The USA is at a crossroads, and choices need to be made. Who we vote for, who we respect, who our friends are, everything is in flux.


A former bartender, now in politics, nailed this moment with the most perfect sentence of our times:


'These are the kinds of people that I threw out of bars all the time'


Keep that in mind, and we will stay on the road to that shining city on the hill.

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