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PROFT (00:05):
In three weeks when JD Vance squares off
against Phil Marshall, Tim, perhaps he can tie
together the last decade of American politics ina way Trump failed to do in his debate with
Kamala Vance's discussion in a recent podcastinterview indicated that resizing the federal
government to supersize individual liberty willbe a core deliverable. Good. Take a listen
TWITTER HOST (00:28):
With your discussions with, with
President Trump and Elon Musk, is there any
estimation on what percentage of the governmentwe can see go away. I think when he took
Twitter, it was what he, he cut 80% of theworkforce.
JD VANCE (00:41):
Yeah, that's right. That's
TWITTER HOST (00:42):
Right. What can we expect within
our own government?
JD VANCE (00:44):
You, I, I, I go back to that number
of, okay, we're spending $2.4 trillion more from
2019 to 2024, and what are we actually gettingout of it? I think a lot of that money, you can
make a lot of that money go away, or I shouldn'tsay go away. You can give it back to people who
actually earned it rather than have it beingmisspent by government bureaucrats. I think you
can fire a lot of, or, or at least, you know,get rid of a lot of the federal workforce.
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Right? I don't know if it's 80%, but it's a lot.
PROFT (01:11):
Returning to 2019, spending levels is a
good start, but this is about much more than
cutting spending and reducing headcount. Thepoint of pairing down the administrative state
is not solely to clean up the country's balancesheet. It is to preserve the constitutional part
of our constitutional republic. Does any federalagency display consistent fealty to the rule of
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law? Is there a federal agency that hasn't beencaptured by the political party to which its
leadership affiliates or the corporate intereststhey're charged to regulate? Is there any aspect
of our economic, cultural, or civic life outsidethe reach of the federal government? What
politicians, euphemistically call public privatepartnerships have been in reality, state
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roll-ups of entire sectors of American life. Itis the total state as Oren McIntyre terms it in
his new book and an equally comprehensivereckoning is required to meet the moment. Since
2015, Donald Trump has served as the vessel forthe Vassals revolt against their public private
partnered illiberal and censorious futile lords.November 5th is Trump's last charge and the last
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best chance for the vassals to change their fateand salvage the republic in the process. I'm Dan
Proft with the Counterculture Commentary.
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