Podbit · Pivot
Scott Galloway gave money to Michael Bennet for 10 years and hosted his presidential fundraiser — then watched him lose to a state AG nobody had heard of. The lesson: if you want disruption, you don't get to choose its calibration.
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Politico called this week's Colorado primaries an 'anti-establishment avalanche,' and Kara and Scott dig into why. Colorado AG Phil Weiser beat longtime Senator Michael Bennet — whom Scott backed financially for 10 years and hosted a presidential fundraiser for — and a 29-year-old democratic socialist unseated a 15-term congresswoman. [1] — Scott Galloway "Scott Galloway gave money to Michael Bennet for 10 years and hosted his presidential fundraiser — then watched him lose to a state AG nobod…" 22:20 Robert Reich's Substack take resonates: voters aren't attracted to the ideology of democratic socialism; they're attracted to vigorous young people who seem capable of actually doing something. Steve Bannon, oddly, said nearly the same thing. Scott acknowledges the disruption he called for has arrived, but it's not the calibrated, centrist kind he'd prefer. He warns that democratic socialism as policy has a poor historical track record, and that some of the New York wins — specifically candidates with anti-Israel positions — concern him. But the core energy is right: these candidates are young, unafraid, and action-oriented in a way the Democratic establishment is not.
The Democratic primary upsets in Colorado and New York weren't about socialism — they were about energy. Voters aren't choosing ideology; they're choosing people who look like they want to win and actually do something.
Fei-Fei Li went back to Stanford from Google in 2018 specifically to build a multi-stakeholder governance framework for AI. Her argument: market forces are not societal norms. Just as biology uses IRBs and cars have safety laws, AI needs layered oversight from educators, governments, and the public — not just a few industry titans.
Andrew Santino's personal MCU of political villains is collapsing. He and Bobby speculated that a circulating photo of Mitch McConnell with a Chinese official was AI-generated compositing two separate images.
Mass surveillance is here to stay. The real battle isn't stopping cameras — it's ensuring judges and laws keep that data out of family court and civil disputes, admitting it only for violent crimes and national security. The surveillance economy currently yields more upside than downside, but only if we build the legal guardrails now.
When people cite Scandinavia as proof socialism works, Galloway says they've got it backwards. Northern Europe runs highly competitive free-market economies with more competition in many sectors than the US — they just make sure taxes are actually paid and redistributed. Billionaires and universal healthcare can coexist.
Two percent adjustments to income tax and stamp duty tweaks are deck-chair rearrangements. The UK's competitiveness hinges on four structural levers: currency valuation, energy costs, regulatory burden, and tax rates. Devalue the pound, build 56 nuclear plants, slash red tape, introduce a flat tax — and the country transforms.
Lisbon had one of Europe's worst heroin crises. Then Portugal legalised drugs and redirected all enforcement money into rehabilitation and housing. Crime collapsed. Addiction fell. Then politics moved the money elsewhere, and the problem started creeping back. Chesterton's Fence: you forget why you were spending that money.
Congress passed the Boland Amendment 411 to 0, explicitly banning CIA and Defense Department funds for the Contras. Reagan signed it — then immediately moved the operation deeper underground, essentially responding to a bipartisan prohibition by going more illegal.
The CIA planted mines in Nicaraguan commercial harbors, wrote the Contras' press releases taking credit, and promptly blew up ships from four allied nations. The Wall Street Journal broke the story, Congress erupted, and the Boland Amendments multiplied.
Oliver North was a decorated Marine and devout Catholic with zero covert operations experience. He ran the entire shadow war against Congress — planes, airstrips, arms shipments, shell companies — learning on the job. And by every operational measure, he crushed it.
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