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Bravo Robert. To paraphrase George W Bush this is some weird shit.

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Who would have thought that a Reagan era drug slogan " Just say no" would become a valid call to action in 2025.

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Bravo, encore, professor !

BUT...btw...... "more cheerful, more upbeat, more constructive. The seeming success of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mohammed Yunus in steering desperately damaged Bangladesh and its nearly 200 million battered people from the depths of despotism under a harsh and corrupt dictator toward the redeeming shore of full political participation and incipient democracy seemed like an appealing subject about which to write, and applaud...."

WHAT THIS PORTENDS: The HUGE task that will fall to his (inevitable?!) sucessor is UNWINDING and mitigating the chaos and destruction that will inevitably accrue during these four years (or at least til 2026 when the opposition regains control of Congress and our president barricades himself in his Oval, pulls up the drawbridges and screams alone into the void !!

(btw....whence your travels?? inquiring minds need to know!!)

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