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ld you that there was somebody who got fired for criticizing Black Lives Matter, critical race theory, and COVID, aren't you thinking to yourself, sounds like some basic white conservative here? Here's what we know about this Filipina American doctor. So first of all, Filipina. Second of all, she had a stellar record. She raised black children. Oh wait. What if somebody who raises black children c…

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cess depended on people thinking I could do that and I could do more, I probably would exaggerate my success early and I'd tell everybody, ah, it's working, it's working like crazy, it's so fast, I'll do more of it. So on one hand I don't mind. I mean it seems a functional bit of marketing if you say you're doing a little bit better than you are. I just feel like if he can get everything good without any notable negatives, that would be the first time in history anybody did it. Like hey, maybe you never know. Anything's possible. I'm rooting for him and I think everything he's doing makes sense. I'm just thinking maybe we're getting ahead of ourselves on the actual produced results. Just a hunch.

Well, meanwhile the conversation about Trump wanting to buy Canada has created a little attention by Kevin O'Leary. He's one of the Shark Tank stars but better known as being one of the more successful investors. And he's Canadian. And he says that there's actually interest in Canada in merging with the United States. Now he just means conversationally, not in the government. Government is probably 100% against it. But he thinks he wants to try to sell it. So he wants to see if he can pitch it and maybe broker a deal with Trump and some kind and form some kind of what he calls an economic union. So an economic union would not be merger. So they'd still have some regular government, I guess. But yeah, maybe. I don't know what he has in mind. But he is a serious person who wants what's best for both countries and probably has a good idea what would get us there. So if Kevin O'Leary is weighing in, I feel like Kevin O'Leary is in that category of the pirate ship. So not only did Trump attract people who used to be Democrats or still are Democrats, but he also got a Canadian. He got a Canadian. Like the Trump effect is so strong that there's somebody, you know, actually I don't know his current nationality. So I don't know if he's probably still a Canadian citizen. I think yeah, he's called the Canadian investor. But I just love the fact that the incoming Trump administration seems solid enough and capable enough that somebody like Kevin O'Leary would say let me spend a bunch of time seeing if I can get this very big thing done that might be great for both countries. Just people volunteering. It's like DOGE, right? It's like people volunteering to put their own lives on hold, really good lives. Like we're talking about people who could just go to the beach all day if they wanted to. And they've decided to sacrifice for some kind of national or double national benefit. I just appreciate it. So I'm just going to give a shout out to Kevin O'Leary for putting his risk capital out there in favor of two nations that need a little help. Thanks.

Well, there's a new update in the New York Post. Of course we'll talk about the foreign worker thing just waiting for people to stream in so we can hit that when we're all here at the same time. Apparently the intelligence spy bosses, they silenced the Defense Department back when the COVID leak was still being discussed and people were saying is it a lab leak or is it a natural thing. And apparently the Defense Department had good evidence it was a designed thing in the lab. And the spy bosses decided to take that out of the briefing so that Biden did not hear that it came from a lab. What would you do with a spy

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chief who was hiding the most vital information from the commander in chief? Now I don't think it's illegal, but you should never work in that job again. Anybody who's hiding the most important information from the president while working for the president, it's got to be fired right away. I mean there's no real second chance for that kind of stuff. So I don't know who it was. But maybe when Trump…

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