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because I was very addicted to Diet Coke for decades, it took me a long time to get off it. If you have an addictive substance in a grocery store and you give people free money that they can use in the way they want in the grocery store, they're going to buy the addictive substance. There's no way around that. So if you didn't prevent that from the start, who couldn't see that coming? Like who in…

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ed because he says we must clean house immediately. Fox News is reporting. And he says the Justice Department has been weaponized and politicized against him. Given the degree of obvious lawfare that we saw, I'm 100% in favor of this. In a more functional world where you could depend on attorneys to just do the job of attorneys and not be political, I would be totally against it. But the attorneys, not all of them of course, but enough of the attorneys have shown that they're not really playing for anything but a team. They have to go. And if the best you can do is replace them with your own cronies who will then of course be fired in three and a half years, four years, it's the best you can do. So yeah, I'm in favor of that.

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l meanwhile, let's talk about Trump's negotiating skills. This is my favorite topic. The reason I like it is that it reminds me how many people don't know how to negotiate. I did negotiating for a job back in my corporate days. It was my job to negotiate contracts. And of course I studied hypnosis and persuasion and stuff, so I have a unique insight into it. So it's fun to watch Trump work. So ri…

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