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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: Lambo 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Trumpedo: It's Money That I Love
Date: 11/30/25 11:50 AM
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It only serves to highlight the utter failure of MAGA.

And I think this is so. The border is the big highlight that Trump can point to, and he didn't do that much there, it just looks like he did to MAGA. Border crossing had already slowed to a trickle due to the switch to right way, wrong way for Asylum appliers. (If you cross at designated border point, you may apply for asylum, anywhere else and you go back across the border and cannot apply for a year (IIRC it might've been two years). But we were flying in plane loads from 4 countries. I was watching and the trickle got shut down and then began later, but two weeks after inauguration, Trump cancelled the planes loads coming in. None of the MAGA here knew it had happened and it took me two months of sporadic looking to find out the planes were cancelled. I always wondered about the planes.

Then ICE couldn't get the deportation numbers up without the money that was in the bill so they were grabbing the easy pickings for deportation and Trump screamed about sanctuary cities. We can't trust any of the numbers liked we could before, tru8mp fires everyone to get to someone who will break, and bread the law too, maybe with veneer of plausibility, or completely toss out norms created so there is respect and not chaos. So we have chaos.

Fee fi

"Crime rates
began a significant decline across the U.S. in 2023, a trend that has continued through 2024 and into 2025, which includes the current period of Donald Trump's second term. Experts largely agree this downward trend started before his current administration's policies could have taken effect and is a continuation of post-pandemic recovery.

The current decline in crime is considered a continuation of a downward trend that began in 2023, following a national spike in homicides and violent crime in 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic." Fo Fum

Trump hasn't kept his promises, inflation has increased .3%, groceries aren't down, ICE is using gestapo tactics, but the worst part is we are shipping out people who've lived peacefully here for 30 years. We are being cruel, destroying peaceful people's lives, and MAGA is cheeering it on. We're bastards and led by a man who it strongly looks like fucked kids.

Rant over. :)
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