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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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Subject: Re: Guilty on all counts
Date: 05/30/24 7:51 PM
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Whatever you say. I think we're done here.

Yep, if you start from the premise that these were utterly unsubstantiated charges, then you can spin all kinds of parades of horribles about what happens when all the prosecutors in all the land start bringing utterly unsubstantiated charges. Except, of course, when you realize that we have a ton of civil rights and other procedural protections to keep prosecutors from bringing utterly unsubstantiated charges. Except then you have to add the additional premises that those protections are useless....because otherwise you have to confront the fact that Trump was convicted, which isn't supposed to happen with unsubstantiated charges.

But as long as you're fixed in your belief that these were unsubstantiated charges, your forecast consequences flow naturally from that initial premise. If you won't open up at least to the possibility that your premise is wrong - that Trump did do something wrong - there really isn't much room for discussion.
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