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Brisketexan

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  1. Naah. They'll snatch him from his home, hogtie him, and toss him on a flight to El Salvador -- he'll be locked away in a prison there before the day is done. Which is perfectly legal now, and there are no consequences to The Regime for doing so. True fact.
  2. "If you're worried about food tariffs".....how about you show up at your Congressman's fucking house and fucking yell at and berate him non-stop until he does his fucking job? Fuck this "here's how to cope with an authoritarian takeover" shit. How about "fuck that shit" as a response?
  3. You fucking assholes created this fucking monster, even though everyone told you what you were doing and what an awful, stupid, terrible idea it was....you did it anyway. You don't get to bitch now. Instead, go do the one thing that you owe the planet: go to your study, bring your pistol, put it in your mouth, and pull the fucking trigger. Do it as many times as it takes to hit actual gray matter.
  4. Dude. That ship has SAILED.....struck an iceberg....split in two....and sunk to the fucking bottom. There's no crisis. A crisis implies that there's still a constitution. There is not. Tell me one thing you can do to insure that you don't get disappeared into a foreign prison by this regime? I mean, one thing that does NOT involve you shooting your way out of an attempt to disappear you. Because by my count, that's the only avenue left.
  5. "It takes no small amount of imagination to understand that this is a path of perfect lawlessness, one that courts cannot condone." Note also that Trump just the past day or so commented that it would be "great" if El Salvador would also take US citizens as prisoners. This is how you "disappear" people. Any person you want. Without being answerable to the law in any way. "Ooops, it was an error that we grabbed Steve Critic of the Regime off the street right outside his home and immediately put him on a plane to El Salvador, where his now held in prison. No takesies-backsies, though! So sad, too bad!" And now the SCOTUS has signed on to support that approach (see Roberts staying the lower courts' orders, just now). This is how authoritarian powers get full carte blanche to disappear people, with no legal remedy or consequence. If you are a critic of the regime, you have one tool of defense against being disappeared. Fortunately, this is America, so you can get that tool rather quickly and cheaply. Do not count on a lawyer or court saving you. We don't have those things anymore. Just the thing you need to buy, and learn to use.
  6. Had the same experience in Port O'Connor years ago with a pair of breathable Hodgemans. The hole was right in the crotch. When I went in to the store to return them the next week, I told them to send them to the goddamned CEO of Hodgmans and I would personally take him on a guided trip in January while he wears that exact pair. The poor minimum wage clerk just gave me my money back and smiled when I left, a reaction for which I cannot blame him.
  7. Would be better if it was on DJT's grave, but I'll allow it.
  8. I dunno, Inka....those are pretty tight quarters for fucking.
  9. Huh. I just wade wet, no matter what the weather or temp is. At my age, a little involuntary tightening of the scrotum does a fella good.
  10. At this point, I can pretty much write every SCOTUS opinion going forward: "If the King does it, it is by definition legal. All hail King Trump." If y'all had any doubt left, it's over, it's done. We are in a full-on autocracy. No half-measures, no "gosh, parts of it LOOK a little authoritarian." We're there. We've crossed the finish line.
  11. Fucking....THIS.
  12. Shit, when AB ran track, all the athletes had to compete nekkid.
  13. Seriously. He desperately needs a distraction. Starting a war is exactly what a simple-minded abject moron would do.
  14. So....cruises up the Brazos to College Station are a thing now?
  15. So, you HAVE figured out how we make America Great Again. 1) Bring back brutal, low-wage jobs. 2) Need people to do them. 3) Eliminate public education. 4) Repeal all child labor laws. PROFIT!
  16. This thread has aged like fine milk. Laced with piss. Left in a hot car. In August. In Hell.
  17. And as all state workers are being ordered to come back to the office....where there is not even parking for all of those people (because TXDOT has had some workers working remotely for YEARS): https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/txdot-parking-austin-return-to-office-abbott-state-workers/269-dd7fbbb0-ed93-4233-8431-01f716c0980c
  18. You should ask 77 million Trump voters.
  19. Fantastic post, all the way around. We do not want to re-shore jobs stitching together Nikes or making plastic toy soldiers or screwing together small low-cost electronic components. Industry that implicates national security provides higher wage jobs (read: "manufacturing jobs that require a bunny suit and/or real technical training")? You bet. And there are ways to do that...... Bingo. Capital is much easier to attract than it is to compel. Because once you've held capital at gunpoint, it correctly fears that you'll do so again, so it is loathe to commit itself long-term. Imagine spotting an attractive girl in a bar. She's been talking to another guy. So, you walk up to her, pull a gun, and say "you're coming with me. You are going to move in with me, we're going to get married, and have a long and happy life together." She will most likely go with you right then, because....you fucking have her at gun point. But the minute she thinks she can get away -- not necessarily to run back to some other dude, but specifically to get away from YOU, the erratic psycho with a gun -- she will. And she ain't coming back. We are trying to force capital to do things that don't make long-term sense at gunpoint. The only way that has any chance of success is to keep the gun on them, 24/7 for eternity. And even then....they'll find ways to game the system and get as much as they can far away from the barrel of our gun. We're doing this the completely wrong way. Which is maddening, because the CHIPS act was an example of how to do it the right way. And nevermind how counterproductive this is when it comes to immigration. We want people from south of the border to stay home. The KEY way to get them to do so is to help their countries become stable and prosperous. So, what do we do? Undermine their whole economy because they all are -- Mexico, Honduras, everyone on earth -- "ripping us off." We're being "ripped off" by a country with a per capita income of $6,650. Jesus monkeyfuck, the stupidity.
  20. Of course, the fact that you equate a comment on a SOCIAL issue as a POLITICAL comment is a big part of the fucking problem. Politics is a trailing indicator of social function. And our current dominant social ethos is "fuck you, me me me." Yeah, that translates to politics, but importantly for society, it is most directly seen in utterly stupid shit like this event, people acting like entitled, selfish dicks on the road, in the grocery store, at school, everywhere. Commenting on that real-deal social issue isn't "politics"....although the fact that it's taken as slamming a particularly sensitive segment of our political landscape is telling in its own right. A kid is dead, and another life ruined, because of some really stupid decisionmaking - multiple layers of it, actually, at the very least starting with the decision to bring a fucking knife to a track meet. FFS, it's one of the reasons I preach against carrying a fucking gun everywhere you go - because then, every confrontation has a real chance of escalating into a gunfight, and that's always a bad outcome. But it may also include bad decisions beforehand if there was some sort of beef. Bad decisions in the heat of the moment if two 17 yr olds bowed up to each other over nothing. Hell if I know what the whole story is. I just know that in cases like this, it's often a layer cake of bad decisions that gets us to the ultimate bad outcome. And woven through all of them is a focus on self to the exclusion of evaluating the social purposes and consequences of our actions.
  21. "Future elections."
  22. Oh my sweet summer child. We are going to have to ride this ALL the way down. MAGA won't change. Note that every single MAGA bitching about what happens also has a "but I still support him," or "but I'd never vote for a dumbocrat" as their creed. MAGA has tapped into the world's largest reserve of stupidity, and it is limitless.
  23. Fine, I'll help out with what people are looking for...
  24. Navarro deserves to be thrown under a bus. And by "thrown under a bus," I mean, "hung upside down at an Esso station." He is a psychopathic moronic LIAR (seriously...he literally made up a key source in his book), and he has wiped out AN AMOUNT OF MONEY/WEALTH EQUAL TO OR GREATER THAN THE ENTIRE US GDP ACROSS THE WORLD IN A FUCKING WEEK. The US annual GDP is around $28 trillion. Losses coming into today, globally, were nearly half that. After the beating the Asian markets took today, I would suspect we're just about there. If another nation state had caused this level of collapse, we would already be at war with them. Instead, we are doing it to ourselves, driven by fucking Navarro. He is currently winning the "worst human alive" sweepstakes (man, Elon has gotta be pissed about being bumped down to the bronze medal).
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