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So happy President's Day to everyone.

Yes, the ones who love me and the ones, well, let's just say who don't.

Usually on Monday mornings, I like to take stock of what happened over the weekend.

And after doing that, what I like to do is to analyze, right, all of the deranged behavior, all of the nonsense, all of the chaos that we have to

deal with on a day-to-day basis. And right now, nobody understands chaos more than me. All right,

and while I still will do that, I do actually want to look through the lens of a past president.

And I'm talking about Barack Obama.

Why do I say that?

Well, I say it because this weekend, about the Obama's, they spent some time together, right?

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