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Joe Rogan Experience #2234 - Marc Andreessen

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Hello, Mark.
Hello.
Good to see you.
Thanks for having me back.
My pleasure.
Good to see you.
Why are the world still functional?
It's amazing.
Yeah, amazing.
We wanted to talk, you wanted to talk about the post-election sort of a wrap-up.
Yeah.
Sort of where we stand.
Are you happy?
Very happy.
That was a weird one.
Morning in America.
That was one of the first times ever I felt hopeful after an election.
Like, you should have seen The Green Room at the Comedy Club.
Everybody was like, yes.
Yes.
Woo.
So my theory is the timeline, like in a science fiction movie, the timeline has
split twice
in the last, like, nine months.
What was the first split?
That was when Trump got shot.
Oh, yeah.
And there was that moment where the world was going to head in two totally
different directions.
Right.
If he got hit.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And we saw the most conspicuous display of physical bravery I've ever seen.
Right.
Afterwards.
In that moment.
Exactly.
And it could have gone, you know, horrifically badly for the entire world after
that.
So that was timeline split number one.
So that other timeline is out there somewhere.
Yeah.
And I don't want to visit it.
Boy.
Imagine being stuck there.
What kind of horrible karma.
No.
I mean, that's a totalitarian dystopian nightmare.
That's the bad place.
Yeah.
And then timeline split again on election day.
I know you fancy a good conspiracy theory.
Yes.
And that gentleman being able to pull off what he did and, you know, the way it
happened,
the way it all went down is, it's a Lee Harvey Oswald 2.0.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Clearly.
The shooter that we still don't know anything.
There's no call for disclosure.
There's no call for a press conference.
There's no toxicology report.
The toxicology report had to have been done.
Yeah.
Wouldn't you want to know, like, what kind of stuff this kid is on that made
him want to
do that, or if anything?
Yeah.
So my theory is it's almost as if people want us to think it's a conspiracy.
Like, it's almost like the whole thing is almost orchestrated.
Like, it's just, it's so strange.
You know, this is like the rapid cremation.
Like, the whole thing was just completely bizarre.
And then you're exactly right.
You're like, no hearings, no nothing.
Now, having said that, I expect that this will change.
Right?
So, you know.
Do you think they're going to do a dive into what happened?
I mean, I would.
I don't know if they will, but, you know, I certainly would.
If I was in a position to do that.
I wonder what they can actually find.
I mean, I don't know if they wanted it to be a conspiracy that people talked
about, or
if that's simply the best way to pull it off.
Yeah.
Or it's just, yeah.
Or it's just, you know, as we saw, I think, in the hearing afterwards, maybe
just a systemic
collapse of confidence.
There's also a confidence in the fact that the news timeline today is so rapid.
When things are relevant and people are paying attention to them is, you have a
couple of days.
Yeah.
Even with an assassination attempt on a former president.
Yeah.
Where people were murdered.
Yeah.
And there's, it's in and out.
Yeah, that's right.
I think it's exactly.
I think the news cycle now is like a two to three day social media firestorm.
And we just cycle from one to the next.
Yeah.
And we have the memory of goldfish.
And, right, they, you know, things, right, things that would have been erodefining
just come
and go with astonishing speed and shock.
By the way, I should say, I don't think there was a, I doubt there was a
conspiracy.
I don't think anything's possible.
I think it's just, we have a confidence collapse.
And I think we saw that on display when the, when the director at the time, you
know, testified.
Well, there's all the elements that it could have been a conspiracy.
It could have.
But this is kind of the thing, which is just like, it also could have been.
Right.
Systemic confidence collapse.
And then it's like, okay, would it be better off for the institute, you know,
if it looks
like a conspiracy, right?
Like, you know, which world, okay, two timelines.
Which world would you rather live in?
The one with the conspiracies or the one with just like incompetence everywhere?
Well, I think you have both simultaneously.
I don't think it's binary.
Right.
I think there's incompetence everywhere and conspiracies are legitimate.
They're real.
Yeah.
And that one seems like conspiracy.
The fact that his house was professionally scrubbed.
There's no social media record of this kid online.
There's no nothing.
He's the only kid of his generation who's that fired up about politics to have
no online
footprint.
Like, it just doesn't make any sense.
And he's a registered Republican.
Like, the whole thing is like so weird.
And he was like a bad shooter and then he became a great shooter.
Well, he definitely trained.
Yeah, right.
Like, you could train someone to become a good shooter.
This is all you have to do.
Don't move and do that.
Get all your mechanics in place.
Understand technique and positioning, breathing.
It's not like the most complicated thing from a prone position.
But the fact that he chose to use iron sights, I thought was weird, too.
There's a lot of weirdness to it.
You know, from 140 yards with a scope, that is an easy shot.
Well, then he could just, like, wander up.
That's the different timeline.
The different timeline is he has a scope.
And that's it.
Okay.
All right.
Right.
That would have...
And Trump's dead.
Yep.
And then, boy.
Yep.
Boy, do we live in a crazy world then.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Completely bizarre.
I mean, what do the streets look like right now?
Yeah.
What kind of, like, protests and riots and...
Yeah.
You think January 6th was nice?
If they had killed Trump, that would be January 6th on steroids everywhere.
Yeah.
That's right.
And we would experience it.
I mean, you know, I don't know.
When I was a kid, my high school history teacher got us a bootleg copy of the
Zapruder film.
Really?
Which, you know, it's like...
What a gangster high school history teacher.
He was actually pretty focused on that.
He really loved the Kennedy assassination.
Wow.
So, we spent a lot of time on that.
And, you know, you kind of watch it frame by frame and you can kind of see what's
happening
with this lots of questions.
But, like, when things like that happen, you know, today, it's going to be in
high definition
4K ultra surrounds on forever.
Yeah.
Right.
Playing out in real time forever.
And so, like, yeah, I very much don't want to live in the world where those
things happen.
Well, we are very fortunate.
Yeah.
I mean, like I said, after the election, I was like, wow, voting works.
Voting works, that's nice.
Like, they don't have the system completely rigged.
And then, but they kind of tried to rig it at least with the media.
Where the real rigging in the 2020 elections, I mean, you can cast all your
conspiracies upon
it in terms of, like, mail-in ballots and all this jazz.
But the real rigging was the collusion between social media companies and the
government to
suppress information that would have altered the effect of the election.
Yeah.
That's legitimate.
Oh, yeah, for sure.
Yeah.
That was, like, direct interference.
And it was aided and abetted by a lot of former, you know, intelligence
officials.
Yeah.
And by the current administration.
You know, tons of pressure on censorship coming from this, you know, the
current administration
and all their, kind of, arms of the censorship apparatus.
You have your hands in the tech community.
You have your fingers in all that jazz.
Like, what was the general attitude about all that stuff when it was revealed?
How did people, you know, how did your peers respond to that?
I think anybody in social media, the internet companies, knew it.
So, I think it was pretty widely understood.
I mean, look, there's nothing that happened at Twitter and the Twitter files
that wasn't
happening at all the other companies, right?
Right.
So, it's a consistent pattern.
If you got the YouTube files, they would look exactly the same.
And, of course, we should get the YouTube files.
Sure.
And now we probably will now with, you know, this new administration is
probably going to
carve all this stuff open.
But, yeah, no, look, it was a pattern.
And then, look, you know, the companies bear a lot of responsibility and the
people in the
companies, you know, made a lot of, I think, bad judgment calls.
But the government, like, the Biden White House was directly exerting
censorship pressure
on American companies to censor American citizens.
Which I think, by the way, is just flatly illegal.
Like, I think it's actually subject to criminal charges.
Like, I think there are people with criminal liability who are involved in this.
So, there was that.
There were also members of Congress doing the same thing, which is also illegal.
And then there was a lot of funding of outside third-party groups that were
bringing a lot
of pressure down on censorship.
Yeah.
And just an example of that is there's a unit at Stanford, you know, right next
door, you
know, to us that, you know, was the Internet censorship unit that was funded by
the U.S.
government.
Wow.
And exerted tremendous pressure on the companies to censor.
And it was very effective at doing so.
Does it smell like sulfur when you walk those halls?
It is very dark and grim.
This whole thing is very bad.
And so...
Stanford?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Stanford.
Stanford, by the way, another unit like that at Harvard.
You know, a bunch of universities got pulled into this.
A lot of NGOs and nonprofits got pulled into this.
And so, the Twitter file showed us kind of the basic roadmap.
And then there's this thing called the Weaponization Committee that Congressman
Jordan is running that
has also revealed a lot of this.
But I would imagine the new Trump administration is going to come in and carve
all that wide open.
And I know that there are people in, you know, being appointed to senior
positions
who are very determined to do that.
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One of the things that I found really kind of shocking was when they revealed
how much money
the Democrats had spent on the election and how much money was spent on
activist groups.
Yeah, right.
It's like more than $100 million, right?
Yeah.
There's extensive government funding of politically oriented NGOs.
Yeah.
NGOs are one of those great terms, like non-governmental organization.
All right.
Like, what the hell is that?
What is that?
Tell me.
I don't know.
Well, it's sort of a charity.
Sort of.
Sort of.
But most of the time, it's a political entity.
It's an entity with a political agenda.
But then it's funded by the government in a very large percentage of cases,
including the NGOs
and the censorship complex, like the government grants, National Scienc