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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: Dope1   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: ActBlue, on its last legs?
Date: 03/12/25 2:16 PM
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I know you don't agree----- but I think we're begging them to come back to power at this very moment.

I only wonder if it'll be a Centrist regime or an AOC regime.

We're going to be bitches.

Enjoy this while it lasts.


Nah.
The libs are hoping they can scream and yell and declare a less than two month old Presidency a failure. The problem is...they don't control the popular perception anymore.

During Obama they could claim that the economy was SuperAwesome and that he was The Lightbringer abroad. In reality, it took 8 years for unemployment to go get back to where it was before his Presidency (and a lot of that was due to people just leaving the workforce) and GDP didn't do much (average growth of about 1.7%/year). Abroad he oversaw the rise of a terrorist army (ISIS) in the wake of his Iraq pullout, the creation of a terror/slave state in Libya, and basically had everyone else walk all over him.

St. Louis Fed (FRED): Unemployment Rate (UNRATE) | FRED
St. Louis Fed (FRED): Gross Domestic Product (GDP) | FRED

They got away with it because people still listened to the media back then. Then Biden came along and told everybody that INFLATION IS TRANSITORY and that Teh Rubes were imagining things - Everything was Awesome!

Didn't work.

Every time a board lib posts something or the media leads with something, I assume it's either something they made up out thin air ("Trump might...") if not an outright lie (RUSSIARUSSIARUSSIA, to name a few). The voters will judge for themselves on whether or not their lives are any better in 2026 and again in 2028.

I'd rather have the football in my hands. So would you. There might be some bumps, but we'll get there.

Oh, by the way - Jeanne Shaheen isn't running for re-election of her Senate seat in New Hampshire. If Sununu runs, that seat is ours. The little d's also have to replace Gary Peters in MI and Tina Smith in MN...that's *3* open seats they have to pour money into in a year that should be favorable to them.

And they're going to have to do it without USAID giving their NGO's free money (Stacey Abrams was buying votes in Georgia with her green fridge scam) and without ACT BLUE stealing identities from nursing home residents.

Nah...the little d's have problems. Big ones. I say let this all play out.
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