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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: ptheland 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: $27 Million for The Big Guy
Date: 08/19/24 4:10 PM
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Besides the magnitude, there is an important difference in the two pots of money that invalidates your comparison. Can you figure out what it is?

One is a smear campaign to justify that the other is OK.

In reality, if true (something I am not agreeing with yet) both are bad and are not to be excused. Fortunately, one of the alleged perpetrators has dropped out of the race. The other has much more solid evidence against him. And hasn't dropped out.

Keep your eye on the ball, folks. This is just a false equivalence campaign that attempts to justify Trump's illegalities. It's just like the attempts to impeach Biden (to create a false equivalency), or to pretend that unfortunate loss of soldiers during the Afghanistan withdrawal is just as disrespectful as Trump's calling soldiers who gave their life for their country "losers".

It's all an attempt to smear others to make it look like Trump's obvious problems don't look as bad in comparison. And that's just not true.

Just like the attempt here to disclaim the dollar differences. Trump's family provably took an order of magnitude more money from foreign governments than Biden's family is alleged to have taken. You can't just ignore that difference. It's material and can't be ignored.

--Peter
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