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Donald Trump is back at the White House this week meeting with President Joe Biden promising a smooth transition
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unlike what he did by the way Trump has also been busy with lots of announcements about his cabinet advisers
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the one that is they started off normal Susie Wilds Marco Rubio and now we're at
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the Matt Gates's pick for attorney general um uh and uh Fox News weekend host Pete hegf for Secretary of Defense
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um we'll get to Elon Musk and VI ramas Swan's leading the Department of government efficiency or as I'm calling
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it the department of grotesque eego Maniacs or the department of grandstanding edge Lords um I don't this
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is like gets weirder and [ __ ] weirder and this is a you your initial are your initial thoughts on this cadres is feny
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unqualified scants as one writer called them also in the mix tels uh Russia's best friend telsey gabard for Director
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of National Intelligence and Christy gnome killer of dogs for Homeland Security secretary Chuck Todd posted
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these confirmation hearings may just save cable TV for the short term he got sort of dinged for it but I would have
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to agree uh first before whether they'll make it through overall thoughts it just
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degenerated it was like okay and then no like that kind of thing what do you think well he's made there's some
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additional announcements that have come out he's announced that Sue Sylvester Jane Lynch's character from Glee is
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going to lead the department of Performing Arts um uh and also Leia Michelle will lead the department of pun
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punctuation and spelling uh um also I don't know you he the most recent one go Bluth from Arrested Development Will
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Arnett's character is going to be the new Secretary of Housing and Urban Development oh my God and also Baron har
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Conan from uh Dune will head spice production on the planet of araus nice nice look I'm now believe I now
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believe the the appointment or the the floating of the idea of Matt gates for attorney General within about an hour
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Lisa Makowski or senator macowski who I love uh basically said this is that Matt
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Gates is an unserious candidate and I look forward to vetting a serious candidate I don't I think this was them
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saying you're a loyalist give them something and what they've done I think is run cloud cover for just a shitty
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pick as opposed to a [ __ ] crazy stupid pick and that's what Mt Gates is to be AG that just makes no sense and
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then if you really want to talk called a loyalty test for Senate Republicans in newly elected reader leader Senator John
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th they all were pushing for Rick uh whatever the Florida idiot um Rick Scott Rick Scott he was he was the one that
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magot was pushing absolutely yeah I don't think Rick Scott is an idiot I don't love his politics but oh my God he
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made a mess of the senate committee he was running 100% but he's he's at least confident he's elected I I don't know
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look perfect is not on the menu here I mean when Senator Rubio looks like a thoughtful pick with gravitas for
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Secretary of State everyone just hoping for someone who has some administrative and some leadership experience but my
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favorite is that there are not one but two heads of a committee on efficiency I mean that kind of tells you I know I
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know this makes no [ __ ] sense and I are you kidding and I just want to it's like the grace commission right do you
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remember the grace commission under Reagan he was going to drain the swamp and he created that Commission of
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leaders to cut everything the private sector survey on cost control to reduce government waste Clinton had it launched
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the national performance review yeah W had the president's management agenda Obama had efficiency reforms and Trump
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created the reform task force to eliminate inefficiencies he attempted unsuccessfully to shut down 19 agencies
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and it this is a popular political move 23s of Americans think the federal government is wasteful and bureaucratic
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and but let's just look at some data here Trump is by no means our most efficient president federal employment
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federal employment under Trump Rose 3.4% during his first term compared to an increase of
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1.3% in Obama's uh second term um uh it did increase federal employment did increase by over 6% under Biden despite
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all the rhetoric the US government spends less as a share of GDP than its peers uh US government spending is
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projected to be about 38% of GDP that's less in Japan which me 42% UK 43% in Germany at 48 % the US public sector
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which they claim over for their citizens but go ahead yeah true the US public sector employs 14% of workers which is
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more than Germany's 133% and Mexico's 12% which canotes based on what you said is probably inefficient but less than
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France is 21% and the UK is 23% now let's just specifically go to The Pick of of uh
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Elon or Al first lady Alania to head an efficiency let's just talk about efficiency at Tesla the automobile
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industry Revenue per employee is 1.07 million per employee of BMW GM 1.2 1 Point excuse me 1.02 million per
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employee Ford $980,000 million per employee Mercedes-Benz $950,000 Toyota 760,000 and pulling up the rear as the
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least efficient of these companies is Tesla clock or registers revenue of 740,000 per employee so the least
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efficient car company Revenue per employee is Tesla so anyways I find the whole thing it'll be very interesting
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they claim they're going to cut this thing by I don't know $2 trillion which means they'd have to like he didn't
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mention it in the press release no numbers like he went on and on on Twitter but of course like that's just
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nonsense it's just nonsense it's just nonsense anyways I I'm finding this thing is so if you're going to be dumb
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be don't don't be dumb be outrageous no one's really taking this seriously because it just seems so outrageous no
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all even Congressman were like yeah he can ask we're not doing it um you know even the repu the Republican ones the
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gates nomination is interesting only because um he what's interesting about this is of course his behavior with
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young women women underage he resigned fromg alleged alleged whatever okay alleged Gates whatever uh resigned from
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Congress on Wednesday days before the house Ethics Committee was set to vote on releasing a highly critical report of
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their investigation into him what is your take I agree with you that I I think I I just think there's a lot of
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Republican first off the thing I don't think the market or people have absorbed is as of today Donald Trump is a lame
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duck president yeah and he's not going to have he's not going to have nearly the power to intimidate Republicans and
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I got to think it's going to be very tempting for Republicans on a pick like this to go no this to basically pull a
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marowski and say this is not a serious candidate I got to think the Trump Administration realized he probably
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wasn't going to be able to get Gates through but they did it anyways what do you think they're trying to do here
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what's their ending I don't know because they're frittering away an amazing Victory right you know it seems like now
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they're like now we're like oh God the idiots are back like I don't know he has such an opportunity to not Fritter away
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what was a spectacular return to power and now we're talking about Matt Gates and and and uh and and jail bait that's
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what we're talking about now like as opposed to like what he could be doing and then Elon doing these stupid you
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know he's going to calling it The Manhattan Project of our time yeah it's going to blow up in their face that's
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that's why it's the Manhattan Project of their time like it's such a waste of opportunity here and largely because I
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think he is of the mind is I'll say something crazy and then I'll say the next thing that's crazy and the next
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thing that's crazy but it's I'm talking about being effective and this is not effective in any way if he really you
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know maybe over to the right they're like going to be deporting people and hoping that people no don't notice that
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if it's particularly ugly looking and so I I honestly I think there's no planning
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here and I think they're just letting people in interestingly um you know I think the Doge thing is just [ __ ]
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nonsense it's just ridiculous and um you know you can't really uh there's not going to be a government Department
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which is kind of ridiculous and you need to be created by with congress's authorization they're not wasting their
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time on that and they're not they're going to cut what they want right um so one of the things that's interesting is
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that he's been down in Mara Lago and as I said was an issue everyone's now reporting um how irritating he is um and
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NBC News quoted a source saying Elon is behaving as if he's co-president people are irritated by him the guests that
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won't leave um I think this is just they're frittering away what was a clear and definitive win and I'm not sure why
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they're doing it Su suicidal nature I don't know I not I have no idea I don't know I do think that the appointment of
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the Bass Pro Shop swimmer guy as head of us fish and wildlife service makes sense
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I don't just um oh and Roman Roy will be the new Deputy Administrator of NASA yeah yeah I
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just don't I don't get Hannibal Lector is the new secretary of Health and Human Services serves oh God I don't I don't
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get by the way I'm I'm what a laughable ridiculous personality she is they're all Fox News people it's you know who I
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like though who's now the new uh Senate Majority Leader is um th th yeah I like him I think he's reasonable and not only
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that he pushes back on Trump and not only that he's very handsome Cara yeah you like did you up for drinks with him
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he's very handsome I don't know if he'd be up for impromptu drinks with me and George H I'll try but I'm not I'm going
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to give I'm going to give you a word of the day it's called kakistocracy government by the least
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suitable or competent citizens of the states a state or Society governed by the least seatable or competent citizens
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it's the modern regime is wants a plutocracy and a kakistocracy that is the word of the day here okay no joke I
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heard that word an hour ago Scott Burns who is the showrunner and the writer on this this show I'm working on said uh
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was talking about rebranding the Democratic party and someone suggested kakistocracy and he's like are you crazy
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no one's no one can spell that word anyway I no joke I feel like I should throw salt over my shoulder or whatever
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it is you do when you're yeah when you're I don't know superstition but I heard that word no joke 90 minutes ago
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the day it's a word of the week well we'll see what happens