💬 Opinion 1d ago · Ben Stein

Swimming in Defeat

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So, the day after the GOP bloodbath a few days ago, I was sitting by my super pool feeling sad. My pal Judah, a very smart fellow, called me. “I don’t know what to do,” I said. “I’m sitting by my pool feeling desperate. What should I do?”
“Go swimming in your pool,” he said.
Great advice. I did it and I felt better. I have desperate pain in my hips and swimming helps a great deal. It all reminds me of when the media unleashed a coup against Mr. Nixon and I felt suicidal. But my parents, Herbert

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