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  1. Before I get to the awful opinions expressed here, one of my own: King Ranch Chicken sucks and should never be made. Brisket: I have had a lot of shitty brisket and for a while did not get the hype. I know that in an era of crazy good craft BBQ its fashionable to look down at the Central Texas “meat market” stalwarts but the fact is that till about the 2010s they were the sole outposts of truly good brisket. And a good brisket is superior to almost anything but a great steak, and a great brisket stands with a great steak. This is a bad opinion. Blue Bell: Concur. They killed people and use cheap ingredients, this isn’t the product of the 1980s and 1990s. Whataburger: Shit service and consistency hurts. Everything they make tastes better than McDonalds, because everything in McDonalds tastes like McDonalds. Better options? GTFO. Chicken strips are better than any McDonalds options, objectively. Patty melts. Whataburger has bette breakfast (tacos and biscuit choices), the McMuffin is to be eaten only if there’s no biscuit. The McRib is a shit meme menu item man. Eating that shit is just something you’ve conditioned yourself to do but most cultures wouldn’t recognize it as food. McDonald’s fries and hash browns are better. Preferring chili with beans and not liking pecan desserts is completely insane. I do know a lot of little kids who don’t like pecans. Kolaches are super good. What is wrong with people?
  2. There are plenty of fantastic and non-grifty civil rights advocates doing yeoman’s work advancing equal treatment at the structural and individual level. The ones that gravitate towards media spotlights and the chance to grift on a massive scale do tend to be grifters. This guy is to civil rights defenders what Dr. Oz is to medical doctors or Dr. Phil to therapists.
  3. The cope I’m seeing is so fucking delusional. This kid had time to fish a knife out of his bag? To escalate and challenge? The eyewitnesses said he was pushed or at most “grabbed.” Yeah, that’s not proportional self-defense in any courtroom. Get fucking real.
  4. No one calls you “McGregor the wall-builder or “McGregor the master carpenter.” But you do one rape and murder and see what they call you!
  5. Too late to edit. Around V-E Day, not D-Day.
  6. This guy’s thoughts are completely coherent and reasonable for someone who has given zero thought to the scope and diversity of government functions and missions. Honestly one of the biggest ways America is stupid is the proliferation of MBA-brained goobers who really and truly in their heart of hearts believe that being a regional VP of something gives them some sort of universally applicable special insight.
  7. I read that article and of course it’s unsurprising that all his top advisors came with him from his bullshit charities and are equally bro-y and incompetent.
  8. TripleSecDef is an idiot completely at the mercy of Trump and that suits Trump fine. Keeping him in place allows Trump to own the libs and the Deep State on the reg. The only reason to remove him is if he’s an electoral liability and one way or another DJT does not care about that. This admin acts like there will never be another election again and people should pay attention to that.
  9. They are not technically there yet, and were always counting on the U.S. being the short term guarantor and even producer. My prediction: Within 1-2 weeks we will wash our hands of trying to broker peace and more openly align with Russia. Watch for some truly revolting shit in this space around the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
  10. I need to express a gripe here. The very best gas station breakfast taco around was prepared at a Stripes that sat at the junction of 83 and 77 in Harlingen. The menu was smaller than a LTC. It was just ladies making bacon + egg, chorizo + egg, potato + egg + cheese, or bean + egg. All made fresh but pre-rolled and wrapped. Not rolled in front of you like at LTC and no customizing. The tortilla was a bit bigger and softer, the filling a bit more generous and fresher, the salsa spicier. Then in the mid-2000s Stripes introduced the LTC concept and the station got standardized. And most of Texas got better breakfast tacos and the denizens of Harlingen lost in the exchange.
  11. Its the socio-economic thing and being a PITA to everyone around you and making them feel like they put you out by including you. Also (and I love good food), not every meal has to be perfect and it tells me your parents never made you “eat several bites” so as not to be rude to your aunt or church friend. Being able to politely eat something you don’t love is a sign of a grownup. Also, I look down on you in group outings if you’re making too much fuss over substitutions and shit. “Hold the mayo” is fine, so is “can I have salad instead of fries.” But be prepared to accept “no” or a surcharge and find something on the goddam menu you can choke down. A business or work outing? Fucking suck it up, order something similar in price to what others are getting, and don’t be the one acting different.
  12. I like em both. The flour tortilla is a perfect vehicle for eggs and breakfast filling, or for fajita meat, or barbecue, or for sopping up carne guisada. Corn for pastor or griddled steak, or seafood, and making enchiladas.
  13. Also from RGV and concur. Have had them a couple times and just moved along. The consommé overwhelms everything. I prefer a griddled Matamoros style street taco to scratch that itch.
  14. Just want to again congratulate the principled voters of Dearborn, Michigan!
  15. Reminder that Tim Pool took money from Russian intelligence operatives and then argued that he was too dumb to know better or suspect anything.
  16. The Allsup’s burrito isn’t really objectively awesome, it’s just objectively pretty good for a gas station product you can get in Abilene or Sweetwater. I will say that at least its recognizable to me as a “burrito” which as a valley denizen was always fried and relatively small. We didn’t know anything about the huge Mission style burrito. And the first time I heard a breakfast taco called a breakfast burrito was on a trip to New Mexico.
  17. Fuckers that take up more than one seat when its a crowded space. Can be waiting areas, public transport, etc. Put your feet down and move the goddam bag. I was standing next to this broccoli headed fuck today with his backpack on a seat and a long trip to the end of the line. I said “excuse me, I’d like to sit down.” He gave me some bullshit about having a right to put his bag where he wanted so I picked it up, dropped it in his lap, and sat down. Like a bitch he started yapping. His sick burn was “who uses apps on white mode, you’re not even on dark mode bro.” Any concerns that this would escalate to a fight ended at that, so I just let him spew his shit till he got off. He told me “have a nice day asshole.” I did have one now LOL.
  18. Yeah, I don’t think this crew is big on growth and development. They seem to think only quick humanitarian relief is worth doing.
  19. All of the regionals survived, and Canada was not stripped out and given to its own tiny office. They didn’t kill all of public diplomacy as reported. Most of the truly insane stuff that was floated didn’t happen. Pete Marocco flew too close to the sun and Rubio was pissed at the mess he has to clean up because of how they did USAID. All assistance programs will get run through regionals reporting to the political affairs undersecretary (Toria Nuland’s old job, holla!) showing that America is gonna make that shit super political. And the human rights reporting will focus on a bunch of bullshit.
  20. The official plan is out and its much less dramatic than this. Some human rights and security assistance offices got closed or consolidated. All the regionals remain in place and as yet, no cuts to overseas operations. All of the undersecretaries are supposed to identify up to fifteen percent of fat to trim, which is a number they will likely get to by not backfilling and early retirement. No crazy updates to hire diplomats based on “demonstrated charisma and diplomatic appearance.” We will see if more of that comes. The stuff circulated this weekend was a Peter Marocco fever dream and likely won’t happen as Rubio fired him while he was at a meeting and turned off his badge access. Source below is not an endorsement of the outlet but an acknowledgment that it is now the “insider” press. https://www.thefp.com/p/trump-state-shake-up-rubio
  21. Now that we have Harvard lawyers on our side we can’t lose!
  22. Soon it won’t be “persuade.”
  23. This would be unforgivable cringe coming from someone with Dan Crenshaw’s background but it was posted by a guy who did HVAC and property management in Stillwater.
  24. I think that they’re using AI to generate new hires for OSD.
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