WEBVTT 1 00:00:28.920 --> 00:00:36.359 Thull radical fundamental principles of freedom, rational self interest, and 2 00:00:36.640 --> 00:00:47.640 individual rights. This is the ran Brook Show. All right, everybody, 3 00:00:47.640 --> 00:00:52.200 welcome to you one book show on this Wednesday, January 4 00:00:52.200 --> 00:00:55.200 twenty ninth. I will be heading to the airport immediately 5 00:00:55.240 --> 00:01:01.320 after the show to catch a play to Atlanta, Georgia, 6 00:01:01.479 --> 00:01:04.480 and then drive to Clemson. I'll be giving a talk 7 00:01:04.480 --> 00:01:10.680 at Clemson University tomorrow on Israel's Mael War to the 8 00:01:10.959 --> 00:01:15.239 students in the Like Seeing Program at Clemson, which is 9 00:01:15.239 --> 00:01:18.359 the program run by Brad Thompson. And then I'll be 10 00:01:18.400 --> 00:01:21.200 going off to Florida to the Objectives Conference of Florida. 11 00:01:21.519 --> 00:01:23.920 We'll be giving a talk about the future of objectivism. 12 00:01:24.879 --> 00:01:29.319 And yeah, that that's the plan. I'll be back home 13 00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:33.000 next Wednesday, so a week from now, after visiting also 14 00:01:33.079 --> 00:01:39.560 the Dalhi Museum and visiting other places in Florida. Uh, 15 00:01:39.640 --> 00:01:44.280 and yes, I'll be back Wednesday. Shows between now and 16 00:01:44.319 --> 00:01:48.159 then Spotty, we'll see. I don't know. I'll try to 17 00:01:48.159 --> 00:01:51.959 do as many as I can, but but we will see. Anyway, 18 00:01:52.359 --> 00:01:55.480 that is that is a plan. Today we'll do a 19 00:01:55.560 --> 00:01:58.719 relatively short show because I have to go to the eirport, 20 00:01:58.840 --> 00:02:02.040 so we won't longer than two hours, maybe just an 21 00:02:02.040 --> 00:02:05.760 hour and a half. We'll see, Uh, the super chat 22 00:02:05.840 --> 00:02:11.080 fundraising goal set appropriately. Let's just jump in, jump in. 23 00:02:11.680 --> 00:02:14.400 As I said, you know, Trump is just sucking all 24 00:02:14.439 --> 00:02:17.719 the air out of news. There's basically nothing going on 25 00:02:17.759 --> 00:02:22.639 in the world except what Trump is doing. That's what 26 00:02:22.680 --> 00:02:25.479 it seems like, because he's doing so many big things, 27 00:02:25.520 --> 00:02:29.960 controversial things off the cuff, things that that that that 28 00:02:29.960 --> 00:02:32.599 that is dominating all the news. So we will we 29 00:02:32.599 --> 00:02:35.240 will talk about a bunch of a bunch of that. 30 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:39.800 But let's start with what's going on, live right now, 31 00:02:41.560 --> 00:02:47.479 live right now. RFK is in front of a Senate committee, uh, 32 00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:55.719 discussing his qualifications for being Health and Humans Service Secretary. Uh. 33 00:02:55.759 --> 00:02:59.120 And it is I don't know, it's just it's just 34 00:02:59.240 --> 00:03:06.240 it's just a a ridiculous, ridiculous, I don't know, expression 35 00:03:06.280 --> 00:03:12.840 of political god. I mean, it's just I mean, this 36 00:03:12.879 --> 00:03:17.479 guy who is a conspiracy theorist, who is an anti VAXXA, 37 00:03:17.919 --> 00:03:23.360 who is an anti pharma, who you know, it probably 38 00:03:23.400 --> 00:03:25.280 lies about a lot of things that he believes in 39 00:03:25.400 --> 00:03:29.479 or doesn't believe in for his own financial gain. This 40 00:03:29.599 --> 00:03:33.159 is a it's a clown show. I like that ammaed Mars. 41 00:03:33.199 --> 00:03:37.240 It's a clown show. It's a clown show. Now, it's 42 00:03:37.280 --> 00:03:42.199 a clown show. It's pathetic, it's ridiculous. It's infuriating that 43 00:03:42.800 --> 00:03:45.080 rf case even nominated to a position like this. He's 44 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:48.000 not qualified. He's the opposite of qualified. He could be 45 00:03:48.039 --> 00:03:51.479 incredibly destructive in a position like this, and it sends 46 00:03:52.240 --> 00:03:58.120 basically the wrong message, you know, to Americans. It sends 47 00:03:58.199 --> 00:04:00.639 the wrong message to healthcare providers, It sends the wrong 48 00:04:00.639 --> 00:04:04.319 message the farmer and people at the front lines kind 49 00:04:04.319 --> 00:04:08.800 of trying to solve the health issues of Americans. The 50 00:04:08.879 --> 00:04:11.759 one virtue he has where he talks about eating better 51 00:04:11.879 --> 00:04:15.520 and exercising and doing stuff like that. You could get 52 00:04:15.520 --> 00:04:18.439 somebody saying saying the same stuff. You don't have to 53 00:04:18.439 --> 00:04:22.639 have somebody who is a complete nutcase to advocate for 54 00:04:23.279 --> 00:04:29.360 eating well and exercising. It's part of the clown show. 55 00:04:29.439 --> 00:04:33.480 Here is here Republicans who I remember not that long ago, 56 00:04:33.839 --> 00:04:38.639 were really upset and may have Bloomberg for threatening or 57 00:04:38.680 --> 00:04:44.199 actually executing I think on a tax, like a special 58 00:04:44.279 --> 00:04:48.639 tax on what is a big soda on big tubs 59 00:04:48.639 --> 00:04:52.120 of soda because it was unhealthy. Now they want to 60 00:04:52.160 --> 00:04:55.720 nominate somebody who'd like to tax most of our food 61 00:04:55.800 --> 00:05:01.319 because it's unhealthy. They're once the federal government to basically 62 00:05:01.360 --> 00:05:05.480 regulate our food from the top down in terms of 63 00:05:07.279 --> 00:05:12.639 its health. So now we have Republicans wanting can micromanage, 64 00:05:13.240 --> 00:05:15.439 micro manage our die and it used to be Democrats 65 00:05:15.439 --> 00:05:19.160 who wanted to do that. The whole layout of this 66 00:05:19.399 --> 00:05:24.519 hearing is interesting because Republicans don't like our FK because 67 00:05:25.600 --> 00:05:31.720 of it stands on abortion, but they love it is 68 00:05:31.800 --> 00:05:39.000 anti pharma, anti science, anti vacs, stupidity over COVID, and 69 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:42.959 a bunch of other things, you know, anything conspiratorial, all 70 00:05:42.959 --> 00:05:48.480 this whatever, conspiratorial things. They love that, and you know 71 00:05:48.519 --> 00:05:54.680 they'll jump on that. And the Democrats are now suddenly 72 00:05:55.079 --> 00:06:00.360 they're the pro science, you know, pro vaccines, pro whatever, 73 00:06:00.800 --> 00:06:06.920 and anti conspiracy theories, and they're attacking uh, you know 74 00:06:07.279 --> 00:06:12.000 RFK because he's part of an administration's gonna be anti ebocean. 75 00:06:12.560 --> 00:06:16.279 And it's just the whole line of questioning is absurd 76 00:06:16.360 --> 00:06:19.360 and ridiculous. I mean, this is this theater. It's it's 77 00:06:19.959 --> 00:06:26.800 it's comedy. So Tom tillis a Republican from North Carolina, 78 00:06:27.639 --> 00:06:33.360 literally asks RFK if he's a conspiracy theorist talk about 79 00:06:33.360 --> 00:06:38.240 a softball question. Uh, you know that that can only 80 00:06:38.279 --> 00:06:47.160 be hit for a home run. I mean, really, me 81 00:06:47.879 --> 00:06:51.040 a conspiracy theorist. That is not true. It's just a 82 00:06:51.040 --> 00:06:54.800 way to malign me because I ask questions. I just 83 00:06:55.000 --> 00:06:57.600 I've just asked difficult questions. That's all I'm doing. I 84 00:06:57.600 --> 00:07:01.759 don't have a position, it's just I just literally ask 85 00:07:02.920 --> 00:07:07.240 difficult questions. And they labeled me a conspiracy you because 86 00:07:07.240 --> 00:07:09.120 they want to silence me, because they don't like that 87 00:07:09.160 --> 00:07:13.199 I ask difficult questions. This is this is a in 88 00:07:13.240 --> 00:07:15.120 a hearing, you're supposed to tell us where the off 89 00:07:15.160 --> 00:07:18.879 case qualified to be. I mean, we're learning nothing in 90 00:07:18.920 --> 00:07:21.519 the hearing except that OURFK is very good at lying. 91 00:07:22.399 --> 00:07:26.800 He keeps saying. He keeps saying, I'm not anti vax 92 00:07:26.959 --> 00:07:29.720 I support facts, my kids are vaccinated. I love vaccines. 93 00:07:29.720 --> 00:07:33.040 I think vaccines are great. What about all your statements 94 00:07:33.079 --> 00:07:37.959 in the past that are clearly and equivocally anti where 95 00:07:37.959 --> 00:07:40.759 you're anti vax only democrats are asking these kind of 96 00:07:40.839 --> 00:07:44.720 line of questions and he goes, oh, taken out of context. 97 00:07:45.199 --> 00:07:47.079 They didn't understand the point I was trying to make. 98 00:07:47.439 --> 00:07:50.079 They don't get it. In other words, our f case 99 00:07:50.199 --> 00:07:58.519 lying through his teeth. He you know, he's asked about 100 00:07:59.319 --> 00:08:03.920 his position FARMA is anti farmer position, he's generally uh, 101 00:08:04.800 --> 00:08:09.680 he's he's against all these drugs that are now being 102 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:14.839 used for weight loss, which you know SPOS showing unbelievable 103 00:08:15.000 --> 00:08:17.319 promise in terms of all kinds of other diseases. He's 104 00:08:17.319 --> 00:08:20.079 against a lot of what FARMA does. And I'm not 105 00:08:20.160 --> 00:08:25.199 I'm not against farmer, me me RFK against FARMA. That is, 106 00:08:25.879 --> 00:08:29.879 you know, equivalent of defamation. I just asked difficult questions. 107 00:08:30.120 --> 00:08:37.200 I just want to know the science. I mean, this 108 00:08:37.279 --> 00:08:42.080 guy is, I mean, he's a horrible human being by 109 00:08:42.080 --> 00:08:47.399 every account of his personal life. He is, uh, he 110 00:08:47.519 --> 00:08:55.000 is a anti science. You know, he's even he came 111 00:08:55.000 --> 00:09:02.639 out during the hewing as pro measles vaccine when he 112 00:09:02.679 --> 00:09:05.639 went to Samoa to try to convince him not to 113 00:09:05.759 --> 00:09:09.559 use the misos vakiin the number of kids died as 114 00:09:09.559 --> 00:09:12.120 a consequence of kind of an anti VAXX movement over there. 115 00:09:13.240 --> 00:09:21.200 And he just he sits there and lies and somebody, Senators, 116 00:09:21.480 --> 00:09:24.679 we are supposed to learn something new about him, about 117 00:09:24.720 --> 00:09:28.159 his stance, about what he represents. I mean, the whole 118 00:09:29.320 --> 00:09:34.120 proceedings were of confirmation to become public. Republic proceedings are 119 00:09:34.200 --> 00:09:36.720 just a joke, right, They're just a joke. I mean, 120 00:09:36.840 --> 00:09:40.279 Republicans should admit that they will basically vote yes for 121 00:09:40.320 --> 00:09:44.159 anybody the Trump nominates, and Democrats should admit that for 122 00:09:44.200 --> 00:09:47.960 the most part, they'll vote no, although that's not always 123 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:50.120 the case that some Democrats have voted for some of 124 00:09:50.240 --> 00:09:55.399 Trump's nominees. And and stop playing this game. You know, 125 00:09:55.440 --> 00:09:58.279 Trump wants him, will appoint him. That's all the matters 126 00:09:58.320 --> 00:10:04.879 to these Republicans. And and this process, so called process is 127 00:10:04.879 --> 00:10:14.879 is just an expression of you know, a farce, uh, 128 00:10:15.480 --> 00:10:20.320 dishonest and a way too in a way to just 129 00:10:21.960 --> 00:10:23.320 bamboos of the American people. 130 00:10:30.080 --> 00:10:45.080 Yeah, uh, Joshua, you know you don't know what you're 131 00:10:45.080 --> 00:10:45.639 talking about. 132 00:10:46.159 --> 00:10:49.159 You really shouldn't talk about things you don't know anything about. 133 00:10:49.639 --> 00:10:52.159 It's it's pretty sad to watch people on my chat 134 00:10:52.360 --> 00:10:56.960 about complete and utter nonsense. He says. The reality is, 135 00:10:56.960 --> 00:10:59.480 we have more vaccinations, but somehow we get more people 136 00:10:59.519 --> 00:11:03.679 stuff of an disease. No, we don't. Actually, the vaccinations 137 00:11:03.679 --> 00:11:07.480 are targeting particular diseases and those diseases. That way, we 138 00:11:07.519 --> 00:11:10.879 have vaccinations, the disease rate has gone close to zero. 139 00:11:10.960 --> 00:11:13.639 People who get vaccinations don't get those diseases. There's no 140 00:11:13.720 --> 00:11:17.840 measles really in America today. There's certainly no polio. You know, 141 00:11:17.840 --> 00:11:21.039 if you go iva the what do you call that? 142 00:11:22.039 --> 00:11:25.159 Civical cancer is caused by a virus. We have a 143 00:11:25.279 --> 00:11:29.679 vaccine against that. The number of civical cancer cases have plummeted, 144 00:11:30.039 --> 00:11:36.000 have just unbelievably plummeted. Research project after research project, have 145 00:11:36.039 --> 00:11:38.919 you research project trying to find a connection between vaccines 146 00:11:38.919 --> 00:11:43.240 and autism finds no connection between vaccines and autism on 147 00:11:43.320 --> 00:11:46.200 every one of the points that he makes, On every 148 00:11:46.200 --> 00:11:49.759 single one of the points that he makes, there's no 149 00:11:49.840 --> 00:11:54.240 correlation with vaccines. Down syndromes up because of vaccines. I 150 00:11:54.240 --> 00:11:55.840 don't know why down syndrome is up. I don't even 151 00:11:55.840 --> 00:11:59.960 know if that's true. But all right, but has anybody 152 00:12:00.240 --> 00:12:04.279 shown that as related to vaccines. No, nobody has shown that. Indeed, 153 00:12:05.000 --> 00:12:07.399 the studies that have been done show that they're unrelated, 154 00:12:07.440 --> 00:12:12.000 that there's no correlation between Down syndrome. So, you know, 155 00:12:12.440 --> 00:12:17.559 a correlation is not causation. So a lot of things 156 00:12:17.559 --> 00:12:20.919 have happened over the last twenty years and things have increased. 157 00:12:21.080 --> 00:12:23.679 You can't because they've all gone up doesn't mean they're 158 00:12:23.720 --> 00:12:28.360 related to one another. They caused one another. So if 159 00:12:28.399 --> 00:12:31.919 it's true at all, there is no studies out there 160 00:12:32.240 --> 00:12:36.480 the show a cause of relationship between the two. You know, 161 00:12:36.679 --> 00:12:40.919 since the Iran book show started in January twenty fifteen, 162 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:45.360 the number of people down syndrome and autism has gone 163 00:12:45.440 --> 00:12:49.639 up significantly. I mean, I think it's quite clear that 164 00:12:49.720 --> 00:12:57.759 the Youuron Big Show is causing that. I mean, God 165 00:12:58.159 --> 00:13:03.679 help us, all right. Another issue that came up, well, 166 00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:07.840 if Kate were speaking, was you know, there's been a 167 00:13:07.840 --> 00:13:18.039 lot of controversy. It's gone to the courts about MIF MIF, pristone, pristona, 168 00:13:18.200 --> 00:13:21.639 well whatever, something like that. It's the basically the abortion pill. 169 00:13:21.960 --> 00:13:24.600 The abortion pillay was the FDA approved since it has 170 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:27.799 been approved since two thousand for use up to ten 171 00:13:27.840 --> 00:13:32.440 weeks of gestuation. Uh, it has been studied thoroughly because 172 00:13:32.480 --> 00:13:40.399 it's been used for a long time, and it has 173 00:13:40.519 --> 00:13:43.279 been shown that this is one of the safest pills 174 00:13:43.320 --> 00:13:47.559 anybody can take, the safest Tyler No. And yet Republicans, 175 00:13:47.559 --> 00:13:50.519 in order to try to ban abortion pills, have argued 176 00:13:50.600 --> 00:13:52.679 it's not safe, it's wrong, and they've taken it to 177 00:13:52.720 --> 00:13:55.279 courts and they've lost in courts, but it's still in 178 00:13:55.320 --> 00:13:57.840 the courts in Texas, and there's a real effort among 179 00:13:57.879 --> 00:14:02.919 the Republicans have banned this abortion pill. And even though 180 00:14:02.960 --> 00:14:06.759 it's completely safe and everything, RFK has said, the President 181 00:14:06.840 --> 00:14:10.639 Trump has asked him to look into it, to assess, 182 00:14:10.919 --> 00:14:16.159 assess objectively, completely scientifically, because that's RFK. He's completely objective 183 00:14:16.159 --> 00:14:20.159 and completely scientific the safety of this drug. Even though 184 00:14:20.720 --> 00:14:24.759 it's been assessed, it's been reassessed, it's been studied, it's 185 00:14:24.759 --> 00:14:31.720 been used by tens hundreds of thousands of women. And 186 00:14:31.919 --> 00:14:34.399 RFK said, well, of course Donald Trump has asked me. 187 00:14:34.399 --> 00:14:42.519 He's the president, I will do it. Tailanol is pretty safe, 188 00:14:42.519 --> 00:14:44.720 come on, safe as talentol is not as strong an 189 00:14:44.720 --> 00:14:47.960 augumented it used to be. If you take talentol once, 190 00:14:48.360 --> 00:14:50.799 almost nothing is going to happen to you. You don't 191 00:14:50.840 --> 00:14:55.320 make take Miffa pristone more than once. It's the safest. 192 00:14:55.320 --> 00:14:59.639 Talentol is really really, really strong argument THAILANDO. If you 193 00:14:59.679 --> 00:15:01.759 take huge quantities of it, we'll do all kinds of 194 00:15:01.799 --> 00:15:05.000 bad stuff to you. That's true. Anything I'm sure, also 195 00:15:05.039 --> 00:15:09.600 true of Miffit Pistons. So now it's a safest talent 196 00:15:09.679 --> 00:15:13.960 all and that's a real thumbs up for it. Mirrabins, 197 00:15:16.080 --> 00:15:19.480 who is a biologist, a scientist who where she usually 198 00:15:19.519 --> 00:15:21.720 knows what she's talking about, except for some of her 199 00:15:23.399 --> 00:15:27.480 you know, super chats, some of them, I have no 200 00:15:27.519 --> 00:15:30.679 idea what she's talking about. But here she says, people 201 00:15:30.679 --> 00:15:35.240 are having kids at old ages when chromosoonal aberrations are 202 00:15:35.360 --> 00:15:39.639 more common. Nothing to do with vaccines or pathogens or 203 00:15:39.639 --> 00:15:43.120 anything like that. That's absolutely right, Thank you, Mirrabins. You're 204 00:15:43.159 --> 00:15:46.120 going to see as women have babies and older and 205 00:15:46.200 --> 00:15:50.559 old ages, you're going to see more challenges as people 206 00:15:50.600 --> 00:15:56.679 generally have. You know, you've got a lot more genetic 207 00:15:56.679 --> 00:16:02.120 problems with a couple that have babies at lady ages, 208 00:16:02.279 --> 00:16:07.360 so that is probably most likely the cause of this, 209 00:16:07.480 --> 00:16:10.080 So thank you, mayor ben So being from sanity into 210 00:16:12.840 --> 00:16:16.080 you know, Joshua and I says he can halfway agree 211 00:16:16.879 --> 00:16:25.240 with us on this because the other half, it's like 212 00:16:25.320 --> 00:16:29.279 the half way he's using his mind. He agrees with us, 213 00:16:29.600 --> 00:16:32.919 the half that's dedicated the reason he agrees, the half 214 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:37.720 that is still ingrained with I don't know, mystical tribalism. 215 00:16:38.360 --> 00:16:42.039 He can't bring that around. So anyway, we're going to 216 00:16:42.080 --> 00:16:44.519 have a health and Human services you know, lead who 217 00:16:44.600 --> 00:16:48.519 is probably the most anti science that we have ever had, 218 00:16:50.039 --> 00:16:52.679 anti science in the science that we're talking about, in 219 00:16:52.720 --> 00:16:56.240 the science that is health that we're talking about. And 220 00:16:56.360 --> 00:16:58.559 the fact that he has a few positive good things 221 00:16:58.600 --> 00:17:05.039 to say does not justify the nonsense and craziness of 222 00:17:06.440 --> 00:17:11.720 so much of so much else that he that he's doing. 223 00:17:11.880 --> 00:17:21.240 All right, let's talk about the food resignations. I mean, 224 00:17:21.559 --> 00:17:23.680 this is all this is really fun. I'm telling you. 225 00:17:23.839 --> 00:17:27.759 Trump is the funnest president we've had so fun. I 226 00:17:27.799 --> 00:17:31.240 know some of you find that that I'm belittling the 227 00:17:31.359 --> 00:17:34.119 danger he represents, but believe me, I'm not. It's still 228 00:17:34.160 --> 00:17:38.000 fun to watch personally, because I despise them all. I 229 00:17:38.039 --> 00:17:40.119 despise them left, I despise the right. I despise the 230 00:17:40.160 --> 00:17:43.480 bureaucrats that are kind of panicky right now. So watching 231 00:17:43.519 --> 00:17:46.240 it all, everybody, smoke come out of there. 232 00:17:46.279 --> 00:17:46.519 He is. 233 00:17:46.880 --> 00:17:49.880 It's just a lot of fun to watch. And the 234 00:17:49.920 --> 00:17:52.599 smoke's coming out of Donald Trump's is and he's having 235 00:17:52.640 --> 00:17:54.880 the backtrack on everything, and I mean, it's all, it's 236 00:17:54.880 --> 00:17:59.960 all just good to see anyway. Donald Trump is basic 237 00:18:00.359 --> 00:18:03.559 made an offer to all government employees I guess by 238 00:18:03.640 --> 00:18:09.839 email where they if they let him say at the 239 00:18:09.839 --> 00:18:14.200 government no, by what is it next week, by next Friday, 240 00:18:15.039 --> 00:18:19.680 that they want to resign. They can resign in a 241 00:18:19.759 --> 00:18:23.160 sense effective September thirtieth, but they don't have to walk 242 00:18:23.160 --> 00:18:25.200 between now and September thirtieth. They can leave their job. 243 00:18:25.400 --> 00:18:33.880 They will be paid until September September thirtieth. This is 244 00:18:33.960 --> 00:18:37.440 very much in line with what Elon Musk did at 245 00:18:37.440 --> 00:18:40.559 Twitter when he came into Twitter and offer everybody sevenths 246 00:18:41.319 --> 00:18:44.839 you know if they voluntarily left, particularly Twitter. This is 247 00:18:44.880 --> 00:18:48.400 important because almost impossible to fire people in California, so 248 00:18:48.680 --> 00:18:50.920 you want to incentivize them to lead by themselves so 249 00:18:50.960 --> 00:18:54.720 you don't have to fire them. Same thing to some 250 00:18:54.839 --> 00:18:57.559 extent the federal government. Very difficult to fire people who 251 00:18:57.559 --> 00:19:01.279 work in the federal government because of all kinds of 252 00:19:01.359 --> 00:19:04.079 laws and regulation. So the best way to get a 253 00:19:04.319 --> 00:19:09.119 mass firing is there is to actually have them, actually 254 00:19:09.119 --> 00:19:13.200 have them resigned. So here's what it's about. Federal workers 255 00:19:13.200 --> 00:19:17.359 who accepted the further resignation offer will remain employed. Retain 256 00:19:17.480 --> 00:19:20.720 all pay and benefits, and be exempt from in person 257 00:19:20.799 --> 00:19:24.519 work requirements until their final resignation. They have September thirtieth, 258 00:19:25.599 --> 00:19:27.319 so they might still be working, but they won't have 259 00:19:27.319 --> 00:19:30.200 to come in person because one of the executive orders 260 00:19:30.200 --> 00:19:32.839 that Trump signed was everybody has to start coming into 261 00:19:32.920 --> 00:19:37.240 the job and be in person. Those who take the 262 00:19:37.319 --> 00:19:42.480 offer could see their duties changed or be reassigned or 263 00:19:42.519 --> 00:19:45.839 placed on leave before their resignation, but other than that 264 00:19:46.119 --> 00:19:48.440 they would be expected to work. They could continue working 265 00:19:48.440 --> 00:19:50.519 from home to the extent that they do that, but 266 00:19:50.519 --> 00:19:54.920 they would be out of end of September. Those who 267 00:19:54.880 --> 00:19:59.839 accepted are not expected to work, according to one of 268 00:19:59.880 --> 00:20:02.680 the publications. Again, there's a lot of contradicty stuff that's 269 00:20:02.720 --> 00:20:05.319 coming out that the Trump administation is putting out. There's 270 00:20:05.319 --> 00:20:11.000 not one consistent message. And the most common question by 271 00:20:11.160 --> 00:20:15.960 employees is, you know, will I have to work? Can 272 00:20:16.000 --> 00:20:18.759 I take the vacation I always wanted to, you know, 273 00:20:18.799 --> 00:20:21.559 for eight months? Can I just watch movies chill for 274 00:20:21.599 --> 00:20:31.680 eight months? So you know, it's unclear, but I think 275 00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:33.200 I think at the end of the day, it's going 276 00:20:33.240 --> 00:20:36.119 to be up to the particular agency whether your job 277 00:20:36.200 --> 00:20:40.440 is going to be moved, eliminated, consolidated, reassigned, exactly what's 278 00:20:40.440 --> 00:20:42.640 going to happen to what you're going to do over 279 00:20:42.680 --> 00:20:47.960 the next eight months. Under the offer, employees can accelerate 280 00:20:48.119 --> 00:20:52.559 their resignation date, but not extended. If a federal OCA 281 00:20:52.599 --> 00:20:55.960 becomes eligible for early or normal retirement at any point 282 00:20:55.960 --> 00:20:58.359 before the resignation day, they can also elect to retire 283 00:20:58.599 --> 00:21:03.359 according to the office. Those don't accept it, they off 284 00:21:03.359 --> 00:21:07.079 expires on February sixth. There's no penalty if they do 285 00:21:07.160 --> 00:21:13.000 not respond to the email. Uh and but the announcement 286 00:21:13.039 --> 00:21:15.920 does state that the majority of federal agencies are going 287 00:21:15.960 --> 00:21:19.680 to be downsized as part of the Trumpet demonstrations overhaul. 288 00:21:20.599 --> 00:21:25.799 They're going to follow employees, they will reclassify employees. They're 289 00:21:25.799 --> 00:21:29.240 going to reclassify employees to act will status, which will 290 00:21:29.279 --> 00:21:31.559 then make it easier for them to be fired. So 291 00:21:31.599 --> 00:21:34.319 they're going to change the way employees are treated in 292 00:21:34.319 --> 00:21:36.119 the government, which is all, at the end of the day, 293 00:21:36.160 --> 00:21:40.720 really good. This is all good. I don't think that 294 00:21:40.759 --> 00:21:43.839 this this letting people design is good, but we'll get 295 00:21:43.839 --> 00:21:47.759 to that in a minute. For those who do not 296 00:21:47.799 --> 00:21:51.279 take the offer, they write, we cannot give you full 297 00:21:51.319 --> 00:21:54.759 assurance regarding the certainty of your position or agency or agency. 298 00:21:55.240 --> 00:21:57.680 But should your position be eliminated, you will be treated 299 00:21:57.720 --> 00:22:00.400 with dignity and will be afforded the protections in place 300 00:22:00.440 --> 00:22:03.359 for such positions. So you're not going to get this 301 00:22:03.440 --> 00:22:08.000 halfway again, right. It turns out not all federal employees 302 00:22:08.000 --> 00:22:12.440 are eligible. Agency heads may determine a corve outs within 303 00:22:12.480 --> 00:22:17.480 their agencies. Military personnel employees are the Post Office save 304 00:22:17.559 --> 00:22:20.559 the Post Office, and those in positions related to immigration 305 00:22:20.680 --> 00:22:28.000 enforcement that is the priority, and national security exempt. So 306 00:22:28.039 --> 00:22:34.119 the idea here is to shrink government big time. You know, 307 00:22:34.160 --> 00:22:36.880 as far as I know, you know, this has never 308 00:22:36.960 --> 00:22:44.200 been done before. And you know Office of seven cy, 309 00:22:44.400 --> 00:22:47.480 I mean I've been given out to government employees, beenever 310 00:22:47.519 --> 00:22:51.240 on a scale like this, And so you know, we're 311 00:22:51.240 --> 00:22:55.799 going to see what the response is now in Congress, 312 00:22:55.799 --> 00:22:58.759 of course, the Democrats are saying that the president has 313 00:22:58.799 --> 00:23:01.799 no authorit even make an offer like this. There's no 314 00:23:02.079 --> 00:23:04.759 but no budget line item to pay people who are 315 00:23:04.799 --> 00:23:11.160 not showing up for work. So and again you know, 316 00:23:11.359 --> 00:23:14.440 again this will be sued. They'll sue around this, and 317 00:23:14.960 --> 00:23:18.480 the quotes will Ultimately it's whether this is the right way, 318 00:23:18.599 --> 00:23:24.599 or this is a legitimate way to shrink government. Now 319 00:23:25.200 --> 00:23:28.400 I don't particularly like this. Why don't I like this? Well, 320 00:23:28.440 --> 00:23:35.440 it's simple, it's it's so not strategic, right, I get 321 00:23:35.440 --> 00:23:37.480 it that you could tell all the agencies to shrink 322 00:23:37.519 --> 00:23:40.599 the workforce by ten percent and then tell the agency 323 00:23:40.720 --> 00:23:44.559 head that they're responsible to getting rid of of the 324 00:23:44.559 --> 00:23:47.759 at least productive employees. You know, you can even say 325 00:23:47.799 --> 00:23:51.319 something like some companies do. I think Amazon does this regularly, 326 00:23:52.599 --> 00:24:00.599 the ten percent lowest performing employees, you know, fire them, 327 00:24:01.440 --> 00:24:03.519 or twenty percent or whatever, whatever the number you want 328 00:24:03.519 --> 00:24:09.880 to have. Or you know, I think ultimately it'll be 329 00:24:09.920 --> 00:24:14.640 great if the if whole agencies are shut down and 330 00:24:14.680 --> 00:24:17.799 closed and everybody's fired from there. But this is like 331 00:24:17.839 --> 00:24:21.720 a heartchpology that's going to depend on people who are 332 00:24:21.759 --> 00:24:23.599 willing to resign and are willing to leave, and of 333 00:24:23.599 --> 00:24:28.400 course gonna who's gonna leave. Well, it's just based on incentives. 334 00:24:28.440 --> 00:24:31.359 If we just look at incentives, the most competent people 335 00:24:32.039 --> 00:24:34.920 with the most options in the private sector are likely 336 00:24:35.000 --> 00:24:38.599 to leave. People who don't think they'll ever find a 337 00:24:38.680 --> 00:24:42.640 job in the private sector are the ones in the stay. 338 00:24:42.799 --> 00:24:52.039 So you're basically, you know, you're basically providing a you know, 339 00:24:52.079 --> 00:24:55.400 a bad incentive structure. Now, why didn't this work at Twitter? 340 00:24:55.960 --> 00:25:00.799 The reason at Twitter talented people stayed is because there 341 00:25:00.799 --> 00:25:03.960 was an upside. Right, if you stayed, you got stock 342 00:25:04.759 --> 00:25:08.680 and if Twitter was a huge success, you would benefit enormously. Here, 343 00:25:08.720 --> 00:25:15.160 there's no upside to staying, right, no upside to state. 344 00:25:18.319 --> 00:25:26.720 So the only incentive driving leaving a staying is whether 345 00:25:26.759 --> 00:25:28.960 you think you get a job outside, how talented you are, 346 00:25:28.960 --> 00:25:32.359 how good you out your job, assuming the better you 347 00:25:32.400 --> 00:25:34.000 out your job, the more likely it is to get 348 00:25:34.000 --> 00:25:42.319 a job outside. So you know, it's the incentive structure 349 00:25:42.720 --> 00:25:45.519 is weird. There's no upside to staying. The only upside 350 00:25:45.519 --> 00:25:47.720 I can see the staying. And some people have commented 351 00:25:47.759 --> 00:25:52.079 on this is government employees the one to stick around 352 00:25:53.000 --> 00:25:58.160 to school with Trump to fight him as government employees. 353 00:25:58.680 --> 00:26:02.240 How many people are like that? Just vindictive democrats, leftists. 354 00:26:02.880 --> 00:26:04.519 I don't think there are many of them that are 355 00:26:04.519 --> 00:26:10.640 willing to do that. Also, it's not clear how politically 356 00:26:11.960 --> 00:26:16.599 smart this is. Right, what happens if I don't know 357 00:26:17.279 --> 00:26:19.119 half the people or three quarters of the people in 358 00:26:19.160 --> 00:26:25.039 the passport department? You know, the people who approve your passports, 359 00:26:25.319 --> 00:26:28.880 who renew passports all resign and suddenly that department shrinks 360 00:26:28.920 --> 00:26:32.599 by seventy five percent. Well, people are going to be 361 00:26:32.680 --> 00:26:35.119 pissed off because their passports are not being approved. Or 362 00:26:36.200 --> 00:26:41.000 iOS you know, iOS, people who answer questions on the 363 00:26:41.039 --> 00:26:44.640 phone lines. And now you're not going to get through that. 364 00:26:44.759 --> 00:26:45.799 You're not going to be able to get through the 365 00:26:45.799 --> 00:26:49.160 dirs now as it is, it's really, really, really hard 366 00:26:49.160 --> 00:26:55.119 to get through the IRS. Imagine what happened now, and 367 00:26:55.160 --> 00:26:57.880 you could go on and on. In other words, it's 368 00:26:57.920 --> 00:27:04.000 not strategic. It's not let's shrink the responsibilities of these 369 00:27:04.000 --> 00:27:06.920 departments and as a consequence, we can fire a bunch 370 00:27:06.920 --> 00:27:10.960 of people. It's not these apartments are useless anyway, they 371 00:27:10.960 --> 00:27:14.799 don't do anything. Let's fire a bunch of people. Let's 372 00:27:14.960 --> 00:27:18.200 just fire at or let's let go of a bunch 373 00:27:18.240 --> 00:27:24.200 of people based on their own willingness to leave, independent 374 00:27:24.240 --> 00:27:27.559 of how good they are, independent of how valuable they are, 375 00:27:27.640 --> 00:27:29.559 independent of that we need them or don't need them, 376 00:27:29.640 --> 00:27:46.359 or anything like that. So it's it. You can't extrapolate 377 00:27:46.359 --> 00:27:51.359 from Twitter to the government. In Twitter, the incentives are different. 378 00:27:53.079 --> 00:27:55.079 But again, you know, we will see, we will see 379 00:27:55.119 --> 00:27:58.960 how it all plays out in the meantime, everybody's kind 380 00:27:58.960 --> 00:28:03.000 of fantaic. Again, this will go to the courts. You know, 381 00:28:03.200 --> 00:28:08.480 does Trump have the legal authority to make this offer? 382 00:28:10.440 --> 00:28:16.039 And we will see what happens. Now, yesterday we talked about, uh, 383 00:28:16.160 --> 00:28:22.519 the the freeze on a lot of government spending, a 384 00:28:22.559 --> 00:28:26.039 freeze on you know, all this government spending, those happening 385 00:28:27.079 --> 00:28:32.079 and uh, you know, pausing federal grants and loans, and 386 00:28:32.079 --> 00:28:35.559 and nobody knew how broad it was. Did it apply 387 00:28:35.640 --> 00:28:37.559 to them, didn't apply to them? The freezing of all 388 00:28:37.599 --> 00:28:42.240 foreign aid, humanitarian aid, other kinds of aid except except 389 00:28:42.279 --> 00:28:47.839 for Israel Innegia, you know, but everything else. And and 390 00:28:47.839 --> 00:28:50.000 and then there was a question of is this constitutional? 391 00:28:50.079 --> 00:28:54.319 Can Congress has approved all this money? Uh? And and 392 00:28:54.359 --> 00:28:58.240 if so, can the president unilaterally just say no, I'm 393 00:28:58.240 --> 00:29:00.359 not gonna spend it, or I'm gonna free said for 394 00:29:00.359 --> 00:29:05.000 three months or something like that. And immediately there were calls. 395 00:29:04.799 --> 00:29:07.599 But there's this age program that saves lives, and there's 396 00:29:07.640 --> 00:29:10.799 this program where people are suffering. And somebody, some woman 397 00:29:11.599 --> 00:29:14.920 who gets welfare from the government and was you know, 398 00:29:15.000 --> 00:29:16.960 thought she was not gonna get a welfare check anymore. 399 00:29:17.279 --> 00:29:20.480 She freaked out on Twitter, and that went viral and 400 00:29:20.640 --> 00:29:24.000 all this stuff happened. And then so a different departments 401 00:29:24.000 --> 00:29:29.160