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Brisketexan

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  1. Just don't let the registration lapse, or else.....you get a Hellfire missile. EVERYONE gets a Hellfire missile!
  2. Don't ask a question that (1) you don't want the answer to, and (2) they've already answered. This is exactly the perilous road many folks around here discussed when SCOTUS issued its "the President has absolute immunity for everything he does" decision. All he has to do is make any act he takes be colorably within the scope of his duties (and hey, "execution and enforcement of our laws" sounds pretty colorable), and he has absolute immunity. Seriously. Even if the basis is on the "outer perimeter" of his powers, he has a presumption of immunity, and the only way it can be overcome is to show that the act was purely (as in entirely, 100%) private in nature. But because functionally everything the POTUS does, outside of golfing, is at least tangentially within the scope of his powers and duties, that exception is meaningless. So, all we need is an internal memo declaring Macanudo to be an active terrorist threat against the United States, he sends a Hellfire missile into your AMC Pacer as you're driving the Sonic one day, and he has 100%, complete and total immunity. Note that the designation of you as a terrorist doesn't have to be accurate. It really doesn't even have to be rational or defensible. The very act of designating you as such is a discretionary call within the scope of his duties, and thus....total immunity. Ironically, if he ordered you arrested, you'd have some protections: writ of habeas corpus, all that stuff. But if he just skips all that, and kills you....he is worry-free. He has total immunity. This is the end-game. The president has the power to kill anyone -- and that necessarily means EVERYONE -- and he is not answerable for that at all.
  3. 1) They routinely -- as a matter of course, and default -- use violence against speech. 2) All "Constitution-loving" MAGAs are 100% in support of item 1. Because they have never, ever, not even for a millisecond, actually believed in "free speech" as defined under and protected by the First Amendment. MAGAs actually hate the Constitution with every fiber of their being.
  4. Hey, that's enough to buy 10 bananas!
  5. Jesus Christ. Inability to get any pussy has utterly broken so many men.
  6. Oh, they'll never take the investigation THAT far. Because they know it's insanely stupid and there's nothing there. What matters is that they are LOOKING INTO IT, FOR YOU, OUR GREAT AND WONDERFUL PEOPLE. It's like the never-ending question for treasure at Oak Island. Everyone knows it's bullshit, but it makes for good TV for the absolute dumbest people on the planet.
  7. Tack on 180 days and a $2k fine (that's what's allowed). Hit him with everything you've got. Of course, he's in Travis County, so even if charged, the DA will probably blow the deadline to try the case.
  8. Well, this one made my blood boil. As someone who fished my entire childhood, and think it’s about as good an activity as a kid can be involved in…threatening to murder a kid for…fishing….pisses me off beyond belief. https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/s/V68h5IXzgK My 14 year old son was threatened in Onion Creek neighborhood for fishing byu/Illustrious_Ad9163 inAustin Hope that this guy is charged both for the murder threat and interfering with a person legally fishing. And he’s doxxed and treated like the POS that he is.
  9. Read the two sentences that precede your question. If those are true, you are absolutely out of touch with 2025 America. The motto of 2025 America is "FUCK YOU THE ONLY WAY I KNOW THAT ANYTHING IS WORKING IS IF IT HURTS SOMEONE ELSE." Other people's pain and failure is the primary metric of your success. So, literally the 180-degree opposite of "empathy."
  10. This. If you don't see the stacked club/sit sandwich here: - aim is to eliminate a huge chunk of jobs, with no sort of replacement, benefiting only a handful of oligarchs who will save even more money and thus make more profit - AI has no real ethical guardrails. They say it does, and pay lip service to it, but they are doing all they can to create a system that would reach conclusions like "to help humanity, half of humanity has to die," and THE OLIGARCHS AGREE WITH THAT ANSWER. They have literally said so. - AI is simultaneously driving 93% of our GDP growth....while also being largely based on pie-in-the-sky "potential" AND self-funded investment (AI companies invest money in buying their own product, so they can show both 1) capital investment and 2) revenue on their financials, counting the same dollar in each category) And more. But let's listen to oligarchs who have openly said they don't care if we die in droves, who say that "empathy is evil," etc. They clearly seem to have our best interests in mind.
  11. Yeah....it ain't the "my stocks lost value" that will hurt. It's the contagion across the board and at every level that will follow from the US economy losing trillions in value in a very short period of time. The collapse in the value of assets/things that support and/or secure massive chains of debt leads to the collapse of a metric shitton of debt, which is foundational to our economy. I am not a major debt/deficit hawk, but it is ALWAYS something of a point of vulnerability. It is much larger, and much more vulnerable, than it has been in a long time. And some of the things that we've done to increase it (see Trump tax cuts) are doubly dangerous because those things (if we had them left in our toolbox....which we don't) would be useful/important in softening the blow of a crash. We've consumed our seed stock. There is no cushion or margin of error left. Any material "crash" of any major economic indicator - especially including the stock market - will cause a brutal contagion that fucking crashes damned near everything.
  12. Saw Scourge of Black Vultures at the Back Room in '93. They were fucking loud.
  13. God......the sex must be INCREDIBLE. I nominate you to go find out for us and report back.
  14. Well, the Rule of Law is dying a quick death. And there is apparently no more obscene word in the English language than "regulation." So, yeah....the nuclear winter suggestion remains at the top of the "most likely solution" pile. Kinda seriously. The only thing that can stop the tide is complete, total, and catastrophic social failure. Good news: we're headed there at breakneck speed. Bad news: we're headed there at breakneck speed.
  15. Remember how we keep saying this is the dumbest timeline? That hyperbole has now lost any punch that it once had. Every moment of this timeline is dumber than the one before it. We just plummet to deeper dumbness with each passing millisecond.... And the "chemtrails" idiocy is such a prime piece of idiocy. For example....how come we have never seen a single photo of a "chemical" tank used to fill up the "chemtrail" tanks of a commercial plane? How come not a SINGLE pilot has ever come out as a whistleblower, to say "yep, we spray chemicals -- here's what we spray, and how we do it?" There are so many obvious points of revelation if chemtrails were indeed a real thing....yet not a single fact to support them. Nevermind that the "evidence" of "chemtrails" is......contrails.....that we have eyewitness and photo proof of from fucking WWII bombing missions, and a bazillion other flights. It's so profoundly stupid, so profoundly devoid of evidence and contrary to reams of obvious evidence, that it's perfect for this timeline of infinite idiocy.
  16. So, hopefully got both kiddos coming home (to the US) for Xmas this year. We have talked about taking a 3-4 day trip after New Years as a family, then they'd fly back overseas. I'm toying with NYC. Like, maybe flying in on the 1st (will the stupid New Year's crowds be thinning out then?), and then having the kids fly back to Europe from JFK on the 4th or 5th. Would be a shorter and easier flight for each of them, so that's an advantage. But is that a good time to be there? And....what should be on our agenda? Sure, we can see a show, hit a museum or two we haven't hit....but what else? The boy's suggestion for a similar timeframe was to visit NOLA, and I know what to do there over a few days, but am trying to sort out what a NYC itinerary would look like.
  17. It's about to be a good time to be a vulture with cash to spend on distressed assets. Maybe the best time in our lifetimes.
  18. Yeah....I dig pickles, but....nope.
  19. No we won't. Because in the broken human brain, hate/contempt for others will always trump love of self and family. We are lizard-brained assholes who really don't deserve to be the dominant species.
  20. Sure. Start with a massive, intrusive, and purposefully intimidating DOJ investigation into ADP, followed by criminal charges, and/or a civil injunction, and/or designating the release of such "fake news, false information intended to hurt America" as terrorism, etc. etc. Another path: threaten to terminate all government contracts with any enterprise that uses ADP in any capacity, and get friendly state governments (Texas, Florida, etc.) to do the same. These are tactics this admin has already used in other situations. Dude. There are no norms, there are no guardrails. It's mafia rule. "What would the mafia do?" gives you your script. The regime can destroy any private enterprise rather quickly, and has demonstrated the willingness to do so.
  21. The utter contempt these people have for.....human beings....is fucking maddening. These are literally the LAST sociopathic assholes any sane person would want in charge of shaping society, and we've handed them the reins with functionally no checks or restrictions. It's fucking suicidal. These people are flat-out evil. The word and concept "evil" have existed through eternity for just these sorts of people and situations, and our leaders--social, political, functionally everyone--are just happily handing them the keys to humanity with nothing to restrain them.
  22. Yeah, we're empty nest, in a larger house....and we plan to stay here for another 10-15 years. It's our hood, our neighbors, and we do like having a good base of operations when the kids and others come to visit (and we like to host some pretty big parties, so like the space for that). Eventually, we'll downsize, but not in the near future. And that means that a house that could have school kids will not for a decade plus.
  23. Indeed. We live in a time and place where any enterprise, if it is focused on its business success, studiously avoids saying anything that would upset the regime. Jesus fucking tapdancing Christ. What a fucking timeline.
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