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Kevin O'Leary
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Kevin O'Leary claimed that in the last 19 months China built 400 gigawatts of new power capacity from coal while US data center construction was stymied by regulation.
Kevin O'Leary estimated that by blocking the Strait of Hormuz, Iran is losing approximately $210 million USD per day — making its position financially unsustainable.
Kevin O'Leary stated that China sources 48% of its energy through the Strait of Hormuz, giving Beijing enormous incentive to pressure Iran into a deal.
Kevin O'Leary claimed that 52% of every dollar of global sovereign wealth fund investment goes to the United States, arguing this proves capitalism and American entrepreneurship still leads the world.
Kevin O'Leary cited Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warning that if the US doesn't build more compute capacity within six months, China's DeepSeek will overtake US AI capabilities.
Every company is racing to fire 10–25% of its workforce using AI because the first one to do so gets a stock market reward. If they all do it, the result is not a recession but a depression. There is no government plan anywhere on earth for this outcome — and even the AI CEOs building these tools have already admitted it is inevitable.
The CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Tesla have all said publicly that AI will eliminate most current jobs and push unemployment toward 20%. These are the people with the least incentive to say their products will cause harm — and they are saying it anyway. The public is being sugar-coated.
A coder earning $120,000 a year who loses their job to AI would receive just $36,000 annually under a $3,000/month UBI — and even that assumes UBI gets passed instantly, which it won't. The transition from good middle-class salary to poverty-level income replacement is not a safety net; it is a catastrophe.
While US entrepreneurs were stymied by regulation and alleged Chinese-funded opposition campaigns, China built 400 gigawatts of new coal-powered electricity in just 19 months. No environmental reviews. No community opposition. Just a supreme leader pointing at the ground and saying build. That is the adversary the US is racing against.
The Adelson family alone gave Trump over $317 million. The Israeli lobby donates to 94% of Congress. Netanyahu walked into the Situation Room and told Trump to attack. Every time a peace deal gets close, Netanyahu calls Trump and it collapses. This is 100% Israeli interest, 0% American interest.
Iran launched carbon-fiber drones with lawnmower engines costing $35,000. America shot them down with ordnance costing $1.2–3 million per missile. This is the first tech war ever fought — and whoever has the best AI wins. The US is currently on the wrong side of that cost equation.
Republican voter enthusiasm has been obliterated by the war and by AI unemployment. Democrats have lost their way. The only Republican who can win 2028 is Tucker Carlson — a populist with a massive social media base and no dependence on the donor class. Cenk predicted Trump would win in 2016 when everyone laughed. He's making the same call again.
Even if AI eventually creates wonderful new jobs — on Mars, in space, in robotics — it will take a minimum of 20 years to get there. The 61-year-old assembly line worker in Cleveland cannot retrain to be a Mars engineer. The transition gap is real, enormous, and completely unplanned for by any government or company.
Driving is the biggest single employer in the world. Uber's CEO confirmed to Steven Bartlett that Uber will automate all 9.4 million driver jobs with autonomous vehicles. When asked what those drivers will do, the CEO said: 'I don't know.' Tech executives talk openly about mass disruption behind closed doors — they just don't say it publicly.
Wherever a new power plant or data center is proposed in America, there is organised opposition. O'Leary hired forensic auditors and data scientists, traced the money through IRS filings, and found it leads back to China through a network of nonprofits called Arabella. He says it is happening in every state, every city, and he has handed 90 pages of evidence to the White House and FBI.
Netanyahu has been saying Iran is weeks away from a nuclear weapon since the 1990s. Iran has never enriched uranium above 60%, far short of the 90% needed for a weapon. Iran has no missile that can reach America. The grand Ayatollah issued a fatwa prohibiting nuclear weapons. The threat is a fabrication used to justify endless war.
Positive views of capitalism in America have hit an all-time low. 62% of young Americans view socialism favourably. 80% of Democrats now view Israel negatively. This is not ideology — it is anger. The question is whether any politician can channel it before the pitchforks arrive.
America does not have free markets or capitalism. Every industry has captured the government through legal bribery. Drug companies, oil companies, defense contractors, banks — they all wrote their own rules. What you actually have is corporatism, and it is socialism for corporations. Real capitalism would be a step up from here.
When France taxed the rich at 90%, Monaco was born — four miles across the border. When California and New York pile on taxes, the wealthy move to Texas and Florida. Socialism always runs out of other people's money because the people with the money simply leave. That is the lesson history keeps teaching and progressives keep ignoring.
Blocking the Strait of Hormuz costs Iran approximately $210 million a day in lost revenue. But it costs the rest of the world enormously more. China gets 48% of its energy through that strait. South Korea and India are already in crisis. The war has created an energy shock far larger in Asia and Europe than in energy-independent America.
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