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So, um, you know this, but once upon a time, um, if you wanted to dig up dirt on somebody, um,

it was a little bit challenging. If you want to like expose their secrets or their

indiscretions or know what they were up to before they came to work for you or before they

wanted you to vote for them, you know, their unethical deals, whatever it was. It used to be kind

of challenging, but now it's not challenging at all. We can all do this from the comfort of home,

right? Um, so, you know this, if you ever think about running for office, you better look back

because it's going to come up, right? It's better to look back so you're not surprised.

It doesn't take much these days and again, we all know this to be canceled. This is kind of the

thing, right? You know, the cancel culture. Um, but, um, and of course, this means that a little

bit of bad can erase a whole lot of good, which is not fair, but it just, it's real. It's just the

way things are. But the thing is, there's a little bit of hypocrisy built into this for all of us

because we are not, um, all equal opportunity cancelers, right? I mean, isn't this true? We maximize,

we maximize all the bad things about the other, other party's person, you know, it's like, oh,

clearly they're disqualified. But then it was like, we minimize. It's not that big a deal, right? It

was a long time ago. Everybody does it. We minimize it, right? When it's, when it's our candidate,

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