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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: commonone   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: What a Bunch of Bedwetters
Date: 07/08/24 5:30 PM
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knighttof3: I see Biden mumbling and stumbling. He may be only 3 years older than Trump but to me, he is completely over the hill. I cannot imagine he can do his studies as a president for the next four years. Whereas Trump in comparison definitely can.

Well, let's compare.

TRUMP, praising the Americans’ military efforts in the war against Great Britain: “Our army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do, and at Fort McHenry, under the rockets’ red glare, it had nothing but victory.”

He was talking about a war in the 18th century but airplanes were not used in warfare until the 20th century.

TRUMP, suggesting president Andrew Jackson could have prevented the Civil War: “People don’t realize, you know, the Civil War, if you think about it, why? People don’t ask that question, but why was there the Civil War? Why could that one not have been worked out?” If Jackson had been president “a little later, you wouldn’t have had the Civil War. He was really angry that he saw what was happening with regard to the Civil War. He said, ‘There’s no reason for this.’”

Andrew Jackson was president from March 4, 1829 – March 4, 1837. Jackson died June 8, 1845. The American Civil War was fought between 1861 and 1865.

Referring to the War of 1812 during a tense 2018 phone call with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Trump said “Didn’t you guys burn down the White House?”

Well, no. It was British troops that burned down the White House during the War of 1812, not Canadian forces.

Trump suggested injecting bleach to cure Covid-19.

But yeah, sure, that's the guy with all his marbles.

Compared to Trump, Biden is a Rhodes Scholar.

And you're in a cult.
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