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Brisketexan

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  1. Well, he was the candidate for VP just a few months ago. Not a totally unfair question.
  2. No doubt. When we surrendered an active role in the matter, choosing instead to “negotiate” by bullying and tweet, and by sending a real estate guy to “make a deal,” that’s a risk.
  3. Got this shirt the other day. Not gonna wear it today, it’s just a “wear it around town whenever” choice for me. Today, I’ll be dressed sharp, wearing my cowboy hat and breaking up my face with items. This is a day where we stand up for America and American values, and against anti-American values. 250 years ago, we founded the Continental Army for that same reason. That’s how far We The People are willing to go for freedom, liberty, and justice, and to overthrow authoritarian rule. We did it before, it’s in our blood.
  4. Get ready for much, much more of this. Can you tell who is an actual cop vs a private terrorist? Who is it behind that mask and store-bought tactical gear? The only safe course of action is to treat all persons who cover their face as attackers. The body count is only going to climb.
  5. My son and some buddies took a weekend trip to Luxembourg. Holy shit, the wealth. He ended up partying with the heir to the Fage yogurt bidness. He has an invitation to hang with him in his suite at the US Open next year. I told him that rich friends are good to have. Oh, and Walz’s spitballing wasn’t wrong. China might be a viable option there. Not a great one from the US perspective, and certainty not the only one. But you need an entity with some power that isn’t an active player in the current fighting. Not an easy answer.
  6. You’re a US citizen veteran. Let the fascist arrest you. Then go as public as you can. It may be the most patriotic act you can do.
  7. Missing a golden chance to march with your “Trump sucks worse than my cancer” sign.
  8. This. And yes, I’ll be wearing nice clothes and things to break up facial recognition.
  9. Brisketexan

    Austin FC

    We are. I like how they didn’t go up but like what, $50 total? They knew they couldn’t get away with an ass-fucking price hike this year.
  10. Those are my dudes. Doesn’t get more “real American” than that. Fuck you racist Gestapo fuckheads to Hell.
  11. I’m an American, so I’ve always thought that royals are good for exactly one thing: I’m down. You want to create kings, let’s do some king shit.
  12. The charge is "contempt of cop." It's not in any law book, but it is the central, defining charge in the book of "how to be a cop." Constitution don't mean shit.
  13. I mean...fucking Jesus. I get text spam fundraising bullshit from all sides, and just yesterday I got the Trump version of this about "SAVE LA FROM THE RADICAL LEFT LUNATICS WHO SIDE WITH CRIMINALS" and shit. But that's not grifting, that's just good government right there. LAW AND ORDER. Oh, and that video clip of the AMERICAN hispanics they fucking grabbed in East LA? Fuck yes, those are my guys. Fight fucking back. We are more American than any fucking racist gestapo piece of shit. Want to do unAmerican fascist shit? Go volunteer in Hungary or Russia, but fuck right off from here.
  14. Duh. He only has two negotiating techniques (which are usually intertwined): 1) bullying/threats, and 2) being directly transactional (as in, there needs to be a DIRECT quid-pro-quo, like "we'll support your war effort, Ukraine....if you sign over your rare earth minerals"). There is no complexity, no real mutuality, no long-term vision or seed-planting. It's clumsy, oafish, all short-term, and ultimately, often counter-productive.
  15. I'm thinking of this: AMERICA'S ORG CHART: Also thinking of "ALL men are endowed by their creator with Certain unalienable rights." Or: WE are patriots WE are for freedom WE are for liberty Wife is probably going with a line from Matthew 25 - GOD SAYS: Whatever you did for the least of these, you did for me.
  16. This. Humanity, across-the-board, has plunged headlong into the full "FAFO" era. Lot of FA. So, need a lot of FO. It's stupid. But stupid is what humanity does best.
  17. FIF accuracy. Ideas don't matter. Facts don't matter. The truth doesn't matter. Who has the better performer who is able to get more idiots to fall in line? That's the only question. I am not kidding, not even a little bit, when I say that all Dem effort should be focused on getting someone like the Rock, or McConaughey, to run. I'm sure there are 100 other good options, but they all need to be celebrities who can say cool shit that makes people feel good. It doesn't have to make sense or be true, not even a little bit. Oh, it's more than scapegoating. The alternative message to the GQP's message of "hate, hate, and more hate" isn't "maybe be decent." Nope. The winning message is "twice as much hate as those fuckers can muster." Hate, and stupidity, are the only commodities of any political value today. If you want to trade in politics, you best get some...and not just some, but more than the other guy.
  18. Pretty sure. And the functional repeal of the 13th is in the offing, so....yeah.
  19. A resource that was brought to my attention. Not spot-on for everyone here, but some good practical and thematic advice: https://www.episcopalchurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/protesting_faithfully_-_handbook.pdf
  20. Well, see, you know how cops will beat the everloving fuck out of you if you are an unarmed protester, but 200 cops will stand idly by while children get slaughtered if you are armed? It's the same thing. Going after actual criminals? Scary and hard. Nabbing a dude in the middle of picking lettuce? That's REAL police work. Remember that fascists are cowards and fascism is a regime based on cowardice, and it all becomes clear.
  21. The majority of folks here would agree with that? Probably. Would a sizable chunk of folks here rationalize their way around each and every one of those principles? Also yes (it's treason to protest for foreigners! January 6th was fine! The Feds have a DUTY to remove traitor leaders from power!, shit like that). You have to understand that a sizable plurality of Americans absolutely want an authoritarian government, and they will justify and rationalize anything and everything to support it. Including posters here who will 1) claim that they don't, yet 2) without fail excuse/support every authoritarian act committed.
  22. "I came here to deal drugs and rape, but I just can't pass up this opportunity to pick lettuce" is certainly a take.
  23. Putin's play in all of this will simply be "which angle of chaos is most likely to benefit Russia?" That's the one he'll choose. And he WILL choose such an angle, for sure.
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