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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: Steve203 ⎊❂🐝 HONORARY
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Subject: Re: TACO
Date: 05/07/26 5:12 PM
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And the worst scenario is when someone causes a low likelihood thing to happen, but that causes people to bleed. And they don't care because they got paid. And it didn't need to happen because American interests and world safety and blah blah blah were not on the line. But someone bleeds.

Exactly right. Because, to "JCs", we Proles are nothing but expendable meat.

why even bother running djt, crypto, startups, stealing from taxpayers, or anything else at all?

To launder the money from the futures trades?

Think this will result in anyone being perp-walked? Only if they catch someone who is not on the "privileged" list.

DOJ investigating $2.6 billion worth of oil bets placed just before Trump’s Iran war announcements, report says

The Department of Justice and a federal agency that oversees certain betting markets are reportedly probing a series of bets on oil prices that were placed shortly before President Donald Trump and an Iranian official made policy announcements regarding the Iran war.

ca.finance.yahoo.com - DOJ investigating billion

Steve
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