Nick Gillespie

Unfortunately, those policies never had any – they weren't reaching those people. I mean, that's –

Unfortunately, those policies never had any – they weren't reaching those people. I mean, that's –

Yeah. Well, I am very excited by the idea of having a government that has done an audit of its workforce and of its activities.

Yeah. Well, I am very excited by the idea of having a government that has done an audit of its workforce and of its activities.

Yeah, no, well, actually there's more like that. And this is, I was excited the other day when there were a bunch of tweets saying that, oh, Doge has entered the Pentagon. And it's like, okay, yeah, this should be very interesting.

Yeah, no, well, actually there's more like that. And this is, I was excited the other day when there were a bunch of tweets saying that, oh, Doge has entered the Pentagon. And it's like, okay, yeah, this should be very interesting.

That's right. And, you know, a good example of this, an economist friend of mine wrote about how at the FDA they had cut, apparently they had like cut 200 regulators, like people who actually go through stuff to see whether or not it's...

That's right. And, you know, a good example of this, an economist friend of mine wrote about how at the FDA they had cut, apparently they had like cut 200 regulators, like people who actually go through stuff to see whether or not it's...

And if you keep the regulations in place and cut the workforce that is going to see if they're complying, like you just make everything worse. And this is where I think the Trump administration, not across the board, but in certain circumstances may actually be a good thing. So- You take the FDA, they named a guy Marty Macri, who's a professor from Johns Hopkins, who's pretty smart.

And if you keep the regulations in place and cut the workforce that is going to see if they're complying, like you just make everything worse. And this is where I think the Trump administration, not across the board, but in certain circumstances may actually be a good thing. So- You take the FDA, they named a guy Marty Macri, who's a professor from Johns Hopkins, who's pretty smart.

He'll be reporting, I guess, ultimately to Robert F. Kennedy, which is a whole other weird bag of- Weird, right? I don't know. But if the FDA, and this is something coming out of a libertarian perspective and analysis, it costs way too much to bring new drugs to market. It takes too long and it costs too much. There are ways to bring more drugs to market without compromising safety.

He'll be reporting, I guess, ultimately to Robert F. Kennedy, which is a whole other weird bag of- Weird, right? I don't know. But if the FDA, and this is something coming out of a libertarian perspective and analysis, it costs way too much to bring new drugs to market. It takes too long and it costs too much. There are ways to bring more drugs to market without compromising safety.

And if the government would restructure the FDA and Macri has talked about this, RFK and the second, his deputy at Health and Human Services have talked about ways to do this. Like if they do that so that it doesn't take a couple billion dollars in 12 years to bring a new drug to market. That's a big win. And that is something that we could completely do. We could do it overnight.

And if the government would restructure the FDA and Macri has talked about this, RFK and the second, his deputy at Health and Human Services have talked about ways to do this. Like if they do that so that it doesn't take a couple billion dollars in 12 years to bring a new drug to market. That's a big win. And that is something that we could completely do. We could do it overnight.

perfection that anybody who's ever let out of prison cannot re you know recommit a crime or else we have to make the system utterly ridiculous it have no but you know and in and in its best iteration or its best kind of sense if doge is going to help us go through and just trim out like you know clean out the house there's just too much shit in the house

perfection that anybody who's ever let out of prison cannot re you know recommit a crime or else we have to make the system utterly ridiculous it have no but you know and in and in its best iteration or its best kind of sense if doge is going to help us go through and just trim out like you know clean out the house there's just too much shit in the house

man i just don't have confidence yet i know and i i agree because of the question of um you know like are they doing it well i have been thinking about this you know like elon right is is bragging about how you know he's got like a bunch of pre-teen coders who are quants and they can go through spreadsheets and the stuff they're finding like you know they keep finding massive mistakes like where they were claiming a uh a contract they ended with ice

man i just don't have confidence yet i know and i i agree because of the question of um you know like are they doing it well i have been thinking about this you know like elon right is is bragging about how you know he's got like a bunch of pre-teen coders who are quants and they can go through spreadsheets and the stuff they're finding like you know they keep finding massive mistakes like where they were claiming a uh a contract they ended with ice

was at $8 billion and it was actually $8 million and things like that. I worry that people think because you can fucking do Excel, you suddenly have wisdom.

was at $8 billion and it was actually $8 million and things like that. I worry that people think because you can fucking do Excel, you suddenly have wisdom.