But secessionist Albertans aren’t interested in joining the United States. 

Dear Secretary Bessent,

I read with great interest your July 21 comment at the Federal Reserve Capital Conference that: “What we need to do is examine the entire Federal Reserve institution and whether they have been successful. . . . All of these Ph.D.s over there, I don’t know what they do. . . . This is like Universal Basic Income for academic economists.”

“Next election cycle someone like Tucker Carlson or JD Vance will run on his platform and these suckers will swallow it hook, line and sinker.”

In any infectious outbreak, one of the first steps in the epidemiological response is to locate case one—the first infected patient, also known as the index case or patient zero. This is not a mere clinical curiosity: it is the foundation for reconstructing the chain of transmission.