E16: Reflecting on the riots at the US Capitol, plus: Georgia runoffs, vaccine distribution & more
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Kill dates that landed since E15
1 hit · 0 partial · 0 miss — windows that closed after 2020-12-18 and up to 2021-01-08, auto-scored against price data and never hand-set. verdict · R · α
| idea | verdict | R | α | closed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🌍 Vaccines ship in Q4 2020 | HIT | +116.6% | +96.7 | 2020-12-20 |
Who moved the board
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What got argued (1 idea)
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Episode digest
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Jan 6 Capitol riot episode (punchiest pod to date — 'it literally took an armed insurrection for us to finally argue' — Chamath). All four: Trump 100% culpable ('he loaded the gun, pointed it in a direction' — Sacks; 'complete piece of shit fucking scumbag' — Chamath). Split on prosecution: Chamath+Jason prosecute (Chamath: 'gloves off' at SDNY + states, would give the rioters' jail time to Trump; bets $1M SDNY pursues him), Sacks+Friedberg don't (legal bar for incitement too high, deepens the divide; Friedberg floats non-prosecution deal for resignation + bipartisan election-review commission). Race double-standard argued hard (Chamath/Jason: Black protesters would've been shot; Sacks disputes, predicts more prosecutions from Jan 6 than all BLM). Jason-vs-Sacks Russia-hoax flare-up (2016 relitigated). Friedberg's 'big lie' propaganda frame + happiness-is-expectation-minus-outcome thesis; his 2020 'biggest loser = American democratic institutions' pick vindicated. Impeachment/25th-Amendment discussion (Jason: conviction bars 2024 run). Sacks: Trump 'disqualified himself' nationally, cost Republicans BOTH Georgia seats (Perdue/Loeffler post-mortem: 'unimpressive candidates + Georgia purple + Trump a maniac — could survive any two, not three'; Loeffler 'a moron' — Chamath; WNBA/Warnock story); Hawley/Cruz elector theater backfired. NOTE: Dem Georgia sweep CONFIRMED this week — activates Friedberg's E12 georgia-sweep-market-drop-2020 condition (no market-impact stances taken this episode; his 'markets drop 30-40%' not re-upped). Vaccine rollout disaster corner: 21M distributed / 5.9M in arms; Friedberg's wartime central-planning plan (nurses at triple overtime, gymnasiums, 24-hr shifts, Israel's jab-the-pizza-guy model, kill Cuomo's $1M out-of-line fine disincentive; 'this is a war' — policy, no instrument); Warp Speed reframed as market-based pre-purchase, not Manhattan Project. Sacks' 'Killer DA' Chesa Boudin essay (Hanako Abe killing, burglaries +45%, decarceration philosophy; Chamath: don't want DAs processing childhood trauma through the job); Boudin + Newsom recalls gathering steam (1M signatures); Friedberg floats Kim Kardashian for the recall race (celebrity-wins thesis). CAPTURE: Chamath's IPOE/SoFi announcement as window-contained positioning attach to chamath-spac-complex-2020 (closed idea, in-window 2021-01-08). Labels clean.