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#2, I read somewhere a couple of days ago that the Marine Corps Band has refused to keep playing Dr!!!!! Jill’s anthem to herself. Hope it’s true.

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I think the Marine Corps band dropped it in 2022. HOWEVER…I have heard rumors that they are negotiating with Rick James, so they can play “Super Freak” instead. Fitting.

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😂😂😂

Either that or "The Bitch is Back" would be fitting too. 🥴

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But is she sober?

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I think she is drunk on power.

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OH, DEFINITELY! jILL HAD NEVER DREAMED SHE COULD LEAD 450 UNIFORMED MAIDS, CLEANERS POLISHERS, BATH WATER FILLERS, AND "STEP & FETCH-ITS, LOTION APPLIERS, AND DEMENTIA PATIENT BABYSITTERS.

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BEST quip of the week!

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The Few. The Proud. The Marines and Don's FM's

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I read they quit playing Jill's anthem shortly after the demand that they compose one to HRH

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8: “That reminds me, it is almost rolling blackouts season in California when millions lose power because the state cut back on power generation in order to prevent hurricanes” <chef’s kiss>

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Worse, maybe, is that the primary Houston electricity supplier applied for one of mega million “grants” to upgrade and maintain lines and infrastructure against “climate” incidents like HURRICANE BERYL. OBiden and his administration rejected the application. Guess what Dem city and its neighbor cities have millions without power? And will do for days.

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Apparently FJB regime also rescinded the emergency declaration a couple of days after it was granted. Raw exercise of power to punish a Red State.

We live in Texas 7 most of the year. The electric situation there is a mess due to inept leadership at the grid overseer (ERCOT), federal mandates against oil/coal/natural gas (used for back up), huge draws of BITCOIN miners and server farms. Folks don't realize how much the tech "marvels" rely on electricity. And Abbott embraced wind power and other alternate energy sources too enthusiastically. These are not, in the inimitable phrasing of Dave Walsh, "continuously available" power sources.

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Aggie ex-guv Rick Perry was shilling a deal that would convert shuttered lignite power plants in Tx to power bitcoin mining. Not sure if it got funded, but from the Gov that 'deregulated' electric market in Texas' Perry sure looks like a sleezeball. Of course Texas has a Grid Independent from East & West Federal power grids, so blame is on....Texas State Legislature for selling out to Power Company lobbyists & ChiCom windmill DC_electric unreliable producers.

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I picked pool hall life guard because it’s the only thing that requires just sitting there in a vegetative state, something we can all see Joe is good at doing.

Prison would be a high second choice.

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I did as well. I could see him sitting up high on a lifeguard chair in his bathing suit and regaling the pool hall denizens with stories about Corn Pop and how Beau died in Iraq fighting Vice President Trump and Putin.

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Crash test dummies only have to sit as well.

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AND there's no chance of harming Joe's brain!

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Exactly !

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He can get some bikers to play with his leg hairs.

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you gotta go the showers b4 you can go there....

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If you didn’t pick ‘drawing clocks’ then you haven’t reached the age where your physicals all begin with that challenge.

I would give an amazingly huge donation to Trump (I’m talking real money, like a hundred freakin’ bucks!!) if The Donald would campaign on- Most Feared By Democrats Since Abraham Lincoln.

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Good one. Steve, I refused to play the medicare question game a couple years ago. First, I told my doctor I wouldnt answer the stupid questions. When he objected I fired him. Went to another doctor I liked and told him up front the issue that brought me to him. I told him he could answer the questions for me if he chose. I said if he ever needed to test my brain I would be happy to solve any complex mathematical equation he could give me and his response was “you mean I have to learn math now too”? True story😂

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Great story. A lot of great doctors out there, you just have to sift thru them.

I recently went in to get another cortisone shot in my elbow. My old doctor had retired and the NP they gave me wouldn’t do it saying it wasn’t good for me but therapy would work. I waited for the obligatory Survey call and gave them a zero out of 5 stars. I waited for worried call and told them I couldn’t trust my care to a freshly minted NP who disagreed with a doctor that practiced for 40 yrs. They gave me the shot.

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Dont get sick. None of them know anything and what they do know is dictated by ideology. Dont go to a corp Doc.

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If it's not an obvious diagnosis, they go back in their office and flip through a book. Or, nowadays, go to WebMD.

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Just had my wellness check this week and the clock test was in there. The medical assistant gave me the big circle and said show the clock reading ten minutes to eleven so in the middle of the circle I wrote 10:50.

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Hah! Hilarious!

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Awesome!!

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I would match your donation.

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Bubble- I think someone should put this out there on GoFundMe. If people saw influencers like you and me telling them what to do- Trump would get bazillions, which could be used for matching funds for Elon’s donation.

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LOL Sorry, brother. I can’t even influence my wife.

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A man approached his pastor and begged him to talk to his wife, as he was convinced she's trying to poison him. The pastor agreen to talk to her. A couple of days later, the paster met with the husband and said, "I spent three hours yesterday talking with your wife...take the poison."

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Damn !!

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Yeah, my wife’s favorite quote is from Fiddler on the Roof, where Tevya’s wife explains to her daughters that the husband’s the head, but the wife’s the neck. The head turns where the neck wants it to.

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My wife just informed me that was from My Big Fat Greek Wedding, not Fiddler on the Roof.

I get my foreign films mixed up.

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lol... good one!

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I totally missed that drawing clocks option, my age is showing, btw after 2 of those I politely told the doc to shove that clock drawing up his ass!!!!!!!

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Haven't had to do that yet. Is it a common cognitive test in the annual wellness physical? I just had mine and only had to answer the question, "In what year did 9-11 occur?"

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1968 is when AT&T established the universal 911 system.

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Every year.

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I wasn't quick enough to answer with that - but I will next year.

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9-11 occurs every year.

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Thank you for giving me my answer in next year’s physical. Mine is a Medicare physical and boy did it add a lot of “stuff” I didn’t have to do before.

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they've never asked me about 9-11

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Yes, that's been part of my test for years including the 3 words one has to recall and repeat after some distracting discussion about other stuff

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My doc does work arounds with the feds because he disagrees with them and is jab-free also...In fact, all 5 docs in that practice are on the same page...so, we don't play those stupid games.

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I want to move there!

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What the heck is the "drawing clocks" business, anyway? Reddog implied it has something to do with Medicare, but I don't use that (VA works for me. So far.). If I'm ever asked to draw a clock, it'll be digital. Probably make it read 11:11.

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fortunately I continue to pass the clock drawing test every year - but I can't even remember how long they've been making me do that - it's all relative with that memory thing

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It's harder to remember something you can care less about. So that's a good thing.

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I read on CFP last night that Elon has given a "large" donation to a Trump super pac

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Love the man tan reference..."Face it. The press hates orange." Hysterical!!!

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The swamp then used the courts and the primaries to try to muck up Trump’s path through the convention. The only thing they did was hone his edge and hopefully give him an advanced education on specific institutions on particular need for overhaul in 2025.

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Advanced degree in "politics ain't beanbag". Watching the media freak after their lies are revealed is delicious. Matched by watching the dem apparatchiks flail.

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We live in a nation of sheep. In a sane world, 90% of Americans and media outlets would be telling Slo Joe to resign and the 25th Amendment would be invoked to remove him and Dr. President Jill. Instead, our enemies within and their collaborators are propping up the regime by all means necessary and arranging to steal another election. Meanwhile most Americans sit quietly on the sidelines repeatedly accepting gut punches and lies as the norm of life. Their only complaints are about mean Tweets. *** Google Chrome is filling millions of screens with Biden campaign donation appeals. Someday we will learn the Google Team is donating those ads. *** #12 Alex Soros, son of American and Israel hating George Soros, is to marry Huma Abedin, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Clinton, daughter and niece of Muslim Brotherhood leaders, former lover of NARAL supporter Rep. Anthony Weiner, a convicted child pornographer. A match made in hell. #22 You must be mistaken about Biden's meds. I'm sure Dr. Jill carefully controls them. And Finally. There is only one door open for the Dims. So. let me get ahead of it. Slo Joe did not kill himself.

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The cat is laughing

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Lifeguard at a pool hall is the most humane.

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Tony the Tigre & munchin on his Korn pops....

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I keep waiting for him to get 'Epstein-ed'.

But Oct will be WAYYY too late to remove him from ballots and any votes cast for him cannot count towards another candidate (I have read).

But would something like Biden's demise give the marxists 'justiication' to SUSPEND THE ELECTION???

THAT is what I am really waiting to see them try!! (with dread!)

OR, do they think they have the election in the bag due to all the ballots for the illegal aliens IN KEY STATES / DISTRICTS that they are printing even as we speak??? 🤔

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An interesting theory I heard recently is that Biden stays in but selects Hillary as VP, which will calm Hollywood and big donors because it brings Bill and Hill back into the whitehouse. After a very short time, Biden resigns due to health and Hillary finally gets her "First female president" status. I'm sure there will be money and pardons thrown in there as part of the deal. While the Clintons and Obamas are at odds privately, they have always worked hand-in-hand for the big picture.

This version of things solves the "we can't get rid of Joe" problem but puts a team favorite (at least to the donors) in the seat.

Bottom line: The only two brands that can possibly save the dems is an obama or a clinton - or a combination of both. There is no other name that comes close.

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Good plan at first glance, but imagine the howling when Kamala gets bumped off the ticket. Sure, nobody really likes her, but there would be hell to pay if they tried this.

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The whining will be over in a week and everyone will move on. Harris is 10-levels higher than her skillset warrants. Everyone knows that and fear her ever (possibly) being president.

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There's no way he can replace a black woman with a white woman, not even Queen Hill.

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Gail, nobody likes her. Nobody.

Harris is a mix of Eastern Indian and Afro-Jamaican. Her Afro-Jamaican father's family was a big-time slave trader. There is no voice for this constituency. I don’t think Blacks or Latinos care.

The VP serves at the pleasure of the president and last minute changes have been made before.

She may not go quietly unless she is given big promises, including the chance to stay alive.

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Who likes Hillary?

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Those who fear Arkancide ?

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All of those who voted for her in 2016 (65.8 million).

Most of the moderates and independents didn't jump to Trump quickly or without trepidation. I would expect half or more to return to the Dem ticket if a Clinton or Obama are a part of it. Possibly a big majority of them, including many African Americans who have shifted to Trump.

Just a quick analysis of the last time it was Trump Vs Hillary in 2016 (recognizing this time she may not be at the top of the ticket):

Hillary got 65.8 million votes to Trump's 62.9 million. Hillary won the popular vote by 2.9 million votes. Trump won because of the electoral college (302 to 232) and swing states were the magic to that strong electoral victory.

Now the Dems have 12 - 16 million illegals who have been registered to vote and have smartphones to be constantly reminded to vote on election day by the DNC. They'll probably have an app to tell them where their closest polling location is (in states with no voter ID or citizenship check).

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Huma, maybe. And ‘Karens’

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Right. Michelle Obama.

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Possibly. It will be some combination of any of these.

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I pray you're wrong

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Me too as it will make Trump's current standing much less stable.

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Lots of time to get more popcorn....going spring for the Caramel Corn...

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testing the temperature UNDER THE MULCH.

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So much rich material! Thank you, Mr. Surber.

Re: “Hail to the (W?)itch”: I read where some musicologist(s) claim(s) that significant parts of it, are borrowed from the theme song to the old TV sitcom, “F Troop”!

There’s a YouTube piece comparing the two, and it seems very plausible. Hilarious!

If true, let’s all pray for the safety and career of the Marine, who was forced to write it and came up with the clever, pay back joke.

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I have to admit item 17 was shocking--the NYT editorial viciously attacking Donald Trump. I even wondered if this was a parody--but it's not.

The NYT wouldn't recognize "character" if it walked right up to them and said "Hello, I'm Character".

The New York Times is gone. Just gone. It is no longer even a "newspaper".

Thank you for including it in the Highlights, so we could see it for ourselves.

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Item 7 - "White House denials of medical problems are shaky." No one snarks better than Don.

Item 12 re: the Soros-Abedin engagement. If, God help us, they produce a child, it would be the real life sequel to "Rosemary's Baby".

Item 22 - In one event, Slo Joe refers to Zelenskyy as Putin and Kamala Harris as Vice President Trump and yet many Democrats will actually vote for this semi-vegetable. It shows that Barnum was right when he said, "Many people are gullible and we can expect this to continue."

Item 23 - I read the commentary regarding trying to convince Never Trumpers to vote for Trump. My friends who are Never Trumpers, for the most part, due to their sanctimonious virtue signaling, have painted themselves into a corner. They will probably vote for Trump, but their egos will not allow them to say so openly. Closet hypocrites in my opinion.

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ALSO: 'There's a sucker born every minute" is a phrase closely associated with P. T. Barnum, an American showman of the mid-19th century, although there is no evidence that he actually said it. Early examples of its use are found among gamblers and confidence trickster's.

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Joe can always do reverse-mortgage commercials…

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He'll get those bass-ackwards, too!

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I doubt he's ever had a mortgage. Real estate is a popular way to launder money - and the Bidens have many estates in many places. Imagine that coincidence!

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I read somewhere recently that mortgaging their home equity on their several homes has been done many times through the years to raise a huge amount of $$$. For some people, there's never enough $$$ no matter how many millions they've managed to accumulate. Just another form of addiction

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Don Surber, YOU have OUTDONE YOURSELF..... AGAIN! ANOTHER PERFECT AND MAGICAL COLUMN... TRUTHS, LACED WITH FACTS, REASON, HONESTY, AND INTEGRITY..... SWADDLED IN HILARITY! YOU ARE THE MASTER! PLEASE DO NOT EVER STOP WRITING! YOU ARE THE VERY BEST.

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Is Don using AI here???

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LOL ... DON DOES NOT NEED AI FOR ANYTHING, HE IS THE REAL DEAL. Now, Brainless JOE, butting into the news of attempted assassination to say to his friend, "donald" that he will be sure to provide all updates and news of the event..... NOW he believes he controls the news as it is being sent worldwide..... again, I wish the THE FAKE WHITE HOUSE MORON would do himself and all of us a favor by not speaking again.

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#1: Clearly.

#3: Markley, Van Camp & Robbins have been playing it frequently during their three-hour radio show, and it is hilarious!

It even SOUNDS like a joke - and one need not be a failed former composition major and Eastman drop-out to draw that conclusion.

#4: ...or, Huey Lewis and the News':

"I've been phoning night and morning

I heard you say tell him I'm not home"

...or, The Beach Boys':

"Come on and answer the phone

Come on, come on"

#9: It would appear that soon there will be an awful lot of one-, two-, and three-person law firms specializing in personal injury - either that, or a large number of fast-food workers with JDs.

#10: Unless that is code for, 'fired', the school needn't have bothered.

QotW: ...not if they're from Chicago - "Where's mine?" is the motto of municipal and county government.

#15: In retrospect, they had no reason to feel threatened. The Wrestler, in running roughshod over the constitution did a great deal of the heavy lifting for modern-day leftists.

#16: No doubt.

#20: I imagine that's the first time anyone has mistaken him for a newsman, and not a propagandist.

#21: FAFO. College is the place to learn some life lessons, as well.

#22: "...this is further proof that the White House stopped medicating [him] and Democrats are trotting him out to embarrass him out of the race."

Let 'em waste their time effort on such a fool's errand - he's a US Senator - he can't be embarrassed.

#23: I just save myself the bother of respecting NeverTrump Republicans, in the first place.

#25: "MTG, Matt Gaetz and Lauren Boebert get the last laugh."

Love THAT!!

FINALLY: I wonder if MY memory is going - I don't recall that, at all...

He was made to be a pool-hall lifeguard.

Thank you, once again, Brother Don - your writing makes the schadenfreude that much more enjoyable!

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Jul 13Edited

See reply to Marlan above. Congrats on becoming a FM.❤️. 'What's in it for me' a close 2d

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#15-Kudos, you sent me to google-Abe was also rumored to be light in the loafers

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Joe's next job should be... "let him be"... he is old; makes no sense to put him in jail; let him write his memoirs; let him hang on the beach; and work on his tan. He will fade away into his own limited mind. But, don't let up; go after Hunter and anyone else who ripped off this country on his watch and was "above the law". And stop calling the First Lady "Doctor"... she is not one.

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And President Trump is NOT a Convicted Felon.

He was never sentenced and never will be.

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Spot on-some writers point out that's ED, Not MD

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Wow, Don, ITEM 16 regarding Nixon's resignation is a gem. If FJB successfully resists the Deep State till January 2025, that will be remembered as his greatest accomplishment in an otherwise disgraceful 52-year political career.

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