Luke Thomas

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1,281 appearances 7 recordings 6 series first heard Oct 2024 last heard 18 Jun

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Digital Social Hour · Luke Thomas Breaks Silence on Charlie Kirk’s Death | DSH #1572 · 16 Oct 2025 podcast

We're going to put more money into the social safety net.

These are things that would be good for you.

And then.

oligarchs in society getting out there and calling it waste fraud and abuse even though it's objectively in your interest as a voter for the most part to vote for these kinds of things it has a long history and of course it doesn't mean anything it's like what count what like you have to define what waste is and they were doing things like oh the government's counting soybean crops every year yes you fucking idiot there's a reason for that the government has a vested interest in knowing

what kind of crop yields are existing in the country so that in the event of disaster, what they have on, and by the way, they store some of this data and also some of these reserves, they have to know what resources are available in the event of a crisis.

This is actually like a critical function of the federal government.

The reality is the federal government is vast.

It is huge.

It does a lot of things.

There, of course, has to be some waste in there.

There, of course, has to be some kind of fraud.

And of

course, there has to be some kind of an abuse.

But if you don't tell us what meets those parameters ahead of time, and then you're just looking through a list of what the federal government does, you're like, that looks stupid, but you don't know why they're actually doing it.

You're actually just tearing apart the government in ways that it can be uniquely helpful.

And for example,

You saw Doge came through like, we're just going to eliminate, you know, so much of the NOAA and our weather sciences, detection, you know, prevention, messaging, all these kinds of things that help them figure out, you know, what weather patterns are going to be, particularly around disasters.

Then you had this absolutely horrific situation, you recall, in Texas at the girls' Christian summer camp, where so many of them tragically passed.

And again, it didn't look like there was an issue particular with how the weather service performed there.

But it raised the question, well, why are we now... Because the Doge said we had to put cuts in place ahead of time.

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