Based Camp - An Elon Lead Efficiency Department of the US Government Might Become Real

00:00:00.000 Hello, Simone. I am excited to be here with you today because I told you something recently and

00:00:04.340 you were like, that cannot be true. Yeah, genuinely. Just randomly going off about

00:00:10.080 something. Both parties can't be involved. This can't really be happening. And I was like, no,

00:00:16.100 I, from what I've heard, it is happening and I have gotten more information. So we are going

00:00:19.400 to talk about this. Okay, let's do it. During a speech at the Economic Club of New York,

00:00:26.620 September 5th, 2024, Trump announced his plans to establish a government efficiency commission

00:00:32.720 tasked with conducting a complete financial performance audit of the entire federal

00:00:39.280 government, making recommendations for drastic reforms to improve efficiency, eliminating fraud

00:00:45.540 and improper payments within six months, which Trump claims would save trillions of dollars.

00:00:51.780 And he's probably right. Yeah. And all of this would be run by Elon Musk.

00:00:58.020 And he was like, this must be like a meme. This can't be. Yeah. So we're going to get more into

00:01:02.920 this. Would you like to know more? Trump has said this on multiple occasions at this point.

00:01:08.540 Elon Musk has confirmed this. At the suggestion of Elon Musk, I will create a government efficiency

00:01:17.040 commission task with conducting a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal

00:01:23.180 government and making recommendations for drastic reforms. We need to do it. Can't go on the way we

00:01:29.720 are now. And Elon has agreed to head that task force. Not only has he confirmed this, but he told Trump

00:01:37.120 to set this up with him running it. That is, I want this to happen. That sounds awesome.

00:01:45.260 A hundred thousand percent, a thousand percent. Like this could genuinely save our country or at least

00:01:53.200 save our collapse for 10 to 20 years. And in the same way that Margaret Thatcher did for the UK,

00:01:59.860 like the UK is only now collapsing because Margaret Thatcher reset the clock about 20 years on the

00:02:06.320 collapse of the United Kingdom. Genuinely one of the most important political figures in history.

00:02:09.840 People who don't know how much she did for the United Kingdom. And of course she's hated by the

00:02:13.760 left for it because she, she shut down all of these like coal mines and stuff like that, 1.00

00:02:18.760 that were just running on subsidies. And everyone was like, Oh, but people lost their jobs. And it's

00:02:23.240 like, yeah, but then the unemployment rate stabilized and people had real jobs that weren't reliant on a

00:02:29.080 fake state infrastructure going into dirty power source. Like coal, right? I love it. That lefties

00:02:37.220 will complain about coal mine shutting down in the UK. I'm like, you guys are nutto butters, nutter 1.00

00:02:42.920 butters. But anyway, if Elon and Trump can delay this for just 20 years in the US, given that only 0.74

00:02:51.800 conservatives are having kids anymore. Okay. Things are shifting. We just need to outlast these crazy

00:02:59.780 commies until they all die old age. Then we can set a new social system in place. Okay. But if we can 0.99

00:03:08.600 just keep America functioning, because really it may not function for much longer. There was a great

00:03:14.280 video on this called the $2 million toilet is what the title card was. I forgot the name of the video.

00:03:19.080 It was like economic inefficiency destroy America. It's from visual politic. They did a great job

00:03:23.400 explaining like just how bad things are in the US. The thing that we always note is the golden

00:03:29.160 great bridge. It costs about a third what it costs to originally build it just to put the suicide

00:03:34.080 netting on it. It took like six times as long or something in cash adjusted dollars. You know, so

00:03:40.360 inefficiencies and government waste is at a level now in the US, which is higher than the EU.

00:03:48.160 And that is wild. Now, the EU still gives money to more stupid government programs like Dustborne, 0.99

00:03:54.320 that game we talked about that was just like racist DEI nonsense was funded by EU taxpayers. 0.99

00:03:59.600 Oh, no, really? Oh, ouch. Yeah. Anyway, so I'm gonna keep going here.

00:04:06.480 Unless you have any thoughts before I go further. No, keep going. The Government Efficiency Commission

00:04:11.840 would conduct a financial and performance audit of the federal government and would track down

00:04:15.760 fraud and improper payments made from government programs. By the way, if you're wondering like,

00:04:20.480 oh, come on, this doesn't happen all the time. A place where this happened a ton was under Tim

00:04:25.440 Waltz district. No, really? What? So what kind of fraudulent?

00:04:30.400 I don't remember off the top of my head. I just remember it was millions and millions and millions

00:04:33.360 of dollars that were very easy to catch. But he may have been using it to pay off for political

00:04:37.520 purposes individuals. For example, the nonprofit Feeding Our Future diverted $250 million of federal

00:04:45.520 funds meant to feed low income children during the COVID-19 pandemic and basically just stole the

00:04:50.800 money, apparently with almost no oversight, as judged by the Minnesota Office of Legislative Auditors.

00:04:57.200 It would then provide recommendations for, quote unquote, drastic reforms aimed at promoting

00:05:02.560 efficiency, explained with the goal of eliminating fraud and improper payments within six months of

00:05:07.760 the commission being formed. Quote, I will create a Government Efficiency Commission test with

00:05:12.480 conducting a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government, in quote,

00:05:18.000 Trump said in this speech. Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, and owner of social media platform X,

00:05:24.480 acknowledged his agreement to serve as the Government Efficiency Commission, and wrote on X,

00:05:30.080 quote, I look forward to serving America if the opportunity arises. No pay, no title,

00:05:36.560 no recognition is needed, in quote. Politicians have pushed for Government Efficiency Commissions in

00:05:41.840 the past. Republican President Ronald Reagan established a similar body while he was in office

00:05:48.320 from 1981 to 1989 called the Grace Commission. Trump's proposal sparked criticism for Everett

00:05:54.320 Kelly, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, a union that represents

00:05:59.040 750,000 federal workers. Oh, I bet it did. I bet they don't want people going through those books

00:06:06.160 and finding where people aren't needed anymore. So for more context here, the idea for this commission

00:06:11.200 originated in a conversation between Trump and Elon Musk in August 2024. Musk endorsed Trump for president

00:06:16.720 in July 2024. The proposal is part of Trump's broader economic plan for a potential second term,

00:06:22.080 which includes tax cuts and deregulation. So this is huge. And it's been very interesting for me to

00:06:31.040 watch. I watched an MSNBC coverage of this and they were just freaking out. They were like,

00:06:35.120 Twitter has gotten so bad since Musk took it over. It's become a disinformation platform.

00:06:41.040 Foreign interference in American elections, something we've all been on the lookout for since 2016.

00:06:45.360 But there's also like a really disturbing information environment in America right now,

00:06:51.680 domestically in this campaign year, that has nothing to do with illegal foreign interference.

00:06:56.160 Elon Musk runs one of the most influential internet platforms, or at least it used to be,

00:06:59.680 formerly known as Twitter. And he has essentially turned that platform into a pro-Trump,

00:07:04.480 pro-authoritarian disinformation machine, where he just posts vile bigotry and disinformation that

00:07:11.040 millions of people see and share. It also seems like in two ways, the entire platform seems more

00:07:17.120 and more engineered towards that kind of sort of like trollish right wing politics.

00:07:22.480 Some things that lefties say, they've gotten called by their fact checkers, which by the way,

00:07:27.200 their fact checkers have been actually pretty fantastic. The fast checking system that Elon put

00:07:32.240 in place. And people are like, why do you say it's fantastic and fairly unbiased? People will say this

00:07:38.400 and then regularly gloat that it fact checks Elon Musk. And it's like, that's much in proof, bro.

00:07:44.800 The very fact that you will bemoan how biased the system is when it catches lefties and then gloat

00:07:53.120 that it's constantly catching Elon Musk's in misrepresentations. That to me is when a system,

00:07:59.200 when a government department is regularly arresting the emperor, it is not under the emperor's

00:08:05.440 dictatorial control. Okay, buddy. In addition to that, just anyone who's used X recently knows it's a

00:08:11.920 much more fun platform to use since Elon took over than beforehand. And I remember it was like,

00:08:17.360 they've become so trolly. They like keep making these jokes. And like Elon posted a picture of

00:08:22.160 Kamala Harris in like a communist uniform, said that she was going to make America communist in her first 0.87

00:08:28.320 30 days. And she didn't say that. And she never wore that uniform. He is a liar. It's like it's

00:08:35.520 obviously like an AI generated image. Like, oh, my God. Despite his site's own policy that you may

00:08:41.520 not share synthetic, manipulated or out of context media that may deceive or confuse people,

00:08:46.480 Musk does that basically all day long. On Monday, he posted this like weird and pretty schlocky AI

00:08:52.640 generated image of what is supposed to be vice president Kamala Harris, but doesn't really look like

00:08:56.640 her in a Soviet looking uniform commenting. Kamala vows to be a communist dictator on day one. 0.94

00:09:02.160 Can you believe she wears that outfit? In point of fact, I can't because she doesn't and it's AI.

00:09:06.800 That post alone was viewed more than 81 million times, at least according to Twitter's metrics,

00:09:11.680 which, you know, who knows if you can trust them. They're like, it wasn't even fact checked.

00:09:15.680 It's like, yeah, because people who aren't retarded would see that it's a joke. Okay. I don't know if I'm

00:09:24.560 allowed to say retarded, but that's a retarded thing to say. But anyway, going further with this, 0.93

00:09:31.840 they were complaining about and people who know how bad this has gotten. We did this video on

00:09:36.320 Elon Musk, you know, getting Twitter banned in Brazil because he wouldn't ban a bunch of people

00:09:41.040 that they told him to write another large democracy. And then Kamala Harris saying,

00:09:44.880 like, I like that they banned him. That's a good thing because we have to treat all social media

00:09:48.480 platforms the same the way we treat Facebook. They're like, if you have one set of rules for Facebook

00:09:52.080 and one set for X. And now we know that the government forced Facebook to ban posts that

00:09:58.080 were true because they hurt democratic campaign officers, specifically the FBI made them take

00:10:03.120 down the Hunter Biden laptop story and parts of the COVID misresponse stuff. But then in addition to that,

00:10:10.880 I have learned since I made that post that some of the people who they wanted X to remove in Brazil

00:10:17.360 were sitting legislative officials who were concerned. Oh no. It wasn't just mainstream, like, you know,

00:10:24.240 their version of like Tucker Carlson. It was other party members who weren't on their party side. This was

00:10:31.280 a dictatorial coup attempt. Wow. By any measure. And of course, the left can't handle that, that Elon is

00:10:39.360 allowing for free speech. But what is something I mentioned in another podcast for people who have like

00:10:44.320 these weird interpretations of Elon Musk because they believe, like, do you understand?

00:10:50.880 Elon Musk is the wealthiest person in the world. Okay. And if you're like, and being liked as the

00:10:58.240 wealthiest person in the world is hard. Okay. If you're like, he could just give his money to poor

00:11:04.160 people. It's like, well, Mark Zuckerberg tried that. Bill Gates tried that. Did they get any love for

00:11:10.880 they are much more hated than Elon? Right? Elon is just an autistic dad. Okay. He's an autistic dad 0.98

00:11:20.560 who is in a fight with some of his ex-wives. That is who Elon really is. Okay. He is not like,

00:11:27.680 and he's smart. He's smart as hell. Okay. He has achieved a great deal in his life. And when you,

00:11:34.640 who has achieved astronomically less than him, degrade him believing these fake stories you're 0.97

00:11:41.680 hearing about him and these fake interpretations of him, you look like a buffoon to other competent 0.75

00:11:49.040 people who have actually achieved things in their lives. You look like a buffoon. But anyway, Simone, 1.00

00:11:54.400 thoughts? I've been on a rant this time. It's an exciting idea. I, I'm confused as to why

00:12:00.960 this same interest in greater efficiency, cleaning up legislation and cleaning up fraud

00:12:10.560 is not also demonstrated in the democratic party. You would think that it's universal.

00:12:16.160 Because there are beneficiaries of all that. Right. But it should be a truth universally

00:12:20.080 acknowledged that everyone would want things to run more efficiently and costs to be lower.

00:12:25.280 Democratic party. And I think people misunderstand how critical a voting block this is to the

00:12:30.160 democratic party. The public sector unions are a massive and important voting block to the

00:12:37.760 democratic party. Even though only 4% of Americans are apparently in unions, which is

00:12:43.200 right. But they can decide elections. Okay. Specifically the public sector unions, 0.88

00:12:49.200 because they're very good at whipping out their people to vote as blocks. All right. And they are 0.99

00:12:54.320 needed for democratic primaries. If you go against the teachers union or something like that,

00:12:58.400 you're not going to win the election. This is why we can't have education reform in the US,

00:13:03.840 because the teachers union has a democratic party completely in their pocket. This is why

00:13:06.960 Democrats will never do any real education reform. And this is why anything that looks at government

00:13:13.600 corruption and inefficiency is going to be seen as an existential threat to public sector unions,

00:13:18.960 because they know what's up. They know about in New York, that there's teachers who have gotten

00:13:24.480 over $2 million while not teaching classes, just because it's so hard to fire a teacher in New York.

00:13:30.400 By the way, the teacher who this happened to, I think they molested multiple young girls and they

00:13:34.880 just weren't fired because it was easier. And the teachers union is protecting them, still preventing them.

00:13:39.440 That is what teachers union stands for is the molestation of children. That is what they defend.

00:13:46.640 And that is what, and there was a famous quote from the head of the New York, I think it was the

00:13:50.800 Manhattan teachers union that we will start advocating for the best interests of students.

00:13:54.800 The moment students start paying teacher union dues, they do not care about students. When Mark

00:14:00.560 Zuckerberg tried to, you know, trying to do the generic thing to help people, he went out there

00:14:06.560 and he gave, I think it was a $10 million. No, a hundred million dollars to the New York

00:14:11.680 It was some stupid amount, stupid in terms of its generosity, like just insanely high. 0.99

00:14:16.640 46 million of it went to a bribe to the teachers union so that the rest of it could be used to pay 1.00

00:14:24.880 teachers who worked more, more money. Yeah. The premise of his

00:14:30.000 general philanthropic effort was, well, what if teachers who had better student outcomes received

00:14:37.520 basically incentive pay and reward for producing better student outcomes. And that was such an offensive

00:14:43.520 concept to teachers unions that he basically had to pay bribes because God forbid, and people will

00:14:51.360 be like, Oh, it wasn't technically a bribe. It went to their whatever back fund when we were the

00:14:56.800 birder, birder fund and the herder, birder fund. It went to the unions. Okay. It's a bribe. Call it

00:15:03.200 whatever you want. It was money that wasn't paid in the way that was meant to improve student outcomes.

00:15:09.680 It had to be paid this way so that they could even attempt to improve student outcomes. That is how

00:15:17.280 little teachers unions care about student outcomes. They do. Actually, there was a great study done on

00:15:23.760 this that Simone likes to share during COVID that was looking at how strict COVID restriction policies 0.99

00:15:29.200 were in school. Well, it looked, no, basically it looked at where they were the longest school

00:15:34.080 shutdowns during the pandemic in the United States. And then it looked to see what it correlated with

00:15:39.360 more. Did it correlate with the severity of the disease burden in an area, or did it correlate

00:15:45.280 more with the strength of a teacher's union? And lo and behold, the correlation was with the strength

00:15:51.520 of teachers unions. That was quite a high correlation. And there was basically zero correlation with the

00:15:57.120 actual threat of COVID-19 in that area at that time. But I want to elevate what this means for

00:16:04.320 everyone. Remember how they fired that woman who was going to be the next head of Levi's because she 1.00

00:16:10.160 said- I think she was actually already the CEO of Levi's Strauss company, a very famous jeans company

00:16:16.640 in the United States. And she became very vociferous about school closure policies as a mother of

00:16:24.000 black children. Hold on, hold on, hold on, Simone. You're forgetting part of the story. Specifically, 0.61

00:16:27.760 she was concerned about the closure of minority dominated schools. Her point was that basically

00:16:33.280 privileged and wealthy parents are not in a position to stop people from complaining about

00:16:40.440 school closures because they are quietly proceeding to get private tutors for their students and getting

00:16:46.560 their kids into private schools that are still open. Whereas those who have no money for alternatives

00:16:52.720 are losing their kids' education. Yeah. And what's important here, she's removed from her position, 1.00

00:16:59.600 never reinstated after COVID when it turned out she was right about this. But what's important to note

00:17:03.360 is we now know these school closures did nothing. The school closures were motivated by the teachers'

00:17:10.000 unions. Teachers who had these strong unions and saw COVID as an opportunity to basically just stop

00:17:16.560 working for a couple of years at the expense of an entire generation of American students.

00:17:22.640 Because now we know these weren't backed by the science. Now we know these didn't work. We can look

00:17:28.080 at the data. Now we know that these were predominantly done by the teachers' unions because we can look,

00:17:34.320 the length of them was determined by the strength of the teachers' unions. That was by far the highest

00:17:38.480 correlator to how long these lasted. These were just an opportunity for power-hungry teachers' unions to have 0.68

00:17:43.680 teachers stop working when they felt like it. It is horrifying, horrifying what's being done to the

00:17:50.640 students. And I should note, many of the teachers didn't want to stop. They were like,

00:17:54.000 what are you doing? Right? Like, the unions are not run by the teachers who care about the students.

00:17:59.200 They are run by the teachers who wanted to play the power politics of teacher union stuff.

00:18:04.720 Let me word this a different way. Okay? Teachers' unions are like if your profession wasn't run by

00:18:10.480 the people who are good at your profession, but was run by the people who run abusive HOAs. Okay?

00:18:16.320 Those are homeowner associations for people outside of the US, which are famous for just being really

00:18:20.080 annoying and bureaucratic and woke and terrible. Yeah. Well, and basically obligating you to spend

00:18:25.760 huge amounts of money every month on things you don't want to spend money on, but you have no choice

00:18:30.320 because you owe Mahone in this community. So that's a scary prospect for people.

00:18:34.560 Well, and our teacher union is not doing the same thing. You know, they force teachers to give them

00:18:37.600 a part of their pay. Yeah. Yeah.

00:18:41.280 They can spend it on these terrible for students stuff that these bureaucrats who don't care about 0.95

00:18:47.680 students and the bureaucrats who don't care about students, they love that free time at home.

00:18:51.120 In fact, we saw this was an issue because we know people who are high up in like administration of

00:18:56.560 education departments where when teachers started going back to school, many of them were like,

00:19:00.720 well, okay, here's my ultimatum. Either I quit or I stay working from home because what they had done

00:19:06.240 was taken other jobs and they realized that their other jobs were just better than going back to

00:19:11.360 school. So it was easy for them to make that ultimatum. They use this to take on multiple jobs.

00:19:17.280 We should also do an episode on the myth of low teacher pay. There's a great article on this,

00:19:22.480 but like when you actually account for things and you account for a time off and you account for

00:19:28.880 the amount that they get in terms of what is it? Summer vacation? No, no, no. The amount they

00:19:34.960 get in like pension. Oh, benefits and pensions. Oh, like health, health insurance. Yes.

00:19:39.120 If you control for qualification and education level, teachers earn something like 30% more than

00:19:43.760 people in the private sector. Like they, it's actually a fantastically paid position. It's just that

00:19:48.720 people overestimate how much people are earning in the private sector. But you know, we've talked

00:19:53.360 about this in another podcast, people broadly just overestimate how much most Americans make.

00:19:58.400 But Simone, your thoughts on this, do you think this can save America,

00:20:04.400 a government efficiency department run by Elon? And are we going to be applying to that?

00:20:07.600 I would apply to that in a hot second. And I don't think it could save America because I think that

00:20:16.320 the deep state or whatever you want to talk like call it, the bureaucratic machine is a lot harder

00:20:22.640 to dismantle and would take much more than four years. But I think that it could do a lot of good

00:20:29.520 and create a precedent where if it does a lot of good, people recognize that it does good,

00:20:34.640 that could create momentum that builds over time, which would be absolutely dreamy. I mean,

00:20:40.480 just imagine. I think the other big problem, and it's not even, you don't have to hate government

00:20:46.400 to recognize the fact that many of the departments that we have in government in the United States

00:20:51.680 and elsewhere in the world as well, they were created before the internet. They were created

00:20:57.840 during very different times with very different technology and very different resources. So their

00:21:03.360 staffing composition, the way that things are structured, doesn't necessarily correlate with

00:21:07.840 modern technology management methods, all sorts of things like that. And they could almost certainly

00:21:13.360 be run far more efficiently. So I think you don't have to hate government to recognize that talent is

00:21:22.400 being misallocated now and resources are being misallocated. I sometimes feel like when I hear you

00:21:28.000 talking, I'm like, wow, she's so cold and rational and pragmatic. Am I being Pollyanna-ish here? What?

00:21:35.200 No, you're not being Pollyanna-ish. I think you represent, I guess I'm like the emotional side

00:21:40.560 of the voice. I can't believe they're doing, we have to wait. You're sense and I'm sensibility.

00:21:46.640 Oh no, you're sensibility and I'm sense. And you're coming in and you're like, well, you know,

00:21:50.960 a lot of these departments were created during a different era. And it is very important that we

00:21:54.560 go through and we update them for a modern context. Well, that's our autistic schizoid dynamic here, 0.91

00:22:00.880 right? We, you know, we do, we do very well together. I'm, I'm, I'm quite happy to be married

00:22:06.240 to you. For people who are wondering what she's talking about there, look at the video,

00:22:09.600 the schizoid to autism spectrum. It actually did pretty well as a video. And one person on it was

00:22:13.920 like, in the comments, they were like, this must be taken down immediately. This could cause harm to

00:22:19.440 these communities. Oh, are we both an insult too? No, no, no. Because we're presenting novel

00:22:25.920 theories around the way these things work. And somebody who is of this mindset of the urban

00:22:31.120 monoculture's explanation for everything is sacrosanct in any alternate explanation,

00:22:36.800 even if it's scientifically backed is incredibly dangerous because, you know, we're, we're challenging

00:22:42.000 dogma from, from their perspective. He's basically yelling, heretic, burn him, heretic. 0.96

00:22:47.360 He's, you know, we weren't talking. I mean, like, I feel like schizophrenia and autism aren't necessarily

00:22:52.800 hot button issues in the modern progressive movement here. Sorry.

00:22:58.320 Do you, do you remember where we were in the conversation?

00:23:00.720 We were talking schizoid. Oh yeah. I wanted to mention, this is a little unrelated,

00:23:05.360 but if we're talking about people with brain wiggles and you and I have brains full of wiggles,

00:23:09.680 the term neurodivergent was not meant for everyone who had brain wiggles. It was meant for people with

00:23:17.520 Asperger's specifically the woman who, who termed the phrase. Yes. Then she's like later been

00:23:25.280 a little miffed that people just decided to use this word and apply it to like everything, you know,

00:23:31.520 I think it's, it was sort of OCD-ified, you know, how a lot of people are like, oh, I'm so OCD. 0.97

00:23:36.800 And they're not, you know, they're just like, they're just basic bitches. And they're just like, 1.00

00:23:41.040 I'm like, oh, so OCD. And they're not, they're not. And I think that that has happened as well

00:23:47.760 with neurodivergent. I, but I had, I had no idea. I thought that neurodivergent just meant

00:23:52.560 like, I just, I see myself as, I never really fit in with one group. I just floated from group to

00:23:58.640 group, you know? But Simone, we need to talk about the existential threat to our democracy.

00:24:02.240 Yeah. Anyway. Yeah. Side, side note. I was just talking with the person who's helping

00:24:06.320 us with all these mailer ballots and they were like, yeah, we, they're like, you guys are young,

00:24:10.320 but like we had freedom our entire lives. And like, this does not feel like the United States

00:24:15.840 used to feel. And I felt that way when I was watching this recent MSNBC bit and recent news

00:24:20.160 bits where I'm just like, they're just like lying to us now. And, and, and blatantly.

00:24:25.200 No, I love like, and it's been amazing working with our campaign volunteers because they're

00:24:30.640 incredibly helpful. And they're so you're not going to volunteer for a campaign or for the

00:24:36.160 conservative cause in America, if you don't have hope, because otherwise why would you bother?

00:24:39.840 Right. They do have some hope. And yet.

00:24:42.720 And pod say they talk about election pod.

00:24:46.240 They talk about election wiggles and they talk about the, the, the, the underpinnings of our

00:24:54.080 democratic institutions, not working anymore. And yet they're still trying, but it's scary to hear that

00:25:01.520 because we're there's we, I want to do a separate episode on this, but I'm going through this show

00:25:08.960 called the good fight that first started running right around when Trump was elected. And it was

00:25:14.480 sort of a follow-up of this other us-based TV show series, like a law procedural called the good wife,

00:25:20.080 but it's basically a show about Trump derangement syndrome. And what's crazy is that, and I want to do

00:25:24.720 a podcast about the, this show shows the perspective of someone with Trump derangement

00:25:30.160 syndrome. And it's a show that devolves to the point where the characters literally justify,

00:25:34.800 and the show seems to literally justify committing.

00:25:39.920 Well, there's an episode. I could not find clips from it. I was so mad. I tried to find it uploaded

00:25:44.160 anywhere, daily motion, YouTube, anywhere. Cause I wanted to drag these clips from it,

00:25:48.000 but it's this great clip that you were talking about where they're like, yeah,

00:25:50.560 we need to start lying and cheating and sorry, using election pods, using wiggling votes, wiggling,

00:25:58.240 making the votes, wave in the wind, do a little, little, you know, whatever.

00:26:05.440 Yeah, I guess. Yeah. Well, we'll say, yeah. Get on a post-hoc basis, changing voters' minds,

00:26:09.840 very convincingly. But yeah, like that, that there's a show that's basically like, well,

00:26:14.000 here's the logical argument for why we're totally justified in doing this and we should be doing this.

00:26:19.120 And it's insane that these ideas are apparently mainstream. So yeah, it saddens me that we can

00:26:28.880 hear such hopeful stories of let's make an initiative of the government to clean things up. Let's make

00:26:40.960 things better. And that that's actually even seen as an attack point in political ads. I was speaking

00:26:48.960 with a lobbyist this afternoon to get his insights on what's going on with the election in the state

00:26:55.200 of Pennsylvania, a key swing state in the United States. And he was talking about an election ad he

00:27:01.200 heard while driving cross country for Kamala Harris in favor of her, that talked about how one of Trump's

00:27:07.520 desired actions is to completely evaporate the Department of Education. And that that alone for

00:27:14.800 him was a selling point. He's like, sign me up. Like, this is an attack ad. So yeah, I'm well,

00:27:20.640 and that's where you get people when, when he doesn't add, I'm not going to be like, oh,

00:27:25.920 I'm pro Trump because I saw that out. I'm like, he could lie about that, right? Whatever. But with Kamala,

00:27:29.920 it doesn't add this like, let's get, Trump says he wants to get rid of the federal education department.

00:27:35.760 And people are listening to that and they're like, hmm. Yeah, you know. I mean, yeah, that makes a lot

00:27:41.040 of sense. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know what to make of it. That was actually something when Trump

00:27:48.240 announced the government efficiency campaign, he specifically does a long speech afterwards

00:27:54.080 about the core focus of it is to focus on education, both the education department and

00:27:59.680 the government funded university system. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. Although I just, I have my doubts.

00:28:09.200 Jordan Peterson, for example, recently released some online university that's not accredited,

00:28:15.760 but he's trying to provide the equivalent of an affordable college education to people.

00:28:22.480 There are all sorts of online certification programs. There's course careers. I just don't

00:28:28.720 see any of it at present being picked up. I hear people like the investors and employers of the all

00:28:35.120 in podcast, you know, these are very influential people with a very influential podcast saying,

00:28:40.000 yeah, you know, we, we should start, you know, we, we need to ignore prestigious universities and,

00:28:44.960 and, and hire people just based on merit. And, and many of them actually do and have done for many

00:28:49.280 years. You know, they just don't hire people from prestigious universities because they found that

00:28:53.760 they're too entitled. They don't actually do any work, but you know, just the fact that they're

00:28:59.360 saying that we need to do that really shows that people are still leaning on these institutions for

00:29:04.640 the vetting. They do if nothing else, I feel like maybe one of the most efficient things you could ever

00:29:09.120 do is get rid of everything, but universities admissions boards. And so basically you get

00:29:14.240 No, but the admissions boards are the heart of the evil. But if you get into Harvard,

00:29:19.360 then it means that we just need an alternate system that the admissions boards are the root

00:29:24.400 of the evil. Yeah. Or the DEI-ist of DEI. But employers want, they want someone else to do their work for

00:29:31.200 them. Employers want somebody else to do the vetting for them. So how else can you,

00:29:34.800 can you do someone's vetting for them? In other words? Well, there's actually been a great number

00:29:41.680 of leaps in that area among elite circles that we hang out in. The core thing that people look for

00:29:46.560 is did other people give this person money now? Yeah. But that's what they look for.

00:29:50.640 So you, well, she hasn't proved in days. I need. So, so an example here is typically like way more

00:29:57.840 prestigious than a Harvard degree these days are the Teal Fellowship. Teal Fellowships are where they pay you

00:30:02.320 to not go to college to work on whatever you want to work on. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. If a kid has

00:30:05.840 a Teal Fellowship or an Emergent Ventures Grant, for example. Emergent Ventures Grants are considered

00:30:11.600 really prestigious. The EA Fellowship I think might have dried up. Yeah. The Atlas Fellowship. So we're

00:30:17.600 already moving to this system where the people who are so talented that people just give them money,

00:30:23.360 a Y Combinator investment. Yeah.

00:30:26.480 These are considered much bigger deals than Harvard these days. By those who know.

00:30:31.680 But I guess that's who matters. By those with money.

00:30:34.560 Yeah. That's who knows. People with money. People with access to opportunities.

00:30:40.080 Yeah. We've already moved to this system. Oh, she looks so sleepy.

00:30:45.600 She's at a state. She's just like, I don't know. I kind of want to engage.

00:30:50.240 I don't know what she's doing. She looks like I feel. Our children just act always like I feel,

00:30:59.440 you know? That's how you feel. When they're just screaming and shitting on the floor, I'm like,

00:31:03.760 yeah, man. Why can't Ivy screaming and shitting on the floor? 1.00

00:31:06.960 Of your pants and your panties. Shit on the floor. Time to get shwifty in here. 1.00

00:31:12.640 I'm doing it on the inside. You know, they just. I gotta, I gotta do the get shwifty thing here.

00:31:18.800 Our children though. I think children really, a person's children is them drunk on steroids.

00:31:24.640 You're seeing the real version of them plus their partner. You know, it's. Yeah.

00:31:29.120 There's no hiding it at that point. Even when you're drunk, you can still kind of.

00:31:32.720 I think that people who hate their children hate themselves. You know,

00:31:35.360 you see all these things like I don't like. And or their spouses. Or are they? Yeah.

00:31:39.120 Or they don't like their spouses because I love myself. And you love me. I like you. I like you,

00:31:45.920 Simone. I love myself. And I love our kids. They are fantastic. You, you, I have love for you,

00:31:54.160 but you know, um, you're no Malcolm. I'm no Malcolm. It's true. I love you more than I love me.

00:32:01.600 You can't look at a mirror without seducing yourself. And I can't look at a mirror without

00:32:04.960 cringing and thinking, Oh God. So explain what you mean by that. Cause this is actually a fault of

00:32:10.160 mine. Yeah. You will. Malcolm will walk by reflective surfaces and mirrors windows and sort of stop and

00:32:18.720 kind of admire himself. And our kids do exactly the same thing. In fact, Indy's favorite toy,

00:32:24.720 this baby here is literally the mirror that you bought for Octavian four years ago. Our oldest son.

00:32:30.640 Yeah. And she just, she'll sit in the mirror and she'll just be like,

00:32:34.560 she'll like laugh. And I'll give you a clip. I have proof. I have video proof of a video. I

00:32:38.640 actually just, come on and go see. She's in the same outfit. Just going 1.00

00:32:41.760 She freaking loves it. So this is a genetic trait, but yeah, you absolutely.

00:32:48.640 What arrogance, self, self love. I am here for it.

00:32:52.560 You know what? Well, I think it's because you're all extraordinary people and you recognize that.

00:32:55.920 And I think Elon Musk is one of those people. I think he also enjoys,

00:33:00.000 he enjoys being himself though. He has more of a tortured soul than you are for sure. Like he,

00:33:04.240 he does not necessarily like being him, but I think he knows that he's a big deal.

00:33:08.880 I would rather be me than Elon Musk. Oh yeah. When he said that, like he said this in multiple

00:33:13.360 interviews, like you do not want to be me. I am not a happy person. I'm not a serene or calm

00:33:18.720 person. And you actually know how to like, enjoy yourself, which is great. Oh, I love my life.

00:33:23.600 This life is awesome. I genuinely, when people are like, we might be in a simulation.

00:33:31.040 I genuinely unlike for me, the big evidence for me that I'm in a simulation is I do not believe

00:33:36.640 that life can be this good. This is the before scene. Like my life these days is the before scene.

00:33:41.760 I hate that so much. I have that feeling all the time. I'm like, Oh shit. When is it going to drop?

00:33:46.000 When is, Oh no. Well, that's why I've recently made the rule. We can't all be in a plane at the

00:33:49.680 same time. We can't all like, we gotta, we gotta come up with rules to protect this. Cause this is

00:33:53.920 getting in the before scene vibe is too strong, too strong. Yeah, I agree. But yeah, I mean,

00:34:00.080 so do you think that, that Trump is more likely to win with this, with Elon Musk potentially leading

00:34:06.480 up this efficiency department or not, or is just preaching to the choir? Look, I think that there's

00:34:11.200 a brain. Well, it went over centrists. Well, it went over swing voters. What will it went over

00:34:18.240 centrists and swing voters is the question. I know centrists and swing voters who between the last

00:34:24.960 election cycle and this election cycle have moved from Democrat to Republican. I don't know a single

00:34:32.800 one that has moved from Republican to Democrat. I feel that if we lose this election cycle, it is due to

00:34:38.880 election wiggles because I just, just no, just practically, I was actually talking with someone

00:34:44.720 about this and we tried to find anyone, a single human being who had publicly moved from Republican to

00:34:53.040 Democrat between these two election cycles. And they said it was one they could find with Dick

00:34:57.200 Cheney. And that's because his daughter got screwed over when she went all Judas. Um, well, so is the 0.90

00:35:05.440 also, I'm curious, do you think this is a similar sentiment in the EU? I feel like Europeans are a whole

00:35:12.000 lot more pro democracy is, is, is efficiency and cutting fat a selling point only in the U S or would

00:35:20.960 something like this also be popular in the EU and the UK? I haven't noticed it as much as a thing.

00:35:26.320 I mean, obviously Margaret Thatcher did win in the UK. She's one of my favorite politicians in history.

00:35:30.560 But she was insanely unpopular as well for doing things like that. They kind of saw her as like, 0.93

00:35:35.520 you know, mean mommy doing what needs to be done, but they didn't like what mommy was doing. 0.97

00:35:39.840 You know what I mean?

00:35:43.040 Well, I mean, mean mommy needed to do what mean mommy needed to do. 1.00

00:35:46.880 It's true.

00:35:47.520 One of my favorite things for people who don't know history of Margaret Thatcher and stuff like

00:35:50.640 that, just the best politician ever. She was known for being much better educated on any subject 1.00

00:35:57.840 than the people who she was, you're back from school. Okay. Come on competing against,

00:36:02.080 I'm going to tell you a story about Margaret Thatcher. They call her the iron lady. Can you

00:36:05.280 believe that the iron lady anyway? So she would do this thing called handbagging people, which, 1.00

00:36:10.880 which we would see as like a woman beating a person with her purse. And it was when like local 1.00

00:36:15.440 politicians would like challenge her. And then she'd start like asking them nitty questions 1.00

00:36:20.720 about like their local economy. Like, are you familiar with X from your local economy? Like,

00:36:24.480 have you done X about Y? Like, Y about C? You know, and just like a bunch of like popular local

00:36:29.680 stuff that they should know about, but she knows about because she memorized it for every single

00:36:33.760 district.

00:36:34.240 Ouch.

00:36:34.560 Um, Hey, Hey, that's such a, that's such a Lisa Simpson, like a woman thing to do to just 1.00

00:36:40.560 be like, wow. According to my research. Yeah. You're going to want me, come on,

00:36:47.040 sit here. You gotta, you're going to do what to me, Octavian? Are you, what is that? Is that a gun

00:36:54.160 that goes from your eye? Yeah. Are, who are you, are you shooting our fans? Yeah. Oh no. Hey,

00:37:02.000 Octavian, can you please tell our fans to like and subscribe? Like and subscribe. Wait, but Octavian,

00:37:07.840 I have a question for you. Do you think the U.S. government is inefficient? Yeah. Do you think

00:37:12.320 the U.S. government is silly? Yeah. Shoot him with your eye laser? It's not eye laser, it's a gun. Oh, 0.99

00:37:20.160 it's a gun. Come on, Malcolm. It's a gun. What will it do to somebody if it hits them?

00:37:26.160 And then do, then, then, then it'll crack. Build it at, no, you're not talking about I

00:37:34.000 build it at school. Where'd you build it? I made it, a sister gun house, out of Legos.

00:37:42.400 Oh. Do you often make guns? So it won't take, so it won't kill. Oh, so it won't kill. Oh.

00:37:48.960 Because what happens with real guns? Are you allowed to touch real guns, Octavian? No. 0.61

00:37:53.440 What happens if you accidentally touch a real gun? Then I will get bop. Yeah. And that's why bops are

00:38:01.040 important. Right, Octavian? Yes. And, and I have a question. I have a question. If somebody wastes

00:38:11.040 money on silly things, what should happen to them, Octavian? I don't know. Well, suppose somebody took

00:38:16.720 your money. Every year they took your money. What would you do to them? I really don't know.

00:38:21.680 Sir, he's just into shooting people with his eye gun. Well, you know, that's the first thing they 0.87

00:38:26.880 teach you at kindergarten is how to be a school shooter. That's not why it's a school shooter.

00:38:31.840 Yeah. Well, I mean, he's a little white boy, right? They need more white boy school shooters 0.98

00:38:36.000 for the narrative to work. Yeah. And less, and less trans school shooters, because apparently they're all 1.00

00:38:40.880 trans now. That's what I've seen. Not in the media. Not in the media, but by the actual statistics. 0.96

00:38:47.040 In 2017, there was the Randy Stare mass shooting in Tannehawken, PA. Next, you had a shooting at a

00:38:54.640 Maryland distribution center in 2018. Then you had a school shooting in Denver in 2019. So no,

00:39:01.120 right now, 2017, 2018, 2019. Then the Colorado Springs LGBT nightclub shooter, identified as non-binary,

00:39:08.800 that was in 2022. Then in 2023, the Nashville school shooting was also transgender. Now people 0.99

00:39:16.240 can be like, oh, that's not that many. That's only five mass shooters. Almost one a year. That's not

00:39:23.200 that many mass shooters. And then I would point out that since 1982 in the United States, there have

00:39:29.360 only been four female, cis female mass shootings. So just since 2017, there has been more trans 0.99

00:39:38.720 mass shootings than there have been female mass shootings since 1982. It's not anti-trans to

00:39:46.480 point out that this is just a fact at this point. And we, as a society, should probably be doing

00:39:52.800 something about the epidemic of trans mass shooters. What do you want to talk about?

00:39:56.240 I don't know. I don't need you anymore. Get away from me. You gross and disgusting. 0.98

00:40:07.600 They say, I don't love my kid. And they're right about that. 1.00

00:40:15.200 I love you, Malcolm. Would you mind getting the kids? What do you want for dinner? I have meat.

00:40:18.800 I reheat the meat I have in the fridge from my lunch yesterday. You don't like that I go out

00:40:24.560 to lunch. Well, no, it's just that I got like two, two nights worth of meat thawed because you

00:40:29.360 kept asking me. Yeah. And I'll eat it. It'll be fine. Well, we're going to, we're going to be hosting

00:40:34.480 dinners in DC soon. Oh, I forgot about that. Oh, it's okay. I'll figure something out. Maybe I can get

00:40:43.280 the kids to eat something. No, but I'll see if I can get the kids to eat it. It'll be fine. Just

00:40:48.720 cook it through. All right. Well, anyway, I'll reheat your stuff with rice. Do you want fried rice

00:40:53.520 or plain rice? Fried rice, if you can. I love it when you do that. Yeah. Only spring onions,

00:40:58.800 no other vegetables. If you have other vegetables, I'm happy to dig a vegetable heavy. Peas?

00:41:06.000 Yeah. Oh no. Then just the spring onions. Do you want me to saute onion? Like chopped up onion?

00:41:11.280 Diced up onion? No, but next time we go to Trader Joe's, we should get more vegetables.

00:41:14.480 Oh no, we have the frozen. No, we have frozen. You want me to do those?

00:41:18.560 Yeah. Like you're like whatever saute vegetables you got at Costco.

00:41:22.240 Yeah. Okay. I'll work on that. Just get the kids. Cause we gotta. 1.00

00:41:26.800 All right. I love you. I'm sorry. I love you. Sorry. I was one who held us up. It was my fault.

00:41:30.720 I love you. You're everything to me. Okay. Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go.

00:41:36.000 I love you. I love you. Bye. Ciao, ciao. Ciao, ciao, ciao, ciao, ciao, ciao. Octavian, buddy, buddy.

00:41:47.440 Are you just going to do this for hours tonight? Yes. Okay. What do you want for dinner, Octavian?

00:41:54.720 I want for dinner some stuff. You always say that. Okay. Will you actually eat the pizza?

00:42:02.320 Yes. And also some apple and some meatball and also some, and some, you know, corn.

00:42:13.520 Oh boy. Okay. How about just some of those things? Yes. Okay. A lot of food. Okay.

00:42:22.560 You brought your appetite. All right. I'll see you downstairs, buddy.

Based Camp - September 10, 2024

An Elon Lead Efficiency Department of the US Government Might Become Real

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