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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: FlyingCircus   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Fun Fact: Biden's Weakness
Date: 01/24/24 9:28 PM
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I live in NH. But I live in the affluent section in the southeast corner, near the beach. Over here, the wealthy white collar Indies and Dems dutifully marched into the Pub primary and voted for Nikki in the #ABT way. 100% of them (I hesitate to say "us") will vote for Biden in November.

Most of the rest of the state - further than 35 miles west and 40 miles north - went for tRump. But worse, even the two cities - Manchester and Nashua - went for him. Maine - poorer than NH - and VT probably will too in the meaningless primaries.

What I wish the message could get to these deluded people would be "WHAT HAS HE EVER DONE FOR YOU?!"

Why these people have latched on to this lying corrupt sexist racist disgusting phony narcissistic delusional fascist bootlicking charlatan partially-brilliant tariff-worshipping knuckledragging moron pig ... is beyond me.

The only thing I can suss out from briefly listening to intelligent neighbors who should know a whole he11 of a lot better is, it's just about anti-progressivism, anti protected liberal Democrat(ic) treating these people like a low caste - when all they want is some respect, some hope of improving their situation through better education, better paying jobs, better opportunities to not live on the edge of poverty, better health care access, access to cheaper college options - WITHOUT being told they're "deplorables" by the very party that SHOULD be lining up to help them and get their votes!

Instead, they get preyed upon by conspiracy-promoting circus barkers on right wing media playing cruelly on their fears and anger for advertising money.

Because tRump hasn't done ANYTHING for them - but neither have the feckless Democratic Senators and Congressmen who somehow keep getting re-elected by talking up veterans benefits and preserving a few hundred jobs at the local shipyard.

You may not be aware that the DNC is so godawfully pompous and vindictive that they've now declared NH's delegates WON'T EVEN COUNT in the convention, because the state decided to move up their primary, ahead of the DNC's imperious and arrogant declaration that the REAL first primary is now Nevada.

It seems to me the DNC is so clueless they're actually DARING people to vote against them.

So maybe these people are just fed up, and Drump is just their middle finger to our screwed up .1%-feeding trough oligarchy of a "system".

Because We The People don't deserve the Trumps or the Bidens or the Viveks or Hillarys or Pelosis and McConnells that our system has vomited up. We deserve and need a he11 of a lot better.

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