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One small point... I would imagine that the president doesn't have the ability to give out the "congressional medal of freedom?"

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I quite enjoy the history bits at the beginning of these episodes.

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It's also weird Trump credits McKinley with budget surpluses and Teddy (?) Roosevelt with deficits. As a president, he's never cared about balancing the budget (electorally smart) but apparently it's still a black mark on Roosevelt a century later.

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And what about Denali?

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Denali is not just a mountain in Egypt!

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Denali is not just something that dyslexics would rather not talk about!

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I'm wondering if you are really familiar with the song Connecticut Yankee or whether you are familiar with the book A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

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I think it's about time for someone to form a new band called the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, assuming the intellectual property rights have expired on that name. Any genre and any number of members will do.

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Most of the progressives I know, outside of academia, who were rooting for censorship and lockdowns and vaccine mandates, could not even tell you who Ibram X. Kendi is. They marched in a post-Trump delirium through a badly-managed pandemic and have never had a moment of introspection. Critical Race, whacky ideas about gender fluidity in children, DEI... yeah, those hurt, but the tendency towards authoritarianism is built into liberal ideology even more so than traditional conservative dogma and the only counter is a critical and free-thinking press, which has mostly disappeared. Present company excepted.

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That 1893 recession was the result partly of the nutty bi-metallism and high tariffs that Cleveland inherited from Harrison.

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Simply, speaking there are no budgets, annual budgets, and budgetary constrain in this part of the world, called the USA. A country just wants to borrow, and barrow and limitless borrowing and distribute the taxpayer's money to war theaters, which are created by the American president themselves for their mass massacres, wars, never-ending wars created by American presidents for regime change biz and also cultivate and develop lethal terrorist outfits all over the world. For this latter purpose, trillions and trillions of taxpayer funds expended lavishly. However, when it comes to welfare of American people, these same politicians are having thrifty principles adhere with caution.

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It's Lorenz Hart. Not Lorenzo.

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