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Brisketexan

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  1. We dig the paprika flavored chips you can get in Europe (my wife brings back like 4 cans of paprika Pringles every trip). The boy found these today, picked them up to try - we are quite interested:
  2. Sure. Fine. That's an easy negotiation. Ukraine is under duress. Promise whatever it takes to get the defense aid necessary to your survival. Then, when the war is over, break your promises (can be done either politely or rudely). The polite way is to hope that you have a new, non-evil US regime to approach and say "hey, it would be economically crippling for us to give all that shit to you, how about you let us out of some key elements of the deal," and have an agreed extrication from the truly burdensome elements. The rude way is just to say "nope, fuck off, we're not letting your interests into the country." Either one works. If we get pissed off and threaten to sanction Ukraine because they aren't sticking with the "deal" we forced them into....who do you think will join us? Nobody. So, sure. Promise the Regime they can build Trumpland amusement parks in every Ukrainian city, and that they'll send tribute of $100 million a month in Trump meme coins as soon as the war is over. Whatever. It's a deal that isn't worth more than the paper it's printed on (and, if it's like the recent deal signed at the G7 summit.....it's literally JUST the paper and signature).
  3. But he IS running in 2028. No, that’s not true. He won’t have to run. We’ve had our last POTUS election. It’s a hereditary monarchy now.
  4. Pretty sure that's off the table. The head of the most powerful country in the world just told you we're already in the fight, and he demanded your "UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER." There is no middle path available. And shit, even if there was, Bibi is all-in all on his own.
  5. I suspect that it wouldn't be difficult at all. And when you back someone into a corner with no escape, you push them hard towards taking an action just like that. It's just shit strategy, but why would we expect anything else here?
  6. If the phrase "useful idiots" didn't already exist, it would be born in this moment.
  7. Quite foolishly. Iran overplayed the fuck out of its hand. Plenty of cautionary tales to come out of Iran. But, one of those tales remains "yeah.....fucking get that nuke, and right soon."
  8. Man, it made me sad when Steven Tyler retired.
  9. I've also never shoved a glass rod into my own penis and then shattered it; I presume the experiences are similar.
  10. A whole lotta this. If you were putting on a seminar on "how to function in geopolitics in the mid-21st century: a how-to guide for mid-sized nation-states," an entire chapter would be "if you don't have a nuke....get one." It wouldn't even need to be a long chapter. You either have a nuke, which makes you too thorny prey for any predator to really want to eat, or you don't have a nuke, and run the risk of any number of larger, better-armed (often nuclear-armed) states utterly assfucking you.
  11. If it were you, the review wouldn't have been something you'd want to keep.
  12. That, in particular, is really stupid. You almost always need to leave your opponent a way out. "Unconditional surrender" is an outcome on the table in something like a total, declared war. Demanding it of a regime that still has some fighting capability? So, let's see.....I'm current Iranian leadership. My choices are 1) "unconditional surrender," after which I will be fucking executed, or 2) unleash as much hell as possible, hoping to be thorny and costly enough to force some negotiated peace that allows me to survive and maybe even stay in power. The odds aren't great for #2....but it still beats the FUCK outta option #1. A demand of complete and total cessation of all nuclear development and activities, including destruction of all facilities and a handover of all enriched uranium to a third party? Extreme, but a viable path. But that's not what we get. Because none of what is being demanded is actually strategic. Every bit of it is utterly impulsive, and loaded with words he thinks sound powerful and cool.
  13. Fighting the cockroaches for food, or fighting over cockroaches AS food? These things matter, because.....
  14. So, a query for the MAGAs who claim that Trump is ZOMG the best negotiator ever.....if Iran ends up popping off a nuke (nuclear detonation or dirty bomb), how big a win is that for the master of negotiation, no more wars president? Like, Super Bowl-level win, right? What if it's just a good old massive attack on US forces/infrastructure in the region? Is that just like a wild card win? Aren't we all getting tired of winning?
  15. Man. I'm so glad we elected the "no more wars" president. Who has, in the past day or so..... - told a country to evacuate its capital city - openly said that he's refraining from killing its head of state....for now - demanded an entire nation's "UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!"....and - admitted that the United States is already engaged in combat operations against that state. Man, that's DEFINITELY how you do "no more wars." Bravo.
  16. I mean.....that bluesky post is 100% true, so yeah....that gif is the only sane response. Jesus Christ we are so completely and totally fucked.
  17. She was probably exposed to a molecule of human decency, and it was a catastrophic shock to her system.
  18. Sounds like maybe a suicide. That's just sad no matter the cause.
  19. I mean, I guess if he'd fucked someone from out of town, his review woulda been on Tripadvisor.
  20. I was right then, I'm right now.
  21. If the current regime in Iran collapses, the one thing I can guarantee is that our current Regime and those connected to it will be single-minded in their attempted profiteering, angling for power/control/wealth extraction, etc. In short, if you think it was bad when we had NATIONAL interests in getting our grubby paws on a country's riches, wait till you see completely amoral and criminal oligarchs with full control of our military, laws, power, and diplomacy doing the same.
  22. Man, my record on this board is pretty clear as to owning the stupidity of some things I did/believed in the past (e.g., I thought "trickle down" economics made some sense, etc.). But I think my lucky stars that the quoted was NOT one of my youthful mistakes. I appreciated pretty much ALL of it....can only think of a couple of hard rejects....goddammit, now that I think about it, I regret the hell out of both of those hard rejections. Idiot.
  23. But...wouldn't they have to touch him to do so? Shit, that's something Ted's own wife won't do.
  24. I mean.....you've seen the candidate lined up to replace Ken Paxton at AG, right? In this timeline, a default conclusion of "it only gets worse" is not irrational at all.
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