Luke Thomas
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1,281 appearances
7 recordings
6 series
first heard Oct 2024
last heard 18 Jun
Luke Thomas’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Digital Social Hour · Luke Thomas Breaks Silence on Charlie Kirk’s Death | DSH #1572 · 16 Oct 2025
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It had nothing to do with doing any of those kinds of, like, we're going to shrink the federal government.
We're going to find waste, fraud, and abuse.
It was about data theft and data collection, but they did it, and now they have it.
And now, think about it, if you can combine data that Health and Human Services might have with the IRS, with, I don't know, DOJ, with you name it, you now, as a federal government, you can get a nice, clean look in one place at every American citizen.
Essentially, I'm not going to say all data, but then you throw in health data as well.
you can get a pretty good look at who's out there, what they're doing, and how they've lived their lives in ways that are deeply uncomfortable that I think for people who take privacy laws and restraint on federal power seriously.
Man, they sold a lot of people on Doge.
You know, it's kind of funny.
I heard a lecture.
There was...
I will send it to you.
It's from the Citations Needed podcast.
That's the name of it.
And I want to be clear when I come on the show to purposely cite my sources so that anybody who wants to hear this can double check it.
They did a whole series or whole lecture anyway on that term or the terminology waste, fraud, and abuse.
This goes back to robber barons in both the early part of the 20th century and even late 19th century using that term
So sloganeering waste, fraud and abuse specifically to target programs that that are essentially in the interests of voters.
Right.
Like here's we're going to put we're going to put more money into health care.
We're going to put more money into the welfare state.
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