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The week's question
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: CmoreBmore   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Maintaining focus this election cycle
Date: 06/20/24 6:37 PM
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"Oh, really? Russiagate taught us otherwise. Ditto all the FISA games the FBI was playing and their coverup
of Hunter's laptop."
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Who are these nameless civil service employees? Some are toxicologists, or customs inspectors, others manage our national forests & parks or protect our food supply. My cousin was such a federal employee. His career included tracking down counterfeit US currency and protecting elected US officials.

It's easy to attack "federal employees", because you don't have to name one - that would carry with it a responsibility for specifics and fact based evidence, something that ambiguity cowardly evades.

Are there ever federal employees, whose actions deserve scrutiny? Sure, and they are accountable with due process. The vast majority of civil service workers are honorable people, whose kids play on teams with your kids. They worship with you and fight traffic just the same as everyone else.

The drivel of this post relies entirely on ambiguity. It's screams scandal and outrage, but it offers nothing in the way of detail, specifics, evidence or context. At best, it's intellectually lazy. I feel generous today, so let's leave it at that.

CmoreBmore

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