Re-engineering government

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFl2MkkN1J0

Trump was reported

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looking at uh putting Elon Musk in charge of what they're calling auditing federal agencies to look for things to

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cut and Elon Musk said about that report quote I can't wait uh there's a lot of

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waste and needless regulations in government that needs to go it it looks like this is real

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uh apparently both Trump and Elon Musk are completely on board if Trump gets elected that musk will get the look at

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where you can just cut stuff this is probably the best thing that's happening anywhere about

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anything because in in my view let me tell you something from the

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business world so in the 90s or so there was this idea that business should be

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re-engineered not tweaked now what that meant was instead of you know continuously improving things the way

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they are sometimes the world has changed so much or your company has drifted so

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much you know without your intention that you really have to almost treat it like you're starting over so the idea of

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re-engineering was not just tweaking what you have but saying okay what if we didn't have anything and we had a chance

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to build the thing what would it look like so that's reengineering that's rethinking it from the ground up if you

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needed to do that to our government and I would argue that's exactly what we do

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need what skill needs to be brought to it do you need a

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lawyer nope do you need a historian

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nope do you need a a finance person because it's going to be about money

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nope there is one skill that you need and it's engineering because it's literally

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re-engineering because the government can be thought of as a machine it's got

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moving Parts this part has too many moving Parts maybe we could do this with three moving Parts instead of 100 this

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one is an unnecessary feature it's causing us trouble why don't we just remove the feature it's an engineering

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task just just consider this thought for a moment if you're not feeling enough

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optimism lately just just hold this in your mind

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the biggest risk to America is that we don't re-engineer and that we just keep

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tweaking things and that we become bloated and Divi divided and overspend and just kill ourselves with with just

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drifting in One Direction it is our biggest risk it and I could argue it's what

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destroyed almost every civilization in the past unless it was a natural

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disaster that they needed to stop doing what they were doing and do a whole do thing or else they're going to they're

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all going to die we're in that situation we're in the existential risk our

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current system will kill us all really like actually really if we just keep

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doing what we're doing we will die we will all be dead and the only way to fix it is to somewhat radically change how

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we operate as a country in other words replace the machine but you need to keep

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the Constitution you just want to keep the Machinery right so you want to keep the rules of the road so you don't want

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to change the fact that you know Vehicles need to go under the speed limit and stay on the road and stuff

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that's like the Constitution but the car itself needs to be completely redesigned

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now if I said to you pick the one person on the entire planet that you would want to

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re-engineer anything whether it's a government or a car or a spaceship it's it's musk it's musk all

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day long all day long you try to give me the second best

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person for that good luck who's the second best person for that job you can't even come

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up with one you're my you you know you can think of lots of smart people but you can't

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think of anybody smart enough who would be willing to take the level of

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pain that would be required to get it done right the thing that Elon brings to

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every situation is you think that a level of pain will stop me well watch this pain doesn't stop him

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threats don't stop him he he's got the threat of jail right now doesn't stop

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him it's the only person who could do this and we're lucky enough that that

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person not only is willing to do it but enthusiastic about it do you know how lucky that that

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is I mean just think about how lucky that is yeah and he would have a JD Vance and a vake um he would have you

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know brilliant people you know the on his side to help this is really really really lucky

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Elon Musk could have easily been Australian right he could have easily

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been you know if we're all reincarnated Chinese

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but we got him the number one person to do the number one most important

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thing I feel pretty good about it but only if Trump gets elected

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I saw somebody else saying

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that musk was ruining his brand Tesla and I have to I have to admit I am

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concerned that Elon musk's political stuff will sour some number of people

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from buying tesl I don't know if we've seen it yet but I don't know how it doesn't happen

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because people are pretty prickly about their politics and their cars and so I should tell you that I I do own

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stock in Tesla so I'm not I'm not being unbiased I'm totally biased in favor of

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Tesla uh but my investment in Tesla has less to do with cars and more to do with the

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robots one possibility is that the reason we don't understand why Elon Musk could take such

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a risk with the stock price of Tesla is that he told us exactly what's going on

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that robots are going to be you know maybe 20 times bigger than cars and Tesla is going to be a robot company and

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they're going to be rolling them out in a year or so it might not matter to him what happens with

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cars it might be the smallest part of his business in less than a year so

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maybe he's just ahead of us and he knows he can say what he wants to say and

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promote free speech and uh if something happens to the car stock he'll just make

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it up with robots and people want robots because it'll be the best robot and there you go so who knows he's

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taking a risk um so com Harris has come out directly

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in opposition of freedom of speech which doesn't sound true does it

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when I say that you're going to say oh that's a you know you're you're exaggerating what she

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said right but can we agree that the definition of free speech is that you

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can say things other people don't want you to say that's the definition the definition

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is not that you can say things everybody likes to hear that has nothing to do with free speech free speech is

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specifically Limited to things that other people really really don't want you to say because they think it's

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dangerous or whatever and haris says that uh social media has no oversight or

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regulation and talks about musk and says uh there has to be a responsibility to

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understand their power they're directly speaking to Millions without oversight or regulation and then she said of musk

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quote he has lost his privilege it should be taken down what she thinks the xplatform

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should be taken what should be taken down you mean just taken down a notch or

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just taken offline I mean either way it's terrible but if you say that somebody's

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lost their privilege because they don't understand that they should be censoring the way you want them to censor because

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you don't like the things they're saying I would say that is directly opposed to free speech directly and it doesn't feel

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like an interpretation to me to me it feels like a direct statement I do not like freedom of speech it's too

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dangerous when you boost it by social media and by the way it's not a crazy

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argument it's one I disagree with here's why it's not crazy when the Constitution

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was written social media didn't exist so if your crazy neighbor had some crazy

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ideas he could talk about it all day long it wasn't going anywhere so he he had real free speech he could say

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whatever he wanted using the best technology of the day he could write a letter one letter so free speech was

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really easy then because it didn't move the needle you know except in the

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longest you know timeline it did but at the moment social media is so powerful

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it can change the needle overnight it can turn a uh the least the least

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popular candidate into the most popular candidate and we watched it who you know if you had the news the news to social

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media now does she say the same thing about the

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news because whatever you say about social media it's not regulated it can say whatever it wants it's dangerous

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wouldn't they say the same thing about Fox News and breitbard and just the news

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and Gateway pundit doesn't it come next they have

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great responsibility if they have misinformation it's dangerous you know none of this existed

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during the uh time of the Revolutionary War

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so this is the most dangerous possible thing you could possi think uh Michael

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shellenberger goes further and he says in a post today people think Brazil style censorship couldn't happen here

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but it could indeed K Harris Tim ws and Barack Obama have all called for

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heavy-handed government censorship like that of Brazil and Europe complete with Banning disfavored individuals across

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platforms and he's right I mean he he backs it up with examples Etc

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so we were actually at a point where freedom of speech in my opinion could be the only

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topic of the election it seems to me that Trump is an

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unlosable situation because if he starts hammering on this freedom of speech stuff

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and he does a better job which he's not done so far on handling that bodily autonomy thing he has a stronger

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argument on bodily autonomy by a mile he just has never put it together the

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minute he puts together that bodily autonomy argument which is hey I took

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abortion away from the federal government and away from me I moved it closer to you and there are more women

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in every state you women can vote in any bodily autonomy law you want I don't oppose that a bit and then say but I

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don't want criminals to take your bodily aut autonomy I don't want undocumented people to take your your jobs everything

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that happens is your bodily autonomy can you walk outside with safety can your children go to school

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safely it's all bodily autonomy everything the government does from the legal system the Department of Justice

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but the Democrats are T trying to take Trump's bodily autonomy away and put him in jail the there is one side that is

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massively trying to control your bodily autonomy they're going to make sure you don't have a gun Etc the only argument

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they have the only argument is on Reproductive Rights and Trump has not done a good

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job in simply explaining that they do have everything they want and he's not the one opposing any of

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it they have everything they want in terms of they have the political power to vote in any state law that they want

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if the women are largely in the same team they just have to be on the same side so convince the women what you want

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not Trump he's out at the game and and by the way that sentence is

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super powerful imagine Trump saying look it's move to the States you need to work

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on getting women to agree with you because if they do you can have anything you want that's what our system is I'm

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out of the game I'm out of the game is a kill shot

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I'm out of that game I took myself out anyway um yeah freedom of speech

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could be the only topic of the election and it would be a trump Victory I think because he can he can make the bodily

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autonomy and freedom of speech argument if he chooses to