oth super young right Madison and Hamilton but if they came in at that age and you looked at the resume you'd say ah yeah I think you need to get seasoned a few more decades before you. But if you were smart you'd say hm young Steve Jobs, young Mark Zuckerberg, young Elon Musk right? And so you see that same 1776 hiring decisions if you can call it that being made by Trump. Vance too young perfect. JD Vance too young perfect. Pete Hegseth too young perfect. Perfect. As long as they got the goods and we're talking about people who really have the goods really really have the goods.

All right so we'll see how that works out. The good news is the defense lobbyists seem to be outraged. Oh well we're heading in the right direction aren't we? So the defense lobbyists are outraged. You got me. So if it wasn't obvious my first reaction to Pete Hegseth was huh I don't understand it. My current reaction is it might be brilliant. It might be. I mean anything could happen right? It's too early too early to predict success but is he the right pick? Is he loyal to Trump? Would he take the hit he would have to take? Would he be able to fire generals? Would he have the empathy as well as the experience for the military? Yep I'm all in.

Well what else? And Trump is preparing an executive order to cull the military of woke generals according to Red State. Red State is reporting. So Hegseth would have the backing of the commander-in-chief and I actually think they could get this done. If I were China and Russia this would scare the out of me. You know why? Because I think all the big countries are worried that their own militaries are pathetic but nobody knows yet. I feel like that might be the case. Remember how we thought that Russia would just roll over Ukraine and then we thought oh I guess that Russian military wasn't as vaunted as we thought. I mean they still probably would win if they keep fighting but not really as close as we thought. And then there's talk that China if it got into a shooting war with the US if it were non-nuclear it would go bad for China. Maybe that's true maybe it's not. Then when we talk about our military you know maybe we've used up all our good stuff giving it to Ukraine. You know maybe we have too much DEI and overweight unhealthy soldiers not enough of them. So it could be that all the major powers have militaries that they're not really happy with internally. And if you were watching the United States recognize its biggest problem and have a useful plan to fix it you would be afraid because the next thing you know we're going to have a whole bunch of Palmer Luckey drones and much less cost and will be much more lethal and I'd worry about it.

So think about how Russia thinks about it. If Russia knew that Pete Hegseth was going to get in there and get rid of DEI do you think Putin is happy about that? He's not because DEI works in his favor. So if our adversaries aren't going to like Hegseth in that job then that's a pretty good endorsement.

Meanwhile in the Department of Government Efficiency named DOGE, Elon Musk of course as you know is going to be the lead on that but guess what turns out that Vivek Ramaswamy is going to be the second part of that team. Given how much work Elon has to do with his companies and the fact that Vivek is a bit more of a free agent you know he's got plenty of investments to look after too but he's more of a free agent and he has the intellect and the drive all the tools basically all the tools to do exactly this stuff. And Trump has referred to it as a Manhattan Project. And I'll say it again reforming the military in this way that looks like it could really work is almost like a weapon of mass destruction. I mean it's a powerful powerful thing if we can do it. But also reorganizing the government to make it more efficient so the United States is more competitive in every way that would be a Manhattan Project. I do think that if we could pull this off we the country that it would be the most impressive thing the country's ever done because you could say well but you know we developed the nuclear bombs but I think you know somebody would have done that anyway. War doesn't impress me maybe it should but if you can beat the biggest bureaucracy ever in a world where nobody else has figured out how to do that except maybe Estonia. Estonia is pretty efficient place by the way weirdly Estonia is actually like a just a killer country you don't hear about much about it but Estonia is really it has it together really well. But if we could get as efficient as Estonia to use them as a model oh my God would the golden age open up.

I'm not 100% sure that even Musk and Vivek and Trump can pull this off because the size of it but let me say it again nothing would impress me more if they can pull this off. Nothing would impress me more. And I love the fact the spirit of it too because there's no way that Musk and Vivek are going to enjoy this right? They signed up for a lot of pain and that pain is for the benefit of the country. Now you know do the Musk companies benefit? Yes. Could Vivek benefit later on politically? Yes. But honestly it does seem focused on the country. That's what it feels like.

FBI director Christopher Wray may not stay under a Trump administration. NBC News says he's thinking about his potential forced exit. One of the people being considered unless something's changed in the last hour or so is Kash Patel. Some say he was being considered to lead the CIA but I think that got filled with the nomination of Ratcliffe. Yeah so is Kash Patel still up for the head of the FBI? That also feels like something that would make me happy. So Trump is going for loyalty with brains and I'm liking it a lot. Loyalty but with brains, guts and brains. So I don't mind that. I don't mind that Trump is going for loyalty over a let's say a Lincoln team of adversaries. I think the team of adversaries would be a huge mistake when you have this many things to fix. I think he wants loyalists who when he says get rid of DEI in the military they're going to get rid of DEI in the military and they're not going to slow walk it. So the thing you don't want is slow walking and I think that the loyalists of this type you know the highest quality effective people that's how you get there.

I saw this from Thomas Massie. He was responding to Ross Ulbricht you know he's in prison and a lot of people want him to get pardoned. He was the one who created the Silk Road and he has a like a gazillion year prison sentence. And I've been on both sides of whether he should get pardoned but so Thomas Massie says hang in there Ross President Trump himself told me that he would pardon him. It's one of the reasons I endorse. All right so that seals it for me. So Massie who I trust there is zero chance that Thomas Massie is lying when he says that Trump told him he would do it. Now it's about Trump. If Trump told Massie that he would pardon him it needs to happen. So separate from the question of whether he should be pardoned we can't have a situation where Trump tells Thomas Massie he's going to do a thing no doubt about it and then he doesn't do it. No good right? The fact that Trump is committed Thomas Massie told you you committed that has to be a done deal now. That has to be because if you want confidence in the system I need to know that if Trump tells Thomas Massie and Thomas Massie tells me that that shit's going to happen right? So this is a new situation now. It's a new game because it's now no longer about the guy in prison now it's about Trump and Massie. So that needs to be right.

Trump had said this a while ago but the clip is going around. He made a bunch of videos when he was running for office some of them were getting surfaced lately but I love this idea Trump creating some kind of American College Plan where I assume it's mostly online but maybe not in which anybody could get a free education that would be presumably c