Palantir CEO Alex Karp: Why the West is Destroying Itself, Data Empire, Skeptics, How to Win

Sometimes traditional stock analysis just lets you down. That's how I feel about the stock of Poundinger. A billion dollars in quarterly revenue for the first time ever. The stock has just ripped. They have delivered here beyond the expectation and the expectations were obviously remarkably high. Carb's the kind of guy who kicks you know what and then he gets in your face afterwards and he tells you that he just did that. As usual, I've been cautioned to be a little modest about our bombastic numbers. If you work for Palanteer, everyone knows you're good. And to all supporters of Palanteer, merry Christmas and a happy New Year's. And to all people who hated on us, enjoy your cult. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Palunteer CEO Alex Carp. [Music] Great to see you. Thanks for coming out. Hey, man. How are you? Awesome. [Music] you. How are you doing? Well, thanks for coming out. By the way, thank all of you guys. Great crowd. You have the best people. You have So, you have a lot of fans here. Yeah. Yesterday, we also had a number of protesters. Hopefully enough. Why are they What are they protesting? They're protesting Alex Karp being here. Categorize for me what's going on. Who are the protesters? Why do they protest? Who are the fans? Why do they love you? What can you see? Good taste. Good taste. Um well, there is an issue of taste and I think actually um you know like you always have to kind of try to steal man. And so like probably the people protesting me just have heard that they should protest me. But you know I if you ask why could they have an argument or why do why should you like me love me some cases honestly some of you guys like and love me more than I like myself which takes a little work but um uh the um I think this audience as an example though is almost unfair because builders basically learn from watching like highly highly talented people basically put a discount rate on everything anyone says and measure accomplishment based on outperformance against that discount rate. And you'll find if you're managing future builders, a lot of pal anyone who's palunteer in shaped that de facto you get street cred by outperforming against expectations where expectations are are are kind of multiplied against a high discount rate. So I think what you'd find in this audience is two things converging. one, you know, the journey of Palunteer is completely counterintuitive and especially technical experts. You know, the FDE thing was viewed as like you weren't going to get a multiple. I was viewed as like this magical wizard who could get the smartest people in the world to work on something that was de facto stupid. Um uh uh we were a quote unquote terrible at public relations and we stood up for the US government even when it was really really unpopular. Uh, and then there are a lot of people in the audience who agree with that. But I think as importantly, look at the results. Look at the fruits we bore. Look at the people we have on our side. And then you get to the other side. And again, it would be easy just to dismiss the other side as I don't know, stupid. They don't know what's going on. Um, let's just take the intellectually rigorous version of why you would be against what we're doing. there's a misconception uh that AI and tech is going to exclude everyone who's not in this room. And so a lot of people who are protesting actually what they're protesting is there's no way to get in this room. And in fact the way the way aptitude and the way the imple the implementation of things has worked, they're just wrong. And because they've assumed that, they then go into what I would call super regggressive non-working philosophical or empirical models where they assume the losers are noble. But actually what they're really assuming is they can't win. And then you get to um then you get to more subtle things. I do think there's an issue with our lead institutions that have taken the best and brightest and most valuable things you could teach someone and have turned it into some kind of Stalinistic [ __ ] that is anti-correlated with everything that that works in the west which is like individual accomplishment and uh and if you had to if you had to say what is the central val what is the central thing we do in America better than anyone else it's like allowing people to express their individual artistry in a way where you [ __ ] win like with no apologies. And then because they think they're on the loser side of this, they assume morality can't be against them. And then they are trained to to to believe that and to understand it. Of course, if you're a professor at Berkeley teaching about Haidiger, you think losing is good because you lost. That's that's of course the whole reason you you think that. You think that because you are the noble loser and this but again where it gets super super dangerous and where I do think we have to do a better job is you can't just assume there's no truth in what they believe which is like we have not done a even adequate job of helping people at the bottom is um some part of their criticism about um the situation in Gaza oh so that I'm getting now you can get to No. Well, first of all, I get yelled out about, you know what I get yelled at most about is actually enforcing the border. That's number one. So, like I get our southern border. Our southern border. Like, so again, I'll go through all three issues. I get yelled at about first of all, for decades, I got yelled So, they're legitimate issues to go over, but I just want for those of you who don't know the history. I've been yelled at for 20 years and protested primarily for supporting special operations in America. And you just got to imagine that I'm being protested for bringing soldiers home alive and killing our enemies. And these are people who serve our country and have been largely screwed by both parties. Like both parties have totally screwed them. And so I've been yelled So that's that's what I got yelled at. Uh my and then I got yelled at about that every single day. Then I got yelled at under Biden, under Obama, Biden. And especially obviously if Trump's doing it, you're definitely getting yelled at for enforcing the border. Now, I want to say I don't understand how in the world of AI you cannot be for somewhat of a constrained border because we can make it work for every single person who's actually American and we can make laborers more valuable. We need extra labor that's not inv either completely the most talented in the world like many people in this room or who are bringing skills. Also, we have enough transparency. You can't you can't say you don't know who's in your country. It's complete BS. It's completely anti-correlated, by the way, with being progressive. I grew up in the most progressive family ever. And every Friday night at Shabbat, there was a lecture on how the Republicans are screwing our country by undermining the worker and bringing in cheap labor. So, okay. So, I got yelled out about that. So, and then I fought about that actually mostly and then commercially got yelled at about how could you have these FDES is going to blow up your multiple. Um, now everybody wants to be an FDA, but okay. So now you go, now I'm getting yelled at primarily about ICE. What's going on? How's it going on? Who's is the treatment just? The one thing I would say, and I can we can go through each one of these individual things. The weird, the obvious fact is if you care about not being surveiled illegally, if you care about the treatment of people who come into the country illegally but deserve adequate treatment, if you care about lives in Gaza, in Ukraine, and all over the world where Palunteers used, you're going to want the best software in the world because it's the only way you can reduce and more precisely target the people and justifiably and actually the only way where you can say this person did this and they deserve to go. And so, you know, um and and and each one of these things has to be steel manned and and then let's do that for the the second one, the border. Uh Tucker said yesterday when he spoke to President Trump, there was no way to know is there 30 million are there 30 million people here illegally, 40, 50, whatever it happens to be. You say you call BS on that. We could easily do it. Is No, I just say we could easily do it and I'm not calling BS on that. I'm actually saying it's a very very hard problem. But in the world of AI and software, you can't say it can't be done. It could very easily be done if we put cameras everywhere and we just did facial recognition. But we don't want to live in that. It could be very easily done if you evviscerate our civil liberties. Yeah. That's not being done, right? That's like I could I could grow your revenue at 400% but I'll lose money in perpetuity is not a business. Yeah, of course. And so let's talk about what the solution to that would be. the the border issue is actually a a bit overstated. You have 80 90% of the country believes the border should be orderly. That is actually something that most people Okay, sorry. I just got to interrupt you. 80 90% of people believing in it happening are completely just non-connected. Of course, whatever the reason the Biden administration didn't do it, you know, that's over and now we're here and it's closed. But what would your solution be to identifying the people who are Well, again, I I I No, I think you're jumping over a lot of things. like it it's it it happened. Okay. What's interesting about political parties in America is that they're anti-correlated with what they claim. Democrats claim to be progressive like me. Having a border is not progressive. President Trump is conservative. Having a border is progressive. And that and and unfortunately until we change the our polity to the to the people actually get a say on the border. By the way, the single best example of this is in Europe. So how do you explain the complete dysfunction in Europe? You know, most Europeans, Germans, there are many Germans in the audience. Hello. Um, how many of you guys don't how how many of you guys are happy with the immigration situation you have in Germany? None. How many will talk about it publicly? How many will do anything? And then you get to these issues. The polity will frame the issue so that there is no solution. The only solution is to accept a solution no one wants. And that's what we had. And it's not and and part of the problem the reason the border is such an interesting thing is the reason you get an open border is politicians do not want to address the real problems of the society which would mean the workers of today have more value tomorrow than they have today because they have no earthly clue how to do that. They're like, "We'll just open the border and we'll get free labor and if you're on the left, we'll get people who will vote for us." And that it's like, but and the reason the way in which if you kind of steal man your questions, Gaza, Ukraine border, you have to raise the moral standard. So it's it's not again the way you led this is like if we just put up a camera. Yes, you can stop terrorism or you can have civil liberties is a little bit like you can have growth without revenue or you can have revenue without growth. If you want to solve the problem, you have to increase civil liberties and stop people from being in your country illegally. And the reason it doesn't happen is because there's slippage in the execution, which is absolutely purposeful. And if we don't want this country to be what Europe is now, and I lived in Europe most of my life, my grandmother, if German law was made any sense, would be German and I would be have a German passport. If we don't want that, you have to close the border. You have to make sure that people who have a right to be here get to stay. People who don't have a right to to stay get treated fairly. By the way, both sides have to step up. It's not enough to say I'm against the border or whatever, but I have no solution for what's going to happen for people, which is unfortunately what my point what's your solution for just your personal solution for what to do with the 30 million people who are here illegally. What would you do? Well, first of all, I would I mean, my personal solution would be you divide the pie. Everybody who's criminal, criminal, adjacent or has anything to do with crime is going to leave and I'm going and I'm going to make it so that they self-deport because I'm going to come tomorrow in a way you don't like it. That's number one. And there's 90%. No, you have a lot of No, that's easy to agree on. Nobody wants felons here. It's easy to agree on. Yeah, but but the the the paradigm is like it's easy because again you're like civil but any case it these things are much much harder than they look as an example. How do you do that without evviscerating our civil liberties? How do we make sure the criminals how do you know someone's criminal? What standard of of what standard of practice to use to define if someone's criminal? Are all criminals the same? Because de facto, if you go broad brush the way you basically are, it's like yes, but being in the country illegally is a felon. killing someone or potentially kill someone a different kind. How do you deal with the people that are around them? How do you deal with law enforcement people databases that are not made public to you? How do you deal with imputed data? How do you deal with data? How do you do do you do predict? But that's the question. So you're restating the question. I'm asking you to answer it. Well, I'm restating the question. So it's a question. I think that's the thing. Let me let me I'm hoping you'd answer it. Let me let me let me flesh this out a bit. Um so so look everyone on the right at least agrees that we should have a strong border. One of the criticisms or concerns that I hear on the right or from civil libertarians is that Palunteer has a largecale data data collection program on American citizens. So not foreign terrorists, not illegals but American citizens. Can you just clear that up and say that either Palunteer is not doing that or under what circumstances you do? Yeah. So, um, first of all, I just want to like Palanteer like there's a technical version which I'm going to give you, but like we we had a a Democratic administration come to us and basically ask us to do a Muslim database. Now, you would think given the way I'm kind of bismerched as like some kind of I don't know, it's like a Jewish conspiracy. That would be the first thing according to them I would do. We've never done anything like this. I've never done anything like this. um to actually understand the answer any and and and I love these questions about the skeptic because like I actually love skeptics like I tend to divide the world into you have palanteer derangement system syndrome which I don't spend a lot of time on and I think they're anti-builder you have palanteer skeptics and you have people who don't like paler if you're a palunteer skeptic or you don't like us I want to engage and the any technology that works can be abused we are the single worst technology to used to abuse civil liberties which is by the way the reason why we could never get the NSA or the FBI to actually buy our product and until recently like sigant institutions would never buy our product yeah you laugh because it's like obvious if you want to do data analytics in a way that evviscerates our civil liberties you don't want alles you don't want branching you don't want pipelining you in in more like logs you don't want logs and like a you don't want serialization and des serialization in your product if you have serialization and deserialization of your product that's intelligible. You are basically creating a product that's going to be really really hard to abuse uh and the logs are immutable in Palunteer. So like and by the way the single most civil liberties heavy place in the world is hating on us every day. And you know what they're buying every day? Palanteer. It's called Europe. And you know why? Sorry, I want to get to this cuz this is important cuz I get basically attacked by skeptics and anti-palenteer people that deserve an And by the way, do not, this is a lesson for you. Do not believe anything I'm saying. And if you're online watching, I don't know, Nick Fentes, Call Me the Jewish Conspiracy, do yourself a favor and say, "Yeah, that could be really interesting." Spend 20 minutes looking at the product. 20 minutes looking at the product and say, "Is this not the hardest product to abuse in the world? Is it not built to be? And by the way, and then I'll get to direct answers of your questions. And by the way, that's made me very rich because the civil liberties protections we built into PG are the same things that we use to orchestrate large language models, the same way we orchestrate internally, and the same things you will need to make any enterprise in the world work. Because every enterprise in the world, public or private, needs deserialization, alles, branching, some kind of scaffolding to make the LLMs work, which means the LLMs have a have an ability to do a taxonomy on your business, but without touching the business, that you can control where they're deployed, that they don't have access to your data, that you have uh uh immutable logs, and that you can measure the output against both any against highfidelity data sets that can be viewed in any way pro permissible, and that you the permissions are enforced. So, hardest product in the world to abuse. I'm telling you, we've never done anything like this. Please verify. Do not trust me. Certainly, do not trust the PE. By the way, as a rule, the one thing I would say critical on the outside, do not trust anyone who's never built anything. It's so easy to have all these opinions. You have all these [ __ ] opinions about how the world works, how data works, how businesses work, how we got off the ground. I'm a conspiracy. Somehow they gave it to me, but not you. even though like I'd be the least likely person to get to sue the US government twice. We had to hire the most important engineers in the world and be laughed and shhat upon by the whole world for 20 years before anyone took it seriously because we were a conspiracy. And you know why people believe it? Because they've never had a job. They've never built anything. And anyone who has no know there's no that's just not the way the world works. For me to succeed, just like for you to succeed, you're going to have to be 10x better than anyone else in the room or you will fail. And that's true for me. That's true for you. That's true for every American. And it's always been true. It's always been true. And any Sorry. Sorry. I gotta get to this. And anyone who tells you anyone anyone anyone who tells you that's not true is you are the mark. You are the mark. If you're being taught, and that's what I would tell the protesters or the college, you're the mark. They're telling you I'm succeeding because I just got it handed to me and somehow it's unfair. No. No one handed anything to anyone at Palunteer. PG is still the best product on the market. No one even tries to compete it foundry. Go ahead. Go try to build it. Try to organize a team of people as good as Palunteerians. Go ahead. Try try try to do it for 20 years. Try to build a vision engagement. I would like to try to ask a question. Sorry. One second. All I want to say is I'm glad you're on our side. So then my lord try to try try to try try I don't need it. Try try try to build ontology and fds five six years before anyone thought it was try to raise the capital. try to be laughed at. But to your questions, no, we are not surveilling uh US citizens. No, our data is not being used to aggregate and to create uh imputed uh way because you could say, do you do it directly? Do you do it indirectly? That's a fair question. No. Would I do this? Don't have to believe me, but I've never done it in 20 years. I've told every single important per I I do a lot of constructive engagement internally like with countries because, you know, people know I'm kind of on their side in the west. I I've told every single major leader that's ever that I would not do something and it's cost and by the way it's cost Palunteer a lot of money. We never worked with China. We never worked with Russia. We never worked with adversarial. We got laughed out of the same room. Okay. Okay. Um this morning there was a report um that there was some sort of an attack that Israel affected inside of Qatar against the terrorists of Hamas. I just want to give you a chance to talk about Israel, Gaza, that whole conflict. You've talked about it a lot. You have a lot of opinions. People have tried to obviously attack you and mischaracterize some of the things you said. So, well, actually, they've often characterized what I've said correctly. Oh, so but okay. Um, uh, yeah, I I look there the Israel they're they're for me just fun before he gets as big, they're fundamental issues. Uh, does Israel have a claim to the land? Yes. Does Israel Yeah. So again, like does Israel have a right to defend itself? Yes. Has Israel done something America would not have done under circumstances? I think America would have been a lot more brutal. And again, uh, now then you get to the humanitarian thing and I'll say abstracting from there. I believe progressives in this country are working day and night to hurt poor people in this country. I don't believe they're progressive. And I would say I do not I believe that through direct and indirect engagement I'm clearly not in favor of Palestinian innocent people being killed. I I am not in favor of that. And and I'll tell you so then the question is are you allowed to fight war? And then the po the other point is if you want to minimize human life, innocent human life being killed, you're going to have to use software. And this is going to have to be better than the future than it is now. The it's true Israel's ratio of of like casualty, innocent to non- innocent, is better than anyone has ever had in the history of humanity. And it's going to have to be better in the future. Does your software help send aid to the refugees or can it? I the you have to be very careful. There's a like I want to avoid like I can't go into exact like I'm not allowed to say where we're used where we're not used. Um but then there's there's a sometimes a trick people do is like oh I'm not used for this and I'm not used for that when in fact you know we are used in Israel and like I would say as a generalization where word are used in Israel most people in this audience would be very supportive of and it's and it actually has been very precise and deadly and I support that. Alex, yesterday we had Tucker here and um he made some references to opening borders, declining fertility rates, and actual programs for assisted suicide in Canada. All of which may speak to the West's intention of committing suicide. Do you think the West generally is committing suicide? If so, why? What gets us here? I I mean you have to dis disambiguate America like I walked around your audience. This isn't not an audience committing suicide. This is an audience fighting to win. Um and before I get to this question and the one thing I would tell you guys is you're going to have to fight to win because currently I'm one of the few people other people on stage who speak up. You're going to have to speak up and and explain to people why you have the right to win or it may be taken from you. And so you're gonna have to you're gonna have to fight. And by the way, here I mean I don't mean left right here. Both parties need a little bit of kick in the ass here. Like it's like it's just, you know, we we have a right to win. We need to win. And you have an individual right to fight to win in this country and it should not be taken away from you. And it could be if you don't stand up and tell people, no, your idea is ridiculous. And I just let me explain to you how this works. Then I mean the country I for those of you who don't know, I spent half my life in I wrote this PhD in Germany. It's a country I I know France reasonably well actually. Uh but um so when I'm talking about Europe, Europe is obviously not Europe. You have East and West Europe and and Eastern European countries are very very different than Western European countries. Denmark's very different uh and the Nordics are very different. So but generally when people in this country are in general talking about you know committing suicide they're really thinking in their mind's eye Germany. It's like you have a country with you know arguably you know had you know pre-software AI the best industrial base in the world the best schools in the world they have vocational schools so like you know Germany unlike you know they never neglected their working class like you have two different kinds of vocational schools in Germany you have for like lower level and high high level vocational training in Germany puts you on the factory floor doing important things and you earn a real salary with real benefits your whole life and have rights um it has best healthcare best life and for those of you who embrace a lascivious lifestyle by far the best think about it. Uh and so really the high and the highest level of data protection, highest level of integrity. Um best position to win and okay and suddenly you got you know the energy uh they basically blew up the energy market. They blew up immigration and they blew up essentially you know their tech scene. It's like and now it's like very hard to ask an answer to the question what is the future and I as a kind of sideline diagnostic and like Peter and I who they should be calling every day on speedale like like they spend every day talking about us for those of you German you'll know like every single day three times a day is Peter Darth Vader and I'm Lord Cyph. Uh it's like and like meanwhile they should be calling us. Um the the way you commit suicide in the in the west is you stop believing that the your particular culture has something sior in it. Like yes, Germany screwed up a lot of stuff in World War II, but to believe that there's nothing special, unique, and uniquely valuable about German culture is insanity. It It's like complete insanity. And there's nothing wrong with saying you're proud to be German. Like in German, you're literally far right of center. If you're like, "Yeah, it's been sto that that will put you like like I'm proud to be German." So like like like there are even at Palanteer, one of the crazy things about Palunteer is how German we are. Like we we take everything to like every question to like the nth degree and then recatenate the thing before we make a decision. every single person at Palanteer. So, you know, I get that, you know, Germany has this problem to some degree with being able to look in the mirror, but what about France and Britain, right? They won World War II. Why what what's why are they pursuing the same policies? Um, Canada and the policy we're talking about, just to be clear, is just allowing an extreme amount of immigration. Well, I'm trying to I'm trying I'm trying to ask if there's a thread that can connect declining. Again, the jump off place here is for very different and very nonconnected reasons, they all decided there was nothing special about their culture, right? And and like and again, Frances would be even better example because they have a much better narrative. They actually had a resistance. It wasn't as big as people say, but it existed. France, you know, the crazy thing about LLMs is it should have been built and I mean the whole center of gravity should be in France. Like the two best math cultures in the world are Russia and France and like we hire ad nauseium from France. So uh but France it they gave up on two things and France actually might even be the better example. If you in France the for those of you who aren't French France is religiously focused on meritocracy. So they have this one school you have to get into. It's all about math. And the reason it's about math is the socialists in French in France decided that having like verbal high verbal IQ was a class-based thing. And so they religiously into meritocracy and the whole definition of it is mathematical aptitude. France is complicated. You a far right far left in between somehow and in other count it's like there it's very hard to articulate in France why you think French culture is better than any other culture in Europe from a French perspective. And then for example concretely if you want to build a product if you build it in France it should be absolutely mathematical and aesthetic. If you build it in Germany it's going to have to be conceptual and manufacturing base. You're going to have a different tech scene a different way of organizing it. And then last not least and this is the thing we have to fight for the most. They're they become anti-ameritocratic. So like if you're in Germany or France and you're the best of the best of the best you're going to wait 30 years before you have a real job. Why? Because why had they become anti-marritocrat? Well, there's again the people out there protesting or the people the faculty members at Berkeley have taught them to protest the Yeah. The lot of strays for Berkeley. Uh well we can pick on Stanford but chance but but but but they equate morally losing with losing in the real world with winning in in the like in immorally and it it seems like a crazy way to think because in the end everyone Christian value. So and I asked this because I heard someone have a talk about this where the the the moral spectrum used to be strong and weak. you know, cavemen, the strongest would survive and the weakest would die. And that was how we measured what was right and what was wrong. And then what became right and wrong was this notion of good and evil, turn the cheek, compassion, etc. The the now I mean there are many many different schools of Christianity. And so like even in this case like Lutheran uh Christianity and uh Catholic French Christianity are are are basically not correlated. They're both Christian. What's special about America was Calvinism like we are the most Calvinist culture in the world and actually the protesters are anti-alism. What does Calvinism mean? Calvinism celebrates success. De facto almost everybody in America that's that is whether you're Jewish, Muslim, Christian, the underlying backdrop of America is this Calvinist view. And the anti-calvinist cultures of Europe, Lutheranism, other kinds of cultures, they they do equate like, you know, behind every great success is a great crime is a is a famous Volarian classic. And it it's and and we don't have this in this country. If this slips, you basically end up in a situation where everybody who is is succeeding or is perceived to be in a group that is disproportionately succeeding ends up on the firing wall. And what does that happen to the whole society? your GD you know one of the more interesting are we seeing that with anti-semitism one what one I get one of the more interesting facts about France is between 61 and 91 their G GDP grew faster than America's so this is a very special culture now the anti-semitism well I don't particularly like I actually think it should be disambiguated I actually like someone liking or not liking a Jewish person or being skeptical of Jews that's irrelevant somebody who has Jewish derangement syndrome that wants to burn down the whole society to get rid of the obvious fact that Jews do well under marriage crack situation. That's a problem for everybody, not just for Jews. And it should be very much focused like, you know, in private I'm very critical of like these advocacy groups and I'm constantly hanging up on them and of course I'm not going to give you any [ __ ] money. That's the most ridiculous [ __ ] ever. Like it's like you're like what the [ __ ] It's like the best culture in the world and we got to come. But like the the the the like uh like the the the thing that becomes dangerous is when you have like derangement syndrome. And the derangement syndrome comes from Yeah. You know you know if you're a classic the classic liberal inputs have to be really really fair as fair as we can make them and outputs are never going to be fair. Alex, can I ask you about China for one second? So, we talked with Tulsa yesterday and one of the things, you know, just to connect the dots, like we were able to designate these cartels as terrorist organizations. There's all this drugs flowing in. We're trying to shut that down. The precursors are still coming in very aggressively from China. And so, I'm just curious um what is the geopolitical frame that we need to think about China in? How much are they facilitating everything that's happening at the southern border? How responsible may they be for the fentinel epidemic in the United States? How should what should we do about it? Well, you know, it's funny like obviously Palunteer and I are wildly skeptical of the CCP, but you know, I I think I'm the highest ranked Tai Chichi practitioner in corporate life in the world. And it it's like in you you have you're like sorry, say that again. You're like Slevel Tai Chichi like uh well, you know, like that video that was very high level internal martial arts. I'm not at that level, but I I mean among my corporate peers, it's like yeah, I have the equivalent in V22 max terms of like a 72, right, or something like that. And um uh in Tai Chi and the the you you you the the way the way the kind of part of the culture that I admire works like in Tai Chi is you you put pressure on all parts of the system to expose the weak part of the system internally of your adversary. And that that is just the way Chinese like at least Tai Chichi martial arts works even I mean they're not useful for fighting but it is very useful for thinking Tai Chi and um or as useful for fighting as you know. So um and if you want to engage the way the way an engagement with China works is you make your or in Chai Chi terms you want to engage with China you better make sure the internal dynamics of this country are very strong. It's magically the external dynamics over there will shift. They trying to destabilize our country with fentinel, with Tik Tok, and you have concerns about Well, okay. Obvious like Yeah, obviously. But again, I'll tell you what. So, they're obviously I'm in full agreement. No. Yeah. No, but but like but my version always of this is it's their job to stabilize us. It's our job to be stable. And like I, you know, it's like when you're most people here are running successful businesses, it's like well said. It's our job to be stable. It's our stable. Like if you want to the Tai Chi version of like you're not going to have to enter the fight if you're strong. There is no fight. If there's a fight, you like the famous martial arts thing is like if you're in a fight, you're not a martial artist. Correct. So, and this is like the same thing in business. Like when you get to the point where you're competing with someone, you've really suck [ __ ] something up. Like if you look at the pounder version, yeah, do FTDEs, do ontology, do uh do do ontology, orchestrate them at scale, grow 93%. man, people don't want or work with the US government like people are like that's kind of hard and really unfun. Let me give you a precise question here about um these cartels who are bringing fentinol into the country. They're killing a 100,000 Americans a year. 9/11, we lost 3,000 people tragically. Um if they're not terrorists, then how would you define them? And should we be using the same test as to our engagement with them and should we be eliminating them as terrorists with prejudice? Um well I obviously agree with that. Um I I think honestly the problem is they even think they can get away with this. Like one of one of the more interesting things is when you read people who are against America taking out you know these naroterrorists there it's always something like we've got to use a reified meaning overly deterministic form of law to the point where America has to die. Back to your question. Yeah. Due process for al Qaeda makes no sense. it it well it's like the the the interesting thing here actually with a point of agreement is uh if you allow okay to just take like an obvious example of like fraud human rights watch okay so they'll take a standard they'll move the standard and then the downstream consequence of it is that we've got to disappear and die right and then but then even worse than that they're actually paving the way for a fascism because Americans and no one else are going to tolerate that level of dysfunction. These [ __ ] are killing 50 100 thousand of our people. The fact that they think they can get away with this is a real problem. We should just and and it's like and and the fact that somebody's going to say it's again you have the European version. It's like you know or any it's like if you allow you have to protect the data and find the terrorists because otherwise you get a form of fascism. You get it on the left because we have terror attacks and fentinel across our street and you get it it on the classic far right which is Alex. What did you mean earlier when you said progressives want you to be poor? I I may be paraphrasing incorrectly but what the the the modern progressive movement is clearly not progressive. Progressive is defined by the working class do better tomorrow than they did today and know it. Right. Okay, to do that you need things that you can do at scale now. Vocational training on AI based systems. Making our laborers more valuable obviously closing the border so that you don't reduce the amount that you pay people and also eviscerate legal protections. This is not progressive. It's not progressive by the way to have so little competence or willing to use force that we get overrun by drugs. Who do those drugs go to? disproportionately poor people of color. Yes, it's not progressive to have crime rates. You know, the to be a civil war zone, to be a war zone, you have to have five five deaths per 100,000. That's like half our cities. How's that progressive? What you mean? You care about poor people so much you're just going to let them kill each other? All right. Can you shift gears here? So, Alex, I think you've developed a little bit of a reputation of a defender of the West, and you've talked about that here. I'm wondering can you criticize uh any aspect of of western foreign policy like for example during the war on terror was it a good idea to occupy Afghanistan? I've never been in like this is the thing I I it's like I've never been in neocon. I actually don't think that's the pro-western the pro-western superiority thing is we do what we do really well. Why are we trying to make people us? I've never understood this. By the way, the neocon thing, the prom migration people and the pro-occupation people abroad, it's the same philosophy. I don't actually think migration is working in the west because people don't want to change. I don't think like and why are we teaching the Arab Middle East how to live better? I the countries that I won't go into names that seem to love and rever me and paler, they're doing really well. Like they have a way of living their life. It works really well. It largely involves different ways of living than we would. There's no first amendment. There's really not a fourth amendment. And I'm not that interested in that. And so I I don't And by the way, I think that destabilizes everyone. So I I completely I am against I am very in favor of using force where it's needed. But force a where it's needed and doing occupation are completely different things. And you will see across the world people who want to convince like I don't know convince Afghani villagers to be pro- feminist will also explain to you that the people that end up coming here are going to be pro- western in their values three generations out. is completely I want to thank you for being on our side and I want to thank my wife for buying your stock at $20. Thank you. No, Alex, we deeply appreciate you being here and I think that your voice is one of the most important voices in the world today and I thought this was such an important voice to bring forward. I don't see you do a lot of long form. I don't see a lot of your long form get public. I I think this is so important for everyone to hear, to swallow, to digest, and hopefully to evolve and and grow from it. And I really appreciate you. Thank you so much for being here today. Please join me in thanking Alex Carr. Thank you. [ __ ] yeah. [ __ ] yeah. Thank you, sir. [Applause] [ __ ] yeah.