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Brisketexan

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. But see....what you need to understand is....Ronald Reagan was a cuck libtard. Seriously. If you just submitted his statements/speeches to the current Fox News crowd, they would at a near-100% rate say "fuck that cuck libtard." That is the timeline we live in. And many of us will die in, and right soon.
  4. That's preposterous. He'll call it "XJuice," not Brawndo.
  5. Make the billionaires the villain. The blame-game has to be aimed at people, not ideas. Use all the worst stories about them. They don't have to be true. In fact, ideally, they aren't true. "Elon Musk had slaves." "Elon Musk has stolen your private information and is selling it for profit." DARE him to sue you, by the way. Then.....DISCOVERY. Into DOGE, Tesla....all of it.
  6. The cause of inflation in the US? The same as it was everywhere else in the world: by and large, a supply shock. There is a decent argument that it was also materially demand-driven (the appropriate mix on those will surely be debated for a while to come), but the important thing is that the phenomenon was pretty uniform between the US and European economies. That is, we were seeing the same-timed spikes at similar levels. Of course it was something we were going to do - it's one of the tools in our toolkit, and we were surely going to use it. And, it wasn't without beneficial effect. While our inflation performance was similar to Europe's, it WAS generally better. Our economic effects that we were dealing with were things we had in common, and had some real overlap in causes, but we also had tools to deal with it that differed somewhat (although all western economies saw their central banks use the same tool in response -- raising rates). Hell, the bottom line is that we had a generally stronger economy heading into the post-COVID inflation, so we weathered it better than most.
  7. Y'all think that's bad? On the text thread that was supposed to tell the Houthis "surrender or die!", Hegseth "accidentally" sent them a buncha dick pics with "wadda think, bb?" messages.
  8. This was the early 90s. Everyone slow-clapped.
  9. More importantly, they control 100% of the United States government. That's the real fucking problem.
  10. Yeah.....that is fucking solid. Both of my kids live in places where they take transit everywhere, and both of them are young (in their 20s). They both know and promptly give up their seat to an older person. And the boy does so for women as well, even if they're not much older than him. I don't know if that's culturally local to them, but it's how they were raised here. Shit, I remember 10,000 years ago, taking a shuttle bus back downtown from Texas-OU. I had a seat with my now-wife, people got crammed on (mostly people our age, heavy on men, so wasn't immediately looking to give up my seat). I look ahead about three rows, and a very pregnant gal is there, standing....and nobody next to her was making any move to give her a seat. Fuck that. I got up, and started working my way up towards her to tell her to take my seat. Right after I got up, a dude makes a move to sit in my seat. My wife immediately blocked him, and said "nope, this seat isn't for you," and he started to get huffy. I work my way back with the pregnant lady in tow, motion her to my seat, and stared down the fucker, who fucking backed off as everyone else shame-stared him as well. WTF was wrong with that asshole? Oh, and yes, he was an okie.
  11. TLDR. Let's translate it to simple MAGA-speak: Authoritarian states good. Democratically run states bad. We want to hang out with the guys we like -- authoritarians.
  12. Counterpoint: fuck 'em. Fuck all conservatives. Fuck 'em to hell. Treat them the way they want to treat everyone else.
  13. The revolving door is the only one we have. We have no coherent plan for dealing with the homeless. Truly, functionally zero plan.
  14. Yeah, those are a bitch. Because what do you do, jail them over and over for jaywalking and shit? The real problem is making this place a magnet for homeless people while simultaneously not actually offering sufficient real and effective programs to keep them from being an absolute mess. That's on city leadership and, yes, law enforcement for not making arrests (arrest and short-term detention is really the only practically available short-term deterrent we have).
  15. Oh, I certainly believe that our PD has had and is continuing to have what is effectively a years-long temper tantrum whereby they are "quiet quitting" and just not doing their jobs, as a "SEE! If you don't let us do EXACTLY what WE want, and EXACTLY HOW WE want....well, we just won't do our jobs at all!" Austin is not the only place it has happened. Both things can be true (our DA is piss-poor, and our PD is petulant spoiled assholes who don't want any oversight or accountability, it only pisses them off).
  16. Drove to and from Corpus Christi for a meeting last week. Same thing, multiple times: get behind a truck, and even cars and SUVs, going .0000001 mph faster than the truck they were "passing" in the right lane. No, fuckers. Pass him. Meaning, for around 30 seconds, actually push down on your gas pedal, add 5 mph or so to your speed, complete the pass, then get back over in the right lane. The correct move is not "drive next to a 100 foot long vehicle for 10 minutes as I gain 10 feet per minute on him."
  17. It's just a fat sack of fluid. You're just a fat sack of fluid. Let's not split hairs here.
  18. Dude had a fetish for Perkins’ waitresses…there is no bottom for him. Respek.
  19. Brisketexan

    Austin FC

    My wife after the match: “and dammit…I’m coming around on Owen. He’s good.” I told her he’s among the top 3-4 players on the team right now, and she conceded the point. He’s got hustle, doesn’t commit stupid turnovers, has shown real vision, and bulked up so he doesn’t get muscled off the ball as much. And two of our favorites, Kolmanic and Gallagher, acquitted themselves quite well today. Defense continues to be stout. Lots to like from BV, but also some inexplicable misses. Bukari continues to frustrate. And Danny…has regressed. His turnovers are absurd in number and character. That said, I think this win was actually earned and was the right outcome.
  20. Or, counterpoint: allow Republican accelerationist destruction to do its thing and kill them in droves. An eliminated GQP vote is an eliminated GQP vote. And I’m done with giving a shit about them. What has empathy gotten us? Just taken advantage of.
  21. Here’s the thing I love about the “vaccines are a personal choice! Respect my choice [not to be vaccinated]!” crowd: if vaccines are a choice, and we must respect that choice…why do they all, 100% of the time, shit all over and denigrate people who chose the other way, and only lionize those who chose not to be vaccinated? Gosh, it’s a mystery.
  22. Brisketexan

    Austin FC

    We’ll be over in 118, row 9. Come say hi…but don’t stay and make us look low-class. At Turnstile now.
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