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Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – May 23, 2025
Greetings from Tyler, Now we’re hearing that Biden couldn’t have stayed out of a wheelchair much longer. Can you imagine what would have happened if they’d have rolled him out in a wheelchair? Thankfully none of that happened. Now the bad guys are scared to death. They wait in vain for Trump to commit some kind…
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