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Brisketexan

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  1. I'm thinking of my go-to knives.

    2 nice chef's knives.  These get the bulk of the work.

    1 paring knife.  Second next highest use.

    1 thin, flexible blade boning/filet knife.  I love this thing.  The flexible blade is perfect for skinning fish, for boning out game, all kinds of tasks like that.

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    1 good slicing knife.  I use this for carving briskets, turkeys, etc.

    That's really all I need.  But seriously, that boning/filet knife is more useful than I ever expected it would be.

  2. Just now, lemonlime said:

    Why the fuck is the president's son-in-law giving a briefing anyway?  FFS, are our tax dollars paying for nepotistic briefings, never mind briefings that are really political ads.

    BUT HUNTER BIDEN!!!!

    Seriously.  Irony is fucking dead.

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  3. 24 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    For sure. But I don’t believe it envelops the party as much as you do.  I think a lot of that lies with the evangelical portion, personally. 

    - They control the party.  Completely and totally.  You don't go anywhere in the party unless you dance to their tune.  There is no party outside of evangelicals, or those who do their bidding.

    Holy shit, a real #bothsides issue. I’m pretty centrist so maybe I see it in a different light, but I think there’s lots of running to the far sides. 

    - There's plenty of moderate Dems.  Shit, there are pro-life Dems.  There's plenty of objective study of party positions that bears this out.  One party owns the "party of extremism" label today, and it ain't even close.

    I understand that. I’m sitting in the same situation. A different place, but the same situation. 

    - Well, you should have whiskey at your meetings.  I do at mine.

    They will. 

    - Nope.  They won't.  Because an essential element of their strategy is pulling up the ladder of electoral consequences behind them.  Disenfranchise voters. actively court interference in our elections, disseminate disinformation, etc.

    We’ll see. Not holding my breath that I’ll ever be satisfied with either. 

    - It's not going to happen.  They're all in on the strategy one point above.

    See comments above.

  4. 12 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

     You should consider yourself lucky you have views that align with the Dems.  Because those of us who don’t share those views, and don’t like Trump, are fucked.  And there’s more out there than you think, not that it matters, there’s no one for us to vote for.

    Well, the punchline is that the GOP problem is more than Trump, and you know it.

    The ridiculous racist blowback against Obama ("He's a Kenyan muslim terrorist!  Where's the birth certificate!").  The theocracy of Dan Patrick and Ken Paxton (seriously, I deal in this world -- we have a state religion now, which has the full force of the government behind it, protecting it and even seeking to penalize those who contradict it -- fundamentalist evangelical Christianity).  The idiocracy of 30 years of one-party rule, where the only criterion for being elected is to win the GOP primary by being more extremist than your opponent, and qualifications for the job aren't even an afterthought (I'm dealing with these officials and judges daily -- it's only getting worse).

    My views don't align perfectly with the Dems.  They've never aligned perfectly with anyone except the Party of Brisketexan, and we're having a tough time getting a second member to join.  But they DO align in one very important respect -- they oppose the shameless corruption, incompetence, cruelty, and lunacy of the current GOP.  The current GOP needs to experience some pain and consequences.  If that prompts them to become a party of decency and sanity, we'll all be better for it.  But supporting them only encourages more of the bad behavior, which they don't even care about anymore.

  5. 2 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I'm all about the big 3 -- dough, sauce, cheese.  All have to be great.  Everything else is pretty much a distraction.

    Again, on a real pizza, you're right.

    On a chain/frozen pizza, you're wrong.

    So, you're half right -- wanna damn trophy or somethin'?  I mean, to be fair, that puts you in, like, the top 5% of Surly posters, but I damn you with faint praise.

  6. 2 minutes ago, workswithseed said:

    I mean lots of people listen to this man and says tariffs suck, and that the only reason to tariff China is to hurt them. 

     

    .....yet they continue to slavishly support him.

    I don't like that he does A, B, C, D, E.....Z......But I still support him!  That last clause negates everything that came before it.  It tells us that none of what you told us before actually matters.  The only decision point is....wait for it....Trump.  

    You're a member of a cult.  Just because in your head, you're thinking "I dunno, I don't even LIKE kool-aid.  And I don't know if I trust those folks who mixed it.  And I'm not even thirsty"....that means nothing when you then gulp it down.

  7. 12 minutes ago, pepper brooks said:

    I would also add if they are Asian it is considered bad luck to give someone knives as a gift.  

    Don't you do the deal where they give you a penny in return, so technically they are "buying" the knife from you, so as to not "sever the friendship?"  I dunno, my wife knows about all these odd superstitions.

  8. 16 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    Yes. Abortion, taxes, gun rights, and climate regulation all dreamed up and made recently controversial by Trump and Stephen Miller.
     

    Or are you speaking to the single issue you care most about?  The fucked up immigration policies from this administration will follow them forever.  But there’s a whole lot of people across this country that couldn’t give a single fuck either way about it.  There’s some that want open borders, there’s some that want no brown people here at all, and there’s some who don’t. Give. A. Fuck.   I understand this fucks up you broad brush you like to paint with, apologies. 

    How about the GOP that was against tariffs....until it wasn't.

    Wanted us to be "respected again" on the world stage....until we're utterly humiliated and loathed, including by our staunchest allies.

    Loves tax cuts that will surely lead to "job growth" -- except for the jillionth time, they've proven NOT to do that.

    And yeah, you don't get to say "yeah, but I really don't like the racism and xenophobia."  That's like saying "I'm a football fan, but I don't like all the blocking and tackling."  That's the fucking core of the brand now.

    How about how the GOP being "anti-corruption" -- but having no problem with the presidential crime family either funneling tax dollars into their pockets, or using the power of the presidency to their advantage in foreign business deals?

    I personally love how the GOP fanboys wanted to bring back dignity to the office, because that one time Obama saluted with a coffee cup....so they now slavishly support a man who demeans the office and the nation literally multiple times a day?

    Maybe it's the party of decency, morality, and family values.....supporting a president who fucks pornstars while his wife is pregnant and then pays her off with campaign money?  That one's a good one.  I like that one.

    We could go on.  And on.  The GOP has no principles, because it has jettisoned most everything it SAID was a principle in order to support Trump.

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  9. 41 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    That's nuts.  I go

     

    Margherita (essentially a cheese pizza with basil)

    Cheese (the gold standard to see what kind of skills the pizza parlor actually has)

    Italian sausage, sometimes with jalapenos

    Pepperoni, pancetta or prosciutto (more for my kids)

     

    I want a pizza, not a dough-based casserole delivery system.

    You are making a mistake.

    See, there's good pizza -- you know, the good stuff that we get baked in a hot pizza oven, etc.  Margherita is great that way.  A simple tomato and anchovy pie -- great.

    Then, there's shitty pizza -- frozen pizza, dominos, etc.  And that IS a topping delivery system.  So, load 'em up!

  10. Probably. I don’t think it has fuck all to do with loyalty to anyone in particular. Clinton, Trump, Obama, AOC, Bush, none of them.  People care about issues, not who is parroting them.  But you already know this.  And issues are difficult and people are not. So, by all means continue with the loud noises. 

    If you support Trump on his “issues,” that’s even worse. Stephen Miller directs his policy. For fuck’s sake.
  11. 8 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

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    I work and live around a fuckload of them. Not a single one that I’ve spoken politics with “likes” Trump. They also wouldn’t piss on Beto if he was on fire.  And most held their nose voting for Cruz.  So give me a fucking break and come join us in reality. It’s tougher here, because blanket statements don’t work. 

    Yeah, I know a bunch of them, too.  Several of them names you would know.  Some of them even publicly lament Trump.  But.....every one of that fuckload is going to vote for Trump in 2020.  You don't have to like him.  You just have to be loyal to him.  They will be.  And you know they will.

    This is a red light-green light test -- will they keep him in power or not?  They will.  That's all that matters.  Everything else is bullshit to make themselves feel better about the fact that they're actually okay with his shit.

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  12. 2 minutes ago, Iceman said:

    I ignored your interpretation of it.

    English motherfucker, do you speak it?

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    “I never heard,” Sondland said, “anyone say that the investigations had to start, or had to be completed. The only thing I heard from Mr. Giuliani or otherwise, was that they had to be announced [publicly] in some form and that form kept changing.”

    That's just one quote.  The only purpose here was ANNOUNCEMENT of an investigation, not actually conducting one.  That was ordered by TRUMP'S LEGAL AGENT.

    If one of my client hires me to deliver an embezzlement demand and I do it (I wouldn't, because I'm not Rudy), the client doesn't get to say "hey, HE did it, not me, so I'm innocent."  Nope.  The law is and always has been clear.  If you direct an agent to commit a crime, you are liable for that crime as well.  It's how we've convicted every fucking mobster who sent out some muscle to kill a guy.

    We could go on....but you'd ignore it.

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  13. 3 minutes ago, Iceman said:

    you have nothing, so;

    1) call me a racist

    2)call me a nazi

    or

    3) claim the IQ high ground

     

    That's your whole fucking game.

     

     

    ummmm.....

    1 minute ago, jimmyjazz said:

    He LITERALLY told you what to read, and you ignored it.

    ....yeah.

    So, if you don't mind, I WILL claim the IQ high ground here.  I think the evidence supports me.

    Don't worry. It's not exactly a gripping victory.  When you are pointed to EXACT evidence, and completely ignore it, a speed bump gives anyone else the "IQ high ground."

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  14. 2 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

     

    @Brisketexan has been right - republicans are now the party of trump. there must be some real danger in the internal republican polling.

    Yep.  There's two things in play.

    First, the GOP base has gone full-on cult.  If Trump says it's good, they love it.  If he says it's bad, they hate it.  There are no guiding principles other than what Trump says.  SO, if local GOP official Jones gets on Trump's bad side, he knows that all Trump has to do is call him "human scum," and he's toast.  So, he goes overboard the opposite direction.  He slobbers all over Trump's knob without pausing for breath.

    Second, Trump has kompromat on many senior GOP officials.  He either has ordinary embarrassing stuff (photos of Lindsay Graham romping with boys) or incriminating stuff (foreign money trails, etc. -- that's a smart play by a mobster, by the way: get people to join in your crime spree, and then remind them that they can't get out now, if you go down, THEY go down).  And that keeps folks like Lindsay in line.

    The GOP is Trumpism.  That's all that's left.

  15. Just now, Iceman said:

     

    as far as the last sentence, just remember, there are plenty of folks who find Trump unsatisfactory.  Just because they might not hate him as much as you, does not make them a sympathizer.  The ongoing tantrum by the left is not helping the country either, but carry on...

    Proof.  Bring it.  Shit or get off the pot.

    Sworn testimony of Sondland.  Read it.  Now flush yourself.

    You're purposefully IGNORING testimony to state your position.  I can lead you to facts, but I can't make you think.  Trust me, it's clear that NOTHING can make you think.

  16. 4 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    I love your broad takes.  Brilliant exhibition of intelligence. 

    Find me more than a smattering of Republicans who do not support Trump and will not vote for him in 2020.  They are a statistically insignificant part of the party.  And that is by design.  Remember, the fucking PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES called Republicans who don't support him -- and this is not hyperbole, it's a direct quote, from the highest elected official in the country -- "human scum."

    The Venn diagram on Trump support and GOP support are two overlapping circles.  

    For fuck's sake, a majority of Republicans think Trump is a better president than Lincoln or Washington.  Just fucking stop.

  17. 1 minute ago, jimmyjazz said:

    If you want to see adults whine and interrupt, sure, watch it.  So far Gym, Louie, and Matt have made utter fools of themselves, and are ignoring procedure.

    If I were Nadler I'd stand up and say "Gym and Louie, if you continue to speak out of order, I will throw you out."

    If I were Nadler, I would simply say that "The House rules prevent me from noting that you are behaving like hypocritical gutless pussies, so I will not so note that fact for the Congressional Record."

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