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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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Subject: Your tax dollars down the toilet
Date: 10/16/25 8:08 PM
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Waste, fraud and abuse.

How much of our tax dollars is Trump throwing away on tarting up the Whitehouse like a cheap whorehouse and building his glorious ball room.

And now? Get ready for the Arc de Trump!

President Trump unveils Washington DC monument plan

President Trump has highlighted a gap in Washington DC’s famous vista of national monuments, and wants to fill it with a triumphal arch to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary next year.

Trump often proudly discusses his skills as a builder and looks set to leave a permanent mark on the nation’s capital which resembles the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. The new plan has already been nicknamed the “Arc de Trump.”


Tiedrich: megalomaniacal ego-driven obscenities like this are why need a No Kings Day.

Donny’s going to construct some oversized fugly monument to himself — and it’s going to stick out like a sore thumb, so that future Americans will never be able to forget that once, we were ruled over by a vainglorious jackass. god knows how much money this abomination is going to cost, at a time when ordinary Americans are going broke trying to feed their families.

let them eat triumphal arches.


Dementia Don: [hold up model] “this is just a model of what it would look like, in either of— in any of the three sizes, which it right here, I don’t know if any of you can see it. sort of— that’s lady liberty. lady— did you ever hear of lady liberty? liberty? on top. but, uh— so the size of this would be very different. now here’s Lincoln. and this is sort of facing this way. and so it’s going to be a direct line. they did this, they didn’t do that. [holds up models] so this would be small, medium and large. small medium and large. and, uh— whichever one, uh, I happen to dig the large.”

Gad, what a jackass.
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