Brisketexan

True story: many years ago, had lunch in Paraguay at a place that gave off MAJOR Nazi vibes (the Hotel Tyrol). Turns out, Mengele barely escaped the Nazi hunters there once, jumped off a balcony seconds ahead of em. Pretty country, though. Great mate.

Knew I shouldn’t have cut it from the original 8-hour run time. Had to take out the whole segment on how fucked Paraguay is.

Survival is for beta cuck soyboys. Did you not get the memo? You must not be extreme and hardcore.

It is the dominant, controlling institution in North Korea. Seriously, anything and everything comes second to the People's Army. If the country has only enough food for 1.3 million people....then the army will eat, and everyone else will starve. It is involved in all economic/commercial ventures (yeah, even those cross-border deals they had a while back were projects of the People's Army).

Active duty Estonian military size is under 8,000 troops. Tallinn is less than 150 miles to the border. Even if the Russians come in on buses and Ladas, they'll easily reach Tallinn within a day or two.

Yes. The Baltics simply don't have enough ground resistance to ward off even large meat assaults. They would count on NATO air power to respond. Which, when the US simply opts out of responding, the rest of NATO may well decline to play as well. The rest of NATO's air power strategy depends on US participation (in-air refueling, arming the birds, etc.). Putin has the green light to take any weak country that he can. Poland is probably safe. The Baltics are almost certainly screwed. Glad I went and saw Estonia when I did.

I mean.....let's not be hasty.

You know, Layne Meyer.....

Putin plans to invade the Baltics. He will be given a green light to do so by the new administration. After all, they are really just former soviet republics, Russia is just taking back what was theirs. Mark it down, it's pretty close to a lock at this point.

And if you'd like to see how this goes, check out the Stalinist approach of staffing bureaucracies with loyalists who knew fucking NOTHING about the actual function the enterprise needed to perform. Fucking polemicists in charge of major agricultural initiatives, that kind of stuff. It's a system that is very, very well suited to keeping authoritarians in power. And very, very poorly suited to actually performing the actual missions of enterprises. And yeah yeah, we hear you MAGAs, the government doesn't do anything useful, blah blah blah. We're all about to find out how many ordinary, bland, workaday things that functional government agencies and the like play a part in. It's actually been one of the foundations of American prosperity over the past century, running mostly in the background. Take it away, and....FAFO. When grandma doesn't get her social security check on time is an easy one to think of, but when applications for certain financing mechanisms fall into black holes, or regulatory approval of quite necessary (and quite necessary to regulate) items get held up for months/years, delaying projects, adding massive costs, costing people jobs, etc., that's when we're going to be able to trace it to a collapse of systems because Trump appointed Catturd to oversee government office X or Y.

This. Rogan is a fucking idiot. Put a pin in this: “He’s got to unite people. He’s got to not attack the left, not attack everybody, let them all talk their s**t, but unite." Within 30 days of Trump going fucking apeshit on his revenge and retribution tour, Rogan will follow up with "he had to do it, you really can't blame him, I'd do the same." Rogan is a weak, small-minded simp. He's good at one thing, and it just so happens to be the same thing Trump is great at: feed the masses the pablum they want. He's a good huckster, a gifted one. That's it.

What you need to understand is that baby was making furtive movements. We should all be grateful the officer got home safely to his family, that's the headline here.

I presume there's a way to filter your Twitter feed so you only see accounts that have "pu$$y in bio" posted somewhere.

Yeah.....about that....go ahead and read through the Sermon on the Mount. Here's some of the fun stuff that is the pure antithesis to the current American ethos, particularly the one we just elevated with glee a coupla weeks ago:: You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ 39 But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. 40 And if anyone would sue you and take your tunic,[h] let him have your cloak as well. 41 And if anyone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles. 42 Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you. “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. 46 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust[n] destroy and where thieves break in and steal, 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. 22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, 23 but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! 24 “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.[o] “Judge not, that you be not judged. 2 For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. 3 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye. “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. 16 You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17 So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. 18 A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Thus you will recognize them by their fruits. I mean, for fuck's sake. Every single part of that has been loudly denigrated and rejected by the current dominant political movement. Irony is fucking DEAD.

The problem with currying favor with erratic, mercurial narcissists is that you're currying favor with an erratic, mercurial narcissist. You will be forever in his favor. Right up until he unilaterally (and for insane reasons) decides that you are not. There's a reason that nobody on earth has ever said "Donald Trump is my best and most loyal friend." Because he's not. He's incapable of it. He has no relationships that are not entirely transactional. And when the relationship at hand involves a public evaluation of "who is the most god-like," anyone who can even be characterized as a rival for that status is already in a precarious position.

The Capitol in Austin is similar. I know people who had decades-long careers lobbying, problem solving, etc…and they have bailed and are bailing. Because the environment is so toxic, unproductive, and flat-out mean. They can’t even get a meeting or a sympathetic ear, on the real everyday issues and solutions that government traditionally addressed. And then when you do get a meeting…the legislator and the staffer are not smart.

Yeah…as someone who has had to materially adjust his entire professional approach to account for “I know what the law says, but they’re gonna do whatever Newsmax tells em to”….sing it, brother.

But “tuning in Tokyo” is.

I came to Austin 30+ years ago from Houston. Where I grew up solidly middle class oil patch (went to school with some upper class, though.) Austin was my first exposure to real-deal political liberalism. I don’t mean Texas democrat liberal, I mean Austin liberal. It was eye-opening, and not in any good way. Lots of performative preachy bullshit. Volvos with inspiring bumper stickers. Which were parked in front of nice west Austin homes, after the driver had just been at a neighborhood association meeting shouting about how those new apartments shouldn’t be built because they would “destroy the character of the community.” The hypocrisy was blatant enough that a naive Houston kid saw it clear as day. A friend’s dad was IBEW here. They tried for YEARS to build a job training center. Austin’s idiotic salamander-saving building restrictions made it a hard no. They eventually gave up. Out-of-touch liberals preaching on one hand and making life harder for real people on the other is a long-time problem.

Oh…because she knows what she’s doing. I’m happy to have her on the field running plays.

100% my thought.

Here we go….3 and out, to seal the loss.

Fucking fuck that fucking fuck. How about that?

Huh…wonder what Christmas movie is in the Hallmark Channel right now. It’s probably more manly than this fucking game.