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Brisketexan

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  1. There are some voters that really have no choice but to accept whatever some politician tells them will help them. They have zero control of their future prospects, and may listen to anyone that promises to help them. Even if they don’t believe that politician, it may be the only hope that he or she is telling the truth.
    in 2016, coal miners were listening.  Trump said he would put them back to work. I recall Bill Clinton, speaking for Hillary, that they shouldn’t blame solar or wind, they should blame natural gas.  If your only job prospects and training is about digging coal out of the ground, who do you vote for? They’re not going to be retrained as nurses or programmers.
    this happens with many groups. 

    They can do physical work. There are a zillion construction jobs in Texas. They even pay better than coal jobs. And are safer. They should move.
  2. Such bs.  Even if hunter Biden is/was the most corrupt person in the world, it has no bearing on this case.  I’m still wondering why Bill Barr isn’t going after hunter if he’s such a criminal.

    It’s fantastic. It’s as if, in an impeachment involving Nixon’s break in of Dem HQ....the GOP insisted that what we REALLY need to see is the stolen documents.
    The fucking criminal boldness of the GOP is the thing that still amazes me, even though it shouldn’t anymore.
  3. 13 minutes ago, NameAlreadyInUse said:

    If that's a real quote he's a real moron.

    Oh...his moronity is not in ANY doubt.

    For example, when confronted in an interview about conspiring to have goons tail the US ambassador to Ukraine, his response was "no, that's not what happened!  She was having ME tailed, yeah, that's what really happened!" I'm not making that up.  He's completely fucking insane.

  4. Just now, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

    it's amazing to me that the entire R side of the Senate appears to be compromised. That's alarming.

    Once you get in ankle-deep in a criminal conspiracy....you're in all the way.  It's why you shouldn't get in one in the first place.

    The GOP is firmly in the "we better all hang together, or else we'll surely hang separately" territory.  They really have no other rational choice.  They have to be all-in on the criminal syndicate, because if they don't, they lose its protection.  This is exactly how every criminal organization functions.  Anyone who has spent more than a millisecond in organized crime investigation/prosecution recognizes all of the markers from how the party is conducting itself these days.

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    Edited by Brisketexan

    33 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

    Yeah, I think they just got a little lesson on the power of the internet.  I hope nobody in their neighborhood ever talks to them again and gives them dirty looks when they drive by.

    Wasn't just the internet - it was picked up by all the local news outlets (broadcast and newspaper), and was getting NATIONAL coverage.

    This case will be a textbook example for lawyers to remind their clients/potential clients of when they want to do something foolish like [checks notes] sue a family for putting up a nice playscape for their terminally ill kid [shakes damn head, because it's still amazing to read when you see it all written out like that].  The plaintiffs' lives are WAY worse now than they were before they filed, and if pursuing a suit will make your life WORSE instead of BETTER....you shouldn't file it at all.

  6. 4 minutes ago, Voldemort86 said:

    i don’t know why any middle class voter with an IQ over retard level would believe this jack ass

    You answered your own conundrum.

    Stupid people is the most important voting bloc in the country.  Trump promised a middle class tax cut, the best health care that covers everybody for even cheaper than it is today, and that he wouldn't touch SS or Medicare.  He's broken the first two, and just today, promised to cut SS and Medicare.  But our voters are fucking Charlie Brown, charging the football for the 100th time.  Fucking idiots.

  7. 4 minutes ago, burntorangebongos said:

    If Congress had guarded their institutional power more jealously instead of abdicating power to the executive, then we wouldn't be here now. They didn't heed Hamilton's prescient warning about the fucktards like him.

    ^^^^^

    This too.  Like, lots of this.

  8. 7 minutes ago, bolverk said:

    Something else to consider:

     

    There's nothing to consider.

    1) it is a certainty that every country with even rudimentary hacking technology has full access to Trump's phone.  I'm talking countries like fucking Equatorial Guinea -- fucking ALL of them.

    2) on the bright side, 99% of the stupid shit he says and does, he makes public anyway, so there's not much "secret" out there.  Except for some of the voice calls.  Those....it would be interesting to hear those.

  9. Just now, hayden_horn said:

    this man is not wrong.

    It's called "making your record."  Any trial lawyer worth his salt has tried a case to a judge or jury that he knew was a stone-cold lock against him from day one.  You still try the case.  In fact, you try it as perfectly as you can, because you are making a record to go up to the next level (the court of appeals etc.).

    In this case, the "next level" is the public.  Schiff's job isn't to win over this unwinnable jury.  It's to a try a case that's so strong that it makes it obvious that this jury is bought and paid for, so that the court of appeals/the electorate sees fit to reverse their decision.

  10. 1 minute ago, hayden_horn said:

    thanks for that explanation. i'm kind of stunned that i'm only just now finding out about this.

    Also, we used to have slaves, they counted for 3/5 of a person, we had a civil war, Lincoln freed the slaves, and then some other stuff happened too.

    I mean, if we've gotta catch you up on stuff.

  11. 5 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

    But back to charisma- I do rank an eloquent speaker who stays on task higher than I do, oh I don't know, unfocused but passionate ramblers. I resemble the latter but admire and aspire to the former.

    But here's the thing....Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure had us pegged as a society.

    You can have someone give an eloquent, on-point, well-researched presentation.....and that will go over fine.

    But the crowd goes NUTS for this moron yelling "SAN DIMAS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL RULES" (or, "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!", whatever):

    HappygoluckyHonoredFairybluebird-size_re

    The people fucking love a moron.

  12. Just now, hayden_horn said:

    really? i was under the impression that electoral votes were based on population at census time? is this not the case?

    Your number of reps is based on census.  BUT, in low-population states, which get a minimum of 1 rep, in light of the fact that we have a capped number of total reps.....then the total population of Wyoming divided by the total senators+reps for Wyoming (3) gives each of those electoral votes a much lower number of persons behind it than you get when you do the same math for Texas, with 2 senators and 36 reps (38 electoral votes).

    So, small population of some states plus capped number of total reps dictates that the weight per electoral vote will be skewed towards small states.

  13. So, let me get this straight: the Alex Jones/rightwing wingnut crowd constantly crows about how "antifa" and anybody else left of Donald Trump is going to launch "false flag" attacks to make the rightwing wingnut crowd "look bad."

    And also, members of the rightwing wingnut crowd were planning an ACTUAL, VIOLENT "false flag" attack in order to foment a civil war.

    I mean, I know the whole "every accusation is a confession" thing gets a lotta use around here, but goddamit, it's now pretty much an ironclad rule.  If the right complains about X, they are unquestionably doing X.

  14. 5 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

    Donald Trump's presidency is proving that the president of the United States can do anything he wants as long as he is protected by his party and its base. 

     

     

    Bingo.

    That's the achilles heel of our entire system.  The failsafe is the Senate.  But if the failsafe is compromised, and is part of a criminal conspiracy with the executive....the failsafe fails.  We crash into the mountain.

  15. 9 minutes ago, relapse98 said:

    Name recognition. Everyone, for the most part, knows Ted's name. They hate him or they love him. But he has name recognition.
    Cornyn, he's just there. Noone really hates or loves him.

    Well, then....folks need to get to know him.

    He's the family truckster of Senators: "You think you hate it now, wait till you drive it."

  16. My family name is misspelled. It's German and for a few generations my family wasn't proficient in English, then all of a sudden on a census it showed up with the misspelling. My theory is that my ancestor verbally told the census taker the name and then that worker misspelled it. Then it stuck when my family got around to going for government forms or whatever.

    Sure, Mr. Hilter, sure.
  17. 1 minute ago, Js1 said:

    They radio in when the line at the Porta-crapper has gone down or the buffet was restocked 

    Look, man, if you don't want the necessary equipment to have super-secret combat communications with Freedom Eagle and Patriot Panther, then that's your loss.  I'll just return these to Wal-Mart and get my money back.....

    s-l400.jpg

  18. lol at the second guy from the right lugging around a manpack radio.  Cosplay is serious bidness.  

    If you don’t have a radio, then you can’t have a callsign, and if you don’t have a callsign, you ain’t shit.

    This is Freedom Eagle, signing off.
  19. Have we heard a motion to "declare Donald J. Trump the bestest president ever, and dismiss all removal proceedings against him, and in fact declare that he can't ever be removed from office by anything, even an election?"  Because that's the one I'm waiting for.

    Otherwise, I fully expect this to be a complete sham, and will pay little attention to the pre-ordained conclusion led by Senators who have proudly publicly proclaimed that they will NOT adhere to the oath they just took.  Because, you know, lying under oath is HUGE -- why, the GOP told me it was a clearly impeachable offense.  But when GOP Senators do it, well, that's just good bull or something.

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