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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: UpNorthJoe   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: A Republic, If You Can Keep It...
Date: 06/28/24 8:45 PM
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It was a brutal debate for Biden, no doubt. Trump was pathetic as well.

Trump was ripe to be verbally annihilated so many times, it should have been easy work
for someone quick on their feet ( but that is not Biden, at this point in time ).

The BS coming out of Trump's mouth was staggering. He is so smug and arrogant, and he's not
real bright, either.

You raised a # of times Trump could have been ripped to shreds, here is another:

When Trump was bragging about his golf game, all Biden had to say was that he was too busy
for golf, as he was running the country, unlike the hundreds of times Trump golfed during his 4 years. And Trump's golf outings came at a steep cost to the taxpayers, as a full contingent of Secret Service agents had to be deployed with Trump. And Trump most certainly gouged the taxpayers for the lodging of the SS agents when on his extended vacays on his golf properties. Or Biden could have reminded Trump about the book Rick Reilly wrote about Trump and golf, titled "Commander in Cheat". Trumps nickname from the caddies that had to work with him was Pele, because he was always kicking his golf ball out of trouble. Cheat at golf as he cheats at everything.

Many more fat pitches that Trump lobbed up. Stormy Daniels: Trump claims he didn't have sex with her. Biden easily could have mentioned the $130k hush money payment, and then launched into a rant about the "catch and kill" crew Trump payed to hush this and other sexcapades of Trump. On any Trump mention of Covid, bring up the "ingest bleach" as a solution comment he made on national TV that led to idiots actually drinking bleach. On any of the border comments Trump made, bring up Trump being behind killing bipartisan legislation to improve the border situation.

So many missed opportunities.


I have talked to my friends, all are still voting against Trump ( voting for Biden ), so no changes there. But the independents will determine this election, and Biden sure did not help himself with them.
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