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Brisketexan

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  1. Yeah, my wife have become mildly "Vegas people" the past few years, driven entirely by going to see concerts and have nice meals and chill in a nice hotel together. We tried gambling our first couple of trips. We can't even understand the "slot machines" that are out there. Seriously, no more "3 pairs of cherries, you win $10." Instead, it's a complicated screen, where a monkey runs in from one side, two presidential portraits come up, and a gunboat fires 3 salvos, maybe at the monkey. I end up just looking at the card reader to tell whether I won or lost. I might as well just hand money to a guy and ask him "did I win?", which he answers with "no" and keeps my money. I like blackjack, but not enough to go to a $50 minimum table. I DID have fun on one occasion. Was during CFB season, wife made a spa appointment. I went downstairs, sat at a bar, and played video poker. I could watch a couple of games, have some fun (was up $80 at one point), and got free beers handed to me. She came downstairs, sat next to me, and I said "I either leave with $100, or $0" (I'd started with $10). I left with $0, but didn't mind - it cost me $10 to sit and watch football and drink beer for a coupla hours. Not bad. In any case....neither of us gets any charge/thrill out of it. Even when I win a nice hand of blackjack, it's cool, but there's no high I'm driven to chase. I understand that will real gamblers....that's not the case. It's all about chasing the high. I'd rather just spend the money on a nice french dinner and then enjoy some sexy time with my wife. Costs WAY less, with a guaranteed payout.
  2. Love of homeland? I'm sure most Iranians have a baseline love of their country. But these didn't erupt because "we love Iran, but the mullahs don't." It arose for the reasons almost all such movements arise: economic failure/collapse, water supply collapse, exhaustion with same, etc. Rejection of Islam? I see no evidence that's anything but you wishcasting. Now, is there likely a broader social desire for less THEOCRATIC Islam? Probably. But this isn't a movement that is looking to denounce Islam, turn into a Baha'i or Christian movement, etc. Rejection of the mullahs and repressive Islam as a form of government is far from a "rejection of Islam." Love of monarchy? Yeah, that is DEFINITELY you wishcasting. No polling I've seen shows any overwhelming or even majority support for a return to a monarchy. Almost all of the positions boil down to "something else, and definitely not this shit we've been dealing with for decades." I hope that the Iranian people find some degree of freedom, peace, and prosperity. I know that it wouldn't be what I would choose, because guess what, I'm not Iranian, I'm not muslim, etc. Trying to impose our individual beliefs/desires onto an entire population is just lying to ourselves.
  3. Well, fuck. I thought that me drinking a buncha Dr. Pepper was all the license I needed to start blastin'.
  4. Brisketexan replied to 1978horn's topic in Food and Travel
    My daughter's 8th grade science project -- thickening propensity/viscosity of different roux colors/doneness. A basic white roux thickened liquid to infinitely slow to flow. Deep chocolate? Hardly thickens at all.
  5. ..cheered on by the majority of the country. Don't forget that. It's the important part. The murderous Gestapo was bad. The German population that supported and empowered them was the actual poison, though. We are drinking poison, celebrating extra-judicial murder by lawless and above-the-law government forces, and we have the gall to wonder how that will end up going for us all. It will go the way it always does. Gestapo, Stasi, SAVAK, it doesn't matter -- they are all the same, and it always turns out the same.
  6. Brisketexan replied to Zavala's topic in Daily Texan
    It's not just that this is the play, it's that it's a play that started with a Putin manipulation (a fake letter years ago) intended to achieve this result. And we are being played -- either as useful idiots, or intentional collaborator idiots. But idiots however you cut it.
  7. It's made sports TV (pre-game talk shows and the like) fucking unwatchable, to me at least. But we are on the fast-track to the lowest common denominator of literally EVERYTHING these days, so sure, why the fuck not? Everything in this country is geared at the amygdala of fucking meatheads, might as well be consistent.
  8. I do love how anything left of Attila the Hun and mass deportations and death camps is ZOMG COMMUNISTSOCIALISM, all while ignoring multiple high-functioning western democracies that have similar policies in place and are doing just fine, no gulags or giant May Day parades with ICBMs and shit. Meanwhile, the current American regime is literally exercising significant control over "the means of production" in numerous industries (it's no fucking argument, you can't operate freely without the blessing/permission/paying the vig to the current regime). You know, the ACTUAL exercise of socialism, happening right here in River City, to the detriment of all of us. Nope. That's not socialism, or a problem. Instead, the greatest crisis America has faced in its history is a dirty mooslem NYC mayor proposing....policies that are already in place in numerous Western European countries and cities.
  9. Counterpoint: non-consensual sexual exploitation is how you MAGA. Epstein files out front shoulda told ya.
  10. Oh, don’t worry. He’ll have us there alongside them within 4-6 years.
  11. Here's a nice little conundrum. NATO is a treaty, ratified by Congress in 1949. What force does a treaty have under US law? It is literally the supreme law of the land: "Article VI Supreme Law Clause 2 Supremacy ClauseThis Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land" What does the NATO treaty, which is the supreme law of the land provide? Article 5 plainly states that an attack on one member is an attack on all (functionally those exact words), and all members (including the US) are obligated to come to the defense of the country attacked. That is, we are legally obligated to come to the defense of Denmark if someone attacks Denmark. There is no exception if WE are the attacker. But there IS a prohibition on us being the attacker, as stated by the Supreme Law of the Land, the NATO treaty, at Article 8: "Each Party declares that none of the international engagements now in force between it and any other of the Parties or any third State is in conflict with the provisions of this Treaty, and undertakes not to enter into any international engagement in conflict with this Treaty." In no uncertain terms, Article 8 -- which is the Supreme Law of the Land pursuant to the Constitution -- PROHIBITS an attack by the US on any member nation of NATO, necessarily including Denmark. Bottom line: if the Trump administration orders an attack on the territory of Denmark, that order will be an illegal order, in violation of the Constitution of the United States. Pursuant to the UCMJ, all service members will be obligated to REFUSE to follow that order. And, if by some way, forces following orders of the Trump administration do attack the territory of Denmark in plain and open violation of the Constitution of the United States, we can and should be in a state of civil war, with all Americans -- especially including American service members -- obligated to protect and defend the Constitution against....well, the mad men in the administration who are openly at war against the United States (recall that the NATO Treaty, which is the Supreme Law of the Land, states that an attack on one is an attack on all). Thus, an attack by the administration on the territory of Denmark is an attack on the United States. By attacking the territory of a NATO member nation, the administration will have attacked the United States, will be levying war against the United States, and well....I'm just reading the Constitution: "Article III Judicial Branch Section 3 TreasonClause 1 Meaning Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court." The punishment for treason is set by federal statute: 18 U.S. Code § 2381 - TreasonWhoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States. Old Brisket kinda wishes someone would put this out there plainly, so that the nation knows that if this administration attacks Greenland, it is committing unambiguous treason against the United States as defined by the Constitution, and all who levy war against the United States should face the death penalty. Want to test "Presidential immunity?" There is not and can be no argument that open treason - levying war against the United States - is within the scope of the Executive's duties. If we attack Greenland, we are well beyond a mere constitutional crisis. We are in an existential crisis, and we will be in a state of civil war. Will you side with the United States, and the Constitution of the United States, or with those who levy war against it?
  12. You live in a timeline where universities are banning the teaching of.....Plato. In a parallel universe, where Idiocracy is real, they are laughing at US for being dumbasses.
  13. Silly rabbit. The dead kids are what tells you the Freedom is working.
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