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Go to Economist.com and get your first month free. Everything feels strange now. By a lot of measures, President Biden is having a very successful first term, but people don't seem to realize it.

Like with the economy, the vibes are bad but the numbers say it's

strong. The economy is kind of like you on the steps of Air Force One. It feels like it's stumbling, but there is somehow upward progress.

Ah, yes. Colin Jost at the White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday night in

Washington DC. The crowd was turning on him at about that point.

They had fully turned on him by the time he finished up his groveling, sniveling, oh my great

grandfather loves you.

Bama-Bam-Bata-

Oh, bam-Bam-Bam-Bam-Bam.

Let us get to some of the madness that the Democrats have unleashed.

They should be wearing armbands, the Democrats, so we can identify them in public.

I shared the quote with you earlier of Vladimir Lenin,

Vladimir Illich Yulinov, the founding father of the

Bolshevik revolution who said give me a child for 10 years and I'll give you a Bolshevik for life and

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