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Brisketexan

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  1. Saw him speak at UT a couple of years ago (with Lobo, RIP). He spoke on Ukraine, brilliantly.
  2. In the future Dictatorship of Brisketexan, he’d get the death penalty just for how he’s wearing that visor. No appeals, no reprieves.
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    Brazil

    On the 1-10 scale of “functioning democracy,” Brasil is at a solid 7 these days. We’re in 3-and-falling-fast territory.
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    Tex Mex

  5. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/kristi-noem-deportation-flights-judge-ordered-planes-turn-back-aea-rcna245987 Put that vile cunt in jail for contempt.
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    Tex Mex

    Ahem. I am an asshole of Surly who shits on BOTH Torchy's and places that serve $10 duck confit tacos. Serve fucking real mexican food made by real mexicans who flip tortillas with their goddamned hands and charge the appropriate price. And this. Nixta's gimmick is "we make tortillas like literally 11,000 joints on every corner all over Mexico, and that makes us super special?" Fuck that. Decent fresh tortillas should be a goddamned baseline. And it's not that fucking hard, goddamned mexicans have been doing it for 1,000 fucking years. Sigh. In other words, it sounds EXACTLY like my gringa wife's kinda place. Because.... ....my wife is not a fan of Enchiladas Y Mas. I think it just strikes her as too "low rent." She prefers La Mancha (which is.....fine...okay food, but man, do we always run into West Austin gringos we know, which she enjoys), although I HAVE gotten her into El Nuevo Mexico at the end of Anderson where it hits Lamar. And I recommend it. Good mixed crowd (gringos for tex-mex, as well as real mexicans eating there), damned solid cheese enchiladas, and other stuff. My mexican handyman says their menudo is the real deal, so I'll be trying it soon. And apparently, their breakfasts are outstanding.
  7. Oh, this is absolutely part of the play. Every single asset of "we the people" is aimed to be transferred to the private hands of TrumpCo and his cronies. Every. Single. One.
  8. This. We won’t collect that revenue. They’ll just stop coming. And I recall on our summer trip to the Yosemite valley floor like 10+ years ago, it was full of buses of Chinese tourists. Take those out of the mix, and revenue would go way down.
  9. Yeah…that shit. And we’ll probably be killing reciprocity fee waivers/reductions for European countries soon as well. Because we need to create Fortress America, nobody gets in or out. There’s not an aspect of totalitarian states that we AREN’T aiming to emulate.
  10. I assure you, that’s NOT the problem that Epstein Republicans are concerned about.
  11. I am Brisketexan, giver of life.
  12. A reminder that Mexicans are the most awesomest people on earth.
  13. Yeah, that’s just a “foreigners, don’t come to the US at all” measure. Might as well start charging a flat $500 tourist visa fee to even fly here. It’s just utterly psychotic xenophobic shit for the sake of being xenophobic. Why do we hate non-Americans? Because they aren’t Americans, full stop.
  14. I have slightly better suits. But I have used the term "whiskey tango foxtrot" in federal court. I knew the judge, so I wasn't getting too far over my skis. It got a chuckle.
  15. The word "supplicant" already exists.
  16. Oh....there are some stories there. We were co-appellate counsel on a series of cases. We had....differing approaches to how to tackle the key issue. We fought about it, sometimes contentiously on a series of calls that required other co-counsel to referee. We reached a point of detente eventually. He took the lead on one of the cases, including the argument. The court of appeals ended up ruling our way, but based on the issue and approach I advanced, not the one he hung his hat on. After that, we got along fine. Oh, and I argued the remainder of the cases. Go toe-to-toe with him and stand your ground and show that you know your shit, he'll respect you. Which is the foundation of any decent relationship with him. And, the process sure gave us good insight into how he thinks. I mean, I'm not going to be tailgating with him on Friday or anything, but he may be invited to our frito pie shindig.
  17. Yep. Worked a case with DOJ as co-plaintiff 25 years ago (was one of the largest environmental cases in US history, till the BP blowout came along). Some of the most important work I've ever done, we did a damned good job. And my peers at DOJ had resumes that involved things like having clerked at the DC Circuit court of appeals. Now, some of them were super-heady and academic, and didn't get the real nitty-gritty of trial work (had a judge give us some evidentiary rulings and he made it clear how he was going to go, I came back to the office and said "okay, he wants both parties to stipulate to all of these objections being overruled, because this is a bench trial." Colleague whined "but they don't follow the rules of evidence!" As I explained "those rules are what the judge says they are, and he says he doesn't give a damn here." Fortunately, the phone rang a couple minutes later, and it was opposing counsel saying "okay...so the judge wants us to waive everything - what do you say?"). But still, super smart and very competent. Nowadays? Those people have been run off, and no new competent folks are being hired.
  18. Counterpoint: titties is titties.
  19. Y'all remember way back when Elmo acquired Twitter, his crusade was to eliminate bot accounts and fake accounts? I remember. The man is a laughable joke of a human being, and the day he chokes on his own ketamine-fueled vomit and goes cold will be one of the most important days in modern history.
  20. Let's put it this way. Imagine that the DOJ is one of the nation's largest law firms (spoiler: it actually is that thing). For my entire life, it's been a very well-regarded and respected law firm. DOJ lawyers by and large knew their shit, and did good, skillful work. In the case of several divisions (e.g., antitrust), if one of your law school peers got a job there, you were as impressed as if they'd gotten hired on at one of the most prestigious private firms. And the DOJ's credibility wasn't in question. Yes, of course there were always individual lawyers here and there who weren't super great, and some that even may have played fast and loose with the truth, but they were outliers. Now? That same law firm? It's name is mud. If you're a judge or opposing party, you need to assume that the DOJ team is potentially incompetent (depends on whether this is a low-level garden variety case, staffed by holdover career DOJ people -- in that case, you may be ok) and potentially dishonest. That is, when the DOJ is on the pleadings, you cannot assume they they will follow the obligation of candor to the tribunal. It's actually fucking amazing to see an institution so completely wrecked so quickly. If I was in a hotly contested matter with the DOJ on the other side, and there was any issue on which the court should otherwise treat their representations as truthful, I would have a duty to remind the court that this entity has demonstrated that it does not respect the duty of candor, and has demonstrated so consistently. No representation they make should be trusted unless verified. To a similar extent (although I have yet to see the lack of candor issue in any dramatic way), the same thing has happened with the Office of the Attorney General in Texas. At least the drumming out of competent people and replacing them with loyalists and true-believers in several divisions. Again, used to be one of the better, respected "law firms" around. And that reputation has taken a beating.
  21. Goddamn motherfucking toilet flush valve assemblies. Nowadays, they are all like this: And....one element or another of these cheap plastic pieces of shit ends up breaking after 5 years or so. So, you have to replace it, often requiring replacing the whole assembly, or most of it. Whereas in our parents' era, "toilet technology" was simple, and fucking durable. A few simple brass parts, a rod, a foam float, a flapper. And I don't recall my parents EVER having to replace it. At present, I have my house and my dad's old house. Three toilets currently need a new internal valve assembly, so that will be part of my holiday fun. Because it's too easy and cheap to do for me to hire a plumber. But it's just enough of a pain in the ass to do that it's annoying, and is going to take up an hour and a half of my day at some point to fix all three and go back and forth between houses. Just make shit simple. That will work, and that will last. Fucking hell.
  22. I haven't had a PIA case go on appeal to a court of appeals since the 15th started up, but I sure think it would. Any case in which the state is a party goes to the 15th, and PIA cases are dec actions vs. the AG, so that's where it goes. With my practice, the 15th has become my primary appellate court these days (used to be the 3rd, but there ya go). At least I'm friends with all the judges on it.
  23. I always love a defense of "have you seen us? NOBODY would be stupid enough to listen to us."
  24. That remains a disputed matter.
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