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Brisketexan

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  1. I’m only interested if it’s offered in suppository form. Pour one out for Now This.
  2. Dude, my mother’s dead, you prick!
  3. I once did a volunteer valet shift 30+ years ago. I had to park a Saab, standard. That wasn’t a problem at all. But I had to drive back to the venue to get someone TO TELL ME WHERE THE FUCKING KEY WAS. It was on the fucking floor, by the way.
  4. I’d be shocked to death. When the comp depends on the only metric that matters in this era - how much you hurt others to your advantage - bipartisanship is the opposite of what will happen.
  5. Yeah…in this country, the only performance measures implemented would be “how many people that I hate did you hurt?” Ban free school lunch? Target met. Divert billions to deport Dreamers? Target met. Put up barriers to commerce for blue states? Target met. Come on. Even you know that’s just a recipe for partisan fuckery. We’ll get shit government because we are shit governed.
  6. You mean the unfunded bill? Beats me. Without funding, it's functionally aspirational. Of course, you're playing the deflection and distraction game -- why don't you answer "why did the GOP remove funding for it from the CR bill?"
  7. Correct. If we aren't the kind of society that will CHOOSE the common good to some extent, then we won't get it at all. You can't force basic decency on humanity. If we have decided to descend into full-on monkey-on-monkey zero-sum gaming, then that's what we're going to have. Overall, it is a dramatically worse outcome than the alternative, but that's what we've chosen, culturally and socially. Politics trails and reflects society, it doesn't control it.
  8. Y'all remember the posts above about cops bitching about being our frontline mental health professionals? Well, here's a bona fide proposal to do something about it, and to take that off their plates to some extent: https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/texas/texas-mental-health-detentions-bill-paramedics-police/269-3a6e9c22-4d0f-49a6-b0b9-c02c9dcaf658 Do we want to place wagers on how quickly and vehemently law enforcement will OPPOSE this legislation? Yes, some LEO groups are actually part of building this idea....but we all know that they will be overwhelmed and drowned out by the bulk of law enforcement. As has happened, consistently, with every single effort to not have the cops be a fucking paramilitary force tasked with cracking skulls with unlimited military resources and answerable to no one.
  9. Our pool of employees is a vat of shit. Pay what you want, it won't make a difference. You can decide WHICH type of shit you want, not whether or not it will be shit. Our national character has swung so hard to the absolute extreme of hyper-individualist "fuck you, I got mine," not just at the expense of but connected with the downright complete opposition to and demonization of any notion of "public service/the common good" that this discussion is utterly pointless. All we will get is selfish fucks determined to fuck us over for personal gain. The decreasing pool of people who may have some notion of public service is simply overwhelmed, and has no chance.
  10. Oh, don't worry. Our national policy will change on January 20th.
  11. Dude. There is no solution. Pay them jack shit? We end up with toadies, or massively independently wealthy tools doing it as a power trip (see Rick Scott). Pay them lots? Then it becomes about the money, and people who want the money. And don't think that $3 million makes a fucking difference and gets us there. Because you know what someone with $3 million REALLY wants? $30 million. And they'll use their office to get it. There is no solution, because the problem is our collective nature and character as Americans. The pool of potential congresscritters is "Americans," and "Americans" are loathsome fucking creatures who will sell their grandmother to rapists for $1. We're just re-arranging rotted deckchairs on the fucking Arizona. After it blew the fuck up and sank.
  12. That's long been my habit, regardless of circumstance. I should probably up it to $10.
  13. Or.....you could read the budget items for public schools in Texas the last 3 sessions. As just one example. Human beings are treated as an expense, not as an asset in which we should invest capital. It's okay to admit that -- the GQP admits it rather proudly.
  14. ...which would be an improvement over the current GQP approach of treating them as an expense to be slashed.
  15. Elon AND Pronghorn continue to lie? Color me shocked. There was a bipartisan stand-alone bill regarding that particular aspect of cancer research. Do you know what it did NOT include? That's right....appropriation/funding. Instead, it expressly DEFERRED on that to a further act of Congress (so....the exact continuing resolution we've all been discusssing) - see the full text of the referenced bill in its funding section: When in doubt, do NOT read what "Libs of TikTok" says. Read the actual bill text. Go ahead, read it. You won't find a funding appropriation in it. Elon Musk, and his mouthpieces like Pronghorn, lie. They do it without hesitation, without taking a breath in between the lies. It is their natural state of being.
  16. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ That's why he wants Musk around. The grift never ends. Oh.....and y'all think that Trump won't run again. That's adorable.
  17. Yeah, definitely too late for Tamiflu. This has legit kicked her ass. Last time she had the flu was over 20 years ago. Yesterday, the fever and puking hit. But, that was the worst, as she got some rest last night, and can now eat some crackers and Gatorade. The plan is more rest and fluids today. She’s sleeping in the guest bedroom, I’m taking all the Emergen-C I can. And yes, the flu is the flu, not a cold.
  18. Good. Do it. And then, end it by passing a CR that fucks over the little guy, victims of disasters, farmers, kids with cancer. Do it. The only way anything will ever improve is for the suffering to become excruciating. We need more of this. 1000x more.
  19. Yeah…that’s not gonna happen. Musk is too powerful, and Trump knows it. Trump depends on Musk and his economic paper, as well as his near-total control of information (money is all that matters). Trump has a billion dollars. Musk has hundreds of billions. Everything they the right supposedly worried about re (((Soros))) has come to pass, with their gleeful assistance. We are a full-on oligarchy now, and there is no going back that doesn’t involve total collapse and massive bloodshed. Remember…it only gets worse, and there is no bottom. Yeah…that’s not gonna happen. Musk is too powerful, and Trump knows it. Trump depends on Musk and his economic paper, as well as his near-total control of information (money is all that matters). Trump has a billion dollars. Musk has hundreds of billions. Everything they the right supposedly worried about re (((Soros))) has come to pass, with their gleeful assistance. We are a full-on oligarchy now, and there is no going back that doesn’t involve total collapse and massive bloodshed. Remember…it only gets worse, and there is no bottom.
  20. Brisketexan

    Burgers

    Goddamn I miss that place.
  21. I wouldn't worry about that. Bezos will just require his local crews to work 23 hours a day instead of their normal 22 hour shifts.
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