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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: Sandyleelee   😊 😞
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Subject: The *BEST* part of your politics
Date: 05/27/24 7:03 AM
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Listen up Tribal Polyglot dwellers who used to have a country...........

I couldn't resist any longer.

Biden! Trump! Whomever wins, the next day you've still got a 1st world country starting to show permanent 3rd world traits as someone used to warn and then laugh about and hope for on TMF. You'll have a larger, growing, permanent underclass like Leftists wanted. You'll have people digging in on behalf of their caste and tribe and regardless of what your Goldman Sachs index rises to, you'll have a huge plurality of Americans who feel that things suck.

That's just the compounder for me. But the fun fun fact:

Whomever wins, you have 100% chance of a lame-duck Presidency. Yeah that'll bring progress and guess what, even though you Club 401K'ers sold off to your corporate overlords, socked away tax advantaged profits made on the backs of exploiting others (profits you have no idea how to make for yourself)......many will be facing not only retirement insecurity but SOCIAL SECURITY and MEDICARE weakness, insolvency, whatever you call it.

So you'll have the going on plus, needs to adjust your future population to realities caused by technology, A.I, etc.

And you'll be doing this with a lame duck Presidency, AND while both parties are having intra party squabbles. It'll be you Corporatist Dems versus the AOC people. Israeli Mule NeoCons vs Trumpy types. And other sub-tribes tossed in.

I certainly hope you craft quality solutions. Especially when if your politician of choice tries to compromise, you'll be there, Right or Left, to tell him to stop doing so.

Sunni vs Shia America is soon to be reality..... the next cycle is a Bridge to the Shitty Century.

Haha.
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