That's from the Rolling Stone article "How Much Would It Cost to Fuel Sean Duffy’s Reality Show Road Trip?" which is updated "to reflect that the Duffys did not actually set sail on a cruise, and that they only enjoyed its amenities while it was docked."
With that correction, the price doesn't seem so astounding. I couldn't find the number, but then I only skimmed and then searched the page for a dollar sign. We're told the family — of 11 — drove 4,706 miles and maybe 2,458 miles more. Who would do that?! These people are taking care of 9 children. Why would you want to kick them around? Calling it "lavish" is nuts.
Here's that trailer that made Rolling Stone get all peevish:
Did that make you want to do a big road trip or did it make you want to wait until the 250th anniversary celebrants get back home? Or to never go anywhere again. I hear the bears are biting up in Glacier National Park.
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It is essential to shit on everything the current administration does.
I think the issue is that a cabinet secretary spent 7 of the first 12 months of his tenure on a road trip with your family. It is almost like a tenured professor who is supposed to be teaching and writing scholarly papers spends most of their time (while being paid by the state) running a blog.
We haven’t even reached Biden level gas prices yet.
…lefties shit on Trump people summer road trips as they are planning what to bring on their summer trips to Greece and Italy…
Freder Frederson said...
I think the issue is that a cabinet secretary spent 7 of the first 12 months of his tenure on a road trip with your family.
Remember this retard supported Buttigieg.
They think roads are racist.
..:lefties panicked about money spent on this road trip while ignoring trillions in leftie immigrant fraud. Penny wise and pound foolish…
Whatever the cost of the family's road trip was, it is nothing compared to the cost of the production crew following them around, documenting it. But we wouldn't be expected to think about that, since it destroys the story's premise - right?
i got back from Colorado last Saturday night, and went 100 miles (one way) to my mom's on Sunday. I'd left town a week and a half ago to fish in Wyoming, and then spend a week driving around Colo.
I put "only" about 2 thousand miles on my car during that time.
(my brother in law drove us around Colorado (and Utah (and New Mexico)))
road trips are FUN!
ps.
my sister left her phone in a restroom at Mesa Verde, which we went back to (from Cortez Co).. It was turned into the visitor's center.
THEN, when we were almost back to Durango, we had a flat tire (two nails.. One BIG). But we STILL made it back in time for dinner. It added to the adenture!
The usual suspects in media are travel-shaming. They don't want people using private transportation or taking frivolous trips. They want people to be sequestered in cities, dependent on public transit, and easier to control.
"...I hear the bears are biting up in Glacier National Park....". Not to mention the dangerous shiny beetles in Maine, some of which are sporting Nazi tattoos and running for office.
Rolling moss is still around?
We won't make the Route 66 trip this year for its Centennial - a pity - but it may be crowded through summer, so a drive next year might be more enjoyable, and most likely we can pick up some leftover 100th anniversary merch at a discount. We already did a drive through Illinois for the 75th anniversary and have driven it a few times on other occasions.
Noem's horse commercials redux
My Test: What would my reaction be if a Dem administration did it?
I don't want government employees staging a realty TV show while on the job. This was not necessary.
Alternative: Pick a few America families to do similar road trips. Duffy could meet up with them at a few destinations to highlight domestic travel.
Remember this retard supported Buttigieg.
I don't remember ever saying anything about Buttigieg, good or bad.
But I can imagine the outrage that would be spewed here if Buttigieg did something similar.
Patriotic Americans never complain about gas prices!
I watched the whole video- saw my old house!
Oh Freder, you scallywag. Seven month vaca....Mayor Pete took the first few months "in office" COMPLETELY absent. I formerly worked for the US DOT. Past co-workers informed me they were rudderless since Pete did not even select an acting... while he was acting. And Secretary Duffy is on the news routinely - AT WORK.
Such easy BS to spot. Try harder.
Bootie Keg would never destroy the planet like this. Tsk tsk…
We haven’t even reached Biden level gas prices yet.
Getting damn close. The most I paid for gas in 2022 was $5 a gallon, and that was only once. It is now $4.55 where I live (and was living then)/
shiny beetles: not to be confused with teh Shitty Beatles…
Inga said...
< >Patriotic Americans never complain about gas prices!
You didn’t when they were higher under Biden.
But we know your current criticism is the opposite of patriotic.
The United States is founded as a free country and you are a traitor in a free country.
I love Trump in that video, questioning all the kids about whether they actually want to go on that trip. He's skeptical. Rightly so!
Oh Freder, you scallywag. Seven month vaca....Mayor Pete took the first few months "in office" COMPLETELY absent.
For a bunch of people who think white people arent breeding enough, you sure have an aversion to parental leave.
Freder Frederson said...
We haven’t even reached Biden level gas prices yet.
Getting damn close. The most I paid for gas in 2022 was $5 a gallon, and that was only once. It is now $4.55 where I live (and was living then)/
And you traitors supported him.
Let’s look at the difference between the situations.
When Biden was president he crushed domestic drilling and forced the US to import oil at higher prices sending capital outside the USA mostly to China.
Under Trump the world is forced to buy oil from the United States flooding our economy with dollars from other countries particularly China.
The fact that you support China getting rich and you fight the US getting rich just shows everyone exactly what you are.
Obama removed limits on foreign donations and turned the democrat party into a party owned by globalist oligarchs and China.
You are all traitors whether you are intelligent enough to understand that or not.
lmao. Achilles ranting about Obama again, yet calling others racists.
Almost up to 20 years of the same stupid rant from him.
"I love Trump..."
Meade and I used to have a thing of saying the phrase "What I love about Trump" — as if we were in the middle of a conversation — as people walked by us here in Madison.
A daring game.
I think it got started when, one time, that actually was a phrase one of us was saying as somebody walked by.
Since my youth, I've been a fan of bits of conversation heard as you walk past people. Like in those Stan Mack comics in the old Village Voice. Here's a collection — commission earned — "Stan Mack's Real Life Funnies."
My family (mom, dad, and three kids) did a month-long western road trip in the summer of 1976 (once the corn is laid by you can leave it to just grow) where we hit a bunch of the big parks (Rocky Mountain, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Yosemite, Glacier) and several smaller ones, San Francisco and up the Pacific coast to Seattle, stayed with my uncle, then brought my grandmother back home through Montana, Wyoming, and South Dakota. My folks chose to go west even with the Bicentennial happening because we hadn't been and also figuring most sites in the East would be mobbed. After a few days we somewhat settled into an economizing road life routine of modest hotel/motels, eating a snack before starting our drives, a mid-morning breakfast (good cheap meal), picnic lunch, and then dinner out. None of us kids were old enough to drive but we'd still (at least try) to help navigate and certainly pitched in packing and unpacking the car. Good memories.
I gassed up over the weekend. Looking forward to the midterms. No more money for a pentagon that doesn’t know what it’s doing. No more money for someone else’s war. If Israel wants to make war with Iran it can do it alone.
Industries from farming to airlines face long-term higher costs and will raise customer prices in response. It seems the stable genius has achieved the one thing his voters really hate.
Both Duffys seem to have kept up with their day jobs: him at DOT, her at Fox. Plus in this high tech world a cabinet secretary is never not at work. There have been a lot of initiatives coming out of DOT, for example regulatory/funding attacks on blue cities that refuse to keep their subways safe. I don’t think 7 months means they packed up the car then came back 7 months later saying “what did I miss?” CC, JSM
Meh. Chevy Chase’s “Vacation” was a lot more inspiring.
Then they looted the strategic reserves for the midterms
You think we forgot
Ho hum....But nothing about AOC and Bernie (and many of THEM) flying around on private jets....
You notice that right?
ha - I forgot. this was a few months ago - walked into a small grocery store on West Pearl. Lolitas? I never go in there. anyway - another customer and the man behind the counter were bitching and moaning and hating on TRUMP.
As I left, because - yuck no thank you... I yelled out "I love Trump!"
Just to be a counter revolutionary.
"lounging in bathrobes in hotels,"
Does anybody wear those things? All the hotel rooms we frequent have them. Have never used them.
When Biden gas was high - not a peep from the loyalists.
My wife and I LOVE road trips. We have no problem with taking 10 days and driving 2-3m miles around our beautiful country. 2 weeks ago I did a road trip from Chicago to Minneapolis and back. I'm in Waukegan IL and will be driving back up to Minneapolis either Wednesday night or Saturday morning (don't ask, it is complicated)
Like the Hank Snow song, "I've been everywhere, man" and loved every mile.
John Henry
Buttigig was on parental leave the whole time. What a useless git.
"Meade and I used to have a thing of saying the phrase "What I love about Trump" — as if we were in the middle of a conversation — as people walked by us here in Madison."
Love it. I wouldn't have the nerve.
Rachel wrote a book about the 250th, they are showing America what is great about it, without the fog of Progressive media spewing the hate filled anti America crap, which they are doing now.
They didn't take a 7 MONTH vacation. This was done in parts. What is wrong with that?? Biden slept through 4 years, and the left didn't give 2 shits....
But nothing about AOC and Bernie (and many of THEM) flying around on private jets.
Or Kash Patel flying to the Olympics on the government's dime.
Innocent Trump unfairly under attack by the return of Biden-Democrat Inflation. Which is permanently Democrats' fault. ~ Achilles
We Consulted The Ouija Board Of Truth on Inflation. It said "Democrats are to blame" ~ Narciso
Working on my bio of Rand and McNalley the other day got me thinking how much we have lost when we started relying on GPS 20 years ago. I love the ease of navigating with GPS and would hate to ever give it up.
But all it does is get me from place to place. It gives me no understanding of where I am, where I've been or where I'm going. Open up one of those 36X24 RM maps that gas stations used to give free and you see the whole state of Wisconsin, or maybe even the whole northeastern quadrant of the US or the entire country. I think it gives an understanding of the nature of the country that GPS never will.
Even, as I was thinking while trying to sleep the other night, to the point of affecting general levels of patriotism and love of country. If you don't understand the nature of the US, can you really love it?
Maybe President Trump should ban GPS. If he were really the Hitler people say he is, he would. Everyone would have to read maps instead.
John Henry
When Biden was president he crushed domestic drilling and forced the US to import oil at higher prices sending capital outside the USA mostly to China.
Yeah, China is a huge exporter of oil. The U.S. does indeed import oil, but during Biden and continuing to today, we produce more oil than we consume.
And what kind of car is that? It looks like the car the Griswolds drove to WallyWorld.
John Henry
Road trips: Just did 2,500 miles driving New Zealand. Had a great time.
Gas was about NZ$15/gallon. Roughly US$10/gallon.
It looks like they went to Boston, Philadelphia, Montana, and maybe some other place. It could all have been done in three weeks, part in the summer and part in the winter. Were crews sent to all the other places or was that stock footage they bought (or AI)? It didn't look very lavish, especially considering that people are making high quality movies with i-phones nowadays. Did they drive all the way to Montana? I don't care if they didn't. Buttigieg would have made a similar film if he'd thought of it (and if his kids were old enough and if he thought the country would be able to stand it).
Freder Frederson said...
I think the issue is that a cabinet secretary spent 7 of the first 12 months of his tenure on a road trip with your family
Herbert Hoover, as Secretary of Commerce, spent 8 months or so living on a train, much of the time with his wife.
During the great Missisipi flood of 1922 (yr?) he mostly lived on a relief train going up and down the flooded states lighting fires under the Corps of engineers and other agencies. His wife worked as hard as he did and for even less money. He took a dollar a year as Secty.
He talks about this time at great length in his memoirs as I recall. I'm woring my way through Volume 1 still. He is still a private citizen keeping the Belgians from starving over the objections of Brits and Germans and, because we were neutral, with little official help from US. Inspiring story.
John Henry
John Henry
I watched it. They act like they came up with the idea.
Kash has every right to spend our money. He is a legitimate employee.
Bernie and AOC are lying money grubbing frauds. who waste money and spread lies.
Just wait 'til Rolling Stone does a scathing article about how much it cost for Greta Thunberg to sail to Gaza. Or for all of those globalist environmentalist lefties to fly to Davos in their private (or government=owned) jets.
MadTownGuy said...
We won't make the Route 66 trip this year for its Centennial
The Mother Road.
In 1966 I hitchhiked from Albany NY to Laguna Beach CA. 66 was still THE road. Few interstates.
In January 67, 5 of us drove in a VW Beetle from Albany to San Francisco. Due to a major blizzard we took the southern route and drove through St Louis, Jopline Missouri, OK city sure was pretty and so on. (Sing it Ray!)
Along about OK, we found the driver was carrying a fair amount of heroin. Not dealing, just a heavy personal user who didn't think he'd find any more until SF. I seriously debated bailing out but I'd given him $50 and didn't want to lose that.
John Henry
Evita Duffy: Dad, this is not the car you ordered!
Sean Duffy: Settle down Evita. Let me handle this. Ed, uh... this is not the car I ordered. I distinctly ordered the Antartic Blue Super Sports Wagon with the C.B. and optional rally fun pack.
Ed, the car salesman: You didn't order the Metallic Pea?
Sean Duffy: Metallic Pea?
Davenport: Yes, Mr. Ed?
Ed, the car salesman: Mr. Duffy ordered a blue sports wagon, where is it?
Davenport: I don't know sir.
Ed, the car salesman: [to Sean] I know what must have happened. It didn't come in.
Sean Duffy: Ed, I'm not your average everyday fool. Now I want my blue sports wagon and if you can't get it I'm gonna take my business elsewhere! Where's my old car?
Ed, the car salesman: I'm just as upset as you are, believe me. Davenport! Get Mr. Duffy's car back and bring it back here! Now I can get you the wagon, there's not problem there. The problem is that it might take six weeks. Now, I owe it to myself to tell you that if you're taking the whole tribe cross-country, the Wagon Queen Family Truckster... You think you hate it now, wait 'til you drive it.
What a great video. Thx for posting. Every summer we went on 2 week vacations and in 10 years we were able to visit every state in the Continental US. Alaska and Hawaii came later. Wonderful trips.
During the great Missisipi flood of 1922 (yr?) he mostly lived on a relief train going up and down the flooded states lighting fires under the Corps of engineers and other agencies. His wife worked as hard as he did and for even less money. He took a dollar a year as Secty.
It was 1927. Nice story and his response to the flood was amazing. But this is relevant to the current conversation exactly how?
I didn’t get a good look but it looks like a rav4. Hertz recently lent me a brand new hybrid awd version. I drove it an hour to a game lodge on windy roads and back, over 100 miles round trip, and had to use the off road feature for a few miles. It didn’t move the needle on the gas gauge so I didn’t stop to fill it before returning. It was very comfortable, good road manners and swallowed all our gear. I was impressed…
The original plan was to take a half day and ride the bullet train from LA to San Francisco. But for some reason that's not available. I don't think it would have been any cheaper per person, when you add it all up.
Getting waaaaay off topic, but related to Hoover's dollar a year, George Washington took no salary as commander in chief during the revolution.
But he did have one Hell of an expense account. Marvin Kitman wrote a book about it in the 70s.
John Henry
I love a road trip. We’d much rather drive than fly. The Duffy’s are not the norm with such a large family but if that’s what they want I don’t have anything negative to say about it. Some people thrive in a bit of chaos.
Also, any midwife that thinks they took a full 7 months off without working has not being paying attention. But, I think that’s par for the course for the TDS ignoramus’ on this site.
And Peachy I do the same thing as you just to rile some feathers of liberals here in Madison. I don’t mind ticking folks off a bit.
As a bit of an aside did anyone else have a gazetteer of their state? We used to take our Wisconsin one and plan a trip only on back roads. Last time we used it was during COVID when the Governor said we should all stay home and not travel. Well, we found a woman who made potato vodka but had turned her efforts to hand sanitizer. We planned a road trip via the gazetteer to buy hand sanitizer to send to our son who was living in NYC at the time.
We also purchased a nice bottle of vodka. We had a great little WI road trip!
Trump Delays Move to Lower Tariffs on Beef Imports ~ WSJ
“The administration was set to suspend tariff-rate quotas on all beef-exporting nations; beef prices have climbed steadily since Trump took office”
So you're telling me that cutting tariffs leads to lower prices?
Fascinating.
The Rodeo Clown's job is to entertain the crowd while distracting the bull. Not many people find him funny anymore, and his bull is fooling ever fewer people.
It’s like the Straight of Hormuz -- no one could have predicted what tariffs would do.
"As a bit of an aside did anyone else have a gazetteer of their state?"
I have a gazetteer for 7 states. Dave Begley will be pleased I have one for Nebraska (purchased for the 2017 solar eclipse run).
I will be disappointed in all of you if, when I read the comments, no one mentions the 1983 movie "Vacation".
steve uhr said..."I watched it. They act like they came up with the idea."
Sour puss.
Here's the Dave and Leslie Summer of Love 2026 tour.
1. AL in May. Fly.
2. KC in May. Drive.
3. Sandhills and Northwest NE for Independence Day. Drive.
4. Cincy in August. Fly.
I have never been to AL or Cincy.
Maybe a trip to Madison in September. Drive.
Thank you, all, for not letting me down!!
Freder Frederson said...
When Biden was president he crushed domestic drilling and forced the US to import oil at higher prices sending capital outside the USA mostly to China.
Yeah, China is a huge exporter of oil. The U.S. does indeed import oil, but during Biden and continuing to today, we produce more oil than we consume.
Under Biden China was buying oil from Iran and Venezuela with cheap Chinese military equipment.
Now China is buying oil from the United States with American dollars.
I can see why the traitors in the democrat party who get a large portion of their campaign funding from China are upset about this.
You can play stupid all you want.
You just look stupid doing it.
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...
It’s like the Straight of Hormuz -- no one could have predicted what tariffs would do.
It is actually easy to predict what this will do.
Prices will go up and there will be more demand for goods produced in the United States and the western hemisphere.
There will be less demand for goods produced in China.
With higher prices for goods produced in the United States there will be more demand for labor in the United States. The working class quality of life will increase in the United States.
It is magic.
But traitors like you want everything produced in China and you want everyone in the USA to live in a homeless shelter under Karen Bass.
Did all 9 kids go on the trip and in the same car? I'm trying to figure out how to fit 9 kids in the cars I saw on the video. Keep in mind, they have to wear seat belts.
"Thank you, all, for not letting me down!!"
I've never seen the movie. Don't really like Chevy Chase.
Begley, won't all that travel interfere with your campaigning? Maybe you could do a staycation where you devour as much electricity as possible with various activities, to illustrate why OPPD needs reform. CC, JSM
"Eva Marie said...
What a great video. Thx for posting. Every summer we went on 2 week vacations and in 10 years we were able to visit every state in the Continental US. Alaska and Hawaii came later. Wonderful trips."
Us too. First two weeks of August. Out of the Chicago suburb of Des Plaines. Didn't make all the states, the furthest Western states were just too far for the round trip unless all you wanted to do was drive. Always camped, mom dad on the beds in a pop-up camper, us four kids on the ground portion of the tent. We had an old Dodge van. Great.
Of course there was a lot of bickering between us kids.
Dave Begley: Just was in Cincinnati this weekend after driving from New England. Be sure to visit the history museum at the art deco Union Terminal train station. Also, the zoo and the Underground Railroad Museum are good. The Sleepy Bee for breakfast (have goetta instead of sausage or bacon) and then go over the river to Libby's for southern cooking and fried chicken in Covington, KY.
You lefties should pay attention to this video. As of this morning sentiment had changed and Polymarket has Republicans retaining the House in November. Instead of another Summer of protest and filling the interwebs with propaganda nobody believes, why not take the Summer off? More sunrise walks, contemplating the joys of life under GOP control. Who knows- maybe on one of your walks in the woods you'll come across Hillary! or your fellow political exiles...
Mrs. Bar and I have been taking a late summer road trip for the past seven years. It's great fun. This year, we're going to the Canadian Rockies.
Get out there, people!
"I didn’t get a good look but it looks like a rav4. "
Too small. Highlander.
To be honest, Duffy may have learned a lot more taking this trip than sitting in DC. And I don't really have a problem actually celebrating our 250th year.
Their youngest daughter was born with DS and has a heart defect.
"Duffy, who thinks people shouldn’t fly in comfy clothing because it’s uncivilized". There are comfortable clothing options that aren't sweats or pajamas.
Did the Duffy kids actually get to take The Great American Road Trip, or were they just flown to various places to film the segments?
My family spent summer family trips in the 1970s traveling the western states in a Ford LTD station wagon. With the two facing fold-out seats in the way back, it just fit our family of seven.
No luggage went on top, it all had to fit in the small space between the back seat and the way back. We were each allotted half of a small suitcase. We also carried a bag for snacks - peanut butter, bananas, and such.
Dad was hardcore, stopping only for gas when the tank was empty. You had better take your bathroom break then or be able to hold out until the next stop.
Mom’s job was inspecting motels, as we never had advance reservations. If we were lucky, which wasn’t often, we got to stay at a Best Western or at least a AAA approved. Otherwise, the inspector was sent in and if the motel didn’t pass (based on places we did stay, it was a low bar), we’d be off down the road to find another.
On the whole, they were great trips, but one of my most enduring memories is of us five kids sullenly eating bananas at a roadside pullout near Leadville, Colorado while being forced to read the molybdenum mine historic marker.
Sean Duffy is only a few degrees of separation from Sandy Hill, the 'millionaire socialite-cum-climber' of Alhouse’s other recent travel post.
Sean got his start in the public eye on MTV’s reality shows “The Real World” and “Road Rules”, MTV was founded by Robert Pittman, who was married to Sandy Hill.
We had already decided to take two weeks and wander around the Upper Missouri River, the High Plains badlands, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, and Makoshika State Park in Montana. Alas, since we live in the upper right hand corner of the USA, we have to fly to Bismarck. But I'm told they have a fine zoo and state museum (not the same entity).
We did two cross country road trips with the kids. They now know how big it is, and have some idea what it would have been like going down the Oregon Trail without air conditioning. Our honeymoon was two months doing a big circle from the NE to San Diego, up the California coast and back via Crater Lake and Yellowstone. Best two months of my life.
Ann,
Learn to count. They did not bring all 9 kids on the trip. The oldest boy, his wife and daughter live in Cali and have opted out of the family PR circus. The oldest married girl, who is expecting a girl and hopes her hubby can win her dad's old Wisconsin political seat, is along for some of it... not all the kids went on all the segments or still live at home. Price water park tickets, and all the add ons they did in the video. Most American families, especially large ones, can't afford a fraction of a trip like that...
You're tonedeaf too.
I've never seen the movie. Don't really like Chevy Chase.
If you're going to watch any Chevy Chase movie, watch that one. Imogene Coca (Aunt Edna) steals every scene she's in.
As others have noted, it wasn't a "7-month road trip", it was several trips on weekends and holidays.
Couldn't get a good look at the vehicle. Definitely not a Rav4 (3-row seating), likely a Highlander. Maybe Sequoia, but probably a Highlander.
Last real road trip I did was from WA state to AZ in a rented RV. Horrible. The RV was so loud while driving you couldn't talk or listen to the audio. 2-3 hours of just driving in silence. Nice to stop though, you have your own nice little space. Had two cats, too.
FFS people!! Do you really believe the Duffy family spent 7 months on the road? Freakin' idjits if you do. These were mostly just w/e trips over a period of seven months. Anne & her readers, even ones I agree with, have to be the most ill-informed group of, supposedly, "well" informed personages.
"maybe on one of your walks in the woods you'll come across Hillary! or your fellow political exiles..."
Or come up with even one public policy that doesn't suck toads.
John henry said...
"..thinking how much we have lost when we started relying on GPS 20 years ago..
..But all it does is get me from place to place. It gives me no understanding of where I am, where I've been or where I'm going.."
When my nephew came to visit me from Chicago; he said:
"it sure is pretty country here!"
i asked him which way he'd come in? From the south or the east (the east is prettier).
he said: "i have no idea, i just turned when google told me to"
i said; "well, did you go through Dubuque? or Madison Wisc?"
and he said: "i have no idea, i just turned when google told me to"
He Literally had NO IDEA what states he'd gone through; or what state he was in.
ps: and it took him an HOUR longer than google said; because it put him on 2 lanes, and he doesn't know how to pass..
so he'd drive behind tractors until they'd pull off. He LITERALLY does Not know how to pass ANYTHING.. it scares him when i'd do it (in a passing zone)
he said: "i have no idea, i just turned when google told me to"
If I use a map to plan my trip, I can almost always find my way there on a later trip. If I have someone riding along telling me where to turn, I just about never can.
Thats crazy one has a general direction which direction which cities they have to traverse
Does everyone realize that this was NOT a 7 month road trip? It was weekend trips with his family showcasing road trips in America. Taxpayers' did not pay for the trips. It was paid for by private corporate sponsors through a non-profit named "The Great American Road Trip".
“Maybe President Trump should ban GPS. If he were really the Hitler people say he is, he would. Everyone would have to read maps instead.”
Maps are for sissies. Real men navigate by the sun and stars.
"Does everyone realize that this was NOT a 7 month road trip?"
No. Fredo thinks it was.
"I think the issue is that a cabinet secretary spent 7 of the first 12 months of his tenure on a road trip with your family."
Hoover's flood fighting didn't do much good for himself and his party. Republicans were still blamed for everything that went wrong in 1927, even though (or more likely because) the states most affected were governed by Democrats.
cfs said...
Does everyone realize that this was NOT a 7 month road trip?
Democrats think that pretending to not understand obvious things makes them smart.
They are just terrible people.
"Are we there yet?"
FFS people!! Do you really believe the Duffy family spent 7 months on the road? Freakin' idjits if you do. These were mostly just w/e trips over a period of seven months. Anne & her readers, even ones I agree with, have to be the most ill-informed group of, supposedly, "well" informed personages.
Freder: I think the issue is that a cabinet secretary spent 7 of the first 12 months of his tenure on a road trip with your family. It is almost like a tenured professor who is supposed to be teaching and writing scholarly papers spends most of their time (while being paid by the state) running a blog.
Lazarus: Hoover's flood fighting didn't do much good for himself and his party. Republicans were still blamed for everything that went wrong in 1927, even though (or more likely because) the states most affected were governed by Democrats.
Plus ca change...
Would be cool for the Commerce Secretary to do a reality show in which he tries to open a business in a blue city, kind of like McGovern. Could have a clock in the corner: "Waiting for Permits: 20 days 13:47:56" and other nifty features. CC, JSM
You need an armored convoy like the mad max revamp
"Last week, the Department of Transportation released the first trailer for the Duffys’ odyssey, and boy does it look lavish."
Looks better than Christopher Nolan's version.
Hey bgates
Jim at said..."If you're going to watch any Chevy Chase movie, watch that one."
OK, thanks for the advice.
Its amazing to read something like "On the Road" where basically a bunch of unemployed bums drive accross the country. Or Watch Route 66, where two unemployed young guys drive around the country.
Try that today and everyone wold say: "Wow, that must be so expensive. Where did you get the gas money and the $150-200/night for motels?"
I haven't been paying attention. Are old people still RV'ing accross the country?
I got stuck in a storm in Russell, Kansas once. The local pharmacy had a flyspected kiosk of Bob Dole postcards and books. I learned some things about him by seeing where he came from. That's the point.
Hoover's flood fighting didn't do much good for himself and his party.
Umm, Hoover ran for president and won in 1928. The government's response to the '27 floods was probably a factor in his win. You are thinking of his response to the stock market crash.
Did Rolling Stone put Sean Duffy on their cover?
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