In Episode 1882 of the No Agenda Show, titled 'Buy the Crash,' hosts Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak deconstruct major news stories from the week of July 2, 2026, including the Supreme Court's rejection of President Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship and growing warnings about an artificial intelligence market bubble. Broadcasting from Amsterdam and Northern Silicon Valley, the duo analyzed how major U.S. networks covered the 14th Amendment ruling, noting that ABC, CBS, and NBC omitted Justice Clarence Thomas's 91-page dissent and failed to explain the jus soli doctrine central to the case. In contrast, the BBC correctly framed the decision as blocking presidential annulment 'with the stroke of a pen.' The hosts highlighted that the ruling addressed only the executive order, not the underlying amendment, where the Court remains split 5-4, according to analysis from the show's in-house lawyer Rob.
The episode also focused on Palantir CEO Alex Karp's tense interview with CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin, in which Karp expressed frustration about enterprise AI value. Dvorak played a clip of Karp saying, 'These people are livid. They're like, I am paying for tokens that create no value. These people are stealing the weights and alpha of my business, and they're creating a wealth tax that does not help the poor.' Curry, an active user of Claude Code, agreed that the technology has been oversold and warned listeners about a coming unwind in the semiconductor trade, especially as CNBC analysts urge viewers to 'buy the pullback.'
Other topics included Ford CEO Jim Farley walking back AI-driven assembly line automation at the Rouge plant, Canadian protests against hyperscale data centers, and a proposed 40,000-acre data center facility in Utah flagged in Covert Action magazine. The hosts also scrutinized Larry Ellison's Oracle surveillance pitch, Kevin O'Leary's involvement in the Utah project, Microsoft's record 200-bug Patch Tuesday and BitLocker chaos, and Jake Tapper's PBS-style framing of Trump's World Liberty Financial stablecoin revenues, meme coin royalties, and settlement payments from Meta, YouTube, ABC, CBS, and X.
The episode, published July 2, 2026, comes as the United States approaches its Semiquincentennial and markets are rattled by AI-trade jitters. Curry and Dvorak also discussed the president's newly released $2.2 billion financial disclosure, a Netflix-promoted Empire State Building stunt by Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus, and the Freedom 250 Great American State Fair coverage gap. Listeners can find Episode 1882, 'Buy the Crash,' at the show's website.
