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