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Posts posted by Brisketexan
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6 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:
Tulsi Gabbard is dumber than a bag of hammers.
That's the great thing about this timeline: with most of these people, it's genuinely impossible to discern where the dumb stops and the evil starts, or vice-versa. Every one of them is just a pot of dumb and evil all mixed together, like when you piss into your own diarrhea.
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1 minute ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:
And even if Trump states that the info wasn't classified, it speaks to their incompetence.
But it WAS classified. By its very nature. There was no "declassify this" order beforehand. Maybe he can declassify it NOW, but it was classified at the time.
1 minute ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:Also has the govt cleared that Signal can be used for confidential or classified conversations?
I highly doubt it. But even if it had, what the gov't and gov't officials CANNOT do is set communications by gov't officials about gov't business to be automatically deleted in 4 weeks (which this chat was). That is a violation of the law, and a crime. Records of the people's government belong to the people, and may not be destroyed. Even having them out in "unofficial" channels, where they cannot be archived and kept by the government, is a crime. This is EXACTLY the problem may people had with Hillary's emails (me among them -- those emails don't belong to her, they belong to ME and my fellow citizens).
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18 hours ago, Pam Cummings said:
https://www.kxan.com/news/local/round-rock/alert-i-35-in-round-rock-closed-after-major-crash/
Not technically Austin, but another crash on I 35.
Chatter on this one is that a northbound dump truck was driving at a high rate of speed, got cut off by a car, and in trying to avoid it, jumped the median and ate a car heading southbound, killing the driver.
Fucking I-35 is a deathtrap, and I hate every minute that I have to drive on it.
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Just now, washparkhorn said:
“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.”
— The Origins of Totalitarianism, “The Temporary Alliance Between the Mob and the Elite,” Hannah Arendt, 1951.
Yep. Again....THE PLAYS ARE LITERALLY WRITTEN DOWN IN BOOKS ABOUT THIS VERY THING. THEY AREN'T DOING ANYTHING CREATIVE OR NEW.
Also, I love this quip I saw about the latest utter fuckup -- "Whiskeyleaks brought to you by DUI hires."
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5 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:
In what world would private conversations between the VP, Sec of Def, intel chiefs not be confidential?
Conversations about....military strikes....that specifically identified targets....that specifically discussed how we would strike....two hours before the military action was launched.
The absurdity is that they are saying that "conversations about surprise military strikes ahead of time are not classified." It's the dumbest fucking lie imaginable, they expect the masses to swallow it....and they're probably right in their expectation because FOX has already downplayed it and repeated the lie, and that will be the end of it.
We are committing national suicide, every fucking day.
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10 hours ago, landman said:
Eddy V's and ask for Luigi's section. Let them know it's your anniversary and he should take great care of you for the evening.
I just looked, and Eddie V's has reservation spots open for Saturday night. No, it doesn't get all the buzz, it's not as trendy....but man, it never disappoints. Great seafood, and do not sleep on the steaks -- they're some of the best in town.
If I were you, I'd grab a spot at Eddie V's so you have a really good option locked in. Then, you can look around to see if some other spots open up (Este is great, plenty of other good recs).
But for real, you can just have a solid, standout meal with great service (don't forget that....plenty of the trendier places are still a bit iffy on that front) at Eddie V's.
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What we REALLY need is for that whole blob to bump up to the NW about 150 miles. We won't get it. Shit, what it's projecting will probably peter out.
For those of you paying attention, this drought is already creeping and picking up speed in the "drought of 2011" direction. But now, with even more demand on our water resources than back then.
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^^^^ Blah blah blah, brown people -- they're not even REAL AMERICANS, so this is just libtard fake news!
Also, CSB....my G G grandfather was the first sheriff of Maverick County. Per accounts of the time, he ran a tighter ship than this. Granted, that was back when some of the job involved evaluating the situation of a local shopkeeper shooting a belligerent drunken outlaw trying to break down his door, and the sheriff telling him "hell, I'd have arrested you if you HADN'T shot him." So, you know, slightly different times.
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2 hours ago, Willfully Horn said:
Cue #bothsides clown to give us racial equivocations.
Yes, but counterpoint....those aren't really people. They are women. They are vessels and property. Read yer Bible, LIBTARD!
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9 minutes ago, Ted Lange said:
Boom, roasted.
I mean, the lies aren't even plausible.
Which, by the way, is part of the point and purpose in telling such lies. Telling outlandish, preposterous, clear lies sends the message of "we can say and do whatever we want, and nobody can stop us." If you testify today and say "today is not Tuesday, it's Saturday," and nobody holds you accountable, what you just accomplished is demonstrating that you CANNOT be held accountable, no matter how absurd the conduct.
It's a version of "shoot a man in the face in the middle of 5th avenue and not lose supporters." The point is not the act, or the lie. The point is to demonstrate, in full view of all who are watching, that you are not accountable, and cannot be touched, no matter what you do.
These are all textbook authoritarian plays they are running. Again, I haven't observed or predicted anything that requires a crystal ball. All you have to do is pick up any of the books (history, commentary, whatever) on "what does a rising authoritarian government do?" and read the fucking plays that are plainly laid out.
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I gotta say, selling US Treasury gold bars in order to buy more Bitcoin is just about the dumbest fucking thing I've ever heard of.
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People that call other people Nazis.
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Just now, immamac said:
No dude, it doesn't work like this and you know it. It would take fucking forever to get this done and I'm sure it's not even really going to be nearly as easy or convenient.
False. 1000X, FALSE. US gov't officials have had classified communications conducted properly in the cell-phone era a billion times. No wheel needs to be re-invented here. YES, it is LESS convenient than clicking open your personal device, opening an app, and sending all your buddies a picture of titties. Tough. Fucking. Shit. Having to be cleared for security clearance is LESS convenient than just "tell me all the shit." But hell, we've dispensed with security clearances, too, so fuck it, why not. Let's just dispense with OPSEC altogether.
1 minute ago, immamac said:That is fine, but really just falls back to these people being deeply unserious morons. Not maximum evil intentionally hiding comms 5head fucking genius criminal masterminds
I never said they were genius criminal masterminds. I said they were criminals. "Moron" and "criminal" are a MUCH more common pairing than "genius" and "criminal."
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1 minute ago, immamac said:
They are doing it because people wanna use their god damned phones to send text messages instead of having to do whatever the fuck shit you are describing which is antiquated as fuck and inconvenient as shit.
They are not "people" any more. They are officers of the US government, acting in that capacity. If they are unwilling to do so, including following all the laws that entails, then they should GTFO of MY government.
Sorry that "governing is hard." If you don't want to do it, then fucking quit.
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4 minutes ago, immamac said:
My point is that it should be extremely convenient for them to do this in a legal way and then we can go with your conspiracy theory of everything being maximum evil.
Your first clause reveals that what I am saying is not a conspiracy theory, it's a fact.
There are ways to handle such communications. All they have to do is ask any of literally hundreds of people inside the government "set me up a secure way to communicate with these people about this mission," and it will be done. They didn't do so, precisely BECAUSE they want all of their communications - in a governmental capacity - to take place "outside of the government."
Which is -- say it with me -- a crime.
They are criminals. It's not what they DO, it's what they ARE. People who have complete contempt for the rule of law are the exact people who are.....CRIMINALS.
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6 minutes ago, immamac said:Also how tf does the cabinet not have its own E2EE chat server/service. It's 2025 holy fuck. There's 5 open source options.
Because the very purpose of these chats is to entirely outside the government channels, because these people -- in flagrant and total violation of the law, by the way -- are attempting to avoid having records of actual government business maintained and accessible by the government. Which is how it works.
All records of government activity conducted by government actors -- ALL OF THEM, EVERY FUCKING LAST ONE OF THEM -- are records of the United States government, and thus belong to the government and importantly, to "we the people."
These criminals (that's what they are, all of them - they were right when they said it about Hillary's emails, and that means I'm right when I say it about them) are attempting to circumvent that requirement, which is a violation of the law.
Laws for thee, not for me, exhibit infinity.
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24 minutes ago, Captainant said:
Yeah they're looking to
punish Columbiaeliminate any and all higher education in the US that does not teach unquestioning loyalty to the regime.FIF accuracy.
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5 minutes ago, Captainant said:
"The thread is a demonstration of the deep and thoughtful policy co-ordination between senior officials."
1) Imagine stating that about.....ANY thread here on Surly.
2) Then....realize that statement 1) would be more accurate than the statement the admin just issued.
What an amazing timeline.
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30 minutes ago, ChickenSandwich said:
These born losers will kill someone or be killed by someone soon. Not great
Meh. Next turnover in administrations, they'll be pardoned. And so it goes.
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Just now, 'stache said:
We’re gonna be 9/11’d again real soon, absolutely guaranteed. Probably give it another year or so to let the incompetence really set in but it’s gonna happen. Good luck everyone.
And the chances of that attack being domestic....and against some "den of evil wokeness," like a high-value target in California, are rather high.
Fuck, I'm not kidding about the chances of Trump ordering the use of military force (like airstrikes) against US territory being a real number. It's a thing that you absolutely cannot rule out happening.
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10 minutes ago, bolverk said:
I will say that I'm planning to file for an extension next month because there's no telling what's going to happen over the next several months.
Yeah, my wife flat-out said "we're filing for an extension, because why would we pay taxes [we do/will owe a little bit] to a country that may not even exist in a few months." Couldn't argue with her reasoning.
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1 minute ago, Bateshorn said:
What's Arabic for "no gag reflex"
"MAGA"
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1 minute ago, BabaYaga said:
Nor is it f'ing safe to spend any amount of time next to or around semis. If one of those tires blows, it's an explosion. An outright explosion sending tire parts off in every direction and there's no stopping that big rig careening off to that side. That much mass changing directions that quickly is a PROBLEM....
No fucking shit. I don't understand how everyone doesn't have the impulse to get the fuck past every semi they are next to right quick. I hate getting stuck next to one, for that very reason.

Buttigieg/Secretary of Transportation Thread
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He can't win. America will not vote for a gay man. Just stop.
You don't have to think that's a GOOD thing. You just need to realize that it is a 100% TRUE thing.