Jesse Singal on how Marc Andreessen got his facts wrong on Rogan,...
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Dec 10, 2024
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Jesse Singal on how Marc Andreessen got his facts wrong on Rogan, speaking with absolute certainty, and then backed up and said he's not familiar with the CFPB when people showed he was wrong. He even says "100%" when Rogan expresses surprise! This is not good.
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Read Jesse. It's good to have critics of the MSM who are more careful with the facts than they are, as opposed to those who are even less careful. jessesingal.substack.com/p/congratulati…
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Here’s me fact checking another part of Andreessen’s time on Rogan. A completely different aspect of the issue, but the same blind confidence while not having the facts to back it up.
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Andreessen went on Rogan claiming that there was a concerted effort by the Biden administration to debank conservatives using something called the “politically exposed person” category.
To prove it, he links a story showing mostly that Muslims have had problems because post-9/11 regulations put them under suspicion, regulations created primarily during the Bush war on terror days. After January 6, some of the rioters there were also caught up in it.
Also, weirdly, Melania Trump, and she waited for her book to tell us, which I find suspicious. We’re supposed to believe Trump, the guy who can’t let a single insult from a B-list celebrity go unanswered, never bothered mentioning his wife and son being debanked.
There is also stuff on crypto, which is most certainly tied to government regulations. And a few isolated instances of small Christian conservative organization, which it is easy to believe was normal freedom of association stuff. It doesn’t make sense for those to be the targets of an effort coming from the top.
Overall, none of this is evidence of a war on conservatives, much less one spearheaded by the Biden administration. Maybe evidence for a war on crypto, which I don’t know much about. But that’s different.
There are legitimate issues here, but the framing of a left-wing conspiracy targeting conservatives appears not to have much behind it. There shouldn’t be a culture of being able to make widely exaggerated claims and then claiming vindication when you point to something that is not at all what you said.
Maybe there should be a “right to banking.” We can discuss things like this. But it doesn’t help to create yet another right-wing conspiracy theory. There are already enough of them out there.
To prove it, he links a story showing mostly that Muslims have had problems because post-9/11 regulations put them under suspicion, regulations created primarily during the Bush war on terror days. After January 6, some of the rioters there were also caught up in it.
Also, weirdly, Melania Trump, and she waited for her book to tell us, which I find suspicious. We’re supposed to believe Trump, the guy who can’t let a single insult from a B-list celebrity go unanswered, never bothered mentioning his wife and son being debanked.
There is also stuff on crypto, which is most certainly tied to government regulations. And a few isolated instances of small Christian conservative organization, which it is easy to believe was normal freedom of association stuff. It doesn’t make sense for those to be the targets of an effort coming from the top.
Overall, none of this is evidence of a war on conservatives, much less one spearheaded by the Biden administration. Maybe evidence for a war on crypto, which I don’t know much about. But that’s different.
There are legitimate issues here, but the framing of a left-wing conspiracy targeting conservatives appears not to have much behind it. There shouldn’t be a culture of being able to make widely exaggerated claims and then claiming vindication when you point to something that is not at all what you said.
Maybe there should be a “right to banking.” We can discuss things like this. But it doesn’t help to create yet another right-wing conspiracy theory. There are already enough of them out there.
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Relevant. richardhanania.com/p/the-catturd-…