy." "I don't know a lot of people who are wealthy who will look me in the eye and truly disagree with that." "It's a lot of bullshit when we all say, 'It incentivizes investment.' Great, it incentivizes investment. What are you going to do with your excess capital if the tax rate is 40% versus 20%? You're not gonna invest it now? Of course you're going to fucking invest it." "But instead of those practical solutions like I just laid out, they're all like, 'Let's go fire up the fucking socialist train because it's worked so well in fucking Cuba and Venezuela and the Soviet Union and all these other places.'" "What both parties are missing is a policy agenda that says: Here's the shit we have to do to keep America from going down the socialist death spiral. And they all should be fucking doing it, both sides."

2026.07.22 14:39

David @friedberg explains the rise of socialism and the hypocrisy of @RoKhanna: "It's a lot easier to claim an enemy and get elected, than it is to fix a difficult policy problem." "Ro Khanna is the perfect example of this." "This is some dude who has a $300M net worth. His children have memberships at 3 country clubs." "The dude lives in a $10M house in Washington, DC." "And he used to be the moderate Silicon Valley guy who would go around to all the tech CEOs and founders and VCs and be like, 'Give me your money. I'm a moderate. We're going to make the Democratic Party work for you.'" "Then he saw the tides change, and he's like, 'Oh, this is yum, yum. I'm going to run for president in 2028.'" "Just to be clear on this, he is so unlikable, I think he'll likely end up being Secretary of Housing and Urban Development if AOC is elected president." "I do not disagree with him or Gavin or anyone else that tax policy in America is fucked up." "When billionaires borrow against their unrealized capital gains, they should pay capital gains tax. Capital gains tax should be 40%, not 15% or 18% or 20%. In fact, labor should pay less. Income tax should be much lower. Capital gains should be much higher. That would be a fair tax policy." "I don't know a lot of people who are wealthy who will look me in the eye and truly disagree with that." "It's a lot of bullshit when we all say, 'It incentivizes investment.' Great, it incentivizes investment. What are you going to do with your excess capital if the tax rate is 40% versus 20%? You're not gonna invest it now? Of course you're going to fucking invest it." "But instead of those practical solutions like I just laid out, they're all like, 'Let's go fire up the fucking socialist train because it's worked so well in fucking Cuba and Venezuela and the Soviet Union and all these other places.'" "What both parties are missing is a policy agenda that says: Here's the shit we have to do to keep America from going down the socialist death spiral. And they all should be fucking doing it, both sides."