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Brisketexan

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  1. Roma, you're coming over to the hate side. Good. That's where shit will get done.
  2. He won't. He is protected by the regime. That's a hallmark of fascism: the favored enterprises are always protected by the regime. Remember when conservatives used to yell that the government "shouldn't pick winners and losers?" Yeah.....every accusation is a confession, exhibit number infinity. Elon will be fine. He is backed, literally, by the full faith and credit of the US government.
  3. Fiddling while Rome burns. Except - PLOT TWIST! - he's ALSO the arsonist!
  4. About that....I presume you are working with our, uhhh...."transportation broker" to ensure that we get our t-shirts from Bangladesh into the country and on the rack without paying the tariff because we get a "special exemption." Capiche?
  5. Sure. We are going to functionally burn down the Library at Alexandria while we're at it. If you think a purge of the Library of Congress getting rid of all materials that "do not align with the administration's priorities" isn't coming, you haven't been paying attention.
  6. So, the past 70 days or so reminded me of the phone call I got in November of 2016 from @Macanudo, asking me "seriously, do you really think this is that bad? How bad could it be?" And....I told him how bad I actually thought it was (I was wrong, though....it was and is even worse than that). Remember that conversation, Mac? I do. Seriously, I remember where I was standing when we had it.
  7. What's really important to understand is that this blunder is far from just being an economic one. It is across-the-board. Remember, trade wars are wars. And the US just declared war on.....this: We are now the enemy of....literally every person and country on the planet. Via an insane, unprovoked, and self-destructive war. It's just so. Fucking. Stupid.
  8. So.....let's say that all of that is true (I have no way of knowing whether it is or not). The part that is left out is that Karmelo was at the track meet....with a knife. That fact alone speaks of bad intentions. And I note that fact is omitted from the recitation above. Is it reasonably likely that this event is the result of the intersection of two dudes who had shit intentions and shit behavior? Sure is possible. And in light of that, the efforts to paint either one of them as an innocent angel are distasteful as hell.
  9. Yeah.....the layers of impact here are staggering, truly. Just some fascinating ones on a personal level: 1) My son is the only American in a class on Transatlantic Foreign Relations at a university in Germany right now. He relates that damned near every class, as they are discussing the latest globally devastating misstep by the US, the class turns to him and says "so....what do you think?" He tries to explain the American perspective, but so many times, he just ends with "I've got nothing. It's just so stupid." At least his classmates seem kind and sympathetic. 2) And yes, both kids have had multiple conversations where they have to explain that half of America is victims in this whole deal, as big or bigger victims than folks in the rest of the world. 3) On a selfish personal level, I'm kind of pissed about what this is likely to do with our plans for summer 2026, when the World Cup is coming to Texas (Dallas and Houston). We were already talking with various groups of friends overseas about coming in for that. We'd all get together, barbecues, the beach, attend matches, just have a great gathering. Now....I'm more and more convinced that they aren't interested in supporting the US economy in any way, they aren't interested in the risks of being randomly abused/detained by our CBP/immigration system...they are just bunkering, and reaching the "yeah, we love y'all, Brisket family....but we're not willing to travel to the US right now" point. And I can't fucking blame them. We are becoming a pariah state, and we fucking deserve it. All of it. And more.
  10. In fairness, that takes no effort at all. He's pretty much self-bashing. Which works out well for me, as I'm pretty lazy.
  11. Ding Ding! Here comes the shit-mobile. I've never seen a fire truck that needed to be shaved. I would rather be burned to death than be saved by this hairy piece of shit.
  12. She was, is, and shall remain a strong "WOULD," even though I know it's a terrible idea. And man....the magic she could work with a package of tator tots....
  13. I mean, that's a great idea. NOBODY doesn't like Sara Lee!
  14. 100% In fact, that would be the smart play: put pressure on the people who can bring about change. The EU's retaliatory actions should be directly and nakedly targeted at the billionaires who control the US government. Brutal and painful treatment of every venture Zuck, Bezos, and Musk have. A 200% tariff or additional duty or tax on every car company that rhymes with "Mesla," shit like that. Squeeze them, so they run crying to and squeeze Trump. Hurt the American little guy? Sure, eventually, that creates some electoral pressure, maybe. Hurt the American billionaires? That gets some immediate response. And let them know, via back channel, that if they do the RIGHT thing (get their rabid dog back under control), then things will be much more lucrative for them.
  15. Fuck them kids. We are at war with the planet. And if you're a sane person, you're rooting for us to lose, and lose hard.
  16. You should probably speak more respectfully of the man who owns us.
  17. Tired of winning yet?
  18. Correct. We just Made China Great Again. I think we're also Making Europe Great Again. When you demonstrate that you are an unreliable and dangerous trading partner (which we just did, as plainly as can be done), then the rational response by everyone else is to pursue a strategy of disentanglement. Think of the lessons we learned from the supply-chain crisis of the pandemic: we were foolish to depend on foreign sources for certain genuinely important goods (chips and the like). We then pursued a wise strategy of working to incentivize and move some of that production here, and making ourselves less dependent on something demonstrably untrustworthy (the supply chain) -- we passed the CHIPS act, and it's working. Well, the world is learning a lesson here: every percentage point that your economy is entangled with/dependent on the US is a percentage point of volatile and dangerous risk. You should shave off as many percentage points as possible to minimize that risk. And lucky for you, you have a pool of....literally every country on the planet OTHER than the US....who is in the same boat with you and on board with that plan.
  19. It's worse than that. We are not in the global economic hierarchy so much as we are now an enemy/adversary state of......everyone. Fucking literally....EVERYONE. Even fucking uninhabited islands. We just declared war on every single person and nation on planet Earth (that's what a trade war is -- a war). For fucking NOTHING. A terrorist nuclear attack on an American city would have been less devastating than the damage this fuckhead has done in under 90 days. We are destroyed, and the fucking kicker is, IT IS 100% SELF-INFLICTED. I never thought I'd see a nation state commit suicide like this. I sure as hell never thought it would be MY nation state. Well, that's not true. I never thought that until around 10 years ago. And then, it occurred to me that "holy shit, we're really doing this, and we aren't going to stop until it's truly finished." And...here we are. We are in the end game now.
  20. Bingo. The Economist piece captured it perfectly: THISTHISTHIS. Fucking. Seriously. Are we going to hold out until Nike brings it's running shoe sewing operation to the US? The fucking economic idiocy here is of galactic proportions.
  21. It's the standard approach of this regime: at some point or another, claim EVERY possible reason for taking an action. Then, when one of those comes true, claim that you were right. It's like picking both the Eagles and the Chiefs to win the Super Bowl....hell, picking them both to win in the same sentence, even. Then, when the Eagles win...you were right! See, he's a genius, he was right! Or, if the Chiefs had won.....see, he's a genius, he was right! There is no reason here. Just a use of another arm of policy as a blunt instrument, treating 1) every other person and nation in the world as an enemy/adversary, and 2) every transaction as a zero-sum game, which you can only win if the other party loses. There need be no positive outcome for the regime to claim victory: negative outcomes/suffering by other people and countries will be enough to claim the W, no matter how much attendant economic loss and suffering happens here at home.
  22. 1) Find out who is behind it. Because it’s a grift. 2) We weren’t paying $280 million per year just to manage the Reserve before. Total grift boondoggle.
  23. I want a dem candidate who says “fuck it, the gun horse has left the barn. So here’s my position: all of y’all should arm yourself and right soon. The billionaires and their private police are coming for you , and they’re armed. You should be too. Fuck letting the terrorist Gestapo have a free hand - shoot em.”
  24. I won’t go CR, but these days, I’d want my kids as far away from the US military as possible.
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