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Yep, that too. Government jobs are a force multiplier in many cases. To continue with the engine analogy, in many cases they are like a direct injection of juice into the carburetor, making the engine rev.
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Yep. The myth of "government is just a bunch of people sucking on the taxpayer tit doing nothing" isn't just a myth, it's a flat-out lie. Our broad government apparatus is, metaphorically, the oil that greases our national engine. Let the following things fall apart: taxes/tax refunds, SS payments, Medicare/Medicaid processing, water infrastructure, streets and roads, emergency services, university financial aid apparatus, etc. etc.....and the engine will fucking seize up. I've mentioned it before, but through my work, I have gotten to know a lot of public sector employees in the public utility business -- water, sewer, electricity. Those people uniformly 1) are paid less than they would be in the private sector, 2) genuinely give a shit about their job and their mission, and bust their asses to make it happen (often with limited resources), and 3) are actually damned good at what they do. But to the "government bad!" people, they are all the mythical lazy clerk at the DMV, talking with his pals and mishandling paperwork while the line for a drivers license renewal goes out the door. It's a story that's been told so often, and so across the board, that the lie has swallowed the truth. Sure, there are shitty, lazy government employees....just like there are shitty, lazy employees EVERYWHERE. My guess is that the ratio is about the same. And sure, there are pointless/wasteful elements of government programs (a $500k grant to study sloths with erectile dysfunction or some shit), just like EVERY private enterprise of any size has wasteful processes and programs ("hey boss....why do we have 10 pallets of copy paper delivered every month? I looked, and that was an error input in the system 10 years ago, and nobody has bothered to question it.") All of these people hating on "the government" and "the administrative state" also yearn for the America of 1945-1985.....which was largely made possible by the very things they now hate. Just fucking stupid.
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Time for another ‘my dog is awesome’ thread
Brisketexan replied to Patricio Swayze's topic in Daily Texan
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Brisketexan replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
Mine? Not that I know of. Statistically? Uncle Grabbyhands or Papa Perv is the most likely to diddle a kid. -
Hells yes, at least to the lengua and tripas. Gotta cook them dorados, though.
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Brisketexan replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
I'd like to see the per capita numbers. There's a shitload more school teachers than there are clergy. And FTR, I think that all of 'em deserve getting the full weight of the law thrown at them. I'm just smart enough to know that the highest risk exposures my kids had in terms of being sexually assaulted were 1) a family member, 2) a church volunteer pastor, 3) a teacher/teacher's aide, and then 4) everyone else. Sure, random dude, Jorge the sheetrock dude, and Polly Darton the drag queen COULD molest a kid, but if we're limiting risk by playing the odds, keeping your eyes open at church, school, and family gatherings is the play. -
The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Brisketexan replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
Add them to the "fuck 'em, they asked for this" pile. Zero sympathy. Fuck, I'll LITERALLY cackle with glee and dance for joy as their farms fail and their land is foreclosed on. I will be happy - beyond shadenfreude, actual HAPPINESS - when they experience some of the suffering they gleefully tried to inflict on others. These are people whose primary source of joy in life is hurting others -- causing "lib tears." Well, let me in on some of that action.- 7837 replies
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Ukraine should just airdrop a buncha lit matches, and let Russian operating standards do the rest.
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Covid/Influenza/Black Death. 2024 and beyond
Brisketexan replied to Parliament's topic in Daily Texan
Tangent: My father died a bit over a week ago. As my wife and I were taking care of immediate things in the house, that included checking the refrigerators for items that needed to be removed. Turned out that he had 1 dozen eggs in the inside fridge, and another 18 pack in the outside fridge. As I was talking with our probate attorney yesterday, I jokingly asked "shit, do I need to list those in the inventory of the estate? That's like $100, right?" -
Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Brisketexan replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
Huh. He probably should have gotten a job as a youth pastor at a Christian church. That way, he wouldn't have anything to worry about, and could claim that any efforts against him were "religious persecution." -
Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Brisketexan replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
To summarize that article, government troops/enforcers are going door to door, banging on the doors of private residences, and demanding that the residents produce their papers. I grew up in a world where if you depicted such a scene in a book/movie/TV, we'd all -- ALL -- shake our heads and think "man, what a shitty authoritarian country. Must be the USSR or Nazi Germany." Today, that thing actually happens. And it's the USA. Fucking amazing.- 173 replies
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Brisketexan replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
Yes. One is wearing a yarmulke. That's why I said a Nordic jewish kid AND a Nordic Palestinian wearing a head scarf. -
It's okay, they go after the elderly too. Last time Trump was in power, they tried to challenge the citizenship of US citizens who were born in certain border hospitals back when record keeping was not top-notch. In other words, including my father who was born in a border hospital in the 30s. US citizen, US veteran, and they wanted to challenge his citizenship and put the burden of proof on him to prove that he was born in the US, KNOWING that the records from back then are scant. My father is now dead, but I'm sure that wouldn't be an impediment to them trying to fucking deport his corpse. Fucking ghouls.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Brisketexan replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Brisketexan replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
Nordic Jesus on Nordic fjord with Nordic jewish kid and Nordic Palestinian kid is best Jesus.- 173 replies
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Brisketexan replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
Repeated for emphasis. My phone allows access to my email, which in turn means client information. Thus, I cannot and will not allow law enforcement to access it, so I do NOT enable biometric unlocking. Password only. And among the attorneys here, the understanding is that if law enforcement takes anyone's phone because they won't provide the password, so be it. Surrender the phone, and we'll buy you a new one. But we cannot and will not voluntarily grant access to client information, ever. Of course, my wife and I are also guardians of a young refugee, here on a valid green card. And we've had to have the conversation with him about having his actual green card and TDL on him, but if he is nabbed/interrogated by ICE, his response should be 1) I am here on a valid green card, and 2) if you have any further questions, speak to my attorney (me). And yes, we have to have that conversation, as at least one student at his school has already been nabbed in a sweep.- 173 replies
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The coup thread. Fuck the traitors to the Constitution.
Brisketexan replied to Willfully Horn's topic in Cloak Room
Too. Fucking. Late. They happily helped build this beast, blowing right past all the people warning them that this EXACT outcome is what they were setting up. Fuck Cato. They should hang too. And all of this. The current governing ethos of this country is petulant, vengeful rage. That's it. No higher-order thinking at all. -
You're a facet of a society that led to all of this coming about. We all have some degree of culpability. But more importantly, we should reach the point of not giving a shit. Leopards are gonna feast, on every last one of us. Will we have a hot civil war? We actually might. I could see Cascadia eventually seceding and joining Canada. I've already told my boy that if there is a civil war of some sort, don't come home. This country has amply demonstrated that it's not worth him dying for it.
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I mean....seriously....let's break that down. 1) The CIA LITERALLY created a list of every person the agency hired in the past two years. A list. Of all of them. 2) It then sent that list....via fucking EMAIL....to the White House. Think of all the movies and TV shows you've seen built around the plot device of there being a list of US spies/assets, stored on a thumb drive or somesuch, which was much sought after by our enemies, and the hero had to chase down and secure "the list" before it fell into the wrong hands. Today? The administration just types up the list, and sends it via unsecured email. Which can be hacked by every single foreign state that exists. For fuck's sake, I bet even Vanuatu has someone capable of hacking fucking email accounts. Yes, the adults are DEFINITELY in charge now. Jesus tittyfucking Christ.
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I DO NOT WISH TO CREATE JOINDER WITH YOU!
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The destruction of America's public education system
Brisketexan replied to Captainant's topic in Cloak Room
Might be even easier than that. Austin Elementary School gets $7000 per student. Newly created Austin Awesome Private Elementary gets $10k per student, in the form of a Texas voucher. Austin Elementary School enters into a lease with Austin Awesome Private Elementary, allowing the private school to use the public school property, for a nominal fee. Austin Awesome Private Elementary messages all current parents of public elementary students, and tells them that their kids can go to the same location, and get better-funded education by better paid teachers, if the parent 1) opts to enroll in Austin Awesome Private Elementary and 2) obtains a $10k voucher. Eventually, Austin Elementary School is a shell entity. The entire property is occupied by the tenant Austin Awesome Private Elementary. And a 200 student school facility that used to get only $1.4 million a year now gets $2 million a year. -
The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Brisketexan replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
That's all okay. Sure, our intelligence apparatus will be crippled because anyone with experience and connections to assets in the field will be run off and replaced by toadies loyal to the regime who devote all of their efforts to seeking intelligence that serves Trump's personal financial interests....and that may seem bad, but have no fear. We have many loyal allies who gather good intelligence, and they will surely share that with us because the US has demonstrated that it is a good, loyal, and trustworthy friend. See, it's all good. -
Southern CA Fires- Extreme Santa Ana Winds
Brisketexan replied to Wilcox Cummingtonite's topic in Daily Texan
This sort of thing is a different "class action." And it may not even be a "class action." It could just be that all of the cases are consolidated for resolution of a common legal question. Not sure about California civil procedure though. -
America's Foreign Policy & Other Shit Going On Around the World thread
Brisketexan replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
Our enemies are giddy about what the regime is doing. Our allies are agog and devastated by what the regime is doing....and will not really be our allies for much longer. Fucking amazing. And the Trump cock-gobblers fucking love this and beg for more.
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