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Brisketexan

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  1. If it had been underage gay porn, you would have been ADDED to GOP fundraising lists.
  2. Well, I mean....he doesn't yet have the well-known multi-year track record of crimes and corruption like Ken, but I'm sure he can catch up. What I'm really saying is that Paxton trounces him in a primary too. Paxton is unstoppable. Because Texas Republican voters are not turned OFF by a shameless lying crook....voting for a shameless lying crook gives them a fucking boner that the Viagra folks would study for years.
  3. This is what I've been saying. We need to follow the playbook that works. Lie. Lie big, lie loud, lie often -- like, relentlessly. Spout the lies at machine-gun pace. And make them outrageous, outlandish, inflammatory lies. "Donald Trump stole $500 billion from you taxpayers, and used it to pay for sex with underage girls." Shit like that. Seriously, not only does the truth no longer matter, the truth is an anchor tied around your waist as you plunge to the inky black depths. Shed that fucking anchor, break free to the surface, and win under the new rules. Lie like nobody has ever lied before, and never apologize or admit you were wrong. Instead, repeat the lie. Inflame the people who will vote your way, and feed those fucking flames with new fuel 24/7. TLDR; do whatever it takes to capture the gullible idiot vote, they're the only demographic that matters.
  4. Baby A's purple ritas. $1 happy hour ritas at El Arroyo. Everclear ritas at Nasty's. A significant percentage of young Brisket's poor decisions can be tied to Austin margarita consumption back in the day.
  5. It's another chapter in their "brown people are murdering all the people everywhere!" story that is always a top story on Fox News. These are the people we know, who when we've mentioned that we're taking a trip to London, or France, or Germany, or Sweden respond "oh my God! Please be careful! The muslim terrorists are killing people all the time there!" When you respond with "yeah....you know the murder rate in Paris is less than one fourth the murder rate here in the US, and the most dangerous part of our trip is going to be our 20 minute drive to the airport"....they just won't hear it. No, you're guaranteed to be raped and murdered by all those roving gangs of muslim terrorists everywhere! Just like in American cities, all the illegals are going to kill everyone before the year is out. Don't bother showing them crime stats, facts only anger them.
  6. So, so much this. There is only one genuinely effective solution to a decline in a country's native-born population in the modern era (that is, declines in population that aren't caused by some massive externality, like the plague): add to your population by immigration. You can rage against it all you want, you can introduce all the incentives to have kids you can imagine.....but that approach has been shown to have minimal effect. Is changing the makeup of your population by importing people from elsewhere going to change the "make-up and culture" of your country? Of course. But you need to pick your outcome. Either a) rapid and continuing population decline, or b) stabilized population/moderate growth via immigration. Every other point raised on the issue is just noise and delaying the conversation about the only real options. And as to the dumb old people, Russia is following its standard play: Russia is suffering. Russia does not win by stopping its own suffering (that's not even on the table). Russia wins, instead, by making other countries suffer more than Russia. Russia is losing 2% of its population a year? Then Russia will pursue actions that make sure any rival countries lose at least 3% of their population a year. And good old-fashioned nativist xenophobic bullshit ALWAYS works. Always. So, better that Japan whither away and disappear, then stabilize itself for the time being with dirty Filipinos and whatnot.
  7. Just agreeing with you. Just be happy I didn't go off on the tangent of recalling the sizable Lebanese population in Houston, and the.....formidable and impressive attributes of the women of said group. Had me more than one crush back in the day.
  8. I mean....the analogy ain't that far off. And yeah, knew and went to school with some Nigerians when I grew up in Houston. They were rocking it. Great guys, successful families, incredible amount of hustle. Small sample size, but not so small as to be far off the truth.
  9. It's a real triple-decker layer of shit. And that's without mentioning Israel's turn from "holocausts are bad" to "let's openly holocaust the fuck outta Gaza."
  10. Damn....now you're making me all nostalgic.
  11. Ain't no "appears" about it. He's scared of Paxton, and rightly so. Paxton is the most powerful statewide official Texas has seen since Pa Ferguson.
  12. Bingo. Surly in 2033: "Holy shit....this fucking guy actually makes us miss the relative intelligence and common-sense of RFK."
  13. Oh my god, you're ADORABLE. Paxton's venality, criminality, dishonesty, and corruption are POSITIVES to the Texas voter pool. When are you going to accept the truth that Texan voters are really awful people who actually like really awful things?
  14. "Grandpa, how'd you make all your money?" "Consumer products."
  15. That we've ended up in a "debate" that steadfastly refuses to end up on the common-sense conclusion of "eat mostly whole, minimally processed foods, and in moderation" is maddening. An occasional small serving of fries consisting of sliced potatoes cooked in beef fat versus 2 giant servings of fries (sometimes processed and treated with various substances) a week cooked in transfat.....it's hitting us over the head with the obvious "one of these things is better for you." Maybe ditch the smokes, though.
  16. You are incorrect. Enron was 10X more moral an ethical than what's being done to Texas, because now, it is with the full complicity and assistance of both the state and federal government. We're getting gangraped.....while the governor and president are holding us down.
  17. What I think should be a death penalty offense is spoofing numbers to look like it comes from a legit (and maybe important) source. E.g., this morning, I got a call that showed it was coming from S. Austin Medical Center. I don't know if one of my doctors is now affiliated with them (seriously, shit like that changes monthly), or someone I know is being treated there, so I answer.....it's some scam offering two free hotel nights if I listen to some sales pitch or some shit. My other joy is that 1) I am the administrator of my father's estate, which includes two houses, and 2) I live in a part of town that was hammered by the windstorm a couple of months ago, so I get relentless calls 1) asking if I'm selling house A or B, and 2) we're offering free roof inspections in your area. I actually do answer more of these than I otherwise should, because I have a crapload of client contacts who aren't already loaded in my phone, and I need to be responsive as hell when they call. But goddamn, it's absurd. The "do not call" list is an absolute fucking joke. Shit, I'm pretty sure they use it as a "call these numbers" list.
  18. What is important is not so much that Texans will be paying more for power. What's important is TO WHOM they will be paying more for power. And that will be fossil fuel business cronies and campaign donors of our governor and president. For the 100th time as a reminder, the Texas electric market is not designed to deliver electricity to users. It is designed to direct dollars from individuals and businesses into very specific pockets; the sale of electric energy is just a means to that end.
  19. Oh yeah, but keep going. They're going to flood the zone with 100 different tactics. People and the law can't stop them all. That's the plan. How do we know? They have fucking SAID SO.
  20. Just remember, none of them -- not a single one -- is hiding or denying who they really are and what they really believe. If MAGA decides "you're an illegal" (and note that "Border Czar" Tom Homan has openly stated that a basis for doing so is your (brown) physical appearance), then....you don't get due process. That's it. That's the sole basis of determining whether you are entitled to a core constitutional right: 1) if you LOOK "illegall-ish," then 2) they will deem you to be an illegal, and 3) you thus get no due process. That's it. That's where we are. These people aren't just unamerican, they are ANTI-American, and enemies of the Constitutional Republic. They are the most dangerous threat this country has ever faced, because they are a threat from within.
  21. Dude....RFK simultaneously believes that Lyme disease is fake, and that it's also a US-developed bioweapon. Here's his approach to public health, in his own words: “I do not believe that infectious disease is an enormous threat to human health,” Kennedy said at an online campaign event in June 2023. “We can go down a whole list of diseases, and there is good evidence that even the Spanish flu came from vaccine research.”
  22. chili is serious bidness. Some things transcend the moment.
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