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Flagrant · Pete Buttigieg on Trump Tariffs, Taxing Billionaires, and Republican Gays · 23 Apr 2025 podcast
Or they'll just remove the tariffs. That was another thing that really frustrated me. If you're going to put the tariffs on, put them on everything. Seems to me like...
And it's just like, but to me that frustrated because Apple is the one that should be paying more than anybody. They're the one that parks their money overseas. They're the one that's skirting on taxes. The mom and pop businesses that are fucked by the tariffs are still going to have to pay.
So now you're disproportionately punishing the people that are actually doing the right thing for the country in the first place. Yeah. They're building their small businesses. They're paying into the system. Yeah.
Sorry.
We've been trying to. It was like Mark Cuban, who was obviously a surrogate for the party. He came on. He was fantastic. But like everybody we asked, you know, they just wouldn't do it. Yeah. Look, there's this even like going on.
And it's thrown in their face. And it's thrown in their face quite often. Look how great Biden's economy is. Look at the stock market. And they're like, that doesn't affect me at all. Cereal's $10. Yeah. What are we talking about? Yeah, I would feel deeply offended if I was them, especially when you throw that kind of support behind you know, one specific party.
And that's, I think that's why you saw a lot of them start to migrate. So then what do you do? Like, what is, how do you get working class people back?
Don't start this, man. I got people trying to have kids working at this company right here. Yeah. We cannot recover from this financially.
At our company, we pay for anybody that wants to have their eggs frozen.
We don't hire women, though. But we will pay. There's always a loophole.
Did you work on that in the private sector? Yeah. What was that company that you worked for? McKinsey. McKinsey, McKinsey, yeah. And isn't that partially what governments will hire a company like that to do Doge stuff, right? Yeah. I wouldn't call it Doge. You're a fucking Doge.
It's about power. Look, I'll give you an example. Yeah. You're telling me people in government are concerned with power. I know. It's shocking.
I think there is... Wow. I wouldn't say unanimous support with the criticism of Doge, but I think that there is a lot of support for the way that it's been handled. Though I would also say that the idea of an agency that is attacking bloat and excess spending of the government is a bipartisan supported issue as well.
I think initially when Doge, when Elon first announces this, and I think it's Elon and Vivek, people are really supportive, I think, on both sides. They're like, yeah, let's cut some government spending. If you're actually doing it for real, and that's an
So on that, so this idea with Doge, it seems to me, and again, I only know like the most surface level version of it, is that the way that the government becomes more efficient is just firing a bunch of people. That seems like saving money. I don't know if that's how it becomes more efficient.
The efficiency is getting rid of the bureaucracy that stops a plane from flying just because it doesn't have an on and off switch for a smoking light, right?
Because a lot of—I think that there is altruism and benevolence in a lot of these policies, right? They're trying to protect people. Yeah, they're all there for some reason or another. Yeah. And, like, maybe some is, like— I don't know. What have you experienced?
Like you were, you know, secretary of transportation, like when you're trying to rebuild some bridge or whatever like that, what was the biggest hiccup that you experienced that you're like, we got to just get this out of the way. There's no way we're going to be able to improve people's lives if this is here. What is an example of that?
That's Second Avenue Subway we don't want. I'm telling you, as a New Yorker, we don't want it. We never needed it. It's never been an issue. I remember when you guys started building it, we're like, who the fuck is this for? Nobody on the Upper East Side, from where it goes to where it ends, uses the subway. That's all old ladies. They take Uber.
Nobody, there hasn't been a dumb, I'm sorry if this is your idea, but it's so fucking stupid. There's never been a dumber idea for a subway. There are so many other places we could put subways. We could add some more trains, but Second Avenue specifically, there's a train on Lex. You walk two more blocks, you get a train.
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