Trump's Crypto Windfall, Dems' Anti-Establishment Wave, and the Supreme Court’s Big Week

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This is Pivot from New York Magazine in the Vox Media Podcast Network. I'm Kara Swisher. And I'm Scott Galloway. Scott, I think Mitch McConnell might be in trouble. Is this weekend a Bernice? We're gonna miss us. I feel like it. I don't know why I don't think so. You've heard the whole thing, right? Yeah. If they pretend, I thought they should have kept Reese Fader Ginsburg on ice for a while. Yeah. Right? He's going on in this country at our anniversary, our 250th anniversary. I think he was around for the first one, wasn't he? Mitch McConnell. No, there he is. There he is. I don't know why I'm thinking of him. I'm like, what's happening to him? Are they hiding him? What is so strange is because that other guy came back. It turned out he was depressed. A guy from New Jersey, Tom King, or whatever. So more importantly, I had the Chief Investment Officer of JP Morgan on. And as I do at the beginning of the show, I told a really crude joke, not all he was on. Oh no. And it ends up he's really offended. And he even put in a research note, like six months later, referencing, or I didn't read it because I knew it would upset me that he was upset. So from this point forward, I'm only doing dad jokes until Michael Symbolist, Chief Investment Officer of JP Morgan, accepts my apology. Michael, we didn't mean to embarrass you. Oh my God. You have? You can't do dad. What are you doing? Stop being changed by other people. Be yourself, Scott. Well, I also want to, I'm also not a sociopath. I think of the upset people. It's okay to apologize. Okay. So anyways, I'm now doing dad jokes. Okay. So what do you call a fake noodle? I don't know. An imposta. Oh my God. So, release the dick jokes. Michael, please forgive me. Otherwise, everyone's going to be forced to listen to my dad jokes. We all have a vested interest in Michael accepting my apology. That was, do not do a joke like that again. Please, that's like four-year-olds joke. Oh, okay. You tell me not to do something. All right. I'm offended that you're not doing jokes. I'm going to put it in my research note. Why couldn't we find the scarecrow? Okay. Why? Because he was outstanding in his field. Oh, no. No. I know. I know. He needs to accept my apology. It's only going to get worse. All right, Michael. Can you please let him mock the fucking hook? How are you doing? What are you doing for the fourth? An art for our anniversary, our fourth of July? What did the curtains say to each other? I don't know. What? Pull yourself together. Please, Michael. Please. One is worse than the other. One is they're not good. What did the strawberry say to the other strawberry? Oh, my God. Please. All right. If we weren't caught in the same bed, we wouldn't be in this jam. That's a little sexual. All right. You see the problem here, right there. I see the problem. You see the sense of urgency. I see the sense of urgency. Do you know Jamie Diamond? Maybe ask Jamie to lean on Michael to accept my apology. I'll talk to him. I bet he likes a good dirty joke. He's like a fella who likes everything. 100%. I could see him go fine to that. He has a good boss. Anyway, where are you right now? What are you doing for the fourth of July? Are you doing anything? I'm going to attract or parade. You too? No. Well, wait. No, I'm going on a big fat boat around Sardinia. Same time. Same time. Yeah. Find some DJ on Winifatt Show or whatever it's called and probably do X. Yeah. Same thing. Yeah. Same thing. Yeah. I go to the annual tractor parade in Vermont. A man, this family rebuilt a barn that was falling down that they had this sort of funky hippie barn. And they redid the whole thing and it's beautiful. I have to say it's really good. Does that mean you guys have an open relationship and you're both looking for Las Mendes? No. That was all. No. No. That time has passed for Kara Swisher. I have to say. Yeah. You haven't had your midlife crisis yet. I had it. Oh, I saw you on one of my favorite guys podcasts. I love Dan Harris. Oh, yeah. That was good. Yeah. He's still comforting. Yeah. Yes. 100%. Yeah. And he has, whenever I was bringing this back to me, whenever I'm mentoring young men, he has one of my favorite pieces of advice that I would give to people, which is action absorbs anxiety. No. I love that. Yeah. You're upset about something. You're anxious about something. Do something. Immediately start moving against it and addressing it. And you start to feel better. I like it. Or anything. Do something else. You're looking for a little brother. I guess so comforting and smart and wise. Yeah. You're going to be gone next week. We have special guest stars. Oh, who? Do you know who the guest hosts are? I think Scaramucci is one. The mooch is one. The mooch is one. I don't like it when the mooch comes on because the download to go up. And we also have Pucks Matt Bellany. Matt Bellany from the town. The town. Yeah. Yeah. I like him a lot. I think he's a lot of, you know, media stuff. And actually, I have to say, he and Eric Gardiner has been doing the best coverage of sort of media murderers and things like that. Just smart. I just, you know, they did a great take on the con cast thing. I just, I want to talk. He's always smart. He's also snarky in a way I like, but does great reporting. That's my. He's accurate. It's a report. So I like that. So yeah. And then, of course, Scott, for August, I've got a real lineup to try to replace you. Figure out my next act essentially. At some point, we should have a recommitment ceremony. We should. That was us on the top of the Empire State Building. Oh, okay. So I've, I got a lot to say about both those things. Okay, hold on. I go ahead. Those too. It is so obvious. Those people are narcissists who like each other, but don't love each other. First off, if you do that for attention, you're really into, look at me. Yeah. Sure. And if you're engaged to someone and willing to let them climb up the Empire State Building, it means you like them, but you don't love them. It's like, if they fall, it wouldn't be a tragedy, right? I don't know. Some people chase that kind of stuff. Don't you think? Yeah, but people don't, people can chase that stuff and not risk their spouse's life. Would you let your wife do that, regardless of how competent a climber? I have friends who are in those relationships. They love to do extreme sports. I have a lot of, I have, I know, I'm not a friend that do that, but I know a lot of people who do that. And they're very into that kind of thing. So, you know, they like all that, like, you know, surfing, like windsurfing, like very dangerous places. Have you ever been to a recommitment ceremony? No. Oh, God. I've been invited to too. And you know what they mean? What? No, what do they mean? It is so obvious. They might as well put on the invitation when they invite you to recommitment ceremony, that he was fucking a secretary and got caught and doesn't want to lose his kids, so they have a recommitment ceremony. And the second thing it means is they're going to be divorced within three years. Oh, okay. Never been invited. Never been invited. That's such a good mood to it. I know. Lauren, I have bucket of sunshine today. I know. So, we have one. We should have it if ceremony. So, we should climb something. I was thinking about us when that climb was happening. I loved it. This is what I love. We look like Gandalf and Billy Barty ascending Mount McKinley. I love everything about New York right now. These people climb the Empire of Arkansas and then they put up that, you would have liked their message about love and power and so that was nice. I did like their message. Yeah, their message. I just love, and then that picture of them looking hot is hot in the elevator. Yeah. They're narcissists. I love them. Look at me. Look at me. You would know nothing about that topic. And I have an easier time recognizing other narcissists. I understand. But the other part is okay. First, you have the Empire State Building, of course, the NYX and everything else and the world going. I can spot someone who does Edibles from across the farm like you do Edibles now. Oh, I wouldn't do that if I was climbing that fucker. I was trying to see. Oh, no, no. You don't need to be climbing it in the Empire State Building. Okay. Anyway, and then like a mom-daddy jumping in the pool. I love that. And then Taylor Swift getting married, Matt, I love New York so much today for all the shit. There we go. Really? Are you going to the wedding? I wasn't invited. No, but I heard all our ex-boyfriends are showing up and doing a harmony of maybe it's you. I love that she's going over the fucking top. I love someone. I like anyone who goes over the top. I love the Empire State Building people. I like mom-daddy jumping. Mom-daddy jumping. That was brilliant. I'm going to the pool. It's great. I like it all. Bloomberg did the same thing. But no one criticized Bloomberg. It's not good looking. Well, that's the way. No, I agree. Yeah. I love the whole thing. I'm so excited. He was doing water aerobics. Yeah. This is why Matt had Bellany on it because he wrote, he goes, "Do you think she's filming it for a Disney special? Really? Really? Of course she is. Just what? I love all of them. If you're going to get married, make it a thing. We should have a ceremony. Let's do that on our tour, on our pivot tour. Are you married? Yeah. No, we should do a ceremony of some sort. By the way, we've just planned our new pivot tour for November and September. We did. We have a new city. We're all going to say, should we say? All right. - You can say, go ahead, say it. - We're coming to the great city of Denver. - Denver. - Yeah, Denver. - Start about Colorado. - And another one that we didn't go to. We've been to recently, but Minneapolis, we're going to. - Oh, yeah, we're going to, we're going back to Minneapolis to show civic pride. - Yeah, that was for the resistant unsubscribed, but now we're going for big sell. Those are the two new cities, Denver and Minneapolis, and we're going to some ones we've already went to. Anyway, we're very excited, and we're going to have ceremonies everywhere. We should get to the news, actually. There's a big piece. - Why not? - Yeah, first, let me just tell you, Donald Trump's embrace of crypto is paving off in a big way. Trump earned about $1.4 billion of the past year from crypto, according to new financial disclosure, which I think is undercounting all the grift he's doing. I think Chugga that came from sales of his Trump mean coin and digital tokens for the Trump family crypto company, which he gets paid no matter what, and everyone who's invested in it is losing, just so you know, he got all this money. It's not just crypto, Trump pulled in at least $2.2 billion in total income for the year, up from 622 million in 2024, before he returned to the presidency. That includes more than 620 million in real estate hotel and golf for the income, which is almost nothing. Plus, 86.5 million from legal settlements, from ABC, CBS, YouTube, Meta and X. This grift is just, and it turns out we're paying for the East Wing, we're paying for the Kennedy Center, we're paying for all the manner of things that he is up to, which he said the public wasn't paying for. So what, this is astonishing. I think they're undercounted. What did you, I mean, nobody's surprised, but the grift is really quite astonishing. I thought was, wow, that's a lot of money, your thoughts? Well, there's the grift, and there's the, I mean, there's the micro, and that is $2.2 billion in personal income, you know, while sitting, as you're occupying the, the Oval Office, and 1.4 billion of it from crypto, the financial system that he now supposedly regulates, it's, it's not a conflict of interest, it's a business model. And essentially what you have in America is slowly, but surely we're monetizing everything. We monetize healthcare, we monetize education, we monetize in-ragement online, and now the president is monetizing the full faith and credit and power of the White House. And he went from 622 million in the year, a network before taking office, a 2.2 billion after. He's essentially set up a toll booth for the American government. And the meme coin would have been a five alarm scandal for anyone else, but it's a financial instrument with no underlying value that goes up when the president tweets about it. And that's security's manipulation of the big red hat. And the fact that you did it the Friday night before is inauguration under the cover of dark. You know that he called people and said, thanks for giving me $10, $20,000,000 of my campaign, FYI, the coin gets announced tonight, it'll, it'll go up. And then you can, if you dump it, you dump it. But on a larger level, I was thinking about our 250 year anniversary. And in, I mean, this is the reality that since 1991, childhood poverty has gone way down. Crime has been cut in half. We have a, the number of people have gotten, education has gone up. We have a healthier, better educated, populous than ever before. The crime is at its lowest rate ever in New York, right? But happiness as Jimmy Car says, or satisfaction, isn't a function of what you have. It's the delta between what you have and your expectations. And what's happened in America because there's now a normalization and algorithmically normalized, 0.1% in terms of your expectations. Like, I mean, example, from 22 to 42, I did nothing but work. And I think my first vacation, the only vacations I took with my mom, we went to Niagara Falls once, we used to go to Magic Mountain because we couldn't afford to go to Disneyland. And I remember going to Club Met in Mazalon when I was like in my late 20s. I thought it was fucking, I mean, it couldn't have been any tackier, bad dackeries, not a very nice beach. All you can eat, but that you wouldn't want to eat all of it. And I thought it was amazing. I just thought it was the most, I was brought, I brought back Club Med shirts. I had a Club Med hat. I just thought Club Med was the most amazing thing. And I was talking about going different. Did you pay by beads? Wasn't it, didn't you? You get beads for bars for drinks. It's amazing. And because here's the thing. I had never been to nor was I being reminded 105 times a day as people vomited their experience at same parts and mechanos. My expectations were dramatically lower. And then you combine that with the following. The people who are supposedly in charge are exhibiting a level of corruption and depravity that just makes this feel bad about institutions. So you have a coarsening of our discourse where, frankly, there's an economic incentive to ship post everything. It's happened a lot during the Biden presidency. It's also a twist or an accident happening now. You have social media vomiting, everybody's wealth in your face and giving you the impression that if you have made three million dollars on a theory, I mean, your boyfriend doesn't have a six pack, you're failing. And also the people in charge seem to be genuinely like low character people. Right. And grabbing everything. All the good. Yeah. And people don't trust the CDC. They don't trust the Supreme Court. It's like what William Gibson said. The future is here. It's just not evenly distributed. Prosperity is here. They see it everywhere, but people don't feel like it's evenly distributed. So people now a quarter of a people under the age of 25 feel good about America. It's three quarters of people are age. So it's definitely like Kyla Scanlan coined a term vibe session, but the 250th anniversary, if you, if the, well, you're down there. What's the vibe like? Well, you know, I think people feel like this, this guy grabs everything like, and what, my worry is that it goes, we all hate everything because of these people, right? We think everything's on the take. And it sort of makes you feel like nothing works or that there's no payoff or anything. And, you know, I was really struck by a really interesting exchange this week between, you know, Elon Musk attacked Rokana for saying he's killed children with the cuts of USAID that he bragged about, you know, putting it to wood chipper, et cetera, without any care for the impact. And then Nick, he said, show me one person who's been killed and then Nick Kristoff, who does amazing porn in the New York times, he's like, oh, here's some names. And by the way, there's thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands more. And then instead of like actually engaging him, she did exactly what Elon asked for, because that's it is thing is like name one person who's, that's their little stupid trick. And he does. And then he's like, Nick Kristoff is evil. I was like, you fuck it. Really? It made me think it sounds really, including this crypto stuff is like, what's wrong? I wanted to fight the feeling of everything sucks, and it was really hard for the first time. I was like, these people have no care. The same thing with Stephen Miller spouting off about the, they won all these Supreme Court cases, but they lost the one that they really care about, which was birthright citizenship, right? And so they just can't stop the hate. They just have endless pools of hatred and grift. And I wonder how you survive that. And especially if you're a young person looking at it, like, what is your reaction? And that, that to me was like, I even feel exhausted by their enthusiastic, villaining and stealing. Like, I find them exhausting. And I just don't know what I would do if I was a young person looking at all this, you know? Yeah, it's like, there's a lot of issues. I mean, the number of people in the middle has gone away. And young people have a rational reason to be, to be upset. The traditional means of building a life, finding a mate, developing economic security, advancing up the ladder, which is typically some sort of certification, either vocational programming or college degree, and then buying a house. The incumbents have weaponized scarcity to make it more expensive for them to get those things such that the people already own them. And the college degree in housing can see the value of those things go up. And also our tax policy, which continues to transfer wealth from them to, to the incumbents, right? Loosely speaking, our tax policy over the last 50 years has taken 50 trillion dollars and transferred it from the bottom 90% to the top 10%. Which old people, yeah. Yeah. So they justifiably can be very, you know, very upset. Something said that, if you actually look at the data, things aren't as bad as you would believe in terms of the vibe. But again, and this is the great Jimmy car, your happiness and your purpose isn't a function of what you have. And the downside of a meritocracy, and especially when social media speed balls, is everyone believes if they're not on the top 1% they're failing. Except that when they're looking at the president, just stealing, stealing, stealing 100%. That's really it. Like there's just no even pre, like look, Gryft has been there. The game is right. Gryft has been there forever from the beginning, right? Every country, every historical thing. But this is Gryft on a very explicit scale. And also, like, yeah, that's right. I'm taking it. That's right. I'm cheating. And let me tell you, let me, let me put on another story that came out. Politico is calling this week's Democratic primaries in Colorado and anti-establishment avalanche. Obviously, it was happening in New York, which is no surprise with Mamdani getting, you know, backing a bunch of people, one of whom is really problematic. Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, though, upset longtime center. Michael Bennett, who you and I both have a lot of regards for, who looked like a lock for the nomination a year ago, we thought he'd be governor of Colorado. And then 29-year-old Democratic Socialists, Maylotte Kuros, unseated a 15-term congresswoman and Manny Ruth Nell, a progressive state representative, defeated a moderate Democrat. The results add up to a growing string of progressive anti-incumben. I think that's actually Steve Bannon was very canny on this stuff. Victory is notably what would happen in New York, and there are a number of primaries still to come over the next few months. All this is a New York Times Santa poll show Democrats within striking distance of putting the Senate majority back in play. I want you to not go negative yet, because I want you to talk about these victories and what they are. And let me read something that Robert Reich wrote on Substack about these elections. Pundits eager to declare a new movement or soundly alarm about socialism or having a field day. But they're wrong. Voters who have supported these candidates haven't done so because they've been particularly attracted to the idea of democratic socialism. Most even don't know what democratic socialism is in reality voters have been attracted to vigorous young people who are committed to getting stuff done. Steve Bannon said nearly the same thing, which was really interesting. And I would agree talking to like Louie. He'd just sick of people not getting stuff done and looking for something else, which is interesting. What are your thoughts on this? I think Reich and I hate to say it, Bannon are correct. I think that's exactly right. The establishment didn't lose on policy here at CARA. They lost on energy. And look, I've been calling for disruption to the democratic party. I think leader Jeffries and minority leader Schumer are absolutely the wrong people to provide the kind of robust, energetic pushback that the Trump administration warrants. But here's the thing about disruption is you don't get to pick the exact calibration of your disruption. So for example, I consider myself a moderate and I'm convinced that the true litmus test of someone who's truly a moderate is everybody hates you. But you don't get to, so think about the senators who are moderates like Federman and Manchin. Everybody hates them. So people claim they want a moderate, but when someone actually shows up and occasionally agrees with the other side, they become an apostate. At the same time, guys like me claim we want disruption. We need to disrupt the democratic party. And then when it happens, we freak out about it. But here's the bottom line. There's a lot to like here. And I say this full disclosure, I have given money to Senator Michael Bennett for everything he has run for for the last 10 years. I hosted a fundraiser for him for president, you know, by the way, if you get money from me, it's not a good sign. But I think the world of Senator Bennett, former school superintendent, one of the most credentialed people in the Senate lost to a state AG nobody had ever heard of a year ago. If you want disruption, you don't get to pick your form of disruption in these candidates. They are, there's a lot to like about these candidates. They're young, they're energetic, they're unafraid. They don't have a bunch of blather about how you would go about universal health care. They're just like Medicare for all. So there's a lot to like about them, but the reality is for those of us in the center, we don't get to pick our flavor of disruption. What I would say that bothers me is that democratic socialists effectively want socialism to democratic means. The reality is if you really look at history, socialism just doesn't work, folks. And they will always point to what about Northern Europe? Northern Europe is actually more capitalist than we are right now. They just have a social safety net and they say, they call themselves fat though. Don't they? You always, you always threat about Sweden, for example, or the Netherlands, or. Yeah, but there, there, but here's, here's the system that's worked, democracy, individual rights and capitalism, call it what you want. But when you start, when you don't, when you start believing that you should have government sponsored grocery stores or that you shouldn't have border, I mean, that's shit quite frankly. It just not only doesn't make sense. It threatens our ability to win the midterms. Rama manual had a fantastic statement in the thread we were on and he said it publicly. We have to stop arguing and atomizing ourselves between blue and cobalt blue. So I'm more focused on my energy on, you know, the, the, the grifting corruption and just stupid decision making of the Trump administration. The thing, so I, there's a lot I like about this disruption. You don't get to pick your flavor of disruption and you know what, young people just want change. They don't just want change. I would, I mean, interestingly, I was just on the scare of which he's podcasting. He said he actually has been impressed by, by Mamdani and he was very against him. He was sort of where you are, right? Yeah. That's right. And he's like, I have to say, he's effective. And I do think they're not looking for necessarily just upsetting the incumbents. They want effective. People who do shit. Do shit. Yeah. And I was watching this thing is he was just a more energetic campaigner. He wanted your vote more. And he was, he wasn't necessarily much more liberal. It wasn't that because Michael's pretty liberal, relatively speaking, right? Especially in Colorado. He just looked like he could like, he like, he just was energetic and not just fake, fake energy. It's not just fake energy. Maybe like what Kennedy felt like back in the 60s was like, I, I literally just want you to do your job. Like I want and, and I do think I think you're right about capitalism. I agree with that. But it needs to have everyone gets health care. That is not, I think that's a really good message of the democratic social and everyone else. Everyone should get good health care. Everyone should get a good minimum wage. Everyone should get, you know, and, and what's incredible, I'll tell you what really absolutely struck me. And I really, I finally realized that the Republican party is fucked in seven ways to Sunday with coming next, not, I mean, post-Trump was, uh, Mandani said, can we, can everyone, like, we have an electrical grid problem probably coming up with this heat because there's a huge heat warning all over the East Coast, including in New York. And he said, if you could put, you know, you're air conditioning to 78 versus 74, that would be great. That's all he said immediately tech crews. And Nikki Haley, I told you she can't help herself said communism, right? Or social, this is what socialism is, and immediately there are tweets from many years ago where when she was governor of South Carolina, and he, the same thing in Texas where they asked people to put their, put their air conditioning down, surfaced. What is wrong with them? Like he was asking a normal thing that they themselves had asked for. The minute they jumped on it, they were trying to do socialism. They look like idiots, and everyone can see it. And that's, that's why I told you Nikki Haley is impossible. He's never going to win anything because she's so such a suck up in so many ways. It was so not sensible. He was saying something sensible, and everyone sees it, and did not immediately think communism about the air conditioning, even though I love air conditioning. And so that to me is, they're vigorous, they're vigorous young people who want to be effective. That is what I think is attractive. I don't, I don't disagree with any of that. And the thing that Mamdani and some of these people are doing, the most admirable thing about Donald Trump, President Trump, is action orientation. It's ready fire aim. It's like, no, I'm going to do this, but we're doing it. And the courts might challenge it. We might have to roll it back, but Americans really respect that. And Mamdani to his credit, immediately imposed certain taxes, certain policies. And I think young people think, well, at least he's fucking doing something. Now, the glass half empty for me is the following. Whenever the far left and the far right agree on anything, it's a really, that's a tell. It's a really bad idea. I believe they both, the far left and the far right come together on what I believe are anti-Semitic themes. They both come together on an isolationist foreign policy. And what I see here is they both come together on a, on socialism as an economic policy. Donald Trump is investing in intel. Donald Trump is entertaining the idea of investing in open AI. Donald Trump believes that the government should have a golden chair and U.S. steal. All that happens when you do that, all that happens when you do that is you end up with warehouses in Ireland full of deloreans and air France. And you see a lot of that rhetoric from the far left. We absolutely need a more progressive tax structure. But here's how you get to a progressive tax structure. The thing we spend the most money on is not the military. It's not our debt. It's not even social security. The thing the American government spends the most money on. We spent $2.2 trillion on givebacks from the tax code in the form of loopholes to corporations in the wealthy. We need to reduce spending on tax loopholes and givebacks to the wealthy and corporations. And if you look at Northern Europe, they're very capitalist. They let companies go out of business. They don't take stakes in Spotify. Their tax rates are either the same or a touch higher than ours. But what they do is they enforce them and they say Spotify, you don't get to write off your jets, your plan property and equipment and the richest people don't get to have donor advised funds where they get to write off donations they haven't made yet. But what I don't like about, I mean, quite frankly, there's some things that really bothered me about the winds in New York, because I felt like like being anti-Israel with a litmus test, obviously, as a Jew, that concerns. But there was one. There was one. The other lander is not. Shavaliyeh. Yes, Shavaliyeh is the problem. Yeah. By the way, she's going to be the poster. her child. She's about to become the poster child for Republicans in the 20th century. Anyways, but let me, let me circle out to where I started. I don't get to pick the calibration and the color and the flavor of disruption. Disruption, they're youthful, they're energetic, they're unafraid. And that for me is 70 or 80% good. Do I worry that they're embracing a form of socialism that has never worked throughout history? Yeah, I trust they'll be modulating forces from the center on both sides on that. Yeah. But the reality is we need, the democratic party needs to shed its skin. Leader Jeffries and Schumer are getting clear signals. No one gives a fuck what you think. You have become institutional endorsements, have become a liability. Just as we thought US bases in Gulf states would provide avail of protection, they become bulls eyes. You're going to start to see Democratic candidates say Senator Schumer, please do not come to my rally. They are, they are actually, they're like all talking about whether they'd vote for him. He's got to go. I've told him that to his face. He thought I was kidding. I was like, no, you need to step down. It was like, he's like, all caro's like, no, time to go. Time to move along. I mean, we don't want to Mitch McConnell the situation. He's got his cling to power like an African dictator, which I'm sure is a hate crime. Yeah, I was like, we don't want to Mitch McConnell situation here. We want to move along. Anyway, well, I agree with you. It's, it's exciting. I find it exciting. We need a disruption. Yeah. Good for them. Youth energy. Have at it. I think it's a good thing too. I like non cautious people. I do. I think the Democrats have played it too cautious. Anyway, let's go on a quick break when we come back. The Supreme Court finishes its term with some major rulings. That was something. Hey, what's up guys? It's Babish. And on this week's episode of In the Booth, I'm joined by chef cookbook author and food network legend, Alex Quarra Shelley. We're talking about shops, the Hamptons, and what it takes to make a cry worthy pasta. You can listen now wherever you get your podcasts. So like any good millennial, I have a love hate relationship with Gen Z. It's the phenomenon rattling millennials. They just look at you. They want something bigger themselves, lifestyles of priority. Motivation is being inspired. But regardless of how you feel, about Gen Z, it's undeniable that they're changing national politics. Generation Z is increasingly showing less loyalty to traditional political parties. Many now more likely to identify as independent. So what is going on with the kids? I think the biggest misconception about Gen Z's politics right now is that all of a sudden they're all socialists. That is just not the case. Yeah. They are embracing candidates who are offering new bold ideas in the absence of those ideas from establishment Democrats. This week on America actually, Gen Z researcher Rachel Jamfaza joins us to separate Gen Z fact versus fiction. It's not rocket science and this is, you know, I keep saying like young voters aren't that complicated after all. It's pretty simple. Catch us every Saturday on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. Scott, we're back with more news. It's been a big week for the Supreme Court. Is it wrapped up its term? Let's go through a round of some of the cases the court ruled on court struck down a federal law that bars the president from firing members of the FTC. So he no more independent agencies essentially. They lifted limits on how much political parties can spend on advertising and other expenses with candidates. A problem and more more citizens united. Upheld two state laws barring the participation of transgender female athletes from girls and women's sports team and upheld birthright citizenship striking down in executive order. Let's hear some thoughts from Leah Litman who co-hosts the podcast strict scrutiny which breaks down all things Supreme Court. Hey, Karen's got here some quick thoughts on the most recent Supreme Court term. We came within a single vote. One vote of saying the Constitution doesn't mean what it says on birthright citizenship and nullifying a constitutional amendment that is the foundation of our constitutional order of multiracial democracy after the Civil War. They have also been systematically undermining our democracy killing the voting rights act enabling partisan and racial gerrymandering. They've also just killed campaign finance regulations that were designed to prevent political corruption. As a result, the super rich will be able to effectively funnel more than $500,000 directly to candidates in the upcoming election. And they have been killing Congress's capacity to govern at expanding presidential power against a backdrop of a president who has been engaged in corruption and paid a play. And that is just the start of it. Yes, I think she's sort of articulated it. One of the ones that really upset me and I the birthright citizenship was far too close, far too close. That was disturbing. And by the way, a lot of the Trump people have to go back home wherever they come from. The two that really upset me to me are the voting rights act, the voting rights act, absolutely. But the finance, to me, it's all the money, the finance regulations designed to prevent political corruption. That was more more citizens United was the last thing we need. And then secondly, the ability of no independent agencies on things that deserve independence like the FTC. And you've seen what Brandon Carr has done. Although one of the justices did say Brandon Carr is a moron and part of his essentially said that in his ruling. I think it was Kavanaugh could have been Gorsuch, whatever. They look the same to me. So those two were like giving more power to the president in general, which I think will be just as bad with a Democrat and is terrible with Trump was two problems. But the money to me was the focus, the focus I had. What about you? Yeah. Citizens United is arguably one of the worst things that's happened in recent history to the US because of the 900 billionaires, they make up a third of political giving. It's probably more than half of influence because they can be much more targeted. You know, the Union just give money to whoever's the Union candidate. But a private equity firm can give $700,000 to Senator Sinema and say just be the holdout for the infrastructure bill and asset they've stripped out the carrot interest loophole. And that costs 20 or 30 billion dollars, which is the most ridiculous loophole in history. See above $2.2 trillion spent on loopholes where private equity owners get their commission on investment gains in the form of long term capital gains. It's totally indefensible. So that's that's bad. The silver lining, the dotted silver lining on on this out of control spend is that we're finding is it's gone past its utility. And that is it used to be 20 years ago, like 97% of the time who raised the most money one. Yeah, it's no longer happening. Like Tom Steyer spent a quarter of a billion dollars and didn't win. Right. It's almost like the full local new station employment act, the amount of money they're spending on the whole. It's really bad. But what you are seeing is it's no longer the key fulcrum for who or the key lever for who wins. The thing that did upset me the most that which is so frightening that we was even this close was birthright citizenship. I mean, this is the constitution. Just straightforward. The constitution says if you're born here, you're a citizen. And I'm going to give you a couple anchor babies. Baligan who got a red card unfairly, the attack, the premier striker for the World Cup team. His parents were here. I forget she couldn't go home. He was born here. She was too pregnant. I think the airline said you to good for us, right? And also, it's a fairly small number. It's only seven percent. It's a fairly small number of babies. It is the whole word anchor, baby. It's so fucking ridiculous. To a certain extent, this is what we don't like to talk about. Immigration is not only the secret sauce. It's the most illegal immigration is probably the most profitable form of immigration because they're risk takers. And they generally fold back across the border when the crops are picked or there's not enough demand for them. And they pay taxes and they usually don't stick around to collect social security. And they usually don't call the fire. They commit crimes at a lower rate than citizens. The reality is we didn't just wake up and find whoops. There's 15 million undocumented workers here. Republicans and end Democrats. I've looked at each other and gone wink, wink. It's nice having cheap housing being built in Phoenix, Arizona. Or my god, picked for cheap or how are we going to get all these people to wipe grandma's ass for 11 bucks an hour? I mean, immigration immigrants are the biggest nurses. Nurses eights. I mean, so it's not, this has been an economic decision. Has it gone too far? Absolutely. But be clear folks. We didn't just wake up and let this happen. So, Balligan is one anchor, baby. Do you know who else is an anchor, baby? Kara? No, the trough, they're in trough. You could say she's a male order bride. She's not an anchor, baby. She wasn't born here. That's true. Sorry. Oh, your co-host, Kara. Oh, you're an anchor, baby. My parents at the ages of 19 and 24 got on steamships from Glasgow and London, respectively. And they landed in Canada where my mom was a stenographer. And my dad was a candle salesman. They met at a dance. They fell in love. They sex there. So the conception was Canada. In Toronto. They claimed they got married and had me. I'm not sure if that's true. I'm not going to argue it. I don't care. But they decided they could not. No, my dad said. My dad said a few inches. We short to the blanket, whatever that means. And by the way, he was a bastard. He was born. He was born in Australia. Unwet to an unwet woman who was a big nanny at the McVigure family. A tie of families. Yeah, literally. We're bastards all the way through. I'm the John snow of of John Snow's. Mm-hmm. And anyways, my father basically, my father's mother freaked out, said to her boyfriend, we got to get out of here. I've already sold the baby to this wealthy family. And they literally went to the dock and got a ship to Glasgow Scotland. Anyway, my parents, my mom's seven and a half months pregnant. They said that we cannot endure another winner here in Toronto. And they read an article in the Toronto Globe and Mail saying that the best weather in North America was in this town called San Diego. San Diego. So they loaded up my mom's Austin Mini Metro, which is basically a lawnmower with doors. Like if you've ever seen Mr. Bean, that's the car. And seven and a half months pregnant. I have no idea. My mom and my dad drove to San Diego. And something like 37 days later, I was born at Lohoyah County Hospital. Oh no. Oh no. And let me make a flex. What? I'm a US citizen. Why didn't I know this about you? I am a US citizen. Me and my companies have paid well over $100 million in taxes over the last 30 years. It seems like it's worked out for everybody. And I just want to notify the IRS and the Trump administration. My mother, I am an illegal anchor baby. I think my citizen should be revoked. And by the way, when I saw my next company, I'm going to be in Dubai and I'm not going to be subject to US taxes. I am down for you to revoke my US citizenship. And also, abdicate, absolve me of all and refund me of all the tax payments I have made because my parents decided to come to the US and, you know, drop a nine pound stone called Scott in San Diego instead of Toronto. Oh no. And I would imagine that there is more of a balligan and galloway than there are people eating cats and dogs that were born in the US. Right. You're running across the border to be pregnant. This is the screed from Stephen Miller who I cannot wait till he gets his reckoning is astonishing. It's so hateful and like ridiculous and full of lies that it's, it's so full of love. This whole, their whole, let's not use it from anchor baby, because it's so gross. It's such a gross way of, and hateful way of looking at it. I had no, Scott, you could have been sent back wherever, where would you, Canada? Where would you have been sent to? Don't you have that fucking weirdo talking about eugenics that people should be sterilized before they get there? Yes, I know. Right. Boss. Boss 1939 Germany's calling and wants you back. Right. I know. Wait a second. Where would you go? What country would you go to? Now, that's the, that's the other thing. Where do we send them back to? Right? Because would you go to Canada? If this passed, like you would send them. People are leaving. Last year was the first time in, since World War II, we had no negative invagration in the US. The Supreme Court, which it could have, right? Where would they send Scott Galloway back to? Was it Canada or is it England or is it Scotland? Like, what country do you, are you from? What country are you from? Well, my parents, my parents, my dad is a, or was a Scottish or a British citizen. My mom became a citizen of the US, but I guess back to the UK. I don't know. I don't know. God. That's interesting, Scott. Well, it, wow. God. I had no idea. Well, okay. Well, I'm glad you're safe. I'm opening a bar in St. Bart's, so I'm a French citizen. Okay. But then I have to, then I have to root for Team France and I just can't do that. Oh, yeah. I just can't do that. All right. Well, this is some news I didn't know about Scott Galloway. Some to think about. After seeing, after seeing Team Japan, has there ever been a product that's better, been better for the umbrella brand than Team Japan? Did you see what they did after they lost in a heartbreaking loss to Brazil? They all walked over to the Japanese side and they bowed to apologize to their fans. Oh, they did. Yeah. These, I think I'd like, I want to move to Japan. Yeah. I would love to spend more time in Japan. I lived there for a couple of months. I loved it. All right. Other Supreme Court news. Well, how's Scott this? I'm just, I, I, I need to calculate the situation. You need to get me kicked out. I need to get you kicked out. Yeah, I got it. Of course. Calling Steven Miller. I'm going to ask everyone for their ID when they come and be a guest host. In other Supreme Court news, by the way, NPR retracted an article saying that Samuel Alito, another piece of shit, sorry, Samuel, but you are, had retired. Reporter Nina Totenberg has said she heard retirement announcements were coming and mistakenly assumed it was Alito prompting her team to publish a pre-written story. That seemed like odd. It seemed like that. I think he's probably leaving, right? He's going to have to, he's got, he's got two years left to put in, you know, younger versions of Alito and, and Thomas, I guess, correct? Why would you think these people are any less narcissistic than Ruth Bitter Ginsburg? They all think they're going to live forever. Oh, they may not leave. Oh, interesting. You don't think they'll do it for the take one for the team kind of thing? Well, that's what Souter did. I think it depends on the individual and I just don't know them all enough. RBG, I mean, RBG and, and Senator Feinsign, both lovely, important women who've really forged paths, screwed, who really put a, a unfortunate punctuation mark at the end of the sense of their career by not believing they would ever die. Yeah. Oh, you think Alito will just stick around because he loves me. I have no idea what he's like. I have no idea. Absolutely. All his things. No idea. And by the way, in, in the, in Thomas's whatever his, his auntie, whatever, he, he like mentioned Dred Scott an awful lot, he's like, which, of course, was a terrible thing. 14th Amendment is here to protect all of us. So that's right. That's right. They're going to try to, they're going to try to take it out, but they're going to be successful. Protect podcasting and erect out this function drug sales. Exactly. Anyway, let's go on a quick break. When we come back, we'll talk about SpaceX donating to Trump accounts. The Trump administration has talked with SpaceX about donating stock to the administration's Trump accounts child savings program. It's unclear whether Elon Musk has agreed to that or how it would be structured. Trump accounts are set to launch on July 4th, with over 6 million children enrolled. Other big donors include billionaire Michael Dell and his wife and companies like Black Rock and Beck America, which have agreed to match donations made by employees. Also apparently open areas are poorly also discussing giving Trump administration a 5% stake in the company proposed that reporting involved other US AI companies also giving government similar stakes. This is, this is a, to me, it was really interesting. The Paul Graham had a really interesting point, the reason that OpenA was doing that is because they don't get asked for 10% like I thought that was true. This all feels like a shake down or you get something in return for doing this kind of stuff. I don't hate the idea of accounts. I don't know. I wish we will, we will be renaming them from Trump accounts to something else, USA accounts. But it seems a little socialist to me. I don't know. What do you think? Again, it's where the far right and the far left me did with just different objectives and different claims. Open AI offering the government a 5% equity stake is essentially to buy protection, neutralized regulation, lock in a government anchor client. It's not patriotism, it's protection money, it's a moat and you don't think they're going to be the first to get government contracts versus other AI startups. It's also the beginning of what I think is going to be the one of the biggest bailouts in recent history and that is we're starting to see cracks, cracks in the wall where there's fewer people, fewer companies have actually figured out a way to create demand. There's only a tune out, open AI and a drop it consistently and their spend and CapEx commitments are so out of control that I think Sam Altman says I like the idea of the full faith and backing and maybe even government back dead from the president. Here's the bottom line, the government should not be taking equity stakes and companies. There are some exceptions occasionally when I do think you can make an argument in the great financial recession that it made sense for the government to bail out the automobile industry because it was a huge employer, but they didn't start saying you can only buy fours or occasionally an average. These companies have gotten trillions of dollars in market cap, let them run. This is just straight up cronism, privatize the gains, socialize the losses. Can I ask you a question? One of the things, Al's Carp seems insane, every Tony opens his mouth and hopped up on something, but he was going on sort of trash. Very cogent. I thought it was very cogent. I do too. I had to listen to her second because he's so nuts. He always throws in some nutball thing on the side in his manner, but what he was saying is something that Mark Cuban had said to me previously is this token maxing is going to come back to bite people and that when people find people are cheaper than the tokens, it's going to sort of collapse. Mark Cuban said this absolutely first to me, months and months and months ago. Carp was articulating this idea of these open systems, mostly from China as you predicted Scott, taking the place with regular corporations, and the two things he was saying is one, keeping your data yours and not giving them to open AIs and Anthropics. And secondly, the cost of these tokens is really untenable. And as nutty as he is, and he took a number of like slaps at competitors because he can't help himself. He made a lot of sense. I can't believe I'm saying this too, but he did as I was, I had to listen to it twice and I was trying to think if I could put it in someone else's voice because I, every time I hear on me, he says nutty things, but this is the kind of thing. I was like, we're going to, this is going to collapse and a bunch of economists, all of these world economists are all worried about these cracks that you've talked about. So talk a little bit about this because this idea, you had the idea of China, these open systems from China replacing and sort of knocking the stuffing. You have these economists saying this, you have Karp saying this. Again, I want to give credit to Mark Cuban for being the first to mention it to me. Talk a little bit about this because all this like government intervention seems really problematic going forward. The government intervention is bail out cosplaying growth and Karp is right. Cheap models are eating the expensive ones. The token consumption of Chinese models is surpassed the token consumption of frontier models in the US. Because all of a sudden the CFO of Uber goes our entire AI budget is burned through in eight weeks and I don't see any consumer talking about the improvement in ride hailing service. I don't know or it's not improving. It's not improved. Well, it's sort of like experimentation is over. This can no longer be a magic trick. You have to incorporate this into the plumbing and show me ROI. We're going to reduce our budgets here. AI is following kind of the same curve as cloud computing and that is margins compressed. This reminded me of 99 and tell me if you think this analogy is apt. Okay. So the internet comes and we think everyone's going to buy their dog food and their cars and Pepsi is going to buy their sugar online on the internet and we're all going to buy not just CDs and books but we're going to buy everything online. And there's the front layer. So everyone invests in Amazon and eToys and you know pets.com and it ends up that they're just not nearly creating enough demand and not enough commerce is going through e-commerce to justify anything resembling the valuations these companies are getting. So they go, oh, wait, we're not sure which part of the application layer which LLM if you was going to win. So let's all invest in the infrastructure layer and everyone invested safely and like I can't pick the winner. So I'm going to invest in Cisco or in telco infrastructure and Cisco hit an all time high, plus 93% of its value from 99 to 2001. And I see kind of the same thing here where everyone's saying, all right, let's invest in the demand side, you know, X AI, Obama, Grock, Claude, ChatGBT and all of a sudden it looks like the demand may not be as exponential as we thought or it's too costly or it's too expensive. Yeah, which lowers demand. And some of the players who thought they were going to need infrastructure for their own demand specifically meta and X AI have said we overestimated the demand of our own LLM. So we're renting out our infrastructure in a matter of 30 days. It looks like we've gone from a supply crisis to a demand crisis. And what you'll see, I think, is just as in 99, the first coming to crash where the B2C, then it went to B2B. Oh, wait, not pets.com. Let's go to remember internet capital group while they're selling sugar in between, you know, from farmers, right? I totally forgot about it. I wrote so many. It had a valuation greater than general electric and then everyone figured out no one was buying fucking anything and it was easier to fax your orders and it was to go on the internet capital group website. And then everyone went to it with when B2C then B2B, B2C gets creamed, B2B then gets creamed and then the infrastructure guys got creamed. I think we're sort of going through a similar cycle right now and we're starting to see the beginning of the cracks at the application layer saying people are questioning the amount of money they're spending on anthropic and open AI. What's evidence of that? Open AI and anthropic are considering delaying their IPOs. Yeah. I agree. And I do think one of the things I think we'll recover would be computing demand because there's only going to be more computing demand eventually. And I think that's what happened with all those internet companies. Like look, they were a million like I forgot about ICG. Oh my God. You just brought me back. You know, everyone remembers pets.com, but you know, eventually, there'll be a Google, right? Eventually, there'll be a Facebook. The technology will survive. Right. And so I would bet computing is an area you would want to eventually, like once it crashes, buying it up would be a smart thing, right? Computing apps would be an important thing like understanding where it's going, but you're right. These are a lot of these companies aren't ready to buy these things and prices have to come down. And then that'll have a knock on effects of Oracle and all the others who have, you know, a lot of other companies will be affected in the in the blast radius of this. I agree. I think these economists, I was reading the report from this thing. And usually I don't pay that much attention to like predictions, but I was like, this makes perfect sense of where it's going. And it does have a feel. You're absolutely right of 1999. Amazon's an amazing company. From 1999 to 2001 and I lost 92% of its value. Met as an amazing company. Four years ago in 2022, it lost 72% of its value. These companies, the natural curve of these companies is very volatile. And the technology and these companies will survive and they will be great companies. Or can they go down 90% in value? The answer is yes. Yeah. I agree. This feels, it just feels so 99 to me. It's like I would say in the government, meddling makes it worse. Oh, yeah, propping them up because Trump is like my entire administration is America is a giant bet. Whether it's the GDP growth, capital spending, earnings growth and the S&P is all a big bet on AI. His political money. If these guys go down, it's going to be really rough for me. I am telling you a bailout is coming. Yeah. One would assume, yeah, because they're the fuse from America. Yeah, you're right. 100%. All right, Scott, one more quick break. We'll be back for predictions. Okay, Scott, before we get into this week's predictions, I want to play a prediction you made last week at Can. My prediction is the biggest IPO in terms of first day pop is going to be a European. The Berkshire Half the way I've forgotten Internet brands in that's this company called Bending Spoons that I had not heard of until two weeks ago. I'm kind of fascinated with it. Well, Scott, take a victory lap. Bending spoons searched 40% after the company's IPO this week. What's next before you get to your prediction? Well, it's the first up. The company was up. So SpaceX was up, I think 22 or 23%. We predicted to be up 20. Bending spoons was up close up. I think 42% yesterday. They're going to have to show that they can scale a model of buying stuff at, you know, ex EBITDA and then orphans, these orphans and then substantially reducing costs, which is Latin for higher younger people and replace the expense of 40 year olds. And to their credit, they have some of the highest revenue per employee of any digital company right now, any Internet company. But they're going to have to show that they can consistently make these accretive acquisitions. What this really is, is like Martin Suril kind of pioneered this model. He went and bought all the big agencies. I don't even remember them now. Ogily May there. He could go and buy these companies at seven times EBITDA or eight. And they'd immediately take their earnings and the market reward would reward them with 12 times. They're going to have to show that they can, that this model, this private equity like model of acquiring companies, they don't get them cheap. They get them for a good price, you would argue that their ability to reduce costs continue to see growth add some growth organic. And then the market will give them a markup. They're going to have to show they can continue to do that. It's slightly down right now today. They're going down today. Well, to be clear, the valuation last year was it was about seven billion. It came out at 19 billion. It's trading at about 23 now. The stock is not expensive, but you would argue that they are going to have to show sooner rather than later their ability to continue to scale these types of accrued of acquisitions. So, but I thought when I talked to, when I looked around and I said, okay, all of the oxygen had been stuck out of the air for SpaceX. And when these guys came out at seven or eight times earnings and all of those brands and the fact they were only raising a billion half dollars, I thought this thing's going to get. I mean, this is a sad part about IPOs. This is what I believe JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs are doing. And that is they use AI and their incredible market insight and their incredible marketing machine. They are the new engineers. They engineer a 20 plus percent pop on day one because the reality is that is the ultimate branding event. Everywhere in the news today is that bending Italian company, bending spoons is up is up 20 percent. And personally, I wanted to see the company go up. And the reason I brought some sunlight to it was because I am so sick of talking about American AI companies. I love the idea for the European company that's not AI. And also clean up a clean up company. You know what's interesting is that I'm just looking at the meta thing that they're at 20, the PE ratio is 20, which seems healthy. And that SpaceX is more is valued at 500 million dollars more than them is insane. Makes no sense. I don't care how good they are robots. It's just nutty though. What you'll do is you'll fold Tesla into this. But as I've said many times, which is another anchor. Two acres. Yeah, two acres. They go. But it is there are some real values here, right? Like meta seems to be, I mean, I don't usually make a meta on a price learning spaces. I don't think has ever been this cheap. And the cheapest of them all, it was mainly big tech stock pick for 26. The Amazon has never had a price earnings ratio this low. Yeah, what is there as well? You know, you know, go, go, go, I half of that is 27. and that is 21. Amazon, you're right. It's low, 29. Yeah, and it's usually, it's average over the last 20 years. It's been 55. And anyways, industrialized robots all go on forever. But so my prediction is that essentially, and I said this, we're starting to see cracks in the wall around evidence. And I think it's nuanced, not definitive. It's not cracking because AI doesn't work. It's cracking because investors are starting to ask much more pointed questions specifically. Can we actually earn a return on the trillions of dollars being spent here? And the evidence, there's evidence that the narrative around AI is changing and that is catbacks is outrunning monetization. The largest cloud companies are on pace to spend six to 700 billion on AI infrastructure just this year. You had many enterprise customers are struggling to demonstrate measurable ROI. And that is the narratives move from can AI work to can AI pay. And it used to be spend more money. This is the future infinite demand. And it's like, we'll hold on. CFOs are starting to tap the brakes here. And the market is splitting JP, JP Morgan noted the divergence AI infrastructure suppliers continue to outperform. And the company is writing the biggest AI checks. The hyperscalers have begun to lag. And that's reminiscent again of late stage infrastructure booms where the suppliers prosper before the customers earn adequate returns. And also Wall Street as it does eventually focuses on ROI. And the debate is shifted from 12 months ago. The debate was who can build the biggest model. Now it's who can make money. And one of my role models here are this fantastic chief economist who by the way has I think a much better sense of humor than certain chief investment officers at other big banks. Apollo's torston's lock. Does he like a dick joke? I think torston loves a good ditch. But I'm not going to speak for him. I'm not going to speak for him. But he puts out he puts out these fantastic emails every day with a chart. And he argues that the markets may be pricing and productivity gains that will take years, not quarters to materialize. We're starting to see central bankers issue warnings. Yeah, they are. They're all in the police. And here's the thing. Care. If the AI trade on wines, the most vulnerable names are generally the ones whose valuations depend most valuable on continuing AI infrastructure spending. The number, the tier one risk level is Nvidia, Astero Labs and Marvel technology. These companies are extraordinary businesses. Don't get me wrong. But that the most exposed was slowed down in GPU and networking demand. And then the tiered to vertive super micro computer core weave. These are effectively picks and shovels for the a gold rush. And then you go to the third level, the Microsoft, the alphabet, the Amazon. There will be nowhere. There would be nowhere to hide here. And that is the technology stories intact. It's just that the valuation story is beginning to get stress tested. And I don't think it's going to survive that stress test. So what's the prediction? You know, all eight or 10 of those companies at basket of them down 20 to 40% in the next 12 months. And by the way, still great companies, the technology will survive. I believe that the the the better AI players are going to be jargonauts in five to 10 years. But we are entering. These guys are just way out in front of their skis. Yeah, I would agree. I'm going to make a short prediction too. The thing that we'd started beginning with the Trumps, I just noticed this New York post on Trump family corruption, which was interesting. I think it's not Trump that's going to pay for this thing. He's going to die before we can get to him. But I think his children and the children and the lot necks and the rest are going to get it. I do think they're going to get it. You mean to be prosecuted? Yes, here's why this is a New York post. The Trumps sons, meanwhile, are part owners or investors in companies neck deep in key defense contracts to mine tungsten reserves in central Asia. It stinks to high heaven. If the president's family making bank from secure resource companies and the former Soviet Union sound familiar, maybe it's because Hunter Biden's lucrative connection, Barisma, Ukrainian gas company was a major scandal in the 2020 election and beyond. Republicans including Donald Trump were justifiably outraged at the obvious influence paddling. These kids are going to pay a price. That's my prediction. You don't think they'll get pardons? I think he'll try, but I think there's state. There's all manner ways to get to them. I just think they're in for a I think they're in for a lot. That's my prediction anyway. But I think it's all part of the same thing like you're talking about. We cannot save these internet companies. We cannot keep intervening for friends of Donald Trump or family members. Anyway, it's gross. Socialism is really what it is. Communism, really. Anyway, we want to hear from you. Send us your questions about business tech or whatever's on your mind. Go to nymag.com/pivot. submit a question for the show or call 85551Pivot. Okay, that's the show. Thanks for listening to pivot. Be sure to like and subscribe to our YouTube channel and please beg the head chief investment officer of that bank to forgive Scott so we can start telling dick jokes again. We'll be back next week. But at least the dick jokes today show is produced by Laran Aminzoi Marcus Taylor Griffin and Todd Wiseman. Additional assistance from Kate Gallagher and Brad Sylvester, earning a tie injury at this episode. Thanks also to Drew Brosma, it's a very endantial on. 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