Snapshot · The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Vance argues the US military establishment had not won a war in roughly 30 years — from the early 1990s to at least 2016 — justifying Trump's distrust of military leadership.
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Vance says Trump is warm, generous, loves giving gifts, is super smart, and is dramatically different from his media portrayal — probably one of the highest-IQ presidents. [1] — JD Vance "The entire American media convinced Vance in 2016 that Trump was not smart. Inside the Oval Office, Vance found the opposite: a wide reader…" 1:12:06
JD Vance once wrote that Trump was 'cultural heroin' and told a roommate he was 'either a cynical asshole or America's Hitler.' He now says he was wrong about Trump, wrong about American institutions, and wrong about the military experts he trusted.
Vance had just landed in Milwaukee for the RNC when Trump called — and he didn't pick up. He got a text from the future White House Chief of Staff saying he'd missed a very important call. He rang Trump back, and the rest was history. This happened hours after Trump was shot.
By his own account, Giacomo Casanova slept with over 120 women and contracted venereal disease 11 times — a life of extreme aesthetic indulgence that ended in total isolation.
Joel de la Garza noted that the CISO role is a relatively recent invention, with Steve Katz widely credited as the first-ever CISO.
Superficial adoption of electricity gave factories only 6% efficiency gains; fully redesigning factories around it delivered a 3x productivity improvement that powered 20th-century US growth.
Harold Ramis recounted that during Caddyshack filming, storms kept the cast cooped up in a Florida hotel for days, during which they partied and did drugs all day and night.
In the 1820s, China accounted for 25% of global economic output, making it the world's largest economic machine — a historical precedent for its current AI superpower ambitions.
66 Americans held hostage at the US Embassy in Iran were released after 444 days, within hours of Reagan's inauguration.
In the first round of the secret arms deal, 508 TOW missiles were transferred from Israel to Iran in exchange for hostage releases.
America secretly transferred 2,000 missiles and missile parts to Iran across 8 separate shipments over just over a year.
Despite all the missile sales, only 3 of the 7 American hostages held by Lebanese terrorists were ultimately released.
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