Brian Tyler Cohen
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1,832 appearances
16 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2024
last heard 14 Jul
Brian Tyler Cohen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We have an agency in the Pentagon that's failed seven budgets, seven audits, rather seven audits.
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It is ripe, ripe audits.
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for investigation by something like Doge.
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If Doge was created for anything, it should be to go after the Pentagon and figure out what the fuck is going on in the Pentagon.
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And yet you go after USAID, seven-tenths of 1% of the budget that delivers clean food and water to impoverished people and offers HIV prevention.
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and gives us soft power in the world so that China doesn't step in in our absence, all without firing a single bullet.
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That's what you go after.
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You go after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which has returned $21 billion to 200 million American consumers.
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It only exists to serve
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As a way for Americans to have some recourse against predatory financial institutions.
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Of course, this wasn't about giving back.
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Of course, this wasn't about cutting waste, fraud and abuse.
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Every single agency that Elon Musk went after was an agency that was regulating or imposing fines on him or his companies.
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It is so abundantly clear what the purpose of this was, which is why at the end of the day, they had to bring their...
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pie in the sky savings from a trillion dollars down to 150 billion.
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And yet still, this government is still spending more money than the previous administration.
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It raises some questions about whether Cenk was benefiting from some of those USAID payments, you know?
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Okay.
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I actually think, I think the optics of it are helpful in the sense that it puts on full display the disparity in the priorities between the two different classes of people.
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We have a working class in this country that is hurting right now for exactly the reasons that Trump exploited when he was running for president, but has since forgotten about.
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