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with it and see what it could do. You'd have to give it to somebody who's actually a developer who can make it do something because it doesn't know how to do anything useful apparently except I think it has some kind of acrobatic thing. You know how we always say that the Amish don't get the chronic health problems that the rest of us do and then we say it must be the vaccinations. And then we sa…

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he fake news that you may have seen. You may have seen on social media that the TV show The View, they were taping the last show and said they were going on a hiatus or something and people said The View is going out, you know, is no longer on TV. But that's not true because The View takes the same vacation every summer. So there's nothing to suggest that the TV show The View will be discontinued. They just always take that week off or two weeks or whatever it is.

Well, apparently there's a Billy Joel documentary on HBO which is a worthless piece of shit for reasons I can't even fathom that repeats the Fine People hoax more than once. The Fine People hoax is in a documentary with Billy Joel. Now, I haven't watched it, so I assume that it's something like, and then Billy Joel was inspired to get involved in politics because of the Fine People hoax or something like that. I mean, I don't even know why it's in the Billy Joel documentary, but you pieces of shit at HBO. I mean, absolute shit. I believe the Trump administration should sue them. So I think Trump should sue HBO for putting this documentary on and having what they should know by now is fake news about the Fine People. So we'll see if that happens.

Apparently the Trump administration is tightening foreign worker visas somehow, making it stricter. But one of the things that they're also looking at is citizenship tests. So for those people who would qualify for citizenship, which is separate from the visa question, there's some energy to make the test harder. Now, I guess it used to be harder under Trump's first term. I feel like they did this once before, but apparently the thinking is that it's too easy to pass the test because you just have to memorize a certain amount of stuff. So they want to make it longer and harder to pass.

And I kind of love the fact that that would be like an IQ test to get into the country. That's better than a two minimum. It's like, all right, here's the deal. You cannot enter our country unless you're at least this tall, you buy at least two drinks and your IQ is high enough that you can pass this much harder citizenship test. What would happen to our country if from this day on nobody could come in unless they could pass a citizenship test that even the people who were born here couldn't pass? We'd have all the smart people here, wouldn't we?

But we can't say that. You know, it would be politically incorrect to say we've instituted an IQ test because then immediatel

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y people would say that's racist, which would be racist, which is the weird part. If you think that having an IQ test would be racist, you're the racist. Just think about it. Well, apparently Harvard wants to settle with the Trump administration because Columbia settled with that $200 million fine that they agreed to pay. So maybe Harvard figured out it was cheaper to just pay a bunch of money an…

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