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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: SuisseBear 🐝🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Ali Velshi
Date: 06/19/26 4:31 AM
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Republican voices are not friendlier…

"Reagan is rolling over in his grave... Before the war, the strait was open, Iran was being crushed by sanctions, and 13 service members were still alive. Now, 13 Americans are dead, families have paid billions at the pump, sanctions will be lifted, and the bombing has stopped. This is the worst foreign policy blunder in decades."
— Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA)

"History teaches that giving billions of dollars to theocratic lunatics who want to murder us is a bad idea... What has been released so far suggests that, unfortunately, the president is getting, I think, very poor advice when it comes to this deal."
— Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX)

"I'm hearing a $300bn number and that's concerning to me, so I just need the details... I'm not interested in just an agreement that gets us through two and a half years."
— Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC)

“Specifically, the $300 billion fund for reconstruction and economic development of Iran — though not funded by U.S. taxpayers — would make Iran's payoff under President Obama's 2015 deal look like a pittance by comparison. The Iranian regime has not renounced its ultimate goal — 'Death to America, Death to Israel.' The regime will invest every penny it receives to further that aim.”
— Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS)

"This MOU appears to be, just from the text, a disaster that does not achieve any of the actual signal goals that were set by the administration."
— Ben Shapiro, conservative pundit (blaming VP JD Vance for backing the deal)


… so perhaps time to activate Plan B:

„If it works out, I'm going to take the credit,” Trump said of the peace deal. “If it doesn't work out, I'm blaming J.D.”

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