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sn't really even a thing under the Biden administration. Do you remember any story about oh, this department figured out a way to cut their expenses 10%? Nobody needed to. It wasn't even a thing. But given that you know that Trump would give you attention and your career could benefit if you did some cost cutting, now it's almost a competitive sport. Everybody's looking for a way to get in on this…

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ide where money goes. Like it's almost like you need some independent entity to make money decisions, at least in terms of awarding contracts.

But I would love to see if you could do a government in a box where a city just says, "All right, we give up. We can't fix it because we don't have the right people here. Everything's broken." And so some government in a box, ideally American entity, comes in and just says, "All right, this person will be your mayor for the next year. This will be your council and we'll just make a bunch of fast decisions and change everything really quickly and then when they're done they could run it for a year or more or not. The voters would still have control and they could adopt the new techniques or not, but the government in a box would kind of rapidly be able to just change everything."

According to Harry Enten, the data expert for CNN, JD Vance has a lock on being the next nominee for president and that nobody's even close. So apparently Vance had something like a 40% support and the next best one was like DeSantis at six. So it's really not close. And I would argue that he's earned that. Wouldn't you? Because Vance is definitely a consequential vice president. Maybe one of the top two or three. Certainly in the top three of consequential vice presidents and I think people like him and he's sort of proven his ability to deal with the press especially. But the other thing that you cannot discount is that he's funny and that even South Park recently included him in their commentary and it was just funny and he liked it. And if you have a ch

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arismatic, funny person who's now got this vice presidential experience and would have presumably Trump's strongest support, it's going to be tough to beat. That'll be tough. I've got my little coworker here for those of you watching in the video. Apparently there's some — I don't know the full story here, but I saw Mike Cernovich post that apparently there's some documents we can see now that M…

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