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Brisketexan

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  1. Wife and I will be going for the first part of the protest at least. Fundamentally, we can't stand by and not make our voices heard. Yes, we're doing plenty of other things and have been, but it's important that the nation sees people "just like them" out there saying that this is not normal, and it is not acceptable. WE are the real patriots.
  2. So….what kind of phone do you have?
  3. Smelled like an Allsup’s? SOLD!
  4. I’m just super glad that we went in the “no more hawkish neocons” direction. Of course, being that we chose the “insane criminal autocrats creating repeated/endless war to cement their grip on power” direction as the alternative…maybe not a real good move there.
  5. I feel ya bro.
  6. Spot-fucking-on. Billionaires are fucking us all. Mostly white people have fallen for the bullshit line of "yeah, it's the poor brown people who are fucking you over." And the billionaires are doing all they can to make sure that the gullible mostly white people get even dumber, so they keep buying into their bullshit. Simple cartoons are often the clearest statement of truth:
  7. I don't. I hope that they pull a Hitler in his bunker so they never get the chance to say the last part. People who purposefully advance the cause of harming other human beings for personal gain deserve no fate better than that.
  8. This. On a "per billion" basis, when looking at the decency vs. psychopath tendencies of billionaires.....we're ultra-mega fucked.
  9. The correlation: Don't overthink it.
  10. The timeline you are discussing is "damn near any moment now." A system of "in groups who the law protects, but does not bind, and out groups who the law binds but does not protect," once laid arrogantly bare, is not long for this world. Which is infuriating and demoralizing to someone who has spent his entire adult life living and working within a system that - while flawed, sometimes deeply - more or less functioned.
  11. Federal Tort Claims Act is your path: I mean, that is, if you believe that laws that apply to and bind the Regime and those it favors still exist. Spoiler: they do not. We are the Democratic People's Republic of Laws for Thee not for Me.
  12. The problem is, being the kind of human being who is genuinely altruistic with a goal of improving humanity as a whole and being the kind of human who can and does play the sort of game necessary to accumulate unspeakable wealth are pretty close to mutually exclusive propositions. Good and altruistic humans generally don't accumulate hundreds of billions. Evil, narcissist, psychopathic, sociopathic shitheels do. You and I would follow the same path. But because we're that sort of person, we never did and never would accumulate that sort of wealth. Shit, I've had several chances to behave merely unscrupulously and profit from it.....can't do it. Ethics and a conscience are a bitch when it comes to wealth creation. Fortunately for Elon, he is not burdened with those things.
  13. You're wrong. We'll get massive, flooding rains, starting about 500 yards EAST of the lake recharge zone.
  14. Lemme throw icewater on you: it does NOT take a majority to take over and destroy a country. It only takes a large enough plurality. Is 20% of your population fascist-loving, xenophobic shitheels? That's not great, but that's not a critical mass that enables them to inflict real systemic damage. Is over 1/3 of your population fascist-loving, xenophobic shitheels? Well, now you're in trouble. Because another 20-40% of your population will go with the fucking flow, and/or explain it all away. And that is MORE than enough critical mass. They are governing like they are the majority because they control the majority. The rest of us need to realize we are an insurgency, because that's where we are.
  15. "NO GESTAPO IN BASTROPO!!!" ACTUAL GESTAPO IN LA, NYC, CHICAGO, HOUSTON, ETC.:
  16. This this this. There are people out there who love liberty, freedom, and the ideals of this country, and oppose those who would turn it into the very kind of apparatus that we have opposed since 1776. Those people will be the ones marching on Saturday. Those are actual patriots, NOT the people who wear combat/red white and blue patriot costumes and wave the flag of a republic they don't even believe in.
  17. [Chicken Sandwich] PROPAGANDA! [/Chicken Sandwich]
  18. FIF the grift. It's always the grift, folks.
  19. Depends on the cut. For a shank, a great braise is hard to beat.
  20. Flageolet. I presume Jeffrey was whipping up a human cassoulet. Probably pretty tasty.
  21. Oh, that reminds me. A decision that just came down from the 5th Circuit, considering nearly the exact same legal issues. Spoiler: when the kid is from a country/has a parent from a country that the current Regime hates....well, it's just fine so ship him back. Amazing how the "principles" of the conservative movement aren't principles at all: Brito Guevara v. Francisco Castro No. 24-10520 https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/24/24-10520-CV0.pdf Oral Argument Audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIY57lB5Eyg Before RICHMAN, WILLETT, and DOUGLAS, Circuit Judges. REVERSED and REMANDED. (June 2, 2025). Judge DOUGLAS dissented. When A.F. was five years old, her mother, Samantha Estefania Francisco Castro, removed her from the lawful custody of her father, Jose Leonardo Brito Guevara, in Venezuela and then illegally immigrated with A.F. to the United States. Brito petitioned for A.F.’s return under the Hague Convention on Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. The District Court denied the petition, finding that although Brito had established a prima facie case of wrongful removal, A.F. was now well-settled in Texas. Brito appealed. A panel majority of the Fifth Circuit is not persuaded that A.F. had formed such deep or enduring ties to her new environment that returning to her home in Venezuela would contravene her best interests. Explaining that making this decision is neither easy nor without sorrow, the majority reasons that A.F.'s young age, the instability of her residence and her mother's employment, and the uncertain immigration status of both A.F. and her mother weigh against a finding that A.F. was well-settled in the United States. Emphasizing that its ruling accords with the Hague Convention's core objective, namely to restore the pre-abduction status quo and deter parents from seeking more favorable Courts across borders, the Fifth Circuit reverses the District Court's decision, renders judgment in favor of Brito, and remands the case to the District Court with instructions that it enter an order directing A.F.'s return to Venezuela. A dissenting Judge charges the majority opinion with reweighing evidence and failing to provide proper deference to the District Court’s findings. The dissenting opinion emphasizes that A.F. has formed significant connections in Texas and that the District Court’s findings on her well-settled status were not clearly erroneous. _____________________ For the record, I believe this is likely the correct decision under the law. Just like I thought the court decisions to return Elian Gonzalez were correct under the law. Because I - unlike any MAGAts - actually believe in the Rule of Law, and its objective application to the facts. MAGAts, on the other hand, are entirely outcome-based, with zero guiding principles and no adherence to the Rule of Law.
  22. A lovely dish of braised human flesh deserves the best.
  23. Well, I mean.....there's obtaining the right cuts of meat, the prep, setting up the right mise en place.... ....then the kitchen cleanup, washing dishes, etc. All-in-all, I'd guess that his percentage of actual cannibalism-focused activity time was closer to 5% of his time. So, a real number. Anything worth doing is worth doing right.
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