DOGE unveils a roadmap, Unlocking GDP Growth, WW3 escalation, Fat cell memory

Chamath, do you hear that Friedberg got busted looking at porn on his computer?

(laughs)

(laughs) No, I did not. You got busted looking at porn?

You want to know what it was?

Yeah.

(laughs)

It was Elon and Vivek's Wall Street Journal op-ed.

It was. (laughs) I lost it.

Oh, man.

I lost it. It was too good.

(laughs)

I think he was pleasuring himself to that op-ed.

He was playing the skin flute. (laughs)

He was playing yogurt everywhere. What happened that is?

He had to go for a quick game of pocket pool as you were... Oh my God. (laughs) It was, it was too exciting.

You were beating the bishop.

Allison came in and she was like wondering what was going on.

She grabbed my computer, she looked at it-

(laughs)

... and it was an essay.

Going all in. Let your winner ride. Rain Man, David Sacks. I'm going all in. And I said. We open sourced it to the fans and they've just gone crazy with it.

Love you, bestie.

Queen of quinoa. I'm going all in.

All right, before we get to DOGE, we got a little house keeping, a little housey-housekeeping. You know, we're getting into the holiday spirit here, it's episode 205, we're in year four, and we're having a Christmas party. It's going to be great. The All-In Holiday Spectacular is happening in San Francisco on Saturday, December 7th. I think the VIPs sold out, there's still some tickets left. Go to allin.com/events. And, uh, if you can't make it to San Francisco, I think you can buy, uh, a ticket for $50 on, uh, on the, uh, Zoom. I think we're going to have it on Zoom. Is that right? Am I... Do I have my facts straight there, Friedberg?

Yeah. There's going to be a live stream.

Mm-hmm.

Thanks to Zoom for setting this up for us. It's kind of interesting they're doing this thing where you could, you kind of, you know, get access to live events. So they're helping us-

Mm-hmm.

... get this set up if you want to watch the, the stream live on Zoom.

Anything's possible. It could be spicy.

True that. True that.

True that. All right, listen, bestie Elon and bestie Vivek wrote an op-ed, a barn burner in the Wall Street Journal about DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency. And they laid it out, they want to cut overbearing and unnecessary regulation, obviously. They want to cut unnecessary administrative roles, save taxpayers money. They want to run it by founders, not politicians. Helping the Trump transition team find a way to hire "a lean team of small government crusaders." Team's going to work closely with the White House Office of Management and Budget. Here's the plan: first, take aim at 500 billion in annual fe- federal expenditures that are unauthorized by Congress, then fix the government's procurement process by conducting massive audits during temporary payment suspensions. This is an interesting playbook that Elon has done before. So basically, suspend all the payments and, hey, let everybody audit those payments. Drive change through executive action based on existing legislation rather than passing new laws. And two SCOTUS rulings are going to play a major role here. West Virginia versus EPA. That's when SCOTUS ruled that federal agencies can't impose regulations dealing with major economic or policy questions unless Congress authorizes them to do so. And Luper Bright versus Raimondo, that's from 2024, and that overturned the Chevron doctrine. We talked about that on a previous episode. So according to DOGE, when combined, "These cases suggest that a plethora of current federal regulations exceed the authority Congress has granted under the law." DOGE will use software and legal experts to create a list of regulations that Trump can immediately pause. They're going to make some sort of a leaderboard, Elon said, and Vivek said he would do, he suspended his existing podcast. I didn't know he had a podcast, but he's doing a DOGEcast, a DOGE podcast. And so, Friedberg, this has been, you know, a, a major issue for you. Y- you've been talking about on this podcast that the unsustainable, existential issue for our country is all of the debt we have. What are the chances that this is going to occur? Because obviously we all know the machine is going to fight to preserve the machine. Chances that we are sitting here in four years and we've seen meaningful cuts in spending and a meaningful reduction in size of the government.