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Brisketexan

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  1. Arch began by boycotting accurate passes some weeks ago. He's a real forward thinker.
  2. Or while watching ummmm....a documentary....
  3. Or, you know, maybe just start with realizing that some poor people who buy a coffee in addition to the sparse food and clothing they buy aren't the ones fucking us all over -- oligarchs and a government that has now gone all-in on a fascist oligarchy are. First, identify the problem. Then your menu of solutions can be targeted. You're focused on some gal on SNAP who bought a frappucino. And you look right past the POTUS's son reaping tens of millions on government drone contracts, and pardons of people who literally laundered money for Al Qaeda being sold for a billion or two in crypto investment in the POTUS's crypto venture, or all of the oligarchs who are now married to the government pursuing maximum dollar extraction from the people with not only zero gov't oversight, but actual government assistance in that mission. Turn your fucking head and see the monster that's right fucking there.
  4. Why? No rules, norms, morality, or ethics apply to or bind Republicans. So, it's a non-story.
  5. Gee. If only we had any data to look at on that issue. Wait, what's that, the past 4 decades provide dead-on data showing huge gains in productivity, with nearly zero of that benefit going to workers, and nearly all of it going to the top 1%? Well golly gee, will wonders never cease?
  6. Make them watch every offensive series of the Texas-Kentucky game on repeat?
  7. Man.....and I was just looking into Lockeed's "December to Remember" promotion....slap one of these bad boys on top, and the wife will swoon:
  8. You ignorant piece of shit. ALL THAT YOU ARE is a consumer of Starbucks, cigs, entertainment, all of it. It is your sole purpose for existence, and the only value you bring to society. You are a resource, from which dollars are to be extracted. That's it, full stop. You have no rights, you have no independent dignity or value, other than the value you can deliver to the captive corporate machine. And yes, the irony is that much of that is circular (the government extracts tax dollars, distributes them to people and enterprises, so those people and enterprises can spend them on goods and services to enrich oligarchs). See any echoes of that in the current AI investment infrastructure, where outfits like Nvidia are financing enterprises that will purchase their chips? Hmmmmm.....wonder where they got that model? Stop thinking that we the people have any agency or value in this system. We are simultaneously the product from which value should be extracted, and cost-centers that should be eliminated. The irreconcilable tension between those two things has injected insanity into the system, and it's breaking down. But that doesn't matter. Profit must be made until the last piece of rubble hits the ground. And you go along with it. Because you blame the people who don't have a pot to piss in, instead of the people who built and control the whole fucking system. You fucking idiot.
  9. The problem is how fascism works, and how we are in the end-game now. One of the key elements is to (1) create oligopolies that cannot be avoided, and (2) intertwine them with the government. An super effective tactic would be to boycott all the companies that donated to Trump's vanity project ballroom. Here they are: Altria Group Amazon Apple Booz Allen Hamilton Caterpillar Coinbase Comcast Hard Rock International Google HP Lockheed Martin Meta Micron Technology Microsoft NextEra Energy Palantir Technologies Ripple Reynolds American T-Mobile Tether Union Pacific Railroad Good luck boycotting all of them. I'm typing on a computer with a MS operating system. My phone is an Apple. My internet provider at the office is Comcast. My printer is an HP. I am consuming electricity generated (in part, because of how ERCOT works) by NextEra. Half the goods I have in front of me and will buy this week traveled via Union Pacific shipping. I have no choice. These massive, functional monopolies/oligopolies completely occupy multiple layers of necessary functions for everyday life and business. You CAN'T turn away, you CAN'T punish them....because there's nowhere else to turn. And that is by design. The fascist machinery has completed their task of creating a system where people do not own these businesses....the businesses own the people. And Trumpco, at the top, owns the businesses. He has demonstrated that he can, in an instant, deliver massive profits, or total destruction, to any of these enterprises. We the people have been delivered to the fascists on a silver platter.
  10. Counterpoint. The Rule of Law is dead. The new rule is "yeah, I just locked up your piece of shit gestapo troops. What are you gonna do about it?" What we need is for Trumpist Federal Forces to open fire on masses of civilians, state officials, or both. Make them go full fucking Fascist for all the nation and world to see. Force the issue. Make them show everyone EXACTLY what they are. We need to read some Ghandi on non violence. Make the brutal oppressor be brutal in the light of day. It works.
  11. There's a simple path. Arrest ICE personnel committing illegal acts. When the feds insist that they be released, do exactly what the feds have done on multiple recent occasions when ordered to release wrongfully detained persons: don't.
  12. Which is what makes him an even MORE pathetic creature than is immediately apparent. He has so debased and degraded himself, so groveled and shamelessly kowtowed to an ideology that he is smart enough to KNOW is intellectually and morally bankrupt......and FOR WHAT? They are never going to love you, Greg. Trump is never going to appoint you to anything. You are never holding any other office, you are never gaining any additional power. You sold your soul, you sold your state, and everyone in it.....for fucking NOTHING. What a waste of a life. What a horrible coda. History will speak of you, likely through the rubble and ashes of this once great nation, as a cowardly collaborator who didn't even get power in return. How pathetic. And what's even more pathetic is that he's smart enough to know that every word I typed is true, he's just too much of a coward to ever seize the moment and change course. What. A fucking. LOSER.
  13. Remember, per our SCOTUS, corporations are people, with all attendant constitutional rights, indeed they have GREATER constitutional rights than actual people. They are just, conveniently, also unencumbered by any of the morals, ethics, or other basic human restrictions that actual people operate under. Remember this line? "That Terminator is out there, it can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with, it doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear, and it absolutely will not stop… EVER, until you are dead." Let's adapt it for the current timeline: "That Corporation is out there, it can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with, it doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear, and it absolutely will not stop… EVER, until it has captured the last penny of potential profit." That's it. We have created super-entities that (1) are motivated solely by maximum near-term profit, and (2) unencumbered by any meaningful laws, rules, morality, ethics, or restrictions of any kind. In fact, we have created a legal framework that makes standing in the way of their relentless drive to extract the very last penny illegal. When you live in a society that deems human beings strictly as (1) sources from which evermore revenue can be extracted and simultaneously (2) an expense that must be eliminated wherever possible....this is the "utopia" you get. And UT will be leading the way to make that the order for generations to come. "What starts here changes the world" indeed. I mean, turning the world into an inhumane hellscape IS a change. So...yay.
  14. I do love how we live in a timeline where playing the exact actual words said by someone is "fake." The fucking insanity of this fucking timeline has to make some people just go off eventually, right?
  15. Indeed. Our black friends tried to warn us about all this shit for a long fucking time. Some of us did listen to them. But not nearly enough of us.
  16. Let me summarize that letter: "We must find a way to blame this on the woke left and drag queens. Thank you for your attention to this matter."
  17. Just another series of "Kavanaugh stops." No worries, the SCOTUS just created two classes in America: (1) white people, who are free to go about their business with no interference from ICE and federal forces, and (2) everyone else, who can be stopped and detained functionally indefinitely whenever, wherever, as many times as ICE feels like it, and detained for as long as ICE feels like it. Imagine someone 25 years ago describing an America of roving bands of heavily armed government forces, who regularly and with great force grabbed and detained anyone they wanted to, demanding "papers please," but also even being arbitrary about what "papers" would satisfy them before they'd let you go. Can you go to the store? Church? To visit your friends? Outside your house on your porch? Can you do any of those things without the fear of being grabbed and detained by masked men armed to the teeth? Nope. Imagine describing that America 25 years ago. Everyone would have thought you were deranged. Turns out, you just had a perfectly functioning time machine that let you see the future.
  18. The delicious po folk meal of chili mac frowns on your shenanigans.
  19. I have no patents. I have made no sales. But, back in '86, I met Susanna Hoffs. Have I ever told you that story?
  20. Liked this energy: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/17QxNFPS8M/?mibextid=wwXIfr
  21. Just don't let the registration lapse, or else.....you get a Hellfire missile. EVERYONE gets a Hellfire missile!
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. Hey, that's enough to buy 10 bananas!
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