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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: LongTermBRK   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Trump
Date: 08/23/25 11:30 AM
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"Yesterday was Golden. Today it's crazy! In the future--we're doomed".

That's our script and its been the script for at least the past 150 years. There's been no change, and there likely won't be. Learn how the human mind works. No its not "different" this time. OK, it's LITERALLY different. But its not WORSE than half the country boiling under no AC, middle class bread lines in the 30s, blacks in the back of the bus or working for nothing, race riots burning down cities in the 60s, 18% mortgages in 70s, financial system collapse in 2008, etc etc

But, you say, we never had a crazy dictator ruthlessly kicking people out of the country like THIS! Yeah, got to go back a couple Presidents to top that one. The historic all-time record, unpublicized 3.1 MILLION deportations under "deporter in chief" Obama. Who was that racist dictator--kicking out people of color by the millions?! Oh....maybe he wasn't a racist? Just doing his job? Making sure people who lived here legally belonged here? Trump could only dream of Obama numbers--his pace has no chance of matching! (FWIW I do NOT like Trump).

These are the good ole days. Which we need to remember IN THE FUTURE--just like our romanticized past: 60's, 70's, 80s, and 90s--really are NOT that good! Nor as bad as we all believe in the moment. This is just the way our mind works. Ignoring this can be very expensive --this could have prompted you to sell your stock 4 months ago and miss 23% of ALL the market gains since stocks have existed. You don't need to be anything approaching a genius. You need to understand the games your mind plays with you which will make you act in ways you'll later regret-- and you need to understand history. Just IMO
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