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Posts posted by Brisketexan
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I had a long discussion with my son about the Air Force. He seemed genuinely intrigued. I’d be beyond happy if he actually went through with it. I think it would do him very very well. I will wish I had joined until the day I die.
I won’t go CR, but these days, I’d want my kids as far away from the US military as possible. -
We are pissant shits compared to the Baltics. Those people have recent memory of what actual suffering and oppression looks like.
We threw away nearly a century of progress because we thought the president was responsible for the middling price of eggs.
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16 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:
“The Time the World Decided to Take Giant Steps Backwards for No Fucking Reason”
Bin-fucking-go.
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42 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:
And.....this. More than anything else, this.
We have blown it all up, pissed it all away. EIGHTY FUCKING YEARS of post-war leadership and the prosperity that comes with it, poof, gone. AND FOR NO FUCKING REASON.
A perfect summary from that piece:
QuoteWe have a deeply stupid government—from our economically illiterate president to our craven and foolish secretary of state, from the freelancing billionaire dilettante who is gutting American soft power to the vaccine-denying health secretary who is firing as much talent as he can. From the senior economics advisor who thinks comic books are good investments, to the senators who voted to confirm this cabinet of hacks, to the representatives who stumble over themselves justifying each new inane MAGA pronouncement.
But also, we have the government we deserve.
The American age is over. And it ended because the American people were no longer worthy of it.
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26 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:
this seems legit, on the up and up ....
Control and management of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve has been turned over by the DOE to a company with virtually no history: Strategic Storage Partners, LLC, with the U.S. Government paying $1.4 billion or $280 million every year to have it managed.
Huh. My old man was offered the job (heading up the SPR) like 25 years ago. He'd have been quite good at it. On a gov't salary. But, I mean, that's STUPID....where's the grift in that?
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7 minutes ago, Born to Run said:
But, The Sun Also Rises.
Fabulous. Love that book.
Isn't it pretty to think so?
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13 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:
Aw come on. As if you could do anything with a British pound. What ya gonna do, put on your Peeky Blinders flat cap, slide in all subtle into The Crown and Anchor, say "Ey oop Govnah" and give em the knowing wink that means you'll have a pint of the old Minkspunk Royal Stout? As if they have time for your play-acting? How do you even think up these bizarre scenarios, you twisted freak?
GET OUT OF MY HEAD!
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7 minutes ago, elfenix said:
nah they use a quarter
Melded to a tire, we presume.
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1 minute ago, Anastasis said:
Bluster more brisket. Marks shit the bed and shit on the process on far more than the COVID vax (the process for which he did fuck up as well). Marks was at the top of the chain for the aduhelm and elevidys fiascos. There is a longish thread discussing the former on this board. There were ample reasons to turn him over with new FDA leadership.
Cool. Do you think the new FDA leadership won't be as or more "politicized," as that is the exact term you used to convey the reason for your dislike of Marks?
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Just now, Gatorubet said:
and if they retaliate with their own raised tariffs, is there any chance that the US will back down to avert a global recession?
See the Economist piece I clipped on the CR thread -- the best strategy for the rest of the world is to 1) accelerate disengagement from trade with the US to the largest extent possible, and 2) seek new, rational trading partners/relationships to fill the gap. The US economy is big, but on the actual global scale, not so big that it can't be somewhat isolated, with engagement reduced to the bare minimum.
A trade war is not the best play for the rest of the world. Slowly walking away is a much better play.
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4 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:
The remedy isn't progressive policies, because the remedy isn't a policy question. The remedy is making people hate Republicans.
I feel seen.
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Just now, LCHorn said:
I'm looking at Colin Allred's platform (link here) and it's all pretty standard stuff that most voters would identify as leftist.
I would agree that there's pretty fertile soil for economic populism, particularly five months after the election.
It's because I'm skeptical and I want to see a more developed response (which you gave a couple of days ago, but I also want to know what other people are thinking). At least locally, I don't believe in a big D silent majority just waiting for their hearts to be stirred by Beto, Lina Hidalgo in 10 years or the or someone channeling the ghost of Ann Richards. I just don't think there's enough of us, despite the more progressive members of Surly trying to shout down anyone espousing that the middle should be targeted.
If that's correct, then it means the party has to change. People like @Bozo_Casanova think it's largely self-inflicted, and maybe he's right, but if the remedy is "Texans really are more amenable to classical leftist programs than their own votes are telling us" then I'd like to know which programs. Texans are voting for abortion restrictions, transgender health restrictions, school vouchers for religious schools, etc., maybe not directly but in their choice of representation. Maybe you might counter that it's not the policy, it's the politician, but I'm skeptical about that, too, when their standard bearers are Patrick, Abbot, crazy eyes and Ted Cruz. Is there a single person in that group you'd want to have a beer with?
Texans are like the majority of votes in every other jurisdiction in that they are voting for one thing, and one thing only: inflicting pain. They don't vote for policies, or ideas. They vote for the promise of hurting other people. The entire creed of the GQP is "we will hurt the 'other'....for YOU!" That's it. Every single thing they market themselves with comes down to that end point.
Promise to hurt people.
Keep your promise, and hurt people.
Those are the keys to victory. Take them, start the car, jam down on the gas pedal, and start fucking inflicting pain. That's how you win.
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21 minutes ago, Gap03 said:
You ever wonder how much better a place the U.S. would be if the News Corp Building (and Rupert and Roger) had been blown up on 9/11 instead of the WTC?
Wonder. Imagine. Fervently wish. Let's not get persnickity over word choice here.
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Just now, sidis said:
on a more positive note, let me know if you need me to buy you a ticket to the lafc-austin fc game in july so you can see our boy olivier's hair in up close and in person.
Say what you will, but there is no arguing anything but the truth that Olivier Giroud is a pretty, pretty man.
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7 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:
Except Swanson is a magat.
Yes, the actress is. But not the character of Simone. Simone is pure, she is the perfect well-meaning vacuous 80s bimbo. I believe in characters, man. Envelope yourself in the mystery of movie magic, amigos. Next thing you know, you're gonna tell me that Matthew Broderick isn't REALLY as cool as Ferris. Fucking buzzkills, all of ya!
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1 minute ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:
If only Trump had seen Ferris Bueller this whole thing could have been avoided!
I'd give my left nut for national leadership as wise and measured as Simone:
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1 minute ago, crash_davis said:
On Reddit, so you KNOW it's true, someone said that the rumors are that he told his friends he was going to stab someone that day.
Regardless, the question remains. What kind of pussy brings a knife to a track meet? Was he going to stab the winner if his event?
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This unvarnished take/news alert just popped up on my screen:

Some gem quotes from the article:QuoteIF YOU failed to spot America being “looted, pillaged, raped and plundered by nations near and far” or it being cruelly denied a “turn to prosper”, then congratulations: you have a firmer grip on reality than the president of the United States. It’s hard to know which is more unsettling: that the leader of the free world could spout complete drivel about its most successful and admired economy. Or the fact that on April 2nd, spurred on by his delusions, Donald Trump announced the biggest break in America’s trade policy in over a century—and committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era.
Almost everything Mr Trump said this week—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded. His reading of history is upside down. He has long glorified the high-tariff, low-income-tax era of the late-19th century. In fact, the best scholarship shows that tariffs impeded the economy back then. He has now added the bizarre claim that lifting tariffs caused the Depression of the 1930s and that the Smoot-Hawley tariffs were too late to rescue the situation. The reality is that tariffs made the Depression much worse, just as they will harm all economies today.
On economics Mr Trump’s assertions are flat-out nonsense. The president says tariffs are needed to close America’s trade deficit, which he sees as a transfer of wealth to foreigners. Yet as any of the president’s economists could have told him, this overall deficit arises because Americans choose to save less than their country invests—and, crucially, this long-running reality has not stopped its economy from outpacing the rest of the G7 for over three decades. There is no reason why his extra tariffs should eliminate the deficit. Insisting on balanced trade with every trading partner individually is bonkers—like suggesting that Texas would be richer if it insisted on balanced trade with each of the other 49 states, or asking a company to ensure that each of its suppliers is also a customer.
And Mr Trump’s grasp of the technicalities was pathetic. He suggested that the new tariffs were based on an assessment of a country’s tariffs against America, plus currency manipulation and other supposed distortions, such as value-added tax. But it looks as if officials set the tariffs using a formula that takes America’s bilateral trade deficit as a share of goods imported from each country and halves it—which is almost as random as taxing you on the number of vowels in your name.
This catalogue of foolishness will bring needless harm to America. Consumers will pay more and have less choice. Raising the price of parts for America’s manufacturers while relieving them of the discipline of foreign competition will make them flabby. As stockmarket futures tumbled, shares in Nike, which has factories in Vietnam (tariff: 46%) fell by 7%. Does Mr Trump really think Americans would be better off if only they sewed their own running shoes?
Governments should focus on increasing trade flows among themselves, especially in the services that power the 21st-century economy. With a share of final demand for imports of only 15%, America does not dominate global trade the way it does global finance or military spending. Even if it halted imports entirely, on current trends 100 of its trading partners would have recovered all their lost exports within just five years, calculates Global Trade Alert, a think-tank. The eu, the 12 members of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), South Korea and small open economies like Norway account for 34% of global demand for imports."Profound, harmful, and unnecessary." "Deluded." "Flat-out nonsense." "Pathetic." "Catalogue of foolishness."
THAT is how you journalism.
But also look at the last paragraph, which is more matter-of-fact. It offers the rather obvious strategy for every other player in the game: start playing the game by treating the US as a relatively minor player (which, on a global scale, it is). Within 5 years, the rest of the world can undo the damage done to THEM, and be well on their way to a prosperity that really doesn't depend on the US at all. What Lord Dumbass doesn't realize is that another way for the other parties to deal with the new "trade balance" where Trump wants a big F you to all of them, we will buy ZERO from you....is for them to buy ZERO from us.
We are not going to see increases of US exports to "make things even" with the (former) level of imports from other countries. Instead, as his policies result in lowering imports from other countries, we will reach a new balance (a low one) because we will also see drastically lower EXPORTS to those countries. Bottom line, to the extent that elements of our economy are driven by selling things to other countries....be prepared for that to dry the fuck up.
Like a kid on the playground who screams and hollers and smears shit everywhere if he doesn't get his way, the best and most obvious path forward for the other kids is to just go play without us. Sure, we sneer and say "but we have the best toys, and now you can't play with them." The other kids shrug, gather up the toys they do have, and leave us the fuck behind. Because we're a little fucking spoiled asshole, and literally everyone else on the playground will be better off to leave us to stew in our own shit rather than have to deal with us any longer.-
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5 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:
This. Also, if you’re old enough to recognize Daddy Bush’s voodoo economics quote - and remember that Reagan was all about supply side economics - you are older than a shit-ton of people who pushed the election lever for Trump and have no fucking idea what we are talking about.
Yep. And man, I've confessed my youthful stupidity -- "trickle down economics" as a hypothesis appealed to my younger, not fully informed brain. BUT....I then got the experience of watching us try it in multiple iterations over the past decades. And like someone observing attempt after attempt at making a working flapping flying machine.....
I keenly spotted the results and concluded "well, guess I was wrong. That doesn't work." I'm sure I was dumb for buying into the hypothesis. But once the experiment was run....repeatedly....demonstrating that the hypothesis is incorrect...I'd have to be dumber than dumb AND a psychopath for thinking it still should work.
Yet, instead of reaching that conclusion.....we're deciding "hey, the reason our flapping flying machine didn't work is because we started off too low to the ground. Let's climb up that 1,000 foot cliff, and jump off from there!" The fucking impact with the ground is gonna be brutal.
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Just now, wildcat09 said:
They've been running the unblocked Greg Davis WR screen that has worked two times out of two thousand (and when it worked it only worked because DBs ran into each other and fell down) since 1992. Meanwhile, every election some Republicans go "oh if only they'd run that unblocked Greg Davis WR screen more often they'd start winning." And, somehow, millions of dipshits believe the Republicans are being honest and are not just trying to convince Democrats to keep running the same shitty fucking play that they've easily stopped 1,998 out of 2,000 times.
Dude.....too soon....in EVERY possible way/context.
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1 minute ago, Nivek said:
And when we get a Teddy Roosevelt type back in office there will be a reckoning on these large investment banking firms who have participated, caused, and encouraged worldwide financial disasters.
And a whole lot of this.
Look, the American voter responds to promises of punishment and vengeance. Cool. We need an opposition party to run on that. Win. And then fucking DELIVER. The rules of the game are now "use the full power of the office/the government to inflict maximum pain on everyone you disfavor." So, let's fucking PLAY BALL.
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1 minute ago, Pato del Muerto said:
So he was DOGEing before DOGE was even a thing?
No, see, when people are responding to the first ongoing, novel global pandemic in over a century, any after-the-fact criticism should subject them to the death penalty.
But when they are under minimal pressure, and are simply choosing to cripple all vaccinations, vaccination programs, etc.....well, that's not politicization at all, that's just good stuff.
Did you not get the memo? If RFK Jr. does it, it's good. Period.
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19 minutes ago, Zhorn96 said:both scenarios are horrific to think about but also, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ELON, SUCK IT, BITACH
I mean....imagine this:
1) You are the world's richest man. You can pretty much have any woman/women you want. You can have 10 at the same time. There are no limits.
2) But your fucking dick is broken.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! I fucking LOVE this for Elon. Couldn't happen to a more deserving guy.
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I want a dem candidate who says “fuck it, the gun horse has left the barn. So here’s my position: all of y’all should arm yourself and right soon. The billionaires and their private police are coming for you , and they’re armed. You should be too. Fuck letting the terrorist Gestapo have a free hand - shoot em.”