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Brisketexan

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  1. Last time I went to a Waffle House.....was with YGIFS (RIP). We'd meet up periodically for a semi-ironic "Waffle House summit." But truth be told, we also both liked the coffee and breakfast. Apropos of the survey subject matter, we both came from relatively humble backgrounds (working class for the most part) to achieve real professional success and eventually be members of the top whatever percent. That's a real American demographic, but its numbers are going down, and that's a big problem on two fronts. (1) It's a problem because you lose cross-cultural/economic perspective among the relatively upper classes. We spend a lot of time in rooms with "the elite." And when they didn't have perspective or understand what's up with the working class etc., it's helpful for "one of them" to be able to speak up with an "actually, here's how that looks. And I'm here to tell you, government cheese makes FANTASTIC grilled cheese sandwiches." But it's also a problem because (2) it's a sign of mobility. My mother literally survived because of government assistance. My father lucked into going to college- a state university, with absurdly cheap tuition, after growing up poor in a border town. And I have "made it." My children have grown up secure, with the world opened up for them. That's the American Dream, it's the path that many followed just a couple of generations ago. That path is not as open today. That sucks. We have lost mutual perspective because we've lost mobility, and make no mistake, most of that mobility was UPWARD, not downward. It's much harder today to jump up a class. It was never EASY, but it was much more doable. That's bad for America. All of America. Some of us see that, and actually give a shit about our fellow American, even though it benefits us not in the slightest (my success will not change if Darryl from Bumfuck gets a degree and a decent job in Ft. Worth....yet I still very, very much want to see that happen for Darryl). Others -- and they are now the dominant strain of American politics and society -- think that anything that might help Darryl in the slightest is SOCIALISM, and actually see Darryl's failure as a sign that the system they want is working. God it's fucked up.
  2. This. Within AISD boundaries, housing costs have skyrocketed, which (1) prices out many families with kids, (2) particularly lower and middle income families that are likely to have more than one kid, leaving behind either DINKS or higher income folks who stop at one kid. Bitsy and Chadsworth have no kid or one kid. Jimmy and Sally Suburb have 2-3 kids. Suburban districts are growing (see Liberty Hill, Round Rock, etc.). Urban ones are....not.
  3. Yeah, but when it's served on a torta...... .....paging Vic Mackey to the brown courtesy phone.
  4. From what I understood of the survey, either dinner at Applebee's or breakfast at Waffle House. I'd go with Waffle House if I were you.
  5. Cop records and posts videos of her getting the wood laid to her by a black dude with a big club. FIRED. Cop records and posts videos of her using a big club to lay the wood to a black dude. PROMOTED. America. What a country.
  6. It's okay. Own the fact that you fully support an administration that stocks itself full of proud racists, religious bigots, incompetents with open disdain for the rule of law, and the like -- so long as it makes at least one lib hurt. Be who you are, you'll find it oddly liberating.
  7. Hint: it's feature, not a bug. Pedophilia is in large part about power -- absolute power. The turn-on is that they can do what they want -- exactly what they want, ALL that they want -- and the recipient can't do anything about it. Which is PRECISELY how the regime is governing right now, to the delight of the MAGAs like Roll Left. See, a human being of any decency would care about the other person involved in their sex act. If she was incapable of consent, if she was terrified, if the only way you could have sex with her is because she knows your power can silence her, a decent human would not engage in that act. Just like an American government of any decency and loyalty to American ideals would not take pleasure in hurting Americans, purposefully hurting them and saying "and what are you gonna do about it?" But we have neither a government nor people within it with any such decency. They are all exactly the kind of people who would rape underage girls. Not in spite of the girls' fear and lack of power, but BECAUSE of it.
  8. Support for a regime that openly appoints and supports people who hold those beliefs is self-evident. Support for a party that is openly declining to condemn straight racism, naziism, etc. in the discussions of its internal leadership is self-evident. Indeed, guilt by association is a real thing. One doesn't get to join the nazi party, pay their dues, and work to get them elected, and then argue "but I was only there for the free bratwurst, and I liked their ideas on fixing potholes." You know what they are. You know what they stand for. You know what they are actively working towards: a white nation, for the white race. You are them. They are you. There is no separation.
  9. "Very stupid and gullible people baffled by fact that serial, pathological liar, who told them multiple obvious and outlandish lies that they wanted to hear solely to get them to vote for him with no intention or ability to follow through on those things.....turns out to have been lying and in fact had no intention or ability to follow through on those things." It's a long headline, but it's accurate as fuck.
  10. Yeah, at 8.99, that is inside skirt, not outside skirt.
  11. As he trolls, remember that Roll Left agrees with this core belief, by a current member of the administration: “We need competent white men in positions of leadership. … The founding fathers were wrong that all men are created equal … We need to reject that part of our heritage,” So, when reviewing any Trumper's posts, remember that this is who they are and what they stand for.
  12. Whatever it is....
  13. Whatever the number is, he's going to have to bump it up if he's going to get a job in the current administration.
  14. Yeah.....I am a noted nazi-hater. And I'm having a hard time trying to find this to be a deal-breaker. When the survival of the fucking Republic is a stake - and it absolutely is - you take any and all allies you can find. FFS, we shipped a billion metric shittons of military equipment to fucking Stalin back in the day. Fucking Stalin. So, yeah, to defeat the greatest existential threat our country has seen since the Civil War, I'll take someone who can win a battle. Distasteful, not ideal, all that shit. But we're getting our shit pushed in by an opposition that will fucking run Beelzebub Satan Puppykiller for office -- their only purity test is "can the candidate win?" First, we need to win. THEN we can refine shit. But right now, start fucking winning.
  15. Winnie, Penny, and who gives a shit about who’s #3?
  16. That's why I added the "primary purpose" clause. The white nationalist and christian nationalist "elements" are mostly manipulations used to achieve the primary purpose. Yes, there are ABSOLUTELY true believers in both white nationalism and christian nationalism in positions of power, but they are mostly useful idiots who may not even realize that they are being used to perform the real mission of the party: the transfer of any and all power and agency from The People to The Oligarchs.
  17. They will be. Trump's end-game is to divert WC dollars into his personal pockets. It's all about the grift. And as FIFA has realized that, their reaction is.....
  18. Bingo And bingo And bingo bingo. The GQP is a white supremacist "christian" nationalist party, which actually has as its primary function the creation of grift and oligarchy. That's it. That's the whole thing.
  19. Counterpoint: the football team is undefeated. I’m sure you understand me, and why this needs to be dealt with “inside the football family.”
  20. Yeah, after discussing this with GOLL, I am going to take another run at it (forgot that the first several years of my life, lived in a shitty apartment. And I've walked multiple factory floors. And there may be another question or two that I have thought on that may be relevant).
  21. The Venn diagram definitely involves people on both ends. Bubba Slapdick from Possum Turd has zero perspective outside his little bubble. But same with Sally Socialite from Manhattan, who commented when GWB was elected "how could he have won, I don't know anyone who voted for him!" I have found myself shocked at various times in my life by the bubbles different people live in. I traveled back and forth to Mexico to visit family as a child; I was shocked that most of my peers had never been to a foreign country. I had ranching in my family (on both sides of the border); I was shocked by the city kids in my class who were scared by cattle at the Houston livestock show (and that was most of my classmates). I was surprised by peers who didn't read like I did. I was surprised in college and law school by how many classmates didn't know the first thing about guns, which would come up when I was heading out to go hunting. I was lucky in that I was exposed to a pretty broad spectrum of people, cultures, and experiences. And I realized that most people....aren't.
  22. Now I'm really pissed. Needed more detailed shit, like: Have you ever used a coathanger as a car antenna? Have you ever driven a car that required you to carry a flat of motor oil in the trunk to "top it off" every 300 miles? Have you ever yelled "get that sumbitch" at a TV? Extra points if it was during an SEC football game. Do you own more than 3 firearms? Have you ever bought a used tire? Have you ever changed an under-the-hood car part yourself? Do you own a smoker with wheels? Have you ever stood around a BBQ pit shooting the shit with a buncha mexicans and drank so much beer that you had to take a piss behind said BBQ pit? Have you spent more than 10 nights in a place with no electricity (not counting a tent while camping)? I mean, come on. I was robbed.
  23. 38. Unfair. If they'd asked some more redneck-ish questions, like "how often do you hunt," and "do you eat food from gas stations," and "have you ever fallen off a boat because you were drunk," and shit like that, I'd have scored 100.
  24. Dude. There is no overton window anymore. There's a busted frame and glass in the rubble of a building 10,000 miles away from where we are today.
  25. Yeah. Now, ponder it. And realize that there is a very, very, very good reason why there is no such ideology-neutral element there.... ....it's because the above is the answer. Think just a layer deeper, but you really don't have to overthink it. These people act with brute and blunt force only. There is no subtlety or even good-faith artifice.
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