Of course, it's not exactly the same, but when talking to my American friends and they're trying to figure out our weird geography, that's how Alberta normally gets described.

Yeah.

So you've got the US Treasury Secretary talking about Alberta joining the US.

You've got Steve Bannon, who's kind of the, uh, the worm tongue of Republican MAGA strategy, talking about Alberta joining the US.

You've got Tim Pool, the Russian plant, talking about Alberta joining Canada.

And there's insiders in the Trump regime who've talked about the 51st state, what Trump really means by that is getting Alberta.

And it makes sense.

And we can very cleanly see what happened to them and what our future looks like in Alberta and in Canada if we fail to fight off and defeat the separatist movement strongly.

How does that happen?

Yeah.

There's a reason that armies in general are made up mostly of young men between the age of 18 and call it 25, 30.

Because there's an age when young men think they're going to live forever.

And hey, yeah, you three go take out that machine gun nest.

Good idea.

Whereas you and me are like...

Stoicism, absolutely.

Trudeau who said that?

No.

No, that's Donald Trump signing this into law.

And then it went into effect in 2020.

And now he's calling it the worst deal ever.

We're getting ripped off.

Motherfucker, you signed this into law.

But the question is, will it change fast enough?

Stefan, thoughts?

Yeah.

I-- When I saw that, that was, that was amazing.

I mean, [chuckles] uh, I have to do-- I do have to point out that the irony of Turning Point USA, which was founded on things like anti-COVID meas- like, uh, resistance to COVID measures, anti-vaccine ideology, anti-lockdown ideology, uh, anti-gun control.

And one of the people, uh, one of the two founders, Bill Montgomery, died of COVID, and the other guy died of gun violence.

So that's...

It's, uh, in terms of chickens coming home to roost, I can't think of a better example.

Hypothetically

And so, uh, uh, to me, I think some of this too, the problem was we forgot that we have to rhetorically persuade people and patiently explain to them to understand, like, "No, we, we might change what we recommend as new information becomes available."

Back to Jessie's point, which is essentially you were asking Jessie, did Fauci knowingly misrepresent his position on masks in order to stop a run on masks and keep masks, surgical masks and N-ninety-five masks, uh, in stock for the physician community? I, I, I think it's possible.

I think it's...

I'll, I'll even-- And if I was in his shoes, I would do the same thing.

Look at what happened to toilet paper.

You couldn't buy toilet paper for love or money.

You-- People were stealing toilet paper out of gas station dispensers.

It feels tough at an individual level, certainly.