I hope this isn't offensive to people who are actually physically small, many of whom I admire, including Robert Reich and a number of my personal friends. I just am genuinely surprised, and I wonder if others are, too.

I just looked up JD Vance's height. Supposedly, he's 6'2", which surprised me, because he seems so small.

I was trying to share this post on FB with a comment as follows:

😄/😢, an emoji pair that is so frequently appropriate these days that it probably oughta be a one-click option.

Alas, the link was "broken": possibly taken down by censors?

So now I'm here. 🙂

I tried to share this on Facebook, but the link was "broken" (censored?), which is what what got me to stop procrastinating and create an account here.

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