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Posts posted by Brisketexan
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Yeah, I don't think it's necessarily done with calculated intent but, instead, maybe a learned trait that's apparently worked out his way his whole life. Like you said, he's got a narcissistic personality disorder, and this is the way he's learned to "cope" by manipulating people. Of course, on the other hand, the contradictions could well just be a sign that he's an idiot who believes and repeats the last thing someone said to him.
But I guess that's kind of the point. No one knows what he truly believes/thinks or exactly what he's going to do at any moment on a whim, and that unpredictability makes everyone feel disoriented and off-balance until he suddenly plows ahead after whatever decision process it actually is.
It's perhaps not some grand revelation, but it does give me something to point to when arguing with my bewildered idiot buddy who voted for Trump and is now "alarmed," as he put it last night during a long discussion.
The simple truth is that Trump doesn’t believe anything, and has no guiding principles other than than “Trump needs praise/validation to try to fill the unfillable void.”
That’s it. He’ll say he loves dogs if he things it will earn him praise. One second later, he’ll say he hates dogs if he thinks it will earn him .00000001% more praise and admiration. That’s the whole calculus. He actually has no independent opinion as to dogs. Dogs are just a subject he can use to obtain the thing he needs most: praise and validation.
He’s not a genius. We just have a situation where a man’s uniquely outsized psychosis and coping tools for same happen to be identical with the set of political skills best suited to manipulate the masses in this era.
He would happily kill you dead if he thought it would get him .000001% more praise. And what makes it worse is that it’s not even personal, or for some principled reason (even an evil reasoned principle, like “Jews are harmful and must be exterminated for the betterment of humanity”). Nope. It’s just “if I exterminate the Jews, one additional person will worship me.”
Humanity is beyond fucked.-
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Seriously. These stories could start with “Donald Trump personally raped his wife in front of him, then murdered, cooked, and ate his infant son,” and the opening line of the interview would be “I still support President Trump, but….”
There is nothing he can do to lose their support.
Nothing.
His old bit about “I could shoot a man in the face in the middle of 5th Avenue and not lose their support?” We’re seeing that he wouldn’t even lose their support of…the man he shot in the face in the middle of 5th avenue.
[Man in hospital, head fully bandaged to cover the giant hole where his left cheek and eye used to be] “I mean, I still support him…”-
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The bourbon market was already crashing, so understandable that they're freaking out. Of course, they blame the wrong people.
Private Equity destroyed it first, Trump is dumb enough to make it worse.
Think of what the defining trends/entities of this era will be when the history books are written: private equity, crypto, random-ass tariffs, resurgent white supremacy, the return of preventable viral diseases due to anti-vaxxers, doubling down on climate-harming activities (MORE coal and oil, now!), the ending of functional public education…and the list goes on.
This is the era of societal self-immolation.
God, it’s so fucking stupid.
But at least we stopped trans people from playing volleyball. So, it’s all worth it.-
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We are having the most tacky fascist takeover imaginable.

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So the US should have no policies towards russia? Just let them do what they want?
He won’t answer. But the answer is “yes.”
Because you see, Russia is actually the savior of civilization, and the only ideologically pure society on earth.-
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If you aren’t donating money to non profit journalism then you do not believe in the free press. For profit journalism is the enemy.
as for nazisim - the bench mark isn’t hitler - it’s authoritarianism + a belief that the authoritarian leader’s innate and inherent characteristics - white, straight, cis gender, male, US citizen born of US citizen parents is superior + subjugating those who do not fit within the superior human class. That is nazisism. Trump is that 100%, republicans are that 100%.
the good news is Trump and the nazis only have about 35-40% of the electorate. Trump won on independents focused on the economy and thinking he wouldn’t do what he’s doing.
this shit is going to boomerang hard on him in 12 months when campaigning for the mid terms starts again. even more so after mid terms.
the sole question is will the people rise up and use the strength of our system to demand his ouster? I doubt it, but the path is there and it is designed to work.
You still think that existing institutions and processes have a chance.
I love that about you. You are a relentless optimist, with a beautiful heart.
You are also dead-wrong.
This ends in blood. That has always been how it is going to end. Once a significant portion of a society decides to embark on the path that MAGA is following, the whole society gets dragged along to the inevitable hellish, blood-soaked destination.
It’s why we never should have started this stupid trip, but they insisted on it, and too many people didn’t listen and went along with them.
It’s over. It’s been over since 2008, when we crossed the catastrophic rubicon of electing a black man president.-
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Vodka and pickles is how you repel women.

Oh….my friend….I have a long, proven list of ways to repel women.-
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It is hilarious how the people that actually know about Russia or have experience with it know what is happening while Annie, with his bullshit, it is cool to hate everything about the US led global world order, chugs Russian propaganda in ignorance.
Truly…that’s such a tell.
The people who have intimate experience with Russia and how Russia operates are almost entirely of one mind at present.
People who have mainlined Russian propaganda, like Ana, think they understand Russia, its motives, patterns, and likely next steps better than the people who have lived it. The hubris and arrogance is pretty spectacular.
Remember how the rest of the SEC really didn’t believe us back when aggy was joining them, when we told them what barshit weirdos aggy is? Then…they got to experience aggy firsthand, and have said in recent years “man, yall were right. Those folks are fucking weird.”
We know aggy. We have lived with aggy for over a century as neighbors. We have had to deal with their relentless idiocy. We known them better than anyone. The other SEC schools should have listened to us.
Ana is out there telling the world that Longhorns don’t understand aggy, they’re all wrong. Really, what the world needs to do is welcome aggy with open arms, embrace their traditions, and build a bonfire with them.
Fuck that. Pay attention to the people who know the adversary. Listen and learn.
Ana will do neither.
I’m a nobody. But I’ve been to several of the relevant places. And I was objectively surprised by the nature, degree, and depth of anti-Russian sentiment. It occurred to me “wow…these folks really hate Russia.” And I didn’t have to wonder why for long; they literally have museums and exhibits on the street explaining exactly why.
For example, Estonia has preserved the KGB’s prison used to hold and abuse Estonians who ran afoul of the Russian order.
But, you know…Estonia should probably just surrender to Russia, instead of provoking them by having a functioning democracy right next door.-
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3 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:
There is a rational, and even ethically grounded case to be made for the U.S. to shift towards a push for a negotiated settlement where Ukraine has to make concessions. I vehemently disagree with that case, but it can be made in good faith and from a place of support for America and its values.
That case doesn’t involve the following: confusing aggressors with victims, smearing a suffering nation as Nazis who deserved it, repeating Russia’s justification for its war crimes and atrocities, denying Russia’s war crimes and atrocities, projecting your own shitty and ill-informed “grievances” into the case as a means to advance your miserable politics, or apologizing for the mass gassing of people in a different war on a different continent.
Yet all the people arguing for “peace” do the latter and utterly fail at the former. Because they don’t want peace, they are pieces of shit who like Russia, want Russia to win, and want America to be more like Russia.
THIS.
I don't even vehemently disagree with the case. I live in the real world, and have to make and counsel people to make real-world decisions that may not be even close to their optimal outcome. I disagree with it, but I can see it even being a rational take.
But yeah, what you're getting from Ana and the Trump Regime and Lavrov and crew (seriously, the messaging is 100% identical for all three) is your second paragraph.
Ana doesn't want peace. He wants complete capitulation by Ukraine, and total victory for Russia. If he actually believed in using "leverage," he'd acknowledge that Ukraine indeed has some (much of that leverage being tied to its allies), and can and should use it. Instead, he wants complete, unconditional surrender. Because -- and this is important -- that's what he wants.
Peace is not the absence of conflict. Your wife can have "peaceful sex" if she just lays back and lets her rapist have his way. Which is exactly what Ana wants. In the actual literal sense -- Russia has unquestionably used rape as a weapon of war in this conflict, and will continue to do so (even after any "peace" is imposed).
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There are some shortcuts to figuring out which side is the bad actor vs. good actor (while acknowledging the human reality that nobody in any conflict in the history of ever has worn a perfectly white hat or perfectly black hat)....check in with the people who know the players best.
Check with the people of Finland, which was invaded by Russia. Russia attacked, conducted a naked land grab, and still subjugates and holds Karelia.
Check with the people of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, who have suffered Russian invasion several times, most recently in WWII, when Russia flat-out seized them as "Soviet Republics."
Check with Poland, which was a client state fully controlled by Russia as a Warsaw Pact country during the Cold War.
The overwhelming sentiment is that they fucking HATE Russia and the Russians. Sure, there are local sympathizers, but the great weight is "Fuck Russia." And it's not fucking subtle. Go to Estonia, and tell them "hey, just bend over and take it, let Russia occupy you -- after all, your mere existence, what with all of your talking with and cooperating with western powers, is an unacceptably aggressive threat, and you're really asking for it." Please do that. So I can watch some dude in Tallinn beat your ass. Do it in Helsinki, where they have every bridge between them and Russia rigged to position explosives to blow it, because they fucking know Russia and what Russia does.
If you actually know Russia, and have experience with Russia - unless, of course, you are using Russian support to prop you up in power that you otherwise couldn't hold on to because your own people don't want you there (looking at you, Lukashenko) - you loathe Russia. To know them is to loathe them.
Ana over here spouting Lavrov's daily newsletter word-for-word is perfection. True perfection.
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19 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:
Would……. kill me and make a suit out of my skin that looked like a T Rex….. and then douse herself with lighter fluid using tiny arms and then set herself on fire in a TikTok video while screaming, “I am the REAL Icelandic volcano!!!! MAGMA MAGMA MAG…AGGHHHHHH!!!!”
....go on....
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41 minutes ago, TexasEd said:
Smells like catfish at first glance but not sure if that is the right term for this. She should be on a watch list.
I mean....her pics look pretty normal. She's actually plenty cute enough, nice figure. Objectively, a woman who should have no trouble securing a dude who is NOT a murdering psycho.
Yet, that's exactly what she goes for, citing all kinds of bizarre shit. Dear lord, can you imagine how batshit crazy she actually is?
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2 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:
Based on an unscientific poll of my Facebook aunts and uncles, “freedom” includes:
1. The right to own a shitload of guns.
2. The right to serve as a vector for preventable and potentially fatal diseases.
3. The right to not have homosexuals, trans people, or foreigners exist.
4. The right to prevent access to materials that express a positive view of homosexuals, trans people, foreigners, minorities, or girls with freckles, or that express a negative view of Christians or the institution of slavery.
5. The right for the government to arrest or beat people for expressing disfavored opinions.
6. The right to state all of these things publicly and not be called a “hopeless dumbass” or “stupid Nazi fuckstick” by their nephew.
I suspect you're violating the shit outta their right #6, you asshole.
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2 minutes ago, Anastasis said:
Agree that they should hold elections to determine the matter.
Of course you do. Because that's what Lavrov wants....and you never once ponder why. Say....do we have a rather long, recent, and documented history of Russia interfering in and manipulating Ukrainian elections? Of course we do....which is exactly why Russia is bucking for them. Not because Russia thinks that's what the Ukrainian people want, but because Russia KNOWS they can manipulate the results in their favor. If you wanted free and fair elections, that might be credible. You don't, because while it is under relentless attack by Russia, including every asymmetrical angle possible, the prospect of free and fair elections in Ukraine is zero. Which, of course, you know.
And of course you do. Because it would violate the Ukrainian constitution to hold an election during wartime. Even the Ukrainian opposition agrees. Again, the Ukrainian people and opposition are perfectly capable of putting their foot down and saying "enough, damn the Constitution, we need an election." They have not done so.
The only party that has done so has been....Russia. And now its new ally, the Trump regime.
Your unflinching and undistinguishable parroting of statements right out of Lavrov's mouth is perfection. It's not often someone makes my point for me as bullseye-accurately as you continue to do.
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16 minutes ago, mchookem said:
all this Canada shit is bc Melania wants to fuck Trudeau isn't it
If we're going to war against every country that has a man in it who Melania would rather fuck instead of donnie boy.....
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Just now, Anastasis said:Just a bunch of jingoistic bullshit. I do think it's funny that you and other posters constantly try to plant a flag for me on positions that I have never taken.
Some of y'all want to fight this thing to the last Ukranian. I get it. I think that Ukraine would have been better off coming to some sort of an agreement back in 2022. But is a few hundred thousand more bodies with few meaningful distinctions in outcome, I guess.
How about we let the Ukrainian people say when they've had enough of fighting for their homeland? It's their home. They get to decide how hard they want to fight for it.
I can certainly see how they didn't want to seek terms of honorable surrender to Russia in 2022. Having your countrymen subjected to a cleansing operation tends to influence such things.
I know that doesn't fit Lavrov's/Ana's narrative, but that's the difference in the approaches. The Ukrainian people have chosen to fight against an invader who began a war by butchering Ukrainian civilians, and continues to attack them functionally every single day. I believe we should support them.
Ana, on the other hand, believes that we should reward the people who created the images above, and continue to do so every day. Because really, we can't blame them. They HAD to do it. They had no choice. Did you see what Ukraine was wearing?
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47 minutes ago, Anastasis said:
I am on the American side of finding a path to cease the death and destruction quickly, and stop dumping endless amount of US taxpayer dollars into conflicts all around the world that only undermine our national security interests in the long run.
.....and of boosting the Russian threat to perform the exact same geopolitical function (incentivizing nuclear armament of any number of states) that he claims to be so steadfastly against when he can point his finger at the US.
Ana is not in any way, shape, or form concerned about aggression by large, nuclear armed states incentivizing nuclear proliferation. He is 100% in favor of it, and openly favors REWARDING it and thus incentivizing it, when it's Russia as the actor.
Russia does it = fully support it, and it's all the West's fault anyway, look how they were dressed, they were asking for it, you can't blame Russia for invading its neighbor, relentlessly attacking civilian targets, using systematic rape and murder of civilians in Bucha etc. as a tool.
US does it = WARMONGERS! MAKING THE WORLD LESS SAFE!
"Both sides" my ass. Ana has one side, and no guiding principles. Everything he laments happens and is evident in spades on his chosen side, and he whistles right past them. His posts could come straight from Lavrov's keyboard and you'd never know the difference.
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1 hour ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:
I don’t want anyone harassed based on their ethnicity but hopefully this starts flipping some votes
The fact that every one of these dipshits doesn't realize that "being brown/not being a perfectly white 'murican" is "probable cause" for detention/arrest by this regime blows me away. They are what they said they were.
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53 minutes ago, bolverk said:
Completely agreed. And, for the record, I've never -- not once -- thought you were hysterical in your warnings. Annoyingly repetitious at times? Sure, but your determination to make your point by beating that dead horse effectively got your point across. Congratulations on that, and I'm not being sarcastic in the least. I've pretty much been exactly where you are since the light came on for me in the early 1990s, recognizing that actual, real-life fascists were taking over the GOP and were a deadly threat to American democracy.
Man, it's been a really fucking frustrating 30+ years.
Well, to take the punches that I certainly deserve....I didn't really figure it out/click until 2008, when I realized that what I thought was fringe idiocy of people like Pat Buchanan actually became the dominant ethos of half of America.
I've said it before, but it bears repeating: the election of Barack Obama in 2008 was the most catastrophic event to strike this country since Pearl Harbor. Not because of him, but because of what electing a black man president awakened and infuriated. I naively thought our country wouldn't/couldn't go full retrograde. I was so, so, so wrong.
And, having felt the sting and responsibility for being so, so, so wrong....I've lived with my eyes wide open ever since. Once you see the horror unfolding, you can't see anything else, and you can't look away. And you can't understand how other people can't see it. It's a bit Fields of Dreams-ish - even Timothy Busfield, once he saw the reality in front of him in the cornfield, couldn't look away, and joined in the rest of the protagonists in not understanding how anyone could miss it.
So, mea culpa. I was blind and stupid. But the only thing worse than having been blind and stupid would be to stubbornly continue to be blind and stupid out of pointless pride.
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4 minutes ago, CycleTex87 said:
But muh freedom
This country's concept of "freedom" is the most broken-brained bullshit imaginable. We've completely lost any line between "can" and "should." Instead, we've turned "can" into "must" as a purity test.
Someone in authority recommends that I do not hammer a nail through my dick. "Oh yeah? Well, I got the freedom to nail a hammer through my dick if I wanna!" BANG BANG BANG [resulting in bleeding dick with nail through it]. "See there? I done showed YOU!"
Toddler-level oppositional defiance order is our national ethos. And it's every bit as stupid and harmful as you'd expect it to be.
Also, on the pastor level....I do find it fascinating that on the one hand, these types scream from the pulpit about their flock's "FREEDOM! WE AIN'T GONNA DO WHAT THE GUBMINT TELLS US TO DO!"....as they simultaneously pour all of their effort and money into turning our government....into a Christian Theocracy, where everyone will...."HAFTA DO WHAT THE RIGHTEOUS GOVERNMENT OF THE LORD TELLS 'EM TO DO!"
Dumbest. Fucking. Timeline.
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9 minutes ago, Your Mom said:
That’s my band name. We mostly do Ted Nugent tribute stuff.
Your cover of Wang Dang Sweet Poontang is indeed transcendent, I'm not gonna lie.
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11 minutes ago, BurntEyes said:
You know me. I ate yogurt there in 1993.
For my frozen dessert needs back in those days -- which were usually related to a date or somesuch -- I took a lady to Amy's or even Baskin Robbins on the drag. A shake from Mad Dogs or Players was also in the mix. I lived a couple of blocks away from TCBY for 4 years, and I truly can't recall ever going there. And when I drive by it now....I have NEVER seen a car there or person inside getting yogurt.
Makes me wish I was an owner, because whatever the scam is....it must be lucrative as hell.
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1 hour ago, Anastasis said:
Clowns like you that want to prolong and drag out a proxy conflict between nuclear powers are worried, in rhetoric only of course, about policies and actions that increase the risk of nuclear war. What a world.
Imagine thinking that a strategy that incentivizes numerous additional nation states becoming nuclear armed (if you don't have a nuclear deterrent right now, you should get one) is the one that's LESS likely to lead to nuclear conflict.
We've had proxy conflicts between nuclear powers. Several of them....see the mid-20th century, including a complex and ongoing "Cold War" during that period. Nuclear proliferation was relatively limited during that period (some additional nation states acquired nukes, but a whole bunch did not). Hell, nuclear proliferation was REDUCED at the end of the Cold War by promising former Soviet Republics that their security and independence would be guaranteed if they gave up their nukes (Russia being one of the parties making that promise.....which it has broken the hell out of).
If you are interested in making nuclear conflict LESS likely, then a path that draws the line here and now, and shows nation states that they do not need to obtain their own nukes to become a porcupine too prickly to swallow is the smart path. Ana is 100% opposed to that path. Indeed, he favors only one path: full capitulation to Russia (who has no fault or responsibility for anything that has happened, because the west was "asking for it" when......Ukraine actually resisted and fought back against a corrupt Russian puppet in Yanukovych -- you can't blame Russia for getting mad that it couldn't keep a completely controlled puppet government in place in a purportedly "independent" country!) Full capitulation....to nuclear blackmail. Yeah, that SURELY won't lead to other states worried about a similar fate getting nukes of their own (and why shouldn't they be worried -- our approach to Ukraine tells them "look, if you want to have a fighting chance, you best get some nukes of your own").
Nevermind the fact that this take -- which purports to be super-concerned about anything seen as anti-democratic or less than pure in Ukraine -- ignores the MASSIVE such failings and bullshit from Russia on the same front. Imagine 1) complaining about a country not having a perfect democracy, 2) having some dangerous/cruel ideology in segments of its society, 3) being combative......and then concluding YEP, Russia is the good guy! Log in your own eye, to cry about the speck in Ukraine's. Nobody is lily-white on this earth. But to relentlessly champion Putin's oligarchical autocratic kleptocracy....well, that certainly is a take.
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Non-political tariffs thread
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"Affected?" As in....the fentanyl producers started labeling their product with stickers that said "totally not subject to tariffs, you can let this through free of charge," or something else? Good, bad, indifferent?