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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: Dope1   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: What would be more chaos?
Date: 10/30/24 5:00 PM
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Republicans aren't lied to all the time - they were lied to in connection with the 2020 election. In almost every other election - and certainly every other Presidential election - the votes are cast and counted, and the losing candidate concedes without accusing the other side of rigging the ballot counting.

Hmmm. I'm sure if you pumped a bunch of truth serum into a lot of folks here they'd swear up and down that we should have had President Al Gore in 2001.

So again, we're back to the point you were trying to deny. The right wing is going to assume that the election wasn't fair, that the count wasn't fair.

Maybe, maybe not.

Which - I'm not going to be able to disabuse you of that, but you do see where that shows that it doesn't really matter whether any sketchy things actually happen, but flows inexorably from the starting position of the right wing that the Democrats are ever and always cheaters?

I will happily grant that point, yes. The democrats have earned the mistrust, disrespect and outright scorn that millions of Republicans have for them. And why not? You can only piss on someone and tell them it's raining so many times before they walk away or do something else.

I invite you to spend some time in Gaslight Central, otherwise known as Washington State. Even you would share my opinion of some of these guys after about a year here.
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