Name: Will DOGE Hurt or Help America in the Long Run?
Uploaded: 2025-03-07T22:00:43.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Will DOGE Hurt or Help America in the Long Run?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-03-07. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Will DOGE Hurt or Help America in the Long Run?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-03-07. Transcript available.

and now he is doing the mallet he's he's ripping over the administrative state
he's doing mass
layoffs of the federal regulatory agencies and it's crazy to me that people don't
understand that
like these are the same problems that have persisted that he's basically worsening
um by by also you know removing tens of thousands of people that work for the
federal government
but like decent paying jobs i'm a big advocate for more government employees i
think we should
have millions more not less give everybody a job oh well i think that we should
have i think women
should get paid so that they can be at home with their children and that that
way or or a man if
one of them wants to work yeah yeah and then the other one can be at home to be
a parent you know
i wish that that was something that we did with our money um they would never
do that though that's
the problem they hate there was a case for it at one point yeah i know but i'm
saying like
republicans especially democrats won't do either because like both parties kind
of like the austerity
stuff like they what does austerity mean austerity is belt tightening like
fiscal belt tightening as in
you know uh lowering expenditures and and cutting social safety nets basically
well i think people
are getting to their wits and where it's like nobody believes that either one
of these parties is doing
anything right i think you've had the same problems you've had the same things
happen time over time
and maybe some of it at a certain point you realize well that's just the cost
of business it's
just like it's just become so bloated it's become more about them like you're
saying more about
corporations and less about everyday people yeah and that's just what it is
yeah it's never been
about people in my opinion it's like uh new deal with a lot of like socialist
communist pressure at the
time uh fdr's new yeah fdr's new deal definitely bring it up fdr's new deal
definitely uh brought
forth a lot of prosperity to america like got us out of uh the muck of the
great depression the new
deal was a series of domestic programs sorry to interrupt you i just want to uh
was a series of
domestic programs public works projects and financial reforms and regulations
enacted by
president fdr in u.s between 33 and 38 19 in the 1900s with the aim of
addressing the great
depression which began in 1929 wow dude so he had to be right on the back of
the great depression
yeah because people always they always um like they'll quote him all the time
you know yeah he um
he did he did a lot look he dealt with the pressing bank crisis through the
emergency banking act 1933
banking act federal emergency relief administration uh we set up uh social
security i mean there's so much
there's so much that they did in that era because like americans were were i
mean they they were
experiencing tremendous tremendous hardship so you're saying a lot of this felt
like it was done for the
people yeah it was done for the people because it was a necessary uh it was it
was basically necessary
for them to do this at the time because of all of the deregulation in the
banking side uh with oil
barons and all these like robber barons basically like picking apart uh and and
dominating uh everyday
american existence and and the economic collapse that came with that and then
someone had to come
in and fix this and i think donald trump is is basically not doing the fdr
thing but the reverse
he's it up and taking it back to like a pre-new deal era where and giving it
more towards
corporations you think oh 100 i mean he got bill he got elon musk right there
he's the richest guy on the planet
he's just putting his through his weird ugly egg-shaped penis through every
single uh regulatory
agency have people seen his penis i haven't seen that i don't know that's what
i don't see that kind
of stuff yeah they were they were saying they were saying he's got a weird dick
really first of all
yeah if if dude if i'm elon musk i'm definitely getting a crazy i'm getting a
designer
i'm getting enough no that's the that's what they're i'll get a damn three-seater
cop yeah they're
saying i'll put suicide doors on my dude if i'm elon musk but here's what i
would say is to to count
to kind of the thing about elon is like or just to discuss it really um i think
people are like we
don't give a who's auditing this thing and finally there's like oh this is the
person to audit this is
the person that's gonna audit this is somebody we can blame if something fucks
up this is somebody
that at least they're saying that they're gonna audit the government like why
why do we even have
to audit our own government but we we have see that's the problem we already
have an auditing agency
so these guys unironically created an additional agency which is redundant to
eliminate redundancy
and that's interesting the the unfortunate side of this is that um they don't
know what the they're doing
so they go in and they just like pull data and they basically make these public
declarations about
you know a billion dollars is going to this or that oh yeah like they they
straight up lied they
were like oh yeah we already cut like 200 billion dollars of funds and then
like the new york
times and all these other like actual investigative reporters went in looked at
the data and they
were like dude that's a lot like there's one instance where they claimed that
they cut eight billion
and they actually cut eight million dollars like how do you carry over so many
goddamn zeros they're
just like ah it who cares um no one will fact check it no one will look it up
well the crazy thing is
though now you have you have whoever our our our original auditing system was
and then you have this
second and now we have this second auditing system but dude it goes to like it's
so like
i'll have a um i'll have a financial like an investment banker right but i
there's times and i probably
should one i want to hire somebody to audit my financial advisor because i'm
like is this guy stealing
money from me you know because you hear so many stories of people getting
stolen from just like
entertainment different industries whatever but it starts to be like i don't
even know who to trust
anymore and i think that's where most people feel like it is it's like i don't
know if most people
necessarily feel like um that elon or doge is the best but it's like now it
feels like okay well
there's a government system that's supposed to be doing this and then there's a
privatized system
that's supposed to be doing this now who's the crook who knows so they think
like oh you know it's good
it's good that we're like downsizing a little bit it's like no dude you're
gonna start slowly but
surely five years down the line notice it you're gonna start noticing that
things are just not
working like air traffic control is a great example of this since the reagan
era um like the numbers
of air traffic controls uh controllers even though uh air traffic has increased
the number of air traffic
controllers have not kept up with the increase of air traffic so you got towers
where there's like one
dude there's got to be like 30 dudes in that tower i don't want the plane i don't
want planes to crash
you know what i mean probably more of them have started to work in if that's
true is there less
faa people no there's probably more faa people especially with like tsa and
whatnot but i'm saying
that it hasn't matched up to the rate of air uh like there's more planes in the
sky is what i'm saying
when there's more planes in the sky you need more air traffic controls we're
cut that they help
supported air safety uh union uh president donald trump's administration has
said no one at the
federal faa with a critical safety position has been fired as it cuts the
federal workforce
some faa jobs were eliminated had direct roles in supporting safety inspectors
and airport operations
according to their union and foreigner former employees this is another way
that they lie by the way
and and karen bass did this with the la wildfires where she was like oh we didn't
actually cut the
la fd budget they did they cut the support budget but when you cut the support
budget yeah sure you're
not cutting the actual firefighters right but you're not reducing their numbers
but when you cut the
support staff budget you're cutting mechanics when you cut the mechanics and
your fire
engine is busted you send it over and it just sits in a goddamn yard for months
because now there's no
fucking mechanics to fix the goddamn car so all of a sudden you're down one
fire engine it's all it all
works together i'm curious to see because trump's making you know and there's
so many like executive
orders and things right out of the gate and there's so much focus on him by the
media too but i'm curious
to see if some of these things turn out uh to help long term there's no way i'm
hopeful that they are
you know like i'm hopeful that you know if they're going to cut medicare or medicaid
that it's also
because they have the they're going to make price transparency from hospitals
right and and so then
there won't be the expenses won't be as high right like i'm hoping that there's
some long-term strategy
to a lot of his ideas like the same thing with um gaza and israel i don't know
if there is it seems
i don't like it but i'm hopeful trump is a major israel dick rider he's not he's
not changing that i think
i don't i can't you couldn't find 30 of these people that aren't it feels like
yeah no especially in
american american government it's it's a really really awful they yeah