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Steve Bannon on China, Tech Oligarchs, and Manufacturing
from Andrew Schulz | The Tim Dillon Show #436 · #436
4 min
Tim gives a detailed account of his conversations with Steve Bannon, covering Bannon's concerns about offshoring, vulnerability to China over chips and Taiwan, and his skepticism that tech billionaires are using America First rhetoric to extract government money.
- Tim credits Bannon as consistent for 30 years and serious about helping, not just causing a ruckus.
- Outsourcing manufacturing and producing 90% of antibiotics overseas has made America vulnerable in ways most people don't recognize.
- Bannon's core argument: replacing manufacturing with a gig economy of Uber and DoorDash drivers leaves people needing government assistance.
- Tech companies and wealthy interests use H-1B visas to import indentured servants rather than hire American workers.
- Steve Bannon claims there should be more Black and Hispanic people in tech—a quote Tim attributes to him as evidence against racism accusations.
- Bannon is skeptical of tech oligarchs who switched from Democrat to Republican five minutes ago and now have massive wealth.
- Tech CEOs like Bezos, Musk, and Zuckerberg are laundering their true transhumanist intentions through America First rhetoric.
- Bannon predicts tech companies will eventually demand a Marshall Plan and trillions in government funding, mimicking the 2008 bank bailout.
- China's TikTok has a more addictive algorithm than American apps and has been the biggest app of the last five years.
Steve BannonTikTokDeepSeekMark ZuckerbergChinaJeff BezosAmerica FirstElon MuskDonald TrumpGeorge W. BushTaiwanBernie Sanders