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Brisketexan

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  1. VERY humble. We were definitely on a budget that trip. And the flight from Kyiv to Yerevan? Shit, there may have been livestock on it.
  2. Huh, cool artifact I found in the back of our closet (we’re cleaning all of it out). 2017 flight to Kyiv on UIA. We already avoided any routing that took us over eastern Ukraine, because fuck Russia shooting down civilian planes. No idea why I kept it.
  3. Bend the knee? Dudes. IT's much more than that. Y'all must have missed where we changed the UT motto from "Disciplina Praesidium Civitatis" to....
  4. Well, I mean.....October hasn't happened yet, so "zero homicides for the month" isn't exactly a great flex.
  5. Brisketexan

    Austin FC

    When Uzuni is shooting them, we have a shitty conversion rate. I put twice as much pepper on my PKs, and I’m old and I suck and I’m not getting paid $12 million.
  6. Tell him I kicked the shit out of Koch last I went up against 'em. They're bullies, but not nearly the strategic thinkers they make themselves out to be. In my work with people in that community, the uniform assessment of any senior Koch employees was "yeah, they really expect you to drink the kool-aid over there." Sounds like your friend is a perfect fit.
  7. Well, yeah....now THAT fuckstick can pick up the tab for your kids at the State Fair.
  8. Because "MAGA" and "strategic thinking" mix less well than oil and water.
  9. This guy knows what's up. And remember, every single Trump supporter on this board is going to be 100% ok with that. All of it. Every last bit of it. See, e.g., @Enchubben. He may tell you today that he wouldn't support that....but when it actually happens, he'll both diminish it and back it.
  10. "Side of catfish" is sexy too. Hell, a threesome involving me, "side of fried chicken," and "side of catfish" sounds mighty fine.
  11. So long as the missus tells me all about it....slowly....
  12. We're dealing with the idiocy of an approach of "there are some flaws in a global free trade system, including the fact that certain people in certain economies do not get what they feel is a fair share of the benefits of that trade" [this is true, by the way], so the solution is "blow the whole fucking thing to smithereens." It's the internet joke of solving the problem of a spider in your house by burning your entire house down. The house/global trade has brought us tremendous prosperity, jobs, and opportunity. Yes, it has done so in ways that are uneven and require adjustments. Any complex system will do that -- have pros and cons. But when you look at the MASSIVE pros....and instead look right past them, to the cons, and looking ONLY at the cons, decide "let's trash the whole fucking thing," it's insanity. Truly, it's among the dumbest moves I've ever seen.
  13. Brisketexan: "It would be fair, in order to apologize for rudely failing to join Brisketexan for a passion-filled weekend at a mountain cabin with a hot tub and killer views, for Sela Ward to to join Brisketexan for a passion-filled weekend at a mountain cabin with a hot tub and killer views." I mean, that logic is pretty unassailable.
  14. So, anyone have experience with the TSA process at ABIA during a gov't shutdown? Wife and I have a flight on Friday, trying to figure out how much of a cluster it will be.
  15. And soybeans are just an easy example. Add defense materiel to the list. Add a shitload of things to the list. When Party A shows -- under a bright shining spotlight of its own making -- that it is an unreliable, erratic, mercurial, spiteful trading partner.....then parties B through Z will respond rationally, and pursue a strategy of disentanglement from trade with Party A to the largest extent possible. Imagine that you are an HEB loyalist -- good store to shop at, wide selection, good prices, open pretty much all the time (yeah, HEB is open!). Then....HEB is acquired by new ownership. They start closing at random with little warning, so your plan to pick up your groceries this Saturday gets crushed. Then, when they ARE open, they close off random aisles, so you can't get your full list ("WTF? You closed off the coffee/tea aisle, and the dairy section? So now I have to go to another store for those?"). Also, they jacked up the prices on random items. The package of chicken breasts that was $7.50 last week is now $15, the package of toilet paper that was $10 is now $20. Again...when they're open. Oh, and the store manager walks behind you, insulting you and calling you a cheater and a liar the entire time you shop. I'm gonna guess that you're going to check out the nearby Randall's, or Sprouts, or what have you rather quickly, because HEB sounds like it fucking sucks to do business with now. And when it comes to things like large-scale commodities, supply chains, and long-term contracts (you don't buy a fifth generation fighter plane to use for a year, you buy it to use for 25 years), Party A is not going to get those sales back, for a generation or longer. We are destroying ourselves as a global trading partner. For no fucking good reason at all. It's fucking insanity, the harm is massive and irreparable. And for fucking NOTHING. We're lighting ourselves on fire for fucking NOTHING.
  16. The answer is "yes." Our Constitution has a failsafe: impeachment by the House, conviction by the Senate. But that failsafe utterly fails when those bodies are held hostage by an insane megalomaniac. Turns out, the Republic was that fragile. It existed and survived by an agreement that some norms and rules would remain in place and be enforced. When that agreement is dissolved, then the Republic is also dissolved.
  17. "side of fried chicken" is a beautiful turn of phrase.
  18. Oh, my friend. You know that it's going to be "both." A man who lives for temper tantrums, grudges, and vengeance, has decided that half of America is his personal enemy. And he has a whole military that he thinks (and maybe he's right) is there to do whatever he tells them to do. So he is 100% going to use them as an instrument of his vengeance to go to war with Americans. And then war against foreign brown people, because he thinks it makes him look tough to his pathetic cultist followers.
  19. Huh. We still don't have the director of the FBI tweeting instantaneously about every detail discovered about this guy, like his political and voting tendencies, political clothing he has worn, where his family members stand on hot-button issues? We don't? Man. I just can't understand why. I guess it's a mystery that we'll never sort out.
  20. Normal, sane people don't do this. They NEVER did this. The idea of "I gotta fly a flag of my favorite presidential candidate/president" was never, ever a thing....until a fucking America-hating batshit insane cult was born. You might see a bumper sticker of a candidate I support on my car. Maybe a yard sign. During the campaign. That's it. That's what normal, sane, not-in-a-fucking-cult people do.
  21. That there is a nice plate of
  22. And some American service members too. Maybe not many. But some. For absolutely no reason. None. Other than Trump needing to create a distraction. Remember how all the Trump voters said one of the great things about him was "he won't get us into any foreign wars?" And now, he's literally looking around trying to find a fight to start?
  23. "Pantsless at Pluckers" is the working title of my newest VERY niche work of erotic fiction. It's not for everyone. But I bet most of y'all would like it.
  24. "Some" drugs. 50% "average" discount. Licensing fee paid or use of Trump name - almost certain.
  25. This is the techbro paradise that we've asked for, and they are delivering it in spades.
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