Q tanks? And also the sense that like, You know, he's been talking a lot about the robots at Tesla. We had a whole episode on the Morton's love of robots, and the sense that he might, like, kind of even be giving up on the car business for the robot business, which is kind of crazy. So that, that's what people here think about Doge. What, what about out there?
A Well, you know, when I look at Doge, I mean, I come from looking at the, the business side of things with, with what Elon did it. Twitter, or X, it was just rip everything out. See what needs to be plugged back in. And, you know, so they're gonna now have to try to plug things back in, and two thoughts about that. One is that it's very difficult to rehire or just hire federal employees at all. There's a sort of, Ben might know more about it, but it's sort of, there's like this lots of bureaucracy around, you know, approving any hire, so you can't just stick them back in. Very difficult to do. And then the other thing is, because it's so hard, I kind of think they might be handing the Democrats, like, uh, uh, some, a weapon, which just is to say, like, oh, you missed this. Well, the, the opposition or the people who get to plug it back in, you know? And so to me, it, it, it is, it's, it's messy. Um, it's ineffectual. It doesn't look like it, like everyone agrees. I think Very bipartisan issue. You know, you said everybody loves Doge out there, but it's like, people like the idea of more efficiency. They think there's too many government employees, but in a way, the way he's doing it just seems like it's kind of like a guy, like a, you know, like someone's in the garage just chucking things behind them, you know, and it's like things are clanging all over the place, and it's like…
AI assessment note: “people like the idea of more efficiency... but the way he's doing it just seems”