Joel Kaplan

So we go to this meeting, uh, in the EOB.

Joel Kaplan is the president's deputy chief of staff for policy.

Right, now at-

Brilliant guy

It's targeted towards OpenAI, towards Anthropic, and the argument that they're effectively making is that everybody needs the Meta chatbot, [laughs] and everyone needs superintelligence, and it is also very Sinophobic, because he's, he's, you know, he said explicitly at some parts where he's contrasting the US to China, uh, but he's also contrasting, um, control of one big model to, I don't know, multiple pocket models or something.

It, it's very in- it's very incoherent, and it's, it, it gives the real feel of blog post by committee with, like, yeah, Joel Kaplan on one shoulder and, um, I don't know who else is, is working in that office on another one.

Maybe Milton, Milton-

Ayn, Ayn Rand is also-

Ted Olson was appointed Solicitor General, but he died in 2024 and is currently in hell with Antonin Scalia, Strom Thurmond, and George H.W. Bush.

Joel Kaplan worked for the Bush White House and Meta.

Roger Stone was there, of course, fork found in kitchen.

Mm-hmm.

Sarah Wynn Williams is the author of Careless People, the memoir about her time at Facebook that became a number one bestseller almost overnight.

In it, she alleges she was sexually harassed by her supervisor, Joel Kaplan, and separately by then-COO Sheryl Sandberg.

Sarah was fired in 2017, signed a severance agreement that included a non-disparagement clause and a forced arbitration clause.

And right before her book hit shelves in March 2025, Meta got an emergency arbitration order barring her from disparaging the company or promoting her own book.