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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: marco100   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Democrats: Here’s Help From Rick Wilson
Date: 10/31/25 2:05 PM
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You do realize people like Rick Wilson's bread and butter is deliberately spouting utter nonsense to appeal to their tiny audiences' thirst for confirmation bias, right?

That's the only reason those people watch Rick Wilson,isn't it? To feed their own delusions?

Trump didn't "cancel Thanksgiving." Rick knows it, and they know it.

He's appealing to pure negative emotions in a lot of people who probably, at the minimum, have many traits common in those with sub clinical, if not clinical, borderline personality disorder.

Normal people will, in fact, have Thanksgiving this year. Much of Rick Wilson's audience are very far from "normal," and probably have terrible relationships with their family members because of their emotional instability. So that's why they won't have Thanksgiving, if they actually won't be having it this year.

Another similar and recent example of this kind of "journalism" happened just last night. Jake Tapper had an astronomer on his show to discuss a rare interstellar comet that is coming to Earth's vicinity. Rather than limit the discussion to "the science," Jake insisted on floating the notion that the comet somehow was indicative of the presence of "alien technology." His pretext for doing so was some oddball crackpot "scientist" somewhere, but his motivation for injection UFOlogy into what should have been a straight science discussion was to appeal to the insanity of much of his audience.

Your post reflects the same kind of pandering by Rick Wilson--to the mentally unstable.
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