like andresen is helping around doge. like it seems like they've gone from like being these distant plutocrats, like being like in the system. yeah. no, all a sudden they're really interested in the state and the federal government. i you see this coming what would see this coming at all like well, i think, i think there is a few different ways that that question could be answered. one is there has always been there's always been a kind of cozy relationship between silicon valley and the federal government, like quite literally there are clients in a lot of cases that's an obvious dollar sign flashing there but what's going on what's going on with like those is super interesting because it is they're basically going to try to cut the government under the guise of small government, small government, you know, political, you winning those points. right. but i think they're also doing is they're basically trying to capture the regulatory power. right. and their basically saying that, you know, we clearly need government we c

i think that's when andresen says supports trump and also talks about crypto. but that's another story. but these guys started to come out publicly that they had they kind of been like, we're not going to come out on either side. you know, we're going to take a neutral position here. but instead, they started to back trump and i see this as a really calculated move in that they realized that if they backed trump and, biden won or that harris won, there would be zero political consequences for them. their contrast would keep coming because that's just not how the democrats play, right? they don't they don't play that kind of politics. whether or not they should or not i'm not i mean, i think that they should. but, you know but you know, but that's somewhat irrelevant to him. right. they don't. and trump does. so to look at what jeff bezos. right a couple of weeks before the election, he stomps on washington post endorsement process. the washington post was going to endorse harris. they now bezos stomps on this because realizes that if they endorse harris and tru