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Brisketexan

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  1. 3 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    Nobody has argued that.

     

    What a couple people have pointed out is that the comment "A company whose business is putting thousands of trucks and huge numbers of miles on our crumbling roadways pays absolutely nothing to maintain the roads they are trashing?  Brilliant!" is totally nonsensical. 

    Saying they pay absolutely nothing is nonsensical.

    Saying they don't pay their way, when all they pay is fuel and other similar taxes, is spot-on.

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    The Highway Trust Fund receives roughly 85 to 90 percent of its revenue from excise taxes on motor fuel, commonly known as the “gas tax.” Since 1993, fuel tax rates have been fixed at 18.4 cents per gallon for gasoline, and 24.4 cents per gallon for diesel. Taxes on tires and heavy vehicles (trucks) make up the rest of the fund’s income. Because the federal gas tax is not pegged to inflation and has not been raised since 1993, the purchasing power of the revenue has eroded over time — over 40 percent less today than in 1993. What’s more, rising construction costs and the growing needs of an aging highway system have placed a greater strain on the fund, resulting in recurring funding shortfalls in recent years.

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    Those funding shortfalls have generally been filled by transfers from the Treasury’s general fund; those transfers have shifted a total of $143.6 billion to the HTF since 2008, including $70 billion authorized in the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act in 2015. 

    Regular old tax dollars pay a crapload of the costs of building and maintaining our highway infrastructure.  And Fedex is paying [checks notes] not one penny of those.

    Come on, the tax cuts as an economic stimulus are indefensible at this point.  "Trickle down" economics is indefensible at this point.  Every time we've tried such an approach, the effect on capex and wages has been.....jack shit.

  2. 1 minute ago, zork said:

    Obama said it, not me.

    That's the point, moron.

    NOBODY loyal to the Party Of Trump is moving to stop courting, hanging out with, and posing for pictures with fucking nazis, nobody minds that an open white nationalist is a chief adviser to the president, nobody has a problem with him pardoning soldiers who commit war crimes, but not soldiers who served honorably whose only crime is their parents bringing them here illegally, nobody has a problem with him nakedly profiting off of his presidency with constant taxpayer funded trips to his properties, happily taking in hotel dollars from foreign governments trying to curry favor -- shit, I've got work to do, and we could stay here all day.  Suffice it to say that you're not only fine with shitbaggery, you CELEBRATE it.  Guess what, if you're in the bowl dancing around with pieces of shit, you ARE a piece of shit.

  3. 4 minutes ago, zork said:

    Even Obama is telling y'all to chill, to get a clue.  

    Is he?  Who is "y'all?"  Are you talking about the far left wing of the party?  Yep, he is.

    Where's the voice of reason on the right, telling y'all to stop hanging out with fucking nazis?  Telling y'all to stop making white nationalists chief advisers to the president?  Telling y'all that Hillary ain't running this year?  

    Shouldn't you be charging into a pizza parlor somewhere?

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  4. 10 minutes ago, zork said:

    I get to talk.  You decide whether to listen and how you will respond or not.  

    nope.  but that is just the same type of bogeyman y'all accuse Republicans of up thread.

     

    this is good analysis.  Trump on Trump is probably a bit more successful in driving his potential base than Trump on someone else.  Shades of gray though.  Hopefully Biden can beat him.

    Clinton suiciding someone is a meme at this point, not even worth talking about whether it is true at all.

    Angry Brisket talking his paranoia pointing to the right vs white Cat enjoying his veggies while laughing at Brisket.

    Sure, have fun with that.  While y'all vote in zombie-like lockstep for Trump and Trumpism, all in the name of "But Hillary," for time immemorial.

    Y'all are a fucking caricature, and you don't even have a clue that you are.

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  5. Just now, Jack Straw said:

    while wholly embracing and endorsing unprecedented corruption, incompetence, criminality, and outright treason by their own. 

    Step 1) create a fictional narrative that the Clintons are the greatest criminal organization ever known.  They have stolen money from everyone on earth, commit treason while they sleep, and run a pedophile ring out of a pizza place....and on and on.

    Step 2) convince yourself that all of that narrative is true.

    Step 3) decide "well, if THEY do it, then MY GUY can do it."

    Step 4) religiously and unwaveringly support a man who openly commits and/or BRAGS about...bribery, sexual assault, abuse of power, cozying up to our enemies to "trigger the libs," nakedly profiting from his office, etc.

     

    It's fucking insane.

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  6. 7 minutes ago, trauma babe said:

    She helped me with an arterial line insertion a week or two ago, so she made it back safely. So far. I think she's heading back in another month or two? An incredibly dedicated and caring woman.

    The folks who travel to treat outbreaks like this are amazing.  We have a friend in Oslo who sent a crew of 4 to the Congo several months ago.  It's genuinely inspirational.

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  7. 1 minute ago, Js1 said:

    The thing that scares this rational human being is that you literally cannot stop thinking of Hillary.

    She's not running  She isn't going to run.  Get her name out of your mouth and off your brain. 

    They'll be running and arguing against the idea of Hillary 50 years after she's dead.  They're a bankrupt movement with no decency, no ideas...nothing except fearmongering of the Clinton bogeyman.

     

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  8. Chickfilas mac n cheese is the bomb. Tough to beat
     
    chickfilas waffle fries are better than popeyes fries...and they have chickfila sauce to dip it in.
     
    point CFA.

    Whathafuck?

    Red beans and rice.
    Dirty rice.
    Mashed taters with Cajun gravy.

    Game over.
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  9. And the best news about this big tent? Your problems and the things you face belong on the agenda too.
     
    That’s the magic the Democratic Party needs to harness.
     
    Rural, poor, agricultural, unskilled labor, opioid epidemic, middle class squeeze, all of the “white people” problems have a spot on the agenda too.
     
    Let’s put it all out there and look across the table and see brothers and sisters not enemies and thieves taking your American dream from you.
     

    This. We’re all in this together. And success for some of us should connect to success for all of us.
  10. 1 minute ago, JimmyJames said:

    The worst part about it for Trump is this:

    She speaks the truth.

    And he knows it.

    And because of his disease, his mind won’t allow him to accept it.

    And will lash out accordingly, in order to protect itself.

    Not much different than a drug addict. The drug addicted mind will do whatever it takes to fool the body to keep taking the drugs it wants, and in fact needs. 

    That’s our president. 

    And here's the thing -- a creature like that is one of stimulus-response.  If you want him to do a certain thing, you just provide the correct stimulus, and it will elicit the intended response.  Just like pushing the gas or the brakes, you can get him to do what you want with just the right input.

    She just pushed the gas pedal.  He can't help but rev his engine of idiocy.

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  11. 25 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    The reasoning is pretty simple: killing dirty brown people, by definition, cannot be a crime.

    The president of the United States is saying, with no shame or reservation, that it is the official policy of the United States that murder of dirty ay-rabs is A-OK, and not only is it not a crime, we should thank anyone who does so.

    I know, in a list of atrocious things done by this admin, it's hard to make room for all the super-shitty ones, but this one belongs in that top tier.  But it probably won't even get a mention on the news.

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  12. 49 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    Read MM’s twitter feed- Pete Sessions is his client- Sessions took the contribution and wrote the letter demanding her removal. Mackowiak is flacking it after the fact.

    I’m not saying MM did anything criminal, I’m saying he’s a party after the fact to a nasty and shameful bit of business. Hope he’s well paid for it.

     

     

    45 minutes ago, conVINCEd said:

    Ok.  I don’t doubt what you are saying, I just wanted to read about it.  A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I considered MM a friend.

     

    39 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:


    There are multiple people in this forum who did. And I used to respect him a lot, because he used to actually be a conservative.

    These.  

    And my wife and I were just discussing this/him the other day.   We are trying real, real hard to keep considering him a friend.  But he's making it damn near impossible.  There's a good man in there -- or there once was.  He could be counted on to step up to help someone in need.  Now....he gets his greatest political capital from attacking the most vulnerable (homeless people, LGBTQ people, etc.), and he shamelessly and relentlessly defends a man who, if he were a Dem doing the exact same things, he would have rightfully attacked for being a threat to the Republic.

    Oh, and he has mentioned in the past that he talked to Roger Stone pretty much every week.

    None of my serious acquaintances has been convicted for a bucket full of federal crimes.  None.  And I'm a lawyer.  This says a lot about what MM has allowed himself to become.

  13. I don't know why you all want to fight Jr. dirty.  I'd gladly fight that idiot in a fair fight using standard boxing rules, mostly because I'm shorter than he is, probably have a significantly shorter reach, and look like I could be Jewish, so it'd be really funny and extraordinarily embarrassing for him when I still clown him.

    I don’t want to just clown them.

    I want them all crushed to a point that they go the fuck away forever.

    Gloves-off time, fuckers.
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  14. 1 minute ago, jimmyjazz said:

    LOL the caller from Florida thinks everyone in the room serves the President, and the ambassador and the Democrats are "breaking their oaths".

    Jesus.  Crack a textbook.

    Members of fucking CONGRESS have actually said "I work for the president."

    Idiocracy, dude.

  15. 1 minute ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

    It would be awesome to see the look on his face when you hit him and he realizes no one is going to step in and save him. I remember that look from elementary school. When you stand up to the bully and punch him right in the face...the shock first, then the fear. It would be glorious. 

    Best feeling in the world, or at least one of them.

    I vividly remember turning and whaling on the middle school bully (athlete, much bigger than me -- I just whirled around on him and started beating his ass).  The best part was during first period that day, when the principal came and pulled me out of class (having heard of the fight that happened right before school started) -- she gets me in the hall and asks "so...what happened?"  "He just kept fucking with me."  Long pause.  "Ok, go back to class."

    Fucker steered clear after that.  

    The entire Trump clan needs to be popped in the fucking face, and hard.

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  16. 5 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:


    He’s hippy though- you’ve got to go hard on the ribs and liver with hippy guys starting right at the bell, because they can wear you out leaning on you and crowding your space.

    Oh.....you think I'd fight him fair.  How adorable.

    Little bitch would get a kick to the nuts and a 2x4 upside the head, then I'd piss on his unconscious body.  Which would still be more dignity and respect that he deserves -- I'm just too lazy to shit on him too.

     

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