-
Posts
51910 -
Joined
-
Days Won
302
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Store
Downloads
Recruiting - 2020
2019-2020 Football Season
Football
Entertainment
Sports
News and Business
Cloak Room
Transfer Portal
Recruiting
Events
Posts posted by Brisketexan
-
-
YES PETE GOOD PETE YESSSSS
A simple and obvious truth. The GOP can’t be negotiated with. They can only be beaten.-
1
-
-
You have to elect the Republicans before you can find out what's in their health plan.
The last dozen posts are gold, but this one wins.
The Repubs are a FUCKING JOKE.-
3
-
-
The "austerity as principle trigger for Brexit" case is actually a really compelling one, which can be extended to a lot of these nationalist movements throughout the EU.
That’s a good piece. And it captured something that broadly afflicts liberal democracies these days:
“What we wanted was dignity, self respect, fuck the other guy, and fuck the government. Brexit, like The Wall, is not a real thing at all. It's a mood. A symbol. A story. A promise about power and pride and sovereignty told by swindlers and thugs to frightened children. What people voted for isn't the messy reality but the idea of "taking back control." In fact, it's our leaders who have lost control—of their senses, of their resources, of the plot. And it's the rest of us who are going to pay.”
Dead-on. For them, and us.-
2
-
-
9 minutes ago, F250 said:
Right, I should have said never in modern history because people still confuse the party of Lincoln with the current post Southern strategy Republican party.
Comparing today's Republicans to the pre-Southern Strategy Republicans is like saying that we should all look to Greece's present government as a model to be admired because Greece is the birthplace of democracy.
-
1
-
-
25 minutes ago, Lagunamadre said:
When Trump or his base say something ignorant, it's not because they're ignorant, they are just trolling you. If they say something smart, it's because they're smart.
It's like if Texas beats Georgia, it's because Georgia wasn't trying, If Georgia beats Texas, it's because they are better.
It's a great philosophy. As long as it's applied to you, you're infallible.
This.
It is a false narrative.
Most Trumpkins seem stupid because most Trumpkins are stupid. Occam's razor and shit.
-
3
-
-
1 minute ago, HenryJames said:
In the UK these days, political courage is harder to find than a good set of teeth.
-
Biden was a poor candidate who failed to get the nomination when he really wanted it. Folks seem to forget that for two, related reasons.
1 -- he spent 8 years under Obama being VP. That role is easy to make people warm and fuzzy -- he didn't really do anything, and thus didn't have much opportunity to piss anyone off. And hey, someone who was around for 8 years and didn't piss me off must be okay, right?
2 -- he is associated with Obama (including via the delightful Obama-Biden memes), and many people, and most Dems, are looking back on Obama with a nostalgia they didn't think possible. It's amazing how that polite, plain looking gal you went out with last night seems like a beauty queen next to the drunken hag who pissed all over your car seats tonight and then blamed you for it happening, in between her rants at you about how you are a loser and she usually dates guys 100X better than you and you better not think of touching me tonight that steak you bought me tonight was undercooked and they ran out of ketchup to make it edible and oh my God is your friend a mexican I don't want to meet up with them later he'll just try to rape me and if you had a nicer car I wouldn't have pissed in it and don't take that turn to fast because I'm gonna PUUUUKE! Yeah. That plain gal is Miss America compared to tonight's gal. So, the nostalgia for her makes everything associated with her seem WAY better than it really is.
The "good things" about Biden are that he was a reasonably innocuous guy who worked with Obama who looks WAY better than we thought he did because Trump is so awful. That's hard to fit on a bumper sticker. And message-wise, it's not much better than "it's her turn."
Don't get me wrong -- if Biden gets the nomination, he's getting my enthusiastic support, because dude......that hag pissed in my car.
-
How unpresidential. Seriously, that falls way below the standard of conduct we should expect from true presidential material.
He should have just grabbed her by the pussy.
-
2
-
-
You think he cares about Laredo? The only thing he knows about Webb county is that it went 73% for Hillary. In his mind, y'all need to be punished.
His miscalculations are in underestimating the effect of a border closure on Texas and the nation at large.
Yep. So...do it you fucking spineless coward. Do it. -
Shut down the border, Pussy Neck; I fucking triple-dog dare you.
This. Some congressman needs to call him out, call him a gutless pussy who won’t ever do it.-
1
-
-
Those dudes just need to learn to beat off.
I’m thinking we have numerous expert-level instructors around here. -
He really wasn't hitting Hillary originally, even though I wouldn't mind it if he did. He has always phrased it as "we" made mistakes, meaning the party and the campaign.
The fact that Hillary people are so angry about his comments proves they didn't learn anything from 2016. That's pretty disturbing.
Yep. Double down on “it’s her turn,” and “how dare you criticize a strategy....that managed to lose to DONALD FUCKING TRUMP.” Brilliant.Yep, bitch about Bernie bros all you want but there are HRC supporters who have actually said they won't vote for him if he wins the nomination.
The Dems have a problem with more than one constituency. A slim majority of unified idiots (Trumpists) is going to beat a divided majority of principled, uncompromising fools who are GREAT at “principles” but TERRIBLE at winning the elections that allow them to put said principles into practice.
-
2
-
-
Yes, but was it fossilized?
Only after he visualized someone else. -
So disheartening that the 40% are so efficiently managed with meaningless slogans. Wall, Witch Hunt, MS-13, Pre-existing Conditions, Across State Lines, Free Market, etc. Just say them over and over and you're golden.
They’re irredeemable and worthless. Go ahead and waste time trying to reach them, but it’s wasted breath. -
Dude you think I the former privileged in every way white dude now transitioned trans woman doesn’t get it?
It’s only because I’m white that I’m not at risk to become a murder statistic on any day I walk out my front door. I used to work for an org that dealt with the bullshit every day.
Btw today is transgender day of visibility - hi mother fuckers - I’m here and not going anywhere. Let US be in charge!! Fuck all of the privilege of Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. Even Kamala. Cisgender oppression sucks. Queer is the bomb dot com! And yet every fucking thing I see every fucking day says queer and gay and trans is abnormal and not ok. You have to have extraordinary self confidence just to tread water in the cisgender heteronormative world we live in. It’s not about hoods to live in or wealth it’s pervasive without exception UNLESS you go to gay and queer enclaves for respite.
Early in my transition I got pulled over several times and had cops pull me out of the car bc something didn’t seem right to them. I was scared shitless I would be taken in and then holy shit I’m one step away from rape and harassment in a city jail. Again thank god I’m white. And it’s STILL a nagging fear. Who the hell should be afraid of a routine traffic stop? Well if you aren’t white and cisgender you always are.
So look dude - I get it.
You want to have a convo about it? Start a thread. Politics aren’t about the pure ideas winning. Politics are about making tomorrow incrementally better than yesterday at the risk of going backward.
I’ve given cash to warren and kamala and Beto and I’ll go with either of them. But what I want is to win. Period.
On the ideas, lecturing or worse mocking white cisgender people isn’t going to get them to radically change. It’s just not.
Wait...we still get to talk shit about drunk and obnoxious Highland Park golf fans, right? -
Do they know their audience or what?
It’s truly fucking magical. There is no bottom to the stupidity. We live within a singularity of stupidity. -
If only there were a thread about Mr. Sanders where this could all could be discussed and discovered.
All threads are about Bernie. Because all candidates are inferior, evil pieces of shit, who must be eliminated to pave the way for the Bern. #itshisturn.-
1
-
-
*as my teeth fly through the air like dandelion seeds*
"Actually, good sir, you're proving my point most efficaciously."
Yes.
I’d say by now everyone is convinced that Bernie Bros are absolutely NOT all about foaming-at-the-mouth purity tests.
Well-done. -
Familiar to whom? Bernie's voting coalition, both in the 2016 primaries and in the 2020 polls so far, is younger and more diverse than his competition. It's not even close.Oh, do go on. Trumpists, who are mostly old and white, are forceful online in support of political ideology.
Hmmm....seems familiar.
Facts don't care about your feelings.
Now fuck off back to the ledge to whine about both sides with your fellow conservatives. You're out of your element, Donny.
Why would I stop, when with every reply, you help make my point? This is the easiest time I’ve had on Surly since I got people to agree that Hayley Atwell is smoke. -
*Bernie Bros, which are young and diverse, are forceful online in support of political ideology*
*MAGA chuds murder people by the dozen*
Giant Center Brain: "These things are indistinguishable."
Oh, do go on. Trumpists, who are mostly old and white, are forceful online in support of political ideology.
Hmmm....seems familiar.
As for “These things are indistinguishable,” huh. I thought the Super-integrity Bernie Bro trait was unassailable facts and logic (man....sounds like Ben Shapiro, don’t it?). So, to see such a predictable and unimaginative straw man logical fallacy - and it’s far from your only one in the past several posts....well, the similarities are becoming uncanny. -
Going to Trump doesn't represent going to an ideological extreme. Trumpism has no ideology aside from allegiance to Trump as an individual.
If you wanted to compare Bernie to the Tea Party then you might make some kind of vague sense because the Tea Party represents an ideological lens on American politics just as Bernie represents a Democratic Socialist lens on American politics. But I question whether or not you're even aware enough of ideology to even notice that.
Of course, in a practical sense the Tea Party thing doesn't work at all, because Bernie is an extremely reliable voting partner for Democrats and doesn't make any waves at all in the Senate as far as obstructionism. And, as mentioned, he works his ass off to promote Democrats who don't even really share his values.
And his voter base is extremely diverse and very young.
But, you know... he doesn't share your center-right politics so he's a crazy extremist.
I don’t think that Bernie is a crazy extremist.
I think that a good chunk of his supporters are. You’ll see that I haven’t equated Trump and Bernie. I’ve noted the similarity between their purity-test followers.
And your tea party point is sound. But incomplete. Trumpism is the end-point for the path the tea party ran down. It’s all politics of rage.
I like rage. I’m a devoted practitioner. Yet I’m also rational enough to see that it doesn’t make for good politics or healthy results.
I don’t care if you’re a Trumpist who wants me to burn in Hell because I’m Hispanic, or a Bernie bro who wants me to burn in Hell because I’m upper income. To me, you’re both just people who want me to burn in Hell. I don’t care for either one of you, ultimately for the same reasons.-
3
-
-
Beto is two years younger than Ted Cruz
The proper nomenclature is “Vulvarine,” please.-
1
-
-
Maudies is totally average. But 2 or 3 Gill's and you won't notice.
Verdad. It’s just regular Tex mex. Its selling point last night was its location. And my need for a couple of cold beverages.-
1
-
-
Conservatives like Brisket and leftists like me are fighting to pull the Democratic party to move our direction.
Well, the lurch to the extreme seems to be working out BRILLIANTLY for the GOP, so I certainly understand why the Dems would want to follow that blueprint.
Donald Trump 2019
in Cloak Room
Posted
FIFY