1/23/25 Ben Cohen: DOGE Needs to Focus On the Pentagon

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Scott interviews Ben Cohen, of Ben & Jerry’s fame, about his new project DOGE vs. Blob. Cohen explains how the project aims to get the Trump administration’s effort to cut government to prioritize the absurd amount of unnecessary spending going to the Defense Department. He and Scott discuss the project, reflect on the state of the American antiwar movement and consider Scott’s pitch for a new ice cream flavor. Discussed on the show: DogeVsBlob.org “Our Real National Security Budget” (Andrew Cockburn’s Substack) Ben Cohen is an American businessman, activist and philanthropist. He is a co-founder of the ice cream company Ben & Jerry's. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Roberts and Robers Brokerage Incorporated; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; Libertas Bella; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. Get Scott’s interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	versus blob.
0:03.0	Yeah, it's doge versus blob.org.
0:06.5	It is a online contest on X to kind of let the ex people know that if they're really looking to cut waste and cut federal spending, the place
0:29.0	that has the most waste, the most federal spending is the Pentagon budget.
0:35.7	It accounts for 50% of all discretionary spending.
0:41.6	It is the only federal department that cannot be audited
0:46.2	because it's so poorly managed.
0:49.0	And the way Doge v. Blob works is that you can submit
0:53.2	nine posts a day about this issue.
0:58.6	The way to start is to go to the Doge versus blob.org website.
1:04.5	And we're just looking for people to create memes about the absurdity of the Pentagon budget.
1:13.6	You know, we don't have a military industrial complex anymore. We've got an overkill industrial
1:20.6	complex. And, you know, I just want to give you one example of the mentality. You know, there
1:27.0	was this one nuclear bomb that we dropped on Hiroshima.
1:30.3	It killed 100,000 people immediately, left another 100,000 seriously injured, burns, amputations,
1:40.3	blindness, deafness.
1:43.3	And the current US arsenal is the equivalent of 50,000
1:50.0	Hiroshima-sized bombs, you know, capable of killing millions and millions of people
1:58.0	that are, you know, mother's father, sisters, brothers, sons and daughters,
2:02.8	people just like us.
2:05.1	And now the government is planning to spend another $2 trillion on a whole new generation of nuclear
2:15.7	weapons.
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