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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Investment Strategies / Falling Knives
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Author: Dope1 ⎊  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: AFGE union calls shutdown end
Date: 10/30/25 2:05 PM
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Tapper isn't the partisan you might think he is. He wrote a book on the Biden disaster, after all.

Tapper played defense for the Biden admin until the bitter end and released his book only after it was politically safe for him to do so. No credit to him for this.

The WaPo is basically telling the dems they own this:

washingtonpost.com - Shutdown snap elections food stamp government

A turning point in the government shutdown
Piecemeal bills are a waste of time. Just fund the whole government.

The right answer is to reopen the government with a clean funding bill, ideally for a full year, to get food stamps flowing and federal workers back in the office, and then have a debate about ACA subsidies. Democrats openly acknowledge that they refuse to do this because it would mean giving up their leverage. If they persist, it could mean families start to go hungry.

Which is a remarkable thing for the WaPo to come out and even hint at. Maybe the worm is finally turning in the mainstream media.
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