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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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Author: commonone   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Odds and Ends
Date: 03/19/24 10:51 AM
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Boater: Thanks for the weaponization of the legal system,, and thank you for the censoring and manipulation of Journalism, and without a doubt so many thanks for the catastrophic results of unrestricted and controlled migration into this country. You must be so proud of of these accomplishments.

Yeah, president Biden is such a devious, clever manipulator of the department of justice that he had his only living son, a recovering drug addict, indicted on multiple felonies.

Look, Biden isn't Trump. Biden doesn't involve himself in decisions of the DOJ, unlike Trump who openly urged his AG, Bill Barr, to indict Joe Biden during the close of the 2016 presidential campaign.

Trump also very publicly called for his various AGs to prosecute former president Obama, Hillary Clinton, Hunter Biden, Lisa Page, Peter Strzok, James Comey, and others.

Show me one instance of Biden asking his AG to indict anyone.

As far as "censoring and manipulation of Journalism" is concerned, that's equally laughable.

Has there ever been a president who worked to discredit journalists throughout his presidency, labeling the mainstream media biased, more than Trump? His claims of “fake news” is a rallying cry.

And Trump signed an executive order to regulate tech companies and social media platforms, infringing on the First Amendment rights of private companies in his attempts to circumvent the two other branches of government.

The supreme court is reviewing just such a case right now.

Finally, we talked endlessly here about immigration. Trump instructed republican House Speaker Moses Johnson to kill the bi-partisan senate legislation that was endorsed by the National Border Patrol Council:

“Approximately 60% of all border apprehensions are single adults, a good number of whom are men of military age. The Border Act of 2024 will codify into law authorities that U.S. Border Patrol agents never had in the past. This will allow us to remove single adults expeditiously and without a lengthy judicial review, which historically has required the release of these individuals into the interior of the U.S. This alone will drop illegal border crossings nationwide and will allow a great many of our agents to get back to detecting and apprehending those who want to cross our borders illegally and evade apprehension.”

You got the bill republicans have wanted for years and Trump killed it to make immigration his top reelection campaign issue because he's a pathological narcissist who cares nothing about the country or about others but only cares about himself, especially staying out of prison.

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