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t and then it'll take a few years for the big ones to be built. But I feel like we're at Gen 4. I think we got there, people, if you were waiting for it. Well, I guess last night while I was sleeping, the internet broke, except for X. So I guess the problem was with Amazon's AWS cloud service that affects a lot of the big services. So a whole bunch of apps, they use Amazon's backroom processing,…
← Previous segment →reframe. Because the normal way that you would respond to an accusation that you were trying to become a dictator would be what? You would say, "I'm not trying to become a dictator." Would that move anybody? No. You might say, "I love the Constitution." And then people would say, "Yeah, everybody says that." It wouldn't mean anything. I love our democratic republic. That's what I'm committed to. Conceptual. But when he says, "I'm not a king. I work my ass off," he's reframed it into a category where it's hard to judge him, isn't it? Because even his biggest critics will admit he's working his ass off, right? So he retreats to something that even his biggest critics will grudgingly say, "All right, well, he does work his ass off." That's true. So he's already won half the battle because he moved them to a place where they agree with him. He works his ass off. And compared to Biden, it's really striking, right? So when he says, "I worked my ass off," it's not exactly specifically a defense against trying to become a king, but it is hard for you to hold in your head both of those thoughts at the same time. That's what makes it so good. You don't think of the king as working his ass off. You think of the king wearing the hat and te
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lling other people to do stuff. But we observe that Trump is in the trenches all the time, day and night, sleeps less than anybody you ever know, works harder, takes fewer vacations, golfs a lot, but the golf is often work too. And so he creates this frame where you can't really hold in your head the hard worker part, which we observe and all know to be true, with the king part. That is brilliant.…
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