Putting Biden's head on a stake is not helpful
We're all doomed. These are end times, children. Resistance is futile.
Oh wait. Never mind.
Of course it looks and feels this way, and we nervous cases can argue that this is true, at least for the poor, the world's starving, the Constitution, the economy and the Earth. Pick pick pick. Yet there are many reasons for hope that we can turn this around.
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Bill Clinton warns 'The View 'why Americans 'should be worried,' wants Supreme Court to 'rediscover the Constitution'
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- Hamilton Spectator
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- New York Times
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