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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: For the New York Times fans,
Date: 12/15/23 9:14 AM
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hclasvegas: ...over 50 brilliant fair and balanced experts, had opined that the Hunter laptop story was, misinformation.

Sorry, wrong.

The letter said that the arrival on the US political scene of Hunter Biden emails "has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation. We want to emphasize that we do not know if the emails, provided to the New York Post by President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, are genuine or not and that we do not have evidence of Russian involvement -- just that our experience makes us deeply suspicious..."

Politico: F

hclasvegas: FB and Mark Zuckerberg have since admitted that the story should not have been blocked and that the Feds pressured him to...

Sorry, wrong again.

Here is the statement by Facebook: "As we've said, nothing about the Hunter Biden laptop story is new. Below is what Mark told Sen. Johnson in Oct 2020 and what Mark told Joe Rogan this week. The FBI shared general warnings about foreign interference -- nothing specific about Hunter Biden.

X (Twitter): Meta Newsroom on X: "As we've said, nothing about the Hunter Biden laptop story is new. Below is what Mark told Sen. Johnson in Oct 2020 and what Mark told

Trump has been claiming elections are rigged as far back as 2012, lying when president Barack Obama was reelected that the election was a "total sham" and a "travesty," while also making the claim that the United States is "not a democracy" after Obama won.

Trump even wrote on Twitter, "We can't let this happen. We should march on Washington and stop this travesty."

Trump said he did not lose the Iowa caucuses in 2016 to Ted Cruz, because Cruz "stole it." Trump said then that "Based on the fraud committed by Senator Ted Cruz during the Iowa Caucus, either a new election should take place or Cruz results nullified."

In October 2016, just weeks before the general election, Trump wanted to cast doubt on the results by tweeting, "The election is absolutely being rigged by the dishonest and distorted media pushing Crooked Hillary -- but also at many polling places -- SAD."

Trump drew three cards in 2016 and filled an inside straight. The guy's a loser who lost the House, the Senate, and the White House. He's a crook who refused to honor the American tradition of a smooth transition of power and, instead, illegally tried to block the incoming president from taking office.

The suggestion that 2020 was a "rigged" election is absurd. Only real Kool-Aid drinkers still believe that nonsense.
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