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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: Steve203 ⎊❂🐝 HONORARY
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Subject: Re: About the Hegseth meeting
Date: 09/25/25 8:19 PM
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My theories of what the meeting is for include:

Anyone, of any gender/race/religion can recite a loyalty oath. I see a pattern to the separations that have already been made.

You forgot the obvious: the final "night of the long knives", after months of sporadic activity, purge of officers who do not fit the Christian Nationalist/white supremacist mold.

Trump fires chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and two other military officers (The Chairman was black, one of the others was female, the other was a white male, who supported DEI)

apnews.com - Trump brown joint chiefs of staff firing

Trump administration fires senior Navy female officer at NATO. She appeared on a ‘woke’ list

apnews.com - Pentagon hegseth trump dei chatfield NATO

Hegseth fires general whose agency’s intel assessment of damage from Iran strikes angered Trump (embarrassed his nibs)

apnews.com - Pentagon dia iran intelligence trump kruse

Trump removes US Coast Guard chief, official cites DEI focus (female)

reuters.com - Trump fires coast guard commandant over dei security fox news reports

Looks like a purge to me.

Steve...HBTT
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