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Bryan Callen

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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PBD Podcast
DOGE Dividend Checks, Trump vs. Zelenskyy, Bolsonaro Charged w/ Bryan Callen | PBD Podcast | Ep. 549

commentary magazine, like the conservative magazines, they have debunked this. It's not that there isn't a lot of waste in government and that this isn't a good audit that we're going to find. When they do this audit, you guys, it's so funny how we're talking about USAID. That's adorable. Wait till they get to Medicaid and Medicare. Wait till they get to the Pentagon. It's going to be insane.

PBD Podcast
DOGE Dividend Checks, Trump vs. Zelenskyy, Bolsonaro Charged w/ Bryan Callen | PBD Podcast | Ep. 549

commentary magazine, like the conservative magazines, they have debunked this. It's not that there isn't a lot of waste in government and that this isn't a good audit that we're going to find. When they do this audit, you guys, it's so funny how we're talking about USAID. That's adorable. Wait till they get to Medicaid and Medicare. Wait till they get to the Pentagon. It's going to be insane.

PBD Podcast
DOGE Dividend Checks, Trump vs. Zelenskyy, Bolsonaro Charged w/ Bryan Callen | PBD Podcast | Ep. 549

Do you know that there was an idea? The idea was when, during the Cold War, there was the idea that we're going to spend, and we let the Soviets know, we're going to spend $500 on a screw because we can, and you guys can't keep up with it. There was actually a culture of that. And that was almost a deliberate sort of, like, effort, a propaganda effort.

PBD Podcast
DOGE Dividend Checks, Trump vs. Zelenskyy, Bolsonaro Charged w/ Bryan Callen | PBD Podcast | Ep. 549

Do you know that there was an idea? The idea was when, during the Cold War, there was the idea that we're going to spend, and we let the Soviets know, we're going to spend $500 on a screw because we can, and you guys can't keep up with it. There was actually a culture of that. And that was almost a deliberate sort of, like, effort, a propaganda effort.

PBD Podcast
DOGE Dividend Checks, Trump vs. Zelenskyy, Bolsonaro Charged w/ Bryan Callen | PBD Podcast | Ep. 549

But when you see how much fraud there is in those agencies... Buckle up.

PBD Podcast
DOGE Dividend Checks, Trump vs. Zelenskyy, Bolsonaro Charged w/ Bryan Callen | PBD Podcast | Ep. 549

But when you see how much fraud there is in those agencies... Buckle up.

PBD Podcast
DOGE Dividend Checks, Trump vs. Zelenskyy, Bolsonaro Charged w/ Bryan Callen | PBD Podcast | Ep. 549

Can I just tell you how much that is? Hold on. Let me tell you. $37 trillion. Yeah, go. Count. One, two. It's insane. I'm going to give you... Keep talking because I want to give you perspective on what $37 trillion is.

PBD Podcast
DOGE Dividend Checks, Trump vs. Zelenskyy, Bolsonaro Charged w/ Bryan Callen | PBD Podcast | Ep. 549

Can I just tell you how much that is? Hold on. Let me tell you. $37 trillion. Yeah, go. Count. One, two. It's insane. I'm going to give you... Keep talking because I want to give you perspective on what $37 trillion is.

PBD Podcast
DOGE Dividend Checks, Trump vs. Zelenskyy, Bolsonaro Charged w/ Bryan Callen | PBD Podcast | Ep. 549

Correct.

PBD Podcast
DOGE Dividend Checks, Trump vs. Zelenskyy, Bolsonaro Charged w/ Bryan Callen | PBD Podcast | Ep. 549

Correct.

PBD Podcast
DOGE Dividend Checks, Trump vs. Zelenskyy, Bolsonaro Charged w/ Bryan Callen | PBD Podcast | Ep. 549

Okay.

PBD Podcast
DOGE Dividend Checks, Trump vs. Zelenskyy, Bolsonaro Charged w/ Bryan Callen | PBD Podcast | Ep. 549

Okay.

PBD Podcast
DOGE Dividend Checks, Trump vs. Zelenskyy, Bolsonaro Charged w/ Bryan Callen | PBD Podcast | Ep. 549

My guess is sometimes you resign because, one, you figure you're already going to be fired, or there's no way you can do your work under this administration because you've already been painted as a bad guy. This happens all the time. You just see the writing on the wall. So sometimes people would rather resign than get fired. I think that's probably something of what's going on.

PBD Podcast
DOGE Dividend Checks, Trump vs. Zelenskyy, Bolsonaro Charged w/ Bryan Callen | PBD Podcast | Ep. 549

My guess is sometimes you resign because, one, you figure you're already going to be fired, or there's no way you can do your work under this administration because you've already been painted as a bad guy. This happens all the time. You just see the writing on the wall. So sometimes people would rather resign than get fired. I think that's probably something of what's going on.

PBD Podcast
DOGE Dividend Checks, Trump vs. Zelenskyy, Bolsonaro Charged w/ Bryan Callen | PBD Podcast | Ep. 549

The other thing that I worry about, and we have to hold our side accountable. This is very important. We need to know that it's one thing to go in and move fast and break things. I'm all about it, man, and I'm all about shrinking government. Government has no accountability, and it's too big. It's a leviathan. We know this.

PBD Podcast
DOGE Dividend Checks, Trump vs. Zelenskyy, Bolsonaro Charged w/ Bryan Callen | PBD Podcast | Ep. 549

The other thing that I worry about, and we have to hold our side accountable. This is very important. We need to know that it's one thing to go in and move fast and break things. I'm all about it, man, and I'm all about shrinking government. Government has no accountability, and it's too big. It's a leviathan. We know this.

PBD Podcast
DOGE Dividend Checks, Trump vs. Zelenskyy, Bolsonaro Charged w/ Bryan Callen | PBD Podcast | Ep. 549

Let's just make sure, I think, that we understand how these complicated systems work. Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater. Social Security, by the way, politically is a hand grenade, especially for Trump. There are a lot of voters that rely on those. In this state, are you kidding me? Social Security is a very delicate issue. So we have to be very careful about how we handle this.

PBD Podcast
DOGE Dividend Checks, Trump vs. Zelenskyy, Bolsonaro Charged w/ Bryan Callen | PBD Podcast | Ep. 549

Let's just make sure, I think, that we understand how these complicated systems work. Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater. Social Security, by the way, politically is a hand grenade, especially for Trump. There are a lot of voters that rely on those. In this state, are you kidding me? Social Security is a very delicate issue. So we have to be very careful about how we handle this.

PBD Podcast
DOGE Dividend Checks, Trump vs. Zelenskyy, Bolsonaro Charged w/ Bryan Callen | PBD Podcast | Ep. 549

And it is a complicated thing. You can get into specifically, why does Patrick Bette David get Social Security? He doesn't need it. Why is that? What's going on there? So there are things you can do with Social Security. Is there a play to at least privatize some of it? It is the People's Bank. You don't get that money if you die early sometimes.

PBD Podcast
DOGE Dividend Checks, Trump vs. Zelenskyy, Bolsonaro Charged w/ Bryan Callen | PBD Podcast | Ep. 549

And it is a complicated thing. You can get into specifically, why does Patrick Bette David get Social Security? He doesn't need it. Why is that? What's going on there? So there are things you can do with Social Security. Is there a play to at least privatize some of it? It is the People's Bank. You don't get that money if you die early sometimes.