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Brisketexan

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  1. In retrospect, operation "launch expired Taco Bell food into the sun" may have been unwise.
  2. Oh, I will survive next Tuesday's purge for sure. Love me a good meatball sandwich. Shit, I even like a mediocre meatball sandwich.
  3. Guys. Friends. Amigos. It's like you have forgotten the two immutable rules of this era. 1. It only gets worse. 2. There is no bottom. Things are going to get so, so, so much more pathetic. There will be shit like "The Donald Trump Honorable Award of Best Donald Trumping in the Americas," presented by Venezuela and Colombia as an easy way to get Trump off their back (well, that, and their "investment" of a few hundred million in Trump Coin). Imagine how absurdly pathetic and shitty things could get. Then quadruple that. Then quadruple it again. Then toss it in the trash, because it's still nowhere close to how absurdly pathetic and shitty things will ACTUALLY get.
  4. There's an Instant Pot recipe for hard-boiled eggs. I don't use the Instant Pot for much (I cook, I don't do lazy crockpot shit very often). But gotdamn, it cooks them perfectly and the shells peel right off. When it's deviled egg time, we pull out the Instant Pot. I need to try it for soft boiled eggs too, see if that works.
  5. ^^^^ This. The words mean whatever the Trump DOJ says they mean. They may well decree that "pending indictments" means that everyone must eat meatball sandwiches next Tuesday under penalty of death. Nothing. Actually. Matters anymore. Someday, everyone will get it. But that someday will be way, way, way too late.
  6. There's an argument to be made that he's already BEEN pardoned. "I further direct the Attorney General to pursue dismissal with prejudice to the government of all pending indictments against individuals for their conduct related to the events at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021." This language has been used, BY THE TRUMP DOJ, to conclude that even J 6-adjacent crimes (such as separate firearms offenses found in searches of homes of J 6ers etc.) have been pardoned. If I was his attorney, I would absolutely argue that he's already been pardoned by Trump.
  7. Because when all you value is money and power -- and you have no independent self-worth, integrity, or dignity -- it costs you nothing. Would you or I do it? No, because fuck that guy, I have pride and honor. But for men with no honor.....if they are given the opportunity to multiply their wealth simply by handing over an engraved plaque they picked up yesterday from Bob's Trophies and Muffler Shop, and lavishing empty praise on a pathetic narcissist, they are gonna take that opportunity 100 out of 100 times.
  8. That's some bullshit. Great poetry comes from human authors, like James Joyce. Behold the tear-inducing beauty of this work: "At every fuck I gave you your shameless tongue came bursting out through your lips and if a gave you a bigger stronger fuck than usual, fat dirty farts came spluttering out of your backside. You had an arse full of farts that night, darling, and I fucked them out of you, big fat fellows, long windy ones, quick little merry cracks and a lot of tiny little naughty farties ending in a long gush from your hole. It is wonderful to fuck a farting woman when every fuck drives one out of her. I think I would know Nora’s fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women. It is a rather girlish noise not like the wet windy fart which I imagine fat wives have. It is sudden and dry and dirty like what a bold girl would let off in fun in a school dormitory at night. I hope Nora will let off no end of her farts in my face so that I may know their smell also." Man. That fella could WRITE.
  9. Just more easy fellating of the most fragile ego narcissist in the history of our planet. Make up an award, give it to him, you are ingratiated and he'll let you do whatever you want. It's all childishly transactional.
  10. No disagreement there, but the way we GET there is by ensuring that none of those excessive risk takers are large enough to be a load-bearing pillar of the economy, such that their failure would cause larger collapse. Don't make YOUR risk so great that it would materially damage OUR economy. Kind of like we don't let people use their homes as bomb-making factory - because your failure would cause massive harm to surrounding structures. The underlying social contract involves such trade-offs. If we want to encourage people to take large risks in the pursuit of large reward and large "innovation" (and maybe we do, there's definitely a good case to be made), then we should also ensure that they - and they alone - bear the burden of that risk. Because, spoiler: they, and they alone SURE AS SHIT will reap all of the reward if it pays off.
  11. I mean, that's literally our national motto under this regime, so....yeah.
  12. The phenomenon emphasizes the wisdom and need for real anti-trust law and enforcement. Sure, let these fuckers go out there and leverage to the hilt, and crash and burn. Just none of this "too big to fail" shit (which, when you let one or two entity's become that dominant, is an actual thing -- their failure could lead to total economy disaster). It is bad policy to (1) allow an enterprise to get that big/economically dominant, (2) gamble with its own life, (3) lose, and then (4) say "nope, you can't let us crash, we're too big and too important, use the people's money to bail us out." The thing is, item (4) is not untrue in many such cases. So....don't let it become true. But, we have no interest in doing that. As a society, we live to serve monopolies and oligarchies, and you and I have no purpose other than to be a source of revenue for those things. That's fucking fucked. The economy should serve and benefit its citizens, not vice-versa.
  13. When the market is skewed by stupid debt financing that creates an unsustainable bubble, that's a problem. It's not like we haven't seen this umpteen times before. Loads of debt financing flows to asset X, inflating the price of asset X which is pretty harmful to ordinary consumers that actually need asset X. Then, the debt bubble inevitably pops, consumers are stuck with asset X that they overpaid for, and we all have to bail out the mega-players who got fucked to the tune of billions of dollars for their Vegas gambles on said debt financing. It's legal. It's just dumb, harmful, and destructive. Unfettered "capitalism" has its downsides. This is a known one, and not only have we done nothing to mitigate it, we've gone under the hood to remove all speed governors and soup up the engine, so when we hit the wall, we hit it at ludicrous speed. Lather, rinse, repeat.
  14. I'm just sticking around for the discussion of how Immamac is gonna keep this discussion board going in a post-electricity world. I presume we'll be leaving sketches of dickbutt on a cave wall somewhere?
  15. This. If you show vacillation and inconsistency as a negotiator, then your counterparty will spend their time working on YOU, and trying to change your approach, instead of negotiating on the ultimate issue. Don’t walk in the door all loosey-goosey. Walk in firm and with a united approach.
  16. They’re too busy covering his room with antifa paraphernalia. There will surely be a file in there saying “antifa to-do list: sent by Joe Biden,” and shit like that.
  17. Yeah…way to draw out the family’s agony and grief, assholes. Plenty of solid flags indicating suicide. And saying “but suicide doesn’t make sense” is no rebuttal at all: suicide is very often not a rational decision. You could come up with all kinds of reason why the deceased shouldn’t have done so….but those reasons weren’t enough. It doesn’t make sense. Shit, it’s why the word “senseless” exists.
  18. This story is dead-on balls accurate. For most of the infrastructure you can think of. I’ve heard utility types brag about keeping things working in a maintenance budget that was 10% of what it should have been….because that’s what they were told to do because leadership never wants to raise rates. Those guys can keep shit going with duct tape and baling wire for a LONG time, until they can’t. And then 75 yrs of deferred maintenance comes due. And everyone bitches about the rate hike. It’s our national ethos. Opex is the devil.
  19. Bingo. Which is why this regime and its supporters absolutely do not want, and are actually 100% opposed, to "merit-based" admissions, hiring, etc. Because it turns out that white men are pretty fucking mediocre. Talk to anyone hiring higher-level professionals and such. They'll tell you that out of the stack of resumes they get from grad programs etc., a vast majority of the good candidates are women and/or minorities.
  20. "All politics is simp fealty to Trump." - New GQP version
  21. I'd think poorly - as in, so poorly they could never recover in my eyes - of anyone who DID trust those two absolute in-over-their-head clowns.
  22. Good question. I pondered that before myself. "Okay...I came up with this calendar. It starts....RIGHT NOW!" "But sir, according to the oracles, and the solstice, and all that other shit, it's the middle of June. So we just missed the first half of the very first year EVER? That doesn't seem right."
  23. What is sufficient? Being white. That’s it.
  24. Yep, my son made that exact point. He actually told us that he has cited the Bible recently, in the context of discussing text/dogma that has influenced particular positions.....and he cited not just specific chapter and verse, but also third-party sources that validated the assertion that said chapter and verse was a basis for the particular belief. In other words, the basic blocking and tackling of any researched paper. These fuckers are pure sophistry -- their source for damned near everything is "because I say/believe so." It's self-validating. How do we know what you say is true? Well, I said it. Therefore, it's true. I cite myself. Fucking idiocracy.
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