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🗓️ 25 November 2024
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The Lincoln Project's Rick Wilson joins us to discuss the impending disaster of the next Trump administration. Zucked author Roger McNamee examines the dystopian goals of tech billionaires.
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0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Molly JongFast and this is Fast Politics, where we discuss the top political headlines with some of today's best minds. |
0:09.0 | And Donald Trump's transition team has refused to sign the normal ethics forms. |
0:15.6 | We have such a great show for you today. The Lincoln Project Zone, Rick Wilson talks to us about the impending disaster |
0:22.4 | of the next Trump administration. Then we will talk to Zuckt, author, and my friend Roger |
0:28.4 | McNamee, about how tech is going to eat us all. But first, the news. Somali, I for one really enjoy |
0:36.5 | a thing about our jobs that we get to work from home. |
0:38.6 | Unfortunately, our friends who are federal employees are not going to enjoy that anymore. |
0:42.3 | What are you seeing here? |
0:43.2 | I have a lot of very naughty things to say about Elon and Vivek and their very stupid fake government entity. |
0:51.5 | But I actually don't think this is that bad. But they have called for government |
0:56.3 | employees, federal employees to return to five days a week in the office work weeks. I mean, |
1:01.0 | these guys are going to do some bad stuff, okay? Some real bad stuff. Some real, real bad stuff. |
1:07.2 | And we know that because they're tweeting about it saying things like, we're going to have to tighten our belts and suffer in order to balance the budget and get us all a tax cut. |
1:17.6 | But this, I think, is not so bad, but they do want federal employees in the office five days a week. |
1:24.4 | But hidden under that headline, I think, and I think the real part of this |
1:29.3 | that we should talk about is that they did write an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal this week, |
1:34.2 | the two of them, and Wright is doing some heavy lifting because I have a feeling that neither |
1:38.3 | of them wrote it. And you'll remember the Wall Street Journal opinion section is kind of |
1:43.0 | very, very, very right way. |
1:45.9 | President Trump has asked the two of us to lead a newly formed Department of Government |
1:49.6 | Efficiency or Doge, because we love the memes, to get the federal government down to size. |
1:55.9 | The entrenched and ever-growing bureaucracy represents an existential threat to our republic. I'm not sure how that |
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