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And here it starts.. Lots of prominent people have just been exposed by this whole fiasco. 100% truly exposed and they're not gonna like it.

They're gonna want to try to rebuild their reputations. What's coming is a lot of "who are you gonna trust me or your lying eyes?". Starting soon you're gonna hear all the sob stories about how the VCs all this wonderful all did X and Y and Z. And nothing we just saw really mattered. And downplaying how as soon as the going got tough they abandoned all of their SV ethos and immediately went begging to the government to be bailed out.

Be prepared because there will be a huge PR push soon like you haven't seen.

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Start collecting all the evidence that shows how bad these people acted before it disappears into the ether and prepare rebuttals that you can copypasta on Reddit, Twitter and wherever else they post their PR garbage...

Could you post some example? I'm out of the loop. Who did what?

Start at David Sacks and Bill Ackman twitter accounts. Add some Jason Calacanis and baby you’ve got a stew going.

Hurry I’m sure they are deleting as we speak.

https://twitter.com/BillAckman/status/1634564398919368704

https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1634382260433719298

https://twitter.com/Jason/status/1634792355294515200

> @Jason

>YOU SHOULD BE ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED RIGHT NOW — THAT IS THE PROPER REACTION TO A BANK RUN & CONTAGION

>@POTUS & @SecYellen MUST GET ON TV TOMORROW AND GUARANTEE ALL DEPOSITS UP TO $10M OR THIS WILL SPIRAL INTO CHAOS

This is one of the most irresponsible things I’ve ever seen tweeted. It’s the equivalent of screaming fire in a crowded theater.

David Sacks spent the weekend advocating for the exact action that Janet Yellen just took. What's the problem with that?

Sorry, how is this irresponsible? Leaders that imagine and vocally describe a plausible negative outcome seems quite sensible.

Seems the equivalent of screaming fire in a crowded theater, when there is an actual fire.

Bank runs are a psychological phenomenon.

If you're looking at a bunch of companies you're invested in taking a 5, 10, whatever percent haircut on their deposits, it might be to your interest to take to the media and encourage everyone to panic, helping to create the very risk of contagion that you're talking about, to try to force the government's hand.

No, this has the power to cause the fire to get much larger because the shout gets heard way outside the theater.

They are using their media influence to "threaten" a bank run. Aka, if you don't bail us out, then we might as well take the whole system with us.

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