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Making America and In Great Again, November 23rd, 2021, Introduction.

Our nation has been more greatly blessed than any other nation in the history of the world,

and this helps to explain why we consume such a gargantuan amount of antidepressants.

Now before you dismiss that as some kind of November snark line, allow me to repeat the point.

Almost one in five American women are pill coping, and the reason we are so wretched and miserable

on the eve of yet another Thanksgiving is that we have more to be grateful for than just

about anybody, and have flatly refused to render thanks to the Father of the Lord Jesus

for all our blessings, which makes us the biggest in-grates ever.

And a characteristic of in-grates is one that you may have noticed before.

In-grates are simply wretched creatures.

In-grates fight in greedsters.

In the meantime, we conservatives are rallying the troops to fight the greedster commies,

which could be one of the noblest activities ever, but most want to fight them out of sheer

reactionary selfishness, clutching at things we were never really grateful for in the first

place, and we are merely clutching at them because the commies want to snatch them.

We are that whiny kid in the nursery who despises the toy he is holding, but who gets in

a quarrel with another kid simply because the other kid grabbed at it.

We want to go back to the plastic days of your when we had all this stuff, and the GDP

was making this constant roaring noise in the background, and official people let us take

our stuff home so we could be miserable with it there, and mothers little helper didn't

help, and the shrink didn't help, and the snotty daughter at Brynmar didn't want to help,

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