BrickHorn

I used to say that if there’s a heaven, mine will be an eternal freshman year at UT. The institution and my love for it has been an integral part of my life and identity for as long as I can remember. I met my wife in Jester. I met lifelong friends at UT. My sister graduated two years after me. My brother in law and a cousin attended shortly after me and had many of the same professors and classes. The first piece of clothing we dressed my son in was a tiny little Longhorn onesie. After law school, I could have worked anywhere in the country. We chose Austin because we loved the city and the university and we wanted our kids to grow up here. The plan was always, always, always to encourage the kids to be Longhorns. But thanks to the fascist assault on everything decent and rational, we’ve done a complete 180 in the last year. Fuck Texas. There’s no way in hell I’d ever send my kids to a college in this shithole state. And we’re getting the fuck out as soon as our youngest graduates high school.

This. Human beings in general suck. The natural state of affairs is a steady progression towards war, persecution, and general awfulness. Consider it the Second Law of Sociological Thermodynamics. It takes constant work to organize mankind in a way that bucks the trend of increasing fascist entropy. That’s why the assholes spent so much time sabotaging our institutional guardrails. Once those fall, we naturally tumble towards fascism.

I told my wife yesterday we’re leaving after our daughter graduates. That kid is tearing through a full slate of AP classes like Michelangelo through a kindergarten finger painting lesson, and mentioned yesterday that she’s interested in UT. To which I responded “Fuck no. No daughter of mine is attending the University of fucking Texas.” Which stunned me when I processed what I had just said and realized I meant every word of it. How the fuck did we get here?

Sorry. We’’re US citizens, so we only got to vote once each.

It’s a combo of dumb, selfish, and short-sighted. The denizens of our fair state have all three in spades.

The rightwing is whipping our asses in the propaganda game. It’s not a fair fight, though. While their side is populated with drooling zombies who nod their heads and squeal with delight at whatever idiotic nonsense they’re fed, we have a bunch of objective critical thinkers who say things like “It is true that Biden is old and gets confused” and “I wish we had better choices” and “Biden is fucking up the Israel thing and maybe I should protest vote.” It sure must be nice to be in the business of convincing idiots to do whatever you want.

Fify

Dude. Far left is the new objective.

Done. Those three and Haley each got 3 votes from our little group of Soros funded commie sympathizers today. I also took the opportunity to cast “No” votes on various jingoistic GOP propositions, such as “Should the Texas Constitution be amended so that it is required to be etched onto police batons for use in beating illegal immigrants?” and “Should the Texas Constitution be amended to require each Mexican citizen to be wrapped in razor wire?” All in all, it felt very dirty. But I reminded myself that my ballot is a middle finger to fascists, which may be the best we Texans can do at this point.

Yeah that’s a real ray of fucking sunshine.

Aside from promising to be tougher on violent criminals, has Sylestine explained his position on non-violent offenses (e.g., minor drug possession, etc.)?

Let’s say a strategic-minded leftist is considering voting for Haley in the primary. Which other R candidates in TX / Travis County would be worth an anti-MAGA protest vote?

Is it down for everyone?

Warming up for Open Mic Poetry Night?

Yeah wtf. Fascists are fascists. Their particular race or religion has zero to do with it.

No, that was not my intent at all.

“Gimme that, it’s MINE!” ~ Jesus Christ

I don’t know exactly but, whatever the number is, they hit it in 1948.

Engaging in double think and praising Big Brother.

If he weren’t running for President, I might actually root for Trump. He’s conning a bunch of stupid greedy assholes who deserve to be fleeced.

The amazing thing is that each of those endless permutations is the one and only True Religion.

What an amazing finish. #YNWA

Is that the one where Tim Conway walks around on his knees pretending to command an artillery unit?

That guy should have responded: ”Our apologies, Aubrey. We mistakenly believed you were an undocumented immigrant. As a US citizen, you are only allowed one vote. To avoid an arrest for voter fraud, please mail any extra ballots you have to the Soros field office in Eagle Pass, Texas.”