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nama. And then they're like, all right, what are we saying about Panama? Panama. Wait, he's talking about Canada now. What do we say about Canada? Wait, what did he say about the smelt? Wait, New Scum. He's calling him New Scum. A hundred executive orders. They can't repeat often enough. He took away from them their number one persuasion trick: repetition. Now is this intentional? Do you think th…

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ke you can't. And also everything that Trump says is too interesting to ignore. It doesn't matter what he says. It's always too interesting to ignore. What? Greenland? What? So yes, it's intentional. Yes, it's brilliant in a way that we don't even deserve. Like we don't even deserve that level of capability. And when he shows you the competence level that he brings, just the messaging competence level that he brought to his campaign, the competence level in which he's taking things that people said are ridiculous things to do, such as using the old Twitter or now posting things that are like geopolitical, hugely important things. He makes that work. When you watch somebody who is just an extreme example of competence with his team, he doesn't do everything alone, but I think people are going to notice. Competence is hard to ignore if you just keep at it. And he is.

Well, in other news, if there's any good news at all, the employment for this coming year looks like a little better than people expected. That hasn't happened yet, but the thinking is that in surveys big companies are showing much more optimism and more prediction that they'll do serious hiring. Apparently the reason there was less hiring than there might have been is that big companies said, oh, we better wait to see if AI is going to take all the jobs. And now they've waited, and like my example where I started the show where I said I tried to get AI to do any simple thing, just look at a document and summarize

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it, and just because it was multiple pages it just couldn't do it. So I think that probably the companies have now wised up that what they thought was going to be this instant replacement of employees with machines, it might still happen but not in 2025. So in 2025 they're like we're going to need human bodies because we can tell them to look at the whole contract, not just four pages, and quit. S…

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