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Vivek Ramaswamy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
4028 total appearances

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Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Vivek: Kicked out of DOGE? Elon Beef? Trump Relationship and More

But if they do approve a drug that has some unintended side effects, then they're going to be in the public eye. So their incentive is to go in one direction, not the other. Does that make them an evil person? No. Most human beings just respond to the incentives that they have while still in their heart of hearts believing that they're doing good. So this is your idea for Doge, right?

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Vivek: Kicked out of DOGE? Elon Beef? Trump Relationship and More

But if they do approve a drug that has some unintended side effects, then they're going to be in the public eye. So their incentive is to go in one direction, not the other. Does that make them an evil person? No. Most human beings just respond to the incentives that they have while still in their heart of hearts believing that they're doing good. So this is your idea for Doge, right?

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Vivek: Kicked out of DOGE? Elon Beef? Trump Relationship and More

But if they do approve a drug that has some unintended side effects, then they're going to be in the public eye. So their incentive is to go in one direction, not the other. Does that make them an evil person? No. Most human beings just respond to the incentives that they have while still in their heart of hearts believing that they're doing good. So this is your idea for Doge, right?

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Vivek: Kicked out of DOGE? Elon Beef? Trump Relationship and More

And we laid it out. So there was a Wall Street Journal op-ed that we co-authored soon after it was written, focused on, A, this constitutional approach, where the Supreme Court in the last couple of years came out and said, actually, most of those rules are actually unconstitutional because they didn't go through Congress. That's a big freaking deal. Huge. Happened a couple of years ago. Yeah.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Vivek: Kicked out of DOGE? Elon Beef? Trump Relationship and More

And we laid it out. So there was a Wall Street Journal op-ed that we co-authored soon after it was written, focused on, A, this constitutional approach, where the Supreme Court in the last couple of years came out and said, actually, most of those rules are actually unconstitutional because they didn't go through Congress. That's a big freaking deal. Huge. Happened a couple of years ago. Yeah.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Vivek: Kicked out of DOGE? Elon Beef? Trump Relationship and More

And we laid it out. So there was a Wall Street Journal op-ed that we co-authored soon after it was written, focused on, A, this constitutional approach, where the Supreme Court in the last couple of years came out and said, actually, most of those rules are actually unconstitutional because they didn't go through Congress. That's a big freaking deal. Huge. Happened a couple of years ago. Yeah.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Vivek: Kicked out of DOGE? Elon Beef? Trump Relationship and More

So we got that toolkit. And then if you want to really tackle government spending, which is a separate prong, the budget's set in Congress. There's no way around that, right? The budget is set by Congress. If you want to cut trillions of dollars, you got to go to the core of that budgeting process. So that was where my focus and our focus was.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Vivek: Kicked out of DOGE? Elon Beef? Trump Relationship and More

So we got that toolkit. And then if you want to really tackle government spending, which is a separate prong, the budget's set in Congress. There's no way around that, right? The budget is set by Congress. If you want to cut trillions of dollars, you got to go to the core of that budgeting process. So that was where my focus and our focus was.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Vivek: Kicked out of DOGE? Elon Beef? Trump Relationship and More

So we got that toolkit. And then if you want to really tackle government spending, which is a separate prong, the budget's set in Congress. There's no way around that, right? The budget is set by Congress. If you want to cut trillions of dollars, you got to go to the core of that budgeting process. So that was where my focus and our focus was.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Vivek: Kicked out of DOGE? Elon Beef? Trump Relationship and More

I think if you look at, you know, now it's taken off and I think it could be great. It's very much a digital technology first approach. What does that mean? Well, I mean, you can, I'll let you read the executive orders that came out last week. And like I said, I'll be- No, we're not doing that.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Vivek: Kicked out of DOGE? Elon Beef? Trump Relationship and More

I think if you look at, you know, now it's taken off and I think it could be great. It's very much a digital technology first approach. What does that mean? Well, I mean, you can, I'll let you read the executive orders that came out last week. And like I said, I'll be- No, we're not doing that.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Vivek: Kicked out of DOGE? Elon Beef? Trump Relationship and More

I think if you look at, you know, now it's taken off and I think it could be great. It's very much a digital technology first approach. What does that mean? Well, I mean, you can, I'll let you read the executive orders that came out last week. And like I said, I'll be- No, we're not doing that.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Vivek: Kicked out of DOGE? Elon Beef? Trump Relationship and More

I know, I know that's what, you know, I- So I'll leave it at what I'm able to say, which is sort of what you can see publicly. Very technology-focused approach and that there's nobody better to take a technology-focused centric approach than Elon. And by the way, we ended up having a pretty open discussion.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Vivek: Kicked out of DOGE? Elon Beef? Trump Relationship and More

I know, I know that's what, you know, I- So I'll leave it at what I'm able to say, which is sort of what you can see publicly. Very technology-focused approach and that there's nobody better to take a technology-focused centric approach than Elon. And by the way, we ended up having a pretty open discussion.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Vivek: Kicked out of DOGE? Elon Beef? Trump Relationship and More

I know, I know that's what, you know, I- So I'll leave it at what I'm able to say, which is sort of what you can see publicly. Very technology-focused approach and that there's nobody better to take a technology-focused centric approach than Elon. And by the way, we ended up having a pretty open discussion.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Vivek: Kicked out of DOGE? Elon Beef? Trump Relationship and More

amongst all of us, that if my focus is on the legal constitutional policymaking functions, that's where my passion has been. The right way for me to realize my own vision is through elected office. And by the way- But not the governor of Ohio or anything. All of those except that one position. Announcement will be coming of some kind in the next couple of weeks. Got it.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Vivek: Kicked out of DOGE? Elon Beef? Trump Relationship and More

amongst all of us, that if my focus is on the legal constitutional policymaking functions, that's where my passion has been. The right way for me to realize my own vision is through elected office. And by the way- But not the governor of Ohio or anything. All of those except that one position. Announcement will be coming of some kind in the next couple of weeks. Got it.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Vivek: Kicked out of DOGE? Elon Beef? Trump Relationship and More

amongst all of us, that if my focus is on the legal constitutional policymaking functions, that's where my passion has been. The right way for me to realize my own vision is through elected office. And by the way- But not the governor of Ohio or anything. All of those except that one position. Announcement will be coming of some kind in the next couple of weeks. Got it.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Vivek: Kicked out of DOGE? Elon Beef? Trump Relationship and More

But I will say that even some of the regulations you brought up, right? The fireman example. Yeah. Most of those regs aren't just federal regulations. In fact, most of them that affect people at everyday lives are also at the level of the state.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Vivek: Kicked out of DOGE? Elon Beef? Trump Relationship and More

But I will say that even some of the regulations you brought up, right? The fireman example. Yeah. Most of those regs aren't just federal regulations. In fact, most of them that affect people at everyday lives are also at the level of the state.