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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: weatherman   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: “Life was better under Trump”
Date: 11/25/24 6:19 PM
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ok, people with no attribution capabilities want $2 gas, milk, and eggs. and $200k homes.
so what happens when we get to 2026 midterms and this hasnt happened? (or there are even worse moving spikes, given how cantillon has endured)

we know what will happen, because we have seen the playbook every time.
unlike albaby's primary theory here, voters will not reflexively throw out the incumbents, by which i assume all levels of educated people can recognize in 2026 across the board as the gop.

no, what we can expect by late 2025, in preparation, is a pro-active media blitz on how the economy stunk when it was handed to trump, so :
- give the gop a few more years to work their magic and make MAGA rich
- its all the democrats fault
this time around, its not only the house, senate, and executive branch crowing this. it will be musk, fox, facebook, and all the wonderful analytical press that served as source for the voters that got us here.

so again no, even with reinvigoration of the voting simpletons, i think a theory of always voting out the incumbents as the path of least effort when unhappy is too simple to rely on.

look no further than the change in gop voters that believe the CURRENT economy is already good since the trump election.
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