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The old strongly-worded-letter from a “select committee”. That’ll fix ‘em!

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I doubt the letter had much to do with the guy's firing. France and the EU were just worried that Musk would get angry and buy France as payback:)

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09/17/24: It would only take the contents of three change jars to do the trick.

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(09/18/24: Gray Poupon jars, to be exact.)

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Seems like it might have worked this time.

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It would work on them. The EU knows Trump is probably going to win, and they are bracing for what is coming - figured it made sense to get rid of the problem than try and face it head on.

Unless its citizen's have the backbone to jettison all these EU pols, the continent is finished.

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Yes, time for them to go back underground.

Yes, they are going to let the Muslims turn it into shitholes.

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So far, the EU promise has been largely vacant. The EU was never going to work the way the people wanted. It was always about making Europe relevant in the world as it continued to fail culturally and economically. At least that is my take on the ghastly experiment they managed to thrust at the people.

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The EU is BS. It's basically Socialism - lite. And now they're trying to turn the lite into full on Socialism. People there don't like it anymore than we do. They just don't have the American in your face attitude and they're tired of all the wars they fought for thousands of years on their soil. The Europeans are not peaceful compared to Americans, the last few decades notwithstanding. The EU structurally, conceptually, and operationally is a flawed construct. It would have failed by now except for the propping up by the Establishment that created it. I think it will not survive in its current iteration.

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From our recent trips to EU countries, we observed resignation and surrender in UK and France. Greece and Italy, otoh, were quite different. Not hard to draw relevant conclusions given that the latter two countries have more moderate, less Left leadership. (none of them have true conservatives imho)

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Haven't been to Greece. Italy I agree with you.

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Indeed. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

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But they've got all these nooks and crannies where the sun don't shine that are really hard to find.

That's why (how?) they keep being able to sly and underhanded.

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The French guy was in way over his head with his threat to Musk and there was no one who was going to take on Musk behind him. The French like to run their mouths and pretend to be relevant. They haven't been for a very, very long time.

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Sep 17Liked by Don Surber

Gotta get rid of the big cancer on the Hudson! The UN is in the business of destroying the US.

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All we have to do is stop keeping it afloat but we don't. It is coming though as we run out of borrowed money. It is an anachronism from another era no longer needed.

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09/17/24: Oops! The UN faces the East River (the Hudson is the river to the west of Manhattan). But the point is solid.

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And the West.

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Exactly.

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I remember when Houston had two newspapers. I subscribed to both and would read them both every day. Post in the morning, Chronicle in the afternoon.

About half that time ago I got schooled by Brent Bozell on how to read (interpret) modern journ-o-lism and now reading news is almost a sport. Being one of the most normal people I know, I bet I'm not the only one in this crowd that looks at the source before deciding to take in the article.

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Same with the Dallas Morning News and the Dallas Times Herald. Haven't read a newspaper in decades.

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Once very profitable DFW pro-business Belo Corp, parent of DMN and TV stations, kept the TV stations and spun off the money-losing DMN (even after DTH went broke). Grandson of WW2 Belo executive, Jim Maroney, a Stanford grad, stepped in, resulting in his conservative Texan subscribers unwilling to pay $400 a year for a few local sportswriters and AP wire service reports & syndicated stories from NYT and DC Post…

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Wasn't it "Call 748-1414, call 748-1414, and get the Dallas Times Herald Classified, for results like you've never seen before" ? Was constantly on the radio!

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for the Chron it was "Capitol 4-6868" to call the classified ads, I used to know just about every telephone exchange in Houston. They were calls like Mohawk, (Bellaire, Meyerland), Capitol (downtown), Underwood (Heights), Prescott (Sharpstown), Gypsy (SW Houston), etc. You knew the local area of telephone numbers and could tell where people lived by their phone numbers. That all got blown up with pagers and then cell phones.

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In my small hometown we had only 4 digit phone numbers, no prefixes

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Yes, I had forgotten that.....same was true in Nashville where I grew up.

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Twilight was Madison. Congress was Inglewood, Canal was the Edgefield area. Hi, neighbor.

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East End - Broadway/ParkPlace was MI - Mission 6-9881..

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Yes!

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DanMan, I love that you carry your HAMMER to work every morning. I do not have to search for a real newspaper! Mornings are super busy now as my yard is suddenly graced with hungry stray Cats that just can't get no respect around here.

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Perhaps those cats are are refugees from Springfield looking for asylum?

Heh ~ 😏

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09/17/24: Refugees from Springfield Ohio?:

Off-topic (pardon the intrusion):

"Take Me Out To The Old De-Ball Game!"

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-820547

(The Secret Service just asked President Trump if he'd like to carry a pager.)

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Ouch !!

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I also subscribed to the Post-when the Chronicle bought the Post, I kept the subscription, strictly for the sports and comics.

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Off-topic (pardon the intrusion):

"Take Me Out To The Old De-Ball Game!"

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-820547

(The Secret Service just asked President Trump if he'd like to carry a pager.)

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Sep 17·edited Sep 17Liked by Don Surber

Why no bread in Cuba ?

The Castro family eats cake.

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Meanwhile, Fidel is burning in He'll, so there's some consolation...

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Hell. This thing won't let me edit my post, and it doesn't like the word "Hell".

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I remember crazy drivers coming near my mom when she learned to drive. She'd say, to no one in particular, "Drive on, fool. Hell is hot and you'll get there quicker the faster you drive!" Like it was yesterday, I'm tellin' ya!

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Off-topic (pardon the intrusion):

"Take Me Out To The Old De-Ball Game!"

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-820547

(The Secret Service just asked President Trump if he'd like to carry a pager.)

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Thank you REV, WE GOT IT! That fact is a great CONSOLATION... and now, onto the next in a long line.... when God is ready.... HAVE A FANTASTIC DAY!

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But his son is raising hell in Canada, so no change in behavior: only in venue.

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Off-topic (pardon the intrusion):

"Take Me Out To The Old De-Ball Game!"

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-820547

(The Secret Service just asked President Trump if he'd like to carry a pager.)

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Not Dogs and Cats (yet)?

The memes are absolutely hilarious.

Meanwhile the ridiculous Leftist pushed story of "bomb threats" in Springfield has been proven to be a lie.

Whether or not folks there eat pets, the topic and the memes have drawn fresh attention to the border catastrophe and affects of unfetter immigration. One can only imagine any city or town suddenly facing an influx of foreigners representing another 30% of the population.

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Sep 17Liked by Don Surber

Sir Herr Starmer will goosestep Britain back into the EU.

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Sadly I think that’s true. GB is a lost cause

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My sister and I tried as little girls to copy what we saw Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose doing. And we only saw them in newsreels at the neighborhood movie theater. Remember when little local theaters had "party rooms" and "crying rooms?" No sissified elevators for us. We climbed the carpeted stairs to watch a movie and eat cake and open presents.

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He will try but the EU boat has sailed. The people can see what it brought to them and they don't like most of it.

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After the death of QEII, I don't expect it will get better, or even recover former greatness.

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This should be translated into the Original German. It would sound better.

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Sep 17Liked by Don Surber

Thierry Breton’s, (who, according to numerous reports was not even well-liked by the EU elites because his flagrant arrogance was so much more flamboyant than their own), mortal sin, which ironically got him “cancelled” was for publicly outing their clandestine effort to censor the free speech of Americans.

But make no mistake. The EU hydra, headed by Klaus Schwab’s handmaiden Ursula Von der Layden, their #1 priority is still and ever will be to censor everyone’s free speech, as she has vehemently pronounced on multiple occasions.

As for the UN, say there were such a thing as special “spiritual glasses” one could put on which enabled them to see devils and demons at work on earth. If you put them on and looked at the UN what you would see would terrify you.

The entire place needs to be exorcised, the building razed to the ground, and the earth where it stood salted.

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Ultimately, they have to sell suppression of speech to the people and the people are not going to buy it. Remember, they lived thru WWI and WWII as well as a divided Berlin in Germany. The suppression of speech means to me that the Global power players have run out of options, and this is their last-ditch effort to save their plan. They see what Trump is doing here and they know like-minded people are everywhere in the world and watching closely. The suppression of free speech is their last option to stop the threat of freedom from destroying their plans for the world.

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"Klaus Schwab’s handmaiden Ursula Von der Layden,".... RIGHT OUT OF A COMMIE DISNEY TRAILER..... you just can't make this stuff up. "to the ground".... as always, THANK YOU, SUZIE!

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U.N. delenda est!

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Sep 17Liked by Don Surber

USA Today: “…Biden stepped back and Harris stepped up…”

Hmmmm.

I recall Biden being threatened and Harris given an offer she couldn’t refuse.

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I was hoping for an invitation to CARMELA for 'Dinner and a Swim' by the Obamas, but an APPOINTMENT TO BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT???? Something seems amiss there, just my opinion. lol

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Sep 17·edited Sep 17Liked by Don Surber

I reject the Dem's one-word taglines of 'Hope' and 'Joy' and choose to hold onto FAITH.

"Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see." (NIV)

I will see joy when our hopes for things unseen are realized through our faith.

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Faith brings hope and joy. It's the gold medallist.

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AMEN, AND thank you, SHRUGGED!!!

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Sep 17Liked by Don Surber

“UNRWA in Gaza has been fully infiltrated by Hamas and is incapable of serving as a neutral humanitarian actor in the region.” What could be more obvious, every Gazan who has a job is an employee of Hamas and those that don’t work depend on Hamas for handouts.

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Sep 17Liked by Don Surber

Woodrow Wilson’s League of Nations didn’t survive because the US wouldn’t participate. If the US quit funding the UN it would also collapse. Defund the UN. It is our money their sending to Hamas and other terrorist countries.

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Sep 17·edited Sep 17

The amount of money that has been laundered through that corrupt organization to some of the worst actors in the world throughout its existence is incomprehensible.

It needs to be thoroughly exposed for its crimes against humanity - which are legion - it’s members tarred and feathered and run out of town, and the building turned to dust.

Then, after a few years, Trump should build a museum and learning center there solely dedicated to the US Constitution.

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I see you've thought about this.

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Amen Sub !!

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I hope Musk has his island bunker ready.

They are not going to stop.

They want him dead.

"They" are the Globalists.

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I see it differently. Musk in the near future could be the first trillionaire. That's a lot of clout for one man to have. At this point, Musk is a guy to be reckoned with and the Globalists don't like so much power directed at them. If I were part of the Global Gang, I would think wisely about my own safety. The Globalist Gang has a vast but limited amount of power they can employ due to their positions and or wealth. Do not underestimate the power of a champion of the people who works to keep his people free. Both Musk and Trump are increasingly seen as "last hopes" by many people. Freedom of the people is a powerful thing,.

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Spot on Reddog .

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Off-topic (pardon the intrusion):

"Take Me Out To The Old De-Ball Game!"

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-820547

(The Secret Service just asked President Trump if he'd like to carry a pager.)

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Sep 17Liked by Don Surber

Perfect expose of what once was an admired and desired occupation. As a youth growing up in rural America we were told [ The road to hell is paved with good intentions ] hence the United Nations /Nato/WHO etal. Now I realize the good intentions were merely a cloak for power craving evil would be dictators and such. Thank the Good Lord for folks such as you in journalism,Elon in experimental technologies, and PDJT in restoring a vision of America The Beautiful to the citizen patriots. Please do not stop Poca-Man as the world needs PDJT re-elected to restore a semblance of sanity and hope around the globe.

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I will say it again.

Sunset clauses.

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No disagreement here D.C.

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Off-topic (pardon the intrusion):

"Take Me Out To The Old De-Ball Game!"

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-820547

(The Secret Service just asked President Trump if he'd like to carry a pager.)

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ICYMI-If they can blow up your pager today, tomorrow they'll be able to blow up your Iphone. War truly is Hell

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Considering how many pathetic, neurotic-plus cell-phone junkies there are, this could be an act of humane compassion. Meanwhile, Apple is preparing plans to blackmail the world, having installed BOOMS in their phones since 2014... Beat the rush! Go up in flames in your totally safe electric vehicle!

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Marlan, you and I are both old enough to remember a UN that actually was effective in its mission as a world body focussed on peace and prosperity for its member nations. Then, when all the third world former colonies started joining and the UN became a haven for tinpot dictators and their ilk, the UN became a quasi-criminal organization that sucked billions out of the U.S. and other Western democracies. The UNRWA is one result of this transformation. In short, the UN needs to go the way of the dodo.

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We are BLESSED to know you, Marlan Hoerer! Never stop writing, please,

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Sep 17Liked by Don Surber

It is actually sad that my go to news sources are X and Substack. Although I do read the NY Post to fill in the gaps.

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Yes, Steve C. Same for me. I have abandoned totally the MSM. Sources for breaking news: Citizen Free Press, X, and Breitbart. Substack and Unherd and The Free Press for substantive issues.

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Those are mine as well. Not much else out there that is consistently honest. People watch CNN and their ilk because they think world affairs are just too complicated for them to understand on their own so they let some liberal arts degreed journalism major with a minor in communism tell them how it works. God help us.

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Sep 17Liked by Don Surber

The EU and UN interest in free speech is equivalent to that of the former USSR, or the present Democratic Party. We are delusional to believe many in this world believe in the American Constitution or Bill of Rights. FJB

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God believes in it; He gave it to our founding fathers as both a blessing and now a curse. I would rather believe in the gifts of God than the promises of men – even now as God uses His gift to judge us for falling away from Him.

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Sep 17·edited Sep 17Liked by Don Surber

‘Eurotrash’ by David Harsanyi is mostly about how F’d up European political/economic/ecological/gender policies are but that’s because they’re made by F’d up Europeans. Ya know the same assholes that have caused 2 (and are about to cause a 3rd) WW that has caused the deaths of how many NA young people.

To call them Euro-weenies is disingenuous because they are more dangerous than that. The d-rats love them and because of that we have an economy that’s on serious life support, and illegal immigration that is going to take at least a decade to straighten out if ever, and policies on gender that are going to require a solutions equivalent to political penicillin.

One of my favourite Trump Anecdotes involved a meeting in NYC of the UN. After bashing T all month over some bullshit from every Capitol in Europe, these creeps were supposed to convene here. Realizing that most of these lizards were gay, T allowed them in but, because their ‘companions’ were not covered under the diplomatic immunity rule they only found out about it here at immigration and back to Eurostan they went, their lust unfulfilled, their dreams of wonderful evenings in NYC among the brutish North Americans turned to ash and on their own dime… proving once again the point that there are three H’s in that wonderful German word Schadenfreude…HaHaHa!

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Having spent some time in Europe on vacation and courtesy of the US Army and having my ancestors come from Germany, and having never bought in to the greatness of the "European thing", I will never understand how such people allowed themselves to be shoved into the EU stockyard so easily. The French, Germans, Brits and the rest evolved from some common backgrounds very differently and they will never get along as one. Europe has been dying for a very long time and this EU thing was a last gasp at relevancy sold as saving their economies. Little of it has proved successful thus far. In the end, we all cherish our nationality, some more than others, and I doubt very much if the EU will be successful in a way that benefits the people and their continued freedoms.

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“I will never understand how such people allowed themselves to be shoved into the EU stockyard so easily“

Simple: they were promised more $$ and consolidation of power over the entire continent.

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Kind of like Democrat promises (never kept) to Walking Dead Democrat voters.

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Sep 17·edited Sep 17

My Grandparents came from the Ukraine in 1898. They gave it a O rating on Trip Advisor

Every time I hear one of those ungrateful pansies opine on anything it makes my skin crawl, and that includes the Brits!

If and when T gets back in the WH he needs to bring every American kid in uniform, stationed anywhere back to NA. We’ll need everyone of them (and us) soon enough!

Just woke up and find out that Klaus and the boys raped you in your sleep, Europa? Tough, maybe go to Africa or the Middle East for your cannon fodder this time!

Oh, wait!

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Off-topic (pardon the intrusion):

"Take Me Out To The Old De-Ball Game!"

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-820547

(The Secret Service just asked President Trump if he'd like to carry a pager.)

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Sep 17Liked by Don Surber

"Before he bought Twitter, the federal government paid it to censor enemies of the Deep State, especially Trump."

Think about that for a minute. How would Patrick Henry, Jefferson, Washington, and the Adams boys reacted to that?

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tHANK yOU FOR THIS REMINDER OF REALITY.

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