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Dow Hits 69, Grandpa Declares All Wars Resolved

Grandpa Pudding Brains is bragging that America has "a war going on" and the economy is booming, because apparently, the Dow hitting "number 69" is now how we measure national health. This is the Grandpa Pudding Brains worldview: war is not a catastrophe, or a policy failure, or…