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36 minutes ago, Beantown Express 2.0 said:
I once wet my pants at a Chili’s so I can relate to this.
Amateur. Pros shit their pants at Ryan's Steakhouse.
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1 hour ago, Pato del Muerto said:
They had better still serve the chicken crispers with honey mustard.
Okay fuckers, let's get some shit straight.
1) If you order the chicken crispers, you get them with a side of cream gravy like a man, not honey mustard like a kid.
2) Chili's chips and salsa have no relation to actual mexican chips and salsa. Also, they are fucking delicious and I love them.
3) The SW egg rolls are fine. Not the greatest, just...fine.
5) Chili's burgers are and always have been solid.
6) Applebees does not belong in the same conversation. Applebees is where you go eat with your 300 lb wife and your 3 snotnose kids, drinking cheap domestic beer and hoping that it numbs the reality of what your life has become.
Now, having settled that, let's talk about Hall and Oates.
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13 minutes ago, Sandman said:
"Where has that cigar been, I wonder?"
In yet another development, three nearly identical vehicles, in different sizes, were spotted in proximity to a Surly poster's house.....
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6 minutes ago, Red Five said:
In my experience, the typical response is a hand wave with a roll of the eyes. "Whatever. Still better than voting for a democrat."
This. Facts don't matter. Indeed, contrary facts just make them entrench further into their unsupportable positions.
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Imagine you were vetting someone applying for a job at your company. You find out that in the past, he's worked closely with certain people. You pick up the phone and call those people, and say "hey, this Don guy has applied for one of my managerial jobs. You worked with him when he had a senior managerial position. What did you think of him?" And these are not clowns. These are people who worked at a high level. Many of them have a DECADES-LONG track record of high-level performance and genuine dedication to the enterprise (esp. the ones I bolded). And this is what they tell you:
Mark Esper — Trump's Secretary of Defense
“Trump is not fit for office because he puts himself first and I think anybody running for office should put the country first.”
James Mattis — Trump's Secretary of Defense
“Trump's use of the Presidency to destroy trust in our election and to poison our respect for fellow citizens has been enabled by pseudo political leaders whose names will live in infamy as profiles in cowardice. Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people - does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us.”
John Kelly — Trump's Chief of Staff
“Trump is a person that has no idea what America stands for and has no idea what America is all about. He's a person who admires autocrats and murderous dictators. A person that has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution, and the rule of law.”
Mick Mulvaney — Trump's Chief of Staff
“I am working hard to make sure that someone else is the nominee.”
Mark Milley — Trump's Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
“Trump is a wannabe dictator. We don't take an oath to an individual. We take an oath to the Constitution, and we take an oath to the idea that is America - and we're willing to die to protect it.”
John Bolton — Trump's National Security Advisor
“There will be celebrations in the Kremlin if Trump is elected in November. Putin thinks that he is an easy mark. Donald Trump wants Americans to treat him like North Koreans treat Kim Jong Un. Get ready.”
Cassidy Hutchinson — Trump's Assistant to Chief of Staff
“If Trump is elected president again in 2024, I do fear that it will be the last election where we're voting for democracy because, if he is elected again, I don't think we'll be voting under the same Constitution.”
Stephanie Grisham — Chief of Staff to Trump's Wife Melania
“I did not vote for Trump in 2020.”
Sarah Matthews — Trump's Deputy Press Secretary
“Trump has a history of making unhinged comments. He helped incite a deadly insurrection on our nation's Capitol.”
Anthony Scaramucci — Trump's Director of Communications
“Trump's going to make things rougher for people. He has already said he's going after his adversaries using the Department of Justice. When someone's telling you they're going to flex and be a dictator on day one and go after their adversaries, this is against the 200+ year experiment of America.”
Alyssa Farah Griffin — Trump's Director of Strategic Communications
“The reason that I cannot in good conscience endorse Donald Trump this year also has to do with the fact that he is walking away. Not just from keeping faith with the constitution on January 6th, but also from a commitment to fiscal responsibility, a commitment to the sanctity of life, a commitment to American leadership in the world.”
Bill Barr — Trump's Attorney General
“I have made clear that I strongly oppose Trump for the nomination and will not endorse Trump. One of the reasons I'm against Trump as the nominee is I don't think he's going to move the country forward.”
HR McMaster — Trump's National Security Advisor
“It would be terribly divisive for our country for Trump to run again.”
When you call someone's references, and that's the kind of thing they tell you -- not the usual wishy-washy "well....we had some challenges when we worked together....but we made it through" that you USUALLY hear when someone has a negative impression of a candidate -- YOU DO NOT HIRE HIM. YOU WOULD BE A FUCKING MORON TO HIRE HIM.
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12 hours ago, Stros121 said:For someone who has very intelligent post most of the the time. You’re very vague and boring with your anti trump talking points. Is there anything trump has done that you agree with? What is the worst thing Trump has ever done as president?
The response below is a good start. Read it. It's dead-on.
1 hour ago, Snake Diggity said:Trump is universally unfit to be President.
The tamest reason is policy: his tax and tariff plans will destroy the economy, his border policy will exacerbate the problem, his foreign policy will turn our allies into new enemies and empower our old enemies, his energy policy will tank the price of oil, further destroy the environment, and hinder innovation, and generally his policies will widen the wealth gap and cause increased social issues.
But beyond that, his temperament, rhetoric, and character are so far out of line with what is required for an acceptable/effective leader that his policies shouldn’t even be a factor. One look at any meaningful sample of his public statements, interviews, and feedback from the people who know him best shows that he is entirely driven by ego and self-interest and will do literally anything to feed that drive. He talks shit incessantly, about his former friends, colleagues, world leaders, constituents, and political opponents. He lies incessantly, about his accomplishments, about what he knows, and generally will lie about anything if he thinks it will benefit him. He has lied about the integrity of our elections going back to even before 2016; for me personally, this is the most disqualifying thing he’s done. Undermining the people’s faith in democratic elections with lies is the type of shit a dictator does, and the exact opposite of patriotic. He intentionally sows discord. Thats the opposite of leadership.
He’s the standard bearer for the party of “family values” who has cheated on all 3 of his wives and committed sexual assault. He’s the standard bearer for the party of “fiscal responsibility” who has a litany of bankruptcies. He’s the standard bearer for the party of “law and order” who is a felon.
If you read all that shit and give a wave of the hand and stick to “that’s fake news, and nothing compared to Harris’ DEI and open border agenda”, your brain has been poisoned.
But to add on a couple of those points:
1) The 100% no-going-back deal-breaker was January 6th, and the relentless cascade of lies, INTENDED TO DESTABILIZE THE COUNTRY, leading up to it. January 6th was an attempt to overthrow our government. It was urged on, supported, and actually embraced by Trump. He betrayed our country, he stands by that betrayal, and he continues with the same lies, further dividing and destabilizing our country. You are either the president of the entire country, or you are not fit to be the president of any of it.
2) He is a stochastic terrorist. He says horrific things about those who are weaker/smaller/less advantaged than him, intending to and actually inciting violence against them. A slaughter in an El Paso Wal-Mart. A massacre in a Buffalo grocery store. A mass murder in a Pittsburgh synagogue. Horrific slander against Haitians in Springfield. When he calls people with names like mine "murderers and rapists," not only is it false (native-born people commit violent crime TWICE as often as immigrants; that is, you are statistically MUCH safer if you are in a room full of immigrants than you are in a room full of native-born Americans), it incites violence. He knows it. He does it on purpose. He LIKES IT. He is a terrorist, in every sense of the word.
3) His lies are relentless. It's not just "nasty talk." It's psychotic, and pathological. There has never been a figure in American politics anywhere close to the level of liar that he is. We're not talking the "everyone fudges here and there" -- he lies about the most obvious things.
4) He sides with our enemies. All of our allies are aligned against Russia and its horrific invasion of Ukraine. He sides with Russia.
5) He does not actually stand for anyone but himself. You suckers think he stands for your side of the political aisle. No. He does not. He doesn't give a single iota of shit about you. He only cares about power, and trying to fill his internal void with power and approval. He can never fill that void.
6) I have 30 years of experience working with large enterprises. I have seen hundreds of executives in action, and their level of competence covers the waterfront. Some are amazing leaders, the top 5% able to accomplish incredible things deftly and brilliantly. Most are in the middle 90% - good enough, sometimes hitting the mark, sometimes missing it. And then there is the bottom 5%, which is people who are genuinely incompetent, narcissists, idiots, etc. And truly, there is the bottom of that class. The bottom 1%, who are malignant, who come in and make everything about themselves, who lie, who cheat and break deals, and do incredible damage to the enterprise. I know executives, I've seen Trump's type before, multiple times. He is a cancer. BTW, I was livid when Bill Clinton wagged his finger and lied to me. I still hold him in contempt for that. Trump tells more lies in a week than Clinton told his entire presidency. If you thought that Clinton's dishonest character was disqualifying then (and I did), the you cannot think any differently about Trump today.
7) Want proof that he is a cancer? He is a completely failed businessman. He has not succeeded at any legitimate business -- he has only tread water, starting with a fortune, and keeping pretty steady (the return on his investment is less than what it would have been if he'd have just dumped his initial stake into the S&P 500). He is good at one thing: selling himself. He is con-man and a grifter. Again, I've seen more than a few people (almost always men) like him. The only thing remarkable about him is the scale, that he managed to go national with it.
8 ) His bizarre and inconsistent "economic policies" that he has promised this campaign are nothing but 5th grade class president-level promises of "recess all day, no more tests, and free ice cream in the cafetaria." TWENTY THREE Nobel prize winning economists have pointed out that his proposals, if implemented, would be disastrous. And it's obviously so.
9) He is a weak, not very smart man, who allowed himself to be completely manipulated by the worst elements of the Federalist Society to appoint judges who flatly disregard the rule of law (at best) and often do that AND are incompetent (they were selected because of their loyalty and malleability, NOT because they are qualified). As someone whose livelihood is closely tied to the skill and performance of the men and women who wear black robes, I have seen a rapid decline in the quality and ethics of that group. I now have to advise clients things like "I don't know what will happen here, because this judge is just not smart." Or, even worse, "I know what the law is and says, but this judge is going to do whatever the Freedom Eagle Religious Institute amicus brief tells him to do, so buckle up."
10) Decorated men, who took an oath to serve their country, and take that oath very seriously -- think men like Mad Dog Mattis, who (before he came out and spoke the truth about his view of Trump) MAGA ADORED -- have flatly told us that their experiences with Trump informed them that he is an existential threat to the Republic, and he cannot be allowed to take power.
As to anything Trump has done that I approved of? Fuck if I know. I'm sure he pardoned at least one person who probably should have been pardoned -- somebody convicted of a drug crime or something.
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Just now, Gatorubet said:
<mental note> put that next to the refrigerator sticky that says “don’t Google hot naked septuagenarian”
Whoa whoa whoa, slow your roll there, hombre.
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15 hours ago, TeeDubya said:
Gonna need to see some concept proofs quick….
Yeah, so.....don't google "sexy babushka"....you are NOT going to find what you want.
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3 minutes ago, Hefeweizen said:
I really don’t understand how anyone can oppose mailing ballots.
Because when people 1) are informed and 2) have the easy ability to speak their mind.....it does NOT favor the GQP. That's it. That's the reason. Republicans oppose voting, because they oppose and hold in contempt the voters.
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You’d have to know what’s its life to have to attend to aging family members who often just exist in senior care facilities, to truly understand the enormous benefit of KH’s proposal to provide long term in home healthcare for a broader group of seniors.
Blah blah blah, you sound like a communist who hates America and should leave, libtard!
There. That’s the “honest dialogue” we get from team MAGA. Saved everyone the trouble.-
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The flaw in the system is people who are trying to get elected to run the government having to get millions of people who have zero idea what a government is even supposed to do to vote for them.
There is no fix for democracy once the electorate is too ignorant to even know what government is supposed to be. It's a spiral downward into the abyss.
Yep. “Here you go. Go talk to people who think the president has a magic ‘make gas prices and inflation go up/down’ button, and get them to vote for you.”
The messaging has to be so dumbed down as to be false, which gives Dotard a huge advantage. “I’ll do it all, bigly, like nobody’s ever seen before!” “Well, he’s got MY vote!”-
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27 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:
babushka distilling
Dibs on the name. Our promoters will be super hot chicks dressed in skimpy versions of babushka outfits.
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13 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:
Yeah. They're fucking pathetic. When my daughter lived in Sweden, her flatmates would bitch about her cooking because it used a lot of onions and "onions are spicy." Pathetic.
5 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:Whatever. Laws don't apply to billionaires, especially white ones. Late-stage capitalist oligarchy out front shoulda told ya.
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1 hour ago, Goredho said:Well, as someone who occasionally posts against the grain here, it can feel pretty pointless. You can't finish a reply before there are 10+ more posts calling you a dumbass. I applaud @Stros121 for giving it a go yesterday, but I can't blame him or anyone else for tapping out as a CR tackling dummy. It's fucking exhausting and ultimately pretty pointless.
<Goredho readies himself for the 10+ posts calling him a dumbass>
How about if we just have ONE post calling you a dumbass, and then everyone who wants to can posrep it? We need to get more efficient around here, and I appreciate you calling our attention to that.
1 hour ago, Goredho said:If we want to genuinely engage with others of opposing views, come to an understanding and perhaps even change some minds, we would be much better off engaging and challenging the people we know in our proximal reality. The neighbor with the Trump sign in their yard, the friend you had silenced on social media, the MAGA family member who you dread seeing at Thanksgiving.
Counterpoint:
Evidence only makes them angry. Any fact or piece of evidence presented is immediately dismissed as "fake news," or just flat-out ignored. Trumpism is a cult. You don't "reason" anyone out of a cult. Ever.
That's what so many of us are so fucking frustrated about. We have CHANGED our positions and views over the years, driven by actual evidence and observation of same. Note the fact that many of the most vociferous haters of Trump and Trumpism on this site were mostly Republican voters for many years. We saw various pieces of evidence (the open hate machine that was ginned up when America had the audacity to elect a black man president, the continued lies about how "trickle down economics" works even though we have real-world observation of it in action and it plainly does not work, and of course, the indulgence in Trumpism which stands against literally everything we stood for our whole lives (we grew up making fun of "papers please" authoritarian countries, and now Trumpists want us to lead the way, etc.), and we altered our path accordingly. We've realized that there were things (often many, many things) that we were just wrong about. Experience and evidence caused us to go "well shit....I was wrong about that." That's what an intelligent and honest person does.
Many of us also still have issues with the progressive extreme element of the Democratic party (it's far from a dominant element, but it exists). We're relatively centrist at heart (although in 2024 America, anything near "centrist" is derided as "leftist commie libtard" -- anything that is not 100% fealty to MAGA is deemed as such). So, today, centrist means "strongly opposed to the GQP," that's definitely true. But that doesn't make centrists strident leftists. It makes MAGA fucking insane fascists and fascist enablers. And I goddamned wish the legacy media would call out that obvious truth.
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4 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:
Just for the record, the Hatch Act excludes the President and Vice President from its prohibitions.
But the Hatch Chile Act only excludes pussy-ass midwesterners and yankees from engaging in the deliciousness that is green chile grits, green chile pork stew, green chile cheeseburgers. Can't handle spice? you don't even DESERVE to be a swing state.
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1 hour ago, Beau Vine said:
Yep. He didn't show up this last year, though. Omen?
Also, F the Dodgers, always and forever.
That said....couldn't help but love Fernando. Dude was fantastic, and a great sport and character.
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Have been reflecting on my comments lately re: Houston drivers from Austin drivers
So, yes, Houston drivers are trying to kill you. They will cut you off at 80 mph, make sure you never ever enter in their lane, drive like absolute maniacs anywhere, everywhere and across all 250 lanes of I-10.
The more I pay attention, the more I realize Austin drivers will sometimes decide its OK to drive 55 on Mopac... or to stop in the middle of the road and wait to cut across two lanes of traffic to turn somewhere... or drive along Walsh Tarlton, stop in the road and F'ing hit reverse to back into a street. People act lost or stoned (likely) or both and subsequently will throw you the weirdest driving move possible. Baffling.
The exact speech I’ve given for 30 years. I’ll take Houston drivers all day, because aggressive and homicidal is predictable. Austin drivers being stupid and pulling crazy ivans can’t be bothered predicted or planned for.-
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Grabbed stickers in both languages because fuck those pinche pendejos.
New Travis County Children and Family Courthouse, ZERO line or wait.
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3 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:
Ain’t nobody reading all that.
TLDR; FUCK, I WANNA EAT, GODDAMMIT
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1 minute ago, South Austin said:
Don't give me a false boner.
There are no false boners, only men too wussy to jerk off.
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3 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:
If they would vehemently deny that our founding fathers did not practice nor have the same Christian beliefs that most Americans especially evangelicals have today. For the most part they didn’t believe in Jesus other than his moral teachings. They also believed more in reason, logic and natural law rather than divine revelation.
most importantly they were against widespread or large religious institutions.
Counterpoint: history is fag talk!
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2 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:
I know a lot of guys in this exact situation.
And they are mostly fucking dumbasses who weren't paying attention to the facts that actually mattered.
I should know, plenty of times in my life I've been a dumbass who wasn't paying attention to the facts that actually mattered, so I know exactly what such dumbassery looks like.
And yeah, what DDD Dad said above is fucking infuriating. ALL Western economies experienced SIMULTANEOUS inflation, GLOBALLY. No official in any one country - ours or any other - caused inflation to go up, nor caused it to moderate in the past couple of years. It was a byproduct of the global economy in light of the pandemic and supply chain contraction then expansion, etc. And it was largely managed by standard tools (interest rate hikes set by central banks, which again generally are not controlled by a country's president/PM).
The idiotic, simple-minded tendency of people to say "economic thing X happened while person Y was POTUS means person Y made it happen" is maddening.....but we aren't going to change it. You can't fix stupid. You have to figure out how to harness stupid. The Republicans are much better at it these days.
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Just now, aggie08 said:
C'mon, stop. The hard R wouldn't help him. But it would be depressing to see how little it hurts him. It would most assuredly lock up the election for Kamala, but in the sense that she'll win PA by 3 instead of 1.5, and Georgia will go from +1 Trump to +0.25 Harris. So yay, he lost, but holy shit our country is probably broken.
The thing is, what I said SHOULD be hyperbole. But there's a solid chance that it's not. Shit like that will motivate the people who really want a guy who (wink wink) isn't afraid to "tell it like it is." And I mean, look....look at the black-on-black crime, and Chicago, and the data shows they're just not that smart, and they ruin the inner cities, and blah blah blah.
Come to grips with the fact that this country is much, much, much shittier than most of us thought/wanted to think 10 years ago. We elected a black man president in 2008...and it set us back 50 years, sociologically. Completely broke the brains of half the country.
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
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This Shannon Sharpe?
HELL YEAH, brother!