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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: SuisseBear 🐝🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Sweeten Iran's Win
Date: 05/29/26 2:24 AM
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If people didn't understand that from his words to the effect "I don't care what the financial impact of my policies is on Proles", he said it out loud today: their votes mean nothing.

Trump sends crushing message to Republicans: ‘I don’t care about the midterms’



Gosh Steve, you have it all backwards. Bessent has the correct spin on things - the great leader was, of course, being a great statesman with an unshakable compass of core beliefs:


Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday that President Donald Trump’s comments earlier this week — that he did not care about the midterm elections as he tries to make a deal with Iran — made him a “statesman.”

“So, you’re calling President Trump a statesman? You’re saying that he is taking a statesmanlike position, that he has a core belief, and he believes that the most important thing is for Iran never to have a nuclear weapon,” Bessent said at a White House press briefing.
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