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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: AlphaWolf 🐝🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: “Life was better under Trump”
Date: 11/25/24 3:32 PM
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The Dems need to stop wringing their hands and get a backbone.

There are plenty of good things going on under Biden/Harris. The best economy in the world coming out of the pandemic, an overdue infrastructure bill, computer chips built in America which is good for the economy AND our security, low unemployment (job requirements these days are “do you have a pulse?”), expanded overtime for millions of Americans, prevented discriminatory mortgage lending, a crackdown on junk fees and overdraft charges, gave smaller food growers a boost, protected unions, and much, much more.

Yes, there was inflation. That was the price of avoiding a deep recession or a depression. And compared to other industrial nations around the globe, our inflation was average. Not fun, but I’ve lived through worse.

But all we ever heard about was inflation, inflation, inflation from the right-wing media.

Democrats don’t know how to communicate.

We need a good old fashioned ass-kicker like Harry Truman.

His opponents thought that he gave them hell. Harry’s response:

“I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.”

You can’t fix stupid but you can tell them the truth.
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